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Better Housing
Urged by Family
Life Conference
Prepaid Medical Care,
Other Reforms Asked
As Sessions End
The Taft-Ellender-Wagner hous
ing bill, prepaid medical care plans
and widespread reforms in educa
tion emerged from the National
Conference on Family Life yester
day as the Nation’s main needs to
offset forces tending to disintegrate
the ties of home life.
After the closing session at Lisner
Auditorium, about 900 delegates
took to their homes results of a
four-day scrutiny into virtually
every phase of individual and group
welfare. They decided Government
must carry its share of responsibil
ity, but that most family problems
must be met at local levels.
Chairman Eric Johnston proposed
the formation of councils in every
community, through which existing
organizations could concentrate on
specific goals.
Housing Needs Emphasized.
Housing needs took precedence
In most discussions, with emphasis
on explanations that 2,750,000 fami
lies who are forced to “double up”
with relatives or friends are unable
to develop strong ties. A special
committee which indorsed the Taft
Ellender-Wagner bill also called
for more renting housing and urged
formation of co-operatives to stimu
late building. ,
Most revolutionary recommenda
tion, made by a committee headed
by the American Bar Association,
proposed a presidential commission
stndy and revision of marriage and
divorce laws.
It proposed that the present di
vorce court system be junked and
replaced by domestic relations courts
with power to deny divorces when
Investigation showed any chance of
saving marriages. Legislation also
should be studied, it said, to halt
elopements, a large number of
which end in broken homes.
Sex Education Urged.
High school courses, another com
mittee said, should include practical
training in marriage and family
problems, and sex education should
begin as early as the kindergarten.
Knowledge of sexual development
and reproduction, the group said,
usually is “too little and too late.”
The committee on health favored
strongly the principles of prepaid
health programs, but ducked action
on the controversial, administra
tion-backed plea for compulsory
health insurance. It urged com
munity groups to extend education
programs for expectant mothers and
cited a pressing need for facilities
to care for premature babies.
In direct recommendations to
families, delegates urged that par
ents take time to provide family rec
reation in which all members can
take part and that the home be
opened to children as a meeting
place for their friends.
Psychiatry’s Mistake.
In an address at the closing ses
sion yesterday Dr. Leslie Hohman,
. of Duke University, told the dele
gates psychiatry probably has made
a mistake in selling its theories of
mental hygiene “too well” before
establishing them through research
and experimentation.
He said he was afraid educators
and social scientists “have been so
swept by our promises and our theo
letical concepts that they are little
more than blind, enthusiastic fol
lowers of psychiatrists.”
At the same time, however, he
urged the extension of mental hy
giene clinics and said he thought an
“experimental sociology and indivi
dual psychology offer mast of our
hopes for the future development of
mental health.”
Stanley P. Davies, director of the
Community Service Society of New
York, told the conference the field
of social welfare now has taken its
place among all economic groups.
Shreve Speaks.
“In fact,” he declared, people of
means are turning to us in increas
ing numbers. Help in New York to
dav is needed just as much by Park
avenue as it is by First avenue."
Earl O. Shreve. president of the
United States Chamber of Com
merce, said in an address that fam
ily life can best be helped by a
return to the “basic American be
lief in individual freedom” and
called for a “closer restriction of the
Federal Government to its consti
tutional limitations.”
In an attack on the present ad
ministration, he said that “Govern
ment policy too often has been
forced down from the top by Gov
ernment public relations experts on
the Government payrool” He said
the congressional elections last fall
“sounded an awakening against
crackpot elements who had attached
themselves to the Democratic Party."
Mr. Johnston urged representa
tives of the 125 national groups par
ticipating in the conference to try
to “popularize” home management
so that families can get the most out
of their resources. He said, through
the establishment of community
councils, they also should seek wider
support for family counseling
services.
3 Dead in Week,
52 Injured in
Falls in Homes
Three persons died as the result
of falls and 52 others were treated
at hospitals here after falling at
their homes last week, the District
Red Cross Accident Prevention
Service reported.
Altogether, 113 persons were sent
to hospitals with injuries and six
died as a result of mishaps at home,
the service noted. The fatalities in
cluded an infant who suffocated, a
man who took an overdose of drug
by accident and a young woman who
accidentally discharged a gun*
Most unusual accident of the week
took place when a 14-months-old
baby was cut by glass from a win
dow through which a baseball
crashed while the child slept nearby.
The home accident survey shows
1.815 persons injured so far this
year and 110 killed. At this point
l«t year, the figures were 1,635 in
jured and 88 lulled.
WHEN CITIZENS WORK TOGETHER—As the fund-raising
campaign to furnish the new Chevy Chase Community
Center gets under way, workmen proceed with the job of
turning the old E. V. Brown School into a home for the
center. They’re at the plastering stage now. _
The stall lor the recreation center is Iready to move in as soon as
the workmen move out. Shown looking ofer the building plans are (left
to right), Mitzi Hamman, recreation director; Mike Tardugno, commu
nity organizer, and Elizabeth Maggio, senior recreation director.
—Star Staff Photos.
Students at Woodrow Wilson High School are doing
their share of the chores involved in making their center
a going concern. Working on the school printing press,
Charles Runnels, 17, runs off one of the 150 placards
that will be used in the fund campaign. _
Inspector Keck Due
To Retire; Bullock,
Lutz in Line for Job
By J. Theodore Crown
Police Inspector Ira E. Keck’s
continued absence on sick leave
yesterday led to reports that the
veteran policeman will retire by rea
son of disability
this summer.
As a district
inspector, he
holds one of the
top posts of the
uniformed force:
His expected re
tirement will
give Police Supt.
Robert J. Bar
rett another
chance to put a
man of his own
choice in dne of
the’ key spots.
inspector
Keck has been >r» E K,rk
on sick leave since April 23, and is
still under the care of the Board ot
Police and Fire Surgeons. He has
been suffering from leg trouble and
recently had an operation.
Although he reaches the statutory
retirement age of 64 in September,
there is a strong possibility he will
retire by August 1 on disability.
Capt. Albert I. Bullock, command
ing the 13th Precinct, is reportedly
in line for the next vacancy among
inspectors but reports of gambling
establishments operating near the
13th Precinct station may not have
helped his chances.
Ano. her strong contender is Capt.
Clarence H. Lutz, commanding the
Fourth Precinct.
Inspector Keck was elevated to his
present job in September 1941, in
the course of a sweeping police re
organization. The shake-up follov/
ed a Congressional investigation of
the Police Department.
At the time, Inspector Keck was
acting chief of the Detective Bureau
with the grade of acting captain. In
order to give him the inspectorship,
the Commissioners gave him two
promotions in one day—from lieu
tenant to captain to inspector.
As district inspector, he has super
vised the operation of five police
precincts.
Landlords Ask Bonus,
Liquor Dealers Say
Several liquor dealers have com
plained that they are being asked
higher rent and bonuses to obtain
new leases on stores which they
have been occupying for many years,
the Alcoholic leverage Control
Board reported yesterday. The
board said it is powerless to grant
relief to the proprietors unless
their rent is so high that the
landlord in reality becomes a part
ner in the business. Robert Cogs
well, Rent Administrator for this
District, said his office has no juris
diction over business properties.
One dealer complained that his
lease will expire next month and
his landlord had refused to renew
it unless the dealer gave him a
$5,000 bonus and an increased rental
of $250 a month. The dealer quoted
his landlord as saying the amount
of business in the store justified
both the bonus and the rent in
crease.
Another dealer, who said he was
planning to move to a shopping
center development, said he was
told that he could not get a lease
unless he agreed to pay 5 per cent
of his gross profits to the owner.
Government Unit to Meet
On Salvation Army Drive
The Government unit in the
$350,000 Salvation Army building
fund drive, slated to open a week
from tomorrow, will get off to an
early start with an organization
meeting at the office of Postmaster
General Donaldson, unit chairman,
at 4 pjn. Wednesday, it was an
nounced last night.
Formal drive opening will be at
a luncheon at the Hotel Hamilton
Tuesday, June 1. with Eric A. John
ston, president of the Motion Pic
i ture Association, as principal speak
I er. Mr. Johnston is honorary chair
man of the campaign.
Top drive officials, including
Commissioner John Russell Young,
District chairman, Mrs. A. Smith
Bowman, jr„ of the Army’s
Women's Auxiliary, and Col. W. W
Bouterse, divisional commander,
met yesterday with Mr. Donaldson
,to discuss Government unit plans.
County Red Cross to Meet
i Miss Marjorie C. Howard, admin
istrative assistant of American Rec
Cross disaster service, will address
the annual meeting of the Princt
Georges County Chapter at 6:45 p.m
Wednesday at the First Methodisi
Jlhurch, Hyattsville.
ChestX-RayCampaign
k
With 30 Days to Go
District residents have about 30
days left in which to get a free
tuberculosis checkup under the
Washington Chest X-ray Survey,
which has covered more than 400.000
persons since its opening last Janu
ary 12.
The survey Is scheduled to close
June 15, but with no X-ray unit in
operation on Memorial Day, May 31,
or on Sundays, mobile neighborhood
units inactive on Sundays and Mon
days, and certain mobile units
closed on June 1, only an estimated
30 operating days remain.
A progress report will be given at
the annual luncheon meeting of
the District Tuberculosis Associa
tion at noon tomorrow in Barker
Hall, YWCA, Seventeenth and K
streets N. W.
William E. Leahy, chairman of
the citizens' committee, will sum
marize survey activities and intro
duce chairmen of the four prin
cipal survey committees who will
report on their progress. The chair-:
men are Carter T. Barron, public'
information; Dr. Charles E. Bish,
community organization; Dr. A,*C.
Christie, medical-technical, and
Federal Security Administrator j
Ewing, Federal employes. 1
Owen C, Billows, assistant direc-'
tor of the survey, will give a prelim- j
inary report on the statistical anal
ysis of X-ray film interpretations.
Dr. James J. Feffer, vice president
of the tuberculosis association, will
report on survey acivities prior to
its opening date.
Mrs. C. D. Lowe, association pres
ident, will give the opening address.
Directors will be elected. The meet
ing is open to the public.
The tuberculosis association spon
sors the survey jointly with the
District Health Department and the
United States Public Health Service.
The survey announced yesterday
that fewer than 12,000 of the 400,000
or more District residents 15 years
of age or older who have passed be
fore the X-ray machines have had
a second X-ray study suggested. A
majority of those X-rayed a second
time have been found free of tuber
culosis, it was said.
The service is free to the public
and available to every resident over
the age of 15. Also free is as much
as two years of medical supervision
and advice when necessary in newly
discovered active cases.
'Security Sensitive Jobs
Of District Under Probe
Special Assistant Corporation
Counsel Daniel B. Maher’s seven
man loyalty committee will meet
early this week to decide if any city
departments or positions are “sensi
tive" to national security.
He revealed last night that the
committee—Charles Stofberg, special
assistant to Commissioner John
Russell Young: Police Inspector
Floyd A. Truscott; Secretary to the
Commissioners Geoffrey M. Thor
nett; Director of Corrections Donald
Clemmer; Lt. Col. Kenneth E. Mad
sen, assistant engineer commission
er; Victor Howard, secretary of the
Personnel Board and himself—prob
ably will discuss machinery and pro
cedure for making the agency
survey.
At its first meeting April 29,
the committee advised the Com
| missioners there is no need at this
time for a general loyalty check of
all District government employes.
They recommenced, however, and
the city heads approved, the survey
of city agencies and jobs to deter
jnine if any have security sensi
j tivity.
Club Members to Honor
Mrs. Willie Frazier Today
Mrs. Willie Rollins Frazier, re
tiring chaplain of the Virginia
White Speel Womens Republican
Club, will be honored by club mem
bers today at 5 p.m. at the Phyllis
Wheatley YWCA.
Participating will be Dr. Robert
Brooks, pastor of the Lincoln
Temple Congregational Church, of
which Mrs. Frazier has been a
member for 40 years, and Mrs.
Marion Seymour, assistant director
of nurses at Freedman's Hospital.
Mrs. Frazier is a former nurse
and the, wife of Thomas Frazier,
undertaker.
Reserve Officers to Hold
Installation Thursday
The following new officers will be
installed at a meeting of the Chevy
Chase Chapter of the Reserve Offi
cers Association at 8:30 p.m. Thurs
day, in the Bethesda Country Club.
Maj. George C. Fowler, jr.t pres
ident; Capt. Robert Chambreaimvice
^president; Lt. Kent Ward, secr#ary
wnd Maj. Carl B. Fink, tre^rer
Fund Campaign for Equipping
Brown School Begins by Mail
By Miriam Ottenberg
Thousands of Chevy Chase resi
dents will find in their mail boxes
tomorrow an invitation to make a
"permanent investment” in their
community.
That’s the opening gun of what
the Chevy Chase Community Coun
cil hopes is the last battle in the
long campaign to make the old E. V.
Brown School into a thriving com
munity center.
The parents, pastors, school chil
dren, businessmen and plain citi
zens who make up the council figure
they will win this battle, too.
After all, they won over three re
luctant District Commissioners to
the idea of a center for Chevy
Chase. They piloted their project
through Congress. They found out
what the Recreation Department
and the Public Library prescribed
in the way of furnishings and equip
ment,
$5,000 Is Goal.
And now, they have launched
their campaign to pay for what it
takes to make an attractive center
out of a barren old building.
The goal is $5,000.
Here's how they’re going about
the job:
The mail appeal will go to thou
sands of residents. , '
The same letter on a different
color paper will be distributed to
every child at Woodrow Wilson High
School, Alice Deal Junior High
School and Lafayette and Ben
Murch Elementary Schools. The
children will be instructed to take
the letters home to insure a direct
appeal to parents.
Students at Woodrow Wilson have
helped by printing placards boost
ing the campaign in their school
print shop. The placards, distrib
uted by a student committee; will
appear in 150 store windows
throughout the area.
The churches also are being asked
to co-operate.
Say All Will Benefit.
The council, representing every
organized group in the community,
is making this every Chevy Chase
resident’s campaign on the theory
that all of them will benefit.
And the present plans for the
center support that theory.
Chevy Chase is a reading com
munity. The center will provide
larger quarters for the Chevy Chase
branch lifcfrary and that means more
books.
The young people have had no
place where they could get together
after school—no place but the cor
ner drugstores. In the center,
there will be a hobby shop, a can
teen where they can dance to juke
box music as they sip soft drinks,
a game room and a lounge.
Both adults and young people
have felt the lack of a place to hold
meetings. The center will provide j
meeting rooms for all the groups,
from the Scouts to the citizens'
association.
Even the youngest members of the
family will have a play center.
Plasterers at Work.
The center is moving closer to a
reality every day. Plasterers are;
now at work in the old school at |
Connecticut avenue and McKinley \
street. Workmen expect to put the
finishing touches on the school by t
the first week in July.
-Equipment the Recreation £>e
pjrtfljent cam afford to .buy is now
moving into the department’s store
house. The staff for the recrea
tion center has been appointed. It
includes Mike Tardugno as com
munity organizer, Elizabeth Maggio
as senior recreation director and
Mitzi Hamman as recreation di
rector. |
Already, more than 300 books, two,
record players, several record al
bums and two ping pong tables have
been contributed by residents of
Chevy Chase.
Now the residents are being asked
to supply the dollars to buy the
chairs, tables, tools, games, cur
tains, pictures and dozens of other
items needed for the center.
The checks, made payable to the
Chevy Chase Community Council,
will go to Edward T. Stafford, coun
cil treasurer, at the Washington Gas
Light Co.
When the checks are in, the cotin
cil will buy the equipment in the
name of all the good neighbors of
Chevy Chase.
Marines and Civilians
Brawl on Riverfront;
Several Are Injured
A crowd of more than 150 Marines
and sailors engaged in a free-for-all
with more than 100 civilian youths
at Seventh street and Maine avenue
S.W. last night as a result of a
fight on a Wilson Line excursion
boat Friday night in which the
Marines said a group of civilians
“ganged up" against them.
Last night's episode was quelled
only after more than 20 policemen
arrived on the scene. It followed
refusal of Wilson Line officials to
admit any of the two groups aboard
their boat, members of both groups
sartd. Wilson Line officials could not
be reached for comment.
A Marine and a civilian were
booked at the Fourth Precinct Sta
tion. Pvt. Richard V. Chitwood, 19,
stationed at Quantico Marine Bar
racks, was charged with disorderly
conduct, and Carl Vincent Ferris, 17
of 1127 Robinson street S.W., waf
charged with carrying a deadly
weapon.
While there was no record of any
civilian injuries, the Naval Gun Fac
tory dispensary admitted they had
treated "a number" of Marines for
minor injuries. Lt. Richard Dob
bins, medical officer in charge of the
dispensary, refused to disclose the
number of Marines treated or the
nature of their injuries.
According to the Marines, a group
of more than 40 of them was set
upon Friday night on a Wilson Line
excursion boat by a number of young
men during the excursion. They
claimed their men were badly bat
tered in the earlier encounter.
Members of both groups told re
porters they were refused awnissior
to the Wilson Line steamer Iasi
night as a result of the earlier dis
turbance. Police did not know just
how the fight began.
Approximately 50 of the Marine;
were questioned at the fourth pre
cinct police station and released.
Mrs. Mills Sponsored
For Thrill Night' Queer
Mrs. Evelyn E. Mills, matron ol
Brookland Chapter, Order of the
Eastern Star, is being sponsored by
I the chapter and by King David
[Masonic Lodge for queen of “Th<
I Night of Thrills” to be held at Grif
fith Stadium on June 18.
Mrs. Mills is also Electa in the
Grand Chapter of the District ol
Columbia and a member of the 194i
Matrons and Patrons Association,
j The performance is for the benefll
!<* the Masonic and Eastern IStiu
Home. «
Tall Cedars of Lebanon
Stage First Parade
In Full Regalia Here
Shades of King Arthur’s Court, a
dash of medieval pageantry and a
liberal portion of circus spirit
stalked the streets of downtown
Washington last night as Capitol
Forest No. 104, Tall Cedars of Leba
non. staged their first public parade
in full regalia.
The purpose of the unprecedented
display was explained by the Grand
Tall Cedar Elmer F. Stein as a cele
bration of V-E day and the promo
i tion of cedarism. He defined
jcedarism as “a sort of light-hearted
i Masonry.’’ Only master Masons are
eligible to belong.
About 250 of these merry Masons,
including a group of candidates to
the organization, turned up for the
parade which started at 7 p.m.
from the Cedars’ headquarters at
523 Eighth street N.E.
Some were dressed in long regal
robes, complete with false hair and
; beards, others wore orange and
| green outfits while a third group
were dresseid in what appeared to
be white long winter underwear.
The parade was completed by the
Capital Forest band, a jeep, and
a goat, dragged unwillingly by ys’o
stout chains. (One member of the
I organization said the goat was
called "the training goat” and
should be considered, he thought,
a mascot of the Cedars). A baby
carriage bearing a full-grown baby,
who drank milk (or something that
looked like milk) out of a bottle,
attracted attention.
While onlookers gazed in awe
and bewilderment, the parade pro
! ceeded east on E street to Mary
land avenue, along Maryland ave
| nue to Twelfth street. North on
Twelfth street to H, west of H to
Sixth, south on Sixth to F and
then back to the temple. A squad of
motorcycle police, also wearing the
Cedars' clown-peaked caps, shooed
startled motorists out of the way.
Slightly winded but still game,
the paraders disappeared inside the
temple, where ceremonies initiating
the new candidates took place.
Capitol Radio Alumni Dine
Federal Communications Com
missioner George Sterling and Dean
S. S. Steinberg of Maryland Uni
versity spoke last night at the
alumni dinner of the Capitol Radio
Engineering Institute at the May
flower Hotel. . The dinner was at
tended by 140 graduates and staff
members of the institute, which
has been operating in Washington
since 1937. 9
Action This Week - I
Planned on Sex Bill,
Other D. C. Measures I
Congressional District leaders,
faced with only six more weeks of
this session before expected ad
journment June 19, plan action this
week on the sex offenders Dili and
several other important city,
measures.
Congress is shooting toward the
June 19 target to quit in time for
the Republican National Conven
tion. A jam of legislation may
threaten passage of District legisla
tion already advanced part way on
the road to enactment.
The bill to strengthen the law
against sex offenders, and provide
for their rehabilitation already has
passed the House and gone to the
Senate. It may come before the
Kem subcommittee of the Senate |
District Committee at a heai.ng
scheduled tentatively for 10 a.m.
Friday.
Other bills before the Kem com-;
mittee would provide for police con
fiscation of dangerous weapons
from, suspects, and restrictions on
the installation qf radio and tele
vision towers.
3 May Act on Armory Dispute.
The long pending dispute overt
concession receipts at the District
Armory may be solved, in part at
least, this week. Tentative agree
ments has been made to amend a .
House-passed bill for control of i
the armory, which sets up a three- '
man board to manage the structure.
In place of the architect of the
Capitol, as the third member of •
the board, the agreement suggests j
that the measure be changed to (
provide that this official shall be ;
chosen by the House and Senate 1
District subcommittees, which have ]
been handling the legislation. David
Lynn, architect of the Capitol, de- ■
dined to serve as the third member ,
on account of the pressure of other
duties.
The other two members would
be the president of the Board of
District Commissioners and the
commanding general of the National
Guard. The amended bill may come j
before the Senate District Com- \
mittee for action, at a date not yet
fixed.
Optometry Bill Opposed.
The House-passed bill to regulate
thr practice of optometry in the Dis
trict has met with substantial op
position from various parts of the
country, Senate District officials
said.
It is hoped to schedule a public
hearing on the measure, probably
next week, before the Cooper sub
committee of the Senate District
Committee.
Also pending before the Cooper
subcommittee are bills which would
continue for one year only the city’s
program for day care of the children
of working mothers; and to change
the jurisdiction of the Board of Pub
lic Welfare from an independent
unit to one of advisory authority
only.
On the House side of the Capitol,
a special session has been sched
uled for 9:30 am. tomorrow by the
House District Committee on a bill
to advance Federal aid to private
hospitals here which did not join the
Washington Hospital Center. This
center, including Emergency. Gar
field, and Episcopal hospitals is to
be built on the Naval Observatory
. grounds.
Hearing on Racial Bill
The O’Hara subcommittee of the
I House District Committee .wlli hold
| a hearing at 10 am. Tuesday on
legislation against racial discrimin
ation in public places.
Measures for increasing the pay of;
policemen and firemen and the pep-;
sions of widows and orphans of |
these men, will come before the j
Beall subcommittee of the House
District Committee'at 10 am. Thurs
day.
Representative Klein, Democrat,
of New York, member of the House
District Committee, announced last
night he would introduce soon a
bill for examination and licensing
of locksmiths and keymakers in the
District. The measure, he said, is
sponsored by the Locksmith’s Asso
ciation of the District area.
Cites Crime Increase.
In a statement, Mr. Klein said the
reported 15 per cent increase in
crime in the District over the pre
vious year was partly caused by “the
ease with which intruders can open
locks with primitive tools.” Also
he said, that "incompetent and dis
honest locksmiths and keymakers
can destroy the security of a lock
brought in for repair.”
The Klein bill will provide for a
board of registration of locksmiths
and keymakers, Consisting of five
master locksmiths, serving without
pay. The board would appoint a
director at a salary to be fixed by
the board. Several States have
similar laws, Mr. Klein said.
The Senate Judiciary Committee
still has pending before Ik and plans
to take up at some Afte in the
“indefinite future” the domination
if
j. W. Sigma Nus Told
fo Be More Quiet so
Neighbors Can Sleep
Members of Sigma Nu Fraternity
it George Washington University
,-ere placed on notice yesterday that
he old college spirit is all right
luring certain hours, but that the
lours are not those when the nelgh
ors want to sleep.
Nearly a score of persons living
lear the Sigma Nu house at 1622
[Wenty-first street N.W. appeared
lefore Assistant Corporation Coun
el Robert F. Kneipp. Mr. Kneipp
ook official notice of complaints
f boisterous talking, screaming,
►rofanity and cheers in the front
md back yards at the same time,
langing doors, raucous motor horns
md other sounds of collegiate
evelry.
He warned that the students must
lease and desist or “the boom will
>e lowered on them.’’
Unkindest Cut of All.
Robert E. Lynch, owner of an
ipartment house next door to the
ratemity, asserted the uproar has
leen going on for months, capped
►y two celebrations in the last week.
“The noise was worse than, ever,”
le said of the recent merrymaking.
There were cars jamming the back
illeys and blowing their horns,
[roups of boys cursing and cheering
n front and back of the house.”
tnd the unkindest cut of all, “I
listinctly heard some of them shout,
To hell with the neighbors.’”
Mrs. Edfth Sutton, who lives in
,he apartment house, apparently
vas puzzled. Her experience with
ligma Nu had been different before
:oming to Washington. She had lived
text to a Sigma Nu chapter in
rexas, she said, but she “never
leard any boys so unruly" as her
►resent neighbors. She said she
vondered often when they found
ime to study.
Orders Issued.
Mr. Kneipp ruled: members must
lame marshals to patrol the area
igainst noisemaking. The “rumpus
•oom" must be locked promptly at
the curfew hour of 2 a.m. The entire
matter must be referred to higher
fraternity authorities.
William A. Wendt, former head
if the fraternity chapter, said last
light it was pointed out to Mr.
Kneipp that some of the noise com
plained of had not been caused by
fraternity members. It was said
also that only three complaints by
neighbors had been made directly to
the chapter.
Mr. Wendt said corrective action
would be taken. He said the chap
ter has been “pretty civic minded”
and that among its worthy actions
has been the raising of $450 for the
George Washington Hospital cam
paign.
Chemical Report Awaited
After Death of Woman, 56
A death certificate was withheld
yesterday pending chemical analy
sis, in the case of a 56-year-old
woman who died after reportedly
telTlng her husband she had "taken
some stuff.”
She was Mrs. May M. Zimmer
man of 3409 Twenty-fourth street
N.B:
Detective Sergt. John O. Curtis
of the homicide squad said her hus
band. Malcolm Zimmerman, told
him his wife said she had taken
something yesterday morning, then
lay down on a sofa and soon be
came unconscious. She was dead
when the family physician arrived,
he said.
Sergt. Curtis said an empty box
and partially used bottle of sleep
ing tablets had been found in the
house.
He added Mrs. Zimmerman had
been under treatment for a nerv
ous condition. Her husband is a
retired gardener.
Public Library Group
To Meet in Silver Spring
The Silver Spring Public Library
Association will meet at 8 p.m. to
morrow in the .Jesup Blair Com
munity House, Georgia avenue and
Blair road, Silver Spring, to adopt
a budget for operating the library
and a branch at Pour Corners and
to elect trustees.
Nominated for three-year terms
as trustees are Mrs. George East
ment, Mrs. C. W. Mitchell and
Warner Ragsdale. _
Reception at St. Augustine's!
The Holy Name Society of St.;
Augustine Church, 1717 Fifteenth
street N.W., will held a reception for
new members at 7:30 tonight in the
school hall.
of Edward A. Tamm, FBI official,
to be a District Court Justice. The
nomination was favorably reported
last week to the full
a judiciary subcommi
to-one vote.
Veteran Killed
In Auto Crash;
Amputee Hurt
District Student
Also Fatally Injured
In Maryland Accident
Two Washington residents, a dis
abled war veteran and a high school
student, died yesterday in Maryland
hospitals of injuries suffered in
automobile accidents.
A third resident, also a disabled
verteran. was critically injured.
The dead:
Paul Emmet
Chester, 17, son
of-Mr. and Mrs.
Thomas L. Ches
ter of 3000 Yost
place N.E., a
junior at Mc
Kinley High
School.
Edward Tobin,
25, of 452 K
street N.W., who
suffered exten
sive injuries dur
ing combat i n
Germany and
was released
only a few
months ago from Walter Reed
Hospital. ,
The injured man is Joseph B.
Rauert, 24, also of 452 K street N.W.
Both of his legs were amputated as
the result of combat wounds in
Belgium and he, too, had been dis
charged recently from Walter Reed.
Taken to the Perry Point Veterans
Hospital near Havre de Grace, Md.,
he was reported to have suffered a
skull fracture in the accident.
En Route to Brooklyn.
Mr. Tobin and Mr. Rauert were
en route to Brooklyn, N. Y„ to
I spend Mother's Day with Mrs.
{Rauert's mother, Mrs. J. McCafTery.
i The Associated Press reported that
Mr. Rauert was driving when the
specially - equipped automobile
awarded to him as an amputee over
turned on Pulaski highway, near
Elkton.
Mr. Tobin died in Union hos
jital, Elkton, shortly after being
idipitted.
Mr. and Mrs. John A. Schutt, in
whose home the veterans roomed,
said Mr. Tobin had just obtained
work as salesman for a construction
job. They said he was not eager
to make the trip to New York but
that he went so his friend would
not have to drive the long distance.
They left late Friday night.
Mr. Tobin was in the Corps of
Engineers during the war. He suflet
ed hip, knee and ankle injuries, bone
trouble and partial paralysis of the
sciatic nerve. .An operation left one
leg three inches shorter than the
other.
Received Car Recently.
Mr. Rauert. W'ho was with the
101st Infantry Regiment, 26th Di
vision, was injured January 2. 1945.
His right leg was amputated at
the thigh and his left leg below
the knee. He received the car about
two months ago.
Paul Chester died in Mercy Hos
pital, Baltimore, of injuries suf
fered in an automobile accident
April 24 that killed a companion
and injured five others.
The driver of, the car, Charles
Lipscomb, jr„ of 2714 Twenty-sixth
street N.E., died at Emergency Hos
pital, Annapolis, a few hours after
the automobile and a truck crashed
head-on, near Davidsonville, Md.
Injured Are Listed.
Others injured were Miss Doris
Robinson, 17, of 2828 Twenty
seventh i street N.E.: Miss Janice
Lumpkin, 17, of 2627 South Dakota
avenue N.E.; Miss Janet Williams,
16, of 1310 Downing place N.E.;
David Toman, 18, of 2728 Twenty
eighth street N.E., and the truck
driver, Max Brown, 18, colored,
Edgewater, Md.
In addition to his parents the
Chester youth is survived by a
brother, William Thomas Chester of
Washington.
Funeral services will be held at
10 a.m. Wednesday at St. Francis
de Sales Catholic Church, 2021
Rhode Island avenue N.E. Burial
will be in Mount Olivet Cemetery.
Justice Martin's Estate
Estimated at $284,000
George E. Martin, retired chief
justice of the United States Court
of Appeals here, who died April
14 at the age of 90, left an estate
valued at approximately $284,000,
it was shown yesterday when his
will was filed in probate at District
Court,
Justice Martin’s will named his
widow. Mrs. Margaret Martin, aa
the sole beneficiary. Mrs. Martin,
however, died in 1943 and, accord
ing to counsel, Justice Martin's two
heirs at law are to share in his
estate. They are his daughter,
Mrs. Margaret M. Sus, of Chicago,
and a grandson, George Denman
Martin, of Lancaster, Ohio. The
grandson's father, a son of the
justice, is dead.
Justice Martin lived at 1661 Cres
cent place N.W. His estate in
cluded securities valued at approx
imately $272,000, according to the
petition, which was filed by At
torneys P. C. King, jr., and John F.
Donelan.
Lem Graves Wins Award
At Howard for Reporting
Lem Graves, jr., Washington cor
respondent of the Pittsburgh Cour
ier, today held the “Newsmans
Newsman of the Year" award given
at Howard University by the Capital
Press Club.
Certificates for meritorious service
were presented to Otto McClarrin,
the university’s publicity director,
for public relations; Lloyd Genus of
the Washington Afro-American for
advertising, and Fred Harris, free
lance cameraman, for photography.
Thomas W. Young, president of
the Negro Newspaper Publishers’
Association and the Norfolk Journal
and Guide, Norfolk, Va.. brought
greetings from Negro publishers.
The occasion was the annual ban
quet of the club held Friday night at
the university. Drew Pearson, col
umnist and radio •ommenator,
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