Evening star. [volume], July 01, 1949, Page B-9, Image 36

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Union Station information Clerk
Gets Railroad Courtesy Award
“What time does the 1 o’clock
train leave for New York?’’
“Would you show me on my
watch what time the train will
leave If it will
leave on stand
ard time and
my watch is on
daylight time?”
“My son was
supposed to get
in from Boston
some time to
day. He left yes
terday. When
will he arrive?”
These are a
fewof the thou
sands of ques
tions which
Mrs. Ina Ewell, Mrs' Ewe11
an information clerk at Union
Station, has handled so deftly
and pleasantly that she has been
named the July winner of the
Federation of Railway Progress
courtesy award.
Mrs. Ewell, the first woman as
well as the first Washington resi
dent to receive the monthly award,
was selected from more than 60
nominations. The nominations are
made by passengers impressed
with railroad employe courtesy.
The Minneapolis lawyer who
named Mrs. Ewell wrote that she
seemed to extend the same cour
tesy to the most humble travelers
as she did to those in high stations.
“Why, any one can be nice to a
Television Aerials Thief
Traced by Identity Card
An identity card left at the
scene of the crime was the undo
ing of a man accused in Munici
pal Court yesterday of stealing
five television aerials.
According to Joseph Walker, 23,
installer for the Lipman Radio *
Television Co.. 2144 P street N.W.,
the indoor aerials were removed
from his truck while it was parked
in the 1800 block of Sixth street
N.W. on June 20.
Detective Eugene H. Sisson tes
tified he found them still in their
carton at the doorway to the room
of John Burch. 45, colored, in the
i 1500 block of Fifth street N.W.
Burch, on the stand, testified he
couldn’t remember taking the
aerials or leaving them outside
; his door, although he “thought”
he had found them in an alley.'
* He didn’t say what he intended;
to do with them.
But confronted with a United
States Employment Service iden
tity card in a notebook Mr.
Walker said -he found in his truck,
Burch admitted it was his. He
also admitted he had been drink
ing before the theft.
Judge Ellen K. Raedy found him
guilty and ordered him to pay a
$25 fine or serve 30 days.
Smithsonian to Receive
Hiroshima Atom Plane
The B-29 Superfortress "Enola
Gay,” which dropped an atomic
bomb on Hiroshima, will be pre
sented formally to the Smith
sonian Institution’s National Air
Museum in ceremonies at Chicago
Sunday.
The Air Force said today the
plane will be stored at the former
Douglas Aircraft Co. plant next to
Chicago’s Orchard Place Airport,
which now serves as a Held storage
facility containing aeronautical
specimens for future display in 6
proposed National Air Museum to
be erected here. The department
could not say when it will be
brought to Washington.
Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg, Air
Force Chief of Staff, will present
' the “Enola Gay” to Carl W. Mit
Iman, a Smithsonian representa
♦ tive, as a part of the Air* Force
Association’s National Air Fair to
be held Sunday and Monday.
26 Guardsmen Appointed
To Military Academy
Twenty-six National Guards
men. two of them from District
units, have been appointed to the
Military Academy at West Point
and will enter with the class that
begins July 1, Maj. Gen. Kenneth
F. Cramer, Guard Bureau chief,
announced today.
They are the highest-scoring
men of the 100 who competed in
the official entrance examinations
- on March 1. The number of com
ipetitors allowed each unit is ap
* portioned according to its enlisted
"strength.
i The list included Recruit John
‘Olin Cooper of Company B, 163rd
i Military Police Battalion, and Pvt.
* Alfred Mathiason, jr„ of the 121st
‘Weather Station, both District
♦Guard units.
* _
"Koreans Business Group
Guests of Trade Board
■ Korean businessmen, who are
staying in Washington until July
6 on the last leg of a nation-wide
tour, were luncheon guests yes
terday of the world trade commit
tee of the Board of Trade in the
. Hamilton Hotel.
A special guest was Dr. John
M. Chang, Korean Ambassador.
Thomas J. Groom, second vice
president of the board, presided.
The businessmen were guests of
the District Commissioners yes
terday morning.
WEDDING
INVITATIONS
AND
ANNOUNCEMENTS
pOR over holf o century
the house of Brewood
has brilliantly interpreted
the ideals of engraving
craftsmanship that are
honored today.
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Engravers Fine Printers
1217 G STREET, N.W.
well dressed woman or a nana
some man,” said Mrs. Ewell. "But
it seems to take more of an effort
on the part of some people to be
nice to the poor, the afflicted and
the ignorant.
‘‘I try to be nice to every one,”
she said, adding that “all people
need is a little handling.”
“No matter how mean and nasty
they seem, they react amazingly
to a little courtesy and kindness.”
Mrs. Ewell, a widow, who lives
at 69 Rhode Island avenue N.W.,
took the job in 1942 because she
likes people.
She confessed, however, that
giving travel information to per-,
sons going some place gives her!
“itchy feet.”
Two Hitch Hikers Rob
Motorist of $1.90
A Forest Glen (Md.) man today
iwas held up and robbed of $1.90
by two hitch hikers who, he told
police, forced him at gun point to
drive them around Washington
and nearby Maryland for nearly
four hours.
The victim is Robert L. Bussel,
35, of 9902 Capitol View avenue,
a mechanic at the Lad Mills Serv
ice Center, Wisconsin avenue and
Q street N.W.
Montgomery County detectives
said Mr. Bussel picked up the two
men on Connecticut avenue near
the Chevy Chase swimming pool,
as he was driving to work.
When he arrived at the service
center, he told police, one of the
men pulled out a gun and ordered
him to “keep going.”
He told police he had driven
around the city and then went out
Stony Brook road near the Walter
Reed Hospital Annex, Forest Glen,
where he was ordered to stop.
The detectives said Mr. Bussel told
them the men struck him on the
head with a blunt instrument and
took his money. They left on
foot, he said. He did not require
hospitalization.
Mr. Bussel described one of the
men as about 24, with dark hair,
5 feet 11 inches tall and weighing
about 165 pounds. He wore dark
trousers and a light shirt. He de- j
scribed the second man as about
the same age, with light hair,
about 5 feet 9 and wearing light
trousers and a red checkered shirt.
Austria looks to dolls in native
costumes to spur its export trade
with America.
Safety Council Estimates
Holiday Traffic Toll at 290
By the Associated Press
CHICAGO, July 1.—The Na
tional Safety Council estimates
that 290 Americans will die
in traffic accidents during the
three-day Fourth of July cele
bration.
This carnage, the council said,
will be accomplished by 33,000,000
vehicles burning 340,000.000 gal
lons of gasoline to travel about
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No estimate was made of the
toll that will be taken by drown
ing, fireworks accidents, heac ex
haustion, food poisoning and
other summer holiday hazards.
The council said the estimate
of traffic deaths was “made on
the basis of past experience" and
was not “a gloomy prediction of
inescapable tragedy over the hol
iday.”
Nevertheless, it called the holi
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