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1925 Act Cited in Plea To ICC lor Increase In Parcel Post Rates By the Associated Press Postmaster General Donaldson has asked the Interstate Com merce Commission to exercise one of its little-used powers to bring about an average 25 per cent in crease in parcel post rates. Mr. Donaldson asked the ICC to approve a prompt increase in the postage charges for fourth-class matter. That covers ordinary par cel post packages, catalogues, books and printed advertising mat ter in bound form. Mr. Donaldson estimated the in creases he seeks would yield about $105 million a year in new- rev enue and would make the parcel post service self-sustaining. He has been attempting without success for more than a year to persuade Congress to increase vir tually all postage rates, last re vised in January, 1949. Refers to 1925 Law. In a letter to the ICC last week and made public yesterday, Mr. Donaldson called attention to a 1925 act which provides that par cel post charges may be changed either by Congress or by the Post master General if (a) he certifies that the parcel service is being operated at a loss and (b) the commission approves. Mr. Donaldson said that an ap propriation bill passed by the cur rent Congress, just before it re cessed last month, directed him to go to the ICC for parcel post rate increases. He asked for approval of these increases: Ordinary parcel post handled on a zone basis—the charge for the first pound to be jumped in the local zone from 10 to 15 cents: in ones 1 and 2 from 12 to 17 cents, in Zone 3 from 13 to 17 cents, in Zone 4 from 14 to 19 cents, in Zone 5 from 15 to 21 cents, in Zone 6 from 16 to 23 cents, in Zone 7 from 17 to 25 cents, in Zone 8 from 18 to 27 cents, with Increases in the rate for additional pounds ranging from fractions of a cent to 3 cents a pound. Catalogue Rate Higher. For catalogues and printed ads ▼ertising matter in bound form_ an increase in the first pound rate j in the local zone from 71? to 10 cents, with flat 3-cent increases a pound in all other zones, and a rise of V2 cent to 5 cents a pound j on the adidtional poundage. For books containing no adver tising—a change in the present rate of 8 cents for the first pound and 4 cents for each additional pound regardless of zone to 10 cents for the first pound and 5 j cents for each additional pound up to 10 cents; with parcels of books above 10 pounds being han dled at regular parcel post zone rates. Mr. Donaldson proposed no change in the present parcel rates on library loan books, on matter for the blind, or on publications handled as fourth-class matter. Postmaster General Walter F.: Brown was the last head of the department to go to the ICC for a change in parcel post rates. He did so in 1930 and two years later got what he asked for. Nimitz Feels Russia Has Gone Past Peak By the Associated Press BALTIMORE, Oct. 17. — Ad miral Chester W. Nimitz believes “Russia has reached and passed the peak of her opportunity to enforce communism on the world.” In a talk with newsmen here yesterday, the retired wartime commander of Allied forces in the Pacific said the cold war was “far from over” but that he felt World War III has been “postponed and perhaps averted altogether.” “The Russians have suffered a setback,” Admiral Nimitz declared. “They were caught off balance by the United Nations reaction to Korea. Now it is of the utmost Importance to continue to keep them off balance.” The Russians “understand force,” he said, and a “posture cf defense” on the part of the United States is the key to averting an other world war. Virginia Prisoner Goes Berserk, WagesGun Battle With Police Virginia State Trooper J. R. Wilson inspects the damage in the Groveton substation after an hour-long gun battle with the berserk prisoner. —Star Staff Photo. Armed with two .38-caliber re volvers, a crazed prisoner last night fought an hour-long gun battle with Virginia State police men in the Groveton station be fore a riot gun blast dropped him. Shortly after he had been ar rested for attempting to throw himself in front of passing auto mobiles on United States highway 1 south of Alexandria, William Henry Proctor, 38, colored, a la borer of the first block of Fenton street N.E., dashed to the second floor of the station. He had been left in custody of State Troopers James R. Wilson and C. R. Buchanan. Trooper Buchanan was alone in the main floor office with him when Proctor walked over to the water fountain near the stairway and fled up stairs. Trooper Buchanan followed him up the stairway and attempted to push open the barracks room door behind which Proctor bad barri caded himself. It W'as then that Proctor opened Are—the first .38-caliber slug tear ing through the door panel, barely missing the trooper. Meantime, Wilson who had been in the base ment, came upstairs to the main Boor and teletyped a help call. Then he grabbed a tear gas ?un and went outside the station. Proctor tiptoeing downstairs, sent newdy arrived reinforcements :o cover behind file cabinets and lurniture when he poked his head I around the stairway corner and opened fire again. Once, defying orders to throw his guns down and come down be hind them, Proctor tossed down a holster and fired again. Trooper Wilson began plopping tear gas shells through the second floor windows and Proctor at tempted to get out a second floor bathroom window, but was driven ; back. Gunfire riddled the interior of the station and one bullet pierced a police uniform hanging on the wall. ; Neighbors, who had been told to douse their lights in order not to outline the policemen to Proctor's fire, said “it was just like an old fashioned Western movie.” The end came when Proctor slipped down the stairway again and a riot gun blast was fired through the partition. One pellet struck him in the chest and he staggered down into the office. Troopers said the man appar ently had emptied one of the re volvers, reloaded and then fired one more shot out of the second one. He was taken to Alexandria Hospital, where attendants said his condition is not serious. He was charged with felonious as sault and attempt to kill with a dangerous weapon. Meanwhile, repairs to the sta tion were under wray, but com plete decontamination from the tear gas w'ill take three days, po lice said. Barry Bingham Receives French Legion of Honor By the Associated Press The French government yester day decorated Barry Binghars, editor of the Louisville Courier Journal, for his services as chief of the ECA mission in France. Finance Minister Maurice Petsche praised Mr. Bingham’s contributions to French postwar recovery in presenting him with the decoration of Commander of the Legion of Honor. The ceremony was at the resi dence of Ambassador Henri Bonnet who was among the group of French and American officials present. Mr. Bingham was chief of the Economic Co-operation Adminis tration mission from April, 1949, to last June. Two Held as Atomic Spies Enter 'Not Guilty' Pleas By the Associated Press NEW YORK, Oct. 17.—Pleas of not guilty were entered in Federal Court yesterday by Julius Rosen berg, 33, and his wife Ethel, 35, charged with conspiring to give defense information to Russia. The electrical engineer and his wife are accused of complicity in the atomic secrets spy ring cen tered around Dr. Klaus Fuchs, an admitted spy for Russia, who is in jail in England. The Rosenbergs have been in jail in lieu of heavy bail. No date for their trial has been set. Court Removes Children From Roadside 'Home' The two children of a Loudoun County farm laborer and his wife, who have been living by the road side near Dranesville since evic tion from their home last week, have been placed in a private home pending a closed hearing; tomorrow before Trial Justice: Lucas D. Phillips. J. W. Martin, 65; his wife, 43, j and their two sons, Walter, 10, and ( Emmett, 5, were picked up by county authorities after spending 1 Friday and Saturday nights beside ; Route 7. They had been evicted; for non-payment of rent. The boys were placed in a home ■ after a conference with Judge Phillips yesterday. Mr. Martin, who refused assist ance from neighbors on the ground he did not want to leave his chickens, has turned down county aid before, welfare au thorities said. The family also has rejected offers of help from rela tives in Alexandria, according to the Welfare Department. Girl Amnesia Victim Held for Observation A 16-year-old girl, identified as Margaret Welch of 6503 E street, Maryland Park, Md„ was in Gal linger Hospital today for observa tion, following identification yes terday by police after she came to Doctors Hospital Sunday night and said she did not know who she was. She was identified through a soda fountain clerk label in her purse, police said. She had worked for Peoples Drugstore, they added. The Weather Here and Over the Nation District of Columbia—Some cloudiness with high around 68 this afternoon. Rather cloudy and mild tonight and tomorrow. Lowest temperature tonight about 54. Maryland—Some cloudiness to night and tomorrow. Continued mild. Virginia—Rather cloudy tonight and tomorrow. Continued mild. Low tonight, 50 to 55. Wind velocity at 11:30 o’clock this morning, 5 miles per hour; direction, north-northwest. Five-Day Forecast for Washington and Vicinity, October 17-22. Temperatures will average above normal, which for Washington is a high of 65 and a low of 46. Cloudy weather with rain Thurs day or Friday, clearing by the week end. Total rainfall, one-half to 1 inch. Scattered showers are predicted tonight for the Southeast Coast from the Carolinas south, as well as in part of the Great Lakes region. The Northwest will have rain with some snow in the higher elevations of the Northern Rockies. It will be some what warmer from New England southwest through the Ohio Talley to the Great Plains. —AP Wirephoto. (From United States Engineers.) River Report. Potomac River cloudy at Harpers Ferry and Great Falls; Shenandoah cloudy at Harpers Ferry. (Readings at Washington Airport.) Humidity. (Readings at Washington Airport.) Yesterday Pet. Today Pet. Noon - 53 8 a.m._ 78 + D m. _ 48 10 a.m._78 8 n m. -88 1 p.m_68 Midnight_83 High and Low of Last 21 Hours. High. 70. at 3:20 p.m. Low, 54. at 12:45 a m. Record Temperatures This Year. Highest, 96. on June 24. Lowest, 16, on March 3. Tide Tables. (Furnished oy United States Coast and Geodetic Survey.) „ Today. Tomorrow.! i Hiffh - a.m. 12:55 a.m.! Low - 7:07 a.m. 8:12 a.m. High-12:25'p.m. 1:34 p.m. Low - 7:19 p.m. 8:30 p.m. The Sun and Moon. Rises. Sets. iSun, today, 6:20 5 27 | Sun. tomorrow 6:21 5:26 Noon, today- 1:27 p.m. 10:35 p.m. Automobile lights must be turned on one-half hour after sunset. Precipitation. ' Monthly precipitation in inches in the ! Capital (current month to date): Month. 1950. Avg. Record. January - 1.91 3.65 7.83 '37 i February - 2.72 3.37 6.84 '84 March - 4.17 3.76 8.84 '81 Abril - 1.86 3.27 9.13 '89 May --- 6.76 3.70 10.69 '89 June _ 3.14 4.13 10.94 '00 July -5.11 4.71 10.63 '88 August -7.21 4.01 14.41 '28 I September _ 6.73 3.24 17.45 '34 | October - 1.56 2.84 8.81 '37 November _ 2.37 7.18 '77 I December 3.32 7.56 ’01 Temperatures in Various Cities. High. Low1. High. Low. I Albuquerque 83 61 New York . 64 40 Atlantic C. 61 58 Norfolk _ 64 57 Atlanta, Ga. 77 58 Omaha. Neb. 79 53 Boston _ 58 47 Philadelphia 66 47 Chicago . 82 58 Phoenix .100 62 Cincinnati 80 51 Pittsburgh _ 68 49 Detroit _ 70 55 P'tland. Me. 56 34 El Paso. Tex. 88 66 P'tland. O'g. 51 49 Kansas City 89 64 Rich'd, Va._ 65 52 L. Angeles _ 67 54 St. Louis . 89 58 Louisville . 84 50 S't L'k City 79 63 Memphis . 87 54 San Antonio 87 57 Miami _81 79 S. Francisco 87 60 Milwaukee . 78 60 Seattle_ 60 43 N. Orleans. 86 69 Tampa_ 76 70 Eisenhower Viewed As 1952 Possibility Despite Statement Gen. Eisenhower today was re garded again as a presidential pos sibility for 1952 despite a new statement that he has not changed his mind about staying out of politics. The man who led the Allied armies to victory over Nazi Ger many in World War II said yes terday that his position as presi dent of Columbia University offers him "rich opportunities for serv ing’' and his convictions about how he can best serve "the cause of freedom’’ have not been changed. His statement was issued after Gov. Dewey of New York, titular! head of the Republican Party, came out Sunday with a boost for j Gen. Eisenhower as the Republi can presidential candidate two years hence. Regarded as Threat in Race. Despite the statement, sources close to Gen. Eisenhower reported that he would submit to a draft as the Republican presidential candidate although he would not actively seek the nomination. The view was that Gen. Eisenhower would continue to be a big threat to all would-be candidates, Demo crats and Republicans alike, un less he takes himself out of the running with a statement far more emphatic than the latest one he has issued. In his statement following the Dewey indorsement, Gen. Eisen hower said: “Any American would be com plimented by the knowledge that any other American considered him qualified to fill the most im portant post in our country. In this case, the compliment comes from a man who is Governor of a great State and who has devoted many years of his life to public service. So. of course, I am grate ful for Gov. Dewey’s good opinion of me. Cites Columbia Opportunities. “As for myself, my convictions as to the place and methods: through which I can best con-1 tribute something to the cause of freedom have been often ex pressed. They have not changed. Here at Columbia University I have a task that would excite the pride and challenge the qualifica tions and strength of any man. I still believe that it offers to such an individual as myself rich op portunities for serving.” Gen. Eisenhower has said over and over for more than two years that he is not a candidate for public office, that he is a man without political connections or ambitions, and that he has a job to do at Columbia University. But his latest statement was not as strong as the one he issued in 1948 when Democrats and Repub licans alike were boosting him for the presidential nomination. At that time, he refused to let either party draft him and said he could not be a candidate for any public office. Stronger Than Press Interview. Nor was it as strong as he put it in an interview published yester day by the university newspaper, the Columbia Daily Spectator. In that interview, he said: “I don’t know of any one in modern times who has made him self clearer on the subject. So far as I am concerned, I put my hand to a job and am doing my best. I don't know why people are always nagging me to run for President. I think I've gotten too old. I have no desire to go anywhere else if I can help do what I want here at Columbia. This is the place for me.” However, that interview had been given a full week before Gov. Dewey’s indorsement.” After his statement yesterday, the New York Journal-American and the New York World-Tele gram and Sun quoted sources close to Gen. Eisenhower as say ing he would submit to a Repub lican draft, but would not say so for sometime. Recent Comment Cited. This was the opinion of some Republican leaders and some Democrats, too. Some of the Dem ocrats privately expressed the opinion that Gen. Eisenhower has sounded like a Republican presidential candidate in recent months with speeches hitting at high taxes, Government subsidies and unbalanced budgets and de manding that the country be pro tected “against insidious and even traitorous corruption in responsi-! ble places.” Gen. Eisenhower has insisted he! has a right to discuss public ques- j tions and issues without being called a political candidate for doing so. In the light of Gov. Dewey’s support, however, it will take a much stronger statement to re move his name from the list of potential presidential candidates in 1952. At the moment, no one else of prominence in the party is actively seeking the nomination, although there is plenty of time! for that. Stassen Still Contender. Word has gotten out that Sena tor Taft of Ohio will not woifc actively for the nomination as he has in the past. Harold E. Stas sen, former Governor of Minne sota and now president of the University of Pennsylvania, re mained in the picture. Without eliminating himself as a candidate, Mr. Stassen said in a statement in Philadelphia yester day that Gov. Dewey had shown real statesmanship and that he continues to have a high regard Maryland and Virginia - News in Brief Three Judges to Rule On Virginia Poll Tax A special three-judge Virginia court has been appointed to pass on the constitutionality of the State’s poll tax laws. The panel was named yesterday by Chief Judge John J. Parker of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in accord ance with an opinion handed down by the Appeals Court Saturday. At that time, it reversed the Alexandria District Court’s re fusal to request such a tribunal to hear a case in which Jessie Butler, a colored woman, had sued the Arlington registrar and six State election officials to compel them to register her without pay ment of the poll tax. Members of the special court will be Circuit Judge Armistead M. Dobie, Charlottesville; District Judge Sterling Hutcheson, Boyd ton, and District Judge Albert V. Bryan. It was Judge Bryan who had dismissed the case in Alexan dria.—AP. * * * * Marlboro Fair Opens The Marlboro (Md.) Fair will open tomorrow with a corona tion of a queen and a United Nations pageant presented by 250 school children highlight ing the program. Miss Sylvia Ferguson, 17, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Har vey Ferguson of Meadows, Md., will be crowned queen in cere monies at 1 p.m. The pageant will follow on a stage in front of the Marlboro Race Track’s grandstand. * * * * North Beach Bonds Blocked Calvert County Circuit Court has thrown out a law authorizing North Beach to float a $250,000 bond issue for a municipal sewer age system. Judge John B. Gray, jr„ sitting in Prince Frederick, Md., ruled that the act, passed by the Gen eral Assembly last February, "is beyond the scope of legislation permitted at the short session.” Supporters of the law claimed it was an emergency measure de signed to cope with the lack of central sewerage facilities in the town. * * * * Carfare for Culprit A sympathetic Prince Georges County trial magistrate kept a Washington man out of jail yesterday after he had been convicted of petty larceny by suspending a 30-day sentence and then advancing him carfare to get home. William Mack Porter, colored, of the 400 block of New Jersey avenue N.W., was found guilty by Judge Robert W. McCullough in Hyattsville Police Court of stealing 2 cents from a Mount Rainier newspaper rack. Porter said he had been drinking and picked up the coin holder to shake it. He said he did not recall taking any money. * * * * Annexation Case Opens Alexandria’s annexation suit against Fairfax County opened today in Fairfax Circuit Court j with the judges taking a tour of the 7.5 square miles involved. The county and city jointly rented a bus to transport the three annexation judges and at torneys for both sides over almost every road in the area Alexandria wants to annex. Farouk Convinced There's No Future For King's Sons ROME, Oct. 17 (CDN).—King Farouk has put his foot firmly j on the idea that his matrimonial; adventures are due to wanting | a son and heir. When he was asked at San Remo, the King answered with a smile: “Kings are going out of style like tricycles and gas lights. Fifty years from now there won’t be a king in the world but the King of England, and people will look on him as just a curiosity. “If I should have a son, I’d start him on the respectable road of being president of a republic.” for Gen. Eisenhower. He declined to say, however, whether he would work for Gen. Eisenhower or seek the nomination himself. The Dewey indorsement was seen here as making it more diffi cult, if not impossible, for Presi dent Truman to pick Gen. Eisen hower to command a proposed international army to defend j Western Europe against Commun ism. There had been speculation that Gen. Eisenhower, still on the j Army’s active list as a five-star general, would be called back to duty for that position. But if Mr. Truman sent Gen. Eisenhower out of the country he might lay himself open to charges that he was trying to rid himself of the man who might be his most dan gerous political rival in 1952. sere,<-' I li to ROMEAND MILAN I 1 ] I .SEE YOUR TRAVEL A6ENT OR I -- AIR FRANCE. J - 1627 K St. N.W., Heurlch Bldf., 1 l> ,rr Wuhlncton. D. C. STerlln* 6767. The Federal Spotlight Agencies Must Continue Hiring From Civil Service Registers By Joseph Young The Civil Service Commission has informed Federal agencies they will have to continue hiring from regular civil service job regis ters, despite the fact that appointments will be on a temporary basis only. The defense agencies already are on an emergency-indefinite mnng oasis, ana tne wmte House will soon issue an order placing the rest of the Federal service on a similar basis. B e c a u se of the emergency indefinite type of hirings, there has been a lot of confu sion both on the part of Federal agen cies and job applicants on how the ap p o intments would be made. Many appli cants, as well as Federal offi cials, have been under the im pression the agencies would have a free hand in hiring whomever they wanted, without regard to established civil service job regis ters. However, the commission dis pelled this notion recently in a circular sent to Federal depart ments. xne commission declared nir ings will have to be made in regular fashion, from established job registers. Exceptions were made in cases where there are no job registers in existance for certain types of positions. For example, agencies may hire stenographers and typists through Grade GS-3 without bothering about job registers. Also, commission officials are giving the defense, security and scientific agencies some leeway in hiring employes without bother ing about job registers, if an emergency exists and essential employes are needed right away. But wherever possible, the com mission expects these key agencies to hire from job registers. As for non-defense agencies, the commission made it clear that persons must be hired from exist ing job registers, unless no register exists for the particular type of position that is to be filled. * * * * HATCH ACT—The Civil Ser vice Commission soon will issue, in question-and-answer form, a list of “do’s and don’ts” for Gov ernment employes, regarding their political activity rights in con nection with next month’s Na tional elections. Many Federal employes are con fused as to what they many and may not do in the realm of po litical activities. Despite some widespread impressions to the contrary, Government workers are allowed a certain amount of po litical freedom in election cam paigns. The commission’s in- J terpretation of the law, which will be published in this column, should clear up a lot of mis understanding. * * * * RFC—One of the most wide spread rumors around town these days is that the Reconstruction Finance Corp’s activities have come to a standstill. The story I has it that, because three of the RFC’s five board directors are new interim appointees and I not yet confirmed by Congress, j the agency is not making any 'loans these days, i RFC officials deny the story emphatically. They say the RFC isn’t loaning as much money now I as in previous years, but the! reason for it is President Tru man’s directive several months ago to hold down nondefense spending and loans as much as possible. T T T ^ CAPITAL ROUNDUP — The “lame duck’’ session of Congress late next month isn’t expected to act on any legislation of direct interest to Government employes. The session will last only a few weeks. . . . Recent retirees at the Bureau of Internal Revenue who received awards for long and meritorious service were Permelia Eskridge, Mrs. Jennie R. Driggers, 1 Letitia P. Hardesty, Percy S. Gray, Margaret A. Dolan, Myrtle J. Dowe : and Edgar J. Rudy. . . . Official Government employment figures for August show a total of : 218,063 Federal workers in Wash ington. Nation-wide, the total was 1,913,242 employes—an increase of 74,052 for the month. . . . Leonard R. Granger has been re-elected | president of Army Map Service ] Lodge 1202 of the AFL American Federation of Government Em ployes. Also elected were James M. Hawkshaw and James P. Keady, vice presidents, and Floyd A. Wines, treasurer. The secre tary post was left open until the next meeting. . . . Paul C. Camp bell, chief of the Public Housing Administration’s site engineering section in its central office, has been cited for superior perform ance and given a promotion. (Be sure to listen each Satur day at 6:15 p.m. to Joseph Young’s Federal Spotlight radio j broadcast over WMAL, The Star \ station, featuring additional news and views of the Govern ment scene.) Bishop McNamara Others Named to Plan Charities Conference The Most Rev. John M. McNamara, auxiliary Bishop of Washington, has been named honorary chairman of the general committee to handle arrangements for the 40th annual meeting of the National Conference of Catho lic Charities here November 2 to 6. Bishop McNamara’s appoint ment and that of other key officials of the conference and members of the general commit tee was announced last night by the Most Rev. Patrick A. O'Boyle, Archbishop of Washington. The Archdiocese of Washington is acting as host to the meeting and that of the annual conven tion of the National Society of St. Vincent de Paul which will be held in conjunction with it. The National Society of St. Vincent de Paul is an organization of Catholic men dedicated to help destitute, sick and needy persons. Other appointments to the gen eral committee by Archbishop O'Boyle are: Honorary vice chair men: the Right Rev. John K. Cartwright, rector of St. Matthew's Cathedral: Dr. Henry J. Crosson, former president of Catholic Charities of the District: Miss Mary V. Merrick, founder and president of the Christ Child Society, and Adam A. Weschler, treasurer of Catholic Charities for the District. Co-chairmen: Caesar Aiello, j president of Catholic Charities j here, and the Rev. Leo J. Coady, I director of Catholic Charities for' the Archdiocese of Washington. Others include: the Rev. Syl vester Hoffman of the Church of the Nativity, executive secretary:; and Francis J. Kane, civic and business leader, treasurer. Admiral Willcutts to Retire As Head of Medical Center Rear Admiral Morton D. Will cutts, commanding officer of the Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Md., will retire on April 1, 1951, it was an nounced today. At the same time, the Navy announced Ad miral Willcutts was elected surgeon gener al of the Mili tary Order of the World Wars at the group's national con vention earlier this month in S w a m p s cott, l^iJaSS. Admiral Willcutts. Admiral Willcutts has com manded the medical center since July, 1948. A native of Carthage, Ind., he received his medical de gree from the University of In diana. He joined the Navy in 1917. During World War I, he served as a lieutenant with the 5th Ma rine Regiment in France. In World War II, he commanded the Naval Hospital at San Diego and was cited for expanding its fa cilities for treatment of 12,000 patients. Air Co-ordinators Named Undersecretaries Dan A. Kim ball of the Navy and John A. McCone of the Air Force have been named to represent their services on the Air Co-ordinating Committee. Alexandrian Indicted In Assault on District Terminal Policeman An Alexandria man, who was shot and wounded last month by a Washington Terminal policeman in Union Station basement, dur ing an argument over parking a car, yesterday was indicted on a charge of assaulting the officer. He is Ernest F. Pearson, 26, col ored, whose companion, Oliver Davis, 26, colored, of the 1300 block of Wallace place N.W., was fatally wounded by the police officer, Pvt. Daniel Wolff of Hyattsville, Md. Policeman Cleared. Mr. Wolff reported he fired when Pearson and Davis jumped on him, after he had told them they could not park their auto mobile in the basement. The in cident occurred September 10. A coroner's jury exonerated Mr. Wolff in the Davis death, hold ing that the officer had fired in self-defense. Among others indicted yester day wTas a man arrested after a suit of clothes allegedly stolen during a housebreaking into a dry cleaning establishment in May had been taken by another man in September to the place from which it had been stolen. Indicted on Other Charge. The suit, police said, was trace. ' back to Calvin C. Peyton, 2. colored, listed as having no fixe address. In addition to beir. indicted on charges of breakin into the dry cleaning establish ment in the 1400 block of North Capitol street, Peyton also war; indicted on charges of breaking into and stealing form three other places. Arthur E. Henry of Hollywood was indicted on a charge of lar ceny after trust of $2,325 in cas. belonging to Mr. and Mrs. Franc; X. Meehan, 514 Decatur strec N.W. The Meehans gave Hen;., the money to buy an automobile ! for them, it is alleged, j Seventeen indictments wrere re ! turned yesterday. I - Engineers' Tour Today I The Washington Section of the 'Society of Automotive Engineer twill inspect District sanitation fa cilities at 4 o'clock this afternoon | and hold a dinner meeting at 6:30 j o’clock in the Burlington Hotel, j The society originally announced Venetian BLINDS Flexalum Slats Plastic Tapes Window Shades Special Department for '• Repainting • Re-Tapeing • Re-Cording 1-Day Service for Re tapeing or Re-cording. White House VENETIAN BLIND CO. 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