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Evening star., 1944-08-29
Body Of Navy Captain S Son
Found Beneath Taft BRIDGE

Police last night reported finding
the body Of James Orville Gawne,
jr., Is. of 2439 Tracy place NV,
said by police to be the son Of Capt.
James o. Gawne, U. S. N, of the
same address, beneath the Taft
Bridge. He apparently had plunged
to his death from the street level
of the span.
A taxicab driver, Fuller Mink,
29l6 Southern avenue Sc, who was
driving across the bridge, told
police he saw the young man climb
over the rail and disappear. Mr..
Mink notified police, who searched
the area beneath the bridge and
discovered the body of Mr.. Gawne.
Police said Mr.. Gawne had been
a patient at Sheppard-Pratt Hos
pital Baltimore, and carried q card
in his pocket indicating he was
scheduled to be readmitted to the
institution yesterday.
Evening star., 1944-08-29
OMAN Council and Manager
May Rule in Montgomery
Charter System, if Adopted, Would Do
Away With County Commissioners

chosen by the council at a salary
Of not more than $4,000 a year
The manager would be chief admin
istrative officer in charge of all de-
partmental heads and could be re-
moved from Office by the council al
will. except that 80 days notice
would be required and the manager
could request a public hearing with
a statement of charges.
Construction and maintenance OF
public roads, bridges and grounds
and public buildings, including
schools. county mechanical equip
ment and other public works, would
be under a department of public
works.
The Department of Safety would
be under the immediate direction
Of director of safety. There also
would be two assistant directors, one
of whom would be a fire commits
sioner and the other a police COM
missioner.
Would Have Merit System.
In addition, the Department OF
Safety would include a county fire
commission composed of one dele
gate from each county fire depart
ment. The commission would serve
without pay.
A county personnel board would
be set up to provide a merit sys-
tenn and civil service for county
employees. Political contributions OF
assessments by county officers or
employees would be expressly for
hidden.
The charter also provides for CEN
tralized purchasing and capital and
expense budgets designed to give
county residents a clear picture OF
fiscal affairs at all times.
According to members Of the
Charter Board, which drafted thu
proposed charter, the bi-county or.
ganizations serving Montgomery anc
Prince Georges Counties, such a.
the Washington Suburban Sanitary
Commission and the Maryland Ma
tional Capital Park and Plannins
Commission, would not be affected
bV il
Evening star., 1944-08-29
Marine Private Held,
Another Man Hunted
In New Attack Cases
Two Government Worker.
Victims; Hunt Pressed
In Silver Spring Crime

Two women Government workers
reported to police last night that
criminal assault attempts were
made on them in widely separated
sections of the city.
One Of the alleged attackers, a
marine private. was arrested and
turned over to Navy authorities,
while the other. husky colored
man, was still at large.
Dorothy L. Poore, 23-year- old
Government worker. of 1882 Blaine
street NE, told detectives that Ma
rine Pvt. william Morris, 20, sta
toned at the Marine Barracks,
Twenty-third street and Constitu-
ton avenue NV, had attempted to
attack her as they strolled near the
Lincoln Memorial. She said she re-
sisted his advances.
Pvt. Morris, police said, was later
arrested and turned over to the
naval shore patrol.
Screams Attract Passersby.
A 38-year-old Navy Department
employe was attacked in the $500
block of Western avenue, near her
home, by colored man last night
after she had accompanied a woman
friend to bus stop. Her screams
brought passersby to her aid, police
said. Meanwhile, she continued to
claw and kick her assailant The
attacker finally released her, she
said, and ran down Military road,
where he disappeared. Police broad
cast a description Of the attacker.
Meanwhile, the victim Of the at
tack became hysterical. police said,
and was taken to Emergency Hos
pital and admitted, suffering from
shock.
In Montgomery County police who
had three suspects in custody were
questioning two more men arrested
at La Plata, Md. and at No. l pre-
cinct here and answering the de-
scription of the man who criminally
assaulted 30"year-old Silver Spring
matron near her home Sunday.
A Statewide lookout was broad
cast for the attacker, said to be a
white man about IS years old with
dark complexion, as county police
continued the search. The hunt
began Sunday and has centered
around the area of the attack, near
the Hanover Street Bridge over the
Baltimore g. Ohio Railroad tracks.
Robbery Hearing Postponed.
The woman was returning to her
car after looking at plants at a
nursery when her assailant grabbed
her from behind, clamping his hand
over her mouth. Her condition this
morning was described by her ply
sician, DR.. H. H. Hewlett. as high
ly nervous and upset" but not seri-
Gus. She suffered severe scratches
in the struggle.
1t. Frank Lane of the Mont
gomery County Detective Bureau
was investigating a theory that the
attacker may have been an escaped
war prisoner. but police said today
they had not learned of any war
prisoners at large
A hearing scheduled for today at
Silver Spring for seven Baltimore
youths held on holdup and robbery
charges in Glenmont was post
poned so that police could devote
every effort to apprehending the
attacker.
Evening star., 1944-08-29
Virginia Claims New
Pentagon Fare Victory
By the Associated Press.

BY Inc Associated Press.
RICHMOND, Va, Aug. 29.-Vir-
ginia claimed another victory today
in the series of court fights over
jurisdiction in fixing of passenger
fares between Washington and the
Pentagon.
H. E. Ketner, commerce counsel
of the State Corporation Commits
sion, expressed qualification at a
new ruling of three judge court
in the District of Columbia which
held in effect that the Interstate
Commerce Commission does not
have jurisdiction.
The new court order, maintaining
a previous ruling that the ICC can
not attempt to control purely intra-
state operations. said the facts found
by the commission do not support
the ICES conclusion that its taking
jurisdiction is necessary to the ma
tional transportation system.
The Government motion for a
new trial. the order added, should
be overruled and the order of the
commission of June IL be set aside
and its enforcement permanently
enjoined. The ICC previously had
ordered that the Capital Transit
Co. carry passengers to the Penta-
gon for a cash fare of 10 cents OF
a fare of 8la cents if Communication
tickets were purchased. and that 9
joint fare between the companies
involved be fixed at $16O for /:
one-way trips.
A former decision of a three Judge
court set aside this order of the
commission. The ICC later issued
a second order putting the rates
in effect.
Evening star., 1944-08-29
Luck, Persistence Factors
In Successful Hunt for Home
War Housing Center Proves Big Help
To Those in Search of Scarce Apartments

Persons not falling into the cate
gories eligible for defense housing
or housing constructed with Federal
approval since the war can be placed
in apartments which already existed.
The center makes a regular check
of apartment buildings and real es-
tate ofIices, and it is the usual case
for the realty ofnces to cooperate
with it. Thus the center has a
fairly complete idea OF just what is
available.
Since the center's campaign to
induce the sharing of homes and
the renting out of parts of houses
this type Of accommodation has be-
come more plentiful, according to
Mrs. Ellen Harper, manager.
Shared homes and defense hous-
ing projects have gone far to keep
the situation from being much
worse. Persons who cannot be
placed Immediately always can be
offered furnished rooms, in the
meantime, Mrs. Harper says.
She said the demand for apart
ments had become much more no.
ticeable in the last three months
This she believes is because the long
months of Government recruiting
has borne fruit, bringing in school
teachers who waited for school te
be out, as we'll as college students
Chances are they will not 60 back tc
school in the fall.
Even with as many as 1000 calls
for dwelling units in one month
the center estimates that 10 pei
cent Of the applicants are placed ir
suitable quarters.
As for the future, John Hyde
National Housing Agency program
director, said no new schedule fol
building is being contemplated
What is now available. with the pos
sible exception Of a little more thar
900 units still remaining to b.
completed under the last program
will have to sufdce.
The situation admittedly /
tight" Mr.. Hyde says. but 1t il
regarded as adequate on the basi
| Of war housing"
Evening star., 1944-08-29
Fewer Students
Expected Than
In II Years
Schools BIume War,
Worker Transfers:
Opening Is Sept. l8 ,

The public schools expect the
lowest enrolment in IL years on
opening day September Is, due to
widespread employment of students
military service and transfer OF
Government personnel out of Wash
ington, Boise L. Bristor, school stat
istician, said today.
Mr.. Bristor expects about 87,357
students to be registered in October
Ia drop of 800 from the enrolment
last October. The senior high
schools, he believes, will have about
$50 fewer students; the junior high
schools, about 400 fewer students.
Elementary schools expect an in
crease of more than 300, however,
as a result of the steadily rising
birth rate, he added.
To cope with the increases in
school enrollments in Northeast and
Southeast Washington at the same
time that the total number of pupils
is dropping, school officials expect
to shift teaching assignments of
about 100 teachers. One school, the
CorcOran Elementary, IN Georgetown
will not reopen this year for lack of
students.
The school population has not
been so low since 1888, Mr.. Bristor
said, when it passed the $1,000 mark
on its way to the all-time peak of
$500 in 1886. A few years after
the war the schools once more will
reach and perhaps pass this 1896
total, Mr.. Bristor predicted.
Many students who expected to
work only during the vacation prob
ably will remain on the job all year
school officials said. An increasing
number of Government employees
have been transferred or have sent
their families back home, Mr.. Bristor
said, adding to the drain5 that mill
tary service already had made on
school enrollments.
Evening star., 1944-08-29
(Second OF a Series.)

Outstanding feature of the pro-
posed charter for Montgomery
County is the substitution of a nine.
man council and a county manager
for the present Board of County
Commissioners
The council would enact all local
legislation, thus eliminating the
necessity of having laws affecting
the county passed at the biennia
sessions of the State Legislature
In its legislative capacity, the group
would meet in May of each year.
The council also would have au-
thority to meet in executive ses-
sion at any other time to consider
matters such as zoning and health
One From Each District.
OF the nine members of the coun-
Gil, one each would be chosen from
the five commissioner districts and
four from the county at large. All
would lie elected on a nonpartisar
basis.
Members would be elected for
1Our-year terms and would serve
without compensation. except that
S. for expenses may be paid them
for each meeting, the total not to
exceed $500 a year.
The charter also provides that
no bill passed by the council shall
become law until June IS following
the close Of legislative session.
Prior to that date, any person
shall have the right to petition the
council or to appear in person be-
fore it to state reasons why any
proposed bill should not become law
Would Finish Terms.
While the council would super
sede the present Board of County
Commissioners, because of consti-
tutional consideration. the com.
mlSSloners would be continued in
office during the transition period
with their base pay of $1,000 year
each, until the end of the terms
for which they were elected in 1912
| A county manager would be
Evening star., 1944-08-29
Only 397 Persons Volunteer
To Aid Glenn Dale Nurses

Less than 20 per cent of the 1000
volunteer workers sought for Glenn
Dale Sanatorium have registered
with the Volunteer Bureau. the
agency reported today. Registra-
ton closes Thursday night.
The volunteers are needed to as
sist the depleted nursing staff at
the hospital. Because of the help
shortage several wings of the hos
pital have been closed.
There is great need for VOL
unteer workers." DR.. Daniel L. Finu-
cane, superintendent, said today in
last-minute appeal for workers.
At present the restricted facilities
care only for patients completely
bedridden and the most urgent new
cases.
To date 397 persons have. regis
tered at the bureau, 1850 Pennsyl-
vania avenue NV, volunteering
their services.
Evening star., 1944-08-29
Herbert P. Lein Rites
Will Be Held Thursday

Herbert P. Lein. IL, of 164a
Trinidad avenue NE, an employe
of the United States Chamber of
Commerce, died Sunday at Gallinger
Hospital. Mass will bA offered at
8 am. Thursday at Holy Name
Church, S2o Eleventh street NE
Burial will be in Fort Lincoln
Cemetery. The body may be viewed
at Chambers funeral home, SIT
Eleventh street Sc, until $50 am,
Thursday.
Mr.. Lein was born in the District
and is graduate of the old Business
High School. He is survived by his
widow. Mae L. Lein; two sons, Ray
mond and Edward D. Lein, q daugh-
ter, Mary Louise Lein: his parents
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry B. Lein; q
brother, Earl g. Lein, and Q sister
Miss Gretchen L. Lein, al Of Wash
inston.
Evening star., 1944-08-29
Two Men Are Killed.;
Third Seriously Hurt
In Maryland Crash
Z Autos Collide Head On
On Crane Highway; Victim
Of August 20 Mishop Die

Two men were killed and one was
seriously injured in head-on COL
lision of two cars on the Crane
highway, in Prince Georges County,
near Mitchellsville. and a 22-year-
old sailor died at Bethesda Naval
Hospital of injuries suffered in a
traffic accident here August 20.
Victims of the Crane highway ac-
cident were Edward c. Swami, Cap
itol Heights civil engineer. who died
last night. and James K. White, so,
Of New York, who police said worked
with Mr.. Swami. Mr.. White died
this morning at Casualty Hospital.
William Nalley. 20, of Belleton,
Nd, was in a critical condition at
the La Plata ND General Hos
pital.
Navy Man Dies Of Injuries.
Wit j. Barta, chief fre control
man at the Anacostia Naval Base,
died yesterday. He was struck Au-
gust 20 on the Anacostia River road
way by an automobile said by police
to have been operated by Charles
r. Tarwater, specialist photographer
second class, of 7025 Eastern ave-
nue.. Mr.. Tarwater will attend q
coroner's inquest tomorrow.
Eugene H. Poole, IS, of sos Fifth
street NE. was declared responsible
by a coroner's jury yesterday in the
death Of Mrs. Alice Lane, 10, of 3l3a
Connecticut avenue NV, mother OF
the wife Of Maj. Gen. Benjamin G
Lockwood.
Mrs. Lane died two days after
Poole's taxicab. in which she was
passenger, collided with a Capital
Transit Co. bus at Kenyon street
and Adams Mill road NV. on July
IL.
Bus Operator Absolved.
The driver of the bus, Russell D.
1nsley. IS, Of $500 Rhode Island ave-
nue. NE, was absolved Of all blame
In the accident.
A three-car collision at Tenth and
I streets NE, yesterday sent Miss
Mary Crockett, "A, of 1040 Columbia
road NV. to Casualty Hospital with
serious injuries, police reported. She
Is said to be suffering from a frac-
tured collar bone, possible concus-
sion, possible. fractured pelvis and
ribs and internal injuries.
Miss Crockett was q passenger in
. taxtcab operated by Merle b
Meyers. rs, Of 4S0l North lane, Be-
thesda, Md.
Evening star., 1944-08-29
$100 Added to Reward
For Erickson SIoyer

The reward for the apprehension
and conviction Of the slayer of
Frances Erickson, attractive young
architectural designer stabbed to
death in Rock Creek Park August
6, was increased to $3.50 yesterday.
Jack j.. Blank. president of the
Arcade Pontiac Co., 1437 Irving
street NV. yesterday contributed
500 to the reward money previously
posted by citizens. Mr.. Blank is a
lieutenant in the auxiliary police.
Meanwhile, detectives Of the hon.
icide squad asserted yesterday that
the questioning of hundreds of sus-
poets picked up since the crime has
failed to disclose a single clue to
the identity Of the murderer.
Evening star., 1944-08-29
Mother of Twin Token
From Abdomen Dies
3y the Associated Press.

BALTIMORE. Aug. "a colored
woman, one Of whose twins was
delivered last week from the abdom-
inal cavity, died yesterday despite
several transfusions a day and the
administration of penicillin.
The mother had been in a critical
condition at the Baltimore City
Hospitals after the delivery of one
baby in the usual manner and the
other afterward by surgery. The
twins are still alive and healthy.
Evening star., 1944-08-29

What are you going to do?" he
was asked.
I'm going to work in the garden.
I've got some asters and zinnias
and dahlias. I'm going to get away
from the charts"
1t was Mr.. Kincer who proved
grandfather right and the climatol-
ogists wrong about the old-fash-
ioned winter" He took down from
the wall his chart on winters since
1920. They varied in cycles of
roughly 20 years. The winters of
1855 to 1875 were abnormally cold.
Those of the last 20 years have
been abnormally warm. If the cycles
continue along the pattern set in
the last 120 years-and that is the
full length of weather history-we
will have much colder winters in
the years to come.
Evening star., 1944-08-29
Dancers to Hear Talk
|On 'WoIkie ToIkie' Uses

Sergt. Patrick j. Finegan will
speak on the uses of "Walkie
Talkies' at War Bond dance for
colored employees of the Veterans
Record Division. Veterans Admins
tration. at II o'clock tonight at the
Bali Club, Fourteenth and T streets
NV.
Coleman Hawkins, Saxophane
player, will provide entertainment.
Admission to the dance is by pur-
chase of a War Bond.
Evening star., 1944-08-29
Tribune Will Honor
New Recorder of Deeds

The Rev. Marshall L. Shepard
recently appointed recorder of deeds
for the District, will be formally
presented at the annual program
dedicated to God and America
sponsored by the Washington Trib-
une, local Negro newspaper. at 8 80
pm. tomorrow at Griffith Stadium
The Revs. c. P. Dixon, S. E. Will
llams and S. E. Kelsey and their
congregations will participate in a
gospel meeting during the program
L. E. Austin, editor of the Dur
ham IN. c. Carolina Times. will
speak on American Citizenship.
Evening star., 1944-08-29
Sove This Newspaper

Many paper mills are shut
ting down for lack Of waste
paper to convert into cartons
for Army and Navy supplies
shipped overseas. Every pound
Of old newspapers and maga-
anes u needed. Notify some
school child In your block to
hsvs your paper picked up.
Evening star., 1944-01-30

that boy - and millions like him - will be
satisfied to live his life in the tumble-down
home he occupied before the war?
You may say this is big talk but what
about the staggering obstacles that lie in the
path of any nationwide housing program?
What about inflated land values and high
real-estate taxes, the strait jackets imposed by
antiquated building codes, the high-wage de-
mands of union labor?
am we'll aware of these obstacles and do
not minimize them.
The problem of artifcially- high land prices
will ultimately solve itself Land prices must
be restored to their real value. Whether this
is done by governmental subsidy or private
action is detail. Areas which do this will
prosper; others will have to fall into line
In many places building codes stand in the
way of any real construction boom. Some of
these are idiotic In one state, for example,
an ancient law requires that every dwelling
house must have basement.
Evening star., 1944-01-30

Yes, and for the American people it will
prove only beginning. Mass production of
homes will provide more healthful and whole
some surroundings, reduce disease and juve-
nile delinquency. 1t will eliminate much of
woman's drudgery and shorten her mans
hours of labor.
The Road Ahead
i KNOW that many people look fearfully
ahead to utmost misery after the war: mass
unemployment, lowered standards of living,
general decline of our way of life. Personally,
think exactly the opposite.
With the good common sense of the Amer
lean people and with technology and machines
at our command, the road ahead is full of
greater blessings than we have ever visualized.
More things for everybody - more time to
enjoy them! Fewer working hours - 36 hours
week, then 30. Eventually. the machine may
be making everything we want in work
week of only "a hours. Better highways,
automobiles and aircraft will permit US to
move faster. Distances will be reckoned in
minutes, not miles. Ordinary working people
will have two homes - one in the city or near
their work and another so, 75 or 100 miles
out in the country. Healthful recreation will
become the principal American industry. The
world will be better place to live in.
The End
Evening star., 1944-01-30

That is medieval stuff and, because it is
outmoded, will be swept into the discard.
Intelligent self-interest will force revision of
codes. No sane community will want to be
left behind by rivals
An insurmountable barrier to progress,
am told, is the building craftsman and his
union organization. Such statement does
labor an injustice. Naturally, since their work
has been largely seasonal and spasmodic
these craftsmen have needed high hourly
wages. But, if we employers get together and
offer something better - reasonable guar
anteed annual wage, for instance, and year
round work - don't think anyone will stand
in the way.
Speaking of obstacles, remember the history
of the motor car. In the early years of this
century it appeared impossible to put Amer
ica on wheels. There were no good roads.
There were no filling stations. Few could buy
cars, let alone operate them. There wasn't
enough money in the entire country to finance
their manufacture. There weren't enough
mechanics on earth to service them. Powerful
interests opposed the new industry
When Autos Started Rolling
WE ALL know what happened. When the
automobile really started rolling it bowled
over every obstacle. The same thing will
happen when we really get to work on housing.
Evening star., 1944-01-30

ease. Not long ago, village of workers
homes was erected near one of our big eastern
airplane plants. The furnaces were put in
place in exactly six and half minutes each.
Other common-sense shortcuts, from foun-
dation to roof make the arrival of the
assembly-line home inevitable. Mass produc-
ton means cheaper production - and the
cheaper the house, the greater the demand
People simply will not continue to live in un-
Evening star., 1944-01-30

ioned to take advantage of the newest ma
aside by more progressive competitors. This
industrial rebuilding alone may provide en-
ployment for several generations of workers.
It's the same story with almost every type
of building. Not legitimate theater in the
country, for instance is truly up-to-date;
eventually all of them will have to be rebuilt
if they are to keep up with the marching times.
Evening star., 1944-01-30

greater strength and better protection against
heat, cold. fire. dampness and noise than the
walls of either of those houses. Cut to size
at the factory, they can be assembled readily
and cheaply.
Equally great savings are now possible in
plumbing and electrical equipment. In con-
structing war housing we have learned how to
turn out up-to-the- minute Kitchens complete
with every mechanical device the housewife
dreams of, from refrigerator to sink, in
single unit They'll be available in dozen
different colors, shapes and sizes. They can
be put into the house by connecting few
pipes and wires.
Bathrooms From Factories
] HE same is true of bathrooms. We have
learned how to turn out complete bath
room in factory, stamping out the individual
items just as we stamp out the important
elements of tanks and planes.
Heating units can be installed with similar