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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1945-02-22

FOR SALE: 12x14 tent house,
cheap. Some furniture, Johnnie
Asher at Jones' trailer camp. $
Evening star., 1945-10-14
Brazilian Who Led Army
In Italy Comes Here Today

Maj. Gen. Joao Batista Masca-
renhas de Moraes, who commanded
the Brazilian Expeditionary Force in
Italy, Is to arrive at the National
Airport today for two weeks visit
as War Department guest.
Arrangements for the visit of Gen
Mascarenhas and ACCOMPANYING
Brazilian officers, include a visit tc
the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
tomorrow, and a dinner given by
1t. Gen. Thomas T. Handy, deputy
chief of staff.
Tuesday, the officers will call on
President Truman at the White
House and visit Secretary of Wal
Patterson and Gen. George C. Mar
shall at the Pentagon. There will
be an evening reception at the Bra
lillian Embassy.
The party will leave here Wednes-
day for West Point, and then will
visit some of the military instalIa-
tions in the South and West. AT
Bushnell General Hospital, near
Salt Lake City, they will visit some
of the Brazilians wounded in Italy
Other members of the Brazilian
party include Brig. Gen. Zenobio
da Costa, Air Brigadier Antonio Ap-
pei Netto, and a number of staff
officers.
Evening star., 1945-10-14
Child Swallows
Nail, Three Cut
By Razor Blades

Among the lis home accidents re-
ported last week in the District was
one involving child who swallowed
nail and three involving children
cut while playing with razor blades.
Two other children swallowed tine
ture Of benzoin and oil of winter
green.
Falls injured IS persons, including
man who slipped on the bathroom
floor and cut his face on a coat
hanger hanging on the doorknob
Attempts to repair porch roofs led to
two more falls. Ten were burned
six had foreign bodies removed from
the eye, ear or throat and 40 cut
themselves. The Red Cross accident
prevention service report also listed
II accidents "of a miscellaneous ma
ture.
One fall resulted In the 144th
fatality from home accident this
year.
A woman need II stitches after a
window pane broke while she was
washing it. The report suggests q
check-up and repair of putty-sealeo
window panes to prevent this type
Of accident, of which 43 were re.
ported by District hospitals last year
Evening star., 1945-10-14
Justices 10 Attend Rites
For Mrs. Louis Brandeis

Chief Justice Harlan F. Stone anc
seven associate justices of the Su.
preme Court will attend funera,
services tomorrow for Mrs. Alice
Goldmark Brandeis, widow of Jus.
tice Louis D. Brandeis. The pri-
vate rites for Mrs. Brandeis. who
died Thursday night, will be held
at her home, ZOOS California street
NV, at Sis pm.
Justice Jackson, ninth member
OF the Supreme Court, is in Europe
Mrs. Brandeis died of heart at
tack four years after the death OF
her husband, who retired several
years ago from the Supreme Court
She was 10 and member of a we'll
known Cincinnati family.
She married the late Justice in
1891 while he was practicing law
in Boston and they came to Wash
ington in 1916, when Mr.. Brandeis
was named to the Supreme Court
by President Wilson. e
Evening star., 1945-10-14
Sunday Dinner
|CourtCose Starts
Flood of Others

Twenty-four Government girls
who won $50 each last month in
Small Claims Court on grounds they
were denied Sunday dinners to
which they were entitled at their
boarding house, appear to have
started something.
Court attaches say at least 10
"Sunday-dinner" suits have been
filed since September 81 when news
paper stories told of the Judgment.
Miss Estelle Michura, Treasury
Department employe. one of the
successful litigants, said she and her
housemates have received numerous
calls from other boarding house resi-
dents who feel they, too, have been
wronged according to the minimum
service standards of the Emergency
Rent Control Act. Several of the
callers indicated they would take
their cases to court, she said.
The girls, residents of 1867 Rhode
Island avenue NV, claimed they
received no rebate when Sunday.
dinners were eliminated for seven
weeks during July and August.
Evening star., 1945-10-14
Real Estate Group Asks
Relaxation Of Rent Control

Abandonment Of rent control in
areas where the housing shortage
has eased was asked last night BY
the National Association of Real
Estate Boards.
Alexander Sumner, chairman of
the organization's Rent Control
Committee, said many properties
are standing idle because their
owners do not care to rent them
at financial loss. r.,.-.,-
I'VE do not believe that a COM
munity should have to become a
veritable ghost town before rent
controls are lifted" he said. I'm
many communities where supply is
almost adequate to the demand, the
lifting of controls in itself would
make more rental properties avail
able and create the proper. balance
for competitive rentals"
Mr.. Sumner said there are about
s., 1000 persons living in rent
controlled areas and that the OPA
has estimated that only S per cent
OF these people are in areas from
which it is planned to lift the con-
trolls in the next few months.
Evening star., 1945-10-14
The Why Of 1t
7. Work of War Fund
/ Agencies Is Varied

(Questions and AnSwers Supplied
1y the Community War Fund.-
90. Are Community War Fund
agencies designed to aid only the
'needy."
sA. No. Many social problems
Which could eventually become
cbstiy to the community are due to
b1fder- line incomes, bad housing
oTkrcrowding, sudden illness, mental
iHness, delinquency and desertion
HNmily tensions are Tightening as
WsF jobs lose their glamour. Homes
af& breaking under strain and
tlAgedy. Children from such homes
mast be protected. Deserted
n4others need help. Health must
benoubly guarded in time of fatigue
Emergencies arise in war or peace
hnorn or depression. Social agencies
pFevent many social ills, fine rem
ed4es for many others.
F2 Aren't the services the Fed
en@ Government is providing for
VI yerans, plus the ability to get jobs
gong to meet all their needs?
sM No. In areas where studies
h&e been made, it has been found
tk4 about 40 per cent of the re-
tting servicemen have problems
tb# only social agencies can help
tken meet. Many veterans need
hait in solving mental, emotional
aAM family problems. Social agen-
cfS help them find housing and
retxeations come to the rescue IN
financial emergencies.
Evening star., 1945-10-14
Civic Groups Plan Dinner
To Honor Arch McDona|d

A testimonial dinner will be given
in honor of WTOP sports broad
caster Arch Mcdonald OF Burnt
Mills Hills, Silver Spring, Wednes-
day night at thee Indian Spring
Country Club. ~
Friends will gather to pay tribute
to Mr.. Mcdonald, who recently was
named Americas number one base
ball broadcaster by Sporting News
of st. Louis, Mo.
The dinner will be given by the
combined civic and service clubs of
Silver Spring, where Mr.. Mcdonald
has long BEEN an active resident.
Guests will include Secretary of
the Treasury Vinson, Senator Chan
dler, Democrat, Of Kentucky; Rep
resentative Beall, Republican, OF
Maryland; Paul Porter, chairman of
the Federal Communications Com
mission, and Clark Grif1th, presi-
dent Of the Washington Nationals.
j. 9. Taylor Sphinx, editor Of
Sporting News, also will attend.
Evening star., 1945-10-14

previously only as literary work
cleaned from censoring of mail.
When Admiral Nimitz read it, he
apologized with a grin for violating
the Sanctity of postal correspond
ence.
The mustic firm which had pub
! lished other songs of the officer
composer decided this would be a
good one for Navy Day and asked
his wife if Capt. Beecher had put it
to mustic. Mrs Beecher lives at
1915 North Hartford street, Arling-
ton, Va.
1t developed, however, that Capt.
Beecher has been doing more fight
ing than composing in the past year
and is now in Tokyo Bay. The firm
of Robbins Music Corp. of New York
found other music and will pub
lish it.
Slim" Beecher, who has stead
faStly maintained he would rather
be an admiral than a composer, has
written some fast-selling songs in
his time. His Song of Old
Hawaii" is perhaps the best known
of more than 500 Beecher tunes.
He doesn't know how to read or
write music but that hasn't stopped
the steady flow Of songs. He picks
out the tunes on his banjo and his
wife sets them down on paper.
The son of Baltimore architect,
Capt. Beecher started writing paro-
dies for the Middies' musical shows
soon after he entered Annapolis in
1921. He collaborated on such foot
ball songs as up and at En- Navy"
and Fight Big Blue Team" Later,
when he was loaned to Hollywood
as technical adviser for a Navy film,
"ShipmateS Forever" he had
hand in turning out, Don't. Give
Up the Ship" stlt
Since leaving the Navy Depart
ment in the fall of 1914, Capt.
Beecher has been in command of
group of mine layers, which par
ticipated in the Okinawa campaign.
and more recently has commanded
division of deStroyers.
Evening star., 1945-10-14
King Halls Expansion
.0f Naval Aviation in
Address al Annapolis
Ey the Associated Press.

ANNAPOLIS, Md, Oct. 13.-The
development of naval aviation was
termed by Admiral Ernest J. King
today as lone of the greatest things
about the Annapolis Academy which
reflects Navy thought and education,
and the Navy itself"
Speaking to midshipmen as the
century-old school concluded a
weeks anniversary celebration with
major football game, pageant and
air show, Admiral King declared that
progress will be the watchword of
the future Navy"
"As far as I know" he continued.
atomic bomb or no atomic bomb,
the submarine will still be In the
picture.
MY race is nearly run. You are
preparing to be the runners to carry
the torch of the future"
As the guest of Vice Admiral
Aubrey w. Fitch, academy superin-
tendant, at the football game be-
tween Navy and Penn State, Admiral
King witnessed pageant of State
flags between halves and saw an
exhibition by the aerial arm of the
Navy about which he spoke to the
future officers.
The feet OF Is planes from the
carrier Champlain swept in from
Norfolk, Va, and thundered over
the sell-out crowd at Thompson
Stadium.
Another phase Of the days pro-
gram was the dedication of Ogle
Hall rs new alumni house.
Evening star., 1945-10-14
Child, 6, and Woman Huri
In Two Traffic Accidents

Mrs. Mabel G. Buckwalter, As,
OF Lancaster, Pa, suffered a frac-
tured collarbone and possible rib
fractures when a car in which she
was riding struck a streetcar load
ing platform and careened into a
tree in the 600 block Rhode Island
avenue NE, last night. The car
knocked the tree down.
Admitted to Casualty Hospital,
her condition was described as not
serious. The car was driven by
her husband, Charles H. Buck
walter, also of Lancaster, police
said.
In another accident last night
Gerald w. Deere, 6, of 1908 Bladens-
burg road NE, suffered a possible
fracture of the left arm when struck
by an automobile while crossing
the street in the 1900 block of
Florida avenue NE.
He was treated at Casualty Hos
pital and police said his condition
was not serious. The automobile
was driven by Everett j. Moss, 81,
colored, of the HOO block of Fair
mont street NV, police reported
Evening star., 1945-10-14
Three Deaths Declared
Accidental by Coroner

Coroner A. Magruder Macdonald
issued certificates of accidental
death yesterday in the cases of an
elderly couple found dead in their
apartment, and of a man who fell
eight stories to the street while at
tempting to remove an awning from
a Government building.
He reported that carbon monox-
ide poisoning caused the deaths
yesterday morning of William H.
Knight, 81, and his wife, Irene, 63,
Sis Sixth street NV. The gas heater
in the kitchen apparently exhausted
oxygen in the air.
Victim of the fall from the Fed
eral Housing Administration build
ing was Charles l.. Ready, 40, 412
Tennessee avenue NE, a foreman
with the Washington Shade and
Awning Company. He had been
employed by the company 10 years.
Evening star., 1945-10-14
) Lansburgh Executives
Honored al Club Dinner

Three executives of Lansburgh &
Bro, whose service to the store
totals 1877 years, last night were
honored with other members of the
firms 10-to-50-year club at a ban
quet in the Mayflower Hotel
The three men were Sol Lans-
bufgh, 80, store president, who
started as cash boy 81 years ago;
Marx E. Kahn, II, bedwear buyer
and president of the club, who has
just completed his 50th year OF
service, and Max Hirsch, ST, division
at merchandise manager with SO
years of service.
Twenty-one employees were made
members of the club at the banquet,
upon completion of 10 years service
to. the firm. Of the 172 members
eight have just entered the 20-year
group, and two, Miss Katherine
Jordan and Miss Nellie Tompkins,
have just entered the 30-year group.
Evening star., 1945-10-14
lexas-Made Silk Stockings
Given 10 Mrs. Truman

Mrs. Truman received a pair OF
silk stockings yesterday and the
President received six pairs OF silk
SOCKS, produced from Texas silk
worms.
The gifts were left at the White
House by Ernest M. Minis, manager
OF the Chamber of Commerce for
Mineral Wells. Texas, which is the
center OF the new silkworm in
dustry.
Mr.. Minis said a new type of reel
ing machine to remove the silk
from the cocoon has produced a
finer grade of silk than ever made
BY Japan. One woman operating
the machine can produce as much
silk as 20 women in Japan.
Evening star., 1945-10-14
Words of Poem
Navy Coptoin's Verse
Will Become Soma

Here are the words written by
Navy Capt. William Gordon
Beecher, jr., read by Admiral Nimitz
at the banquet in his honor, and
now about to be published as a song
Patty Mccoy
An American boy
Left his home in the Golden State
And wouna Up in Task Force Three-eisht
With satisfied smile
Then he took, his pencil in hand
And here's what he wrote
In a well-censored note
To his family in State-side land.
Me-and Halsey. and Nimitz
We're driving 'em whacky
We're settin' the damn Risin' Sun
Kyushu and Kure and Kobe
Te rof sm ks eunS Tonb.2s TO see
The treatment, we give em is good for
Nmz and Gn ssr. unasr nd.
Me-and Halsey and, Nimitz
Are havin' a wonderful time
What we amt uprootin'
| By bombin' and shootin'
| Would fit on the face of dime
| They say ther're face savin' nation
Ar And that may be true as can be
We give EN- the Arsenic-minus Old Lace
They're takin' a kickin-and not in the
face
From Nimitz and Halsey-and me.
Me-and Halsey and Nimitz
Are anchored in Tokyo Bay
| The place is just dripping
American shipping
| They stretch for a hell of a way
We hear that the fighting is finished
| And that is the way 1t should be
Remembsr Pearl Harborwthey Started #
We're warning them never to start it again
| For We have country with millions oi
men
Like Nimitz and Halsey-and me-
| Copyright, 1945, Robbins Music Corp.)
Evening star., 1945-10-14
Randolph Calls
Hearing on Rent
ControI tuesday
Contagious Disease
! Bill Also May Get
! Committee Action

M Action on bills to continue rent
Aresulation here for another wear
:sSand to strengthen the city's COM
Smunicable- disease controls may be
taken this week by the House Dis
trict Committee.
s8 Chairman Randolph YESTERDAY
& scheduled a meeting of the full
s@eommittee for Tuesday morning to
take up the rent control and other
s@bills, and the communicated disease
legislation is likely to be taken up
hiso If a revised draft of the meas
ure is reported in time by the
Wealth Subcommittee, headed by
Representative Mcmillan, Democrat,
.aSof South Carolina. Mr.. Mcmillan
sahas called meeting tomorrow
morning.
" Support Almost Unanimous.
Witnesses at recent hearings al
smost unanimously gave general sup
sport to the proposal to empower the
2Health Department to compel vic
sims of contagious and infectious
& diseases to take treatment.
Mg Ihere were recommendations
however, for notifications of the
Esbill to assure protection of civil
ErightS of an individual suspected
s%of being victim or a carrier of a
communicable disease. One pro-
MpoSed amendment reduces the num-
Aper OF hours a person suspected of
%haylng communicable disease may
#be held in quarantine before dag
Anosis, hearing or court appearance
Some amendments to the rent
Stontrol extension bill have been
,HuggeSted, one of which would per-
NIT rent boosts in luxury" hous-
ling renting for $500 a month or
more, but committee sentiment yes
#terday appeared to be for years
Sextension Of the present act with
#out change.
e Fears yere expressed that to pro-
#poSe any change in the law would
Soptn the, door to demands for other
achanges which might lead to q
major controversy.
Other Measures Scheduled.
Other measures to be called UP
for committee action Tuesday in
clude:
The Randolph bill to require that
any Government building hereafter
erected in the District provide for
off-Street parking for the cars of
10 to 20 per cent of the personnel
to be employed in the building.
A measure authorizing officers in
the overseas armed services to act
as notaries public in certification
of@papers servicemen must sign, as
Though the officers were commits
stoned as notaries in the District.
Al bill continuing tax exemption
OF buildings owned by church,
school and eleemosynary institu-
tioras when portions or all of such
properties are made available, rent
free to Government agencies.
The Senate-passed McCarran bill
amending the charter of Providence
Hospital to permit it to expand its
plant.
Evening star., 1945-10-14
9 Area Persons Due
On NavyShip Saturday
From Jap Prisons

The Navy hospital ship Sanctuary
is due to dock at San Francisco Sat-
urday with nine persons listing
Washington area addresses amonf
the 200 Americans and scores OF
Canadians, British and other ma
tionals, all civilians, released from
japanese concentration camps.
A State Department list of the
passengers includes: Robert T
Bryan, jr., whose wife is teaching
at the National Cathedral School for
Girls; Mr.. and Mrs. John Oss
Seventh-day Adventist mission
aries from the Washington Mission
ary College in Takoma Park, Md.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Lent of Alex
andria, listed as British subjects
Mr.. and Mrs. Lloyd Alexander and
child, and Barbara P. Gaberman
Mrs. Bryan, who returned in
l943 on the exchange ship, Grips
holm, said her husband was legal
adviser to the Shanghai Municipal
Council. They both were in the
Chapel internment camp in Shang-
hal, she said, but the Japs ac-
cused her husband of subversive
activities and refused to allow him
to accompany her back. Her hus-
band was born in Shanghai, she
said, son of Southern Baptist
missionary. His father, who spent
Isl years in China, is celebrating
his Goth birthday in San Antonio
Tex. today.
Mrs. Bryan knew most of the
others listed as having Washington
connections from her months with
them in the concentration camp.
She said Lloyd Alexander was a
serviceman who remained in China
and married a Chinese woman at
the expiration of his term of en-
liStment. Barbara Gaberman, she
said, was a Miss Posner who mar
ried a Russian. A brother, Charles
Posner, was a fellow passenger on
the Gripsholm two years ago, she
said.
Air mail letters from her husband
told how the group had left Shang-
hal aboard the hospital ship Re-
fuge and been transferred to the
Sanctuary off Okinawa. Mrs. Bryan
who is from the State of Washing
ton and met her husband while she
was teaching at the Shanghai
American School, is leaving by train
today for San Francisco to meet
him
Evening star., 1945-10-14
Legion Hall Offered
To Students Because
'0f Drinking Charges

An American Legion post, con-
cerned over charges of widespread
drinking among high school stu
dents, has offered a recreation hall
at 209 Pennsylvania avenue Sc. to
students two nights a month.
Leo j. Woods, commander of the
Kenneth Nash Post No. 8, District
Department of the American Legion
offered the hall yesterday in letter
to Robert L. Haycock, superinten-
dent OF schools
Meanwhile, Adelbert w. Lee of
the Board of Education, confronted
by a demand from another board
member, Mrs. Philip Sidney Smith,
that he apologize unless he can
substantiate his charges of drinking
among students, said yesterday he
could prove his charges but that he
hoped it would not be necessary,
The board member said he had
noticed no drinking at two Friday
football games and hoped publicity
would lead students to handle the
matter themselves.
Mr.. Lee discounted a remark by
Herbert jacob, commander of the
District Department of the Legion
that drying influences" are behinc
the drinking charges.
Il am not prohibitionist," Mr.
Lee said. "All of this was my owr
idea-not influenced by any one
else. got worried about the drink.
ing among students when 1 hac
seen it at games all over the CITY,
The Board of Education at 3:3l
pm. Wednesday is expected to con.
slider a statement from Mr.. Lee
along with report from IL high
school principals on the extent O.
drinking, and Mr.. Woods offer O.
recreation hall. Three boarc
MEMBERSHIPS. Smith, c. Melvin
Sharpe and DR.. James A. Cannon
have indicated they will ask Mr.
Lee for proof of his charges.
The Legion hall, Mr.. Woods wrote
to Mr.. Haycock, is equipped to han.
die light lunches and soft drinks
Chaperons from among Legionnaire.
and their wives would serve if de.
sired, Mr.. Woods wrote. He sug.
gested Mr.. Haycock use the hal
two Saturday nights a month
Evening star., 1945-10-14
John Russell Young
To Speak at Victory Fair

District Commissioner John Rus.
sell Young will speak at the OPEN
ing OF the Victory Fair and In
dustrial Exhibit on the American
University campus, Massachusetts
and Nebraska avenues NV, Paul
Alexander, managing director of the
event. announced yesterday.
The fair, to be held October q
through the 18th, is sponsored by
the District American Legion, Il
will be open from 10 am. to mid
night daily with shows at / pm
and 7 pm.
Other speakers will be William
Green. president of the AFL; Henry
Kaiser, industrialist, and Philir
Murray, president of the CIO.
The 1916 models of Ford autos
and trucks will feature the manu-
facturers' displays, the announce
ment said.
The Treasury Department will,
conduct an auction of captured
Japanese war trophies, including a
complete Jap plane, October %, in
conjunction with the Victory War
Loan drive. it also was announced
Evening star., 1945-10-14
10 Local Jewellers Agree
To Hire Disabled Veterans

Ten Washington jewelers. have
pledged jobs to disabled veterans
who graduate from the watchmak-
ink school at Walter Reed Hospital
1t was announced last night. in
connection with National EMPLOY
the Physically Handicapped Week.
The school at Walter Reed. on
Grated by the Bulova foundation
teaches the art of watch repairing
jewelers. who have promised to take
graduates include: r. Harris & Co.
F street at Eleventh street NV:
Benson's Jewelry Co., 1919 F street
NV; Feldman Jewelry Store, 1851
H street NE; Philip Franks Co., 8l2
F street NV; Leslie Mitchell. 1404
New York avenue NV; E. M. Ro-
senthal Jewelry Co., 702 H street
NV; Ross Co., 702 Seventh street
NV; C. Schwartz & Son, 7O8 Sew
enth street NV; Shah & Shah, 921
F street NV, and K. T. Showers, 435
Seventh street S.W.