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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-07-15
Tin Can Collections
Increase 0ne-Third
Over Last Year

Washington housewives have re-
sponded well to the District Sal
wage Committees tin-can program,
increasing their donations during
the first six months of this year
by 1919 per cent over last year,
it was announced yesterday.
The announcement was in marked
contrast to recent announcements
of salvage officials, who had warned
that tin-can collections were lag
ging. In the past two weeks the
picture changed sharply, they said.
Notwithstanding the fact this is
the fresh vegetable season and Vic
tory gardeners are supplying their
menus from their own sources, rath-
er than from tin cans, collections for
June totaled 90,100 pounds or ap-
proximately 1919 per cent over the
monthly average for the last six
months of 1914" James E. Coli
flower, committee chairman, de-
clared.
The committee said it's informa-
ton Office had been swamped with
calls for salvage information in the
past two weeks, and that collection
figures show the average pickup at
apartment houses this month was
240 pounds, compared with $50
pounds prior to June.
The Capital Transit Co., one of
the local business concerns donat-
ing trucks for collection, this week
collected 1920 pounds of prepared
tin cans from 16 apartment houses,
according to committee statistics.
City-wide collections of cans dur
ing the first six months this year
amounted to $4,000 pounds,
monthly average of 90,416 pounds.
Collections during the last six
months of 1914 totaled 371,970
pounds, the committee said.
Pointing out that the tin-can
drive has created more interest than
any other salvage program of the
committee, Mr.. Colliflower expressed
his sincere appreciation for the
tremendous cooperation of those
who are participating in the pro-
gram"
He stressed, however, that fuller
cooperation was needed from both
home owners and apartment dwell
ers who are not now saving their
cans. .-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-07-15
Senate Group 10 Consider
MarqoId Nomination FRIDAY

Additional testimony opposing the
promotion of Municipal Court Judge
Nathan r. Margold to be an as
sociate justice of District Court is
to be taken next Friday by Senate
Judiciary Subcommittee.
Announcement of this hearing
came yesterday as questions per-
sisted as to whether Judge Margold
eventually would ask that his NOM
nation be withdrawn in view of
the near six-months delay in con-
firmation, and the continuing OPP
position.
The additional hearing, it was
understood, was requested by men,
bers of the District Bar Associa-
ton, the majority of whom voted
against Judge Margold's elevation
to the higher bench in poll some
months ago.
The Judiciary Subcommittee is
headed by Senator McCarran, Dem
ocrat, of Nevada, and includes SEN
ators Wheeler, Democrat, of Mon
tana and Moore, Republican, OF
Oklahoma.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-07-15
Police, Firenen
To Get Raise in
July "A Cheeks
White House Reports
Busic Increase Bill
Signed by Truman

Washington policemen and fire.
men will draw their first increased
pay checks July "a, Arthur r. Pilker-
ton, District auditor, said last night.
The White House announced yes
terday that the Mcmillan basic pay
increase bill for Metropolitan, White
House and Park police and District
firemen had been signed by Presi-
dent Truman.
Payroll tables of calculations of
the 20-10-5 per cent increases have
already been made up in anticipa-
ton of approval of the bill and
there will be no delay in the mid
July pay checks, Mr. Pilkerton said.
The increase is retroactive to July l
The 20 per cent increase is on
basic pay up to the first 81 200; the
10 per cent is on the next $4,000;
the 5 per cent is on any salaries
over $4,000 a year.
Rockies Get S462 Boost.
Gross pay of rookie police and
firemen now getting 81 900 will be
increased by 1852 a year. The $462
also includes an per cent overall
increase in lieu of overtime and
night work compensation. This will
be an increase in the gross semi
monthly pay of $l9.25. The amount
will be diminished in payment by
81 per cent retirement fund pay
mentS and the withholding tax.
The private with six years or
moro nYnnrinnnn onffiYaoF 60 dnn
the largest group affected, will have
his annual pay increased by 1852,
an increase in the gross semi
monthly payment of $23. The cash
payment also will be diminished
by the fund and tax withholding.
Pension Ceiling Increased.
The pensioners, of which the
$4,000 a year men are also a large
group, will have their pension CELL
ing increased by 10 and S per cent.
The pension ceiling is half the
highest pay they drew while en-
ployed. In effect, the ceiling is
the actual pension paid. Thus, a
pensioner whose highest pay was
s2,400 has been getting $1,000 a
year. This will be increased by 10
per cent to 1890
The per cent will apply to
portions of annual pensions in ex-
cess of $1,700 a year. Thus, a re-
tired police or fire officer whose
highest salary was $4,000 and who
has been drawing $4,000 pension a
year will get a 10 per cent increase
on the first $1,000, or $3.50, plus a
S per cent increase on the addi-
tional $500 a year he has been
drawing, or $40. Thus, his pension
will be increased from $4,000 to
s2,160.
Pushed Through Congress.
The bill was pushed through Con-
gress in recognition of the increased
cost Of living and pay increases
given to classified employees. 1t ex-
cluded from the general increases
five members of the fire department
attached to the fire boat, since they
we're covered by a separate bill
which also has been approved by
the President.
The general pay bill was sent to
the White House July 6, but delay
in signing was reported because the
President had left for the Big Three
Conference. The measure was dis
patched to Mr.. Truman en- route.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-07-15
.El|icott Requests
Reports on Polio
In Montgomery
Health Officer Will
Try to Find Hospitals
For All Patients

Following charges by District
Health Officer DR.. George c. Ruiz
land yesterday that nearby County
doctors we're making Washington a
dumping ground" for commune
able diseases, DR.. v. l.. Ellicott,
Montgomery County health officer,
last night suggested that all pri-
vate physicians in his area notify
him at Rockville, before attempt
ing to get any poliomyelitis cases
In hospital.
DR.. Ellicott said he would en-
deavor to get room for such patients
in some hospital" He emphasized
that there was mo rigid require
ment" for physicians to notify him,
and that doctors often let him
know of such cases. 1t would be up
to the State Health Department, he
said, to make such a requirement.
DR.. Ruhlands' statement appar-
emily was provoked by two cases of
infantile paralysis which were sent
to Childrens Hospital as polio sus-
poets had been transferred to Syden-
ham Hospital for contagious diseases
at Baltimore, he said.
Cases Sent There Earlier.
The private physician in charge
of the two cases in Maryland had
not notified him, DR.. Ellicott said,
prior to sending the boys to Chill
dren's Hospital. The physician
thought Children's had room, since
he had sent polio patients there
before
officials at Children's Hospital ex-
planned that no emergency case ever
is refused at the institution. But,
they said, in order to keep beds
available for any contingency during
this period while new cases are aris-
ing, the policy is to restrict incoming
patients to those of IL years of age
or less.
DR.. Ellicott said Montgomery
County has some communicable di-
sease facilities at Suburban Hospital,
and Montgomery County General
Hospital. Some polio cases have
been taken to Suburban Hospital
and Washington Sanitarium, over
the District line in Maryland, he
explained
Other Comment Unavailable.
Other nearby health officers in
Alexandria and Arlington could not
be reached last night for comment
on DR.. Ruhland's charges.
DR.. Rutland indicated he had
conferred with nearby health Off
GERS, who had said they would issue
a statement to doctors, warning
them it Is a Federal offense to
transfer communicable diseases over
State lines without specific author
ization from the health officer.
Meantime two other new polio
cases came into Children's Hospital
yesterday, bringing the total for
this area so far this year to Is.
They were a 7-year-old boy from
Silver Spring, Md, and 4h-year-
old girl from Arlington, Va. The
polio patients under treatment at
Children's now number 9.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-07-15
Clio Board Criticizes
Unemployment Measure

The CLIO Executive Board adopt
ed resolution yesterday criticizing
the House Ways and Means Com
mittee for failure to act now on
emergency unemployment compen-
Sation.
The board also attacked as con-
tanning "glaring" shortcomings the
bill introduced by Chairman Dough-
ton on the same subject. 1t urged
members of Congress to introduce
amendments correcting its made
quacies."
The board said the most glaring
shortcoming' in the Doughton meas
ure lis the provision that it shall not
go into effect until 100000 COM
pensable claims have been filed for
unemployment compensation"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-07-15
c. U. Professor Leaves
On Sub-Arctic Trip

The Rev. Artheme A. Dutilly, o.
M. l., research professor of botany
at Catholic University, is en- route
on his 18th annual scientific expe-
dition into the Canadian SUBJ Arctic
region, DR.. Hugh T. O'Neili, head of
the Department of Botany, an
nounced yesterday.
Father Dutilly is continuing his
exploration Of Lake Mimic, largest
known lake in Eastern Canada
north of the st. Lawrence River,
with the Rev. Ernest LIE Page of
the Quebec School OF Agriculture,
and DR.. Pierre Dagenar, Rimoush
Agricultural School of Montreal,
geographer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-07-15
State Board
.0k'sAirpark for
Bradley Hills
Tentative Approval
Hinges on Action
Of Zoninq Body

The Maryland Aviation Commits
sion has granted provisional IL
cense to the Washington Aviation
Country Club for the establishment
Of an airpark at the Bradley Hills
Country Club near Bethesda, it was
announced yesterday.
In approving the application, filed
by John P. Hoberman, the CON-
mission inserted a provision that
the site must be approved by the
appropriate coming authority"
within 80 days.
Charles II. Buck, chairman of the
commission, explained the provi-
sional license would give the appli-
cant an opportunity to apply to
the Montgomery County Commits
sioners for permission to construct
the airpark. The area is zoned as
residential
TO approve MIR. Hoberman's ap-
plication Internationally" Mr..
Buck pointed out, would be to
fiaunt the authority of Montgomery
County officials"
montgomery county is exempt,
under law passed at the last ses-
sion of the State Legislature, from
a provision empowering the State
Aviation Commission to license air.
ports, airparks and landing fields
in contravention of coming laws of
the various political subdivisions in
the State.
At hearing May 20, the Mary
land-National Capital Park and
Planning Commission opposed the
project on the ground that signs
announcing the proposed change in
land use had not been posted con-
spicuously on the property as re-
quired by law.
1t. Col. E. Brooke Lee, county
park commissioner, declared no &C
ton should be taken on the pro-
posal until the Park and Planning
Commission selects an airport site
for the eastern suburban area of the
county. Such site already has been
chosen for the eastern suburban
area, he said.
Opposition also was voiced by
residents of the area on the ground
that establishment of an airpark
would constitute a nuisance.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-07-15
An Old Mans Hobby Brings
Life Back to Youthful Sailor

bird. He thrust it into his pocket.
The doctor sighed. Another chance
ruined and dead parakeet, too, he
thought as he started toward the
sailor. But then he saw a tiny head
peeking out. Jim's hand curled
around the small bulge in his
pocket.
Would Keep 1t Warm"
"It's cold" he said. IN keep it
warm"
Those were the first two sentences
he had spoken voluntarily since he
was admitted months before. Every
day someone brought the parakeet
to Jim. Starting with his interest
in the bird, the doctors got him to
go outdoors with the other patients.
He went~to the hobby shop to sculp-
ture with clay-usually bird.
Finally Jim consented to go to a
hospital dance Eight weeks after
he first took the parakeet in his
hand, Jim was discharged. He
asked to take the bird home with
him.
Value of Bird Praised.
DR.. Edmund Ziman, Jim's doctor,
said the parakeet had been invalu-
able in getting the first normal
reaction from the sailor. 1t was a
stepping stone to other normal
reaction. 1t also provided a sure
fire conversation opener for doctors
probing into Jim's condition.
DR.. Winfred Overholser, superin-
tendent, said the usual beneficial
effect of pets in a mental hospital
is increased with parakeets because
they are easy to handle. He said
the hospital needs more bird cages
The American Red Cross will col
lect cages from anyone calling Re-
public $500, Extension 422
The hospital and patients owe a
debt to Mr.. Hinman that can never
be repaid, DR.. Overholser said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-07-15
First American Named
To Head Frunciscuns
NV tre Associated Ereks.

By tEe ASsoclaLtu Fftbs.
VATICAN CITY, July 14.-Pope
Plus XII today named the Rev.
Valentine Schaaf of Cincinnati,
minister general of the Franciscan
Order OF Friars Minor. The pom
tiff took this action himself because
he deemed it impossible for rep
resentatives of the First Order of st.
Francis, scattered throughout the
world, to come to Rome for a gen.
eral election.
Cincinnati authorities said Father
Schaaf was the first American to
hold the Franciscan dictatorship in
the orders TOO years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-07-15
Charter Advisor to Speak

Andrew w. Cordier, advisor to the
American delegation to the San
Francisco Conference, will address
the Montgomery County League of
Women Voters at $3.50 pm. Thurs
day at the Chevy Chase Presby-
terrain Church.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-05-09
CHAPTER THIRTY-FoUR

Aggie padded fairly swiftly, al
though he was not hurrying. They
were soon out of sight Beth leaned
back, trailed her fingers, absorbed
the sun, and watched-the man. "It's
SWELL" she said, "of you and Sarah
to offer to take me in"
He nodded. 1--WE heard you were
about to strangle Mrs. d. Hence
the missionary invitation"
You're funny. You have the
most convenient ear In the camp.
Everything you want to know--you
find out. Like--Danielle's coming
back"
"The knowledge was thrust upon
me-"
"Are you in love with Daniellel"
He stopped padding. There was
q twinkle in his eyes. Heaven for
bidl"
Beth smiled. That's no answer.
Are your"
"Well, you've thought about her q
lot. Asked Sarah about her. Asked
me, even" =.
"Just trying to figure her out, "
he answered. And he had been try
ing TO assure himself that there was
or was not--a chance Danielle
might have killed Jim Calder with
her fathers help. The POSSIBLE
ity had taunted him ever since she
had gone back to New York with
her fathers body. Gone independ-
entity, sadly-refusing companion
ship or aid.
Beth watched him think. "Do you
still wonder il she did It? She
could have, you know, II she'd
wanted to-"
ewes Wickman's satisfied that II
he catches up with Hank Bogarty,
he'll have all the answers. So am
l."
Soon Aggie smiled at her. Want
to turn baek?"
an a minute Beth's voice had
sunk SO that it was difficult to hear,
even in the drowsy quiet on the
CLASSY water. After q pause, she
asked, "Are you shy!"
why yes, and no. Less so,
every day"
"You know I'm kind Of batty
about you. Everybody else does.
You're quite romantic, Aggie."
There were rumors," he replied.
"Jack told me-one night-that you
were selling my stock above par.
He said that you had been taken by
my manly figger. It's misleading
gct this way doing hard work
not by the glamorous, xvhletic route
Of the boys in the advertisements. T"
YES" she said. "But 1t wasn't
that"
He felt fearfully uncomfortable.
81 don't expect to get married, ever,
Beth. Ny work means too much. /
wouldn't ask anybody to share the
rough part-or to be alone while |
went at it."
Nevertheless" she said quietly,
II still-feel that way. And you
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-05-09
Corpses at Indian Stones
By Philip Wyfe

subtle - largely unconscious until
that moment.
There was more mystery In this
place than a huge theft. There was
the mystery Of death; the mystery
Of the man from the West. And he,
Aggie, had the very sort Of expert
ence and training which fitted him
to pursue an investigation Of such
things. His scientific career had
been made up Of deducing seeming.
ly irrelevant facts from time-rotted
fragments.
Plum came out Of the woods,
walking easily. There was no sound,
no stirring in the pergola. The doors
Of the closet in which they had kept
their games was rotted entirely and
from it had spilled the dolls Dan
ielle had mentiOned-faded, moldy,
half familiar. A Clipped checker
board. A decayed archery butt.
Some mating. A forgotten sewing
basket. Modelling clay-or the box
for it-and tiddlywinks.
Aggie sat down on the valley side,
under high stone arch. He remem-
bered an apple tree that was gone,
and another from which the top had
broken away leaving only . punk
filed trunk that supported an
empty, giant knot, like q doughnut
on a vertical fork, or q lorgnette
with one rim and no lens at all.
Across from it was the old
climbing tree" gnarled and
buckled but full of small green
fruits. He looked into its branches,
trying to remember the route to the
topmost. His eye held. One limb.
some ten feet above the ground, was
hacked, Clipped, Scared and sliced.
Someone, Plum thought, walking
over and looking up, had shinnied
the thick limb and hacked at the
tree with an ax-an act without
meaning. Then he saw that the bark
had been marked by a narrower tool
than an AKA tool not much more
than an inch in width--a tool like
chisel, or a knife. He turned
around and looked back.
Opposite the battered spot, and
somewhat higher from the ground,
was the trunk that supported the
knot-rim. He studied the marks
again. They were deep, and begin
ming to heal over. They had been
made before sap had flowed into the
apple that year.
Aggie went slowly back to the
pergola. He sat again. The empty
knothole-the hard rim-was a foot
across, and it stared down upon the
inesss2"sark Of the opposite tree
like any eye socket. The knothole
and the old tree were perhaps
twenty feet apart; the stump sup
porting the knot was a dozen feet
high.
Ten minutes passed. Aggie un-
folded his legs as if they were stiff,
and walked slowly back across the
field. He increased his pace as he
re-entered the woods.
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DiIibutsd 81 King Features SyndisIls. Ina
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-05-09
By Philip WyIie

can do whatever you like about II.
It's funny-kind of-since thought
you were such a lemon when | first
saw you'll"
Aggie cast his eyes about, seek
ing a way to change the mood and
the subject Of their conversation.
"It's nice TO have somebody like you
around" His gaze touched the place
where Danielle's canoe had once
been drawn up. This is the second
time I've been up at this end Of the
lake. Gives me a funny feeling
somehow"
Beth did not respond for a long
time. Then she said slowly, Eyes.
You were here with Danielle. | saw
you come back -remember1 She
dumped you'll"
"She'd gone ashore here" he said,
as If he had not listened TO Beth.
"Wonder why?"
Excepting another date with Bill
or somebody"
II doubt it," Aggie answered. He
turned the bow Of the canoe toward
the shadows. His eyes became in
troverted. Beth watched the change
with face as expressionless as his,
He looked at her, after a moment.
Would you mind-if parked you
for about twenty minutes ?"
CL. .lnaL L. ha.I
Aggie walked away from the
shore. Beth took his place on the
stern seat and commenced to pad
die in random circles. When the
woods had closed behind him. he
ran. He had long, light stride; his
wind was good. Within six minutes,
he covered more than half a mile.
The path forked away from the lake.
Its branch was indistinct, like the
old road down which he had hurried
on his second night at Indian Stones.
When he came near the abandoned
summer house, he began to walk,
and took care not TO break a twig
or let branch fly back.
There was an opening. Aggie
stopped at its edge, behind a tree.
The pergola--or gazebo-was made
Of fieldstone, part toppled, all grown
with vines. II stood on a grassy
rise, overlooking a valley at the end
of which were rugged. hazy noun
tains, He surveyed it before leaving
his sanctuary: the remnants Of an
apple orchard which the storms had
left, and the stone fantasy itself
Victorian incredibility built for
almost no reason and abandoned for
the same cause. His thoughts, as II
elevated by the rise Of his breath
ing, came in q quick sequence.
There we're three Of them:
One was the reiterated note that
Danielle had said there was moth
ing at the pergola; but nobody, so
far as he knew, had examined it to
be sure.
The second was a feeling pang
at the forgotten spectacle itself,
the place where he had spent so
many days in boyhood games.
The third was an intuition -