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Evening star., 1945-12-20
Engineer Asks Funds
For Highway Sidewalk

In move to reduce pedestrian
accidents on u. S. Highway No. /,
south of Alexandria, r.. I. Mount,
district engineer for the State High
way Department, yesterday re-
quested the Fairfax County Board
of Supervisors to match State funds
for sidewalk construction along the
highway.
Mr.. Mount cited records which
showed 26 pedestrians have been in
jured and II killed within smile
area along this highway since l941.
He said the Highway Department
contemplated construction Of az
miles OF sidewalk south from Hunt
ing Creek next year If, the county
will pay so per cent OF the cost. /,
The board requested Mr.. Mount
to submit q cost estimate for the
proposed sidewalks SO that 1t may
be included IN the 1946-47 county
budget. The board agreed to pay
half the cost OF the construction OF
eight-tenths .iof q mile az sidewalk
along the Lee highway near Falls
Church at an approximate cost of
$12, 900. bus
Two applications for re-zoning
were approved BY the board and two
denied. Those approved were the
request of Catherine Bayliss, Pen
Daw and Louise &. Lndner, Vienna,
to rezone certain tracts Of land from
rural to residential to rural business.
The application of Catherine
Lockwood rural residential to rural
business three lots at Franklin Park
was denied after group Of citizens
In that area headed by Mai Walter
w. Burns and Robert Billups, pro-
Tested
Evening star., 1945-12-20
zoning Change Request
Dropped at Takoma Park

An application requesting reclassi.
fication from residential to COM
mercial OF two lots on Piney Branch
road near the East-West highway
in Takoma Park was withdrawn yes
terday by Alfred and Margaret H
Ray, owners.
A hearing on the coming petition
was scheduled for tomorrow at the
Silver Spring Dispensary Building
before the Montgomery County
Commissioners, sitting as a districi
council
The proposed rezoning has beer
protested by the Parent -Teachel
Associations of the Takoma Parl
Junior High School and the Takoms
Park Elementary School, the Sligo
Park Hills Citizens Association ane
. number Of residents. Denial Of tn,
application has been recommended
by the Maryland National Capita
Park and Planning Commission.
Objections to the proposed re.
zoning are based chiefly on the fac
the highway on which the land !.
/ located is heavily travelled and tha
commercial buildings would Great,
an additional trafic hazard fol
school children and other pedes.
TRANS,
Evening star., 1945-12-20
William Preston Lane
Enters Maryland
.Gubernatoriia| Primary
By the Associated Press.

bs the Associated preS6.
BALTIMORE, Md, Dec. 20.-Wil-
liam Preston Lane of Hagerstown,
Democratic national committeeman
and former Maryland attorney gen.
eral, announced last night he would
seek the Democratic nomination for
the Governorship.
The 53-year-old publisher said in
a statement that he had two reasons
for announcing now.
First" he said, ''it has long been
known that I would like to be Gov
ernor, and in recent months not
only has support for the Democratic
nomination been rendered me by all
elements of our party in practically
every section of the State, but there
has also been a steadily increasing
demand that I definitely become a
candidate"
Gov. O'Conor Silent.
The statement added that, Sec
ondly, while all agree that Gov.
0'Conor has made an excellent rec
ord during his two terms as chief
executive of this State, there is q
growing opposition to any one serv-
ing third term as Governor"
Gov. O'Conor, completing his Sec
ond term, has made no statement
as to whether he would run again,
seek the Democratic senatorial NOM
ination or Withdraw from politics.
There was no immediate comment
from him on Mr.. Lanes statement.
Mr.. Lane outlined a platform
which, among other things, called
for:
A sweeping program for rehabili-
tation of the sea food industry and
the use of State aid, If necessary,
to eliminate pollution.
Vigorous prosecution Of road
construction program delayed by the
war.
Further expansion and improve
ment of the school system, despite
advances of recent years.
To Discuss Program.
He said he soon would discuss
possible additional tax reduction, q
health program, development of the
University of Maryland, moderniza-
ton of penal institutions, and the
question of division of the State S
revenues with Baltimore and other
political subdivisions.
Mr.. Lane said he had mailed a
certificate of candidacy for the DEM
ocratic nomination to the Secretary
of State in Annapolis.
Evening star., 1945-12-20
Mrs. Guckert Reelected
By Firemen's AuxiIiury

Mrs. Alice Guokert was re-elect-
ed president of the Ladies' Aux
iliary of the Penn Daw Fire De-
partment for her third term. at
the annual meeting Of the orga-
nization.
Other officers named were Mrs
Nellie Lawrence and Mrs. Ida
Chapman, vice presidents; Mrs,
Dorothy Morris, secretary; Mrs
Mary Anderson, financial secretary;
Mrs. Ruth Lewis, treasurer: Mrs
Ruth Watson chaplain: Mrs. Jear
Mercilliott, historian, and Mrs. Vir.
ginia Mobley, sergeant at arms.
Evening star., 1945-12-20
Lorton Chaplain Seeks to Aver
Black Christmas for Inmates

their liberty you have taken about
all they have"
Some. he reported, have gotten
religion" since they arrived. Sew
eral prisoners at the reformatory
are studying for the ministry. Long
ago they organized one of the few
churches in the country run by
prison inmates.
Recently a prisoner committed
suicide. The rest of the prisoners
learned that his. mother could not
pay to have the body sent home. So
the men, who earn from nothing to
Is cents a day, raised 5000 so the
dead youth could be buried beside
his father.
In Christmas packages. Chaplain
Potter said, the men most appre-
ciate candy, cakes, cigarettes, fruit
cookies, gum, potato chips. They
also may receive razor blades,
safety razors, soap, tooth paste and
handerchiefs.
Since some gifts are prohibited
donors should consult Mr.. Potter
before making up Christmas pack
ages. He will pick them up, or they
can make their donations through
the Washington Federation OF
of Churchwomen, which already is
assisting in the work.
Evening star., 1945-12-20
80 Street Sections
Shut Off for S|eddinq;
Sites 10 Be Open Daily
Washington police yesterday roped
ofY an street sections for shedding

Washington police yesterday roped
of 80 street sections for shedding.
The sites will be open daily from
4 to IL pm. on weekdays and 10 am.
to II pm. on Saturdays, the hours
when the coasting can be supervised
by patrolmen. Meanwhile, Park
Police blocked of part of Shore
ham Hotel, at Connecticut avenue
and Calvert street NV, and were
thinking of blocking of other park
areas for sledders.
There was so much ice on the
surface Of the Reflection Pool at
Lincoln Memorial this morning that
Park Police didn't bother to measure
the thickness. No announcement
was made telling skaters when they
can use the pool. e
These are the areas set aside for
shedding:
Northwest-oglethorpe street from First
to Third streets: Piney Branch road from
from Emerson to Qallatin streets; Thir-
teenth street from KAlmia road to Eastern
avenue; Galena street from Potomac ave
s rosa Weaver tsITsss q HsM
thorne place. w street from Thirty-nintf
plaes stoa Hnldskopera place; rorty-seconc
street from TuniaW road to David place
Brandywine street from Broad Branch
road to Chevy Chase parkway: $500 block
OF Sixth street: EiEhth street from Shep-
herd to Upshur streets; Sixth street from
Bryant street to Howard place.
Northeast--ORtes street from Trinidad
avenue to Sixteenth street; Queen street
from Trinidad avenue to Hollhrook street;
Tenth street from Maryland avenue to 6
street: Twenty-thtrd place from E street
to Benning road; Forty-fourth street from
Eads to Hayes streets; Bryant street from
Lincoln road to Fourth street; Central
avenLe from Brentwood road to Carlton
avenue: Newton street from Fourteenth to
Eighteenth streets; Thirteenth street from
Irving to Kearney streets; Fourteenth
street from Quincy to Taylor streets:
Twenty sixth street from Hamlin to Evarts
streets.
Southeast-High street from Maple view
place to v street; Hillcrest drive from v
to Twenty eighth streets: street from
Southwest-N street from South Capitol
70 First street: along Ninth street under
the viAduct
Evening star., 1945-12-20
+Stote Liquor Store Sales
Increase in Virginia
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, Dec. 20.-Net sales
in Virginia's State liquor stores in
the fiscal year ended June 80 were
$61 ,598, ,450.96, an increase of $685.
928,511 over last year, and the turn
over of inventoried stocks was 1887
times, compared with 1895 times in
the previous year, according to an
annual audit of the ABC Board,
made public yesterday by J. Gordon
Bennett, State auditor of public ac-
counts.
Gross profits amounted to $13,-
139. .129.03 for a slight percentage
decline, although the total gross
profit exceeded the 1943 figure by
$4, ,558 ,697.
Evening star., 1945-12-20
BY JULIA EDWARDS.

He hasn't celebrated Christmas
since he was II years old. He's AZ
now, and since 1888 he has been
serving time at Lorton Reformatory
In seven years he hasn't received q
visit, package or postcard.
There are forgotten men.
But forgotten men remember
Things. were pretty different when
Jim was one of four kids" and his
father was making good wages as a
|bricklayer. They put him in an
orphanage after his father died. He
ran away at the age of IL, sold hot
lunches to railroad workers and slept
in cheap lodging houses.
You have to ask a lot of questions
to learn that much about Jim. He's
up for housebreaking and larceny
Sure, he did it. And he's paying for
it. He's trusty at Lorton and helps
the chaplain. But Jim isn't soft.
"The way I feel about it-You
haven't got nothin'. You don't ex-
pect nothin'."
Tony Hopeful.
Tony is Italian, and he is "still
hoping. / feel like I'm lost in here.
Last Christmas he spent in a cell
at the District Jail: mo word from
no one, not even my lawyer, and
knowing in q week or two I'd get
sentenced"
Yet Tony remembers two that
were worse. His mother died two
days before Christmas when he was
IA. His father never got over it
For three years the family didn't
dare put up Christmas tree. Then
when their father disappeared q
week before Christmas on a spree
Tony's sister decided they would
have a tree.
"The tree lights were shining just
like old times" Tony said. dad
came in. We weren't expecting him
He went crazy when he saw that
tree. It went straight through the
window"
There are more than $50 men al
Lorton who won't receive package.
this Christmas unless the commu,
nifty helps the Rev. Dan M. Potter
the chaplain, provide something fol
celebrating. Last year Chaplain
Potter saw them standing in cor.
ners watching others open thei
gifts.
Some Keep Plight Secret.
Some men, like Tom, have nevel
let their families know they wer,
sent to. prison. Tom said: II dom
want them to come near here.
Others, Joe, for instance, write thei
families not to send them anything
All the men can remember bette
Christmases and intend to make tn,
best Of this one. Entering a dor,
ndtory the other night. Chaplain
Potter found two hefty prisoner,
holding bits of bright paper. Tw,
were pasting, and four were criti
Ching. They were making brigh
paper chains to hang from TIL
ceiling.
These men have the same emo
tions and reactions of all men
Supt. @. j. WEIGH observed, "and
after all, when you have taken ava.
Evening star., 1945-12-20
Mother. Called Suicide
After Asphyxiating Baby
b. the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ANNAPOLIS, Md, Dec. 2o.-A
verdict Of suicide by asphyxiation
was given yesterday by the Anne
Arundel County medical examiner
in the death of Mrs. Shirley Cohen
Hyatt, IS, who also was declared
responsible for the death of her
2-month-old infant daughter Ka-
rem Ellen.
DR.. John NJ. Claffy, county medi-
cal examiner, said the mother ap-
parently had administered poison
Gus disinfectant to the baby, placed
her on an unlighted stove and then
drank some Of the liquid herself.
Police Commissioner Thomas q.
Basil reported the baby's body was
found two days ago atop the stove,
with gas escaping from all jets. The
mothers body was found nearby.
Evening star., 1945-12-20
Fight for Higher
U. 5. Pay Boost
Slated in House
Employees Union
Leaders Gother
Additional Dutu
By JOSEPH YOUNG.

A determined fight to secure pas
sage of considerably higher wage in
creases for Government employees
than was voted by the Senate was
planned today by supporters OF Fed
eral pay legislation.
Oficials of Government employees
unions have begun compiling addi-
tional statistics and information re-
garding increased cost of living
in relation to pay increases granted
Federal workers during the war, and
will present them when the House
Civil Service Committee takes up
the legislation early next year.
The union leaders contend the
II per cent overall wage increase
voted by the Senate Tuesday will
not begin to make up for the 80
per cent increase in the cost Of
living, which the Labor Bureau sta
tistics says has occurred since Janu-
ary, 1941.
Two Raises Fall Short.
During this period Government
workers have received an average
pay boost-granted last July-of 15.9
per cent. Union officials contend
the II per cent increase would fall
about Z per cent short of the cost
Of living increase.
Pay bill supporters are banking
on the general wage controversy be-
tween industry and labor to be
settled by the time the House takes
up the bill. They claim the Senate
refused to vote Federal workers a
larger pay increase for fear that the
country might interpret 1t as the
Senate's pattern for national wage
reconversion.
Union leaders feel the eventual
wage increases granted workers in
private industry will be greater than
the II per cent the Senate voted.
This will be our biggest talking
point" union leader said today.
House More Generous Before.
Labor leaders also point out that
In the last Federal pay bill the
House was more generous than the
Senate, voting full time -and-a-half
provisions for overtime work after
the Senate had refused to include
the provision. After conference, the
time-and-a-half provision was in
cluded.
Leading the fight for greater wage
increases are the National Fedora
tion of Federal Employees, the Amer
lean Federation of Government En-
pfoyes, AFL, and the United Fed
eral Workers of America, CIO.
Evening star., 1945-12-20
New Catholic Parish
|At darlington Sci Up
Under Rey.M.T.Q Quinn

Establishment Of the Blessed Sac
rament Parish in Northern Virginia
at darlington, near Alexandria, has
been announced by Bishop Peter L.
Ireton Of the Roman Catholic Dio-
cese of Richmond. A number of
parish appointments in the diocese
also have been made.
The Rev. Martin T. Quinn, pastor
of st. Johns Church, Front Royal,
has been appointed to the new Fair
lington parish, effective January Is.
A school is being built and will serve
temporarily as the parish church.
Father Quinn, q native of Ireland,
was ordained in 1926 and has served
at Alexandria and Ocean View. He
was the first pastor Of the Front
Royal Church.
To succeed Father Quinn at Front
Royal Bishop Ireton has named the
Rev. John ]. Conley, now assistant
pastor of st. James Church at Falls
Church. Father Conley is a native
of Comersworth, N. H., and has beer
at Falls Church since 1910.
Among other appointments an
nounced bynthe bishop were th'
transfer cf the Rev. Richard n
Rivard from assistant pastor OF st
Thomas More Church at Arlington
to succeed the Rev. Francis v. Bam.
brick at Norfolk and the Rev. JOSEPH
L. Wingler, assistant pastor Sacred
Heart, Danville, to succeed Father
Rivard as assistant pastor st
Thomas More.
Recently ordained priests given
their first permanent appointments
by the bishop include the Rev. Vim
cent L. Capt to assistant pastor OF
the Blessed Sacrament parish at
Fairlington, beginning December
20, and the Rev. William p. Con-
nelly, assistant pastor Of st. James
Church, Falls Chudch, December %.
Evening star., 1945-12-20
Virginia Liquor Stores
To Close Christmos

Virginia's State liquor stores will
be closed Christmas Day, December
26 and New Year Day, the Alcoholic
Beverage Control Board announced
today.
Stores will be open during regular
hours next Saturday and Monday.
The board has decided to suspend
civilian registration for ration books
on Saturday, Monday and December
29 in stores where registration is
conducted by store personnel. This
temporary suspension will not apply
to servicemen.
Evening star., 1945-12-20
|MoryIonders Attend
Form Bureau Meeting
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
LA PLATA, Md, Dec. 20.-The
Charles County Farm Bureau is
represented at the annual conven-
tion of the American Farm Bureau
in Chicago this week by County
Agent p. D. Brown and j. w. Bowl
ing, Farm Bureau director of Wi
comico, Md.
Mrs. Brown also is attending as
a delegate of the Associated Wom-
en- Of the Maryland Farm Bureau.
Evening star., 1945-12-20
Three Colleges Seek
|Demobilized. Housing
For Veteran Students

p George Washington University has
applied to-the National Housing
Agency for houses for 300 single
and 100 married veteran students.
Under the plan. the Federal surplus
dwellings would be moved here
from other war centers at Govern
ment expense, MIA announced to-
day.
Maryland and American universi-
ties also plan to apply for the pen
elized' houses. the presidents of the
institutions said.
An item in the deficiency bill pro-
vides $1s1 300, 900 to pay for dis
ties also plan to apply for the pan
els" transporting and rebuilding
them at Government expense for
veterans and their families. About
135 colleges and 108 communities
already have "commandeered" Fed
eral war housing and moved the
units at their own expense, MIA
spokesmen said.
Prompt Requests Advised.
The ONCE of Maurice Davis, MIA
area representative, said applica-
'tions of the local colleges must be
completed swiftly to compete with
requests pouring in from other in
stitutions and communities. The
agency has about $4,000 units COM
pleted and expects to convert about
Is 900 more units out of Army bar
racks and Federal civilian dormito-
ries. But these will not be enough
to go around and quick application
is imperative, it was explained.
President Cloyd Heck Marvin of
George Washington University made
a tentative application yesterday, q
MIA spokesman said President II.
G. Byrd of Maryland University said
he would grasp the opportunity" for
veterans housing soon. President
Paul F. Douglass of American Uni
versity said he was considering ap-
plying for houses for about 200 vet
Grams, one-third Of them with fam
lilies.
Room on Campuses.
All three college presidents said
they had room on or near campuses
for the houses. The institutions
would bear the expense only of in
stalling electricity and other utili-
ties.
The units cost the Government
an average of $4,000 each when con-
structed at war plants and centers
all over the country, MIA esti-
mated. 1t will cost the Govern
ment abou $1,000 each to move
them. it was explained. Field off,
GERS will attempt to plan the trans
poration SO that no housing will be
moved excessive" distances.
Catholic and Georgetown Univer-
stiles at present do not plan to
apply, the presidents said.
Evening star., 1945-12-20
Taxi Plunees Into Creek;
Soldier S Body Recovered
BY the Associated Press.

Ey the Associated tfeSS.
FREDERICKSBURG, Va, Dec. 20.
An unidentified soldier was killed
early today when a taxicab plunged
off Route 2 into Massaponax Greek
two miles south of Fredericksburg.
The body OF the soldier has been
recovered and the pocketbook of
Ivan Fisher, owner of the cab and
believed to have been driving, also
was found when the vehicle was
hauled out of the stream, which Is
Is feet at that point.
The number Of occupants was not
known, although 1t was feared other
soldiers may have been passengers
possibly en- route to the A. P. Hill
military reservation.
The search is continuing.
Evening star., 1945-12-20
KidweII Elected Head
OF Arlington Firemen

Bertram S. Kidwell of the Jeffer-
son District Fire Department has
been elected president OF the Ar
lington County Volunteer Ffremen's
Association. He succeeds Millard
p. Divine.
George Cook, who has been vice
president for 10 years, was re-
elected, as was Edwin B. Chapman,
Cherrydale, who has been relief fund
treasurer for the last 10 years.
james Catterton, Cherrydale, was
named secretary-treasurer for the
third consecutive year.
Evening star., 1945-12-20
/ are Increase
Seen IN County
Transit Changes
Present. Prince Georges
| Lines 'UneconomicoI,' :
Locke Testifies
By the Associated press.

BALTIMORE, Dec. 20.-An in
crease in transportation costs to
Prince Georges County residents if
proposed new lines are established
was indicated today. Dean Locke,
Capital Transit Co. staff engineer,
said mile-and-a-half zones for a So
cent cash fare and Accent tickets
will be established wherever new
lines are set up in the county.
Mr.. Locke's testimony was given
at the Public Service Commissions
hearings in Baltimore yesterday on
an Independent Trade Association
petition to reroute the county's
transit system. The PSC took the
matter under advisement after ad-
journment of the hearing.
In answer to a question put by
Fred w. Cast, president of the
Cheverly Citizens Association,
whether the proposal would affect
rates, in view of the transit COM
pany's earlier statement that pres
ent lines are not paying their way,
Mr.. Locke replied, you can put two
and two together. The present lines
are uneconomical because we don't
have such zones"
Mayor Harold A. L. Barker of
Riverdale, however, Indignantly
challenged remark by Mr.. Cast,
which, he said, seemed to suggest
that the trade association, which
Mr.. Barker represents, was inspired
by the transit company. Mr.. Parker
asserted that the trade association
had been undertaking a civic duty
In proposing changes which, he
said, would bring increased trade to
the merchants and business men
who comprise the association.
The transit company engineer
earlier testified to the adequacy of
Mount Rainier terminal, where it is
proposed to end the present B-4 and
B-6 bus lines.
Mr.. Locke said the company is re-
quired by no law to provide such
a terminal, but has done so as a
public service. He further stated
that the Mount Rainier terminal was
larger in met standing and sitting
area" than all but two of the ter
minals the company maintains in
the Capital area, and that car ca.
pacity at the terminal has doubled
since the last hearing on the ques-
ton in 1912.
Mr.. Locke said the rerouting
scheme would result in no decrease
in service" He admitted that pas
sengers who elected to transfer to
the Bladensburg road bus at Mount
Rainier, because traffic along the
road moves more quickly, would have
their travel time to Washington in
creased. He said. however, that
those who transferred to the troll
ieys at Mount Rainier would be
no longer in transit than formerly.
Evening star., 1945-12-20
chrisfmos Party PIunned

a Christmas party, at which chill.
dren ana parents of the area viii
- guests, will be given by thu
Observable Fire Department ant
Cfefrydale Citizens Association a
s&:3o pm. Christmas Day In ths
Cherrydale Fire House, 5000 Lex
highway. Arlington.
Evening star., 1945-12-20

Well, Noel. when you read this,
you'll have another. surprise. You
may drive that jeep two years be-
fore you thought you could. Ar
lington police say you can, with
your fathers consent, obtain. a
driving permit as soon as you are IA.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-11-16

fire insurance or the number of
attendants who might properly
supervise the lots. police said.
Yet applicants for licenses are
notified they must keep the grounds
free Of glass and maintain other
standards in order to remain in
business.
After WI day, police noted a
sharp increase in auto larceny. In
August the number OF stolen cars
scared to 253, the following month
dropped to 224 and last month as
cended to 261.
Most Of the lots display signs in
dicating the places close at II pm.
or midnight. Attendants habitually
depart from the premises at the an
nounced hour, leaving any remain
ing cars unattended, with the keys,
inviting thieves, police said.
The only solution will be q law
compelling all lots to carry blanket
insurance and to employ number
of attendants adequate TO guard the
cars. police said.