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Evening star., 1945-06-03
us Transit Operators
Win IA Safety Badges

A total Of 715 Capital Transit Co.
streetcar and bus operators last
week were awarded 1914 safety
badges presented by Samuel En-
mons, transportation manager of
the company. OF the tbs operators
who received awards, lit received
badges with two stars representing
three years of safe operation and
146 received badges with one star,
indicative of two years of safe op-
Grafton.
To qualify for a badge, an opera
tor was required to work through
1914 without an accident or with
less nonchargeable> accidents than
the overall company average. In
addition, the operator was required
to work a minimum number of
days during the year. The multiple
star badges, awarded for more than
one year of safe operation, are
based only on the war years Of
1912, 1943 and 1914.
Evening star., 1945-06-03
George Washington Opens
Summer Sessions Tomorrow

George Washington University will
open it's summer sessions tomorrow
with special, accelerated program,
devised to meet the needs of stu
dents speeding their college course
before induction into the armed
forces.
To facilitate this objective, DR..
B. H. Jarman, registrar of the uni
versity, said that many more fresh
men and sophomore courses are be-
ing offered than in previous years
These courses will be offered the first
term beginning tomorrow, and in
the second term beginning July IS.
BY taking advantage of this op-
portunity for intensive study, DR..
Jarman said, the student may COM
plete full term in the summer, and
by continuous attendance may COM
plete four-year college program in
two and two-thirds years.
Evening star., 1945-06-03
Area May Spend Federation Hits
S25,OOO,O0O on Using Aid Funds
Building in As For Propaganda
Housing Association
Hos No Charitable
Purpose, Group Says

The Federation of Citizens Asso-
Citations last night adopted report
OF its Public Welfare Committee
which sharply criticized "the use of
Community Chest funds for propa-
ganda and lobbying purposes"
In one of the stormiest sessions in
the Federation's history, the report
was adopted after the group decided
to drop the names of three of the
four member agencies of the Com
munity Chest named in the report.
AS reported out by the committee,
the agencies named were the WASH
lngton Housing Association, the
Council of Social Agencies, the So
cial Welfare Department of the
Washington Federation of Churches
and the Washington Urban League.
Three-H Debate Held.
But after a three-hour debate,
during which President Wilbur S.
Finch several times had to pound
the table for order, the Federation
voted to strike the names of the
latter three agencies from the re-
port. Delegate Ernest F.. Henry,
who offered the amendment to strike
out the three names, explained that
it would be unfair to cite these
agencies since their representatives
had not had chance to appear
before the committee and present
their case.
The Public Welfare Committees
report stated that 1.-The printing and
distribution of one-sided propa-
ganda and legislative lobbying are
not social, welfare or charitable
work. and are not proper functions
to be performed by the methods
now employed by the Chest.
Agencies desiring to indulge in
such activities should raise the
needed funds in separate campaigns
and should cease using their men,
bership in the Chest as a badge of
public approval Their theories and
arguments could then be judged
on their true merit and Chest funds
would be used for their intended
purposes"
The Washington Housing Asso-
citation, which was the only agency
finally named in the report, was
described as a group of LESS than
Is individuals" who engage in no
social. welfare or charitable work"
Its main activity over the past sew
eral years, the committee charged,
has been "propagandizing and lob
bying" for public housing and for
retention of the National Capital
Housing Authority.
1t was made clear by the Fedora
ton and the committee that last
nights action was not meant to re-
fleet on the activities of the Chest.
This Federation reaffirms its sup
port of the welfare work being done
through the Chest and urges ccrrec-
tion of the conditions outlined in
the report in order that whole
hearted support can be obtained in
the coming campaign for the new
Chest year." the report concluded.
Evening star., 1945-06-03
20 Groups 10 Appear
At Subway Proposal
Hearing Wednesday

More than 20 governmental and
private agencies have indicated
their intention of appearing We'd
nesday at the public hearing of the
Commissioners on the transporta-
ton survey of the central area made
last year by consulting engineers
who called for a $56, 400, 900 subway
system.
The hearing will open at 10 am
in the board room of District Build
ing. Among those who will out
line the transportation report, made
public last October, will be Capt
H. c. Whitehurst, director of high
ways, and representatives of the
firms making the survey, J. E
Greiner Co. and De Leuw, Cathe,
g. Co.
Those groups indicating they viii
have representatives present in
clude:
National Capital Parks Office
National Capital Park and Plan,
ming Commission, Public Roads Ad.
ministration, Washington Terminal
Keystone Automobile Club, Trans.
portation and Utilities Committee
of the Board of Trade, Highways
and Traffic Committees of the BoarC
of Trade, Architect of the Capitol
Washington Real Estate Board
Public Utilities Committee of the
Federation of Citizens Association
Capital Transit Co., Washington
Gas Light Co., American Automobile
Association, Budget Bureau (Which
will send an observer), Public Utili-
ties Commission, Potomac Electric
Power Co.. Committee of 100 or
the Federal City. American Institute
of Architects, Federation OF Busi.
nessmen's Associations, Comis.
sioner's traffic advisors and Mer.
chants and Manufacturers ASsocia.
tion.
The report, on which the Com.
missioners have taken no stand
recommended three subways: Four.
teenth street, from south of Thoma:
Circle to the underground termina
near Maine avenue; Connecticut
|avenue-G street subway, running
from Connecticut avenue and F
street to Union Station, and Penn.
sylvania avenue route from Eight.
eenth street NV. to Second street
Sc. These would total IL miles.
In addition to freeing the centra
area of streetcars, the report urged
modernization of traffic controls
channelizing of the wider traffic
arteries and combining facilities fol
offices, stores and auto parking. II
also suggested dispersal areas" be
designated for parking cars of Fed.
eral workers and recommended that
parking facilities to provided at the
ends of transit lines.
Evening star., 1945-06-03
Knives, Ice Picks
Cause Injury to
| Several Children

A number of children accidentally
injured during the week while using
knives and ice picks caused the Dis
trict Red Cross to issue warning
to parents.
The weekly check on the hospitals
made by the organizations accident
prevention service disclosed that ar
11-year -old boy had partially ampu-
tated a finger while cutting bread
a 2-year-old child stuck an ice pick
in his eye and a 7-year-old chil6
was injured while playing with an
ice pick.
A 50-year-old woman was acci-
dentally asphyxiated when the pilot
light blew out in the stove and a
5-year-old girl who was playing with
matches died of burns.
There were 81 home accidents
81 falls, burns and 26 cuts. There
were five accidental poisonings, one
occurring when q 6-year -old child
took 10 grains Of thyroid.
Evening star., 1945-06-03
D. {. Hero 10 Address
French Celebration

Pfc. Robert Emmett Harvey, a
Washington soldier who lost a leg
in the invasion of France, will share
the speakers program with Henri
Bonnet, French Ambassador, and
other French and American digni-
taries at a French liberation cele-
bration Wednesday at the May
flower Hotel.
The Washington Chapter of
France Forever will sponsor the
event, which marks the first ami
yersary of D-day. 1t will take place
at $50 pm. in the grand ballroom.
Charles P: Taft, director of the
office of Wartime Economic Affairs,
will speak on Franco American
relations. Ambassador Bonnet will
be joined in a French appreciation
OF liberation by Gen. August De
Saint-Didier, chief of the French
Military Mission; Admiral Raymond
Fenard, chief of the Naval Mission,
and Gen. Charles Luguet, chief of
the Air Mission.
Ambassador Bonnet is also honor
airy chairman of the committee for
the meeting Mrs. Robert Low Bacon
is general chairman. Paul Nelson,
president of the Washington Chap
ter of France Forever, will preside.
Martial Singher, of the Metropoli-
tan and Paris opera companies, will
sing the "Complainte du Maquis, u
accOmpanied by Mime. Bonnet. The
United States Navy Band concert
orchestra will provide other music.
Pfc. Harvey, former restaurant
operator of 439 Fourteenth street
Sc, is a Mckinley High School
graduate who was wounded while
serving as machine gunner with a
29th Division Infantry unit before
st. Lo.
Tickets may be purchased at the
hotel or at the Offices of France
Forever, 1640 Connecticut avenue.
Evening star., 1945-06-03
|GI Weds WAVE
| At Pepsi Center,
Where They Met

A quiet informal wedding cere-
mony at the Pepsi-Cola Center for
Servicemen, Thirteenth and G.
streets NV, yesterday climaxed
courtship that started there just
eight months ago.
The ceremony united Pfc. Gordon
Lewis Bovee, 81, of Hornell, N. Y,
and Seaman Rubie Lee Brumett, 81,
a WAVE from Evansville, Ind.
The couple met at the center after
Pvt. Bovee returned here from nine
months Army service in Europe.
Their friendship quickly blossomed
into a romance and they decided
that fitting place for their wedding
ceremony was where they had first
met.
Evening star., 1945-06-03
Elevator on Presidential Plane
Served as Security Measure

sent the countries visited by the
seven-man crew. He said a Jap
flag, included in the layout, caused
lot of questions. I'VE earned that
one" he said, when we put down
a couple of times in Jap territory"
Coincident with the inspection of
the plane here, the Douglas Air
craft Co. disclosed yesterday to the
Associated Press in California the
design of the plane, with hint that
its luxuries may foretel those to be
found in postwar civilian transports.
The planes interior design is the
work of 36-year-old E. Gilbert
Mason, chief interior design en-
gineer for the Douglas company and
a former designer of exclusive homes
in New York. Other wartime plane
interiors which he designed include
Gen. Douglas MacArthur's galley
equipped, 10-chair flying Office with
sleeping quarters for four.
The Sacred Cow" which ATC
officials would rather call "State
Department" plane than a presi-
Dental plane, will carry Is pas
sengers and will sleep six. It's pri-
vate stateroom measures tx by II
feet and has seating room, with its
sofa and chairs, for seven persons.
Carries Conference Table.
Within reach of the Presidents S
easy chair are magazine rack,
oxygen mask, reading lights, radio
and telephone connecting with
the pilots compartment and the
three other sleeping sections. AT
one side of the stateroom a small
lavatory opens. and on the sofa
side, the wall folds down, making a
full-siZe bed.
A conference table of mahogany
has inlaid in gold the great seal OF
the United States, and above the
table, on the tan gabardine and
leather walls are four maps on rolls
1t was with these maps that the
late President helped chart the
planes course from Malta to Yalta
and return to Cairo.
Above the maps is an instrument
panel showing altitude, plane speed
etc., and on the wall above the sofa
is an oil painting of the full-rigged
sailing ship, Coriolanus, by Duncan
Gleason, marine artist. This paint
ing was a gift to the late President
by the president of the Douglas Co
and belongs to the Roosevelt estate
Just aft of the pilots cabin, g
galley is equipped with electric ice
box and stove. A special electrical
oven has been designed that will
keep food hot for "a hours. To the
rear of this is storage space fol
luggage.
Evening star., 1945-06-03
Brothers, 10 and 8, Drown
Seeking Ball in Anacostia

Alfred J. Patton, jr., 10, colored,
and his brother, Louis, 8, were
drowned in the Anacostia River at
about 4:30 pm. yesterday when
they went into the river to re-
trieve a baseball which had been
batted by a playmate. Their bodies
were recovered by harbor police
about o'clock and taken to the
District. Morgue.
The boys were the sons of a guard
at the Agriculture Department who
lives at 241s Fourteenth street Sc.
Mr.. Patton, Army veteran who was
wounded in the World War, has
two other sons serving overseas in
the Army. They are Hilton j., 81,
in France, and Walter. az, In the
Philippines.
Evening star., 1945-06-03
Congress Group 10 Study
D. Gu. 5. Relationships

The relationship between the Fed
eral and District governments is
to be discussed Tuesday at hear
ing before the joint committee con-
sidering modernization of Congress.
Witnesses are to be Mrs. Amanda
Duf1eld OF the District League of
Women Voters and Merlo j. Pusey
editorial writer for the Washington
Post and author of a book on gov
ernment.
Another hearing will be held Fri
day, when witnesses will be Carter
w. Atkins, director of the Connecti-
cut Public Expenditures Council;
David c. Coyle, writer and lecturer,
and Prof. Phillips Bradley, Queens
College, Flushing, N. Y.
Evening star., 1945-06-03
Smoker for Cornell Coach

Cornell University alumni in
Washington will meet and hear
Edward C. McKeever, new Cornell
football coach, at a smoker at the
Dodge Hotel at pm. Thursday.
Representative Sundstrom, Republic
can, of New Jersey. who was ALL
America tackle in 1924, will preside.
Mr.. McKeever coached at Notre
Dame last season.
Evening star., 1945-06-03
Numbers Slips Found ,
Man Arrested in Raid

Melvin w. Reeves, 33, of the
1000 block of Tenth street NE. was
charged with disorderly conduct last
night following a police raid on a
cigar store in the HOO block of
Ninth street NV. Its. Beverly C.
Beach and Roy E. Blick, who led
the raiders. said they seized num-
ber of racing sheets, numbers slips
and $658 in small bills
in cigar box under the counter at
which the accused man was stand
ing.
The officers said Reeves told them
he was tending the store for his
brother.
Evening star., 1945-06-03
Plans to Proceed
On Large Scale When
WPB Lifts Burs

construction activity allowed
private builders by recent Govern
ment action is expected to reach
$25 100000 in the Metropolitan ares
this year and promises to pave tn,
way for resumption of home build.
ing on large scale, when the fina
wraps are taken off construction b,
the War Production Board.
N. G. Hines, executive director O.
the Home Builders Association O.
Metropolitan Washington, estimated
yesterday the volume of private
building already allowed in this ares
under the National Housing
Agency's H-2 program for limitee
construction, would total $40 ,000, ,0O(
by the end of the year.
The recent WPB easing of control.
over maintenance and repair work
for homes and business places viii
add another $5,OO0,0O0 to the con-
struction industry here, Mr.. Hines
reported.
Houses for S2,500.
Builders are ready to shift into
high gear on a moments notice ano
are prepared to build homes as low
as $780," Mr.. Hines declared.
1t has been clear that builders
are anxious to get started. Each of
the three ALLEGATIONS made by MIA
under the H-2 program in the past
six months have been oversubscribed
by private builders. The last quota
given the District was $500 units,
bringing the total authorized to
5000.
The increase in building activity
was noted by Brig. Gen. John H.
Oehmann, director of inspections for
the District, who expressed some
concern over the lack of building in
spectors. He reported last week that
he needed another 20 inspectors to
add to the present force of 10.
Volume of construction in April
was almost double that of March,
on the basis of building permits
issued by the District government.
Lewis T. Breuninger, president of
the Washington Real Estate Board,
reflects the opinion of the industry
IN predicting a tremendous" de-
mand for homes of all price ranges
after the war. He believes the de-
mand will be highest in the $10,-
900 to $4,000 price range, but warns
it may be two years before Washing
ton reached the same volume of
building as in 1910. 1t is estimated
1884 units were built that year.
Tumhpr Short oe Throat
This official believes the major
bottleneck in producing homes on a
large scale will be a shortage of
lumber, even after the war.
Rufus S. Lusk, real estate statis-
tician, estimates at least 10000
homes selling for $4,000 or more
will be needed in this area in the
immediate postwar period. Thou
sands of families are living in homes
with inadequate facilities and these
people provide a good Market" he
declared.
Some builders privately are con-
cerned over both the availability and
cost of labor in the months to come.
Unions on the other hand are con-
cerned lest a surplus labor market
force down salaries. Builders agree
the demand for labor in all the
trades will be tremendous once con-
struction begins to get into high
gear.
The recent WPB action permits
repairs or additions up to $1,000 a
year on one-family homes without
authorization from the agency. The
former ceiling was 5000. Even
larger increases have been granted
for business establishments requir-
ing repairs or new construction.
Evening star., 1945-06-03
Tate Is Nominated
AS Law Guild Head

Jack B. Tate, general counsel o1
the Federal Security Agency, has
been nominated as president of the
District Chapter of the Nationa
Lawyers Guild. Elections will be
held tomorrow night at the annual
meeting of the guild chapter at
the National Archives Auditorium
Representative De Lacey, Demo
crat, of Washington, principa
speaker, will discuss "Reconversior
and Full Employment"
Other nominations announced BY
Fowler V. Harper, solicitor of the
Interior Department, and retiring
chapter president, are:
George M. johnson, deputy chair
man of the Fair Employment Prac-
tices Committee, vice president; j
P. Blume, executive secretary: Ruth
Roemer, recording secretary, ano
Joseph B. Robson, treasurer The
committee nominated Is members
for the II vacancies on the chapters
executive board.
They are Thomas I. Emerson
general counsel, Office of Economic
Sterilization; Douglas Maggs, So
licitor, Department. of Labor; Ber.
nice Lotwin, general counsel, Wal
Manpower Commission; George
Moncharash, OPA deputy admin
istrator for enforcement; Mr.. Har-
per; Adolph Magidson, editor
United States Law Week; Harry
Plotkin. assistant general counsel
Federal Communications Commis-
sion; Oscar Schacter, assistant gen.
eral counsel, United Nations Relief
and Rehabilitation Administration
Frank Donner, associate genera.
counsel, CIO: Erwin B. Gilman
assistant general counsel, Solic
Fuels Administration; Thomas H
Eliot, former Representative from
Massachusetts,; Samuel Levine, Ben.
jamin B. Asia, George M. Golden
Harriet Bauslog and Jacob Hyman
Evening star., 1945-06-03
Robbery Indictment
OF Lindsay Kidnap
Suspects Sought

The grand jury here will be asked
tomorrow to indict trio of youths
now held at Lynchburg, Va, in the
robbery last Tuesday of DR.. Janvier
w. Lindsay, prominent Washing
ton physician, 1t was announced
yesterday.
DR.. Lindsay was abducted and
robbed by three youths who drove
him from Washington into Virginia.
The Federal Bureau of Investiga-
ton has filed detainers under the
kidnapping Act against the three
youths but will not proceed further
pending final disposition of other
charges against them in Virginia.
Announcement that robbery in
dictment will be sought here by Col,
Edward j. Kelly, superintendent of
police, and Inspector Robert j. Bar
rett followed questioning of the
youths at Lynchburg by Washing
ton detectives.
Face Highway Robbery Charges.
Meanwhile, Associated Press dis
patches from Lynchburg reported
that the three-Rutherford R. Pat
rick, 19; Freddie F. Martin, 10, and
James E. Doss, 20-were sentenced
to so days in Jail by the Municipal
Court there for attempted auto lar
ceny. The Corporation Court grand
jury there will hear charges of
highway robbery against them to-
morrow, the dispatch added.
Inspector Barrett said yesterday
the Washington detectives had not
yet obtained sufficient evidence
against any of the trio to seek an
indictment in the robbery and slay-
ing of Leon Avent, taxi driver,
here on May 10.
Suspicion was aroused in this
connection because one of the men
was found to be carrying an auto
matte of the type used to shoot Mr.
Avent. Investigation in that case
is continuing, Inspector Barrett said
Extradition of the men from Vir-
ginia will not be sought now, he
said, unless sufficient evidence is
found to justify asking for the
1llul 4llNlIUlllCliUs 4AoWSNSAs LAO
trict police will file a detainer with
Virginia authorities to insure the
men will be kept in custody until
the cases against them have been
cleared up.
Lindsay Compliments Police.
DR.. Lindsay identified the youths
in the Virginia city Thursday as his
abductors, according to police.
Doss lives in the 2600 block of
University place NV, Patrick in
Cleveland, Ohio, and Martin is a
sailor attached to the U. S. S. Quin-
cy, police said.
Yesterday DR.. Lindsay wrote Com
missioner John Russell Young to
express his appreciation of the
magnificent service" of the Police
Department.
Commissioner Young directed the
letter to be sent to Col. Kelly with
the notation, Good work."
DR.. Lindsay specifically cited Col.
Kelly, Inspector Barrett and De-
tective Sergts. G. E. Cooper, O. P.
Fuss and r. F.. McCarty.
Evening star., 1945-06-03
Uniform Marking Plan
For Laundry, Jewe|ry
Urged as Police Aid

A suggestion by police officials
that the Commissioners order uni
form system of markings by laun-
dries, dry cleaners and jewellers
to aid in the solution of crimes
and identification of bodies has
been forwarded to the Corporation
Counsel for draft as a possible reg
ulation.
The recommendation, according
to the Corporation Counsels office,
came from Col. Edward j. Kelly,
superintendent of police, as a re-
suit of a suggestion by Inspector
Robert J. Barrett, head of the
Detective Bureau.
Police recommended that a bu-
reau or agency assign number to
every laundry. dry-cleaning plant
and jewelry store, who would be
required to conform to uniform
marking regulations. 1t was pro-
posed that identifying numbers be
marked in indelible ink-except in
the case of jewelers-and that each
establishment would be required to
maintain a record of the costumer's S
name, address and mark.
Records Would Be Required.
Owners of establishments would
be required to maintain such rec
ordS for several years and also would
file with the supervising bureau or
agency record of all symbols or
marks in addition to any numbers
which have been assigned.
According to the information CIV
en- the Commissioners the project
first was used in Nassau County
N. Y, in 1886, where it was believed
that laundry marks were as valuable
as finger prints in catching GRIM
inals.
In November, 1912, Inspector Bar
rett established a dry cleaners
marking file to assist in the iden-
tification of bodies. 1t proved bene-
fetal. not only for this purpose, but
in Identification of stolen property
and in the apprehension of Grim
inals.
Arrangement Is Hampered.
1t was reported to the Commits.
sioners that Inspector Barrett foune
difficulty in compiling the file be.
cause of the lack of uniform sys.
tenn of marking. It was pointed
out that in number of cases, such
as valet shops, ticket numbers are
used and no permanent records are
established.
Cases already have been solved
by the meager files set up. the
Commissioners were informed II
aided in solving theft of S265 worth
of property from the DR.. Pepper
Bottling Works in January, 1943
The property was found near the
plant, wrapped in an old pair Of
pants and, through cleaner:
mark, the pants were traced to ar
enploye of the bottling company
who was arrested.
Police contend that the plar
would save time and money ane
increase the efficiency of police
work. The Pennsylvania State Leg.
islature, according to the Corpora.
ton Counsels Office, recently passee
a law for a uniform system of mark
ings. with the records to be KEEP
by the Commissioner of State Po'
lice.