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Evening star., 1945-11-30
'S12,7h,730 Added
To Virginia S General
Fund in -Four Months
BY the Associated Press,

-
RICHMOND. Va, Nov. 3o.-Vir-
ginia's general fund for the first
four months of the current fiscal
year shows an income of s12,746,7 ,730,
gain of s1,o66,356 over the same
period in 1914, State Controller
Henry G. Gilmer reported yesterday.
Income for the four months for
all Commonwealth funds added up
to SIS 696,472, an increase of s2,753.-
683 over the comparable period in
1914.
Tax yields for the general fund
increased 1928 ,282 from S1o,752,633
in the four months of last year to
s11 ,580,915 in the like period of 1945.
Largest single tax increase was the
beer excise levy, which yielded
$1,619,135, gain of s423 ,225 as COM
pared with 1914. Other notable gains
for the four months were S286, TAG in
taxes from railroads, s108,695 in
taxes from utility companies and
$138,875 in estate taxes.
One general fund tax showed q
decline of s227 1866 for the four
months as compared to the 1914
period.
The Virginia Motor Vehicle Dealer
Licensing Act, which became effec-
tive July l, 1914, resulted in license
revenues of 20,399.50 during the
first year of its operation, C. F.
Joyner, jr, commissioner of motor
vehicles, disclosed yesterday in his
biennial report to Gov. Darden.
The report also showed that de-
spite wartime conditions. motor
vehicles revenues from all sources
continued at high level, amount
ing to $26, ,708 ,46674 in the 1944-45
fiscal year, So per cent increase
over 1894
Evening star., 1945-11-30
Saunders Sentenced
To 5 Years in KiIIinq
OF Former Marine
Special Dispatch to The Star.

MANASSAS, Va, Nov. 30.-Ray-
mond Saunders, As, of Quantico yes
terday was convicted of involuntary
manslaughter in the death 16 years
ago of his former Marine houseboat
mate, Brad j. Ellison. A Prince
William County Circuit Court jury
deliberated on the case only an hour
and a half. Saunders was sentenced
to five years in the penitentiary by
Judge Paul E. Brown.
A story of quarrel over a card
game. "a fight and killing and the
disposal of Ellison's body in an
abandoned well was reconstructed
by the prosecution.
Saunders was arrested last Sep
tember and indicted October 2 for
the killing after bones and per-
sonal effects were found in an old
well near Dumfries. Va. last July.
He entered a plea of innocent.
Robert Leitch, prosecution wit
ness, yesterday testified that he
knew Ellison and that on the night
of December 20, 1929, Saunders had
shown him blood spots in the snow
and told him that he and Ellison
had quarreled over a card game
Leitch quoted Saunders as saying,
I've put him where he won't both
er me any more"
Saunders, IN his defense, said he
had cut his hand cranking his car
accounting for the blood. He
brought Howard Stevens, Quantico
druggist, to the stand to testify that
he treated Saunders for hand cut
The defendant also said that, on
the night of December %, 1929, he
saw body lying in the snow when
he was returning to his houseboat
on the creek, and that he did not
touch or examine it, but went on to
his boat.
Witnesses recalled that Saunders
left Quantico for about month
after the ex-Marine disappeared.
The bones in the we'll were iden-
tilted by DR.. DAILY Stewart, Smith
sonian Institute anthropologist, as
those of a man of the same general
description as Ellison. The den.
lures in the skull were identified by
DR.. woodrow E. Payne, Arlington
dentist, as the same as on Ellison's
old Marine chart.
Evening star., 1945-11-30
Mrs. |. N. Hoddes Heads
Buckinqhum NurseV

Mrs. Irving NJ Hoddes has beer
elected president of the Bucking-
ham Cooperative Nursery and Kin.
dergartaA 1919 North Second road
Arlingt The school is operated
by mothers for pre-school-a chill.
dren in Buckingham.
Other officers are Mrs. James F.
Monahan and Mrs. George Noren.
sky, vice presidents; Mrs. Clarence
L. Cade, nursery secretary; Mrs
Nathan Silberberg, kindergarten
secretary; Mrs. Sidney G. Tickton
business manager; Mrs. Harold
Greene, chairman of the housekeep-
ing committee, and Mrs. Alec C.
Levin, assistant chairman of the
housekeeping committee.
Evening star., 1945-11-30
Presbyterians Here
Announce Plans for
.150th Anniversary

Washington Presbyterians will
celebrate the 105th anniversary year
OF the denomination in this city
starting next Tuesday.
The Rev. DR.. Albert Joseph Nc
Cartney, pastor of the Covenant
First Presbyterian Church, said the
chapel of the historic edif1ce will be
open to the public for a week start
ing Tuesday to view an exhibit OF
pictures, old records and memora-
bilia of the early days of Presby-
terianism here. More than 10C
items will be on display.
In Covenant Church, at Connect
icut avenue and Eighteenth street
NV, visitors will see the Presi-
dents pew-33-occupied at one
time or another by every President
since Franklin Pierce, excepting
Franklin D. Roosevelt and Herbert
Hoover The seat is marked with
a metal plaque. In the center OF
the nave is the pew once occupied
by President Benjamin Harrison.
In the chapel are placed the com.
munion table and pulpit used as fal
back as 1847 in the First Presby.
terian Church. The pulpit wa!
founded by Daniel Webster anc
Henry Clay.
DR.. Mccartney will place on dis.
play copy OF the National Repub
lican, former Washington news.
paper, for December n, 1880.
There is also a copy of the Dali,
National Intelligencer of April 16
1927.
There will be pictures on display
OF the first church of the denomi.
nation, built here in 1872 by a grour
of Scottish carpenters who came tc
this country to help work on the
Capitol and the White House. They
brought their religion with them
The first chapel was a tool sheo
which stood in a woodland where
the White House grounds are now
The pious Scots first worshipped in
this shed in 1795.
A dinner for 200 leading Presby-
terians will be held at 7 pm. next
Tuesday. as the exhibit opens. DR.
Mccartney. who expects to transfer
to new post in Chicago soon, after
is years here, will make historical
address.
Other speakers include John A
Russell, chairman of the committee
for the dinner and an elder of the
church; Miss Virginia Sargent, anc
Temple Bailey, the authoress. Mes.
sages will be read from ]. Edgar
Hoover and Mrs. Frances Preston
widow OF President Grover Cleve.
land.
Evening star., 1945-11-30
Schofer, Out Of Navy, Returns
To Alexandra Health Post

DR.. w. Lewis Schafer, jr., 1928
Wilson avenue, Alexandria health
officer who has been or military
leave, has been released om the
Navy and will resume his d0ties with
the health department December is.
DR.. Schafer, who held the rank
of commander, became city health
officer in 1929 and served until 1910.
The position was peld by DR.. w. A,
Browne until ye3gsago. DR.. Theo-
dore Shrop Of United States
Public HEALTH service has been on
temporary duty in Alexandria since
that time. ~ =
DR.. Schafer said he was the first
physician to treat Capt. Eddie Rick
enbacker after. his rescue from a
raft when he was brought to the
dispensary at Funa Futi, where DR..
Schafer was in charge. He sent
Capt. Rickenbacker to Samoa for
further treatment and shortly there
after became i'll himself and was
hospitalized in the same hospital
with the flyer with whom he be-
came very friendly, he related.
Evening star., 1945-11-30
Rondolp olph-Mocon Honors
II District Area Cadets

Eleven cadets from Washington
and nearby Virginia were placed on
the honor roll at Randolph Macon
Academy, Front Royal, Va, Col
John G. Boggs, principal. announced
Cadet First Lieut.. Graham T.
Stewart, 915 Shoreham Building
placed second among the entire
corps of cadets with an average of
81. Cadet Pfc. Harry p. .Brightman
1886 Sixteenth street NV, was
fourth with 958.
Others from the METROPOLITAN
Area with outstanding grades are
Cadet Maj. William Banta, Fair
lington; Cadet Second Lieut.. Mar
shall Dixon, 2013 Eye street NV;
Cadet Pfc. David r. Hull, Arlington;
Cadet Corpl. w. Bruce johnson,
Seventeeth and D streets NV;
Cadet Second Lieut.. Rodney T,
Jones, Arlington; Cadet Capt. w. E.
Linaweaver, Arlington; Cadet Corpl
Robert c. Macon, 701 East Capitol
street; Cadet Burton E. Owens,
Alexandria, and Cadet First Lieut..
Wilbert j. Robertson, 1402 Monroe
street NE.
Evening star., 1945-11-30
Army Releases Rare Serum
Needed 10 Keep Baby Alive
By. the Associated Press.

By. the Associated Press.
PETERSBURG, Va, Nov 30.-A
mothers frantic appeal for the new
and scarce serum, streptomycine, to
keep her baby alive today brought a
Today supply of the drug used al
most exclusively by the armed forces
to the bedside of -month-old Rich
ard Arnald Temple.
Camp Lee authorities, hearing of
Mrs. Temples pleas for the rare
drug, appealed yesterday to Sd Serv-
ice Command headquarters at Bal
timore for authority to release the
serum from Mcclure Hospital, Rich
mond. Doctors said the drug was
the only thing which would keep
Mrs. Temples son alive. The child
is suffering from military tubercu-
loSis.
AS a result, the Today supply
was obtained from the hospitals
limited amount.
Mrs. Temple had sent an urgent
appeal to President Truman asking
his help in obtaining the serum and
the Navy yesterday started search
for a supply for the child.
Evening star., 1945-11-30
New Radio Station
To Open in Alexandra

A new radio station, WPIK, starts
operations tomorrow in the Wash
ington area.
Actually it is situated in Alexan-
dria, with studios in the George
Mason Hotel. 1t will broadcast on
730 kilocycles. with $50 watts power,
and will operate from sunrise to
sunset.
Howard B. Hayes is president of
the company, and Carl Lindberg,
vice president. Both are former
engineers for Station WTOP. Pro-
gram director is Bill Jefferay, who
has been on the announcing staff of
WTOP. Perry P. Walders, formerly
with WINK and WWDC, is COM
mercial manager.
A station spokesman said WPIK
would feature good music, public
service and a daily sports program
at 7:55 am. by Frank Aiken of the
Redskins.
The station must sign off at SUM-
set so as not to interfere with a sta
ton on the same wave length in
Mexico City.
Evening star., 1945-11-30
Campaign Is Urged
To Avert Crisis in
Veterans HOUSING

Charging that the veteran Is the
victim OF "avaricious producers OF
building supplies and of unscrupu-
lous real estate agents and build
ers,' William F. Carlin, president OF
the Service Aid Council of Mont
gomery County Selective Service
Board No. 2, yesterday declared the
most serious problem at present i,
finding homes for these men. $
Mr.. Carlin, who addressed 9
luncheon meeting of the Silver
Spring Civitan Club at the Silve,
Spring Hotel. told members thai
steps must be taken Immediately
to avert serious crisis. The vet
eran is in the middle of a maze o1
strikes caused by differences be-
tween labor unions and industry, >
he declared.
The speaker laid the blame or
building supply producers, who are
unwilling to release building ma
terials under the present ceilings o,
because of the uncertainty of future
ceilings" on builders with wealth
WHO are cornering the market on
building materials for the erection
of homes that will range in price
between $4,000 and SIS 5,OO0," and
on unscrupulous real estate agents
who are going around placing high
inflationary values on homes"
Most reliable real estate dealers
are willing tn allou that an indotior
OF 80 to SO per cent on the present
market. is not unreasonable, Mr.
Carlin said, but some of them are
not satisfied unless they raise that
percentage of imitation to 100 pei
fcent or higher" he added.
The club voted unanimously tt
send a transcript of Mr.. Carlin'.
talk to their national magazine ano
to other Civitan clubs in the area.
Evening star., 1945-11-30

After taking charge of phase OF
the work at the Samoa hospital DR.
Schafer was sent to Pensacola, Fla.
for training IN aviation medicine
He qualified as flight surgeon and
later headed the Marine Corps All
Station Hospital at Mojave, Calf.
For the last Is months he has
served as surgeon aboarl be carrier
Kitkumbay. He wears q Presiden-
tial Unit Citation, the Bronze Star
and a commendation ribbon ano
citation received at Lingayan Gull
in the Philippines.
During World War I he served In
France with the ,90th Infantry Di.
vision and saw agSlen at st. Mihiel
Meuse-Argonne,, Verdun, Toule ai1c
the Black Forest.
A native of Alexandria, Or. Schafel
graduated from the city schools and
after service in the Army returned
to George Washington University
Medical School from which he was
graduated. He later attended Har.
ward for graduate work in public
health.
Evening star., 1945-11-30
1900 Jobs Reported Open
In Virginia Pulp Industry

BY the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, Va, Nov. 30.-More
than 1900 steady jobs in Virginia S
expanding paper and pulp industry
in the woods and mills, are avail
able to returning veterans, defense
workers and other unemployed men
not absorbed in surplus labor areas
according to Frank A. Cavedo, State
director of the United States EN-
ployment Service.
The industry, in cooperation with
USES, is conducting a recruiting
campaign for workers, through JAN
uary l, 1916.
This unemployment program
will serve double purpose in the
present complex labor situation,
Mr.. Cavedo said. TT will seek tc
man an industry upon which other
industries and reconversion depend
in large measure, and will attract
jobless men in former war produc-
ton areas and return them to mill
or rural communities.
Evening star., 1945-11-30

Arundel County Court. in which he
was sentenced to 18 years in the
Maryland Penitentiary.
Corens. a former automobile me-
chanic who lived at 5415 Gladwyne
drive, Bethesda, was tried in Anne
Arundel County on a change OF
venue from the Rockville Court He
was convicted last May rs.
Question Eight Points.
Corens' attorneys presented eight
points they questioned in the lower
courts procedure:
Examination of the jury with re.
gard to their views on the death
sentence and circumstantial evi.
dence;
Testimony of Richard F. Utz, 6
Fairfax County policeman who
found what witnesses said was the
head of Mrs. Corens. The body
never was found.
Admissibility of evidence of pho
tographs. taken in Corens' house;
Corens' remarks to a policeman
concerning a visit to Virginia.
DR.. j. w. Birds testimony as to
whether the head in the case had
ears or not.
The presence or absence of hu-
man blood or tissue on 10 articles
admitted in evidence and their
weight with the jury.
Introduction of letters written by
Corens to Thelma Pack:
If the jury should have been per-
mitted to view the Corens house and
see the arrangement of the objects
used by the State in its case in
Photographic form.
Evening star., 1945-11-30
WASHINGTON AND VICINITY
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 80, 1915.
Six Are Denied
PrinceGeorges
Liquor Permits
Mayor, Councilman
Declare Is Toverns
Earn Name Rum Row

The Prince Georges County Liquor
Board yesterday rejected six of seven
applications for licenses and ap-
proved three petitions for transfer
of existing licenses. The only license
application granted, subject to
Health Department approval, was
that Of Mrs. Ann A. Lamb, Accokeek.
for on sale beer.
Unfavorable action was taken on
the following applications:
Thomas j. Smith, Smiths Tavern,
1929 Bladensburg road, Colmar
Manor, beer, wine and liquor on
sale; Jack L. Katz, Jacks Cafe, 9089
Baltimore boulevard, Berwyn, beer
and wine on sale; George Shapiro.
owner of the Food Center, 1903
Edmonston road, Bladensburg, beer,
wine and liquor off sale, and Albert
Weisthal, Capitol Market, 2O8 Sixty
first street; Meyer Kans, Mikes
Variety Shoppe, $50 Central avenue.
and Themistocles Plakos, 10 South
ern avenue, all of Capitol Heights,
beer, wine and liquor of sale.
The following petitions for trans
fer of existing licenses were granted:
Charles A. Straining, from For
rest M. Fenner. Bowie Tavern, beer
on sale; Allen A. Marcus from James
H. Lee. Lees Tavern, Queens Chapel
and Ager roads, Hyattsville, beer,
wine and liquor on sale, and Rein
hard S. Pollen and John F.. Van oe
Putte from Fred Mooneyham, Fred
dies Restaurant, 6217 Baltimore
avenue, Riverdale, beer and wine
on sale.
Most vigorous opposition against
any OF the applications was voiced
by Mayor John N. Torvestad of
Colmar Manor and members of the
Town Council to Mr.. Smiths petit
ton.
Mayor Torvestad declared there
are l3 liquor establishments within
distance Of one-half mile in the
town and that I'VE don't need any
more to supply the needs of the
community. In fact, there are too
many there now"
Councilman Andrew c. Tackett.
asserted that Bladensburg road,
along which the 13 liquor establish
ments are located, is known
throughout the county as rum
row"
Similar protests were voiced by
members of the Capitol Heights
Town Council to the application Of
Mr.. Weisthal, Mr.. Kans and Mr..
Plakos. The councilmen said there
are now II liquor establishments in
the town and any more would be
"superfluous
Residents of the area in which
Mr.. Shapiro operates a grocery
store opposed his application on the
ground that the neighborhood Is
purely residential
Evening star., 1945-11-30
u. S. Rubber's Purchase
IOf War Plant Approved
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
Sale of a Government-owned war
plant at Scottsville, Albemarle
County, Va, to the United States
Rubber Co., its wartime lessee, for
81 1897 500 was approved yesterday
by the Reconstruction Finance
Corp. The price includes machinery
and equipment.
The Governments investment in
land and buildings amounted to ST.
1888 in machinery and equip
ment to $1,0l8,348, or total invest
ment of $2,202, ,186, the RFC said.
Less than one year old, the plant
was built under sponsorship of the
the War Production Board for the
manufacture of rayon cord for auto
mobile tires. It has a normal ca
pacity of 2,8oo,0oo pounds of rayon
cord monthly.
Evening star., 1945-11-30

ritory, which includes Parkfairfax
and the North Ridge section, is now
a part of the sixth ward, and Is
designated as the upper precinct
for voting purposes. The present
second ward is to be incorporated
into the first ward.
Mr.. Nash has lived in Alexandria
for the last 19 years and Is en-
ployed at the Fruit Growers Ex-
press. He is a member Of the First
Baptist Church of Alexandria and
chairman Of its Finance Committee
a member of the North Ridge Cit
izens' Association, the Kiwanis Club
and the Shrine Club. He hec q
married son, recently discharged
from the Navy, and daughter.
Evening star., 1945-11-30
Commissioners
Call Farley in
Truck Strike
ConciIiotors to Meet
With Officials Today
To Seek Settlement

The Commissioners called a con-
ference today with Federal coun-
ciliators, seeking a settlement in
the six-week old teamsters' strike
which has tied up shipments into
the District and created a serious
shortage Of Christmas merchandise
With the union and trucking
company officials reporting them
selves "hopelessly deadlocked" over
the unions demands for wage in
creases ranging from 10 to 1917
cents an hour, the Commissioners
arranged meeting with concilia-
ton officials headed by r. w. Good
rick, who has been conducting the
talks between the disputing parties.
Officials of Local $50, Interna-
tional Brotherhood of Teamsters,
AFL, and representatives of the II
strikebound trucking Arms will not
attend the session, which preSum-
ably will attempt to arrange further
conferences between the two fac
tions.
Both sides said today they would
60 along with any attempt at
further conciliation suggested by the
Commissioners, but emphasized that
they were sticking by their respec-
tive positions.
Request for Intervention by the
Commissioners was contained in a
telegram from J. M. Heiser, presi-
dent OF the District Federation of
Businessmen. who pointed out that
the Commissioners had offered their
services in settling the recent strike
OF transit company employees.
This tie-up Of the movement OF
freight Is now in its second month
and the businessmen and Arms of
Washington urgently request your
immediate assistance" Mr.. Heiser's
message said.
The strike has forced railroads to
cease shipping freight into the city
because of the hundreds of loaded
railroad cars in railroad yards here.
Department stores have estimated
there is Is to 20 per cent shortage
of Christmas merchandise because
of the strike. Other merchandise
also Is affected.
Evening star., 1945-11-30
Virginia Commission
Urges Extension Of
Rural Health Service
BY the Associated Press,


RICHMOND, Va, Nov. 30-Ex-
tension of organized public health
services to $4,000 rural residents
and compulsory periodic medical
examination of all school children
In Virginia were recommended to
the General Assembly today by a
nlne-member commission named
last March to study health. hospital
and medical care needs of the State
The State now operates health
services in 81 counties and the COM
mission, headed by Dr. I. C. Riggin
State health commissioner, proposed
the addition of "a local health de-
partments, covering districts from
one to four counties with an aver
age population per district of 50,-
600. This would bring the total
number of local health units to 81
The commission said the budget
for the fiscal year 1944-5 for the
operation and supervision of the
existing % health departments to-
tails approximately s97o245, anc
estimated that the proposed exten.
sion OF service. with adequatel.
trained personnel, would cost ap.
proximately S2.261 900.
/ The report expressed the opinion
that Virginians should have tn,
widest possible hospital insurance
tcoverage and noted that the Stat
is below the national average il
such coverage.
| Among other major recommenda
tions of the commission were expan.
sion of the Rucker Convalescen
Home at Charlottesville, establish
ment of rheumatic fever clinic.
throughout the State, establishment,
Of a division of cancer control, in.
cluding operation of a mobile clinic
inauguration of "a special program
to study and prevent the spread Of
trachoma and goiter; blishment
OF centers for the treatment of acute
communicable diseases at University
Hospital, Medical College of Virginia
Roanoke and Norfolk; expansion OF
the program of health education al
an additional cost of approximately
$4,000 a year; appropriation Of
SIS 900 annually to each of the State
medical schools as a loan fund tc
supply doctors to rural areas; sup
ply of whatever is needed" to train
colored youths in medicine al
McHarry Medical College, Memphis