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Evening star., 1945-04-16
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LOCUST VALLEY, N. Y, April 16.
"A dramatic description of how
Franklin D. Roosevelt was fatally
stricken while sitting silently for
his portrait was given by Mrs. Eliza
beth Schoumatoff, Russian-born
artist, on her return from Warm
Springs, Ga.
He slipped slightly out of pose
his head went down a little
he raised his left hand to
his temple. then to his forehead
= slowly he lay back. reclined
in the chair" the artist recounted
yesterday.
She was one of the last persons
to see the late President alive
making preliminary sketches of him
at his little White House in Warm
Springs. In the room with her and
the President were his two cousins,
Miss Laura Delano and Miss Mar
garet Suckley, and his secretary
William D. Hassett.
He never looked better than when
he greeted me-" Mrs Schoumatoff
recalled. He had on dark gray
suit, and had worn his red Harvard
necktie, a perfect blend with his
navy blue cape"
She said he was working over some
official papers while she painted.
He became so engroSsed that he
slipped slightly out of pose." she
Evening star., 1945-04-16
Burko Fined SIS in Traffic Case;
Being Prosecuted, Lawyer Says

Joseph R. Burko, proprietor of the
Lamplghters' Club, now on trial in
District Court on charges of receiv-
ing stolen gasoline coupons, was
fined IS today by Municipal Court
Judge Brice Clagett on traffic vio-
lation.
Burko's attorney, James Kirkland,
charged police persecution" in his
clients arrest Friday in front Of 406
Fifth street NV, a restricted park
ing area. He said his client merely
had paused at the curb and was
waiting for Mr.. Kirkland and an
other attorney, Sol ichtenberg, to
enter the car.
Mr.. Kirkland intimated animos-
ity on the part Of the arresting
oncer, Policeman Joseph B. Oster-
man Of the Traf1c Division, led him
to take Burko to police headquar-
Evening star., 1945-04-16
Two Hit by Streetcars
Suffer Head Injuries

Mrs Sadie E. J. Davis, At, colored
$50 Twenty-third place NE, last
night suffered conclusion and head
lacerations when. according to
police, she was struck street.
car and thrown by the impact into
a second streetcar as she was cross
ing Benning road at Twenty third
place.
She was taken to Casualty Hos
pital by Fire Rescue Squad No. /
Attendants today said her condition
was fair. Police said the operator
of the westbound car which struck
her was Alexander A. Satkowski
5708 Sixty-fourth avenue, East
Riverdale, Md. The operator OF the
second car was named by police
as Phillip M. Swami, Landover, Md
In another accident yesterday
Carl E. Cook, 81, Of Route l, Fairfax
Va, suffered a possible skull frac-
ture when struck by a streetcal
at Pennsylvania avenue and Sixth
street Sc. police reported. He was
admitted to Casualty Hospital and
his condition today is fair, hospita,
attendants said.
Police named the operator of the
streetcar as Clarence w. Field, 81
Of 2544 Fourteenth street NV.
Evening star., 1945-04-16
Mrs. Cox Will Be Buried
In Arlington Cemetery

Funeral services for Mrs. Laura
E. Cox, 70, widow of DR.. S. Clifford
Cox, former Washington physician,
were to be held at 2 pm. today at
the Gawler funeral home, with
burial in Arlington Cemetery. Mrs.
Cox died Friday at her home, 5410
Carolina place NV, after long
illness.
A native of Quincy. Pa, Mrs. Cox
came to Washington in 1870 and
was educated here. She formerly
was active in the order of the East
ern Star, Daughters of the American
Revolution and the Union Methodist
Church. DR.. Cox, Spanish-Ameri-
can War and World War veteran,
died in 1927.
Mrs. Cox Is survived by a son,
Clifford Cox; a daughter, Mrs.
Marjorie c. Engleman; two grand
daughters, Mrs. Patricia E. Sher-
burne and Mrs. Caroline c. Tins
man; three great-grandchildren, and
a brother, Harry N. Eiker, all of
WASHINGTON.
Evening star., 1945-04-16
Former Library Worker,
In Tokyo, Criticizes Truman

News and views of the United
States are being broadcast regularly
over Radio Tokyo by Miss Shio
Sakanishi, former chief assistant OF
the Japanese section, Orientalia
division, at the Library of Congress
She was repatriated in August, 1912
after spending the intervening
months in an internment camp in
the United States.
In a broadcast recorded by the
Federal communications Commits
sion monitor Saturday, Miss Saka-
nishi was quoted as saying President
Truman differs from Franklin D.
Roosevelt in that he docs not know
diplomacy and he is not good in
politics"
A native of Tokyo, Miss Sakanishi
came to the United States in 1922
and received a B. A. degree from
Wheaton College, Norton, Mass, in
1925 and M. A. and Phi. D. degrees
at the University of Michigan in
1925 and 1929, respectively. She was
chief assistant on the Library staff
from 1890 to the outbreak of war.
Evening star., 1945-04-16

said. His head went down a little,
but didn't ask him to look up. He
was extremely absorbed.
Il couldn't paint his face while he
was out of pose, so 1 was doing this
and that, particularly making notes
of the color and light on his face.
Then he raised his left hand to
his left temple, then to his FORE
head. and his hand went back to the
arm of the chair. Then slowly he
lay back, reclined in the chair,
slipped slightly to the left, with his
head more to the left.
Then the two cousins rushed to
him just as the butler was coming
into the room"
Mrs. Schoumatoff said she then
asked one of the Secret Service men
to call doctor. She left the Lit
tie White House without knowing
how serious was the Presidents ILL
ness. She called back from Macon,
Ga, to speak with Miss Grace Tully,
the Presidents private secretary, but
before the call went through, the
operator asked her:
Did you hear, the President is
dead?'
She said at her home that she
would work two more days to COM
plete the unfinished portrait, and
expressed the hope that it might be
placed in Mr.. Roosevelt's library at
Hyde Park.
Evening star., 1945-04-16

ters for booking rather than giving
him a ticket. Burko, who testified
he was 81 short of the IS needed to
post collateral, had to call his bonds
man for aid. Burko said he had
requested the policeman to give him
a ticket.
Judge Clagett said he had the
highest regard for Mr.. Kirkland,
Mr.. Litchtenberg and Michael Co.
bert, another attorney who testified
for Burko, but nevertheless was
compelled to find Burko guilty, since
the defendants own testimony
showed he had parked in a re-
stricted area, however briefly.
After the Judge imposed sentence
Mr.. Kirkland said, ITO show there
Is no hard feeling, we are today
giving $25 to the widows and orph-
ans fund Of the Police Depart
ment."
Evening star., 1945-04-16
District Court Closes,
Justices al Conference

All branches of District Court
were recessed this afternoon to per-
NIT the justices to attend a session
of the Judicial Conference of the
District of Columbia Circuit, which
held its regular meetings last spring.
This afternoons session was
called to consider a report of the
Committee on Administrative Law
headed by Attorney o. R. Mcclure.
Besides the justices of District
Court and the Court of Appeals,
several lawyers and special guests
were scheduled to attend. The
guests were to include Judge Will
liam H. Holley, Chicago; Judge Mil
ton J. Helmick, United States Court
for China; DR.. D. S. Chen, Chinese
judicial yuan, and Patent Commis-
sioner Conway p. Coe.
Evening star., 1945-04-16
Wife Of Navy Officer
Freed in MAYHEM Case

A mayhem charge against Mrs.
Sophie Golovin, 33, of New York,
whose husband, naval lieutenant.
is in the Bethesda Naval Hospital
with acid burns on his face. was
dismissed today by Municipal Court
Judge Walter Casey.
The charge was dismissed after
the husband, 1t. q. g. Nicholas
Golovin, 33, of 1744 P street NV,
indicated to Assistant United States
Attorney John B. Diamond, jr.. that
he did not wish to prosecute Under
the law the husband is not required
to testify against his wife.
According to police, 1t. Golovin
faced loss of his sight as a result
of the incident which took place in
front of a hotel in the 100 block OF
E street NV. Friday afternoon.
Evening star., 1945-04-16
P| an Announced
For Shifting Of
NCHA Tenants
Vacancies Sought
For Families With
Higher Incomes

Steps to transfer higher Income
tenants from public housing centers
in the District to private dwellings
were announced today by the Ma
tional Capital Housing Authority.
An agreement has been reached
between the NCHA and the War
Housing Center at Fourteenth street
and Pennsylvania avenue NV. to
register higher-income families for
vacancies in private units as soon
as such places become available.
Rentals for the private homes will
be in line with the incomes Of these
families, it was pointed out.
Already Negro tenants in NCHA
projects have been asked to reg
lister at the center for private hous-
ing If their incomes exceed $4,000
year. Other tenants have been
notified that if private buildings
become available for persons with
incomes of $4,000 or less, those who
can meet these rentals will be asked
to register.
Up to now families have been
permitted to remain in the NCHA
dwellings, despite the size of their
incomes. because private housing
was not available. 1t was pointed
out that under wartime conditions
multiple employment and higher
salaries have brought the incomes
of many families above the figure
which would normally make them
eligible for public housing.
A provision of the lease which ten
ants sign with the NCHA declares
that the agency may evict tenants
in the low-cost developments, upon
30 days notice, If their annual in
come exceeds five times the annual
rent. including the cost of utilities,
or six times the rental, if the family
includes three or more children.
Priorities for a total of 5.225 pri-
vately built Negro dwellings were
issued in 1943 and 1914 So far, 1,70O
such units have been listed for sale
or for rent The NCHA pointed out,
however. that only 947 of these have
two bedrooms and only 125 have
three bedrooms or more.
NCHA expressed the hope that
private places with rentals set for
persons earning less than $2,50O a
year will become available later.
The policy of the NCHA. as ex-
pressed at hearings before the Bur-
ton Committee of the Senate a year
ago, is to move tenants out of public
properties as rapidly as private
dwellings become available. The
agency believes that its white ten
ants will be eligible for some of the
l 500 dwellings which were recently
authorized and which are now being
built.
Evening star., 1945-04-16
Johnson to Address
Oklahoma Alumni Club

Representative Jed Johnson, DEM
ocrat, of Oklahoma, an alumnus of
the University of Oklahoma who
recently was appointed judge of
the United States Customs Court in
New York. will speak at the annual
dinner of the University's Alumni
Club at $50 pm, Thursday. The
function will be held in Pierce Hall,
Sixteenth and Harvard sts. NV.
Another speaker will be 1t. Jim
Lucas, Marine Corps combat cor
respondent, who will discuss his per-
sonal experiences in the battles of
Two Jima, Tarawa and other Pacific
campaigns.
Officers for 1945 will be elected.
Paul A. Walker, a member of the
Federal Communications Commis-
sion and president of the club, will
preside at the dinner.
Evening star., 1945-04-16
Judge, Revenue Aide
Dispute Tax Secrecy
Al Burko's Retrial

A dispute over whether income tax
information is privileged arose be-
tween Justice T. Alan Goldsborough
and deputy collector of internal
revenue today, but the court failed
to learn anything from it. The dis
pute came during the retrlal OF
Joseph r. Burko, operator OF the
Lamplighters' Club, who is charged
with receiving stolen gasoline
coupons.
DO YOU know whether the Treas
ury Department ever received a bad
check from Mr.. Burko?" James r.
Kirkland, attorney for Burko. asked
the witness, Leonard w. Walker,
the deputy collector.
Previous witnesses had testified
that Burko had given checks written
on insufficient funds.
Il can't answer that Mr.. Walker
said.
He cited Internal Revenue regu-
lations and said he had consulted
with his superiors as to what he
could answer before he came to
court.
"The court orders you to answer
the question" Justice Goldsborough
said, You are not responsible for
court order"
Mr.. Walker asked to be excused
until he could consult the Commis-
sioner of Internal Revenue.
DO you understand, sir?" said
Justice Goldsborough with evident
ire" that you are in contempt of
court if you did not answer and
that you can be jailed?"
The witness stammered that he
did not want to 60 to jail. BY
this time a United States marshal
was standing at his shoulder.
We'll, 1 can say this without
telling a lie," Mr.. Walker finally
said
II don't know"
Evening star., 1945-04-16
CoI.OIverRecitesJop JopAtrocities
To Inform Religious Press
Idea Of Nipponese Reocting Like Civilized
Humans Must Be Corrected, He Declares

pointing to the conditions and re-
questing help under the Articles Of
the Geneva Convention. The Japa-
nese commander became furious and
Chaplain Oliver quotes him as say
ing:
Japan did not sign the Geneva
Convention. I hate you Ameri-
cans and will always hate you. The
only thing am interested in is
when one of you dies, then III see
that you bury him"
Evening star., 1945-04-16
Tonight Is Filing DeadIine
On MARYLAND Income Taxes

BALTIMORE, April 16-Midnight
tonight is the deadline for filing
State income tax returns, but no
closing rush of taxpayers was ex-
pected.
Deputy State Controller Joseph
O'C. McCusker estimated that the
Baltimore official would handle
about 1000 returns today, a figure
comparable to those handled sew
eral days last week.
Previously Mr.. McCusker had re-
ported that more people were filing
we'll in advance Of the deadline
this year than y the past.
Evening star., 1945-04-16
Milk Price Hearing
0pensWith Producers
Asking ACCENT Boost

A joint hearing by the War Food
Administration and the Virginia
Milk Commission opened today on
proposed changes for the Federal
milk marketing order for this area,
with producers driving for 49 cents
a-hundred-pound increase in their
milk.
Bruce B. Derrick, secretary treas
urer of the Maryland and Virginia
Milk Producers Association, which
is spearheading the move for an
increase, at the outset of the hear
ing, held in the United States Cham
ber of Commerce, proposed that
Alexander and Arlington County be
brought under the present market
ing order.
He testified that the change would
not abrogate the authority of the
Virginia Milk Commission but
rahter would be to the best interests
of all concerned. The Federal mar
keting order and any existing State
order would be operated jointly, he
said.
In a statement handed reporters
before the opening of the hearing
Mr. Derrick declared:
The producers of the milk sup
ply for metropolitan Washington
find themselves in the unfortunate
position of having only one end o:
the so-called hold the line order
to hold, and that has been their enc
of the line Their price increases
for milk have Jagged behind Their
costs of producing milk
The producers spokesman asked
why should a farmer, except fol
patriotic reasons, continue to pro-
duce milk. when he can increase hi!
financial position by shift to other
crops, such as eggs, chickens, hogs
beef cattle, corn and wheat?"
It is considered likely, however
that some subsidy arrangement
would be ordered by the Government
should VITA decide that producer.
require the price increase.
The producers association cites
labor and feed cost increases in re-
cent years as the basis for its claim
Milk producers in the Washington
milkshed are now receiving subsidy
of 80 cents per 100 pounds as a re.
suit of droughts which cut dowr
feed supplies in Eastern States, thus
forcing the importation" of feed.
Evening star., 1945-04-16
Mrs. A. P. Douglas Rites
To Be Held Tomorrow

Funeral services for Mrs. Marjorie
Ewing Douglas, ~, a resident of
the District for 10 years, who died
Saturday in her home, 2230 Thir-
teenth street NE, will be held at
2 pm. tomorrow in the Hines
funeral home. Burial will be in
Washington National Cemetery,
Suitland, Nd
A native Of Wintergreen, Va, she
was the wife of Arthur P. Douglas,
an employe of Internal Revenue
Bureau.
Besides her husband she leaves
daughter, Mary Angela, Z, and
two brothers, Garnet Ewing, South
Boston, Va. and Malcolm Ewing,
Charleston. S, C.
Evening star., 1945-04-16
Two Stray Pigs Found
In Alley by Housewife

The meat situation may eventually
be solved for Mrs. r. j. Donaldson,
1926 Asbury place NV. While walk
ing in an alley behind her home
yesterday she encountered two fat
little pigs wandering around unes-
corted, and the police said that if
no one claims them in six months,
she can have them.
The pigs didn't know what it was
all about, but Mrs. Donaldson did.
She grabbed them and called police
Now the pigs, each weighing about
20 pounds. are awaiting an owner
at the District pound. They are be-
heved to have wandered in from
Maryland.
IF I ever get them I'll fatten them
up and then my icebox will be full, +"
Mrs. Donaldson said, hopefully.
Evening star., 1945-04-16
Pay Increase
Given Per Diem
D. {. Employees
Boost of 8 to 48 Cents
Is Effective Today
For 1000 Workers

An estimated 2,7OO TO SUN per
diem employees of the District will
receive an increase in pay ranging
from 8 to 48 cents a day, the Com
missionerS announced today.
The increases became effective the
first pay period after today and will
cost the District more than 100000
a year. The pay day for per diem
employees varies in different depart
ments.
Capt. H. C. Whitehurst, director
of highways and chairman of the
Wage Board, said the increases
granted per diem employees since
1897 were now $1.12 for most classi-
fcations of workers and $l.24 for
mechanics. Another increase was
granted to the per diem workers in
1912.
Capt. Whitehurst said another
Every important" step authorized by
Commissioners was provision for
stepping up grades of per diem
workers every IL months instead Of
every 18 months as at present.
Capt. Whitehurst, whose board
has had the wage problem under
consideration for several months,
said that IS per cent of the per diem
employees were in the engineers de-
partment, and that mechanical
workers, who got only slight in
creases before. got most of the in
creases this time. The new sched-
ule is designed to bring per diem
workers in line with increases that
regular annual employees have re-
ceived under overtime provisions.
AS for complaints received from
per diem employees several months
ago about working conditions, Capt.
Whitehurst said that they were ad-
ministrative matters, and that the
question of whether per diem en-
ployes worked 40 or 48 hours a week
was up to the department heads and
the Commissioners.
Evening star., 1945-04-16

it was said business was no heavier
than during the past week.
The deadline for paying the taxes
at the collectors office in the Dis
trict Building is 4:45 pm. today and
the deadline for mailing is midnight
tonight. Through last Friday more
than a million dollars of tax money
had been received out of more than
s4,0O0,000 expected at this time
Although all tax returns must be
in today to avoid penalties, only
half of the taxes are due, the bal
ance being payable october Is.
Evening star., 1945-04-16
DAV to Orqunize Chapter

A meeting will be held at Jesup
Blair Community House. Silver
Spring, at 8 pm. Thursday to organ
ize chapter of the Disabled Ameri-
can Veterans. Col. D. r. Wolver-
ton, commander of Silver Spring
Chapter, No. 4, DAV, may be
reached at Wisconsin 7254 or Dis
trict 4460 by interested persons.
Evening star., 1945-04-16
Bob Evans to Speak

Bob Evans, radio news commenta-
tor, will be the guest speaker at a
meeting of the Silver Spring Board
of Trade at pm. Wednesday at
the Indian Spring Country Club.
The Johns Hopkins Choral Group
will sing.
Evening star., 1945-04-16

Although there were no un-
usual lines at his Office today as the
deadline approached for paying Dis
trict income taxes, Tax Collector
Guy Pearson said that more than
u sacks of mail, holding $4,000
letters containing returns, had been
received.
There was a line of 100 or more
persons waiting to get help in filling
out their tax returns at the District
Building, but at the collectors office
Evening star., 1945-04-16
Engineers Society to Meet

Kenneth w. Maxwell, assistant
commissioner Of the Bureau Of Rec
lamation, will discuss the postwar
program of that organization at a
meeting Of the Washington Society
Of Engineers at 8:l5 pm. Wednes-
day In the Cosmos Club, Madison
place and Il street NV.
Evening star., 1945-04-16

Brutalities of the Japanese toward
Americans they held prisoners in the
Philippines are described by Col.
Alfred C. Oliver, jr., Army chaplain,
in an article he has prepared for
distribution by the Office of the chief
of chaplains to the religious press of
the United States.
Col. Oliver, whose home is at 1920
Floral street NV, was one of those
held at the prison camp for two
years and eight months. Three times
he was beaten insensible by the jap
anese and on another occasion he
was struck blow on the back of the
neck which cracked a vertebra.
However, he mentions none of his
own injuries in the account he has
written, the purpose of which he
states as follows: This idea of the
japanese reacting like normal civ
ilized human beings must be cor
rected in the minds of the average
world citizen
Cites Specific Cases.
Among the examples of japanese
brutality he cites is the following:
When the Japanese guards
wished to punish severely one of the
American prisoners of war, they
would strip him to only G string
and then tie him up by his wrists
outside of their guardhouse which
was at the main prison camp gate
oil tho yoyyh1ic rNoi
Here, as the Filipino country
women came walking by, on their
way to market balancing baskets of
garden stuff on their heads, the
japanese guards would require them
to stop, remove their baskets, bow,
and then compel them to beat the
American prisoners hanging there.
For this purpose they provided a
4-foot- long. 2-inch-thick green bam-
boo cudgel. Many a woman cried
Historically as she was forced to
strike these helpless men, but when
ever she did not hit as hard as the
japanese guards thought she should,
she was punished by being severely
beaten herself"
Other Brutalities.
In another place Col. Oliver says:
THE general attitude of the jap
anese soldier toward all Filipino
women was cruel and domineering.
I" AS the sick and starving
prisoners were marched through
Filipino barrios these women risked
their lives repeatedly to relieve their
suffering by handing out a dipper
OF water, piece of sugar cane
candy, or small ball OF cooked rice.
Because of these acts of mercy
we have seen young girls and old
women beaten cruelty by the Jap
anese guards with the butts of their
rifles. One woman, large with child,
was bayoneted through the abdo-
men and left along the road writh-
ing in horrible death agony"
Col. Oliver tells of the lack of
water for the prisoners at Camp
ODonnell who survived the Bataan
death march. Only one water faucet
was available.
Never Enough Water.
During the first six weeks, when
1,700 men died, there was never
sufficient water. Practically
every one in camp was burning with
fever -"
The senior American Army doctor
and Col. Oliver wrote . joint letter
to the Japanese camp commander