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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-08-19
Alcoholism Workers
Enroll for Traininq
As Special Nurses

Fifty-four Alcoholics Anonymous
members have enrolled in a pre-
liminary nursing training course,
comparable to that run by the
American Red Cross, to implement
the nursing corps of District hos
pitfalls willing to accept alcoholic
patients on the basis of this as
sistance. The enrolment was an
nounced yesterday William Esco-
vaille, chairman of Alcoholics
Anonymous Committee of the
Health Departments Clinic for
Alcoholism.
Mr.. Escovaille was one of a group
OF leading District citizens who at
tended a meeting Friday with a
view to organizing a citywide COM
mittee on alcoholism. The meeting
was held at the home of Mrs. George
c. Thorpe, chairman of the Women's
Safety Committee of the American
Automobile Association, at 2l39
Wyoming avenue NV.
The gathering listed as its obiec-
tives the dissemination of informa-
ton relating to the problem of
alcoholism, the support of clinics
for alcoholics and the development
OF a comprehensive program for the
education and treatment of alco-
holics.
Mrs. Thorpe announced that at a
second meeting to be held next
month the group will decide the
form of its incorporation.
Those attending the initial meet
ing, in addition to Mrs. Thorpe and
Mr.. Escovaille, were Daniel L. Seek
niger, District deputy health officer
DR.. Michael Miller, st. Elizabeths
Hospital psychiatrist in charge OF
the Clinic for Alcoholism. DR.. Ruth
Stocking of the District Public
Health Service: Capt. Rhoda Milf
ken, chief of the Metropolitan Po-
lice Departments Women's Bureau
the Rev. Francis McPeek, assistant
director OF the Yale School of AL
coholic Studies; Charles Morris
secretary of the corrections division
OF the Council of Social Agencies
and Paul Hennessey, Miss Esthe,
Prager and Mrs. James Thorpe
Powell.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-08-19
Woman, sc, Killed in Fall
Down Sidewalk Stairway

Mrs Mary Rye, IS, of 1864 Nebras-
ka avenue NV, was fatally injured
yesterday when she missed her foot
ing and fell down a flight of 10
concrete steps leading from Nebras-
ka avenue to Grant road NV, &C
cording to police.
Two of her sons, Archie M. Rye
and Charles Russell Rye. both OF
Washington, were with her at the
time of the accident.
Mrs. Rye was a native of WASH
ington and the widow of Alfred
Rye, gardener. She was a member
of the Eldbrooke Methodist Church.
Also surviving are a third son,
Robert Rye. of Silver Spring, Md.
and two daughters, Mrs Mamie
johnson and Mrs. Katherine Collins,
of Washington, Is grandchildren
and great grandchildren. Funeral
arrangements have not yet been
COMPLETED.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-08-19
BY JULIA EDWARDS.

Everyone had something special
to celebrate last night at the fifth
annual picnic of the Arkansas Ave-
nue. Citizens Association.
Was it victory over Japan?
Not exactly. Few talked about
that. Those who did seemed worried
that Japan has not yet put it's sig
nature to the terms of peace
The youngsters and oldsters eat
ing hot dogs at long tables in the
garden of Judge and Mrs. James
S. Y. WINS home at 1901 Gallatin
street NV. looked singularly un-
touched by the long war.
Would the end of a war make Sc
much difference in their lives?
OF course, it meant something to
LIST 1t. Harry Reiter, of New York
balancing his plate on the edge of
a swimming pool. This bronze star
winner of the 7th Armored Ghost
Division directed artillery from a
Piper Cub over France, Holland
Belgium and Germany.
But how would it change the
placid life of the white haired lady
with the lace collar?
Well" she smiled, my grandson
and my great-grandson will be COM
ing home"
Served on Franklin.
Mrs. Sarah Newell, 90, of 1903
Delafield place NV, spoke softly of
her grandson, Comdr. Lyman T
Newell, survivor of the enemy at
tack on the carrier Franklin, which
was severely damaged, and of his
son. Thomas Newell, aviation ma
chinist mate 1/c. assigned to anothe,
carrier in the same task force.
We are expecting Lyman to call
us from California any day now"
The youthful looking matron in
the black and yellow dress Joined
the conversation. She was Mrs
Newell. the commanders wife.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-08-19
Arkansas Avenue Citizens Turn
Picnic Into Special Celebration

He wrote us that the only way
he could describe the sinking was as
just plain hell" she said.
Fred L. Morgan, 1926 Emerson
street NV, an automobile dealer
wasn't thinking about the automo-
biles he will get to sell. More i'm
portant, Sergt. Charles C. Morgan
%, of the 18th Air Force, has ar
rived in British Guiana on his way
home from Italy.
rs there any practical use for
a German helmet" Mrs. Isabel A
Thompson, 1884 Farragut street
NV, asked conversationally. Her
son, Pvt. Franklin Thompson
brought a trunk load of souvenirs
back from Germany.
Tells of Grandson.
Il have a l7-year-old too" she
said. I've kept an anxious eye
cooked on his 18th birthday. Now
I won't mind Pauls serving in
peacetime."
Between SpoonSful of ice cream
from paper cup, Mrs. Elizabeth G
Mcknight, SOILS Fourteenth street
NV. proudly informed her neigh
bors her grandson, LIST 1t. Page BOYD
Pratt. has gained so pounds since
he was released from a German
prison camp.
When the President announced
the Japs had surrendered, we jus,
put out the flag and went over tc
church right away to offer up 9
few prayers" she said. ....
After dinner. the fun began. TIL.
200 guests took part in a pie-ea tins
contest, ran potato races and played
games.
They sang: In the Garden o.
Tomorrow
They knew that before next YEAR.
picnic, Tom and Charles and Frank
would be home in the garden with
them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-08-19

center will be launched by the COM
mittee as soon as members of the
Washington Hotel Association find
it possible to accommodate this post
war business, Mr.. Morris said.
Before the war, the Greater Ma
tional Capital Committee helped
bring an estimated 1000, 900 tourists
and convention delegates to WASH
ington in one year, and even larger
numbers may be expected when the
millions of men and women in the
Armed Forces return home and the
transportation emergency ends, he
declared.
McLachlin Heads Drive.
: Mr.. Morris announced the ap-
pointment of A. M. McLachlen, vice
president and treasurer of the Nc
Lachlen Banking Corp, as chair
man, and Clarence G.. Sheffield
president of Julius Garfinckel &
Co. Inc, as vice chairman for the
1916 campaign fund for the COM
mittee This fund will finance the
promotion campaign, among its 9TH
er projects, Mr.. Morris said.
Mr.. McLachlen served as vice
chairman of the 1945 campaign
which brought in almost TOO con.
tributions totaling more than $751;
900. This sum includes funds fol-
the employment of convention
manager for the committee as soor
as the removal of travel restrictions
and the ease of hotel accommoda-
tons warrant it.
Former president of the Chevy
Chase Citizens Association, Mr.. Nc.
Lachlen also served as president Of
the District Bankers Association ir
1910. He is president of the Colum.
bia Country Club, a director of the
Washington Better Business Bureau
treasurer of the Washington Society
for the Blind, and has been active
in Community War Fund and Dis.
trict Red Cross campaigns.
Sheffield Is Newcomer.
Mr.. Shefiield, who will be asso.
ciated with the committee for tn,
first time this year, is serving fol
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-08-19
Trade Board Ready
To Boost Washington
As Tourist Center

Repeal Of convention travel re-
strictions finds the Greater National
Capital Committee of the Washing
ton Board of Trade already organ
lied to resume a most active pro-
gram, Chairman Edgar Morris de-
clared yesterday.
Nationwide promotion to present
the attractions of Washington as a
convention city and tourist travel
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-08-19
Model Who Recites Shaw Scene
Wins Miss Washington Contest
Dorothy Powell, n,
Is One-Eiehth Indion;
Seeks Stage Coreer
BY JOSEPH YOUNG.

In what probably was the first and
last time that George Bernard Shaw
ever was mixed UP in beauty con-
test, 2l-year-old Dorothy Powell, a
model and one-eighth Cherokee In
dian, yesterday was selected as Miss
Washington of 1945.
No doubt the venerable Irish play
wright would like to know that the
judges were sufficiently impressed by
her recitation of the courtroom scene
of his play, "St. Joan," as well as
her face and figure, to award her the
beauty crown.
Unlike the other eight finalists,
who sang for the assembled throng
in front of the District Building
Miss Powell, a brunette with a mil
lion-dollar face and figure, chose to
be different and recited scene from.
the Shaw opus.
Speaks in Velvet Robe.
While streetcars changed along
Pennsylvania avenue and cars
honked along Fourteenth street, Miss
Powell spoke the tragic but stirring
words of the condemned French
heroine. Jeanne dare. Before doing
so she covered her shapely figure
with a black velvet robe.
Runner-up was Seneva Knutson,
a 20-year-old blond clerk in the
Agriculture Department. Miss
Knutson, who lives at 1941 Bilt-
more street NV, sang MY Baby
Said Yes" as her part in the con-
test.
Many servicemen witnessed the
contest and good share of them
had cameras and snapped pictures.
One sailor viewed the proceedings
through a pair of binoculars.
Lives With Sisters.
The men backed their individual
favorites with yells. The girls and
women in the crowd were silent for
the most part, except when the YER
dict was announced. Then several
were heard to remark: What has
she got that I havent?"
Miss Powell, who lives with two
older sisters at BIS Eighteenth
street NV, is employed as a model
at Rink Bros, Connecticut ave-
nue. dress shop. Mostly she models
negligees, she said.
For the statistical minded, Miss
Powell is feet inches tall, weighs
lis pounds, has a 35-inch bust, a
23-inch waist, 35-inch hips, 21-inch
thigh, 13-inch calf and size 6 shoe.
She has an olive complexion and
brown eyes.
Has Boy Friend.
She also has a boy friend. He's
an attache at the American En-
bassy in London. When he returns
here next month there may be we'd
ding bells, but Miss Powell isn't
committing herself. A possible ca
reer, you know, and besides, since
husbands disqualify candidates at
Atlantic City, romance has to wait.
Miss Powell halls from Wetumka,
Okla, and has been here two years.
Prior to coming here, she spent six
months in New York as hat model
for Lily Daehe. esSeys
While Miss Powell is proud of
her Cherokee strain, she wants the
world to know she is seven
eighths Irish.
Washington's newest beauty queen
longs for a career in the legitimate
theater. When someone mentioned
Hollywood, she wrinkled her pretty
nose and said: Not for me. Too
much cheesecake and wild living"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-08-19

and the uncertainty Of rail and
hotel service, he said.
Before the war, the sightseeing
companies were making something
like q quarter of q million visitors
capitai-conscious each year. known
as the sightseeing capital Of the
Nation then, Washington soon will
become the sightseeing capital OF
the world for thousands Of persons
kept close to home during the war
years, the men who run the show
believe.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-08-19
Wins w. & M. Scholarship

Eric D. Brown, 2810 twenty Third
street, North, Arlington, has been
awarded the Joseph Prentice schol-
arship at the College of William
and Mary, Williamsburg, Va. The
award is made each year to the
third ranking student in the college.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-08-19
Rubberneck Bus Impresorios
Prepare for CAPITAL WindfoU

expensive jaunts to California and
the Rockies in the summer or to
Mexico and Cuba in the winter.
But the tours to Mount Vernon.
Williamsburg and jamestown, and
the junkets around Washington
made famous by Blue and Grey,
will live on under new management.
The charter for those routes, as
well as the Skyline drive in Vir-
ginia and the trips to Annapolis and
Laurel race track, are now in the
hands of the Potomac River Lines,
Inc.
No Equipment Yet.
The company has no equipment
right now and may have to charter
buses for while, but its prospectus
calls for the purchase of IS specially
built 42-passenger buses, said r. H.
Lalebee, general manager.
I'm addition, we propose to buy
a new 3,500-passenger, four-deck
steamer to replace the s. s. Potomac
for excursions on the river" he said.
Another veteran conductor of the
gaping gentry, Chester M. Atwood,
is all set for two or three years of
the biggest sightseeing rush WASH
ington ever saw"
Mr.. Atwood, who started hauling
the bug-eyed brigade in 1914, has
five new $4,000 buses coming in
next week, each 29-passenger job
to augment the two buses and
dozen 12-passenger limousines now
on hand.
Hauled Soldiers During War.
Mr.. Atwood kept alive during the
war years by hauling soldiers and
thus has equipment in better shape
than some of the other operators
for quick change-over to sight,
seeing.
Among other things, Mr.. Atwood
will offer, in the lexicon of the true
Snowman. "the most extensive, edi-
flying and enlightening all-day tour
of the Nations Capital for $5.75-
sights it would take a week to see
If you would attempt it alone"
Almost all the tour tycoons Offer
the same trips. One is a no-stor
glimpse of the city's high-spots-
monuments, Government buildings
embassies, ETC., taking up to :
hours and covering about 20 miles
for $1.50 or 50. Another is the ain.
terror tour" through the White
House, Smithsonian Institution, the
Bureau Of Engraving and Printing
Capitol, Supreme Court and Library
Of Congress about hours and two
bucks.
Has Is Limousines.
p. j. Clancy, who has sent gawkers
on their happy ways from the May
flower Hotel for Is years, has Il
limousines ready to make the rounds
as soon as things are Strengthened
out" During the war Mr.. Clancy
has hired out his machines for essen.
tiai Government use, such as the
State DEPARTMENTS transportation
of official guests.
Like the others, Louis H. Curr,
of Capital Transit Co., is lookin1
forward to the days when high
school graduates will flock back t.
town for spring tours. However, i
will be some time before the transit
company resumes its chartered
tours because Of the tire ehortag,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-08-19
BY HERMAN F. SCHADEN,

"And on my left, ladies and gen.
tlemen, the Washington Monument
that colossal memorial to the
first President - massive
finger of 81, 100 tons of stone reach
ing SIS feet and SIS inches into
the blue sky from its win
dows, 500 feet above the ground
can be seen the entire District of
Columbia. and parts of Maryland
and Virginia are visible in breath
taking panorama"
Not yet, ladies and gentlemen,
but soon. And when these words
slip from the elastic tongues of the
worlds most erudite spielers, total
reconversion will have come to
Washington, sightseeing Capital of
the Nation.
AS enthusiastic as the leather
,lunged lads who guide tourists
through the Capitals splendors,
sightseeing magnates yesterday be-
gan preparing for the biggest cpl
derflic of rubber necking since the
advent of the horseless carriage.
Million Dollar Enterprise.
They had it straight from the
Office of Defense Transportation
that the bars were down for re-
sumption of one of the Capitals
biggest industries ST.
000, 000-a-year enterprise.
But it won't be as easy as that
Before the buses and big limousines
can tour the city and nearby points
of historical interest in quantity
such items as tire shortage, man.
power adjustment and normal flow
of railroad traffic must be straight
ened out.
Some old-time sightseeing i'm
pressarios thought it would take q
year to put the gander indsutry
back on its wheels and the pros
porous position it enjoyed before
the lid was clamped on in June
1912.
rs "Gander" Firms.
At that time some Is firms, big
and little, were operating from all
parts of the city. Daddy of them
all was Blue and Grey Sightseeing
Tours, Inc, which operated from
1417 Pennsylvania avenue NV.
with William L. Bush as the guild
ing hand.
When the crash came, Mr.. Bush
quietly closed shop, sold his 81
buses and 10 limousines to the Her.
cules Powder Plant at Radford (Va.)
and went into Red Cross work. Thus
was dissolved a business which was
born March 4, 1913-the day OF
President Wilson's first Inaugural
tion-when Mr.. Bush's father, Louis
placed the first two buses on the
streets.
BY the time the war came along
the company was graduating" 10O,-
600 visitors year from their 81
courses in painless education on the
capitals wonders.
Bush to Branch Out.
Mr.. Bush is back at his desk now
mapping his own reconversion plans
On September Is he will launch the
Bush Travel Service Agency at iass
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-08-19
Bush to Branch Out.

MIR. Bush is back at his desk now
mapping his own reconversion plans.
On September Is he will launch the
Bush Travel Service Agency at 1888
street NV. Instead OF escorting
visitors around the capital, his tas'-
will be to arrange tours for tired
government workers who want in
Evening star., 1945-05-13

-,
shortly after it had been moved out
of the Capitol to its present quarters.
During the next Is years he, with
the late j. c. M. Hanson, laid out
the Library's present system of
classified ton, which has made it a
model for libraries throughout this
country and many others.
From 1912 to 1880, Mr.. Martel was
chief of the catalogue division. He
was invited in 1928 by the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace
to join with William Warner Bishop
and Mr.. Hanson in forming a COM
mission to plan and establish a
central card catalogue of the printed
book collections of the Vatican Lii
brary, which eventually served to
introduce American library methods
in Europe.
Mr.. Martel was retired in 1890,
but has been retained because of his
technical knowledge as a profess
sional consultant. His knowledge of
all the modern European languages
made him especially valuable in
classifying foreign books.
In circular announcing his re-
tirement, Luther H. Evans, acting
librarian, described him as without
peer in any American library for
his remarkable combination of bib
biographical, technical and linguistic
erudition, as well as his extreme
readiness, without regard to formal
hours, to help others find their way
A son, Ronnie Martel, is en-
ployed in the Patent Office.
Evening star., 1945-05-13
Masonic Thrill Night
Planned June y at
Griffith Stadium

The eighth annual Masonic Night
of Thrills will be presented June
% at Griff1th Stadium.
The program will include a base
ball game between pm. and pm,
followed by a Commute intermis-
sion, military and Masonic drill,
and crowning of the Queen of the
Pageant. There will be a War Bond
display. Frank Wirth's Circus, and
grand finale involving several sur
prise numbers"
The affair is benefit for the
Masonic and Eastern Star Home
5000 New Hampshire avenue NV.
The pageant's queen will be Sc
lected June 9.
Sponsored by the Masonic fra
ternity and Order of the Eastern
Star, the program is being planned
by a committee headed by Harry
Rod, general chairman. Others
heading the general arrangements
work include: Roger B. Fewell, vice
chairman; Wilfred Seal, publicity
chairman of the Masonic Commit
tee: Mrs. Alice B. Sheriff, chairman
OF the Eastern Star Committee, as
sisted by John D. Garner, vice
chairman, and Mrs. Icie M. Keadle
publicity chairman.
Others on the Night of Thrills
Committee are Harold E. Nixon, ad.
Evening star., 1945-05-13
Doctor Serves
GoNinger Food
As Maid Quits

Discharging a maid last week
forced doctor and two nurses on
one of the floors of the tuberculosis
section of Gallinger Hospital to
serve food and clean trays, it was
said at the hospital yesterday.
The United States Employment
Service has promised to have q
maid on duty tomorrow, and an
orderly was provided yesterday to
help out
DR.. Sol Katz, in charge of the sec
ton, and two nurses helped out after
a maid left on complaint of pa
tients.
DR.. Daniel l.. Seckinger, acting
superintendent of the hospital, said
the incident pointed to the acute
personnel shortage that has existed
at the institution for more than
year He said a recommendation
that nurses salaries be raised from
S1,620 a year to $1,000 a year had
been turned over to the Commis-
sioners, who have asked the Civil
Service Commission to investigate.
The study has been completed, it
was said, and the commission is
expected to report shortly.
Evening star., 1945-05-13
Reconversion Report
By Vinson Raped by
.CI0 as Inadequate

The CIO charged last night that
the recent report of War Mobiliza-
ton Director Vinson on The War:
Phase Two" shows insufficient de-
velopment by the ONCE of War Mo-
bilization and Reconversion of its
responsibility for full employment
and continued mass purchasing
power"
Ted F. Silvey, chairman of the
C1O Reconversion Committee, de-
clared that the armed forces prop
erly" are planning for long war
in the Pacific, and that unless there
is similar planning on the domestic
side for the possibility of early sur
render of the Japs there might be
economic Illustration and mass un-
employment"
The VinSon document mirrors
only the narrow interests of each
of the war agencies" Mr.. Silvey
stated, without the overall per-
spective which the War Mobiliza ton
and Reconversion Act requires that
Director Vinson take in the interest
VI tIle WnOle NaLlOn.
Sees Scramble for Goods.
Government plans to release con-
troll of residual portion of
metals for sale in free market"
he said, would result in a scramble
by the powerful, the wealthy, the
spectators and the boodlers to OBJ
tain this material for making luxury
and high-priced goods at the ex-
pense of making essential civilian
goods at controlled prices"
Mr.. Silvey said the Vinson report
gives no cognizance to the possible
deep cutbacks and cancellation of
war orders right now being deter
mined by the military which are
about to descend on the country in
d rushing flood of unemployment. "
He added that it measures produc-
ton cutbacks of the next few
months at 10 to Is per cent which
every informed person in Washing
ton knows is an inaccurate and
thoroughly discredited figure"
Charges, 'Pollyanna" Attitude.
He accused Mr.. Vinson of main
tanning the 'Pollyanna" attitude
that unemployment will somehow
or other work out all right if we
don't talk much about it."
In contrast to the huge reserves
that corporations have accumulated
to tide them over, Mr.. Silvey said
workers with lost wages are offered
only the "monstrous inadeouacy of
State unemployment laws -"
The document gives the Gus
tomary lip service to the alleged
backlog of deferred purchasing
power he said, ignoring that a
great portion of this backlog is not
consumer buying power at all, but
investment capital, and that the
portion which is in the hands of
the middle class and working people
will be immobilized because the
layoffs and dismissals from war jobs
will require this money to be spent
for rent, food and clothing bills
while workers are without regular
pay checks"
Evening star., 1945-05-13

vertising; Edwin c. Green. tickets;
Edwin C. Wilson, programs; T. Le-
Roy Grear, queen; Edward Cox,
pageant: John B. Colburn, jr.. ush-
ers: John C. Nuidermair, grounds;
Irvine Billheimer, transportation,
and w. M. Sheppard, refreshments.
The Masonic Committee is headed
by Paul r. Mattix, most worshipful
grand master: Granville Guide, pres
ident, Masters Association, and Os-
wald L. Bluege. vice president, while
the Order of Eastern Star is headed
by Mrs. Charlotte Spencer, worthy
grand matron: Robert Riley, worthy
grand patron; Mrs. Evelyn Clark,
president, Grand Matron's and
Patrons Association, 1945, and Mrs.
Roger Craley, vice president.
The Eastern Star Committee in
cludes Roger Craley, advertising;
George RoWZee, tickets: Mrs. Kath-
crime Ryder, programs; Mrs. Frances
Smith, queen; Frank zsakany,
pageant; Mrs. Mildred Gage, ushers;
Frank Wyatt, grounds: Walter
Rubenstein, transportation, and
Mrs. Margie Chapman, entertain
ment of home folks.