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Evening star., 1945-10-25
Richmond-D DC. Bus Route
Shortened by Changes

The bus route between Richmond
and the District was shortened and
Strengthened yesterday when the
Virginia State Corporation Commis-
sion granted two certificates Of pub
lie convenience to the Richmond
Greyround Lines, Inc, at a hearing
in Richmond.
The changes allow buses to run
from Woodbridge north over the
Henry G. Shirley Memorial high
way to the Pentagon and from -Four
Mile Fork, 4 miles south of Fred
ericksburg, through that city via
alternate Highway No. l to the new
bridge at the boundary line be-
tween Fredericksburg and the STAFF
ford County line.
Evening star., 1945-10-25
County Charter Group
Reports on Voting Survey

Home owners in Montgomery
County are most interested in voting
than are apartment dwellers or
house renters. the County Charter
Committee found after q survey.
Many women, although long
time" residents, have never voted,
the study showed.
The committee found that in
Silver Spring, 80 per cent of those
eligible to vote are registered. Nearly
the same percentage was reported
in the old section of Takoma Park.
In one precinct of Takoma Park
half of the citizens were not reg
istered.
The group also concluded that
most Federal employees prefer to vote
in their own States.
Evening star., 1945-10-25
Four Washington Men
Decorated by French

-Four Washington men were among
Is American Army officers decorated
by French Gen. Joseph Koenig at
United States headquarters in
Frankfurt, Germany, the Associated
Press reported today.
Among the generals awarded the
Legion OF Honor, degree of officer
were Maj. Gen. Harold r. Bull of
zoos Columbia road NV. and Maj
Gen. Albert w. Kenner of 1925
Rodman street NV.
Awarded the Legion Of Honor
degree of Chevalier, were Col. Frank
F. Ringland of 4801 Connecticut
avenue and 1t. Col. Cooper B.
Rhodes of 2301 Cathedral avenue
NV.
Gen. Kenner has been one of
the most decorated medical officers
in the Army. He holds the Dis
tinguished Service Medal for his
organization and direction of the
task force which landed in Morocco
as part of the North African in
vasion. He also holds the Dis
tinguished Service Cross, the Silver
Star, the Purple Heart and other
medals.
Gen. Bull, So, is deputy chief OF
staff under Gen. Eisenhower, with
whom he has served throughout the
European campaign. Col. Ringland
81, served as inspector general OF
the 18th Army under Gen. Bradley
At present he is chief of the in
vesHgations division of the Inspec-
tor General Department of the
Army.
Besides his Army decorations, Col
Ringland has been decorated by the
French, British and Luxembourg
governments.
Evening star., 1945-10-25
Grows
For One Deal on
{. Capitol Land
House Group Indicates
PiecemeoI Buying
Is Bad Business
BY RUDOLPH KAUFFMANN II.


House Public Buildings and
Grounds Committee support of a
move to purchase the complete tract
of land needed for the future de-
velopment of East Capitol street in
one transaction appeared likely
today.
During testimony by w. E. Rey-
nolds, public buildings commissioner,
and Maj. Gen. U. s. Grant III,
chairman of the National Capital
Park and Planning Commission,
committee members showed plainly
they look upon the wholesale rather
than piecemeal purchase of East
Capitol street land for future Gov
ernment use as a good business
proposition.
The land would be that not
already in Government ownership
stretching from the Capitol to the
Anacostia River between B streets
NE. and Sc.
Not Yet Authorized.
Intent to place future Government
buildings in this area is written into
the administrations Federal build
ings bill. now the subject of COM
mittee hearings, but the language
does not at present authorize pur-
chase of the land.
A move to authorize wholesale
purchase may come about through
rewording of the bill or new legis-
lation.
The bill would authorize con-
struction of s170,000,000 worth OF
buildings in and near the District
sl93, 100000 worth outside the Dis
trict and provide an eligible list OF
S581 100000 worth of buildings out
side the District for future construc-
ton.
Representative Bell, Democrat, of
Missouri asked Mr.. Reynolds today
If piecemeal purchase of land in the
area would not tend to raise the
eventual cost.
Quote Past Experience.
Mr.. Reynolds responded it would,
and both he and Gen. Grant quoted
past experience in District land
purchase where costs jumped as
soon as the Government began pur-
chasing or building in a given area
Representative Savage, Democrat
OF Washington asked if it would
not be better to buy land now in
stead of constructing new buildings
Mr.. Reynolds said the buildings
were too badly needed to justify
such a change of emphasis.
Mr.. Reynolds, who advocated i'm
mediate purchase of the East Cap
itol street tract yesterday, reiterated
today the necessity of reimbursing
the District for taxes on property
purchased but not Immediately de-
veloped
He said that residents should con-
tinue to occupy. on a lease basis
property purchased by the Govern
ment until new buildings are con-
structed.
Testimony tomorrow may deal
with the price of the entire tract
Evening star., 1945-10-25

and a softball game in the afternoon
Wreaths will be placed on the
John Paul Jones monument In
Potomac Park at II am. Saturday
in connection with Navy Day cere-
monies here.
Will Place Wreaths.
Approximately 65 veterans, pa
triotic and civic organizations will
place wreaths on the monument
following that placed by Navy Nurse
1t. Eldene Page on behalf of the
Secretary of the Navy.
Rear Admiral william N. Thomas,
chief of Navy chaplains, will open
the ceremony with an invocation
Admiral Thomas L. Catch, judge
advocate general of the Navy, will
speak.
A crack platoon of women Ma
rines will stage a precision drill
Music will be played by the Navy
Band and the SPAR Drum ano
Bugle Corps. The ceremonies are
under the auspices of the Military
Order of the World Wars.
Evening star., 1945-10-25
u. ). Advisers Asked
For Veterans Center
To Expedite Service

Official requests to the Veterans
Administration and the Civil Serv-
ice Commission to place representa-
tives at the District Veterans In
formation Center to give speedier
service to veterans were to be issued
by the District government today.
Porter M. Lumpkins, chief of the
Districts services to veterans and
war workers, said he also hoped that
the Smaller War Plants Corp. would
have a representative at the center
because of the number of inquiries
about surplus property available to
veterans.
At present, only the United States
Employment Service has full-time
representative at the center. Mr..
Lumpkins said the Red Cross was
asked some time ago to send a
representative, but so far reports 1t
has been unable to find qualified
person.
Studies Connecticut Plan.
The District has sent Col. Leonce
r. Legendre, Army liaison officer ao-
vising the Commissioners on vet
Grams, to Bridgeport, Conn, to study
the veterans aid and guidance pro-
gram there.
Col. Legendre left yesterday and
is to return tomorrow. His visit is
in line with the expressed wish OF
Brig. Gen. Gordon R. Young, Engi-
neer Commissioner, that District
officials familiarize themselves with
the best practices in their respec-
tive fields by personal visits.
At the Office of Representative
Glare Boothe Luce of Connecticut, it
was stated the Bridgeport Com
munity Advisory Center has served
as a model for others throughout
the State. Bridgeport also has an
advisory clinic to give vocational
and educational advice as well as
medical and financial guidance.
To Recruit Workers.
Meanwhile, it was learned the
District government plans to use
its Veterans Center to recruit
workers for the Engineering De-
partment, which has 701 vacancies.
Mr.. Lumpkins said one center
employee was assigned to refer job
seeking veterans interested in mu-
nicipal service to the proper engi-
neering officials.
The jobs range from laborers to
civil engineers, Mr.. Lumpkins said
The men will have to be qualified
and will go through the Civil Serv-
ice Commission, but Mr.. Lumpkins
said recruiting at the center was
expected to help expedite the fill
ing of vacancies.
Evening star., 1945-10-25
lsiwRstionii,q
&Remiinder6s

Meats. Fats, Etc. = Stamps Al
through Ell good through October
81. Stamps FL through XII good
through November go Stamps
LII through Q-1 good through
December 81 Stamps RI through
vi good through January 81.
Points for Fats-your meat dealer
viii pay four red ration points for
each pound Of waste kitchen fats
you turn In.
Sugar-Stamp 38 good through De-
cember 81. Next stamp valid
January /.
Shoes-Airplane Stamps l, 2, 3 and
4 In Book No. good indefinitely
for one pair Of shoes each.
Evening star., 1945-10-25
Program
For DC. Water Supply
Extension Approved

Details of a s4l, 500, 900 construc-
ton program to increase Washing
toms water supply from 1947 to
1890, was approved today by the
C Commissioners and forwarded to
the Budget Bureau.
The city heads would not reveal
details since the report was prepared
at the request of Congress. but the
program is known to include larger
publication system at Dalecarlia
Reservoir to handle water pumped
direct from the Potomac
Funds amounting to $1,728,0 900
have been requested in the 1947
water budget to initiate the program
which was declared IAN urgent pri-
ority"
The long-range plan was worked
out jointly between District water
officials and the United States En-
gineer Department, which operates
the reservoir.
Pumping water direct into Dale
carlia, it is understood, would sup
plant the recently contemplated
construction of a third aqueduct to
the upper Potomac, to channel water
into the reservoir.
Evening star., 1945-10-25
Unprejudiced Approach
To Race Problems Urged

Americans should study inter-
racial and other group problems
from a scientific, unprejudiced view
rather than from an emotional one,
DR.. Ernest S. Griffith, director of the
Library of Congress legislative ref
erence service, said yesterday at Will
son Teachers College.
He was among speakers at the
brotherhood seminar sponsored by
the Washington Round Table of the
National Conference of Christians
and Jews.
He urged that the problems be
approached in line with the Amer
ican tradition of equality under
law" and the Jewish Christian ira
dition of the sacredness of human
personality.
Evening star., 1945-10-25
Liquor Store Loses Appeal
On 60-Day Suspension

The Commissioners today upheld
the Alcoholic Beverage Control
Boards 60-day suspension of a class
B liquor license of Mike Asha at
1900 East Capitol street, over the
appeal of the proprietor's attorney
that the sentence was too severe.
The case involved the sale of
some wine and beer by a 17-year-
old employe of the tablishment to
a chief inspector for the Liquor
Board last July, according to Assist
ant Corporation Counsel John
ODea.
Under the law, liquor establish
ments are not permitted to employ
persons under 81. Suspensions of
more than 80 days ordered by the
ABC Board may be appealed to the
Commissioners.
Evening star., 1945-10-25
War Fund0pens
Drive 10 Reach
1heUnso|icited
Potential Donors
Asked to MuiI Gifts;
Rudio Pleas PIunned

Officials of the Community
War Fund campaign today an
nounced a last-minute program
to make sure that failure of
volunteer solicitors to reach all
potential givers can not cause
failure of the drive.
Persons who have not been solic-
tied in the $4,970,000 drive were
asked today to send their contribu-
tions directly to campaign head
quarters, 1101 M street NV, or to
call Metropolitan 2284.
Residential unit workers will take
over campaign headquarters from
5 pm. until midnight tomorrow and
will have special workers ready to
make evening collections on phone
requests.
Special Radio Program.
Washington radio stations will
begin asking the public to hurry
donations to campaign headquar.
ters at 6 am. tomorrow.
The Evening Star radio station.
WMAL, will feature a special pro-
gram from 1890 to IL o'clock
tonight.
For the first time, an executive
meeting of campaign officials will be
broadcast on the air. Lee D. Butler,
campaign chairman; Herbert Willett,
director of the fund, and the eight
unit chairmen will discuss the prog
ress of the drive in plain terms,
it was promised.
Mr.. Butler told campaign workers
to turn in all money they have col
lected to date at report meeting at
1915 pm. tomorrow.
Campaign officials have only q
slight hope that the workers can
make another extension of the drive,
already three days past deadine,
unnecessary. They do want to know
exactly how much they must ask
in carrying the appeal directly to
the public tomorrow.
Only 62To of Quota.
Pledges now stand at $3,085 ,630.85,
or 62.08 per cent of the quota.
Washington, Mr.. Butler revealed,
is not the only city that has had
trouble raising money for welfare
services, war relief and services for
the armed forces in the first post
war campaign.
Communities throughout the
country have decided, however, that
nothing short of the full quota is
satisfactory, and several have ex-
tended their drives because of quota
deficits, he said.
With the aid of newspapers, radio
stations and local advertisers, the
campaign is we'll into it's Thank
You Gift" plea, Mr. Butler added.
All persons whose loved ones have
returned safely from the war are
being asked to make an extra $40
gift to put the drive over the top.
This is your chance to express
| in concrete terms the joy you have
felt since the end of the war or the
day your man returned" he COM
mented. Make it a special gift,
over and above what you have given
or intend to give. make it in the
name of the boy or man who came
safely through the war"
Evening star., 1945-10-25

commander. Good-by, Mr.. Presi-
dent"
The last message to Macarthur
was similar, with these exceptions
"' feel it is my duty to the
Nation and my troops to end this
useless slaughter. There Is ap-
parently no relief in sight. Ameri-
can and Filipino troops have en-
gagged and held the enemy for nearly
five months.
:" - We have done our full duty
for you and for our country. We
are sad but unashamed. l have
fought for you to the best of my
ability from Lingayen Gulf to
Bataan to Corregidor, always hoping
relief was on the way.
g" Good-by, general, my re.
CARDS to you and your comrades in
Australia. May God strengthen
your arm to insure ultimate success
of the cause for which we have
fought side by side"
TOMORROW: Gen. VAIN
wright gives himself up to the
Japanese.)
Copyright. 1915, King Feature.
Syndicate, Inc. Reproduction in
tohole or in part strictly prohibited. !
Evening star., 1945-10-25
School Will Train Men
For Veterans Agency

A weeks school" to train deputy
administrators for recently an
nounced Veterans Administration
branch offices will open here October
20, the Veterans Administration an
nounced today.
The branch offices, key to the
agency's program for decentralizing
its services to speed up handling
of veterans claims are expected to
be in operation by the first OF next
year.
Evening star., 1945-10-25
District to Purchase
New Fire Apparatus

The Commissioners today au-
thorized purchase of four new mod
ern pieces of fire apparatus at q
cost of $4,000.
The purchase consists Of two
100-foot aerial ladder trucks and
two bumpers. one of 750-gallon ca
pacity and one of 1,000-gallon ca
pacity. The equipment will be
provided by the American La
France -Foamite Corp. of Elmira,
NJ Y
Evening star., 1945-10-25
Dentz's Death Sentence
COMMITTED by De GuuIIe
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PARIS, Oct. 25-Gen. Charles de
Gaulle today commuted the death
sentence of Gen. Henri Fernand
Dentz, former French high COM
missioner in Syria, to life impris-
onment at hard labor.
Gen. Dentz had been convicted
of treason because he commanded
French resistance to British troops
in Syria in 1941. At his trial he
declared that he had only followed
orders.
Evening star., 1945-10-25
Auto Accident Fatal
To Former Member
OF Maryland House

Charles S. Houck, jr., Al, former
member of the Maryland House of
Delegates from Frederick County
was killed instantly by an automo-
bile on route 240 about miles west
of Rockville at am. today.
Montgomery County police said
Mr.. Houck and a friend, E. Austin
James, and their wives, all of Fred
erick, were on their way home after
visiting friends in Chevy Chase when
Mr.. Houck's car had a fiat tire
The former legislator got out and
walked to the rear of the car
He was struck by al automobile
which police said was driven by
Paul L. Doody, II. Of Gaithersburg
The youth was charged with reck-
less driving.
Coroner F. j. BroSchart of Mont
gomery County issued a certificate OF
accidental death after an autopsy
He said death was caused by a frac-
tured skull.
At about the same time, Helen
Griffin, 19, colored, of 458 N street
NE, was killed when the car in
which she was a passenger struck
tree on Beaver Dam road near
Hyattsville, Prince Georges County
police reported.
Car Driver Held.
Prince Georges County police said
that Miss Griffin was in a car driven
by Joseph Proctor, %, colored, OF
60S Sixteenth street NE. He was
charged by police with man.
slaughter, reckless driving and
driving without a permit.
Neither he nor another male oc-
cupant of the car was injured.
Patrolman William Hoover and
Corpl. j. B. Day of the Montgomery
County police said Mr.. Houck had
pulled to the left side of the road on
Cider Barrel hill, in front of res
taurant, leaving the right wheels of
the car on the concrete shoulder.
His body, they said, was hurled
about 80 yards by the impact
Mr.. James, who was standing beside
him, was uninjured, although shoe
was torn from his foot as the other
car grazed him.
The two women were seated in the
car.
Former Legion Commander.
Mr.. Houck was a former State
commander of the American Le-
gion, having served overseas in the
World War.
A Democrat, he was elected to fill
vacancy in the 1887 session of the
Legislature and was reelected in
1888. Most recently, he was engaged
In the decorating and insurance
business in Frederick.
In May, 1941, Mr.. Houck was
acquitted in Baltimore Circuit Court
OF charges of perjury and attempted
obstruction of justice placed by a
grand jury investigating an alleged
legislative "shakedowri."
In October of the same year Fred
erick County Circuit Court found
Mr.. Houck innocent of charges OF
false pretenses in accepting money
to influence legislation at the Gen
eral Assembly.
A graduate of Gettysburg College
he had worked at one time fol
newspapers in Frederick and Balti-
more. He was married in 1928. In
addition to his wife, he leaves 8
brother and his mother.
Evening star., 1945-10-25
One Killed, Two Injured
In Maryland Collision
BY the Associated Press.

by tIIt ASSUCldteu FreSS.
ANNAPOLIS, Md, Oct. 25.-James
A. Norris, 31-year-old laborer of
Odenton, Anne Arundel County, was
killed instantly yesterday and two
other persons were injured slightly,
when his automobile collided with
another, driven by Harry M. Bull,
q Baltimore attorney, according to
Sergt. w. L. Brown of thes Fern
dale police.
Mr.. Bull and woman companion,
Isabella Wiley, suffered decorations
of the face and arms.
The collision occurred on the
Grain highway, near Conoways.
police said.
Evening star., 1945-10-25
Sd District Collects
$3.50 Lbs. Of Paper

Papertroopers in the third dis
trict of The Evening Star-PTA Sal
wage program yesterday collected
$3.50 pounds of newspapers and
magazines, the largest one-day col
lection since May 81.
The total for the drive now stands
at 20,420,080 pounds.
Collections of a half ton or more
included Powell, 2,541; Raymond,
1925; Macfarland, 4,786: Silver
Spring intermediate. 2,1oo; Bright
wood, 1865; Takoma Park Ele-
mentary, 1887; West, 1909; Mott,
e,o51; Monroe, 1865; Bancroft, 2,095;
H. D. Cooke, 1885; Adams, 2,072;
Morgan, 1,136; Sumner-Magruder,
1,728; Barnard, 4,745; Shepherd,
5,722, and Whittier, 1900.
The schedule for tomorrow's col
lection in the fifth district, together
with the leaders, will be as fol-
Evening star., 1945-10-25
Senator Wheeler to Speak

Senator Wheeler, Democrat, Of
Montana will address the weekly
luncheon Of Almas Temple Of the
Shrine at its clubhouse at 1890
pm. tomorrow. He will discuss his
recent trip to Europe.
Evening star., 1945-10-25
Rabbi SeqoI to Give Talk

Rabbi Henry Segal of B'Nai
Israel Congregation. Fourteenth
and Emerson streets NV, will
speak on what Il wish Home
at services at the L.--e- CATION, $3.50
pm. tomorrow.
Evening star., 1945-10-25

VIC Cdu iolu OuI very mucQ
longer" I told the two haggared
generals. Maybe we could last
through this day, but the end GER
tainly must come tonight. 1t would
be better to clear up the situation
now, in daylight"
1t was 10:15 am, on the black
day of May 6, 1912.
I then ordered Gen. Beebe to get
out previously prepared surrender
broadcast-prepared in the event
I lost my life and could not be pre-
sent when the broadcast eventually
had to be made-and told him to
insert therein that we would cease
firing at noon. He and Gen. Moore
agreed that had taken the only
step possible under the circum-
stances.
With view to surrendering as
few troops as possible, I then sent
a radio to Maj. Gen. William F
Sharp jr, commanding my Visayan-
Mindanao force, and relieved him
of further responsibility to me, but
directed that he Herewith place
himself and his men under Mac.
Arthur's high command.
Then I ordered the men of Cor.
regidor and the other fortified is.
lands in the bay to destroy al
remaining weapons of greater thar
As caliber before noon, as well a,
all other military and naval stores
equipment and ships. Our only two
modern large guns, the 12-inch
rifles built primarily to combat q
warship attack from the sea, soor
went up with roar. their nozzles
ripped by shells placed therein in
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-30

of T. G. Cunnion She let go one loud scream. and
then beltcd the ManEater over the head with all
her might and she mighty woman. Down
went the Man-Eatcr
II Cunnion's last and only day in Seney.
For a brief period perhaps the best.known
woman around Seney was Big Della, girl who
Mad worked on Muskegon's Saw-DuSt flats, as that
ctys dance hall district was known.
II got real mean in her place. Big Della
would knock him down and throw him out That
what happened 10 Dinny the Bull.
Dinny was rough guy. Pretty able with his
dukes, too. One night in 1900 Dnny came TO town,
took few drinks, and went to Big Dea's He was
wearing his calked boots.
Della never let man in her place with calked
boots on She met Dinny at the door, greeted him
pleasantly and asked him, like the lady she was,
10 remove his boots.
"Th' hell with my boots" said Dinny, I'm com
ing in fulLshodr just as l am"
rs that So?" said Big Della. She unleashed
a haymaker that caught Dinny the Bull right
the button He went down the porch and il
was half an hour before he came TO.
That same year, 1900. young feller came TO
work in section gang on the railroad near Seney.
His name Leon CzolgosZ Quiet chap, he was
Never made whoopee when ne TO town, but
Ways liked to talk about politics and business.
~ Well, didn't pay any attention 10 this for
eigner, but year later we saw his name in the
papers. He had gone to Buffalo. n. Y, and on
Sept. g. 1901, he approached in line to shake
hands with President William Mckinley he shot
him, and was later electrocuted
BY 1900 Seney's widest days were passing, but
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-30

Three or four years after this,
Kaine was in Seney for a spree
He saw John Dugan get off the
noon train. Kaine went for him,
and without a word the two men
started battling in the street.
Al last Kaine landed one that
put Dugan out and Kaine had
regained his reputation.
MOT for long. though. In Seney
at the time was Ike Stetcher.
a man with a grudge. The grudge
was against kafffc:-sUmpthiHE
about wages. again. On Christmas
evening, as Tim Kaine was pass
ing down Seney's one street,
Stetcher leaped out from the
shadows of the Grondin Hotel and
knitted him Kaine was carried
inside and died.
1t was the last of Seney's mur-
ders. The town was dying be-
cause the forest was getting too
far from its red lights. The AL.
ger Company had moved on.
True. a new forest was growing
up in the wake of the great old
pines. but foolish men would not
let il grow. That was before