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Evening star., 1945-01-11
Shelton Hearing Is Sci
After He Denies Guilt

]. Paul Shelton, 81, of 1885 North
Powhatan street, Arlington, pleaded
not guilty to charges of attempted
bank robbery and kidnapping when
arraigned yesterday before United
States Commissioner Stanley King
in Alexandria. Mr.. King fixed bail
at $4,000 and set a hearing for
Saturday.
T. Brooke Howard, who with T
Edward O'Connell is representing
Shelton, said that if his client is
able to raise bail he will request
continuance of Saturdays hear
ing until the week of January o.
when Assistant United States At
torney George Humrickhouse will be
back in Alexandria.
Shelton was arrested late Satur-
day by Arlington County police and
charged with the attempted rob-
berry of the East Falls Church
branch of the Falls Church Bank
Two days later he was charged
under Federal warrants with at
oSi1poSo bdilh lODbS1y o1lo Will hlo-
naping Grace Wadlington, 14-year-
old Arlington school girl, of 661O
Lee highway, who was used as a
shield by a masked bandit in escap-
ing from the bank.
Shelton, who was turned over to
Federal authorities by Common
wealth's Attorney Lawrence Doug
las shortly after noon yesterday
was brought into Mr. Kings Office
by Deputy Marshal D. Stuart Hamm
after being flngerprinted.
Mr.. Douglas said that if Shelton
is released on bond in Alexandra
he also must post $4,000 bond in
Arlington, where he is charged with
attempted bank robbery, before
being released by Arlington officials
| Shelton is former Arlington au-
tomobile salesman and was en-
ployed at the Glenn L. Martin air.
craft plant in Baltimore when ar
rested.
Evening star., 1945-01-11
Senate District Unit
Reports Favorab|y on
Gas Inquiry Here

BY unanimous vote, the Senate
District Committee today ordered a
favorable report on the Bilbo reso-
luton directing the committee to
make a formal investigation to de-
termine the causes and cure of the
Districts gasoline shortage.
Chairman Bilbo announced he
would file the report with the Sem
ate Immediately and would ask for
its passage as soon as the Commit
tee on Audit and Control approves
the proposed ALLEGATION of $4,000
from Senate funds for the inquiry.
He said he would name a District
subcommittee to conduct the inves-
tigation as soon as the Senate acted
He said the requested fund was large
enough to permit the employment
of a special investigator, if the sub
committee found that desirable.
Chairman Bilbo offered the reso.
luton last week after he had re.
ceiyed numerous complaints in.
Guiding some from two Senator.
who live in the suburbs and were
having difficulty finding enough
gasoline to get to and from Capito
Hill
The resolution authorizes the com.
mittee to subpoena witnesses, book:
and records if necessary.
Secretary of interior Ickes. ques-
toned at his press conference today
on what caused the situation here
last month, blamed it on some one
who wanted to get his name in the
paper" and predicted a shortage
| here.
He admitted the supply situation
in Washington was tight" but
added that if mo one had become
hysterical," there would have beer
no runs on gasoline stations. Mr.
Ickes said he could start a run ir
any city in the country by simply
fostering a rumor of shortage.
Among those attending the Dis
trict Committee session today, the
first of the new Congress, were fou1
of the freshmen" Senators named
to the committee: Senators john
ston, Democrat, of South Carolina
Hoey, Democrat, of North Carolina
Saltonstall, Republican, of Massa-
chusetts, and Smith, Republican, o!
New Jersey. Others present were
Chairman Bilbo and Senator Cap
per, Republican, of Kansas.
Evening star., 1945-01-11
Potomac Comp Fire Girls
To Visit Capitol Saturday

More than 100 Potomac Area
Camp Fire Girls and members of the
Horizon Clubs, representing Is
groups in this vicinity, will visit the
Capitol and meet members of Con-
gress at 10 am. Saturday. The visit
will open three-month national
birthday project, Hi-Neighbor. de-
signed to promote neighborliness,
community service and international
friendship.
The girls will wear full uniform.
The group will be in charge of Mrs.
Reynold A. Lee, Bethesda, Md, re-
firing president of the Potomac Area
Guardians Association.
The -Neighbor birthday observ-
ance will close March II, anniver-
sary of founding of the Camp Fire
Girls in 1912.
Evening star., 1945-01-11
Mellon 5 Home
May BeC|ub for
Medical Women
New Service Unit
Launches Move
To Buy Building
By HAROLD b. ROGERS.

Plans for establishing a Medical
women Army and Navy Club, Inc,
IN the former home of Andrew Mel
Ion, l7S5 Massachusetts avenue
NV. to provide a home and club
mouse for woman officers in medical
work OF all the armed forces, were
announced today by Mrs. Norman
l. Kirk, wife of the surgeon general
of the Army.
Inc property, which belongs to the
estate OF Stanley Mccormick of Chi
cago, now is occupied by the British
Ministry of Aircraft Production. 1t
formerly was an apartment house,
where former Secretary of the
treasury Mellon and other distin-
gulshed persons made their homes.
An of1er to purchase the property
mas been made by the new club. ac-
cord1ng to an official of Randall H.
Hagner & Co., which represents the
owner. If it were accepted. the
transfer would have court approval,
he said. The f1ve-story building is
on The northeast corner of Massa-
chusetts avenue and Eighteenth
street.
Backed by High Officials.
Sponsoring the movement with
Mrs. Kirk, she said. are the wives
OF many cabinet officers and high
ranking officers of the Army and
Navy, and others.
The project was discussed at a
luncheon meeting given at the Nav
flower Hotel today by the Executive
Board OF the club. The new organi-
zatlon has been incorporated, and a
campaign will be launched to raise
funds for its financing.
Offices have been established bv
the club at 825 Woodward Building,
The project has been approved
by Gen. Kirk and Vice Admiral
ROSS 7. McIntire, surgeon general
of the Navy.
Conferrlng with officials of the
club at the luncheon today we're
Gen. Kirk, Rear Admiral William
j. c. Agnew, assistant surgeon gen.
eral of the Navy, representing Ad-
mlral McIntire; Maj. Gen. Shelley
U. Marietta, Walter Reed Hospital:
Representative Edith Nourse Rogers
OF Massachusetts,, Mrs Stephen
Haas of Philadelphia, other guests
and several members Of the honor
ary committee"
Executive Board Meets.
Arthur H. Johnson, chairman of
the Memorial Fund Committee of
the organization, explained the
project, and there was a business
meeting of the executive board fol-
lowing the luncheon.
/ Mrs. Kirk has as her associate on
the Executive Board Mrs. Martin Du
Frenne, wife of the post surgeon at
Fort Myer, and these other officers:
Mrs. Harry L. Willard, secretary; j.
Weldon Jones of the Budget Bureau.
economic adviser, and Col. Tracy
Voorhees,, formerly of New York,
now at the War Department, legal
adviser.
The honorary committee includes:
Mrs. Henry H. Arnold, Mrs. Ralph
Bard, Mrs. Mark Clark, Mrs. James
H. Doolittle, Mrs Dwight D. Eisen-
hover, Mrs. James v. Forrestal, Mrs.
Merritte w. Ireland, Mrs. Robert H.
Jackson, Mrs. Ernest j. King, Mrs.
George c. Marshall, Mrs. Ross T.
McIntire, Mrs. Chester w. Nimitz,
Mrs Robert Patterson, Mrs. Brehon
H. Somerville, Mrs. Henry L. Stim-
son, Mrs. Harlan Fiske Stone, Mrs.
Alexander A. Vandegrift, Mrs.
Woodrow Wilson and Mrs. William
B. Young.
Evening star., 1945-01-11
Fairfax Station Man
Killed by Falling Tree

Andrew J. Whytzle, 80, of Fairfax
Station, Va, was killed yesterday
when he was struck by falling tree
as he was cutting wood several miles
from his home, county police re-
ported today.
Police said Robert l.. Bowman,
who was with Mr.. Whytzle, said the
man was struck when a tree twisted
and fell in the wrong direction.
They said County Coroner T. B. Nc
Cord is making an investigation.
Mr.. Whytzle is survived by his
widow Ethel and five children.
Evening star., 1945-01-11
PIone ExpIodes in Air.;
Two Navy Flyers Die
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NORFOLK, Va, Jan. 11.-A naval
officer and an enlisted man were
killed yesterday when Navy land
plane exploded during a training
fight over Chesapeake Bay, the
5th Naval District Public Relations
Office announced.
The men were Ensign George L
Mather, Lake Nebagamon, Wis, and
Anthony F. Souza, aviation RADIO
man, third class, Bridgewater, Mass
Evening star., 1945-01-11
Social Agencies
Group 70 Probe
Veteran Center
Scope Of Program
Offered by District
Included in Study

A fact-finding committee, ap.
pointed at the request of the Coun.
Gil of Social Agencies board of di-
rectors will go over the whole ques-
ton of making the city's resources
available to veterans and war work
ers, it was learned today. An in
vestigation of the workings of the
recently established Veterans In
formation Center of the District is
on the agenda.
Dean Hill Stanley, an attorney
and member of the board, is chair
man of the committee which will
hold its first meeting tomorrow. Mr.
Stanley said he plans to visit the
center at 1850 Pennsylvania avenue
today.
Mrs. w. A. Roberts, executive sec
retary of the council, said she feared
that because workers at the center
are not familiar with community re-
sources, the veterans who visit the
center won't get the service they
want"
Would Review Work.
While center workers, she said,
have "the best intentions in the
world" the center needs people
trained in finding out what the vet
Grams and war workers need and
where they should go to get help.
Mr.. Stanley explained that the
councils Board of Directors felt
that the question of making the
city's facilities available to veterans
and war workers should be reviewed
to see if there was anything the
council should recommend.
"All I'm interested in" said Mr..
Stanley, is that the fellows who
need help get it in the best possible
way. 1t doesn't matter whether the
job is done by the District or by
private agencies as long as it gets
done"
On the score of getting experts
from the various agencies, both pub
lie and private, to work regularly at
the center, Maj. Ennalls Waggaman,
who is in charge of the center, said
the present load doesn't warrant
elaborate arrangements"
Get Training or Job.
Volunteers, he said, would be
trained on the job Training, he
contended, was not as important as
intelligence, sympathy and desire
to help veterans"
AS soon as the center has suffi-
cient staff, probably in few months,
Maj. Waggaman added, volunteers
will spend part of each day for a
week in each of the agencies to
which veterans are referred.
At the present time, Maj Wag-
gaman said. he didn't expect more
than 100 veterans to use the center
each week, including the nGn-Dis-
trict men who already are making
use of its facilities.
A survey of the other agencies
concerned with veterans, however,
showed that an average of 80 vet
Grams day visit the 25 District
draft boards and District selective
service to report their return from
service; more than 100, not including
repeats" use the veterans job ia
cilities of USES a day and an aver
age of 125 go to the regional office
of the Veterans Administration here
each day.
The New York center serving vet
erans has reported that a thousand
veterans a week are using its facili-
ties, which include service as well
as information
Evening star., 1945-01-11
Children Selling Tickets
For Library Benefit

The children of Cleveland Park
and neighboring areas are selling
tickets for performance of Walt
Disney's "Dumbo" in the Uptown
Theater at 1920 am. Saturday, with
proceeds going into the Connecticut
Avenue Library Site Fund.
A committee in charge of raising
the money, to be used for construc-
ton of combined library and CON-
munity auditorium on Connecticut
avenue between Macomb and New.
ark streets NV, has reported that
pledges and cash amounting to S22.-
500 have already been received, with
the goal $4,000.
Children selling the most tickets
for the movie performance will re.
ceive S25 in war stamps as prizes
Tickets for ''Dumbo" are also on sale
at the theater
Evening star., 1945-01-11
Birthday Ball Play
Tickets to Go on Sale
Tomorrow Morninq

Tickets for the command
performance of Dear Ruth" on
January i28 will go on sale at
$3.50 am. tomorrow at the ticket
hut near the National Theater,
it was announced today by
Commissioner John Russell
Young, chairman of the Presi-
dents Birthday Ball Commit
tee.
A maximum OF four tickets to
a purchaser has been estab-
lished to prevent scalpers from
obtaining blocks Of tickets, 1t
was said.
Evening star., 1945-01-11
Keone Addresses Club

The Business and Professional
Women's Club of Prince Georges
County held its January meeting
this week at the home of Miss Honor
Keane, 4501 Sheridan street, River
dale. Ignatius Keane, States at
torney. spoke briefly on a national
divorce law.
Evening star., 1945-01-11
District Red Cross Unit
To Elect Tomorrow

The District Chapter of the Amer
ican Red Cross will hold its annual
meeting to elect new board for
1945 at pm. tomorrow in Room N
of the Chamber of Commerce Build
ing, 1915 H street NV.
Guest speaker will be 1t. Col
Everette H. Vaughan, marine flyer
and one Of the pioneers in night
fighter tactics, who will tell Of his
experiences in flying against the
JapS.
Evening star., 1945-01-11

United States, has contributed ex-
tensively to the North American
Newspaper Alliance, which has syn
dicated his articles. In China he is
recognized as one of the leaders in
the industrial cooperative move
ment. Part of his talk tomorrow
will be devoted to the mutual prob
lens and opportunities facing the
United States and China in the Pa
cific after the victory over Japan.
The Rev. James A. Magner, pro-
curator of Catholic University, is
chairman of the forum.
Evening star., 1945-01-11

at 0:l5 pm. TO-
morrow in the
Mayhower Hotel.
The lecture will
be one of a Sc
ries on interna-
tional subjects,
sponsored by the
forum.
Since his return
from ..Chungking
Mr.. Liang has
been in confer
ence with ma
tional Chinese
leaders here.
Mr.. Liang, who
UaS horr, in tho
Evening star., 1945-01-11
with Negroes" Carney is one O
those under indictment.
Intimidation Charged.

with Negroes" Carney is one of
those under indictment.
Intimidation Charged.
Many persons in the know say
that most of the strikers would have
gone on working if they had dared.
They were intimidated, these OBJ
servers explain. And they point to
the present tranquility of the sys-
tenn as evidence that the racial issue
was phony.
There are those who say the issue
is unsettled, was deferred by the war
and the knowledge that the Army
would come back If there was fur
ther trouble; that it will flare back
when the war is over.
At any rate, there is no apparent
racial problem at the moment. Since
the strike, the Transport Workers
Union local has elected one colored
worker as a vice president and foul
others to its Executive Committee
All the upgraded colored employees
! are members.
Evening star., 1945-01-11
By CARTER BROOKE JONES,
Star Staff CorreSpondent

PHILADELPHIA 11-Last August city was stricken
with paralysis of all public transportation
of unannounced strike caused oensb the
motion of coored street railway grade
tor and motorman The Army took the SYSTEM then
two weeks turned it back the Philadelphia
Today the surface subways buses elevated
smoothly about their tremendous no more
trouble.
What happened in the months that followed strike?
Star reporter wondered he deved
Evening star., 1945-01-11
SOCIETY AND GENERAL NEWS
WASHINGTON, D. G.
78 CoIored Men Promoted
After Quaker City Car Strike
RocioI Bios Locking as Workers Win
Right to Take Platform Jobs

Neat Monday the Fair Employment Practices Committee
hearing here to inquire into the failure Capital Transit
to employ cooed operators
Washngton Following weeks strike last whch threD
Phadelphas transportation system Army
hiring and upgradng of the operators there proceeded
racial discrimination Star reporter
unbiased of the Philadelphia today
foloUS:
Evening star., 1945-01-11
Chinese Journalist
Twill Address Forum

Hubert Liang, Chinese journalist
recently returned from the Orient
will talk on Asia Faces the New
World" at the Charles Carroll Forum
Evening star., 1945-01-11

chairman of the forum.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-01-31
Chicago Blackhawks
Beat Boston Bruins
In Hockey Encounter

BOSTON, Jan. 30 UP) "A
fighting Chicago BlackhaWks
hockey team produced two-goal
rallies in the second and third pc
riods tonight for their second VIC
tory of the season over the Bos-
ton Bruins SO before $4,000 fans
at Boston Garden.
Center Clint Smith scored pair
of goals unassisted in the second
period to break IL tie, while
Butch Mcdonald and Pete HorecH
scored twice within a minute in
the last period to clinch the con-
test.
Smith paced the winners with
his two goals, while Gully Dahl
strom scored a goal and two as
sists for three points.
1t was the third consecutive loss
for the Bruins who played inef-
fectually and were unable to start
lasting offense against the eel
lar-dwelling Chicagoans, whom
they have defeated four times this
season.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-01-31
NCAA Head
Issues Word
On Gam blmg

NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 30.-LP)-
President Wilbur C. Smith of the
National Collegiate Athletic Assocl-
alton, commenting today on the
Brooklyn College basketball scan
DALI said that college and uni
versity administrator must take
active steps Immediately to stamp
out the evils OF gambling in its re-
lationship to college athletics.
DR.. Smith, newly elected head
of the NCAA and director OF ath-
letics at Tulane University, declln-
ed to comment when questioned as
to whether direct action might be
taken regarding the Brooklyn Col
lege case
DR.. Smiths comments followed
the report by King County, N.
Y, assistant district attorneys to-
day that five players of the
Brooklyn College basketball team
had signed a statement that they
had received $1,000 to throw a
game with Akron scheduled to-
morrow in Boston, and that ar
engagements were under way to
''fix' the st. Francis game SEIZED
uled for February 10 at Madison
Square Garden.
DR.. Smith said the subject OF
gambling would occupy a most
important place. on the agenda
of the NCAA at it's next meeting.
The date of the meeting has not
been fixed, but will probably be
held early in the spring, DR.. Smith
said.
The NCAA president said that
regional and national bodies with
which colleges and universities are
affiliated must cooperate in stamp
ing out the evils of gambling on
intercollegiate sports.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-01-31
EASTERN SEABOARD
EXPECTS MORE COLD
Bv The Associated Press

Unpleasantly cold weather viii
continue for at least two days in
the eastern tWo-thirds of the Unit
ed States. with snow flurries &C.
curing meanwhile in the Midwest,
Ohio river valley. and New Eng
land states, the Chicago Weather
Bureau predicted last night.
The sub and near zero zone ex
tends, the Bureau said, from the
Rocky Mountains and Great Plains
to the Atlantic Coast Its center
is gradually moving eastward with
an overlapping frigidity extending
southwark to the Gulf of Mexico.
1t will begin warming up in the
Observation-Disclosures region today,
the forecast indicated, and the
Midwest should get noticeable re-
lief tomorrow. New England resi-
dents, who yesterday enjoyed
abatement of siege of cold and
snowfall, again will be shivering
in new blast by tomorrow night
Weather observers expected scat
tered snow flurries today in the
upper Mississippi river region,
Ohio Valley and New England.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-01-31
Navy Torpedo Pilots
Miss Jap Battleship
But Sink A Cruiser

WASHINGTON, Jan. 30-UP)-
A miss may be as good as a mile
but in this case it's good for one
fat Japanese cruiser.
The Navy told tonight how pilots,
1t. (JG) Robert F. Voltz, Chi
cago. and 1t. JG) George w.
Galnnie, Shreveport, La, aimed
two torpedoes at a Jap battleship.
The man-o'-war lodged both but
moment later the pilots saw
them smack into an Atago class
heavy cruiser which exploded and
sank.
The incident occurred in the Sec
ond battle Of the Philippines Sea
off Samar.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-01-31
Athlete Campaigns
For Junior Olympics

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 3d.
(UP)-Jim Thorpe, Americas all
time all-around athlete, today
opened his campaign for an Amer
lean junior Olympic contest to
help battle the nations juvenile
delinquency.
Speaking before assembled
sports writer's of the San Francisco
Bay region at weekly luncheon
sponsored by the San Francisco
Seal Baseball Club, Thorpe called
for suggestions as to how such
contests could be held throughout
the country, eliminating later
with a Rational meet-probably at
Soldier Field, Chicago.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-01-31
Detroit Bowler Holds
Lead In Peterson Games

CHICAGO, ILL.,, Jan. 30.-(UP)-
Al Heiden, IS year old Detroit
bowler, held to the lead in the
33rd Petersen individual bowling
classic here tonight after the 18th
squad of the competition had COM
pleted its eight games. Heiden
took the front last Sunday night
with a 1877 total while rolling Oh
the eighth squad of the $43, 200
event which will pay $500 to the
winner.
Tony Babs, Chicago, was the
only bowler to dent the top 10 n
the standings during tonight's 18th
squad firing when he pieced to-
gether 1910 cluster on games OF
IT'S, 181, 1874, 178, 200, 2O6, 1872 and
224.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-01-31
UPSETS FEATURE
D0HERTY TOURNEY

MIAMI, Fla, Jan. 3d. up "A
deluge of upsets descended upon
the Miami Country Club golf
course today, and all except one
of the favored players were GUST
ed from the Helen Lee Doherty
tournament in the first round.
Only Louise Suggs of Lithia
Springs, Ca, managed to hold on.
She played excellent golf to win
seven holes in succession from
Babe Wolf of Orlando and tri-
umph, 6 and 5. Otherwise, it was
the underdogs' day.
Mrs. George f. Wilcox of Mi
ami ousted the medalist, Mrs.
Ruth May of Neponsit, Long IS
land, 6 and 5.
The 1914 winner, Marjorie Row
of Admission, Ala, lost 4 and 2 to
Margie Becker of Englewood, N.
j.
In a match involving two Rol-
Inns college students. Peggy Kirk
ousted her favored rival, Georgia
fainter, 2 and l. Miss fainter is
a former winner of the event.
Still another all-Rollins encount-
cred found Alice O'Neal defeating
Jeanne Cline, and 8.
The veteran Jane Crum Coving-
ton of Orangeburg, S. c., suffered
a one up defeat at the hands of
Mrs. Billie Harting Of Miami.
Mrs. L. G. Parry Of Miami de-
feated Mrs. Florence Bobo OF Mi
ami, 5 and 4, and Beverly Hanson
of Rollins prevailed over Mrs.
Thomas Nolan of New Castle, Pa,
one up.
Tomorrow Mrs. Wilcox plays
Mrs. Harting, Miss Kirk meets
Mrs. Pray. Miss Sugges encount-
ers Miss O'Neal and Mrs. Becker
runs into Miss Hanson.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-01-31
BASEBALL HEADS
TERMED FOOLS
BY DETROIT CAR
Former Tiger Owner
Fayors Hoover For
Commissioner
BY BUS HAM

WASHINGTON, Jan. 80 P -
The men running baseball are a
bunch of ''greybeards making a
hell of a mess of things" Major
Walter o. Spike Briggs declar-
ed today.
Briggs, vice-president of the De-
troit Tigers in civilian life, fired
his blast as speaker at a touch
down club luncheon.
Baseball is talking about cur
failing the authority" of a new
commissioner, he said, and warned
that it will be heading into trouble
''the day that happens.
He also criticised "the mistake
of unlimited night ball." and pre-
dicted that it will eventually kill
both major and minor leagues.
Briggs said that his reaction
to the way the magnates are run
ming the game springs from our
bad luck in losing Judge Kenesaw
Mountain Landis,'' late commits
sioner.
"He was the greatest figure the
game has ever known, its head,
heart and punch the youthful
major asserted, adding that ne
fought to know since Lands cost
us 80 players one Monday morn
ing"
The reference was to pre-War
decision which ruled the Detroit
players free agents because OF
contractual irregularities.
Only two or three men in the
country are qualified to fill Lands
place, Briggs opined. He speclfical-
ly named J. Edgar Hoover, FBl
head, and James ]. Farley, former
postmaster general.
1t would be "a grave mistake"
to take Hoover from the Govern
ment now because OF the great
job he is doing" Briggs said.
but I would be willing to stag
ger along with the punchy COM
mittee of three now in charge until
Hoover becomes available from
the Government" he added.