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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-10
Robert K. Thompson Resigns
As Director of District OPA
Leaves Post Dec. 81;
To Enter Law Firm
With c. keo De Orsey

Robert K. Thompson today an
nounced his resignation as director
of the District Office of Price Ad-
ministration, effective December 81
He has held the post since Febru-
airy 2, 1913.
Mr.. Thompson said he would enter
private law practice with the firm of
C. Leo De Orsey, tax attorney.
No successor has been selected
yet, Mr.. Thompson said He SUBJ
mitted his resignation to Leo F
Gentner, regional OPA director in
New York last week. A successor
is expected to be named before Mr.
Thompson departs at the end of
the year.
Mr.. Thompson observed that "it's
time for me to get out" Comment
ing on the new position, he said it
was IAN offer I cannot pass up -
The OPA executive praised the
good press" local newspapers had
given him and added that he was
proud of the job our staff and
boards have done"
MFR. Thompson said he felt his
successor should be a Washington
resident, but said that the matter
of an appointment was being left
entirely to Mr.. Center. Charles K.
Davies, District rationing execu-
tive; Vincent A. Holmes, price ex-
ecutive; Carl w. Beruffy, inforce-
ment attorney, and Mrs. Ned Brun-
son Harris, information director, are
division heads directly under the
District director
Before joining the local OPA in
1913, Mr.. Thompson served as ex-
ecutive assistant to Leon Henderson
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-10
Truman Invited 10 Attend
Dinner for Ramspeck

Government employee representa-
tives called at the White House
today to invite President Truman
to attend a dinner that will be
given on the night of December
10 in honor of Representative
Ramspeck, Democrat, Of Georgia
who is leaving Congress to become
executive vice president of the Air
Transport Association
1t was not Immediately stated if
the President would be able to
attend.
The. White House callers were
James B. Burns, president of the
American Federation of Govern
ment Employees; r. H. Alcorn, chair
man of the Joint Conference on Re-
tirement; Leo George, president of
the National Federation of Post
Office Clerks, and Chester Harvey,
president of the Railway Mail As
ISOLATION.
The dinner, sponsored by Govern
ment employe unions affiliated with
the AFL, will be held at the Statler
and will honor Mr.. Rampesk's long
service as chairman of the House
Civil Service Committee.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-10
TeIegraphers 10 Meet
For Strike Discussion

A closed membership meeting of
the traffic unit of Local "a, Com
mercial Photographers Union tAFL)
will be held at o'clock tonight to
consider instructions in event a
strike is called by Western Union
Telegraph Co. employees.
On December the employees voted
more than to in favor of a strike
in a ballot tabulated under supervi-
sion of the National Labor Relations
Board.
The board announced that OF
1894 votes cast, 28,701 were fo1
striking and 5,182 opposed, while Ill
were declared void. A total of 48, 743
were eligible to vote.
The strike vote was held at the
request of the Commercial Teleg-
raphers' Union and other AFL afhl-
iates that protested a recent Wal
Labor Board determination of wages
The board granted Accent -an-houl
increase, while the union is demand
ing Is cents an hour increase.
E. l.. Hageman, chairman of the
traffic unit of Local "a, said the Or
ganization represents more thar
1000 District members. No plans
for strike have been made pending
an announcement of new decision
in the case by the War Labor Board
but this decision is expected before
Saturday, he said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-10
Mrs. Ethel Crews Page
To Be Buried Today

Funeral services for Mrs. Ethel
Crews Page, SIS, of 1852 Forty fourth
street NV, were to be held today
at the Lee funeral home, Fourth
street and Massachusetts, avenue
NE. followed by burial in Cedar
Hill Cemetery.
Mrs. Page, who worked at the
Maritime Commission during the
war, died Saturday at Washington
Sanitarium' and Hospital after a
weeks illness.
A native of Danville, Va. she had
lived in Washington more than 40
years. She was member of the
Florence Crittenden Circle of the
Florence Crittenden Home and of
the Wears Aid Society of st. Pat
rick,s Chapel.
She is survived by her husband,
Arthur S. Page; her mother, Mrs.
Cornelius Barber, and a daughter,
Mrs. Barbara Page Verbycke, all of
Washington.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-10
Army Major, 81, Gets Top Post
At Hopkins Medical School
Dr.. Harvey Replaces
Dr.. W. T. Longcope
When Latter Retires
BE- the Associated Press.

BE- the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, Dec. 10.-A 34-year-
old major-Dr. A. McGehee Harvey
is slated to become professor of
medicine at the Johns Hopkins Uni
versity Medical School on June 80
when Dr. Warfield T. Longcope, who
has held the post since 1922, retires.
DR.. Longcope's forthcoming retire.
ment and the appointment of DR..
Harvey to what is considered one of
the top medical posts of the Nation
was announced yesterday by DR..
Isaiah Bowman, president of the
university.
Dr.. Harvey, a native of Little
Rock, Ark, also will act as ply
sician in chief of Johns Hopkins
Hospital and director of the medical
schools department of medicine.
He is now on terminal leave after
three years service in the Pacific
with one of the Hopkins medical
units.
DR.. Harvey received his M. D. at
Hopkins in 1884 and, following an
interneship at the hospital, studied
at the National Institute for Med
ical Research at London and at the
University of Pennsylvania under
fellowship grants.
He returned to Hopkins as resi-
dent physician in 1910. The follow
ing year he was appointed professor
Of medicine at the Vanderbilt Uni
versity Medical School, where he re-
manned until he entered active Army
service in 1912.
He is married and has one child,
a daughter.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-10
Man With 23-Year Grudge
DAMAGES 4 D. {. Laundries

After smashing windows in four
laundries yesterday, Grover Cleve-
land, 81, colored, confided to police
that he doesn't like Chinese laun-
dries.
In 1922, he said, he took some
shirts to a Chinese laundry some
where in the neighborhood" and
could not get them back when he
lost the slip.
The windows smashed were at
1918 Tenth street NV. 1907 Tenth
street NV, l40O Eleventh street
NV. and laundry owned by Jo-
seph Rosenberg at lois N street
NV.
1.-THE last one was a mistake
Cleveland said. He was charged with
destroying private property.
In Municipal Court today his case
was continued until Thursday and
Judge Thomas D. Quinn set bond
at $500.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-10
Woman Critically Hurt
As Tain Hits Auto

Isabel Poston, %, colored, 1139
First street NV, was in a critical
condition in Freedmen's Hospital to-
day as a result of injuries suffered
early yesterday when a Baltimore
81 Ohio Railroad train hit a car
stalled on the tracks at Mill Race
Crossing, Bladensburg, Md.
Osborne Mckinney, "a, colored
632 Third street NE, was identified
by police as the driver of the car
He told police the car stalled and he
and another passenger got out be-
fore the train hit. Miss Poston, who
was pinned in the back seat, suf-
fered internal injuries.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-10
Sale Of f Bonds
Increased 10 10 Pct.
'0f 27-MiI|ion Goal

Washington Bond buyers boosted
E-Bond sales S1,100,000 over the
week end to $4,000, 900 or 1913 per
cent of the s27,000,000 quota The
sales were sparkled by Pearl Harbor
Day and an intensified drive by the
District War Finance Committee to
put the Victory Loans Series E
Bonds over the top by the end of
the accounting period, December 81
Sales of other issues to individuals
increased 81 100000 to $4,000, 900 or
1907 per cent of the $4,000, 600
quota. The overall individuals score
now stands at $44 100000, or 1862
per cent of the 1000, 900 goal. The
formal promotion period of the drive
ended Saturday.
Corporation sales jumped 81 300,-
900 to SIS, 100, 900, or 1889 per cent
of the s43 100000 goal.
With all classifications except
E-Bonds over the top, the commit
tee is concentrating all its resources
towards pushing sale of E-Bonds to
SGT 900, 900. Some theaters ran out
of Bonds Saturday. most of them re-
porting a land Office business in
Government securities over the week
end.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-10
Restaurant, Drugstore
Lose S1,152 to Thieves

Thieves took a total Of lisa from
two Washington business establish
ments Saturday night, police re-
ported yesterday.
James L. Speros, manager of the
Silver Fox Restaurant, of 1924 Wis
consin avenue NV. reported the
loss of a quantity of liquor and $752
in cash.
Two paper bags, containing $500,
were stolen from a refrigerator Of
the Wesley Heights drugstore, 1908
Forty-fifth street NV, Irving Sap
perstein, manager, told police.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-10

DR.. Longcope received his medi-
cal degree from Hopkins in 1901
when he became associated with DR.
Simon Fexner, who at that time
was director of the Aver Clinical
Laboratory of the University OF
Pennsylvania. He became director
of the laboratory in 1904 and, in
1911, was appointed associate pro-
fessor of medicine at Columbia Uni
versity.
In 1914, he was named Bard Pro-
lessor of Practicing Medicine at Co.
lumbia, where he remained until
his return to Hopkins eight years
later.
He has made contributions to
medical journals and is regarded as
one of the leading authorities or
diseases of the arteries.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-10
Mrs. Ada Leech, IS, Dies;
Widow Of SibIey Doctor

Mrs. Ada Ober Leech, IS, a native
of Washington, died yesterday at
ner home in the Kenesaw Apart
ments, Sixteenth and Irving streets
NV, after a weeks illness.
She was the daughter of the
late Henry and Caroline Burdine
Ober and the widow of DR.. D. Olin
Leech, who was staff member at
Sibley Hospital.
Mrs. Leech was contralto soloist
at the Old Wesley Church when
it was located at Fifth and F streets
NV She also was affilidated with
the choir of Douglas Memorial
Methodist Church. She was second
contralto in the Lyric Women's
Quartet in the early 190Os and q
charter member of the Rubenstein
Club.
Surviving is a sister, Mrs. Arthur
Middleton, Washington.
Funeral services will be held at
1880 am. tomorrow at Hines fu.
neral home, 2901 Fourteenth street
NV. Burial will be in Glenwooo
Cemetery.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-10
Post Office Extends
Hours 10 Take Care
OF Heavy Yu|e Mail

Urging District residents t. have
Christmas greetings and gifts on the
way by December Is, Postmaster
Vincent c. Burke today announced
new post Office hours to handle holi-
day mails.
The three largest post Offices in
the District-the main post Office at
Massachusetts, avenue and North
Capitol street, the Benjamin Frank
lin Station at Twelfth street and
Pennsylvania avenue NV. and the
National Airport Post Office-will
be open "a hours a day, seven days
a week. The 80 substations through
out the District and other stations
in Takoma Park, Chevy Chase and
Bethesda, which ordinarily close at
pm. Saturdays, will remain open
until pm. on December Is and 90
Mr.. Burke said there will be no
mail service on Christmas Day ex-
cept special delivery. Approx
mately $500 temporary employees
drawn mostly from the ranks of
veterans and high school students
past the age of 16-have been signed
up to handle the $4,000, 900 packages,
letters and cards which normally
make up the Districts incoming and
outgoing mail.
The Office of Defense Transpor-
tation predicted December will be
1.-The worst travel month yet" be-
cause of anticipated heavy troop
movements and the civilian travel
urge accompanying the Yuletide
Beginning Thursday, the Hyatts-
vile Post Office will close at 10 pm
daily, one hour later than usual
The Office will remain open from
am. to 10 pm. on Sundays, Deem
Der Is and %. Extra collections will
be made from letter boxes from now
until Christmas. The Hyattsville
branch Offices at Edmonston, Chev-
erly and Landover Hills will reopen
from to 9 pm. daily. The closing
hours are extended from l to 6 pm
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-10
Arbitration Board
Meets Tomorrow in
Transit Wage Case

The board of three arbitrator in
the Capital Transit Co. case will hold
its first meeting tomorrow to work
out procedure for hearings on the
wage dispute that caused two recent
tie-ups in mass transporta ton here
Whether the hearings will be open
to the public and the press was an
open question today. The hope was
expressed by parties to the dispute
that the hearings would be open
but certain Federal officials said the
usual procedure in such arbitration
cases was to hold hearings in execu-
tive session to facilitate agreement
James Francis Reilly, Capital
Transit Co. arbitrator, said he was
ready to meet with the other two
at any time, and fully expected the
three could get together tomorrow,
probably in the afternoon.
The union arbitrator, o. David
Zimring, of Chicago was expected
in Washington today. according to
William F. Simms, president of the
local transit union.
Aaron Horovitz of New York,
chosen. by Secretary of Labor
SchWellenbach as the third member
and chairman of the board, has in
dictated he will arrive here tomorrow
morning.
The only issue before the Arbitra-
ton Board will be the wage dispute
Both parties to the dispute have
agreed to abide by the decision of
the board. When decision can be
reached is uncertain, but indications
today were that the procedure prob
ably would be long drawn out
giving both parties time to present
their cases in detail.
Following the two strikes by tram
sit employees, the Government,
through the Office of Defense
Transportation, took over the COM
Dany
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-10
Gasoline
Causes$70,000
Loss al Ross|yn
Two Buildings Fired
As Truck Overturns
/, After Collision

Workers today were repairing the
damage to two RoSslyn buildings
caused by fire early yesterday when
a fuel truck crashed into a milk
truck and burned at the Virginia
side of Key Bridge, causing losses
estimated at more than $4,000.
The truck, loaded with $500 GAL
Ions of gasoline, crashed into the
truck while attempting to turn
south onto Lee highway from Key
Bridge, police said. No one was
injured, but flaming gasoline, pour
ing into the Potomac River, for a
time endangered a nearby tanker
barge loaded with gasoline.
The flames were put out before
the District flreboat could reach
the scene, but not before they had
damaged the Arlington Trust Co.
building and burned out the State
Loan Co.
Davis Weir, loan company presi-
dent, said damage probably would
reach $4,000. He said the records
were intact, however, and the COM
pany was open for business today on
the second floor of the Arlington
Trust Co. Building.
The driver of the gasoline truck
trailer, Lee McCanless, 26, Balti.
more, told Capt. Ernest H. Miller
of the Arlington County police thai
his brakes did not hold when he
tried to make the turn and the
vehicle crashed into the parked
milk truck He said the trailer
jack knitted into the milk truck anc
burst into flames. Mr.. McCanles.
ran from his truck and got safely
across RoSslyn Circle.
Andrew Kovat, 1912 jefferson
street, Hyattsville, driver of the
milk truck, was eating breakfast
across the street at the time.
The two-story Arlington Trust
Co. building was scorched by the
fire and the entrance badly charred
Alan B. Prosise, treasurer, estimated
damages would reach $4,000 He
said the company would be oper
for business tomorrow.
The fuel truck. owned by the
Trans Oil Co. Philadelphia, was
hauling gasoline from Baltimore to
the American Oil Co. distribution
plant in Rosslyn. Oil company Of
ficials said the destroyed cargo was
estimated at $4,000.
Thompson's Dairy, owner of the
milk truck, placed its loss at $4,000
Sixteen Washington fire engines
and eight Arlington County valrm-
teer fire companies put out the fire
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-10

when the latter was price admins
traitor. Prior to that, he served nine
years as administrative assistant to
Chester Davis of the Federal Re-
serve Board
Mr.. Thompson. who is "a and the
father of tive children, is a graduate
of the National University Law
School.
The District Commissioners, COM
menting on Mr.. Thompson's resig-
nation. stated Throughout the
entire rationing period there has
existed between the District Office
of Price Administration and the
municipal agencies the closest CO.
operation Mr.. Thompson's work
was an outstanding contribution or
the home front during the war"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-10
Sawyer Heads Group
On Veterans HOUSING

Raymond Sawyer, Federal Com
munications Commission attorney
and commander of the local post
OF the American Veterans of World
War II, has been chosen chairman
OF committee to assemble a pros-
pectus for veterans interested in
the acquisition of Mclean Gardens
as a veterans housing project, it
was announced today.
Other members on the Amvet
committee are D. M. Harrington,
attorney; 1t. q. g. James Beattie,
U. S. N. r., former secretary of the
Junior Board of Commerce; Maui
rice Nee, furniture dealer, and Fred
K. Ross, magazine editor.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-10
Government Witness
Says Cur|ey's Firm
Helped His Business

The mall fraud trial involving
Representative Curley, Democrat, of
Massachusetts, and four defendants,
swung into its third week in District
Court today and was recessed early
for lunch when the Government did
not have any other witnesses on
hand. The trial was to be resumed
this afternoon.
The defense attempted to show
through Government witness. that
Engineers Group, Inc, linked to the
defendants, was legitimate organ
ization and had given him his
moneys worth.
Prospects are the Government will
finish presentation of its case about
December 20, when the court is
scheduled to recess for Christmas
until early next year.
H. Donald Forse, president of the
Forse Co., Anderson, Ind, laundry
pressing machine manufacturers,
again took the stand for croSs-ex-
animation and said that $4,000 he
gave Engineers Group, Inc, was
benenclal to his concern.
Business Diminished.
Defense Counsel William A. GAL
lagher, representing Donald Wake
field Smith, former member of the
National Labor Relations Board,
questioned Mr.. Forse, who said he
was closer to getting Government
contracts after he had been in
touch with Engineers Group, Inc.
Previously Mr.. Forse testified his
firm had not received contracts
through the group. He explained
his business diminished shortly
after the war.
At the close of his testimony Mr..
Forse attempted to make state
ment from the witness stand, but
Judge James M. Proctor, presiding
said that he would rather not hear
1t.
Mr.. Forse identified a number of
letters and kilograms that passed
between himself and James ]. Fuller,
executive vice president of the
group, who is also a defendant. He
said that Mr.. Fuller was authorized
to place orders for mis- company
for automatic screw machines: did
some work in getting a performance
bond for prospective contracts, as
we'll as performing other services.
Estimates "Exhorbitant."
Cross-examined by Attorney jeff
Busby, representing Bert Hall, an
other defendant, Mr.. Forse said that
when Mr.. Hall gave him estimates
on manufacturing tank transmits
slons, they were "exhorbitant."
John H. Hamilton. sales repre-
sentative of the Forse firm, was on
the witness stand for a brief time
before the recess. He said he came
to Washington in November, 1941.
and met the defendant, Smith, who
told him that fee in Government
contracts was permissible, provided
it covered engineering or technical
services set forth in the contract.
even though this was on a percent
age basis.
Mr.. Gallagher croSs-eXamined Mr..
Hamilton, who said that this was an
ofthand opinion given at a luncheon
here, and Mr.. Smith, when speaking
about fees, was not acting as attor-
ney for the group or for the Forse
firm. Because Mr.. Hamilton's testi-
mony would have duplicated that of
Mr.. Forse, Justice Proctor recessed
the trial early for lunch when the
Government found itself without
witness,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-10
D. B. Lassefer Of Atlanta
Named FSA Administrator
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Dillar B. Lasseter of Atlanta, Ga,
today was appointed administrator
of the Farm Security Administra-
ton by Secretary of Agriculture
Anderson. ),
He succeeds Frank Hancock,
former North Carolina member of
Congress, who resigned November
is after having served two years as
chief of the FSA.
Mr.. Lasseter has been regional
director of the War Manpower
Commission at Atlanta. He Is .
native of Vienna, Ga.
The FSA makes low-interest loans
and provides technical assistance to
low-income farmers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-10
1000 Tons Of Sugar
Given UNRRA by Czechs

BY the Associated Press.
Director General Herbert H. Leh-
man yesterday announced a most
welcome" contribution to the United
Nations Relief and Rehabilitation
Administration of 1000 tons of
Czechoslovak sugar.
I'm spite of her own hardships,
Mr.. Lehman said, she (Czechoslo-
vakia) can still think of her unfor-
tunate neighbors and make sacrifices
to help them out"
Before the war CzechoSlovakia
was a large exporter Of beet sugar,
but is hampered now by lack of ma
chinery and transportation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-10
Three-Week-OId Child
Suffocutes in Crib

Thomas A. Richmond, 3-week old
son of Navy Chief Warrant Officer
Austin L. Richmond and Mrs. Rich
mond, 1907 Gales street NE, was
found dead in his crib by his mother
yesterday morning.
A certificate of accidental death
by suffocation was issued by Coro-
ner A. Magruder Mcdonald
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-10
Address Citizens

Capt. William Yost, recently re-
turned from service with Army
Signal Corps in England, will dis
cuss his wartime experiences at q
meeting Of the Green Acres-G Glen
Cove Citizens Association at 8 pm
tomorrow in the Westbrook Ele-
mentary School. Mrs. Mordecai
Ezekiel will discuss proposed CO.
operative nursery for the community