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Evening star., 1945-06-15

Brig. Gen. Frank A. Allen, who
was director of public relations for
the Supreme Headquarters of the
Allied Expeditionary Force during
the crucial months of the battle for
Europe, was back in his Arlington
Va) home today, willing to talk
about everything except the Edward
Kennedy affair.
Gen. Allen said he would make
no further comment on the storm
that broke when Mr. Kennedy, who
was head of the Paris bureau of the
Associated Press, released the story
of the German unconditional sur
render at Reims "a hours before it
was released officially.
The general is relaxing with his
family at their home, 1921 North
Twelfth street, Arlington, before he
returns to Europe on June % for
another assignment. Before he took
over his public relations post last
September, Gen. Allen was COM
mander of Combat Command B of
the 1st Armored Division, which
participated in the North African
and Italian campaigns.
Despite the Kennedy incident,
Gen. Allen said SHAEF got along
well with all of the 1,1s3 correspond
ents who were accredited to it.
I'VE never had much criticism of
censorship" the general said Every
one appreciated the fact that it
was set up to save lives. The CORE
spondents accepted it almost 100 per
cent"
He denied that there was ever any
Evening star., 1945-06-15
Is al WI. High Win
College Scholarships

Thirteen Westinghouse High
School 1945 graduates have won
college scholarships, it was an
nounced today by Claude M. Rich
mond, principal
Those who received them are
Mary O. Longley and Ellery c.
Green. George Washington Univer-
sity; Marguerite Shirer and Dolores
Stone, American University; Ken
meth Hallam, Harvard Law School
Walter Friauf, Pepsi-Cola scholar
ship; Robert w. Treyer, William
and Mary, q three-year chemistry
scholarship; Janet Won Gunten,
Strayer College: Margaret Bernd,
Benjamin Franklin University; Ann
Brandenburger. Mary Baldwin Col
lege; Warren Heimer, Cornell Uni
versity:: Juliet p. Tillema, Univer-
sity Of Rochester, and Dorothy
Mower, Boston. University.
Awards to graduates were also
announced as follows:
Thomas Orville and Jacqueline
Eason, Citizenship Medal from the
class of 1894; Max Hoover and Mary
Longley, Bausch & Lomb Science
Medals; William Lalor, Civitan
Key; Mary Longley, Faculty Schol-
arship Medal; Edith Fox, War Bond
as State essay prize in distributive
education; Joan Felix, gold loving
cup literary award; Nancy Crane
and Malcolm Kflduff, dramatic
awards.
Elected to membership in Quill
and Scroll, Journalistic society,
were: Juliet Tfllema, Jacqueline
Eason, Ruth Kirkpatrick, Alden
Jordan and Lois Oddson.
Evening star., 1945-06-15
Capt. Brown Tells of Failure
Of Two Attempts to Rescue Him
Plane Of FeIIow-FIyer Stuck in Mud
And Pair Didn't See Second One Lund

enemy plane, Capt. Browns ship
was damaged by fax and he was
wounded in the knee.
MY motor was coughing and
sputtering and I knew it would quit
any minute" he said, so radioed
the rest of the fight that I was
going to bail out.
They told me to crash land and
that one of the fight would land
and pick me up. I hit the side of a
grain field, leaving the way open
for another plane, and was hobbling
from my plane when my operations
officer landed.
Rescue Plane Mired.
MY knee was hurting and I was
making slow progress when the op-
erations officer TAXED over to the
side of the field and promptly got
mired in the mud. We worked fo1
about Is minutes to get the plane
out, but finally turned its tail up
a sign to the others that we couldn't
make it.
I'VE figured we were washed up
so we headed for a nearby woods
hoping we might be able to slip out
AS we walked away from the field
planes from our flight kept buzzinl
over our heads, but we couldn'
figure out what they wanted.
Il learned when I got out of tn
prison camp that the pilot who ha
failed to get his plane landed o.
the field and the other pilots wer
trying to get us to turn back. The
left only after their gas had gotte
too low to risk more flying" Cap
Brown said.
Evening star., 1945-06-15

Two attempts to rescue Capt.
Henry w. Brown after he crash
landed in destroying his 30th Nazi
plane, failed-one because of mud
and the other because of misun-
derstanding - the Arlington flyer
said today.
Capt. Brown who returned to his
Come at SOFT North Twenty-fifth
street this week after his liberation
from a German prison camp, told
the story today.
Capt Brown learned of the sec
ond attempt after his liberation. In
the first one his operations officers
plane was mired in the mud, leav-
ing two stranded airmen in German
territory.
'As my operations offic% and I
trudged away from the field" the
flyer said. American planes nearly
took off the tops of our heads. I
didn't learn until / was liberated
that another plane had landed and
the other pilots were trying to at
tract us"
1t all happened like this. On the
return flight from a mission, the
Arlington ace provided high cover
over the Nuremberg airield to help
a fellow pilot destroy his first enemy
plane.
The pilot swung low over the
field in two strafing attacks, but
missed his target both times.
Il thought to myself that I might
as well make it 30," Capt. Brown
said, so I few in and finished of
the German plane"
In the pass that destroyed the
Evening star., 1945-06-15
Cut in Public Relief Grants
Will Be Restored July |

With the beginning of the new
fiscal year July 1, the 10 per cent
reduction in public assistance grants
ordered last December will be re-
stored, Ray L. Huff, director of
public welfare, said yesterday.
Mr.. Huff also predicted that fewer
persons would be on relief than in
the 1945 fiscal year. The average
number of cases of public assistance
for the first eight months of the
fiscal year 1945 was 4,208, according
to information recently given Con-
gress, while the estimated average
for 1916 is 1000
The 10 per cent cut was made in
December to avoid a threatened
deficit of $4,000 to 100000. The
Commissioners refused to request a
supplemental appropriation to avert
the cut. Recently $6,700 was trans
ferred from the penny milk pro-
gram to prevent another 10 per cent
cut.
The grants. beginning with the
new fiscal year, will average per
month as follows: Old-age assist
snce, $35; dependent children, SOS. ST
families with three children, and
blind, $39.
Evening star., 1945-06-15
Sugar Dealer Faces
.0PA Hearing Today
In 30-Ton SHORTAGE
Possibility Of Its Use
By Moonshiners j
Investigated by Agency

Charges of ration coupon short
ages representing $4,000 pounds of
sugar against Winchester (Va)
wholesaler were to be heard today
by Office of Price Administration
Hearing Commissioner Travis Will
nams in Alexandria.
j. Ray Larcombe, OPA enforce
ment attorney for the Warrenton
field Office, said the OPA was in
vestigating the possibility that the
Winchester wholesaler sold the
sugar ration-free to distillers of
moonshine whisky in the Virginia
hills. He said several liquor raids
have been made in the Winchester
area in recent months.
Dealer Is Suspended.
In the joint case heard today,
Russell L. Morris, operator of the
Sunoco Service Station at VIM
chester, was suspended from deal
ing in gasoline for the duration of
the war.
He was charged with paying
some boys SIS for gasoline coupons,
and also with shortage of coupons
representing 803 gallons.
In cases heard yesterday an
order was issued suspending I. E.
Coleman, owner of filling sta
ton at Tysons Corner, near Fair
fax, from the sale of gasoline and
tires for the duration of the war.
The OpA charged that Coleman
used tire certificates illegally and
sold gasoline without coupons. 1t
was charged that the dealer was
short coupons valued at 3,596.50 gall
Ions of gasoline. The suspension
order will become effective when it
is issued through the Atlanta OPA
office, probably within the next
month.
Market Owner Suspended.
In another decision, Mrs. Bessie
Pasternak, owner Of the Wilson
Boulevard Market at 360l Wilson
boulevard, Arlington, was suspended
from dealing in sugar for the dura-
ton Of the war and from selling
meats and fats until she is able to
cover an overdraft in her ration
bank account.
Mr. Larcombe, in charging her
with overdrawing her account in
meats, fats and sugar, pointed out
that she had been given a brief
suspension last fall on similar
charges.
Evening star., 1945-06-15
Child Education Group
To Honor Henry Draper

Henry w. Draper, 70, supervising
principal of Division l of the Board
Of Education, who will retire June 80
after so year of service, will be hon.
ored at luncheon at pm. tomor-
row in the Statler Hotel.
The luncheon will be given by the
Association for the Education of
Handicapped Children of the Dis
trict, composed of parents, teachers
and friends of children who have
been taught by the Visiting Instruc-
ton Corps.
DR.. Draper has been directly associ-
ated with the shut-in program since
1941. At that time Congress pro-
vided that education of such chill
dren be undertaken by the public
schools and the Visiting Instruction
Corps was set up as part of Divi-
sion l.
Mr.. Draper lives at 1921 Thirty
fifth street NV. During his long
tenure with the Board of Education
he has been principal of two ele-
mentary schools and Langley Junior
High School.
Evening star., 1945-06-15
0'Conor Lauds EIks' Work
In Letter 10 DR.. Barrett
BY the Associated Press,


ANNAPOLIS, Nd, June 15.-A
special message of commentator
was extended by Gov. O'Conor today
to DR.. Robert S. Barrett, Alexan-
dria, Va, grand exalted ruler of the
Benevolent and Protective Order of
Elks, for the many phases of war
activities" sponsored by the order.
In a letter to DR.. Barrett. the
Governor commented on particular
phases of operations in which the
order was engaged, citing "the SELL
ing OF millions of dollars of War
Bonds, the opening of your homes
to men in the services, the recruit
ing activities both for the Army,
Navy and Nursing Corps, and the
latest activity in furnishing COM
forts and entertainment for veter-
ans in the hospital in this area"
1T can truly be said," the letter
concluded, that the Elks of Mary
land and this vicinity have done
their part nobly in the effort for
victory"
Evening star., 1945-06-15
Miss Christine Phillips
To Be Buried Today
By the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
WARRENTON, Va, June 15.-Fu-
neral services for Miss Christine
Phillips, II, Warrenton business
woman who died yesterday in Ply
sicians' Hospital here following a
long illness, were to be held this
morning In Warrenton Methodist
Church.
Burial will be later today in Cam
bridge, Nd, Miss Phillips home
town.
The daughter of the late Rev.
William F. Phillips and Mrs. M. A.
Wright, Miss Phillips moved to Fau-
quier County about 40 years ago.
She later established Bon Ton Mil
linery and was active In the social
and business life Of Warrenton.
Evening star., 1945-06-15
i. Coleman Andrews
Named 10 GAO Post

Capt. T. Coleman Andrews of
Richmond, who has done extensive
fiscal. reorganization work in Vir-
ginia, has been named to the new
post OF director of corporation au-
dts in the General Accounting
Office.
The division will carry out the
provision of the George bill which
authorizes an audit of the accounts
Of the 10l Government corporations.
The post of director pays 10000 and
he will have staff of approximately
1000.
Capt. Andrews. just released from
the Marine Corps after 80 months in
the Pacific, has wide reputation as
a specialist and consultant on Or
ganization and management, and
Controller General Lindsay C. War
rem said he considered Capt. An
drews the best selection that could
have been made.
The American Institute of Ac-
countants, it was said, will aid
Capt. Andrews in setting up an or
ganization.
Evening star., 1945-06-15
Baltimore Judge
Retiring, Asks
Critical Farewell
y the Associated Press.

bJ tue Associated PreSS.
BALTIMORE, June Judge
Eugene ODunne of the Supreme
Court at Baltimore, who will retire
Wednesday, told the committee in
charge of arrangements for a testi-
monial dinner that he would attend
only if "all goose grease be absolute
ly taboo"
The judge said, yes, he would at
tend the dinner, Provided, how
ever, that not one complimentary
note be sounded, not one kindly song
sung" He said he hoped the COM
mittee would invite, AL who have
the accumulated grievances of at
least 20 years-or perhaps those with
the vintage of 40 years back-to
publicly vent them, wholly free from
all restrictions of the law or con-
tempt Of court"
He submitted what he termed
"Queensberry rules to avoid any foul
play" to various speakers, including
H. L. Mencken, who, is it said, will
break precedent Of so years stand
ing in speaking at a public gather
ing aside from journalistic meetings.
Evening star., 1945-06-15
River Cruise to Ruise
Funds for Girls Cump

The Alexandria Civitan Club has
chartered the S. S. Potomac for a
cruise Tuesday night to raise funds
for the Girl Scout summer camp
near Manassas.
The boat, with a capacity of $500,
will leave the wharf at Seventh
street and Maine avenue at $3.50
pm. Tickets may be obtained from
any member of the Civitan Club or
the Girl Scout Council, by calling
Donald Bischoff at Temple 1874 or
Mrs. Paul Swasey at Temple 1862,
or at the wharf at sailing time.
Meanwhile it was reported that
the horse show held recently by
the Civitan Club for the benefit of
the camp fund raised between $500
and $4,000. Other Embarrassing
events held during the year by the
club and its ladies' auxiliary, the
Civanettes, brought in over $4,000,
part of which has been used as a
down payment on the farm.
Evening star., 1945-06-15
Mrs. Lena CounseIman
Rites Arranged Tomorrow

Mrs. Lena Counselman, 86, widow
of Benjamin S. Counselman, died
yesterday at the home of her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Clarence Gilbert, Bethesda,
after short illness.
Funeral services will be held at
the William R. Pumphrey funeral
home, Bethesda, at $3.50 am. to-
morrow. Mass will be celebrated at
Our Lady of Lourles Church, Be-
thesda, at 8 am. Burial will be in
Union Cemetery, Rockville.
Mrs. Counselman moved to Ten
leytown as child. Her father had
a hotel there.
She is survived by four sons, Lee
Counselman, Laytonsville; Ralph
and Earl Counselman, Potomac, and
Lowe Counselman, Washington;
two daughters, Mrs. Gilbert, Be-
thesda, and Mrs. B. S. Daniel, Ar
lington; 13 grandchildren, three
great-grandchildren and two great
great-grandchildren.
Evening star., 1945-06-15
Scouts in Falls Church
Will Burn Mortgage

The Falls Church Scout Building
Association will burn the mortgage
on the Scout house at a ceremony
at pm. Sunday attended by signers
of the mortgage and members of
the association.
The debt on the Scout cabin,
which serves nine Boy and Girl Scout
organizations in the Virginia COM
munity, has been paid off during
the last five years by contributions
and membership dues.
The various scouting groups in
the community will participate in
the ceremony. A welcome address
will be given by w. H. Glover, as
ISOLATION president, while Edward
Fenwick Will represent the Is orig
inal note signers.
Those who signed the note are
John A. K. Donovan, Leo K. Couch,
Dale c. Dillon, H. M. Lundien
Charles A. Pendleton, Clarence l.
Shotwell, r. E. Ankers, C. K. Glover
D. K. Grille, Charles E. Kellogg
Morton Mccartney, Lee Park, j. H
Parmalee, L. C. Weathers and Mr.
Fenwick.
Evening star., 1945-06-15
U. 5. Aides at College Park
Can Take Part in Elections

Government employees living in
the newly incorporated town OF Col
lege Park may participate in mu-
nicipal elections and hold town Of
fees under Civil Service Commits
sion ruling made public today by
DR.. T. B. Symons, chairman of the
College Park Committee.
Incorporation of the College Park
area was approved in a referendum
June 4. Election of town officials
will be held July 2. Communities
included in the new town are Ber-
wyn, College Park, Lakeland, CAL
vert Hills and the district consist
ing of Branchville, Oak Springs,
Daniels Park and Hollywood.
DR.. Symons quoted Alfred Klein,
acting chief law officer, Civil Serv-
ice Commission, as follows:
"The privileges of active partici-
patton in the local government of
the town of College Park is ex-
tended to Federal employe residents
OF such town, subject to the same
conditions as are now applied In
the case of other towns in the i'm
mediate vicinity ."
Evening star., 1945-06-15
J. 81. George Bryan
Dies al Richmond
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, Va, June Isl. st.
George Bryan, 66, vice president and
director of Richmond Newspapers,
Inc, and a former vice president
of the News Leader Co., died yester-
day.
With his death, there passes the
last of five brothers, all of whom
were widely known in Virginia. His
brothers were the late John Stewart
Bryan, newspaper publisher and
president of William and Mary Col
lege; Jonathan Bryan of "Rothe-
say; DR.. Robert C. Bryan, Rich
mond physician, and Thomas Pinck-
ney Bryan, member of the Rich
mond Bar Association.
Besides his widow he is survived
by two sons, 1t. Comdr. Joe Bryan
III and 1t. Lamont Stewart Bryan,
U. S. NJ, and by five grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held at
Emmanuel Episcopal Church at II
a m. tomorrow. Burial will be in the
church cemetery.
Evening star., 1945-06-15
Funeral Services Held
For William H. Poole
Special Dispatch to The Star.

special Dispatch to The Star.
BROWNINGSvILLE, Md, June
15.-Fneral services for William
Harvey Poole, so, lifelong resident
of this vicinity, who died Monday
at Sabillasvile, Md, were held at the
home here yesterday. The Rev.
Jacob Snyder, pastor of the Meth
odist Church at Damascus, Nd, Of
ficiated, and burial was in the GEM
etery at Damascus.
Mr.. Poole is survived by his
widow, Mrs. Jesse H. Poole, Brown
ingsville: three daughters, Miss
Hazel G. Poole, Washington, and
the Misses June E. and Shirley I.
Poole, both Of Browningsville; four
sons, William H. ir., in the Army,
and Aubrey G., Wilford B. and
Thurston e. Poole, all Of Brown
ingsville; his mother, Mrs. Annie
Poole, Cedar Grove; a sister and
two brothers.
Evening star., 1945-06-15
Editorial Suggests
Naval Academy as
Postgraduate School
Present Curriculum
Held Very Restricted
Not Adapted to Needs
BY the Associated Press.

Ey the Associated Press.
ANNAPOLIS, Md, June 15.-The
Southern Maryland Times, declar-
ing Naval Reserve officers "have
done the outstanding job in this
war;" urged today that the Naval
Academy be reorganized as "a post
graduate school for civilian college
trained" men.
The Times, weekly, criticized in
an editorial the curriculum at the
academy as "a very restricted course
largely devoid of liberal arts and
natural sciences" and that its rec
concentrations for the Naval Acad-
emy might well apply at West Point.
Affects Expansion.
when faced with critical prob
lens at sea-" the paper says, "the
reserve, who has learned to think
for himself as well as follow the
rules of our Navy, is betted adapted
to meet situations than the Acad-
emy graduate under the existing
system.
"We recommend, therefore, that
the United States Naval Academy be
completely reorganlzed and turned
into a postgraduate school for
civilian college-trained reserves, thus
giving the Nation Navy of men
who have acquired the ability to
work out the typical problems of
living as civilians men who are
mature individualists and who have
the background of a liberal educa-
ton before they are restricted to
the purely technical subjects of the
trade school,
I'm addition, this change would
require no expansion of existing IA
cilities at the Academy, since 5000
reserves would be more than suffi-
cient to meet the needs of a post
war Navy. y"
Learned to Memorize.
With reference to midshipmen
who graduate from the academy,
the paper said:
THE man who goes through the
academy is given a very restricted
course, largely devoid of liberal arts
and natural sciences. Mathematics
and practical engineering are given
the most prominent position.
"A graduating midshipmen a few
years ago who, when asked what
he had learned in four years at
Annapolis, replied emphatically: I
have learned to memorize.' Is not
this rather sad indication of the
results achieved by young men who
must administrate to and lead other
men in peace and battle?"
Evening star., 1945-06-15
Investigator BIames
Lack Of Discipline for
Abuse Of G| Patients
300 Troops Detailed
To Hospitals as Attendants
Blamed in Mistreutment
BY CARTER BROOKE JONES.


The House Veterans Committee
delved further into veterans hospi-
tails today after Harry Stansfield,
investigator for the central Office of
the Veterans Administration, testi-
fled late yesterday that he had in
vestigated brutality to patients at
three neuropsychiatric hospitals-at
Northport, N. Y; Lyons, N. j., and
Chillicothe, Ohio.
Such charges had been made at
some other hospitals. he said, but
he, had not investigated them.
The committee was occupied all
day yesterday with the situation at
Northport, where Is soldier-attend-
ants were convicted by court martial
of mistreating patients, and 7 civil
ian a4eendants were dismissed and
the Evidence against them turned
over to the United States attorney
at Brooklyn.
Reports Lack of Discipline.
Mr.. StanSfleld attributed much of
the difficulty at the New York hos
pital to lack of discipline among
more than 300 troops, most of them
colored, who were detailed there as
attendants when the institution was
unable to hire any more civilians.
Col. Louis F. Verdel, manager and
chief medical officer, earlier had
told the committee he had no au-
thority over the troops, who were
responsible only to their company
officers, captain and two lieuten-
ants.
Their own officers had little con-
troll over them, Mr. Stansdeld said.
He added that the nurses were
afraid of the colored soldiers and
could not enforce their orders, nor
could the doctors.
Chairman Rankin said he thought
this was an outrage for which the
War Department was responsible
Il resent the War Departments at
titude toward veterans hospitals, ~
he told the committee.
Mr.. Stansf1eld said he was sent
to Northport to go over the evidence
gathered by three undercover men
whom the Veterans Administration
had placed in the hospital and to
question doctors, nurses and at
tendants. He described the soldiers
as unco-operative, explaining that
they would not talk, and, if they
did, refused to sign statements.
Found Patients Beaten.
The evidence, he said, showed that
patient "a" had been struck in the
back of the neck by an attendant.
Another patient, he said, was struck
and kicked. Two other patients, he
testified, suffered abrasions and
cuts, and the attendants said they
had fought each other.
Il was convinced from my inves-
tigation that attendants beat them
up" the witness said.
Has this sort of thing happened
In other hospitals?" asked Repre-
sentative Kearney, Republican, of
New York.
Yes, it has," the Investigator
replied.
The committee will look into other
neuropsychatric hospitals later.
Evening star., 1945-06-15
Red Cross Secretary Named

Appointment Of Mr.. James r. Will
son, 100 South Fairfax street, as
home service secretary Of the Alex
andria Red Cross was announced
by Mrs. Albert L. Miller, chairman.
Mrs. Wilson will succeed Mrs. Mere
dith Haste, who resigned due to
illness In her family.
Mrs. Wilson, q native of Cleveland,
Is a graduate of Notre Dame Col
lege and an experienced medical
social case worker.
Evening star., 1945-06-15
TH-County Co-op's Note
For $50, 900 Approved


RICHMOND, Va, June 15.-The
State Corporation Commission yes
terday authorized the ri-County
Electric Cooperative to issue its
note for $4,000 payable to the Rural
Electrif1cation Administration, in
addition to similar notes for $29l,-
600 authorized in the last six years.
Proceeds of the loan authorized
yesterday will be used for construc-
ton and operation of IS miles of
branch lines to connect approx
mately 125 additional consumers in
Clarke, Fairfax, Fauquier. Loudoun
and Prince william Counties.