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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-21
Cold Weather Brinqs
70 Suits by Tenants
Charging Poor Heat

The current icy weather is hay
ing repercussions at Municipal Court
and the Rent Control Administra-
tors Office in the form of COM
plants from tenants who declare
their landlords are not furnishing
enough heat.
An estimated 20 suits are pending
in Small Claims Court, charging
landlords with failure to provide
adequate heat and hot water as
required by the minimum service
standards of the Emergency Rent
Control Act.
District Rent Control Administra-
tor Robert F. Cogswell said between
20 and 30 calls are being received
daily at his Office on similar COM
plants.
No Alibi on Fuel.
with fuel supplies as they are
now" Mr.. Cogswell said, land with
the exception of emergencies, there
is no reason why everyone should
not have enough heat"
If warnings by the rent control
Office fail to bring relief, Mr.. Cogs-
well said, the tenants are advised
to bring suit as the quickest way
to get action on complaint for
lack of heat"
Typical of the suits awaiting
action in Small Claims Court are
those Of four tenants at 1921 Massa-
chusetts avenue Sc, who are ask
ing $50 judgments each on charges
of failure to provide hot water and
heat. The suits name as defend
ants, Jess Fisher, trading as Jess
Fisher & Co., 913 New York avenue
NV, and Mary S. Cudmore, SAILS
North Capitol street.
Claims Temperatures Erratic.
One resident of the apartment
building, Mrs. Thomas P. Kenefick
said her family, including two chill
dren, and 2 years old, has been
suffering from severe colds brought
on by irregular heat in the apart
ment.
They have had no hot water for
month, she said, and the tempera-
ture in the apartment might be $50
degrees for a week and not over 65
degrees the next"
Mrs. Keneflck said she gets some
relief by keeping gas oven burning.
Tenants in the apartment building
have a total of eight small children
she said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-21
Washington Boys Club
Holds YuIe Party Toniaht

The Boys Club of Washington, a
Community War Fund agency, will
give it's annual Christmas party,
with carol singing, gifts, and a
Punch and Judy show, at $50
o'clock tonight.
Members of the Georgetown
branch's dramatic club will give a
Christmas play. All the youngsters
will receive Christmas stockings,
and one lucky boy will win live
turkey. The party will be held at
the clubhouse, 2726 M street NV.
To continue the work of such COM
munity agencies In 1916, the Com
munity War Fund needs $469, 900.
Lee D. Butler, chairman of the
drive, said that it is essential to
support the recreation program for
children in order to prevent juvenile
delinquency.
Christmas donations should be
sent to Community War Fund head
quarters, 1101 M street NV.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-21
lnterlochen Director FIGHTS
PetrilIo's Move to ExDeI Him

one man can dictate the unions pol
ICY DR.. Maddy said. II have been q
member of the Musicians Union
for 81 years-longer than Mr.. Pc
trillo has been afiliated with it,"
DR.. Maddy, professor Of radio
music instruction at the University
of Michigan, said the ATM notified
him January Is that the Inter
lochen camp had been placed on
its unfair" list.
The order said union members
could not teach, coach or play at
the camp" he recalled, "but we kept
the camp going this summer with
out union staff since many of our
union members were afraid to defy
the unions orders.
Il was the only union member
on the staff, and we had more than
1000 young people as students dur
Ing the summer months.
Dr.. Maddy said he probably would
appear before the executive board
and that he would insist on 1 pub
lie hearing
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-21
Woman Seeks CTS Lost DOG
As He Heads Home for Visit

Friday the case came up to trial
and Judge George D. Nelson or
dered that Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
West OF the 300 block of Delafield
street NV, produce the dog or pay
a s25 judgment.
Mrs. Moriarty said the Vests had
lost track of the dog and were un-
able to say where he was.
II don't care about the money,
even if it were $1,000" said Mrs.
Moriarty, "and I don't want to hurt
anybody. But I just can't stand the
thoughts of facing my son and tell
ing him I don't know where Lucky
is"
In f. telephone call from San
Diego last week, Pfc. Moriarty asked
his mother "How's that dog of
mine?"
Il just couldn't tell him over the
phone" the mother said I'm just
hoping we can find him before he
gets home"
Pfc. Moriarty left Roosevelt High
School two years ago to join the
Marine Corps.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-21
Patterson Urges YuIe Halt
In NonessentiaI Rail Trims

Secretary of War Patterson made
an appeal to the public today to
refrain from nonessential train
travel so that approximately 100, 900
veterans from the Pacific, held up
on the West Coast for lack of
transportation, might have a chance
to get home by Christmas.
From December Is through De-
cember 20, record total of 1875, 900
troops arrived at Los Angeles, San
Francisco and Seattle" he said,
This was in addition to the very
heavy volume of arrivals for the
Navy.
by midnight, December 49," he
added, there were IS, 900 men in the
staging areas, of whom IS 900 had
been there over 48 hours and were
awaiting transportation. In addi-
ton, there were about 10000 held
aboard ship until some of those
already landed could be moved to
separation centers."
Although troop travel has reached
a peak of $4,000 passengers per day
on the West Coast rail lines, Mr.. Pat
terson said that only by Herculean
efforts Of all concerned can we speed
the Serviceman to his home"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-21
Dominican Group 10 Aid
immigration Of Jews

The creation, by President Tru-
jillo Of the Dominican Republic. Of
a committee to sponsor the immi-
cation Of Jews and other prosecuted
minorities to that country was an
nounced here today by Emilio Gar
cia Godoy, Dominican Ambassador.
Naming of the committee, the an
nouncement said, is in line with an
offer, made by the Dominican Re-
public last November, of sanctuary
for all persons endangered by
racial religious and political perse-
cution."
Members of the committee are
Senator H. H. Lopez Penha, chair
man; Drs. Jose Almoina. Herman
Cruz Ayala; Jesus Maria Troncoso
and Ambrosio Alvarez, members:
Juan Arce Medina, secretary, and
Phnio B. Pima Cheyalier, COMMITTEES
delegate to the United States.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-21
BY the Associated Press.

oy lac Associated PreSS.
ANN ARBOR, Mich, Dec. 21.-Dr.
Joseph Maddy, director of the Ma
tional Music Camp at Interlocken,
Mich, squared of today for his
latest battle with the American
Federation of Musicians (AFL) over
an order to show cause why he
should not be expelled from the
union.
DR.. Maddy, who has engaged IN
a long-standing feud with James
Caesar Petrillo, union president,
reported he received a telegram
Wednesday night ordering hims to
appear before a meeting of the
unions Executive Board at Chicago
January is.
At the meeting, DR.. Maddy said,
he will be expected to answer
formal charges that his activities at
the camp have been detrimental
to the union.
7 certainly welcome this show
down on the question Of whether
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-21
Has anybody seen Lucky?

Lucky is 5-year-old pedigreed
wire-haired terrier and the most
treasured possession" of Marine Pfc.
John J. Moriarty, jr., 20, who is en-
route to Washington from the South
Pacific for a Christmas furlough.
He doesn't know that Lucky is
missing.
The last thing the young Marine
told his mother, Mrs. Helen M.
Moriarty of 321 Crittenden street
NV, before he left for overseas last
summer was don't let anything
happen to that dog" the anxious
mother said yesterday.
A year and half ago Mrs.
Moriarty moved into a small apart
ment, and when family with three
children offered to keep the dog for
her. she was glad to accept, she
said.
But when she was unable to see
Lucky at all beginning last April,
she finally brought suit in Munich
pal Court to get him back. Last
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-21
Taxi Union 10 Take
Holiday Jan. IA 10
Protest PUG Stand

An estimated 1,750 Washington
taxicab drivers will take a holiday
about January IA" in protest over
refusal of the Public Utilities
Commission to hold hearings on
proposed revision of group riding
rates, Charles A. Garrett, spokes-
man for Local 935. Taxicab Opera
tors, Drivers and Garage Employees,
said today.
Decision to take the holiday" was
made last night at meeting OF
the local, he said, at which men,
bers voted 371 to / for the 'holi-
day." He said the union member
ship numbers 1850 and that men,
bers work for most of the taxi COM
panies operating in the District.
The union voted to continue the
holiday" until the PUG takes
action, he said.
Last nights meeting, according to
a second union spokesman, lasted
five hours. The holiday" was
voted las evidence of the strength
of the union in visible refutation
of the PUG statement that they are
unaware of the number of drivers
represented by the union and the
interests thereof"
1t was announced that the union
a local Of the International Brother
hood of Transfers, AFL, has taken
over new and larger quarters at 800
M street NE, and will move into
them Monday.
New officers of the local elected
at last nights meeting were Henry
Grange, president; Lyman Bremen
vice president; Howard Putnam
secretary-treasurer; Benjamin M
Deutsch, recording secretary, ano
Jacob Gartenhaus, Jacinto A. Rhines
Harry Lancaster, trustees, and Cal
Hughes and Edward Williams
agents.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-21
Family Of 8 Asks S55,000
SuitCharging Fire Injuries

Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Evans, COL
ored, of the 1900 block of Wylie
street NE. yesterday afternoon filed
a suit in District Court asking a
total of S55,000 damages against
Maurice I. and Mrs. Rose Schlein,
900 block of New York avenue NV,
for burns and smoke injury alleged
to have been suffered by Mr.. Evans
and six children during a fire in
October in a dwelling in the 1900
block of Rosedale street NE.
In another suit, filed in Mu-
nicipal Court, the Evans ask total
of $12,364 on charges of over-ceiling
rent payments and failure of the
landlords to maintain service stand
ards Of water and heat.
Mr.. and Mrs. Schlein are de-
scribed in the suits as landlords OF
the Rosedale street dwelling. Mrs
Evans also asks an additional 81, 00G
in the District Court suit for alleged
damage done to furniture.
The children range in age from
to II. Two of them are Mrs. Evans
children by former marriage.
The suit was. filed by Attorney I.
H. Halpern, who said the father
and children were rescued by fire.
men.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-21
?. O. Brunch for ChiIIum

A new branch post Office of the
Hyattsville Post Office soon will be
established in Chillum. Decision to
establish the branch follows re-
quests to the Post Office Depart
ment by Representative Sasscer,
Democrat, of Maryland and POST
master Edgbert F. Tingley. The
new branch will be located near the
intersection of Riggs and Chillum
road ana will serve about $500 per-
SonS,-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-21
.Coptoin Found Shot
To Deuth in ARLINGTON

Capt. John Grafton Davis, 43. Of
625 South Fillmore street, Arlington,
was found dead yesterday with q
bullet wound in his head in the rear
of the Fillmore Gardens, police re-
ported today.
Police said a pistol was found near
the officer. DR.. w. G. Welburn,
county treasurer, said he would issue
q certificate Of suicide.
Capt. Davis, who was single and
lived with two other Army officers,
had been q patient at Walter Reed
Hospital for about three months.
He was q native Of jackson, Miss.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-21
Receiving Home Plan
Changed 10 Segregate
Delinquent Children

District officials agreed today to
modify plans for a new Receiving
Home for Children here in order to
overcome objections raised by civic
groups, Col. Joseph D. Arthur, jr.,
assistant engineer commissioner, an
|nounced.
Col. Arthur said an agreement to
provide more segregation Of delin-
quent from normal children was
reached at a conference in his office
between civic spokesman and repre-
sentatives of the Board of Public
Welfare.
The size of the proposed institu-
ton will be reduced to provide for
maximum of IS children, he said.
Plans approved by the Board of
Welfare called for 96-bed institu-
ton.
The classification center, which
some civic leaders had objected to,
will be retained.
Col. Arthur said that specific
changes will be worked out Thurs
day by Ray L. Huff, director of well
fare; Sherwood Norman of the Ma
tional Probation Association and
Howard c. Hopkirk Of the Child
Welfare League of America.
Mr.. Norman and Mr.. Hopkirk ap-
peared before the board Monday
and asked that delinquent and nom
dfelinquents be placed in two sepa-
rate buildings. They were called in
to represent a citizens committee
headed by Mrs. Agnes Meyer. wife
of the publisher of the Washington
Post.
Mrs. Meyers group has sought 6
small receiving home for not more
than 40 inmates, while the Fedora.
ton of Women's Clubs has upheld
the boards plan for a larger insti.
tuition. Mrs. Meyer, Mr.. Norman
and Mrs. Leslie B. Wright, repre-.
senting the Federation, attended the
lconference this morning.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-21
Two Officials Named
To Staff Of District
Veterans Center

David G.. Linden, formerly of the
War Manpower Commission, was
sworn in yesterday as assistant to
the director of the District Veterans
Information Center. At the some
time, Edwin G. CTed) Luther, pub
lie relations man, was sworn in as
community contact representative
for the center
The appointments were another
step by the center's director, w. E
Leonard, to build up the personnel
of his staff before moving into the
new offices at Fourteenth street and
Pennsylvania avenue within few
days.
Mr.. Linden was formerly chief of
the compliance division of the area
Office of the War Manpower Com
mission and earlier was associate
recruitment officer with the United
States Employment Service. He is
IS and lives at 2510 @ street NV.
Mr.. Luther, 81, of 1915 Harvard
street NV, was Marine sergeant
in the World War and is a member
of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and
the American Legion.
Prior to coming to Washington IL
years ago, Mr.. Linden worked with
boys in various institutions through
out the Midwest and on the Pacific
Coast. He also worked for a citi-
zens' committee in st. Louis and with
the Missouri Relief and Reconstruc-
ton Commission at st. Joseph, Mo.
In 1884, he was transferred from
st. Joseph to Washington to act as
housing superintendent of the Dis
trict Transient Bureau at the re-
quest of the Federal Emergency Re-
lief Administration.
He then was appointed special
agent for the Commissioners to as
sist stranded veterans here to secure
Works Progress Administration en-
ployment in their home communi-
ties. Later he directed the non-resi-
dent service Of the Board of Public
Welfare until his resignation in 1913.
In 1887, at the time of the Ohio
flood disaster, he was loaned to the
Red Cross by the welfare board to
work out of Paducah, KY.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-21
Patterson Honors Aide
For Exceptional Service

Secretary of War Patterson yes
terday presented the Exceptional
Civilian Service Award to his spe-
cial assistant, Howard C. Peterson
of New York, for services to the
War Department since 1941.
Mr.. Peterson, lawyer, first served
under Mr.. Patterson when he was
Undersecretary and helped co-ordi-
nate the activities of numerous
private and governmental agencies
when it was vital that one overall
War Department policy be estab-
lished.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-21
Catholic Group Honors
Rev. Cornelius Collins

The Rev. Cornelius B. Collins, for
the last four years religious con-
sultant in the program department
of the National Catholic Community
Service, member agency of the
United Service Organization, was
honored at farewell reception last
night at the National Catholic We'll
fare Building, 1912 Massachusetts,
avenue NV.
Father Collins is resigning his po-
sition with the NOES on January
l to take up parochial duties in
Providence. r. I.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-21
East Capitol ST. Area
Meeting 10 Consider
Federal Development

A mass meeting to determine
neighborhood sentiment on the pro-
posed development of East Capitol
Street by the Federal Government
will be held at pm. January at
Metropolitan Baptist Church by the
Stanton Park, Southeast and North
east Washington Citizens Associa-
tions.
The meeting, which was described
today as purely neighborhood af-
fair, was originally sponsored by the
Stanton Park Association. The other
two groups joined the ranks of spon-
sors later. The Lincoln Park As
ISOLATION will not participate, it was
said.
The meeting will be addressed by
w. E. Reynolds, commissioner of
public buildings, whose administra-
ton has recommended legislation to
Congress which would authorize the
Government to purchase at one
time, or as nearly as possible, all
the land between B streets NE. and
Sc. from the Capitol to the Ana
costa River to create sites for flu
ture Federal buildings and other
buildings of national or public ma
ture.
The development of East Capitol
street to bring into better balance
a C0ital overdeveloped to the
west, has been sought for years
by planning and civic bodies, but
current Federal building legislation
is the first which has sought to
purchase the land before prices are
inflated by initial Federal expan-
sion.
The postwar Federal buildings
bill, on which hearings were held
this fall by the House Committee on
Public Buildings and Grounds, pro-
poses to rent property purchased to
residents until such time as it is
needed for building sites and to
reimburse the District during that
period for the amount of tax receipts
lost.
Tracy T. Madden of the Stanton
Park Association, said today it is
hoped a resolution to be presented
to Congress will be approved at the
mass meeting. He said those at
tending the meeting would be voting
as individuals and that participate
ing associations would not be bound
by any decision taken. Individual
associations, he said, are expected
to favor or oppose the resolution
later.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-21
Hiring Register
Urged 10 End
Discrimination
CIOU Union Suggests
Unemployment Boset
On Previous Record
BY JOSEPH YOUNG.

The Civil Service Commission
today was urged to set up a re-
employment register of displaced
Government war service appoint
eeS to end the discrimination
that; President Truman charged
was practiced by some Federal
agencies in the rehiring of some
of these workers.
While applauding the Presidents
order that such racial and religious
Discrimination must stop, officials of
the Omitted Federal Workers of
America, CLIO, said the entire sit
uation could be avoided by the set
ting up of rehiring registers based on
seniority and efficiency ratings of
employees seeking unemployment by
the Government.
In this way, dismissed Federal
workers who have been in the Gov
eminent the longest and who have
the best records would have prefer
ence over other employees seeking re-
employment and would get first
choice at available Federal jobs, 1t
was pointed out.
Wide Hiring Field.
Donald Murray, an official of the
CLIO affiliate, declared, This would
be the fairest system and would pre-
clude any discrimination on the part
Of agencies"
The system advocated would be on
the same basis that the dismissals
OF war service appointees are deter
mined. Employees with highest SEN
iority and efficiency ratings are the
last to lose their jobs.
"At present, agencies can hire any
dismissed Federal employee they
please and this leads to discrimi-
nation" Mr.. Murray declared. Many
persons who should receive first
crack at the available jobs are
passed over simply because of their
race or religion"
Deficiency Funds Cut.
For several months UFWA has
urged the Civil Service Commission
to set up these registers, but the
Soiil4llooiOl1 las ldlleQ 10 act on Cne
suggestion. 1t was learned that. the
commission does not have the avail
able funds that would be necessary
to set up rehiring list and the
workers to man it. Recently the
commission requested 81 900 900 adj
ditional in deficiency funds, but
last week the Senate granted only
81 100000 of the request.
Another reason the commission
has hesitated in setting up a register
was its feeling that agency heads
would resent being deprived of the
right to choose their own employees.
However, during the last few months
when thousands of employees have
been dismissed from their jobs and
have sought new Federal jobs.
agency heads have been under
strong political pressure brought on
behalf of some of these employees.
AS a result, some agency heads have
now taken the position that re-em-
ployment registers would be the
best possible thing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-21
Bus Firm Authorized
To Buy 10 New Vehicles

The Arlington & Fairfax Motor
Transportation Co., which operates
between Washington and the two
nearby Virginia counties, today had
been authorized to acquire 10 tram
sit-type buses at an estimated cost
of SOL ,680.50.
The State Corporation Commits
sion approved the acquisition yes
terday, the Associated Press re-
ported from Richmond. The COM
pany has entered into conditional
sales contracts with Transit Bus
Sales for the 10 buses of 29-pas-
senger capacity to be delivered be-
tween now and April. OF the total
cost, $12,33610 is to be paid in cash
and the remainder in installments