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Evening star., 1946-05-31
Lightweight Radar Used
Successfully by Air|iners
BY fhs Associoted Press

Lightweight radar equipment has
been successfully adapted to use by
airliners, the Army Air Forces re-
ported yesterday, predicting it would
help make flights safe in all kinds
of weather.
Developed during the war, the
equipment was used for the first
time on scheduled transport flight
by a C-54 plane of the Air Trans
port Command from Westover Field,
Mass, to Paris by way of Washing
ton.
Radar enabled the plane to keep
in contact with the Patuxent River,
Md, beacon for 1876 miles after leav-
ing the Atlantic Coast. permitted
bypassing of bad weather areas and
spotted surface vessels and the coast
OF Newfoundland and France long
in advance, the Army said.
Evening star., 1946-05-31
Converted Barracks
For Veterans at 6. W.
Viewed by Officials

Housing Administrator Wilson W.
Wyatt and other officials today in
spected three converted Army bar
racks which will provide temporary
housing for 204 student veterans at
George Washington University. The
project at Twenty and G.
streets NV. will be operated by the
university.
Mr.. Wyatt, Philip M. Klutznick,
commissioner of the Federal Public
Housing Authority; Oliver C. Win
ston, FPHA District area director,
and other Government officials were
accompanied on the inspection by
DR.. Cloyd Heck Marvin, university
president.
DR.. Marvin hailed completion of
the three buildings and said: Il
think the Government has done a
remarkable job here We couldn't
get along without these dormitories. I"
The dormitories are the first to
be completed of 2,846 units allo-
Gated to this area by FPHA. The
housing is being constructed by pri-
vate contractors under FPHA su-
pervision as part of a Nationwide
program of 10000 units for which
Congress recently appropriated
$445 ,627 900. Part Of the program
is for student veterans and the rest
for veterans and seryicemen's fam
lilies.
Mr.. Wyatt said the temporary
units have saved time and mate
rials" in meeting the housing emer-
gency.
DR.. Marvin said the completed
units, together with additional 10
family dwelling units to be COM
pleted June Is for married student
veterans, will accommodate almost
10 per cent of the university's en-
rollment of $500 student veterans.
BY Monday, the university ex-
poets to have virtually all rooms
rented at SIT a month for a single
room and s13 each monthly for two
occupants of double room.
Evening star., 1946-05-31
Navy Club Meets
Tonight Around
Surrender Table

The surrender table," on which
the Japanese capitulation was sign
ed aboard the battleship Missouri,
will be brought from Annapolis for
the meeting tonight of the Capital
Ship of the Navy Club at the May.
flower Hotel
Combat action films, including
the picture Fighting Lady" will
be shown at 1880 pm, and me.
mortal exercises for the 469 District
dead of World War II will be held
at 8:15 pm. with Admiral William
F. Halsey, jr., U. S. NJ, retired, as
the principal speaker. Other speak
ers will be Rear Admiral william
Thomas, chief of naval chaplains,
and the Rev. Maurice Sheehy, for
mer naval chaplain, who is chaplain
of the local organization. Enlisted
men have charge of arrangements
for the meeting, Father Sheehy said.
Evening star., 1946-05-31
June Week Events
Begin at Annapolis
by the Associoted Press

ANNAPOLIS, Md, May 31.-June
week begins today at the Naval
Academy.
This climactic week in the life of
every academy first classman will
end Wednesday with graduation
exercises and commissioning as en-
signs in the Navy or second lieu
tenants in the Marine Corps for
most class members.
On todays June week schedule
are a baseball game with Iowa Pre-
Flight, tennis against Dartmouth,
presentation of athletic and extra
curricular awards and the mo More
Rivers" ceremony in which the
graduating class traditionally cele-
brates the fact that all their exam
nations are over and there are no
rivers" between them and a COM
mission.
A dance for winners of the Navy
athletic IN" will be held tonight.
The big event of tomorrow is the
ring dance, at which the "drags" of
second classmen will slip class rings
on the fingers of their dates.
Baccalaureate ceremonies will be
held Sunday in the academy chapel.
The brigade of midshipmen will
stage a formal parade Monday and
Vice Admiral Aubrey w. Fitch will
hold his annual garden party.
Another brigade parade will be
held on graduation eve, at which
colors will be presented to the COM
mander Of the winning company by
the color girl.
A farewell ball will be held that
night.
Evening star., 1946-05-31
Sir John Dill Remembered
In Ceremony al ARLINGTON

Robert Woods Bliss, former Am
bassador to Argentina, placed a
wreath on the Arlington National
Cemetery grave Of British Field
Marshal Sir John Dill yesterday.
Chairman of a committee collect,
ing funds to establish a Sir John
Dill memorial, Mr.. Bliss was one of
a small group which paid homage to
the British soldier, who was a men,
Der of the Combined Chiefs of Staff
at the time of his death here in
November, 1914.
Sir John, firm believer in the
United Nations and British -Ameri-
can corporations, was buried in
Arlington at his own request. Gen.
George c. Marshall, then Army chief
of staff, selected the site for the
grave on a knoll overlooking the
Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and
initiated the move to erect a me-
mortal to Sir John.
Evening star., 1946-05-31
Airport Aid Applications
May Be Authorized Oct. |

Preliminary applications for air.
port improvement and construction
with Federal assistance may become
authorized about October /, Charles
B. Donaldson, assistant airports ad-
ministrator of the Civil Aeronautics
Administration, said today.
Regional and district offices of the
CAA would accept the applications
under the Federal airport program,
for which Congress has authorized
$500, 900 900 for the next seven years.
No funds have yet been appropriated
and no more than a fifth of the
total could be appropriated in any
one year.
Tentative regulations for the air
port program are being formulated
by CAA airport officials in antici-
patton of the appropriation and an
appropriation of 100000 for a
Nationwide survey Of airport needs.
Evening star., 1946-05-31
Elm to Be Dedicated
In Park Tomorrow

Maj. Gen. U. S. Grant, Sd, chair
man, National Capital Park and
Planning Commission, will dedicate
the George Washington elm in the
B. F. Gilbert Memorial Park at
3 pm. tomorrow. The park is located
between Takoma and Eastern ave-
nues and Piney Branch road.
The dedication exercises are under
the auspices of the North Takoma
Improvement Club, of which C. A.
Reed is president. The tree was
obtained through the efforts of the
club and is graft descendant of
the original elm under which Gen.
George Washington accepted his
commission as Commander in Chief
Of the Continental Army at Cam
bridge, Mass.
Park officials said that in the
event of rain the ceremony will be
held in the auditorium of the Bliss
Electrical School, Takoma Park.
Evening star., 1946-05-31
By Chris Mothisen
Magic is a store bought talent.

Magic is store bought talent.
The Nations greatest emporium
of effects" illusions" and "gim-
micks" is open for business in the
Wardman Park Hotel, proving that
few of the spot-lighted cape-and-
wand boys know secrets which can't
be bought for from Is cents up at
any neighborhood mumbo- jumbo
shop.
Leading dealers in magicians' par
aphernalia are exhibiting their lat
est brainstorms during the 18th an
nual conference of the Society of
American Magicians. A member of
the society in good standing guards
the door to the display room, and
the uninitiated are not encouraged
to browse.
Where Jefferson Blushed.
A reporter who passed the portal
with Ralph H. Mittendorff, Enter
tainment Committee chairman, con-
sidered himself lucky to get out
whole-and with his few greenbacks
not replaced by stage money.
Seen Thomas jefferson blush?"
With wicked leer, a dealer caused
the cheek of T. j. on a nickel to
bronze after exposure to a volup-
tuous belle.
Nov, here's one of the best SIS
effects on the market" declared
another merchant of mystery. 1T
cuts cigarettes, carrots, anything
put your finger under the blade.
Now, we give the plunger a whack-
and it doesn't hurt the finger!
Choosy little gadget, isn't it?"
Evening star., 1946-05-31
Milk Producers
Win 1c.a.Qua|rt
Price Increase
Action Here Follows
Bowles' Decision
For National Boost

Milk producers for the Washing
ton area have won a Accent per
hundredweight increase In milk
price, effective tomorrow and con-
tinuing through June.
The increase, which is equivalent
to l cent quart, Is within the
framework of the proposal OF Eco
nomic Stabilizer Bowles for a Ma
tion-wide increase of 1 cent a quart
starting early next month, depart
ment official said.
This order Is expected to be fol-
lowed shortly by an announcement
from OPA raising the price of milk
here l cent. This will mean milk
will cost 16 cents a quart for home
delivery, as against a present price
of Is cents.
The Agriculture Department Of
fetal indicated, meanwhile, that the
department very possibly" will rec
ommend further increase to pro-
ducers before July /.
1t was pointed out that the de-
partment still has under study the
application of the Maryland and
Virginia Milk Producers Associa-
ton for a93-cents-a-hundredweight
increase in milk supplied the Wash
ington market.
The new order applies to class I
milk, which is fluid milk, including
chocolate milk.
Consumers also face a 1l-cents-
pound increase in the price of butter
and 6-cents-a-pound for cheddar
cheese.
Mr.. Bowles warned that further
sharp increases in dairy products
may come this summer If Congress
ends food subsidies.
Evening star., 1946-05-31
Papertroopers Push
Hospital Fund Drive

First returns in the Papertroopers'
drive to raise sufficient funds to pay
for a four-bed ward in the new
Children's Hospital came today when
Barnard and Cleveland Schools
assigned their collections of this
week to that purpose, getting off to
a headstart on the regular campaign,
which opens Monday.
Barnard, with a quota of 6,225
pounds based on a per capita figure
OF Is pounds for the AIS pupils of
the school, almost filled its quota on
the one collection, turning in 4,651
pounds. Cleveland, with a quota of
11,130 pounds based on 742 pupils,
turned in 1.425, but no concerted
drive was attempted last Tuesday,
Better results are anticipated in next
weeks two collections on Monday
and Thursday.
-Four more schools, Buchanan
Gaithersburg, Glenmont and Cleve-
land, which announced its participa-
tion by the assignment of paper as
AAASAAeAoAASd obOfC, JOlllcQ Lille OTlFc
today bringing the number of schools
to SO, with potential total of 404,-
ITO pounds of paper based on the per
capita mark of Is pounds, about halt
OF the amount needed.
Two schools sent in cards Joining
but the name Of the school was
omitted in each case.
In order to. insure success of the
drive. assistance from those without
children will be needed. In order to
assist, a list of the schools and the
collection day will be printed in The
Star the day prior to each collection
so that householders who wish to
help can take their paper to the
nearest school. Where automobiles
are not available for that purpose,
any Papertrooper living nearby
may be notified.
The two collections from Cleve-
land and Barnard this week will net
$43.87 which with the $25 voted by
the w. B. Powell PTA represents
advance gifts" toward the total re-
Quired of Sc, 900. ,.
Evening star., 1946-05-31
Two Meetings
Called toAvert
Bakers Strike
Union Insistent
Employers Give
More-Work PLEDGE

Efforts to forestall bakers strike
which would shut off about 80 per
cent of the Districts normal bread
supply will be continued in two
meetings tomorrow, Charles B. Nc
Closky, business agent of Local 1l8,
Bakery Workers International Union
(AFL. said today.
Whether the strike will be called
depends largely on what promises
Tor more f1our-and more work for
bakers-can be given at a Joint
meeting of the union and employers
at 10 a.n,S tomorrow.
-Four hours later the union will
meet to consider strike action based
on guarantees of steadier employ
ment from the employers. The
unions Executive Committee is au-
thorized to call strike at any time
without vote of the membership.
No Action Until Monday.
Mr.. McClosky indicated the strike
call will be deferred at least until
after Monday, when he is scheduled
to appear before the Senate Small
Businessmen's Committee. Secretary
OF Agriculture Anderson also will
testify on the domestic wheat situa-
ton.
Il don't know what relief the
committee can give u.s." Mr.. Nc
Closky said, but it is the only group
that has at least bothered about our
condition. Everywhere else we have
gone we have run into stone WALL
The District is getting less than
10 per cent of the flour now being
milled, although the Agriculture De-
partment promised rs per cent for
domestic consumption, Mr.. McClosky
added.
Mills Closed by Tuesday.
BY Tuesday, all mills will be shut
down with the June allotments al
ready milled, the union leader add
ed. BY spreading out the available
-four. local bakeries have kept going
On about so per cent of usual pro-
duction, he said.
He said the bakers were serious"
about calling the strike as a means
OF calling attention to the situation.
With wholesale plants 100 per cent
unionized, only bread by small retail
concerns will 60 to consumers.
One large wholesale baker here
figured he had enough -four to con-
tinue curtailed operations through
July. AS conditions now exist, there
would be a months lapse before the
spring wheat crop milling in August.
Evening star., 1946-05-31
Hunt for Womun Centers
Near Roosevelt Island

Search for Mrs. Marie Sonkins,
36, OF the 2700 block of Fourteenth
street NV, who disappeared Mon
day night from a rowboat in the
Potomac River, is now centering
around the banks of Roosevelt Is
land. Police believe that if she
drowned, her body probably would
have been washed ashore in that
area.
The river has been dragged un-
successfully since she slid over the
side OF the boat, in which Joseph
Volpe, 40, of 2801 Adams Mill road
NV, was also sailing near Highway
Bridge.
Evening star., 1946-05-31
Hotel Union AssuiIs
Drastic Labor Bills

A resolution opposing President
Truman's proposed legislation for
strike control and the Case bill as
leading to ultimate destruction of
the organized labor movement" was
adopted by the Local Joint Execu-
tive Board of the Hotel and Res
taurant Employees International Al
lance and Bartenders' International
League, it was announced today.
The resolution said that under the
proposed legislation the Wagner Act
and practically all labor legislation
enacted during the past 10 years
would be turned into a scrap of
paper" The Joint Executive Board
represents 1000 workers, it was said.
Evening star., 1946-05-31
|vinci Murder
Trial May Go
ToJury Today
Defense Rests Case,
Asking AcquittoI
In Trailer Deaths

The trial of Joseph Vinci, 32-year-
old Bronx IN. " machinist, charged
with first-degree murder in the
Fourteenth street trailer shooting of
Edward Barker and Pany Casbarian
in February, 1915, neared a close
today in District Court, with the
case expected to 60 to the jury late
this afternoon.
Defense Counsel William A. CAL
lagher told the jury it should acquit
Vinci because it is the policy of the
District Attorneys Office not to nol-
pros a f1rst-degree murder indict-
ment, but to leave that to a jury,
After Assistant United States At
torney Charles B. Murray, the
prosecutor, addresses the jury, it is
expected to begin consideration of
the case
Connors Acquittal Assailed.
Mr.. Gallagher characterized the
acquittal of Vincis co-defendant,
Raymond F. Connors, 80, of Yonkers,
N. Y, last February by another Dis
trict Court jury as "the greatest
miscarriage of justice the District
OF Columbia has ever seen.'
Mr.. Gallagher drew a contrasting
picture between his client and Con-
nors. The defense lawyer said that
in being acquitted, Connors
thumbed his nose" at police,
laughed at the district attorney and
said that Vinci was "a silly boy for
getting on the witness stand and
telling the truth"
Vlnci was brought to the District
by Connors, not knowing what he
was coming into, Mr.. Gallagher con-
tended, adding that "Connors in
tended when he left New York to
kill Edward Barker" used car
dealer, and Casbarian.
Vinci Pictured as Dupe.
Connors brought Vinci into the
picture as buffer, because, as Con.
nors put it, "Vinci was poor, dumb
Italian" said Mr.. Gallagher.
The defense counsel asserted that
Vlnci is not literate, is nervous, not
glib, was unable to sleep and was
losing his meals because of the hor.
rors of the killings.
"All this was so foreign to his
very nature it was killing him, and
after he told his story in the Con.
nors case, he felt better" Mr.. Gal.
lagher said, referring to his client.
The defense lawyer asserted the
case was most peculiar in that Vinci,
used by the Government as a star
witness in the Connors case, is now
on trial, although the person who
killed the two men-Connors-
walked out of the courtroom free.
"Vinci's statements stand uncon.
tradicted and corroborated to the
uttermost degree" Mr.. Gallagher
told the jurors. In the history of
this court, and I venture to pre-
dict in the future of this court.
you will never see another case like
this.
You are trying the tail of the
kite said Mr.. Gallagher, contend
ing that the current case is con-
tinuation of the Connors trial.
He said the case is also peculiar
in that members of the homicide
squad developed into defense wit
nesses," corroborating all of Vinci'a
statements that could be checked.
Evening star., 1946-05-31
Capital Transit Plans
To RestyIe Interiors
OF Cars and Buses

Interior color schemes of Capital
Transit Co. streetcars and buses are
to be changed considerably as the
result of poll conducted among
thousands of patrons, who also voted
for retention Of present exterior
color effects of the company's
vehicles.
Several other changes in streetcar
equipment are under consideration
by the transit company as the re-
suit of a poll held since last No.
vember. At that time a display of
vehicles with varying exterior and
interior color schemes was held on
F street near Fifteenth street NV,
to enable streetcar and bus patrons
to make their choices. Results of
the poll were announced late yes
terday.
Washingtonians like the present
blue green-symbolic of the electric
arc-for their streetcars and the
green and silver design for their
buses, the poll revealed.
Chime Signals Favored.
The patrons are overwhelmingly
in favor of replacing buzzers on
streetcarS with the chime signals
found in the newest equipment.
The company said future vehicles
will have route numbers incorporated
in the curved rear section of street.
cars. The company hopes to place
route numbers at the rear, as bus
body designs are changed, officials
said.
While fuorescent lighting won by
a landslide, officials said tests show
it will be some time before it is
practical on transit vehicles. Air
conditioning is in the same class,
requiring more experimentation be-
fore it is feasible.
In changing the interior painting
in keeping with patrons preferences,
the company will use three basic
color schemes, alternating the colors
Larger Lettering in Prospect.
I'm addition to its present interior
of green shades blending into a
cream roof line, cars and buses will
have shades of blue and tan, blend
ing from the floor line to the roof, u
the announcement said, adding that
the color styling will not be CON-
plete until seating and flooring ma
terials are available.
Passengers registered their disap-
proval of the displayed yellow-toned
interior with green and yellow
striped curtains, feeling this did not
aid relaxation while riding.
Yellow and black combinations
are preferred on the new destination
signs. Larger sign openings, per-
mitting bigger lettering for destina-
tions to aid those with impaired
sight, are on the company's pro-
gram.
The present paint shop schedule
and facilities point to the fact that
it will be some months before plans
for restyling interiors of the 2,O0C
vehicles can be completed, officials
said. The new chime signals have
been installed in nearly 500 vehicles
Evening star., 1946-05-31
Senote Group Postpone
Mrs. GuIIuqher HEARING

Consideration of the nominate
OF Mrs. Nadine Gallagher, Justic
Department attorney, to be a judg,
OF the District Municipal Court
scheduled for today, was postponed
by the Senate Judiciary Committee
for a week.
At that time, officers of the Dis
trict Bar Association will be heard
In opposition to the appointment.
Evening star., 1946-05-31

pensions had been increased by IS
per cent over the past two years and
Il don't believe the cost of living
has gone up IS per cent"
In executive session, the commit
tee set another hearing for Tuesday
on the measure and reported favor
ably on bill to increase the bu-
rial allowance Of veterans from 800
to $3.50.
Evening star., 1946-05-31
6. W. U. Adds 3 Names
To List of Graduates

Three graduates who received de-
gress at George Washington Uni
versity commencement exercises
Wednesday night were omitted from
lists naming graduates, the univer.
sity announced today.
Some candidates for degrees com
plete credits at the last moment and
have to be cleared for graduation
too late to be included in lists for
publication, spokesman said. The
graduates omitted and the degrees
they received were: Ellen D. Darby
associate in arts, and Marialyce
Barrett and Mary Elizabeth Pettey
bachelor of arts.
Evening star., 1946-05-31
Won Der Becke Reaches
Miami on Way Here
By the Associated Press

MIAMI, Fla, May 3l-Gen. Car
los Won der Becke, recently retired
chief of staff of the Argentine army,
arrived here early today by Pan
American Clipper from Buenos
Aires.
The general said he might re-
main in Miami until Monday before
going to Washington.
He said he did not wish to discuss
his mission to the United States. It
has been reported that he is on
Official business for President-elect
Juan Domingo Peron in connection
with getting equipment to modernize
the Argentine army.