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Evening star., 1946-10-09
n District Residents
Die From Home Burns

The District Chapter Of the Red
Cross disclosed today that its home
accident survey shows % District
residents died from burns in their
homes and 401 persons were hos
pitalized during the first nine
months of this year.
The deaths, according to the
Bureau Of Vital Statistics reports,
included these causes: Six from
burns resulting from smoking in
bed, two from fires set by defective
kerosene stoves, two from the ex-
plosion of movie film, two from
burns incurred in fires, the origin
of which was not stated.
Other fatalities resulted from
clothing being igrited by cigarettes
or by a gas stove, burns from a
heating stove, a fire in a waste
basket ignited by cigarette, scalds
from an overturned percolator, and
miscellaneous causes
Some of the more common causes
of nonfatal home accident burns
receiving hospital care, and the
number of injured involved were:
Hot grease, hot water or hot food
receptacles overturned, 80; chemical
burns, 46:: burns from hot stoves,
pressing irons and steam pipes, A;
overturned tea and coffee pets, 20.
Evening star., 1946-10-09
Scientist 10 Address
District Naval Reserve

DR.. F. Joachim Weyl, civilian
scientist in the Navy Departments
Bureau of Ordnance. will discuss
Operations Crossroads" at 8 pm.
tomorrow at the first meeting of the
newly formed electronic division of
the Potomac River Naval Command
Organized Reserve in the Naval Re-
serve Armory at the Naval Gun
Factory.
DR.. Weyl was an official observer
at the Bikini atom bomb tests. Ac-
cording to Capt Will L. Gates,
acting director of Naval Reserve,
two motion pictures. "The Atom
Bomb Test-Bikini Island" and Sea
Power in the Pacific also will be
shown.
Formation of the first electroniG
division will mark the newest phase
of Naval Reserve training, Capt.
GeEes said. Training will include
lectures, intructions in operation
and maintenance of equipment,
laboratory study and other research.
Personnel interested in enrolling
have been advised to consult 1t.
Comdr. j. M. Mcdonald at the Naval
Gun Factory.
Evening star., 1946-10-09
6-Yeor-OIdB BoyBurned to Death
When Drum of Tar ExpIodes
Contuifer Flies 200
Feet After Match
Touches OFF Guses

A 6-year-old boy was burned to
death late yesterday when 50-gal-
lon drum of tar and chemicals
which he was examining exploded.
identified by police as Donald
Bailey, the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Thomas r, Bailey, 3112 G street Sc,
the body was burned beyond recog-
milton. Identity was established
through a metal belt buckle and
a ring which the boy wore, police
said.
The explosion occurred between
two barracks-type dwellings of a
veterans housing project now under
construction in the 600 block of
Thirty-first street Sc, about a
block from the boys home.
ts, Found Unconscious.
Pvt. Ralph S. Warner of No. IL
precinct station, who responded to
fire box summons In the vicinity
shortly before pm, said he found
the boy. his clothing aflame, lying
unconscious between the two build
ings. The remains of the metal con-
tainer were found In woods 200
feet away, apparently having been
blown over one of the buildings and
the tops of nearby trees.
The youngster was pronounced
dead on arrival at Gallinger Hos
pital
Police and fireman said the boy
apparently Lit a match near the
drum. which had small opening
L in the top. Ignition of accumulated
gases inside the container probably
caused the explosion, police said.
Jack Carroll. Is, IT'S Thirty-second
street Sc, told police the Bailey
boy had given him a. pack of
matches a few minutes before the
tragedy. Young Carroll was about
a half block away when he heard
the explosion, according to police.
Structure Damaged Slightly
Mrs. Clifford M. Ringuette told
police she was in the back yard Of
her home, tbs Bayley place Sc,
when she heard loud report and
turned to see the battered tar drum
flying high above the rooftops.
The side of the building nearest
the explosion was still smoking
when firemen arrived, but damage
to the structure was negligible.
Donald, who would have cele-
brated his seventh birthday ami
versary on Monday, was pupil at
the Kimball School, his family said
Two sisters, Mildred, a student at
Wilson Teachers College, and Doris,
IA, and a brother, Thomas, 8, also
survive the boy.
Evening star., 1946-10-09
Bethesda Chest Workers
will Meet Tomorrow

Chairmen and captains who will
direct 500 volunteers in the Be-
thesda Chevy Chase area during the
campaign of the Community Chest
Federation will attend an organiza-
ton luncheon at 1890 pm. tomor-
row at the Kenwood Country Club.
Mrs. Benjamin Powell. area chair
man. will distribute material and
furnish information to be used in
the drive.
Among speakers will be Mrs. AL
bert w. Walker, campaign chairman.
and Miss Mary E. Lucas, director Of
the County Community Chest and
Council, as well as representatives Of
the federation staff.
A similar meeting for five upper
Montgomery County areas will be
held at Hungerford Tavern, Rock
vile, at 6:15 pm. Monday. Mrs.
George White will be in charge and
Mrs. Walker and Miss Lucas will
speak.
Evening star., 1946-10-09
W. 5. Douglass Is Honored
After 40 Years With NAVY

Special ceremonies honored Will
liam S. Douglass, civilian assistant
to the Surgeon General of the Navy,
Yesterday on his completion of 40
years service with the Navy De-
partmenE.
Participants included Vice Ad-
miral Ross T. McIntire, Surgeon
General, who read a commendatory
letter from Secretary Forrestal.
A native of Washington, Mr.
Douglass began work in the de-
partment as a copyist in 1906. He
was transferred in 1908 to the Bu-
reau of Medicine and Surgery, where
he has been employed since. He
lives at Wellington Villa, Fairfax
County, Va.
Evening star., 1946-10-09
Anderson Opposes
Any Weakening Of
u. 5. Forest System

ANY attempt to break up "the
national forest system by permitting
the more accessible of the lands to
revert to private ownership for ex-
ploitation," will be resisted by the
Federal Government, Secretary of
Agriculture Anderson said today.
Addressing approximately 1000
delegates attending the American
Forest Congress in the United
States Chamber of Commerce Audi
torium, Mr.. Anderson said he was
alarmed" by such suggestions and
considered them ''the utmost folly" )"
A program proposed by 10 ma
tional leaders Of the forest industry
at Higgins Lake, Mich, last July
was criticized by Lyle F. Watts,
chief of the United States Forest
Service. Mr.. Watts said the COM
mittee meeting at Higgins Lake in
cluded no representative Of the
operators of some 10000 small
wood using plants that turn out the
bulk of our products"
No Workers on Committee.
He also asserted that mot one
of the several million workers whose
job it is to cut our forests and get
the products to market was mem
ber of the committee.
THE appraisal report greatly
exaggerates the possibilities in as
serting that public forests can con-
tribute something like third of
the national cut" Mr.. Watts stated.
What concerns me is that these
overestimates, together with the
generally hostile context in which
they are presented, will have the
effect of inviting and strengthening
the pressure for overcutting national
forest timber. This could be seri-
GUS threat to public forest land
management"
Samuel T. Dana, dean Of the
School Of Forestry, University OF
Michigan, presented the Higgins
Lake report to the congress. Among
other things, the report urged that
national forests should be cut ito
remove suitable mature and deca-
dent trees and periodic improve
ment cuttings to forestall mortality
losses"
Z Anderson's Suggestions.
Mr.. Anderson blamed the timber
shortage on this Nations continued
failure to manage it's forests con-
servatively" and suggested three
ways of coping with the problem:
/. Public cooperative aids to the
private forestland owner, particu-
larly the small owner.
2. Public control of cutting and
other forest practices on private
lands, sufficient to stop forest de-
struction and to keep these lands
reasonably productive.
3. Expansion and intensified man
agement of public forest lands
Federal, State and community.
Evening star., 1946-10-09
Glenn Conducts Campaign
For CONGRESS in Own Taxi

Edwin A. Glenn, 52-year-old Dis
trict cab company operator and for
mer CIO taxicab union official. Isl
using taxicab to campaign as a
Republican candidate for the House
of Representatives.
Using a public address system
mounted on one of his cabs, Mr.
Glenn, a resident of Morningside
Village in Prince Georges County,
is attempting to unseat Representa-
tive Sasscer, Democrat, of Upper
Marlboro.
Mr.. Glenn Is president of the Ma
tional Transportation Co., which
controls A cabs of the recently
organized Silver Fleet organization.
Evening star., 1946-10-09
BradleyPIedgesProb
'0f Hospitals Training
Physician Veterans

Veterans Administrator Bradley
today promised an investigation by
his agency of hospitals furnishing
resident speciality training to physi-
clan veterans to determine teaching
qualifications of the institutions and
actual needs of the veterans In
training.
The announcement came after a
committee representing the doctor
veterans conferred with Gen. Brad
ley to demand "clarification" of the
administrations refusal to furnish
the doctors with funds for text books
and equipment.
Gen. Bradley said institutions
training disabled veterans will be
"revalued" TO determine their quail
fications as teaching institutions.
These Investigations will be carried
out on a, national Level.
A spokesman pointed out that
many of the hospitals were granted
temporary approval without COM
plete investigation of their ability
to render the training.
Affecting the large majority of
residents, however, will be check
of District hospitals to determine
actual needs of the residents to
complete their speciality training"
DR.. John r. Cavanagh of the Dis
trict Physician Veterans of World
War II, spokesman for the group
that conferred with Gen. Bradley,
expressed satisfaction with the con-
ference.
DR.. Cavanagh urged that his
agency's medical service be direct
ly concerned with the reappraisal
of hospitals as teaching institu-
tions and that the matter not be
left to laymen."
The agency announced that the
check of local hospitals training
nondisabled doctors will be handled
through the Washington Regional
Office. The surveys on a national
basis will be under the direction
of H. v. Stirling, Veterans Admin
istration education chief.
Evening star., 1946-10-09
Scientists Measuring Distance
To Meteor Shower by Rudur

in New Jersey made news by re-
ceiving an echo from the moon from
it's powerful radar transmitters.
Hitherto the Bureau of Standards
has not had chance to transmit
to an extensive meteor shower.
Astronomers at the Naval OBJ
servatory, cheated of any vision last
night, said their scope would be
trained again tonight on north
western skies.
Six Harvard University astron-
omers rode in a Coast Guard flying
boat over New England last night
to observe the display and calculate
the effect meteors may have on
radio, static and atoms of the upper
atmosphere.
The Associated Press said that
when they landed at Salem, Mass,
early this morning after their all
night cruise they reported that
some much-needed sleep was neces-
sary before they could make known
what they learned.
Evening star., 1946-10-09
Embassy Entertains
For Miss Australia

Miss Rhondda Kelly. Miss Austria
liza of 1916, had a full schedule today
as she visited Washington on a tour
of the world.
These Included luncheon at the
Australian Embassy with Ambassa-
dor Norman Maxim, tea with the
Embassy staff and dinner with Mr..
and Mrs. John Oldham. Mr.. Old
ham is counselor of the Embassy.
Tonight Miss Kelly will accom-
pany the Ambassador and Mrs.
Maxim to the Commerce Department
auditorium, where the Australian
film The Overlanders' will be
shown for the first time in the
United States. The Ambassador has
invited a large group to the show.
Miss Kelly, a 20-year-old graduate
of Queensland University, was
chosen from among more than 1000
girls in connection with the War
Veterans Fund. In the contest each
of the six Australian states entered
the girl it deemed its most talented
and beautiful.
Miss Kelly was awarded a six
month tour. She arrived in Wash
ington yesterday from England and
will 60 to New York Friday.
Evening star., 1946-10-09
Montgomery Teachers
To Hear Dr.. PuIIen

DR.. Thomas G. Pullen, jr., super
of Maryland schools, will be
the principal speaker at meeting
of the Montgomery County Educa-
ton Association at 8 pm tomorrow
in the Leland Junior High School.
DR.. Pullen will outline the 1947
program for the pub
lie schools of the State. Nilsson c.
Raver, executive secretary of the
Maryland State Teachers Associa-
ton also will speak.
Evening star., 1946-10-09
Bar 10 Appeal
VA Subsistence
Ban for Lawyers
Veterans Committee
Head to Press for
Training Allowances

John K. Cunningham, chairman
of the War Veterans Committee of
the District Bar Association, last
night reported to the bar associa-
ton that his, committee had been
unable to obtain Veterans Admin
istration approval of an on-the-
job training program for local
lawyer veterans.
Mr. Cunningham said the COM
mittee had submitted plans for the
provision of specialized legal train
ing for relatively inexperienced
lawyers just out of the service, but
"a Veterans Administration official
had ruled that lawyers were in
eligible for one-the-job training
subsistence allowances.
He quoted letter from A. L.
Combes. director of the education
and training service of the Veterans
Administration, to Charles B.
Stephens, chairman of the Ameri-
can Bar Associations section of bar
activities, dated September II, stat
ing:
"A veteran who has been admitted
to the bar and is legally qualified to
practice law has achieved the job
objective of lawyer. The Veterans
Administration is not authorized to
award the benefits of Part VIII Of
the law for on-the-job training for
job objective which has already
been attained"
Will Appeal TO Bradley.
Despite this setback, Mr.. Cunning.
ham announced he intended to draft
Ia letter to Veterans Administrator
Bradley describing the training pro-
|posals of the local bar group and
appealing for reconsideration Of
the agency's policy.
The bar association, meeting last
night at the Maydower Hotel, elected
seven past presidents to serve on
it's Committee on Judicial Selection
for the coming year.
The committee recommends, on
behalf of the association, its selec-
tions for appointments to local judi
Cldl OIlC6S.
Members of the committee elected
are John j. Carmody, Hugh Obear,
John Lewis Smith, Godfrey L. Mum
ter, Milton M King, Paul B. Crome-
lin and H. Winship Wheatley, sr.
Traffic Court Conference.
Plans were announced for the
second annual Traffic Court con-
ference, to be held at the United
States Chamber of Commerce Oc-
tober Is, under the sponsorship Of
the Junior Bar Traffic Court Com
mittee. Attorney General Clark will
address a luncheon session at the
Carlton Hotel.
/ Austin F. Garfield, president OF
the bar association, also told the
group that Gen. Jonathan M. VAIN
wright, hero of the early Pacific
theater campaign, will address the
associations dinner in honor of local
Judges On December 7, the fifth an
niversary of Pearl Harbor.
Evening star., 1946-10-09
Wind and Rain 10 Continue,
Weather Bureau Predicts

Wind-driven rains will drench the
Washington Area for the next "a
hours, the Weather Bureau said
today.
The Capital and its vicinity Is
caught between a high pressure air
mass, which has pushed down over
New England, and the Southern
hurricane which is moving slowly
northward through the Carolinas
with greatly diminished force.
Winds here blew at Is to 80 miles
an hour throughout the morning, the
Weather Bureau said, while in the
center of the weakened hurricane in
South Carolina they were 10 miles
an hour slower.
The hurricane had lost its 125-
mile-an-hour punch before reach
ing the mainland yesterday and was
continuing to lessen in intensity The
weather bureau here, however,
warned against high waters and
flash floods in small streams"
Evening star., 1946-10-09

The Bureau of Standards an
nounced today that scientists at
its radar station at Sterling, Va,
are measuring the distance of a
meteor shower from the earth on
the basis of echoes received last
night on the radar screen.
The meteors, calculated by as
tronomers as being $4,000 miles
away, are from the Comet Giaco-
bini -Zinner, which found eight days
ago 24,0O0, 900 miles from the earth.
Visibility last night was not such
that any one in Washington could
see the display, which would have
consisted of shooting stars and
brilliant flashes of light in north
western skies. However, they should
be visible tonight, beginning at 10
pm. and continuing until after mid
night, if the weather is clear.
They should also appear tomorrow
night.
Recently the Army's radar station
Evening star., 1946-10-09
Montgomery Officials Pay
Tribute 10 Carey Kingdom

Montgomery County officials joined
friends and relatives yesterday to
pay final tribute to Carey King
don, IA, veteran Rockville corre-
spondent, for The Star, who was
buried in st. Marys Cemetery, after
services at his residence, 300 Read
ing avenue, Rockville. The Rev.
William B. Adams, pastor of the
Rockville Baptist Church, oficiated.
Mr.. Kingdom died Sunday night
at his home after a long illness.
For the past II years he had been
Republican member Of the County
Board of Elections supervisors.
Evening star., 1946-10-09
Traffic Danger Increase
Seen as Days Shorten

Traffic dangers are increasing as
the days shorten,
AS is the case throughout the
Nation. accident figures here are
highest when the number of day.
light hours is least, and more fatali-
ties occur at night than during the
day.
In the last fiscal year, 49 fatal
traffic accidents occurred here dur
ing dusk or darkness, and 80 hap
pened in daylight.
According to the National Safety
Council, 21a times as many pede-
strians are killed in the first three
hours after sunset as in the three
hours Immediately preceding.
Evening star., 1946-10-09
Fall Foliage Along Skyline
To Reach Peak Oct. IS
sn.eiai pisnoteh to The stor

Special Dispofeh 10 Inc Siof
FRONT ROYAL. Va, Oct. 9.-Fall
foliage along the Skyline Drive will
reach it's peak on October Is, the
Shenandoah Chamber of Commerce
announced today. The group added
that the foliage will remain in full
color through the last two weeks in
October.
1t also was announced that Shen-
andoah National Park had 786,247
visitors during travel year which
closed September 80. Supt. E. D.
Freeland reported. This figure rep
resents a Is per cent decrease, as
compared with the 1941 travel year.
August was the peak 1916 travel
the superintendent said.
Evening star., 1946-10-09
Pensioned War Veteran
Found Dead of Cos

A 48-year-old veteran of World
War I, George William Beach, was
pronounced dead at Emergency Hos
pital last night shortly after he was
found Ell the floor of his gas-filled
room at 916 I street NE, police re-
ported today.
Investigators said gas was escap-
ing from wall jet. Mr.. Beach, who
was not employed. according to
neighbors. lived on pension he re-
ceived because of wounds suffered
in the war.
Evening star., 1946-10-09
Eastern Shore Society
Holds Annual Election

A. Hughlett Mason of the Mari
time Commission last night was
elected president of the Eastern
Shore Society of Washington at the
annual election of officers at the
YWCA.
Other officers named are: DR..
Henry L. Darner, vice president; Z;
Miss Janet Lingle, secretary; Mrs.
Helen Roberts, treasurer. William
johnson, Publicity Committee chair
man; Mrs. Dorothy Darner, Men,
bership Committee chairman, and
Mrs. Mary Mason, Entertainment
Committee chairman.
Evening star., 1946-10-09
White House Denies Rumor
PawIey Report Caused Split

The White House today denied a
report that Edwin w. Pauley,
American member of the Repara-
tions Commission, had submitted a
report on Palestine that caused a
division of opinion within the ad-
ministration.
White House Press Secretary
Charles G. Ross told reporters that
after the rumor of the report was
circulated check disclosed that no
such report had been received at the
White House. Mr.. Pauley was then
consulted and he said he had pre-
Sented no such report.
Evening star., 1946-10-09
Board of Trade on Air

Station WMAL will broad
cast a one-hour program, be-
ginning at BIS o'clock tonight,
from the seasons first general
membership meeting of the
Washington Board of Trade in
the Hotel Statler. Features will
include dramatic episodes taken
from the history of the trade
group, an outline of plans for
broadened community service,
a progress report on re-organi-
zation and music by the Ma
tional Singers.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-05-07
NOTICE TO CREDITORS

In the Commissioners Court for the Territory of Alaska, Division Num- Der One. Before FELIX GRAY, Commissioner and Ex- -officio Pro- bate Judge, Juneau Precinct. In the Matter of the Estate of JACK ANDREAS JACOBSEN, Deceased.
 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned was on the 9th day of May, 1946, duly appointed Administrator of the Estate of Jack Andreas Jacobsen, deceased.
 All persons having claims against the estate of deceased will present them. with proper vouchers and duly verified, to the undersigned at Ju- neau, Alaska, within six t6) months from the date of this Notice.
 Dated at Juneau, Alaska, May 9th, 1946.
 . FELIX GRAY,
 Administrator. First publication, May 2, l946. Last publication, May 28, 1946.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-05-07
A0 PASSENGERS IN
 FROM SOUTH, pAA

Pan American. i-.rways yesterday lew the following passengers be- tween Juneau and Seattle.
 From Seattle: Oscar Peterson Emil Johnson, Virgil Morris, An drew Wicklund, Roy Bezowsky William Johnson, Karl Nelson Donald Keys, Mildred Keys, Len ore Keys, William McMahon, Eric Erickson, John Niska, Nester Neimi, Arthur Majala.
 Martin Martinsen, Albert Guyor, Ole Galland, James Campbell, Mag nus Bostrom, Radnvald Simonsen, Ted Johnson, Arthur Souve, Ton nes Pedersen, Elearnor Hunt, Ray Hennig, Elmer Frazier, Richard Good.
 Herbert Hilscher, Miriam Hilsch- CT, Dorothy Geyser, William Gey- ser. William Dillhoefer. Alfred Ad ans. Eva Kelly, Albert Lockett. AL fred St. Germain, Myron Dean, Louise St. Germain, Mae Schebier, Jack Duncan, Lillian Schopslin, Billy Schopslin, Mary Swanger, Roy McGregor, Alfred Moore, Cor don Sherwood, Elynore Krasky, Jeannette Stewart.
 To Seattle; Pamela Ogan, Betty Ogan, Jack Ogan, Daniel Rhodes, Dorothy Wolfe, George Gee, Ray mond Hurley, Minnie Hurley, Doug las Gray, R. C. Vermilyea, Murray Durham, Florence Burgess, Walter Manthey, Milton Weir, Ernest Gei- ser, Clara Herslip, and Pearl Phil lips.
 From Fairbanks, Ernest Peterson; to Fairbanks, James Day and Thomas Day.