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The Coolidge examiner., 1946-04-12

Before Sam Hackney got sue
cessful, his wife used to make his
bow ties for him. They came out an
inch longer than average - and
Sam came in for lot of ribbing.
But he only smiled and took it.
OF course, Sam doesn't need to
economize now; he's one of the best
real estate men in the country. But
he still wears those long bow ties.
Prospective customers may not re-
member his name or his face, but
the minute they see Sam, they say,
"That's 40 fOllerI"
Evening star., 1946-01-20
D. {. Residents 10 Attend
Parenthood Conference

District members of the Planned
Parenthood Association will play
prominent roles at the two-day 25th
anniversary meeting of the Planned
parenthood Federation of America
which begins Tuesday at the Wal
dorf-Astoria in New York.
Mrs. John B. Martin, jr., president
of the board of trustees of the Dis
trict association, will appear at the
speakers table at luncheon on Tues
day. Mrs. Earl Baldwin Mckinley
executive director of the District
body, will give the Districts re-
port at the Tuesday afternoon
session.
DR.. Walter r. Stokes, Washington
will appear on the federation pro-
gram Wednesday morning to dis
cuss welfare of the Child as a
Goal of Marriage Counselling.
Mark A. McCloskey, formerly as
sociated with the Social Security
Board here, is chairman of the
Tuesday morning session on the
subject, Health Hazards Facing
the Worlds Children"
Others to attend from the Dis.
trict will be Mrs. Margaret Mcdowell
board member, Mrs. Harry w
Glenn, executive secretary, ant
Miss L. Estelle Brown, field con
.sultant on work with Negroes.
Evening star., 1946-01-20
Mrs. Emma 6. Haqer
Dies in Chevy Chase

Mrs. Emma Gilbert Hager, who
came to Washington before the
World War, died yesterday after q
brief illness at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. Adolph A. Hoehling
widow of District Court Justice
Hoehling.
In addition to Mrs. Hoehling, who
lives at Newlands street, Chevy
Chase, Md, Mrs. Hager is survived
by two grandchildren and five great
grandchildren.
In her nineties at the time of her
death, Mrs. Hager was the last sur
vivor of 10 children, one of whom
was the late Alexander Gilbert, who
was president of the Market and
Fulton Bank in New York. One OF
her brothers was drummer boy in
the Civil War.
Mrs. Hager used to tell her grand
children about the time of Presi-
dent Lincoln's assassination when
she and her sisters hung her moth
er's black dresses out of the window
in mourning.
Born in Elizabeth, N. j., Mrs
Hager was educated at a girls schoo
in Tarrytown, N. Y. She made hel
home in East Orange, N. j., before
moving to Washington.
For many years she was an active
member Of the Church of Chris
Scientist.
Private funeral services will bt
held Tuesday morning at Gawler'
chapel. Interment will be in Oal
Hill Cemtery.
Evening star., 1946-01-20
$4,000 Garments
COLLECTED in Drive

A total of 72,000 garments for the
Victory clothing drive was collected
during the last week, bringing the
grand total to $4,000 garments, drive
officials reported yesterday.
The drive began to gain speed
yesterday in the District and sub
urbs, according to Commissioner
John Russell Young, chairman. He
said an estimated $4,000 garments
are in the central warehouse ready
to be baled for shipment.
Three large trucks of the Ma
tional Brewing Co. helped to relieve
the truck shortage yesterday and
aided in removing contributions
| from congested depots at fire sta
tions, post Offices and police pre-
| cinctS.
| Assistant Chairman Charles Stof-
berg said to get every garment which
can be spared and every pair of
shoes which have served their USE
fulness out of the closets and into
the collection depots, The drive
will end January 81.
George NJ Mathews. chairman OF
Montgomery County drive, said de-
pots in that area were really bulg-
ing" with donated clothing
Mrs. Haskell Jacobs, Arlington
County chairman announced that a
large basement in Buckingham
community had been secured In
which to store overflow from the
collection depots.
In Alexandria, Chairman John A
Logan said all city depots were
doing a brisk business" None OF
the Alexandria clothing contribu-
tions have been moved to the cen.
trail warehouse in the District.
Evening star., 1946-01-20
Week S HomeAccidentsI Include
Boy, 6, Who Downed 6 Beers

far total 207, compared with 172
during the same period last year
The death toll last year at this
time was four.
Seven persons died last week
from complications resulting from
falls. A two-year-old child was
fatally burned. A baby died OF
suffocation and 33-year-old
woman was asphyxiated by illum-
mating gas.
Among those injured was TO-
year-old man who accidently shot
himself in the left side while re-
moving revolver from its holster
A boy of 10 cut his thumb severely
with a Japanese knife his brother
had brought home from the Pacific
An 18-year-old girl cut herself on
razor blade she was carrying in
her purse. A 20-month-old child
burned her fingers by thrusting
a hairpin into an electric outlet
and a man working on q stepladder
cut his hand with a hatchet.
Altogether, 80 were injured by
falls last week; eight were burned
three were accidentally poisoned; "a
were cut and n were hurt in mis-
cellaneous accidents.
Evening star., 1946-01-20
Postgraduate Courses to Open
At g. w. u. for Doctors Feb. II

the new hospital for the university
at Washington Circle, to occupy the
area bounded by Twenty-second
Twenty-third, I streets and Penn
sylyania avenue NV. Construction
is now at the third story level.
Meantime, from other schools ir
the university came reports last
night that returning veterans are
entering the school in large num-
bers. Many are former GNU stu
dents, but the majority are new
students. Applications from nom
veterans for the February semester
are larger now than at any time dur
ing the last six years Additional
classes are being scheduled to take
care of the rapidly growing student
body.
The return of faculty members
from the armed services, officials
said, will permit an increase in the
number of sections in many courses
such as freshman English, American
history and first-year French. Some
space used during the war for gov
ernmental research is being given
back to the school and will relieve
the immediate pressure, but addi-
tional buildings will be necessary
for the fall semester, Dean Bloedorn
said
Evening star., 1946-01-20
Police Investigate Death
Of Mrs. AdeIta Giles, Al

Police are investigating the death
of Mrs. Adelta May Giles, Al, who
was found yesterday afternoon in
the bath tub at the home of Mrs.
Maxwell K. Goldstein in the 2700
block of Branch avenue Sc, where
Mrs. Giles was staying. She was
pronounced dead at Gallinger Hos
pital.
Police said Mrs. Giles was lying
face down in the water in the tub
but that death may have been due
to natural causes. An autopsy will
be performed.
Mrs. Giles, police said, had been
in Washington for about two weeks
coming here from Philadelphia
where her husband had been killed
in an automobile accident a month
ago. Survivors include a sister, Mrs
Harriet r. Dutton, 1705 c street
Sc. and brother, Don p Reilly,
also of Washington.
Evening star., 1946-01-20

Kern said. Looking through the
store window. Mr.. Shapiro noticed
that the man had pocketed the pis-
tol so he ran after him, she added.
Mr.. Shapiro told police he tackled
the bandit in parking lot a few
doors away from the liquor store,
wrestled him into submission and
then waited for reinforcements.
Claims To Be Father of Three.
Police who had been called by
Mrs. Kern took the man back to
the liquor store where he pulled his
loot from his pockets and pleaded
with the police to let him go.
Mrs. Kern said she put the money
back into the cash register and had
no idea how much had been stolen
or recovered, pending a later check
of accounts.
Police said the hold-up weapon
was wooden dime store model. u
The man, who was not charged
Immediately, told police he was the
father of three children.
Evening star., 1946-01-20
Wafer Chestnut Hearing
Set for January 29

The United States Engineer Office
for the Washington area will hold
public hearing at $50 am. Janu-
airy 20 to obtain the views of all
interested parties on the Potomac
Rivers perennial water chestnut
problem.
The hearing will be held at the
engineer Office, First and Douglas
streets NV.
Col. Donald G. White, district en-
gineer, said yesterday, will seek te
determine the necessity for contin-
uing removal operations.
All interested parties are invited
Col. White announced, particularly
Maryland and Virginia officials and
those of any city, town or local as
sociation whose interests may be
affected.
In general the hearing will seek
to develop:
/. The extent and location of re.
moval projects believed to be de.
sirable.
2. The probable effect on com.
merce and business, as we'll as pleas.
ure boating and other recreationa
activities and from health stand.
point.
3. What cash contributions com.
munitities are willing to make to.
ward removal.
Evening star., 1946-01-20
Gen. Hull to Address
Scout Court of Honor

1t. Gen. John E. Hull, of the War
Department General Staff, will
speak at the Court of Honor Of the
Congressional District, Boy Scouts
Of America, at 7:45 pm. Friday in
the Anacostia High School audito-
rum.
A total of 56 advancement awards,
including three Eagle Scout awards
to Boy Scouts and one Quartermas-
ter award to a Sea Scout, will be
given. Rear Admiral H. G. Hamlet
United States Coast Guard, retired,
will present the Quartermaster
award.
Evening star., 1946-01-20

Among the 104 persons treated
in District hospitals last week as a
result of home accidents was a g.
year-old boy who drank six bottles
of beer.
The boy, according to the accident
prevention service of the Red Cross
District chapter was taken uncon-
scious to Garfield Hospital by his
father, who said the child obtained
the beer from the refrigerator with
out his knowledge. The patient was
described by a hospital nurse as "a
mighty sick boy" according to the
Red Cross spokesman.
Another accident victim was a
baby who swallowed a needle and
thread and had to undergo tonsil-
lectomy to have the objects removed
Also admitted for treatment was a
mother, the cornea of whose eye was
scratched by her playful baby. A
two-year-old girl, who ate rat
poison, was treated.
The Accident Survey Service re-
ported 10 persons died from home
accidents last week. bringing the
years fatalities to is.
injuries from home accidents 90
Evening star., 1946-01-20
Woman Who Found
Slain Men 10 Testify
lin Connors Trial

Trial of Raymond B. Connors,
32-year-old automobile salesman of
Yonkers, N. Y, charged with a
double murder in a Fourteenth
street parking lot last February,
will resume tomorrow in District
Court after a three-day recess.
Miss Adelaide Sturgis, owner of
rooming house at 1850 Rhode
Island avenue, was scheduled to be
called by the prosecution. 1t was
Miss Sturgis who found the bodies
of Edward Barker and Pany Cas-
barian in the trailer-ofd Of the
parking lot at Fourteenth and N
streets NV. at 9 pm. last Feb
ruary %.
She had gone to find Mr.. Barker
she told police. Mr.. Barker, she
said, had called on her briefly every
evening at 7::30 o'clock for the past
Is years. When he failed to call
that night. she said, she persuaded
Jack J. Oldham, one of her room
ers, to escort her to the trailer.
Mr.. Barker, who loaned money on
automobiles, and Mr.. Casbarian, pro-
prietor of a rooming house next
door who used to play cards nightly
In the trailer, were found bound
hand and foot and shot to death.
Mr.. Oldham also is to be called
tomorrow James J. Laughlin, de-
fense counsel, said his cross-exam-
| ination of both will be extensive
Mr.. Laughlin also said he would sub
poena Col. Edward j. Kelly. retiring
superintendent of police, and Inspec-
tor Robert j. Barrett, chief of de-
tectives, to bring into court any
| files they may have regarding Mr..
Barker.
The surprise element Of the case,
Joseph Vinci, 80, indicted as Con-
nors' partner in the murders, who
was arrested Wednesday in New
Jersey, is held at the District Jail,
police said Whether Vinci will be
used as a witness has not been de-
cided. according to Charles B. Muir
ray, assistant United States Attor-
ney in charge of the prosecution.
Evening star., 1946-01-20
Fec Chief 10 Speak
IAt TeIevision Institute

Paul Porter, Federal Communica.
tions Commission chairman, will ad-
dress the luncheon meeting Of the
first regional "Television Institute"
at the Statler Hotel on January %
it was announced yesterday. The
institute is sponsored by the Adver-
tising Club of washington and will
be held under the auspices of Tele-
wiser Magazine, trade journal of tbs
television industry.
Among the other speakers at thu
luncheon will be Richard Hubbell
television supervisor of Crosley
Broadcasting Co.; Paul Mowrey
television supervisor of American
Broadcasting Co., and David Arons,
publicity director of Gimbel Broth.
ers of Philadelphia.
Morning sessions of the institute
will be devoted to "Television, Pro-
gramming" and Program Prpduc-
tion' discussions, while the after-
noon meetings will study 'Teleyision
Advertising and Merchandising. !"
Feature of the institute will be a
broadcast from London by the tele.
vision director of the British Broad.
casting Co., on the progress of tele.
ViSin IN England.
Evening star., 1946-01-20
City Can Count
On Only 15% Of
||tsNeat Supply
20 Independents
Left to Provide
Area During Strike

The District area can count on
no more than Is per cent of its nor
NAL supply Of meat until the end
of strike which has tied up ship
ments of major packers, an indus
try spokesman here said last night.
That statement came at the close
OF day which saw meat counters
cleared of virtually all meat as shop
pers attempted to lay in week end
supplies.
Sole source of meat remaining for
District area butchers, grocers, res
taurants and hotels are 20 local in
dependent suppliers which have been
providing about Is per cent of the
meat consumed here. The rest has
come from four major packing COM
panies, an industry source said.
Independents Not Affected.
Joseph B. Danzansky, attorney for
independent wholesalers, professors
and hotel supply houses, who are
organized under the wholesale meat
division of the Merchants and Man.
ufacturers Association, said relations
of this group with the meat cutters
union were harmonious. The strike
is not directed against local inde-
pendent suppliers.
Local Independents are paying
uniformly higher wages than are
asked by striking employees of the
major packing houses" he explained.
Deliveries to local retail outlets
will be resumed tomorrow by inde-
pendent suppliers ON a voluntary
ALLEGATION basis, Mr.. Danzansky said.
There were no deliveries yesterday.
Major suppliers closed here in
what officials of Local 1893, AFL
Amalgamated Meat Cutters and
Butcher Workmen's Union said was
100 per cent walkout, were Swift,
Armour. Cudahy and the JepSon
Hotel Supply Co., described as a
subsidiary of the Wilson packing
firm.
Pressure Expected.
District independent wholesalers
from now on expect terrific pres
sure from other cities seeking meat
supplies.
| A spokesman said ne did not
know whether competition for what
is left of the Midwest production
will diminish the amount being
shipped here.
II do know it will be practically
impossible to obtain more than we
had been getting without going
into the black market, and we're
not going to do that" he said.
Roland M. Brennan, District gov
ernment purchasing officer, said "all
reasonable requirements" of District
hospitals and institutions have been
filled for the next two or three
weeks"
Mr.. Brennan said the District
anticipated the strike and entered
into arrangements with local sup
pliers. Additional sources of sup
ply, he said, "are known" to him
and can be called on, should more
meat be needed.
Commitments also have been
made to supplement meat supplies
with poultry and fish, he said.
Evening star., 1946-01-20
Mons Fingers MoneIed
In Mystery Explosion

Jay Watkins, 20. colored, yester-
day was walking along the railroad
tracks in the Government coal yard
near Seventeenth street and Penn
sylvania avenue Sc. Suddenly there
was an explosion on the ground, he
told police, and the thumb and three
fingers of his right hand were man.
gled.
Police surmise the explosive may
have been one of number of gre
made detonators which disappeared
from freight car about two
months ago. The injured man was
taken to Gallinger Hospital. He
lives in the 200 block of Canal
street S.W.
Evening star., 1946-01-20

| sympathy or priorities, and some oi
them have been away long time.
There's a lot of nonsense about
what handicap it is to have one
arm or one leg. 1 can get along al
right, and I can do what I want a!
long as I make sense about it.
could do scouting work for the
Browns, or be trainer or some.
thing, and I know they'll give me 9
job if want one"
Maybe He's Too Critical.
Mrs. Kathleen Fahy, hostess al
500 North Capitol street, whose re.
lationship to Bill and the other reg.
ulars at the center is something be.
tween a sister and the girl next door
thinks Bill is too critical of his fel.
low amputees. With rare excep.
tions, she says, they're all wonderful
in their attitude toward what has
happened to them.
Tell" she said, about your frieno
at the bar, Bill"
Again the slow smile.
why, there wasn't anything much
to that the big man said slowly
Il was in a night club, standing uI
at the BARI was wearing my new
leg then, and it was the first chance
I'd had to stand at bar. A mar
came up and told me to move over
He said because ]. was a serviceman
I needn't think 1 could take up the
whole bar.
"Well, 1 moved over, and he tolc
me he had a boy overseas who hao
been wounded, and asked why
wasn't over there, instead Of wear.
| ing a uniform around this country
where there wasn't any fighting.
said, oh, I don't know-if your boy
will do my fighting for me, who an
to kick?'
$50 he got mad and scratched my
face and neck, and it was severa
seconds before I could get hold o.
him to make him quit. After he wen
and sat down with his wife, I came
over to apologize, because 1 shouldn't
have kidded him like that. But HI
was still mad, and he started bawl.
ing me out all over again.
Then finally I took his hand ane
put it on my wooden leg and l said
Listen, sir. what do you think thi.
is I'm walking on, an in-growr
cane2'
'It was a dirty trick" said Bill
Grant. The poor old dope startee
| to cry"
Evening star., 1946-01-20
BY NEWBOLD MOVES. JR.

BY NEWBOLD MOVES, JR.
S/Sergt. Bill Grant sat in the
United Nations Service Center,
dangling the stump of his right leg
over the arm of a chair. Once when
he went to sleep in this position on a
train, the conductor picked up the
leg and dropped it to the floor with
a brusoue query as to whether
Grant didn't know any better than
to lounge all over the seat.
The 230-pound former minor
league baseball pitcher from Utica,
N. Y, who is convinced that being
an amputee does not mean man
cannot take care of himself, says
that by the time he pulled himself
together and started looking for
the conductor, the official had left
the train.
"I just wanted to tell him how
sorry I was to have been sitting that
way" he explains with an ominous
grin.
Bill, whose full name Is William j.
Grant, was one of the st. Louis
Browns more promising farm pros
poets when the Army requested his
services in the spring of 1941. At
that time he was with the Toledo
club. He went in with the 7th Army
IN the invasion of Southern France.
His leg was blown off at Bitche in
what used to be the Maginot line.
Thinks Mine Got Him.
"I'd gotten into Germany for a
couple of minutes" he said yester-
day, 'but they ran us out again, and
I got wounded in France. I couldn't
stick around long enough to be sure,
but I think it was a mine"
He is at the Forest Glen annex
of Walter Reed Hospital now.
Things are not quite right with his
leg, so he has not yet made sue
cessful use of his artificial limb.
Next month he will have another
operation.
He has his own ideas, however
about what he calls public pity" for
amputees.
Il don't feel sorry for the am
putees as such,' he said. Not one
of them. This is just one mans
opinion, but it seems to me few OF
the boys try to play on public SYM
pathy - try to take advantage of
people. The guys I feel sorry for
now are the guys who are coming
home. They're not getting my
Evening star., 1946-01-20
Woman Hurt in Fall
OF 3 Stories 10 Terrace

Mrs. Katherine Sencindiver fell
three stories from her bedroom in
the apartment house at 1477 Newton
street NV, to terrace in front OF
the building, last night and was
taken to the Emergency Hospital
with back injuries. Her condition
was reported as undetermined.
An ambulance was called when
her daughter, Mrs. Mary Jean
Browning, saw the open window and
looking out saw her mother lying on
the terrace.
Evening star., 1946-01-20
Slogan Chosen
To Aid District
|SuffrageFight
Robert Sullivan, n,
Washington Native,
Is Contest Winner

Armed with new slogan, SYM
bolizing voteless Washington's de-
termination to obtain a voice in ma
tional Government, Central Suffrage
Conference leaders are confidently
preparing to enter the second week
Of their campaign to obtain favor
able action on the Summers Capper
resolution.
The slogan-"Give the Heart of
Democracy a Voice"-was officially
adopted as the groups rallying cry
yesterday at the close of week.
long contest sponsored by the Con-
ference's National Representation
Committee.
It's author was Robeft Sullivan,
453l Forty-fourth street NV, 27-
year-old electrical engineer, and,
appropriately, a native of the Dis
trict.
Mr.. Sullivan's winning slogan,
picked from more than 1000 sub
mitted, earned him a $25 Victory
bond prize. He was presented with
the bond at noon yesterday at Con-
ference headquarters in the Wood
ward Building.
The presentation was made by
Wilbur S. Finch, temporary confer
ence chairman. and Harry S. Wen
der, past president of the Fedora
ton of Citizens Associations, who
judged the contest.
Appearing to claim his prize, Mr.
Sullivan reiterated his interest in a
vote for Washington as evidenced
by his slogan. He said he was par
ticularly concerned with the taxa
ton without representation" ele-
ment in his lack of the franchise.
Backs Resolution.
ITS about time something was
done about giving us a voice in our
Government" Mr.. Sullivan de-
clared, adding that he considered
the Sumners-Capper resolution a
proper means of rectifying the sit
| uation.
The resolution, which would pro-
vide an amendment to the Consti-
tuition to empower Congress to grant
the District representation in Con-
gress and among the presidential
electors, is slated for consideration
by the Senate Judiciary Committee
on February 4.
Honorable mention in the slogan
contest was accorded the following
entrants:
| Mrs. L. Neuman, 2815 Brandywine
street NV. whose slogan was, 1--WE
fight, We pay, we'd like more say,
and E. D. Gibson, $500 Thirty ninth
street NV, submitting Washing
ton, the city without a country"
Junior Board Meets.
Junior Board of Commerce men,
bers will meet at $50 am. tomor-
row in the Senate Judiciary Com
mittee room at the Capitol to urge
committee members to support the
Summers -Capper measure.
Members of the Conferences Ma
tional Representation Committee
conferred yesterday with Senator
Capper, Republican of Kansas, CO.
author Of the Sumner-Capper reso.
luton, to plan friendly visits" te
Senate Judiciary Committee mem
bers. Senator Capper urged the
Representation Committee to EN-.
phasize the sacrifices made in wal
by local servicemen deprived Of
suffrage.
The Conferences National Repre-
sentation Committee will meet al
1890 pm. tomorrow in room 3114
Of the Municipal Center to discuss
the work of the past week and mar
future strategy.
More than $50 civic, professional
and labor organizations have beer
invited to attend meeting called
by the steering committee at pm
Tuesday at the District Building tc
organize the conference on a per-
manent basis.
Evening star., 1946-01-20
AMVETS to Hear Lyle

Representative Lyle, Democrat. of
Texas, who was elected to Congress
while serving in the Army in Italy,
will address the National Headquar-
ters Post of American Veterans of
World War II at meeting at 7:30
pm. tomorrow at the Hamilton Ho-
tel. Post Comdr. Raymond Sawyer
will report on the AMVET- -spon-
sored plan to buy Mclean Gardens.