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Evening star., 1946-03-31
Senator Bark|ey 10 Speak
AT Jewish Appeal Opening

Senator Majority Leader Barkley
will help launch the s1,o000o0
United Jewish Appeal in the Wash
ington area at dinner in the
Hotel Statler Thursday night.
Senator Barley and Rabbi
Stephen S. Wise of New York, presi-
dent of the American Jewish Con-
gress, will be the principal speak
ers at the dinner sponsored by the
Advanced Gifts Committee. The
campaign here is part of a national
campaign to raise 100000 900 this
year for aid to the 100000 surviv-
ing Jews in Europe and the rebuild
ing Of Palestine.
The guest of honor and only
woman invited to attend will be
Mrs. Charles A. Goldsmith, honor
airy chairman of the drive, who is
celebrating her 18th birthday this
month
OF the money raised here. 80 per
cent will 60 to overseas relief and
20 per cent to the Jewish Social
Service Agency of Washington and
dozen other Jewish welfare
groups, local and national. Lewis
E. Spiegler is director of the local
drive. A. S. Kay is chairman of
the Advanced Gifts Committee.
Evening star., 1946-03-31
Star and Legion Will Revive
Popular Soap Box Derby in July

The Washington Soap Box Derby,
suspended during the war, will be
revived this year. The boys coaster
car race, last run in 194l, will be
staged during July under sponsor
ship of The Star and the District
Department of the American Legion
in cooperation with Chevrolet deal
ers of the Metropolitan Area.
Renewal of the popular competi-
tion was assured when Department
Comdr. Herbert j. jacob of the leg
ion announced his organization
would be happy to join again in
making this race possible"
Mr.. jacob said he would begin at
once the job of planning committee
organization and selecting a director
from among active Legionaires.
The date and place of the Derby
as we'll as complete details of entry
procedure, will be announced later in
The Star.
Supplies of rule books are ex-
pected to arrive shortly and word
has been received that wheels and
axles for the racers are being turned
out by several manufacturers and
will be available at prewar prices.
The 194l Washington Soap Box
Derby was open to boys II to Is
years old, inclusive, who built grav-
Empowered coaster cars at a cost
of not more than $40. Total cost OF
Evening star., 1946-03-31
Railway Express Worker
Retires After IS Years

James L. Mothershead, 68, of 90l
Sixth street S.W., retired yesterday
after As years with the Railway
Express Agency.
Mr.. Mothershead went to work
for the company when it was the
Adams Express Co. located at Sixth
and c streets S.W., near the old
Pennsylvania Railroad station.
He drove the money, truck for
the express company for AZ years
delivering money to banks and reg
istered parcels to jewelry stores
without ever having to answer a
claim for loSS-or traffic ticket.
Mr.. Mothershead said last night
that in his As years on the job he
never had a day of due to sickness
and that he has yet to lose a tooth.
He has two sons, three daughters
and seven grandchildren. Raymond
c. Roberts, the fire marshal of the
District, is his son-in-law. Mr..
Mothersnead is to live for a time
in a cottage on Chesapeake Bay
and fish.
Evening star., 1946-03-31
Red Cross Fund Drive
Extended With Gifts
6.54% Below Quota

volunteer canvassers of the Wash
ington Metropolitan Area Red Cross
campaign will go over the ground
again in the next few days in an
effort to reach the sl,573, 400 goal by
Thursday, according to General
Chairman Richard H. Wilmer.
Originally scheduled to end today,
the drive has accounted for $1,470,-
480. or 93.46 per cent of the quota,
and has been extended in an effort
to obtain the full amount.
Further reports from Government
unit solicitors will be made at 1890
pm. Thursday in the United States
Chamber of Commerce Building.
Randolph G. Bishop, campaign di-
rector, cited tagging response in GER
tain downtown Office buildings as
one of the factors contributing to
failure of the campaign to go over
the top on time.
In one big downtown building.
for example, only Is gifts have been
reported as against 2l5 last year;
In another, only three gifts as
against SO last year" he said.
Prospective givers not yet reached
by canvassers can assist by mailing
their contribution to campaign
1915 H street NV, or
calling by telephone, he suggested.
The rs Red Gross booths placed
throughout the city, which were to
have closed yesterday, will be kept
open throughout this week, Mrs. A.
Peter Dewey, booth chairman, an
Evening star., 1946-03-31
Decision Due Tomorrow
On Young Nomination

Whether formal hearings should
be held on the nomination of John
Russell Young for a third term as
District Commissioner may be de-
cided tomorrow.
The Senate District Committee
last Thursday ordered a favorable
report on the nomination, but held
up its presentation to the Senate
at the request of Senator Johnston
Democrat of South Carolina, who
said he had received several pro-
tests. :,
The committee announced at the
time 1t was withholding action only
until tomorrow. Senator Johnston
indicated yesterday he may ask
for some additional time.
Chairman Bilbo, who said the
committee set the length of the
delay, indicated he would discuss
the question tomorrow with Sen
ator Johnston.
Evening star., 1946-03-31
Plans Are Announced
For Expansion Of
Children S Hospital

Improved facilities for sick and
injured children in Washington
were promised yesterday as Chill
dren's Hospital announced plans fol-
an up-to-date four story building
to replace the main building on
w street between twelfth and
thirteenth streets NV.
The new structure, with eight
new wards, will increase the hos
pitfalls capacity from 225 to BOT beds,
hospital authorities said. 1t also
will permit extension of the train
ing program for nurses, doctors and
medical students.
The plans call for a new and larger
surgical section with three ma jor
operating rooms, two minor operat-
ing rooms, three anesthesia rooms,
a plaster room and splint closet,
sterlizing room and other surgical
units.
A campaign for $1,000, 900 to en-
large and modernize the hospital
will begin in May. Space to be
provided in the new building for
cadet nurses will release Cadet
Hall, built in 1s43, for use of
patients.
Special clinics for treatment of
chronic cases and handicapped
children and a larger department
for treatment of infantile paralysis
are included in the plans. Children S
Hospital cares for 80 per cent of the
polio victims under II years of age
in the metropolitan area.
Nurses, physicians and members
OF the hospital staff now living in
the 70-year-old main building and
two wings built SIS years ago and
condemned for use by patients will
have living quarters in the proposed
structure.
The building will contain a new
occupational therapy department,
formula laboratory, kitchen. cafe
terra and dining rooms, infirmary
for nurses, work rooms for the Red
Cross, administrative Offices, class
rooms and lecture rooms.
Robert B. Swope, chairman of the
new building fund campaign, an
nounced that he is recruiting volun-
teer workers for the drive.
Evening star., 1946-03-31

wheels, tires, axleS and bearings was
limited to $6.
More than 300 cars flashed down
the course on Pennsylvania avenue
Sc. on the preWar Derby Day.
When the process of elimination
was completed, Gene Bean, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Preston C. Bean, 6OS
Rittenhouse street NV, found
himself Washington's Soap Box
Derby champion. He was awarded
the M. E. Coyle trophy, an arm
full of other prizes and the right
to represent the Capital in ma
tional finals in Akron, Ohio. He
finished third.
The national competition began
in 1884 after coaster race in
Dayton, Ohio, attracted wide
spread interest. Chevrolet became
interested and began offering a
four-year scholarship to the State
university of the winners choice
as the annual grand prize. as well
as numerous other awards.
Contests rules always have en-
phasized that the coaster cars are
to be built by the boys who plan
to race them, although adults may
give advice.
Prospective contestants of the
washington area should begin
working on designs for their racers
now and watch The Star for further
information to be made public soon.
Evening star., 1946-03-31
House Group Expected
To Report D. {. Supply
Measure Wednesday

A curtailed but still record break.
ing District supply bill for the next
fiscal year may be reported to the
House Wednesday and taken up fol-
action the next day.
If the supply bill and the report
can be whipped into final form in
time, they are to be submitted to
the full House Appropriations Com
mittee Wednesday by the Coffee
subcommittee. Approval there would
schedule the bill for action by the
House Thursday, under tentative
plans announced yesterday.
Decisions are also expected on
Capitol Hill this week on other Dis
trict matters.
Chairman Bilbo Of the Senate
District Committee said he hoped
to get action on the bill to grant
authority to the Commissioners to
provide utility services for $50 tenn
porary housing units for veterans
allocated to the District under the
SAAASA 5SAASy PAOEl daIl JtlC ISdJlOIldl
Housing Administration.
Action was deferred at last Thurs
days meeting of the committee to
await a report from the Interior
Department after several citizens
protested against a plan to place
some of the units in park areas.
On the House side, District Com
mittee Chairman Mcmillan has
scheduled a meeting of his group
at 10:30 am. Wednesday to take
up several bills, including one spon-
sored by the Commissioners to give
the Health Department stronger
control over communicable disease
patients who refuse isolatio or
treatment.
Mr.. Mcmillan also plans to call up
the Sasscer bill to name the New
Hampshire avenue viaduct over the
Baltimore & Ohio railroad in honor
Of the late Charles A. Langley, who
campaigned for many years for
this and other Improvements; and
the bill to exempt the Red Cross
from payment of District Inherit
ance taxes on bequests to the or
ganization.
A hearing is scheduled for 10:30
am. Thursday before the Judiciary
subcommittee of the House group
on the Mcmillan bill to ban the use
Of residential areas of the District
as sites for radio or television tow
ers.
Evening star., 1946-03-31

Prominent Washington business
men and civic leaders paraded yes
terday through downtown streets in
a colorful prelude to the fifth an
nual Shrine Circus to be held here
the week of April 8-14 at Uline
Arena.
Attired in sparkling uniforms and
bright fezes, members of Almas Tenn
pie marched alongside wheel chairs
occupied by crippled children, who
will benefit from the proceeds of the
circus, to be staged for the Almas
Charities and Activities Fund.
Thousands of persons lined the
streets to see circus floats and
wagons pass in review along with
clowns and bands. Participating in
the parade were the American Le-
gion Color Guard, the Almas Brass
Band and Patrol, the Drum Corps,
Evening star., 1946-03-31

Oriental Band, the Ladies of Shrine
Oriental Band, and the Jobs Daugh-
ters of Brentwood.
The procession was under the
supervision of Shriners Wilfred
Lawson and Julius Gay.
Meanwhile, Howard P. Foley, past
potentate and managing director of
the circus, said "the stage is set
for our greatest three-ring show.
We are confident of topping all
previous seasons in the brand of
entertainment and in attendance. "
The show includes 80 acts and
features many performers who have
been with Ringing Brothers Bar
mum and Bailey, Cole Brothers and
other circuses.
Tickets are on sale at Almas Tenn
pie, 1915 K street NV; Ballard's,
1900 G street NV, and Uline Arena
Third and M streets NE.
Evening star., 1946-03-31
uses Official Warns
0fUnemp|oymentRise
In Heavy Construction

A rise in unemployment amone
District nonhousing construction
workers will result if complete
halt is called on commercial and in
dustrial construction in this area
under the limitation order issued
last week to boost the supply of
veterans homes, Government off,
cial warned last night.
Fred z. Hetzel, Washington area
director for the United States EN-
ployment Service, explained resi-
Dental building docs not make
complete use Of all construction
trades, and that shortages of heav-
ler construction jobs might we'll
cause many veterans to be unable to
purchase the newly provided hous-
ing units?
If all the new building activity
is confined exclusively to- residential
building or remodeling or even
maintenance, these heavy construc-
/ ulluCull
spot" Mr.. Hetzel said.
Limitation Order.
Under the limitation order issued
last Tuesday most new non-resi-
dental building will be limited for
time to essential, non -deferrable'
projects. Construction already
started can go ahead.
Housing Administrator Wilson w
Wyatt said last week the veterans
program actually will be responsible
for per cent gain in non-hous-
ing construction. This would be
owing to an increase in building
supplies to be obtained with in
centives provided by the program
the housing chief said.
In his statement issued last night
Mr.. Hetzel said he is hopeful the
authorities will give considerable
attention to the supply and demand
of this market in establishing build
ing priorities for the District"
Jobs are our concern" he con-
tinued I'VE know only too well
that an unbalanced demand fol-
labor can make for a local economy
that is upset, too
ManpOwer Adequate.
The USES official said the "pres-
ent outlook is favorable" for an
adequate supply of construction
manpower.
He pointed out that an average
of 5000 or 5000" construction
workers have been employed on
residential building in this area for
the last six months, but that reports
for February showed a surplus OF
applicants"
He said there was an acute
shortage of work openings" in Feb
ruary for brickfayers. electricians
carpenters, painters, plasterers ano
plumbers. Shortage of building ma
terials was mostly to blame, he said
Points to Claim Load.
A third of the unemployment
compensation claim load" in Feb
ruary was made up of construction
workers, he said.
| The situation was even worse fol-
iron workers and similar trades
identified with heavier construc-
tion," he added Almost g5 pei
cent of these iron workers were un-
employed in the seasonal stoppage
this year." he said.
Mr.. Hetzel suggested that labor
needs for residential construction
could be met best if priorities and
materials "are allocated on the
basis of the builders capacities tc
obtain workers in this community.
Evening star., 1946-03-31
Hacker Robbed Of sig
By Armed PASSENGERS

Jack w. Glover. 27, taxicab driver
OF 1903 B street Sc. a discharged
Army veteran. was robbed of SIG
last night by two armed colored
men who were passengers in his
cab, police reported.
Mr.. Glover, who fought through
five campaigns as a tank COM
mander with the End Armored Di-
vision, told police the men threat
ened him with pistol and knife
In the HOO block of Stevens road
Sc. He said they failed to find s75
he had in wallet.
The veteran, who was discharged
last December, said the men fed
on foot after the robbery.
Evening star., 1946-03-31
Symphony Student Essay
DeadIine Is Tomorrow

Entries in the National Symphony
Orchestra essay contest for men,
bers Of the orchestras student con-
cert audiences must be received by
tomorrow at the National Symphony
office in the Woodward Building, Fiji
teenth and H streets NV.
Essays must report what the stu
dents have learned from the con-
certs and bear the name, age and
school of the entrants.
Four prizes of $25 each will be
awarded-one each to boy and
girl under II and a boy and girl
between II and Is, inclusive.
Winners will be announced next
Sunday at the final National Sym
phony concert of the season in Con-
stitution Hall.
Evening star., 1946-03-31
Ticket Sole Scheduled
For Gurden PiIorimooe

Tickets for the annual George
town Garden Pilgrimage. April 13
and IA, will go on sale Saturday, Mrs.
Frederick Whitehead, committee
chairman, announced yesterday.
They will cost SIPS each and will
be available at the Willard Hotel.
American Automobile Association,
Seventeenth street and Pennsyl-
vania avenue NV, and Frances
Scott Key Book Shop, Twenty
eighth and o streets NV.
Evening star., 1946-03-31
Bradley Halls
|CIinic' S Move
From Mi. Alto
| Municipal Building
Out Unless X-Ruy
Is Permitted There
By Miriom ottenbe1o

veterans Administrator Bradley's
ONCE has stepped in to prevent sick
Washington veterans from being
shunted from place to place for
medical treatment, it was learned
last night.
The national VA action ha!ts at
least temporarily the proposed
move of the treatment clinic for
veterans from Mount Alto Hospital
to the Municipal Building.
Only condition under which VA
will permit the regional VA office
to move the clinic is if the District
Commissioners reverse the Munich
pal Building superintendent and
allow VA to install portable x-ray
and laboratory equipment.
The move was to have been made
before the end of this month. The
plan was to shift the five clinic
doctors to the Washington regional
office in the Municipal Building,
but to keep the X-ray, labora-
tory, pharmacy and physiotherapy
equipment at Mount Alto.
Hospital Is Overcrowded.
VA doctors protested the move
on the ground that they couldn't
treat veterans without knowing
what was wrong with them, and
that might require several trips
to Mount Alto for X-ray and lab
oratory tests.
Brig. Gen. H. B. Lewis, admin
istrative adviser to Gen. Bradley.
said last night there will be no
clinic at the regional office until
or unless X-ray and laboratory
facilities can be installed at the
same place as the doctors"
VA has been trying to get the
clinic out Of Mount Alto because the
hospital already is overcrowded.
Thousands of veterans have been
going there for examination and
treatment, jamming the facilities.
Gen. Lewis said an effort will be
made to persuade the Commission
ers to permit VA to install tempo
rary X-ray facilities at the Munich
pal Building. Otherwise, he said,
the clinic will be left at Mount Alto
until VA finally moves into 1925 H
street N.W.-a move which has been
delayed for three months ALREADY
and is still indefinite because the
Public Buildings Administration
can't complete the necessary re-
shuttle of Federal tenants.
Survey Will Be Made.
LII. Col. II. H. carp, assigned to
the VA branch Office medical staff
at Richmond, will come here to-
morrow to survey the facilities at
the Municipal Building.
If such an ARRANGEMENT is feas-
ible. it was learned, Col. carp will
make a plea to the District Com
mlssloners to allow VA to install
the equipment. The building su-
perintendent, according to VA
spokesman, has refused to let VA
make any alterations that would
permit the installation OF X-ray or
laboratory equipment in the build
ing.
| If the Commissioners permit the
installation, another problem which
has been worrying VA officials
would be solved. 1t was explained
that thousands of veterans have
to be examined to get pensions.
While these examinations are made
at the regional Office, many of the
veterans awaiting pensions have to
go to Mount Alto for tests.
Evening star., 1946-03-31
War Chest Gets 1921
From Crestwood OCD

A gift of 1921 40 to the Commun-
ity War Chest was among four do
nations to local nonprofit organiza-
tlons made from $500 fund left
after the recent dissolution of the
Crestwood Civilian Defense Areas
Executive Committee, F. H. Martell,
committee chairman, announced
yesterday.
Prorated on the basis of members
votes for the different organiza-
tions, the remainder of the fund
was distributed as follows: $160.57
to the Crestwood Citizens Associ-
alton, $3.50 to the District Chapter
OF the American Red Cross, and IS
to the boys department Of the
YMCA.
Evening star., 1946-03-31
Home Accident
Fatalities Total
| IS This Year

A woman who drank strong
disinfectant contained in a LIQUOR
bottle was among 100 District per-
sons hospitalized by home accidents
last week.
One person died from fall.
bringing the years home accident
fatalities to 65-11 more than the
total at this time last year.
Other strange cases noted by the
Red Cross Accident Prevention
Service last week: A man swal-
lowed glass while drinking water;
a suitcase fell from a shelf, strik-
ing a man on the head; another
man caught his fingers in a folding
bed; a child fell on a milk bottle
and was severely cut.
Evening star., 1946-03-31
Cab Increase Hits Incomes,
Hackers Counsel Charqes

E. Erwin Dollar, chairman of the
Washington Taxicab Advisory Coun-
sci. last night disputed the conten-
tion of the Public Utilities Commits
sion that there is no need for limit
ing the number of taxicabs here.
The counsel, which represents in
dividual hackers here, feels that the
livelihood of taxi drivers is threat
ened by the increase in the number
of cabs on the streets, Mr.. Dollar
said.
He added that nearly 1000 addi-
tional cabs have gone into service
since VI day. This has caused a
sharp decrease in the earnings of
regular hackers, Mr.. Dollar declared
Evening star., 1946-03-31
Motorist Exoneruted
In Death of Woman, 81

Charles w. Smith, 80, of 402 East
ern avenue NE. was exonerated by
coroners jury yesterday in the
traffic death of Mrs. Della M. Davis,
81, of 224 Tenth street Sc.
Mrs. Davis died at Casualty Hos
pital Friday of injuries received
when struck on December % in the
TOO block of Seventh street Sc. by
an automobile driven by Smith.
The verdict was announced by
Coroner A. Magruder Macdonald.
Evening star., 1946-03-31
Engineer Officer Named
To Attend A-Bomb Test

Lt; Col. Sherwood B. Smith, 1880
California street NV, has been
named Engineer Corps represtative
for the Army ground group partici-
pating in the atomic bomb tests
1t vas announced yesterday.
Before entering the Army. in
March, 1912. Col. Smith was en-
ployed by the Engineers Corps. in
research on protection against air
attack. He wears the Legion of
Merit and has travelled in England
and France to study the effects of
aerial bombardment and shell fire
for the Army.