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Evening star., 1946-01-24
Fights Lost Night
By the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
AKRON.-Pat Comiskey. aOS. Pater-
son, n. j., outpointed Johnny White,
20S. New York, 10; Milton Glass, 141,
Akron, knocked out Bobby Thomas,
cINcINNATi.-FFioyd Gibson. ia;
Cincinnati, outpointed Tommy Charles,
174. Terre Haute, Ind, s.
BANGOR. Me.--Leo Methot. 1877,
Montreal. outpointed Johnny Camp
bell, 1875, Brewer, Me, 3: Tommy
Burns. 172. Hampden, outpointed Eddie
Turner. IT,, Bangor, 8.
Newark, N. j., outpointed Billy Mar
Gus. 1856, Hartford, 10; Arthur Nor
ris, 146. Boston, outpointed Rolly
Gomez. 1888. Fall River, g.
Evening star., 1946-01-24
Two for Tokomu Juniors

Takoma Park Junior High basket
ers scored double triumph yester-
day at st. Adams when the regu-
lars defeated the ninth-grade Saints
26-4, and the juniors turned back
the st. Adams eighth-graders, 22-2
Evening star., 1946-01-24
Ann Giouque Rockville Ace

Ann Giauque scored 13 points to
lead the Richard Montgomery girls
basket bail team to a 41-15 win over
Sherwood High yesterday at Rock
vile for Montgomerys third straight
victory.
Evening star., 1946-01-24
7 enpin Team Sets Record

CLEVELAND, Jan. "a (Pp.-A FIVE
man tenpin team rolled a score of
1888 here in three-game series to
claim a new season record.
Evening star., 1946-01-24

The three ranking jockeys at
Santa Anita won five of the eight
races at the California track yester-
day. Ted Atkinson, the leading rider,
booted home Mason-Dixon, $40 so.
Evening star., 1946-01-24

Warren Wright's Pot o. Luck ran
last in the 7-horse field for the
featured Royal Palm Handicap at
Hialeah yesterday. The mile and one
furlong race went to B. A. Murphy's S
Concordian, the IS favorite, which
Evening star., 1946-01-24
leIund Girls Win Game

Leland Junior High girl basketers
Invaded Damascus yesterday to run
up 4l-35 victory.
Evening star., 1946-01-24
Hine Defects Jefferson

Hine Junior High tossers turned
oack Jefferson Junior High, 1913,
yesterday on the losers floor.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-03-12
LOCAL BD. THREE LISTS BIG FLOW
 OF DlSCHARGEES

Six dozen discharges, a lone en- listee and nigh onto dozen pro- spective induetees are. on the latest list Selective Service classifications released here by Local Board No. 3 this week
 Newly-out servicemen now newly dropped into Class 10 (DiscD are. Morris R. Berg, Bill Kauzlarich, William c. Elsner, Joseph j. Slaby, Olaf c. Peterson, Jewell J. Hill John R. Whiteley. Howard A. But ton, Albert T Sharp, Glen Tulin, Basilio c. Untalasco, Richard c. Erbe, Phillip E. Bertholl, Alexay Prokopiof, Edwin E. Hagerup, Yer non K. Swap, Banner A. Smith, Vincent P. Derig, Daniel Merculief, Karl S. Vestbo.
 Benjamin P. Lans. Jones J. Mill ton, John S. Mills, Ricardo M. Sar- abia, Alfred L. zenger, Fred Buckle, Robert L. Lajoie, Emmett c. An derson, William A. Winn, Merrill B. McCurry, Marry D. Sturrock, Rob- ert M. Nyman, Daniel Noyak, Isiah Merculief, Clarence s. Milton, Rer- apont Swtezof, William V. Spauld- ing, Owen E. Rye, Frank L. Jack, Albert E. Withey, George Jones. Wendell F Schneider, Jack w. Mcdaniel, Jr, William Fawcett, John J. Garcia, Fred c. Ssharp, Jr.s John E. Dick. Leroy J. Brown, Neil L. Wirz, Vernon M Metcalf, Eu- gene M Durkee, Willie L. Jack, William S. Horton, Victor Koch ergin, Robert M. Scott, Steve Proko- peuff, Philip G. Forrest, Lander T. McVey. Ernest D Tyler Spiridon P Chulik, William N Mork, Glen J. Kirkham, Francis P. Cashen, Harry K. Kashen, James Williams, Bob Willis, John O. Johnson, Joseph M. Adamson, Edward w. Rener, Richard L. Frankforter, Frank P. Krsula, Frank E. Olson.
 Class IA: Robert M Marks, George Valle, Jr, Herluff R. Taug, Leslie R. Hogins, Frank Cannell Victor E. Hardin, Tommy J. Jim mic; IA (B)-George Mercado, Arthur J. Thompson, Elmer R. Ad- ans, Melvin ". Rener. Class l-C (Enl) Victor T. Cron- dahl.
 Class 3-A-Edwin G. Hasu.
 Class 4-F-Grant K. Ritter, Weik- ko A. Korhonen.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-03-12
EASTERN STARS

Rainbow Girls Exemplify their work. Balloting, Tuesday Mar. 12, 8 o'clock.
 ALICE BROWN, Sec. (2l4-t2)
Evening star., 1946-06-25
Mcdonald Wants Fair Play
OF Diamond Taken to Conqress
Sports Broudcuster
Wins Democratic
Race for House

Transfer of baseball sportsman
ship to the halls Of Congress is the
aim of Arch Mcdonald, well-known
sports broadcaster, who yesterday
won the Democratic nomination to
the House from the 9Th Maryland
district.
Confident after his victory, Mr..
Mcdonald, who lives at Burt Mills
Hills, Silver Spring, plans an i'm
mediate campaign against his Re-
publican opponent, Representative
Beall Of Frostburg in the Novem-
ber general election.
Although he has no announced
platform, Mr.. Mcdonald, whose
baseball broadcasts long have been
familiar to local fans, has at least
one well-defined purpose in seeking
election.
Il think more fair play is needed
in Congress" Mr.. Mcdonald said.
my work for the last 20 years has
brought me into contact with one
of the most typical of American in
stitutions-the world of sports-in
which fair play and teamwork, the
bases of democracy, are funda-
mentals.
II hope to be given the opportun-
ity to apply these principles to the
Evening star., 1946-06-25
Hi|Icrest Group Advocates
$500 Teacher Raise

A $500 annual pay increase for
District school teachers was advo-
Gated last night by the Hillcrest
Citizens Association, meeting in the
East Washington Heights Baptist
Church, 1896 Alabama avenue Sc
A bill introduced last week by
Acting Chairman Hoey of the Sen
ate District Committee provides for
a $3.50 increase.
To Offset the necessity of the
changeover at Seventeenth street
and Pennsylvania avenue Sc, a
through bus route from Eleventh
and I streets NV. to Pennsylvania
and Southern avenues Sc. was re-
quested. Bus service to Anacostia
High School and Kramer Junior
High School also was requested.
Letters were directed to the Ma
tional Airport, Boiling Field, and
the Naval Air Station, requesting
commercial, Army and Navy planes
to fly higher over the area.
Other actions of the association
included a request for installation
of traffic lights on Alabama avenue
at Naylor road and at Branch ave-
nue. Sc. and reiteration of a request
for replacing of mailboxes at Ala
bama avenue and Good Hope road
and at Thirtieth and w streets Sc.
The meeting, last of the season,
was conducted by George Absher,
president.
Evening star., 1946-06-25
Carmen Beach Faces
Deportation 10 Cuba

immigration service officials have
instituted proceedings looking to the
deportation to Cuba Of Carmen
Beach, 81, brunette dancer now
serving a two-year sentence in the
Occoquan Workhouse in connec-
ton with her conviction on Mann
Act charges.
Her term expires in January, 1947.
immigration officials said the wom-
an would be given. a hearing within
q month. They have obtained q
warrant charging the Beach woman,
who is a native of Cuba, with vio-
lation of immigration laws applying
to persons found guilty of acts in
volving moral turpitude. A detainer
has been filed against the woman,
nullifying a recent parole granted
her by the District Parole Board.
The Beach woman was found
guilty in 1943 of the Mann Act
charge which grew out Of her hav-
ing allegedly paid the taxi fare of
a young woman from an apartment
house to a downtown hotel.
Evening star., 1946-06-25
Army Engineer Office
Offers Ny|on Hose 10
Spur Bond Purchases

The Once Of the Chief Of Army
Engineers Is using nylon hose as
prizes to stimulate bond sales among
its "minutemen," 1t was announced
today.
There are approximately $500
employees in the office. Each month,
a downtown store will award two
pairs of nylons to the two Minute
men" who have secured the greatest
number of new bond buyers or pre-
vailed upon regular buyers to in
crease their purchases.
The contest started June l and
the first prizes will be awarded the
second week Of July. The program
is being directed by Harry L. Freer,
savings omcer Of the Engineers
once.
The bond drive began June 6 and
will end on Independence Day. It
is spearheaded locally by the District
Savings Bond Division, headed by
Wilmer j. Waller, who directed War
Bond drives during the war. The
campaign in the Engineers Once
will continue for six months.
Evening star., 1946-06-25
Two Held on Charge
OF u. ). Butter Sales

A mess sergeant was being held
by military authorities today, and a
District grocery employe Is under
arrest. according to the Federal
Bureau of Investigation, in connec-
tion with the theft of butter from
the Vint Hill Va) military reserva-
ton.
The FBI said Bernard Orville
Templeton. the sergeant, had been
taking butter from mess halls at
Vint Hills, near Warrenton. and SELL
ing it at $50 a case to Benjamin
Jaffe, "a, of the 1900 block of Eli
colt street NV, who works in a
grocery store in the $500 block of
Fourteenth street NV.
Arraignment Of Jaffee before
United States Commissioner Need
ham c. Turnage on a charge of re-
ceiving stolen property was post
poned to July 2 yesterday to permit
him. to retain counsel. Bond was
fixed at $1,000.
The arrests came, the FBI report
ed, after a transaction yesteday
during which Jaffe was said to have
asked Templeton, who's that out
side in the white hat?" The man
"in the white hat" was an FBI
agent, who later found the carton
in which it was believed the butter
was delivered, according to an FBI
spokesman.
Military authorities had become
suspicious and called in the FBI,
whose investigation indicated Tenn
pleton had sold one case of butter
to Jaffe on April "a, two more two
weeks later, two on June 2, and an
other yesterday, the spokesman said.
Evening star., 1946-06-25
Taxable Realty
Here Valued at
| $7,395,O00, 900

District assessments valuing tax
able real estate at $1,395 900 900
effective July 1 were approved today
by the Commissioners.
Assessor E. A. Dent said the valua-
ton, at the current tax rate Of SITS
per 100, would produce $24,412 500
during. the coming fiscal year. The
real estate tax is the largest single
source of revenue available to the
city administration.
While the valuation Is an increase
of about $13,000,00 over last year,
Mr.. Dent said it represented q net
increase of $184, ,000, 900 over the as
sessment in 1910.
Between 1910 and the current
year, he said, real estate valued at
$41 ,O0O, 900 was taken of the city
tax rolls through acquisition by the
Federal Government and private
exempt agencies, including en-
bassies.
This loss represented tax loss of
$717 900, he said.
Evening star., 1946-06-25
Most Stores in City
Will Reopen July $;
Veto 4-Day Holiday

Most stores have decided against
extending the Fourth of July into
a week end holiday and will re-
open for business as usual July S,
the Merchants and Manufacturers
Association said today.
A bill to permit Government en-
ployes to enjoy a four-day rest from
Thursday, July 4, to Monday has
passed the Senate and will be con-
sidered by the House tomorrow. But
since many stores will be closing
Saturdays during July and August,
they have vetoed the four-day
holiday.
The association said mems wear
stores voted against closing last
week and that most department
stores had privately expressed op-
position to the plan. Three shops
which will observe the four-day
holiday are Erlebacher, Inc, ladies
wear, 1910 F street NV; Mac
Names, Inc, housewares, 1882 G
street NV, and Brewood Engravers,
1877 G street NV, the association
said.
Meanwhile, plans progressed for
the spectacle, Americas Cavalcade
of Freedom" which will high light
the Districts Fourth of July cele-
bration. Robert Ayres, chairman
of the Ticke Committee, said $4,000
tickets at 81 each for seats at the
Monument Grounds show are on
sale now.
Fireworks, Hollywood stars and a
gigantic massing of colors will fea-
ture the 81 hour show starting at
7:30 pm.
Tickets are on sale at the Dis
trict Recreation Board, 3149 Six
teenth street NV; American Auto
mobile Association, Seventeenth
street and Pennsylvania avenue
NV; Keystone Auto Club, 1643
Connecticut avenue NV; Govern
ment Services, Inc, snack bars in
Government Office buildings and
East Potomac, Takoma, Anacostia,
Mckinley and Banneker swimming
pools.
They also are available at news
stands of these hotels: Willard,
Raleigh, Wardman Park, Statler,
Annapolis, Washington, Mayfower
Shoreham, Ambassador, Roosevelt,
Carlton and Hamilton.
Evening star., 1946-06-25

obtained for Willard F. Kruhm. The
other two candidates. Mr.. Esworthy
and Mr.. jackson, were on both
tickets.
Unofficial totals in the race for the
Republican nominations to six seats
in the House of Delegates are:
R. Duncan Clark, 1882; De Witt
8. Hyde, 1868; Julian P. King. 1893;
Anders r. Lofstrand, jr., 1918: Mr..
Reeves, 1,736; Leona M. Rush, LIZA;
F. Regis Noel, 563, and Alma T.
Opal, 572.
COP Delegates Chosen.
The following seven persons were
elected delegates to the Republican
State Convention. on the basis of
unofncial returns:
Howard p. Bailey, 1,795; Richard
B. Barker, 1897; Paul M. Coughlan,
1891; William H. Fulks, 1888; Louis
A. Gravelle, 1880; George w. john
son, 1861, and Frank H. Karn, 1,456
Defeated candidates were Finnel
F. Estes, $50; w. Leroy Miles, 561;
Charles M. Murray, $50; Thomas r.
Peddicord, 100; Thomas E. Robert
son, SIT; Mildred B. Smith, 558, and
Louis E. Sweadner, 478.
Seeking nomination as county
commissioner from the fifth district,
Mayor Oliver w. Youngblood won
an easy victory over his two op-
ponents. He received 1850 votes
to 373 for M. Kenneth Macknet
and 272 for Frank r. Long.
County Republicans also gave
Joseph A. Wilmer q huge majority
over his two opponents in the race
for the senatorial nomination. Mr..
Wilmer received 1879 votes to 284
for d. John Markey and 1856 for
Roscoe r. Walter.
Evening star., 1946-06-25
Four Store Employees
Identify Two on Trial
As Knights S Killers

Four Safeway Store employees to-
day in District Court identified the
two colored youths on trial as those
who killed John Paul Knight, 34-
year-old father of four children, on
April 13 in front of the store in
the 1900 block of First street NV.
The employees testified they were
leaving the store with Mr.. Knight,
about the time he met his death.
On trial before Justice Alexander
Holtzof are Alfred Hawkins, COL
ored, %, and Lawrence Prout, COL
ored, 20, each accused of first degree
murder.
Defense Fights Confession.
The defense, represented by Robert
I. Miller, fought to keep out of
evidence an alleged confession i'm
plicating the pair in the crime.
Prosecuting are United States
Attorney Edward M. Curran and
Assistant United States Attorney
Charles B. Murray.
The two defendants are charged
with first-degree murder through
premeditation, also first : degree
murder during the preparation of
robbery. They also are charged
with the robbery itself, in which
they allegedly obtained more than
$500 from the actual possession of
the stores manager, William C.
Davis.
Assault Also Charged.
In addition, Hawkins and Prout
are charged with assault with a
dangerous weapon on George w.
Keyes, SO, of Arlington, another en-
ploye. who was wounded by a shot
in the arm. Another count in the
indictment which accused Hawkins
and Prout of assault with intent to
kill Hayes vas dismissed.
The opening statement for the
Government was made by United
States Attorney Curran, who with
Assistant United States Attorney
Murray is prosecuting the case. A
jury of IL men and one woman was
selected shortly before pm. yes
terday.
Evening star., 1946-06-25
Nomination Of Hanrahan
To SEC Returned 10 Senate

The nomination of Edmond M,
Hanrahan of New York to be a
member of the Securities and Ex-
change Commission. succeeding
Ganson Purcell, the chairman, was
before the Senate today.
The Hanrahan nomination was
resubmitted by President Truman
late yesterday after a mixup sew
eral days ago when the resignation
of Mr.. Purcell was announced pre-
maturely at the White House. At
that time the nomination was sent
up and then withdrawn.
Mr.. Purcell, whose term would
expire next June S, formally re-
signed yesterday to enter private
law practice here.
Evening star., 1946-06-25

Invite from the first" the CO.
operation of appropriate municipal
agencies.
Besides urging caution in taking
more land of 1.-the tax rolls for Fed
eral building projects, Gen. Young
asked that careful advance study"
OF the effects of such projects on
traffic and parking be made. The
Commissioners, Public Utilities Com
mission, Traffic Department and Mo-
tor Vehicle Parking Agency should
take part in the studies, he said.
Evening star., 1946-06-25
Woman Here Fined $500
For ILLEGAL Liquor Sales

A sentence totaling 5000 in fines
or 240 days in Jail was imposed by
Municipal Court Judge George D.
Nelson yesterday on a 28-year -old
colored woman who pleaded guilty
to four counts of illegal dealing in
whiskey.
Assistant Corporation Counsel
Robert c. Chalfonte reported the
woman, Rose Armstrong, of the 1900
block Of Ninth street NV, has an
extensive record for the offense.
dating from 1941.
Mr.. Chalfonte said the sentence
was one of the most severe recently
imposed for keeping and selling
alcoholic beverages without a
license.
Evening star., 1946-06-25
Foreign Brides Bill
Passed by Senute

The Senate passed and sent to the
White House late yesterday a bill to
permit foreign girls engaged to
marry American servicemen to enter
this country regardless of immigra-
ton quota limitations.
The girls would have to post a
bond guaranteeing their return fare
in case the wedding failed to
come of.
Evening star., 1946-06-25

problems which face this Nation" !"
Mr.. Mcdonald also is very in
terested" in veterans housing and
wants to investigate reports of race
track construction while veterans
can't even get shack to live in"
IF I was in Congress now" he
asserted, Il would like to Bnow how
and why such a situation exists"
A native of Hot Springs, Ark, Mr..
Mcdonald came to Montgomery
County in 1884. He is A, married
and has three children.
Evening star., 1946-06-25
Carnival Opens Saturday

The Capitol Heights Volunteer
Fire Department will hold its an
nual carnival at the firehouse for
lone week beginning Saturday.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-03-18
BY HARRY GRAYsON !,
NEA Shorts Writer

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla, March
II. (NEA). Uncle Wilbert Robin
son, who managed the Brooklyns
so long, used to say: Give me
three biokes who can throw a ball,
four who can hit it and a double
play combination. and we'll be
tough to beat
Joe Mccarthy and all other pilots
feel the same way about it.
Well, the Yankees have eight
men in the batting order at all
times who pulverize the pill, and
double killing set-up comparable
to all the great ones of the past.
Snuffy Stirnweiss will start many
a two-ply rub-out from third base,
and Scooter Rizzuto and Joe Gordon
stick out like the star act Of a
circus.
Spud Chandler is the only stand
out in the box, but from among %
others, Manager Mccarthy should
find considerable help for the
Georgia alunnus.
Exhibition games quickly estab-
lished the fact that the New Yorks
once more have their prelwar
Murderers' Row, accounting for
their copyrighted big innings, and
the pitching wasn't half bad, es-
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-03-18
SOUTH BUILDING
FIGURES SOARING
Construction In February
Rose e Per Cent, Manu-
facturers Record Says

BALTIMORE, March IT, H =
February construction below the
Mason-Dixon line rose % per cent
above the figure for January to a
total of $3.50, 049, oOo' largely in
private building and heavy en-
cheering awards, the Manufactur-
ers Record announced Sunday.
The magazine said, however, that
the February aggregate was slight
ly below the $130, 900 for Feb
ruary 1915.
Contracts awarded in the South
for the first two months of this
year totaled $3.50, 100000, or more
than IL per cent above the aggegate
for the comparable 1915 period, the
publication reported.
Private building, more than hall
residential, contributed $50, O2l,CVO
to last months figure, and heavy
engineering supplied an additional
s33, $4,000.
Highway construction so far this
year is almost four times the
figure for the comparable period OF
last year. the magazine reported
with a total of $29,912,O0O, of wh!cn
February's total was SIT, 3O3,O OO'
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-03-18
ANTENNA TO AID
new FIN STATIONS
Western Electric Develops
Aerial To Avoid WASTING
Power On Space"

NEW YORK, March 17-(RH
The Western Electric COMPANY
Sunday, announced development NJ
a new "Cloverleaf'' antenna de.
signed to enable Frequency Mod.
lnatlon radio stations to direct ali
thelr energy to the area they wish
70 serve and avoid wasting power
on other areas or on empty space,
This conservation of radiateo
energy permits the establishment
OF the stations required sigma,
strength with radio transmitte1
powers OF only one-fifth to one
malt the amount otherwise needed -
the company said.
Inc new antenna, developed by
the Bell Telephone laboratories, is
engineered especially for FM sta
lions operating at the new FEC
assigned carrier Frequencies be-
tween SO and 1903 megacycles and
at power levels up to so kilowat+s
the company added.
The antenna gets its name from
It's radiation units, which are
shaped like four-leaf clovers anc
can be adjusted so as to radiate
horizontally polarized waves anc
concentrate them in the direction
1 OF the stations. intended listeners
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-03-18
Southeastern Adopts
New Eligibility Rule

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, March ii.
-U.H-The Southeastern confer.
ence executive committee ruled
today that an athlete who had even
entered into an agreement to play
professionally would be. ineligible
for playing in SEC games.
The ruling, which affects both
veterans and non-veterans, i'm.
mediately involves contract sign
ed with the Detroit Lions in 1874
by Bobby Offers and Kim Tarrant.
University of Tennessee star half.
backs.
Coach Bob Neyland of Tennessee
criticized the committee action.
explaining that the players had
signed agreements with the Lions
during wartime when a player was
melville only if he actually play.
ed with pro team or had com
pleted four years of college ath-
letics.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-03-18
Ia Heels Meet NYU NCAAF First Round


games, spelled by big and shifty
who stepped up in the Navy, is
considered the third man, but three
youngsters, Gus Niarhos and
Charley Silvera, who are the
Mickey Cochrane type, and Bill
Deininger, Gabby Hartnett model,
can't be counted out. Rollie Hens.
ley appears to have finally hit the
end of the major league trail.
Behind Chandler. the Yankees
have the aging Red Ruffing, Ernie
Bonham, Bill Zuber, Karl Drews,
Walt Dubiel, Allen Gettal, Elmer.
son Rosar, Charley Stanceu, Char.
ley Wensloff, Floyd Bevens, left
handlers Wight, Joe Page, Herb
Karpel, Tom Byrne and Jake Wade
and RELIEF workers Johnny Murphy
Steve Peek and Ken Holcombe.
Charley Kuffing,, now Sunday OF
once-a-week pitcher, can still wiz
dozen or more games with his
eyes shut.
The six-foot four, 198-pouno
Drews bagged 10 for Newark with
an earned-run average of 2.70
Wight, last with Norfolk, is the
camps current phenomenon.
Karpel, who has also played the
outfield, got into 38 games with
Kansas City before entering the
service in 1912. won II while losing
only one,. finishing with an earned
run average Of 2.48.. 80
Alley Donald can't raise the arm
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-03-18
DiMaggio Gives Yanks
Victory Over Cards

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla, March
l6.-R-Joe DiMaggio's home run
with two on in the eighth inning
enabled the New York Yankees to
come from behind and defeat the
St. Louis Cardinals 80 in an ex-
hibition game today. @
DiMaggio's homer, his eighth of
the spring, came on top of Buddy
Hassett's single and Tom Hen
rich's double after two men were
out. Howard Pollet, third Card
pitcher, was on the mound.
The victory was the Yankees
sixth straight and clinched the St.
Petersburg spring title for the
New Workers over the National
league.