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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-08-12
Legion TO Open
State Session
AT Cumberland
City to Welcome
1900 Delegates and
Others Wednesday
BY the Associated Press

CUMBERLAND, Md, Aug. 49,
This city is readying itself for an
influx of thousands of American Lee
gionnaires and their friends We'd
nesday, when the first postwar con-
vention Of the Legion's Maryland
department gets under way.
Convention Chairman Vincent P.
Ingram said there would be 1900
delegates accredited, plus a large
number of alternates, guests and
representatives of the Legion aux
iliary.
He added that total of 10000 Wis
itors were expected Friday, when the
convention is to be climaxed by
parade of veterans of World Wars
I and II.
Posts from Pennsylvania and West
Virginia also will be in the line of
march.
Gov. O'Conor, Mayor Theodore
McKeldin of Baltimore, Republican
candidate for Governor: William
Preston Lane, jr., the Democratic
gubernatorial candidate: Represent
alive Beall, Democrat, of Maryland
and Representative Randolph, Dem
ocrat, of West Virginia have accept
ed invitations to review the parade.
Every available accommodation is
being pressed into service to house
the visitors and rooms have been re-
served in Frostburg, Grantsville,
Bedford, Pa, and several West Vir-
ginia communities.
Candidates for State commander
are c. Floyd Feete, Brunswick fu-
neral director: Joseph L. Ferri and
John Boshen, both of Baltimore.
Mr. Ferri is an official of the Bal
timore local of the International
Longshoremen's Union (AFL) and
the first labor leader to seek the
post. Mr.. Boshen is a past State
commander of the 10th Division AS
ISOLATION.
All three candidates are World
War veterans.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-08-12
Elaborate Safeguards Built
Into New Virus Laboratory
By Chris Mothisen

hoods with apertures for their
hands when using the blenders and
similar pieces of equipment in the
new building. Exhaust hoses will
carry the fine spray into the main
discharge system, and ultraviolet
tubes within the hoods will dispose
of any residual infection.
The building will have sealed
triple windows.
1t is distinguished from other
structures of the institute by con-
crete projections over the window
frames which serve three purposes
They shield the laboratories from
rays of the sun, eliminate the neces-
sity for dust-catching interior blinds
and provide support for the ladders
of window washers, who could not
work from window sill, since the
windows cannot be opened.
Completion Expected in Fall.
The laboratory, due for compile
ton in the fall, is being built under
general supervision of w. E. Reyn-
Odds, commissioner of public build
ings.
Among the diseases to be studied
there are the Rickettsia group, in
Guiding typhus, @" fever and Rocky
Mountain spotted fever, and such
other dreaded maladies as parrot
fever and certain mold-produced
disorders.
Officials hope one laboratory can
be reserved for special emergency
projects, but doubt the space could
be withheld from regular use for
long because of the overall needs OF
the Institutes program of research
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-08-12
Chesapeake Is Searched
For Man Lost on Cruise
By fhe Assoeioted Pres.


BALTIMORE, Aug. IL. - Patrol
craft searched the Chesapeake Bay
off Bay Shore Park today for the
body OF a young man who fell from
the steamer Bear Mountain while
on a moonlight cruise and ap-
parently was drowned.
The youth is Michael j. Gahan,
jr, of Baltimore, whose father re-
ported to police that his son was
missing after boarding the vessel
Saturday night. Several persons
aboard the Bear Mountain saw the
young man go overheard.
A lifeboat was put overheard and
The Bear Mountain scanned the
vicinity for 40 minutes before pro-
ceeding to Baltimore. A Liberty
ship and a speedboat which were
passing joined in the unsuccessful
search.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-08-12
HenrySmith, NavyEmploye,
Dies al ARLINGTON Home

Henry Smith, So. a Navy Depart
ment employe for rs years, died yes
terday at his home, 1901 South Cleve-
land street, Arlington.
A native of Gays, ILL.,, Mr.. Smith
worked in the shipping section OF
the Ordnance Division at the Navy
Yard at the time of his death. He
served five years in the Navy as an
apprentice seaman and gunner's
mate in two enlistments from 1907
to 1912.
He is survived by his widow. Mrs
Edna Pearl Smith; four brothers,
j. u, r. O.. John Walter and Martin
Daniel Smith, all OF Nation, ILL.,;
five sisters, Mrs. Mary E. Fuller, Mrs.
Anna L. Shafer, Mrs. Dorothy Cross
and Mrs. Nellie Hopper of Gays, ILL.,,
and Mrs. Esther Lorene House, Hen
derSon, New.
Funeral services will be held at the
Hines funeral home, 1901 Fourteenth
street NV, at noon Wednesday
Burial will be in Arlington National
Cemetery.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-08-12

Cars "A" and "B" meet as shown
at an intersection not controlled
by traffic signals, stop signs or a
policeman. Car "A" should:
/. Accelerate, since 1t is on the
right Of car "B" and should clear
the intersection ahead Of car 3D."
2. Yield the right-of-way to car
3D."
8. Sound the horn.
4. Come to stop.
Answer 2 is right. Section (28),
paragraph la, of the traffic and
motor vehicle regulations states:
THE driver of vehicle approach
ing an intersection shall yield the
right-ef-way to a vehicle which has
entered the intersection. When two
vehicles enter an intersection at the
same time, the driver Of the vehicle
on the left shall yield to the driver
on the right"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-08-12
|Amvets in Virginia
End First Convention
BY the Assoeioisd Press

RICHMOND, Va, Aug. 12.-J. L.
Humphrey of Lynchburg has been
elected State commander of the
American Veterans of World War
II, which concluded its first State
wide convention here yesterday.
The organization expressed graf
itude to the Nation for providing
the numerous benefits to veterans
through congressional legislation,
recommended the use OF nonmili-
tary titles for post officials and re-
ferred to local Amvets posts in Vir-
ginia q resolution opposing the pay
ment Of any bonus by the Common
wealth of Virginia to World War II
veterans.
Other officers named were N. L..
Wells, Portsmouth; r. j. Burke,
Charlottesville. and c. j. Dunkley,
Lynchburg, as first, second and
third vice commanders, respectively;
R. M. Spencer, Richmond, adjutant;
w. D. Latham, Richmond, finance
officer; T. A. Williams, jr., Rich
mond. judge advocate; J. c. Nc
Caughan, jr., Richmond, national
executive committeeman, and L..
Barrere, Richmond, provost mar
shall,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-08-12

smoke, the airport here may be
closed temporarily. Weather condi-
tions may be such that planes can
take of, but are not allowed to land
here.
Here Is the Weather Bureau
score-card when the airport here
was closed due to weather condi-
tions: July, none; June, 3 hours;
May, 3 hours; April, hours; March
Z hours; February, % hours, and
January, 80 hours. Officials said
that these represent totals and not
a continuous weather condition.
Nine Lines Come In.
Nine lines come into National
Airport: American Overseas, Pan
American and Trans World Airline
whic hare international, and these
domestic lines: Capital Airlines-
Pea, United, Eastern, American
Colonial and TWA.
In an effort to solve the weather.
bound airport problem, the Air
Transport Association, representing
rs airlineS, and having Offices here
at HOT Sixteenth street NV, has
set aside 1907, $50 for research.
Continuous radar detection of air
traffic at New York will be under
taken, inasmuch Is the problem is
most acute there, due to interna-
tional activities, officials here said.
No research is planned here for the
present.
The airport administrators Office
at National Airport says that last
month there were 120,552 passen-
gers arriving and departing here
including 62,766 who got aboard
planes and 57.786 who deplaned In
April, May and June, there was q
total of 642, 275 spectators at Ma
tional Airport.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-08-12
Prince Georges Backers
OF McKeIdin Form Club

Richard G. Zantzinger Of Upper
Marlboro has been elected chairman
Of the McKeldin- for Governor Club
OF Prince Georges County.
Other officers are John Staggers,
vice chairman; Nina L. Hinman,
secretary; Harry Smith, treasurer,
and Mrs. Vera A. willard, assistant
secretary. A meeting will be held
at 8 pm. Friday at the Prince
Georges Country Club.
The club will support the candi-
dacy Of Mayor Theodore r. Nc
Keldin of Baltimore, Republican
nominee for Governor in the Mo-
vember election.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-08-12
Maryland Man EIectrocufed
As Well Pipe touches Wire
BY the Assoeioted Press

PASADENA, Md, Aug. 12.-One
man was electrocuted and another
shocked and burned yesterday while
digging well, when a section OF
pipe came in contact with a 1900
volt power line, police reported.
The victims were identified as
Harry l.. Hanson, IS, Severna Park,
killed instantly, and Christopher
Davenport, A, also of Severna Park,
who suffered leg injuries and burns
on the hands
Anne Arundel County police said
the men were digging well on the
farm of Grover e. Cook when a
section of well pipe touched an
overhead cable feeding the Pasa-
dena area.
The accident blew a fuse con-
trolling the feeder line, cutting of
electricity to 40 homes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-08-12
Cab Drivers Held
For 'Incommodinq
The Sidewalk

"Incommoding the sidewalk" was
the charge leveled by police against
ID taxicab drivers who were arrested
last night in front of the Grey
hound Bus Terminal, Twelfth street
at New York avenue, after COM
plants that the cabs were japming
the terminal entrance.
Police explained charge OF lott
ering would have been too serious
for the offense. and as a result chose
the old and seldom used sidewalk
incommoding charge.
Seventeen of the drivers chose to
face the charge In court. The re-
manning hacker, apparently defeat
ed by the facile vocabulary OF the
hack inspectors ONCE. simply for
feited IS collateral.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-08-12
National Airport Seldom Closed
BY Bad Weather, Study Shows

Although 1t has been estimated
that when large modern airport Is
weatherbound, 100000 daily is lost
to the airlines through flight can
collation. and delay, Washington Ma
tional Airport officials said today
that in the past two and a half
years, the field has never been closed
continuously for "a hours.
In fact, the airmen say that
Washington is one of the best from
the weather viewpoint and Wealth
er Bureau records show that in the
last six months, the longest 1t was
closed was In January and then only
for 80 hours the whole month. Even
that was not continuous.
Oficials were unable to supply
definite figures on losses here, point
ing to the dificulty of doing this, be-
cause when Washington Airport is
tied up by weather, that causes a
backing up" at other airports Of
trahic bound here.
Aided by instruments.
Even when the weather looks
pretty bad, with the aid of instru-
ments the planes are able to come
in. When the visibility is less than
two miles and the ceiling lower than
400 feet, operations are suspended,
generally. The Weather Bureau
supplies this information and If it
is considered serious enough. the
field is closed until the weather
clears.
Because Washington National
Airport is at water level on the
Potomac, a lower ceiling is allowed
here than at airports surrounded
by mountains, officials said.
When it Is showing heavily, there
Is fog, during q thunderstorm or In
cases Of heavy rain or appreciable
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-08-12
CAB Plans New Rules
To Reduce Danger Of
Air Transport Fires
BY the Assoeiosed Press

New aircraft regulations intended
to reduce danger of fire in flight to
the vanishing point are being pre-
pared by the Civil Aeronautics
Board in cooperation with industry
Joseph B. Duckworth, director of
the CABS Safety Bureau, told a re-
porter yesterday that every plane
used in transport service must be
modified to meet the forthcoming
rule changes.
The Safety Bureau regards fire as
the greatest danger in flying, and
makes continuing studies Of its cause
and prevention.
These efforts have been intensi-
fed since the end of the war, Mr..
Ducnworth said, to keep pace with
new problems created by increasing
completely in aircraft design and
equipment, by higher speeds. and by
longer flights, particularly those over
water with no emergency landing
fields available.
Mr.. Duckworth said that in the
power plant area, the changes will
improve the fire warning and ex-
tinguishing systems, and will pro-
vide better protection against seri-
GUS damage even If a fire gets out
of control.
In the fuselage, he said, the Safety
Bureau will call for additional fire
and smoke warning devices In un-
occupied areas such as baggage COM
partments. Portable fire extinguish-
ers will be placed in readily Access
sible locations. and automatic ex-
tinguishing systems will be installed
in areas difficult to reach.
In general, the. Safety Bureau
chief said, the requirements will be
such as to eliminate all materials
which might burn and replace them
with metals and fabrics which are
flre and fame resistant.
The forthcoming order is not a
result Of the fatal training flight
crash Of Constellation near Read
ing, Pa, but some lessons learned
from that investigation will be seen
in the new concept of safety.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-08-12
Montgomery Livestock
Show Set for Saturday

The second annual Montgomery
County Livestock Show win be held
Saturday at Choppers, near Cath
ersburg.
In addition to the regular show
ing and judging of cattle, the Iex-
hibit will include horse pulling con-
tests and the showing of teams OF
four and six horses.
Special All Club prizes will In
clude United States Savings Bonds
given by the Montgomery County
Angus, Maryland Hereford and
Maryland Shorthorn Breeders.
Entries must be made at the Of
nee OF the county agent In the So
cial Agencies Building, Rockville,
by Thursday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-08-12
|WAA Tightens Control
OF Sales 10 Veterans
AS List Is Extended
By Robert K. Walsh

| Stricter measures against misuse
of priorities are at the root of a
War Assets Administration plan to
increase the number and range OF
scarce materials to be offered for
sale to veterans for their own per-
sonal or business use, a WAA Off
cial declared today
Some 20 categories of surplus
goods, including tool kits, refrigera-
tors, Photographic equipment and
Office apparatus, such as debating
and duplicating machines, will be
added this week to the list of set
asides for which veterans have had
first priority since last May.
Administrator Robert M. Little
john, representative said, feels
that the present list of set-asides,
including trucks. trailers, agricul-
tural and medical supplies, is much
too restricted in variety.
Scare Items In Demand.
However, there will be no whole
sale transfer of surplus consumer
goods to the veterans priority list,
the official added Many of the
items most wanted by veterans are
especially scarce, and there can be
no disruption of the general dis
posal program to put them all on
the priority list, he explained.
Tied in with the proposed ex-
tension of set-asides for veterans
is the problem of tighter enforce
ment of regulations affecting prior
tiles.
Veterans who are certified to OBJ
tain such additional set-aside ma
terials, it was explained, must prove
that they intend to use the items for
their personal use or in connection
with their own businesses. The re-
cent ban on brokers and spectators
exercising priorities applies to vet
Grams, the official said.
80 Arrests Reported.
Meanwhile, the WAA called at
tention to the quarterly progress
report several weeks ago in which it
informed Congress that more than
1900 investigations were initiated by
the WAA compliance enforcement
division during April, May and June.
About 375 of these were complaints
that veterans misused priorities,
generally as fronts" to obtain sur
plus goods for private business con-
Germs.
As of July l, WAA reported, there
were 80 arrests, of which were
Government employees, and 26 indict-
ments, "predicated upon violation Of
Federal criminal statutes involving
bribery, fraud against the Govern
ment or theft of Government prop
|erty."
I'm the month of June" WAA
stated, "15 cases were investigated,
in which county or municipal gov
|ernments, exercising the priority
given them by the Surplus Property
Act, purchased automotive equip
ment ostensibly for their own use,
but actually for resale to private
citizens-a fragrant distortion OF the
intent expressed by the Congress. 4"
WAA announced that all viola
tons involving the criminal code
have been turned over to the Justice
Department.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-08-12

You are still at war one year after
vi day. That's putting it bluntly.
but I know from experience that
you like straight-from- the-shoulde
talk. Initiation at home has yet to
surrender. United States Savings
Bonds are still war Bonds" in the
battle for Americas economic sta
bility. You can combat rising
prices by taking surplus dollars out
OF the market place. Your Govern
ment has provided safe, profitable
vehicle for saving these extra doll
lars-United States Savings Bonds.
BY investing In Savings Bonds reg
ularly you are building a better
America and q better life for YOU
personally.
u. .. Treasury DEPARTMENT.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-08-12
Mail Bronch Reopened

The Riverdale Md post Office
will reopen its branch Office tomor-
row at Riverdale road and Edmon.
ston avenue, Postmaster A. Frank.
lin Bowers announced today. Mai
will be collected twice a day from
the ONCE, which was closed during
the war.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-08-12

shower DaJnS on Government
time, uniforms of two colors and an
air-conditioning system In which
ultraviolet rays and red-hot grids
will combine to curb infection are
among safety features planned for
the new laboratory building now I'M
der construction at the National
Institute of Health.
The red brick structure, usually
referred to as the virus laboratory
will provide more commodious and
better-planned quarters for research
work among certain groups of in
fictitious maladies than now are
available on the Rockville pike res
|ervation.
Institute officials hope the pains
taking planning which has gone into
its design will result in the maxi
mum possible protection for the
doctors and other laboratory per-
sonnet who will study the origin and
treatment Of deadly ailments.
Showers Part of Routine.
The shower baths will be part of
the daily routine. Because Of the
congestion which would result if all
employed there rushed for the locker
rooms at the same time at the end
of the day, it is expected a stag
gered system will be devised. Some
employees would take their showers
In advance of regular quitting time.
The building will contain a >"clean
zone" where facilities for eating
lunch and for accommodation of a
library, Offices and other nonlabora-
tory functions will be provided.
Each laboratory worker will be
issued two uniforms daily-one,
conventional white laboratory garb;
the other, set of blue zippered COW
erals. No employe wearing a white
uniform will be permitted In the
clean zone" The different colors
will insure that those working In
the laboratories will not come out
for "just a few minutes" wearing
their work clothes.
Six identical laboratory units are
being installed, two to a floor, for
work on different types of diseases
There will be no interchange OF per-
sonnet among them during the
working day.
System Of Dumbwaiters.
Illustrative of the special precau-
tons being taken to localize infec-
ton Is the dumbwaiter system.
There are two sets of three shafts
each. Each dumbwaiter serves but
one laboratory and carries infected
refuse directly to basement incin-
orators.
The small animals to be used in
experiments will be kept in cages
on large movable racks suspended
from rails on the ceilings of special
rooms. This arrangement will per-
init quick shifting for cleaning and
spraying the room with DOT.
A wall-vault sterilizer is being
built into each unit for quick steam
treatment Of animal cages and large
utensils.
The air-conditioning system is de-
signed to carry air across laboratory
desks from behind the worker to-
ward exhaust ducts thereby taking
with 1t dangerous micro-organisms.
Heated electric grids will treat the
air before it Is released to the outer
atmosphere.
To Work Behind Hoods.
1t has been found persons work.
ing with electrical blenders used in
the preparation of serums are in
special danger from a fine spray
thrown of by such devices. These
workers will be protected by glass
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-08-12
Suspected ShopIifter
browns at Salisbury

SALISBURY, Md, Aug. IA
man pursued by store clerk and
police for alleged shoplifting was
drowned last night when he plunged
through a patch OF weeds and brush
bordering the river here.
Police said the man apparently
was stranger in Salisbury and they
were unable to identify him.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-08-12
DAV to Hold Annuul Drive

The annual Forget-Me-Not CAM
paign Of the Ernie Pyle-Silver
Spring Chapter, Disabled American
Veterans, will be held Wednesday
through Friday, covering Montgom-
cry and part Of Prince Georges
counties. Funds will be sought to
aid disabled veterans.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-08-12
Library to MicrofiIm Files

WINCHESTER, Va, Aug. II
(SpeciaD - In order to conserve
space, the Handley Library has in
stalled micro film Photographic
equipment, the use of which will
eliminate bulky newspaper files. &C
cording to C. Vernon Eddy, librarian.
Evening star., 1946-05-27

compelled to resign on November 3.
The tickle French public was glad to
see the strike terminated, but after
ward did not approve the methods used
by premier who had built himself up
politically as strong socialist, friend
of labor and a follower of the foremost
socialist leader of his time, Jean Jaures
Unlike the systems of the European
countries, our Selective Service Act is
purely an emergency measure.
Thus, while the induction of the
strikers into the armed forces might
prove satisfactory device to weather
the present emergency, it might have
an unsatisfactory effect at the polls in
November. when all the members of the
House and third of the Senate have
to be elected
Moreover, 1t might create precedent
which the electorate probably would not
like. If men who are on strike now
are inducted into the Army, the same
measure, it is argued, might have to be
applied to others who walk out in the
next few weeks.
A law using the draft to prevent
strikes threatening to cripple the eco
romic life of the country might be
described during the electoral campaign
as an attempt to militarize the Nation
and use methods heretofore unknown
in the United States