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Evening star., 1946-04-03
Lenten Services SET
ThroughoutCit Today

Many churches throughout the
District today will hold midweek
lenten services as part of the fourth
weeks observance of the holy period
At the Church of the Epiphany
the Rev. DR.. Joseph r. Sizoo, rector
OF the Collegiate Church of st. Mich
olas, New York. was to conclude
his series of lenten sermons at the
monday service DR.. Sizoo, for
merly pastor of the New York Ave-
nue. Presbyterian Church here,
opened his talks on Monday.
The Rev C. Leslie Glenn, rector
of st. Johns Episcopal Church,
Lafayette Squire, will speak at the
MONDAY services tomorrow and
Friday.
MONDAY services sponsored by the
Washington Federation of Churches
at Covenant-First Presbyterian
Church, Connecticut avenue and
Eighteenth street NV, will have
the Rev. James A. Albertson, pastor
Of Bethesda Presbyterian Church,
as preacher today and tomorrow.
The Rev. Gerhard Lenski, pastor of
Grace Lutheran Church, will be the
speaker at the Friday service.
Lutheran churches throughout the
District will hold special midweek
lenten services at 8 o'clock tonight.
At Grace Lutheran Church, Six
teenth and Varnum streets NV,
Army Chaplain ALI M. Kraabel will
preach.
The Rev. DR.. j. Warren Hastings,
pastor of National City Christian
Church, was to speak at a lenten
luncheon today at the Central
Branch YMCA, 1876 G street NV.
Evening star., 1946-04-03
.Hypnotism and Snake HundIino
Protested in Teachers Class

Aroused over what they. term the
"unorthodox" methods of Mrs. Dor
othy Rudnick in teaching biology at
the Montgomery Blair High School,
Silver Spring, several parents have
protested to Principal E. M. Doug
lass against hypnotism demonstra-
tions and the handling of live snakes
in her classes
In a letter to Mr.. Douglass, one
mother, who refused to sign her
name, said she did not send her
child to school to learn how to fondle
live snakes" or to learn hypnotism.
IF your teacher will give the
proper instruction in biology, she
will be performing her duties" the
mother wrote. IF she wants to
teach how to handle snakes or how
to hypnotic, let her join a circus"
While admitting he had talked to
one parent and had received IN
Evening star., 1946-04-03
Schools Swell Paper
Salvage for Orphans

Two of the schools in the Save
an-Orphan phase of The Evening
Star-PTA wastepaper salvage cam
paign yesterday collected enough
paper TO provide for the care of the
European war orphans they have
adopted for two months in one case
and a month and a half In the
other.
The two schools were Noyes, with
1852 pounds of old newspapers and
magazines. and Randle Highlands,
with 1920.
Yesterdays total collections were
25,160 pounds. bringing the total of
the drive to 23,3o5 1923 pounds.
Collections of half ton or more
in addition to Noyes and Randle
Highlands were Cleveland, 1,025;
Langdon, 1925; Brookland, 1901:
Bunker Hill, 1888; Burroughs, 2,575;
Taft, 1892; Woodbridge, 4,0O2; St.
Martins, 1850, and Emery, 1,46O.
Collections tomorrow in the fourth
district and the leaders will be as
follows:
Evening star., 1946-04-03
Doctors Fight for Life
Of Mary Stoutenburgh

Doctors at Walter Reed Hospital
continued their fight today to save
the life of 12-year- -old Mary Stout
enburgh, who lay unattended for 4s
hours with gunshot wound in her
head after her father shot anG
killed her mother and then fatally
wounded himself.
The girl had a sinking spell yes
terday, it was said, and penicillin
was administered to prevent a pos
sible infection of the wound. How
ever, her doctors said today that
she was slightly improved but still
in a grave condition"
Meanwhile, she is being kept un-
der an oxygen tent and is re-
ceiving intravenous injections.
The girl was rushed to the hos
pital Monday morning in a critical
condition after police found her
parents, Paul P. Stoutenburgh, As
and Mrs. Anna Stoutenburgh, A,
shot to death in Mary's room at
their home, 1921 Kalmia road NV
Coroner A. Magruder Macdonald
issued certificate of murder and
suicide in the deaths. Mr.. Stout
enburgh had been a lieutenant
colonel in the Army until his dis
charge last November. Since then
he had served as assistant to the
chief of the patent division, Office
of Scientific Research and Develop
ment.
Evening star., 1946-04-03
Funeral Arrangements
For Victor ). Clark Wait

Funeral arrangements for Victor
S. Clark, II, economist and author
who was found dead yesterday in
his apartment at 1880 Connecticut
avenue NV, are awaiting contact
with member of his family.
Mr.. Clark had a particular interest
in labor problems and the economics
Of Colonial possessions and smaller
countries. He made extensive
studies of Australia, Cuba, Hawaii,
New Zealand, the Philippines, Java,
Mexico, Canada and Great Britain.
He was editor of the Living Age
from 1920 to 1928 and the author of
a history of manufacturing in the
United States. During the later
years of his life he was an economic
consultant to the Library of Con-
gress.
A native of Portageville, N. Y, he
was educated at the University of
Minnesota and did graduate work at
the University of Chicago at Co.
lumbia University, and at Goet-
tingen and Berne Universities.
Evening star., 1946-04-03

anonymous phone call from another
objecting to Mrs. Rudnick's teach
ing methods, Mr.. Douglass said he
saw no reason to change the course
unless We receive more complaints. :"
He explained Mrs. Rudnick uses
nonpoisonous snakes in her classes
to encourage students to get over
their fear of them," but that no stu
dent is forced to handle snakes if
he doesn't want to.
He said Mrs. Rudnick formerly
was employed in a mental hospital,
where hynotism was used as mental
therapy, and that she demonstrated
it on two students who had received
written permission from their par
ents.
1T was just a simple demonstra-
tion,' Mr.. Douglass emphasized,
"and the students weren't actually
It's ell part Of the reg
ular program Of study"
Evening star., 1946-04-03
Mrs. Helen Marie Seek
Dies in Tukomu Park

Mrs. Helen Marie Seek, IS, a resi-
dent of Takoma Park and Silver
Spring for 18 years, died yesterday
at the Washington Sanitarium in
Takoma Park after an illness of five
weeks. She made her home at 807
Thayer avenue, Silver Spring.
Born in Jersey City, Mrs. Seek
came to Takoma Park in 1928 to
enter the School of Nursing at the
Washington Sanitarium and was
graduated in 1881. She moved to
Silver Spring last December.
Surviving are her husband,
Charles o. Seek, and two children,
Carl, 8, and Christine, S; her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Elder A. O. Lund,
Chicago; sister, Mrs. Donald A.
Smith of Brigden, Ontario, and
three brothers, DR.. Carl E. Lund,
North Hollywood, Calf; Kenneth
Lund, Long Beach, Calf, and Oscar
Lund, Burbank, Calf.
Funeral services will be held at 2
pm. Friday at the Sligo Seventh
Day Adventist Church. Burial will
be in George washington Memorial
Cemetery.
Evening star., 1946-04-03
Better Living Leadership
Urqed on Businessmen

The Nations business leaders
should seek to produce human
satisfactions," as well as better
products, w. Howard Chase, public
relations director of General Foods
Corp, told the Advertising Club of
Washington yesterday at lunch
con in the Hotel Statler.
Businessmen have held back toe
long from leadership in better liv-
ing apart from improvement of
products, Mr.. Chase declared in
calling for them to become "the
true radicals of this age"
Because business usually acts so
damnably self-suficient," he said,
the public concludes it does not
need friends. He urged a regard
for the parable that man does not
exist "by bread alone"
Trying to run an ethical busi-
ness is the great adventure" in
the United States today, he said,
adding, "the towards cling to COL
lectivism."
Evening star., 1946-04-03
Mrs. Caroline Pickford
To Be Buried Tomorrow

Mrs. Caroline Louise Pickford, 78
widow of DR.. Edward Ferguson Pick
ford, physician here so years, died
yesterday at Garfield Memorial
Hospital.
Mrs. Pickford was a native of
Schenectady, N. Y, and graduate
of Union Classical Institute there
She lived here at 2957 Tilden street
DR.. Pickford died in May, 1914
shortly after they celebrated their
golden wedding anniversary
Surviving are son, DR.. Edward
Morse Pickford of Washington, and
five sisters, Mrs. Maude H. Clark,
Washington; Mrs. o. N. Dana, New
York City; Mrs. Roland Thomson
Schenectady, and Mrs. Frank Sea-
bolt and Mrs. Marian Gardiner,
Quogue, Long Island.
Funeral services will be held at
pm. tomorrow at Hysong's funeral
home, 1900 N street NV. Burial
will be private.
Evening star., 1946-04-03
Hampshire Heights Group
To Join Recreation Council

The Hampshire Heights Citizens
Association last night voted to join
the North Washington Recreation
Council, and Arthur w. Reid was
appointed delegate to the council
by Leslie c. Crowson, president Of
the association.
After lively debate the associa-
tion approved a motion presented
by Perce Ableman, chairman of the
Fire and Police Committee, support
ing the pending House bill to estab-
lish a three-platoon system in the
District Fire Department.
Mr.. Crowson presented a pro-
posed amendment to the bylaws
regarding the election of officers,
which will be voted on at the next
meeting.
The meeting, which was the reg
ular March meeting postponed from
last week, was held at the Barnard
School, Fourth and Decatur streets
NV.
Evening star., 1946-04-03
Truman Indorses Plan
For Special 3-Hour
Good Friday Services

President Truman today indorsed
plans for a three hour religious OBJ
servance Of Good Friday as indi-
eating spirit of Christian love
and cooperation most welcome in
a world sadly torn by discord and
despair"
The Presidents views were en-
bodied in letter to the Rev. DR..
Oscar F. Blaoswelder, chairman of
the Three Hours of Observance of
Good Friday Committee. The COM
mittee, in its fifth year, seeks to
obtain the voluntary cooperation of
business firms and Government
agencies in permitting their en-
ployes time off from noon to 3 pm
Good Friday to attend religious
services. Numerous District social,
business, civic and fraternal or
ganizations have already expressed
their support of this movement.
Calls Plan Ideal.
President Trmman's letter to DR..
Blackwelder said:
Il have heard with much interest
of the plans of the Committee on
Three Hours Observance of Good
Friday in our National Capitol this
year. 1t is good to note that you,
as chairman, have associated with
you, as co-chairman, Most Rev.
Michael J. Curley, Right Rev. Angus
Dun and Bishop Charles w. Flint.
This indicates spirit of Chris
tian love and cooperation most vel
come in world sadly torn by dis
cord and despair. The plan which
you and your colleagues have drawn
up is ideal in that it seeks the CO.
operation of all to the end that op-
portunity be given through which
those so disposed may attend re-
ligious services of their choice dur
ing the three hours dedicated to
remembrance of the death of the
Saviour.
Lesson of Cross Vital.
"At all times and under all con-
ditions of society men have found
spiritual profit in mediation on the
eliminating sacrifice of Christ's life.
The lessons of the Cross are espe-
cially vital at this hour when man
kind stands at the crossroads where
must perhaps be made the final
choice between the brotherhood of
man and a ruined world.
Il hope that the fine example of
cooperation being shown in our
Capital City may be widely EMU
lated throughout the Nation"
Secretary of the organization is
the Rev. Joseph E. Gedra, pastor of
Immaculate Conception Catholic
Church. Co-chairmen of the COM
mittee referred to by President Tru-
man are Archbishop Michael j.
Curley of Baltimore and Washing
ton, the Right Rev. Angus Dun,
Episcopal Bishop of Washington,
and Charles w. Flint, Methodist
Bishop of Washington.
Evening star., 1946-04-03
Soldiers Home Tract
Proposed for Housing

A recommendation that the Dis
trict government use grounds of the
Soldiers Home, instead of park
property, to construct more than
600 contemplated veterans housing
units here, was made by the Me-
tropolis View Citizens Association
last night.
On a motion by Mrs. Mildred c.
Bennert, the group recommended
that its counterproposal be investi-
gated by the Federation of Citizens
Associations and public officials as
means Of "averting an eyesore
and and interference with private
residences" in the District.
Earlier, the group opposed a pro-
posal by the Capital Transit Co. to
establish bus stop on Fourth
street below w to alleviate the over
crowded present bus-car line stop on
Fourth street above w. This plan
entails directing the College Park
bus line across V street, instead of
w street as at present, in its east
ward crossing from Rhode Island
avenue to Fourth street, John E.
Chrisman, superintendent of the
transit company's traffic depart
ment, pointed out.
The association seeks to have the
present bus route maintained, with
a stop established on w street east
of Fourth street and a new stop be-
low w street on the existing car
line.
Other actions by the association
included:
Endorsement of the three-platoon
work day system for District fire.
men.
Endorsement of the Mckinley
Technical High School request that
the Board of Education ask the
District for funds to supply high
school cadet corps uniforms free of
charge to youngsters interested in
the corps, thereby relieving parents
of the cost.
Endorsement of Commissioner
John Russell Young for third term.
DR.. S. Henry Baker, principal of
the Langley Junior High School,
spoke on his Is years of junior high
school teaching and supervisory
Sergt Thomas Rasmussen of No.
II precinct told the group there has
been no real youth problem" in the
area since before World War II,
commenting that organized gangs
seem to have become "a war casu-
atty of a sort"
Mrs. Thomas G. Sartwell, presi-
dent, conducted the meeing, held at
the Crosby Noyes School, Tenth and
Franklin streets NE.
Evening star., 1946-04-03

vice president, and D. L. Ring, Sec
retary.
1--WE don't intend to shout about
winning the war" Mr.. Giuliano ex-
planned, but we think we have
problems somewhat different from
those Of the established business
men. We feel we can work them out
together and recommend one an
other to the public whenever pos
sible."
A constitution, drafted by a COM
mittee headed by James A. Miller,
has been adopted. 1t provides that
mo restrictions Of sex, creed or color
be placed on membership.
Among projects being considered
by the group are cooperative ad-
vertising through veterans direc-
tory" In newspapers and an infor-
nation service for veterans con-
tempiating setting up businesses.
Charter members include Harold
c. Ale, Frederick Berens, jr.: Donald
Dunnington. Craddock Coins, jr.;
Edward Leahy. Gredyon Tolson and
James Zimmerman
Evening star., 1946-04-03
Carnival Opens Tonight
On Benning Road Site

The Army and Navy Union of the
Potomac will receive part of the pro-
ceeds of a Today engagement of the
James E. Strates Shows, which
starts at 7 o'clock tonight on the
shoWgrounds at Benning road and
Oklahoma avenue NE, it has been
announced by the shows manage
ment.
Wednesdays and Saturdays have
been designated as "Children's Days
when youngsters Of school age will
be admitted to the grounds free
until pm. On these days the car
niyal will be open from about 2 pm,
to midnight and on other days, from
about 6 pm. to midnight.
Evening star., 1946-04-03
Doctors Plead
For Residential
Area Offices
Zoning Group Told
Of Space Shortage
For New Physicians

District physicians today pleaded
with the zoning Commission to
amend its regulations to permit
doctors and dentists to establish
offices in residential areas on tenn
porary basis for minimum Of five
years.
Their testimony came during con-
s1deration of proposed amendment
which would permit such use, subject
to approval by the Board of Zoning
Adjustment but to extend not be-
yond December 81, 1947.
Under present regulations, doctors
may have Offices in residential areas
only in their own homes.
Stafford w. Hawken, a member of
the Committee on Service Physicians
of the District Medical Society, told
the commission survey showed Is
per cent of the returned veteran
doctors could not properly care for
their patients because of space con-
ditions.
Five of them had no offices at
ALL he declared, "and could treat
their patients only at hospitals"
Seckinger Urges Move.
Assistant Health Officer Daniel L.
Seckinger cited the heavy patient
load existing doctors are now carry
ing and declared that anything that
can be done to re-establish young
physicians returning from service to
the community 'is good business for
the community"
Both Warren E. MCGEE, counsel
for the Medical Society, and Theo-
dore Wiprud, secretary of the So
ciety, told the commission the Pc
riod should be a minimum of five
years so that doctors would not be
in the position of having to come
before the commission annually for
extension.
Engineer Commissioner Gordon
r. Young requested the society to
furnish more detailed figures on the
office shortage as it affected doctors
and dentists. He said he was not
doubling the shortage, but so far he
had mainly heard adjectives rather
than figures to consider.
10 Present More Figures.
Mr.. Wiprud agreed to present ad-
ditional figures in a few days.
Robert o. Clouser, executive sec
retary of the commission, expressed
the opinion that the commission
could not amend the proposed reg
ulation to provide minimum of five
years as the temporary period with
out readvertising the plan for hear
ing on that basis.
Extension of the amendment to
include any other business which,
in q residential zone, would not
prove an annoyance to neighbors
was urged by Rufus S. Lusk, secre-
sary of the Building Owners and
Managers Association of the District.
Literally, there has been no Office
space available in Washington for
almost five years." Mr.. Lusk de-
clared THE main cause of this is
the hoggish attitude of the Federal
Government in refusing to give up,
except for handful, the 6,5OO,000
square feet of privately owned store,
garage, Office and other space which
1t now occupies in the District"
Mr.. Lusk said that, as serious as
the housing shortage is, the situa-
tion is not as bad as the lack of
space "in which a man can make a
living"
Evening star., 1946-04-03
DR.. Lancaster Resigns Post
As Head Of Virginia Schools
BY the Associoted Pr.s.

RICHMOND. Va, April 3.-Blake
T. Newton, chairman of the State
Board Of Education, announced last
night the resignation of DR.. Dab
ney S. Lancaster, State superinten-
dent Of public instruction. He will
become president of the Farmville
State Teachers College.
DR.. Lancaster will leave the State
Department of Education some
time before July l." the date when
DR.. Joseph L. Jarman, president of
the Farmville College for A years,
will retire, it was said.
The resignation of the State sup
erintendent came only 10 days after
DR.. Walter S. Newman, Mr.. Lam
casters assistant, had announced
his acceptance of the vice presi-
dency of Virginia Polytechnic In
stitute at Blacksburg, thus leaving
vacancies in the two top State edu-
cation posts
Evening star., 1946-04-03
Crestwood Area
Rezoning Wins
|nAppea|sCourt
Action Will Permit
Apartment Opposed
By Home Owners

The Court of Appeals today up
held rezoning of land owned in the
Crestwood area by Harry Poretsky
to permit erection of an apartment
house.
In so doing, it ruled out the hopes
Of detached-home owners in the
Crestwood area of having the re-
zoning changed to residential A
restricted.
In a decision written by Associate
Justice Henry w. Edgerton, the
court upheld previous District
Court decision rendered in April,
l943, which declared action of the
District zoning Commission "unrea-
sonable, arbitrary, capricious and
void when it rezoned the property
from apartment use to detached
residential use in November, 1941.
CrestWood citizens, about $50
strong, originally had sought to have
the zoning commission take this
action and when Mr.. Porestsky took
the case to District Court, they ap-
pealed that courts decision twice to
the appellate court.
Today's decision said the dividing
line between residential restricted
and apartment Zoning in the area
always had been regarded by the
zoning commission as Shepherd
street between Fourteenth and Sew
enteenth streets NV.
THE lot is an exceptionally ap-
propriate site for an apartment
house. In view of the acute
housing shortage, 1t (the zoning
commissions action bore a negative
relationship to the public welfare"
the court said.
Mr. Poretsky purchased the prop
Ierty in the spring of 1941. Accord
ing to his attorneys in the case,
Louis Gutenberg and Edwin Shelton,
it had been regarded as an apart
ment site by the Zoning Commission
since 1888.
The Court Of Appeals inspected
the site during the course of ntiga-
ttion. In its opinion today it ex-
pressed the conviction land values
of detached home lots in the Crest
wood area would not be affected by
erection of an apartment house.
Evening star., 1946-04-03
D. {. Woman, 81, Killed
In Plunge al Hospital

Mrs. Mary Lee Cassidy, 81, of 1900
Lamont street NV, plunged to her
death today from a sixth floor room
at Emergency Hospital.
She had been patient at the hos
pital since March q and was suffer-
ing from arthritis, hospital attend
ants said.
Two passers-by, Joseph T. Nor
risey, 4424 Lily Pond drive NE, and
Stephen E. Dorsey, 5825 Twenty first
street, North Arlington, saw her body
under the window on the New York
avenue side of the building shortly
after 6 am. They notified hospital
employees.
Evening star., 1946-04-03
Dr.. Jormun to Address
County Teochers' Group

DR.. B. H. Jarman of George
washington University, will speak
on "Professionalizing Teaching" at
meeting of the Prince Georges
County Teachers Association at
2:3o pm. April II in the Hyatts-
vile Theater.
Gardner Shugart. county school
superintendent, will report on the
departments program for the ball
ance OF the current school year.