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Evening star., 1946-04-26
D. T.. Heads DiscIaim
Control Over Status Of
Gill in Civil Service

The Commissioners declared yes
terday they are without jurisdiction
to determine whether the dismissal
of Howard B. Gill from his post as
general superintendent of District
penal institutions will affect his
civil service status.
They said they had been advised
by the Civil Service Commission that
alal they could do was restore Mr..
Gill to duty or fire him, but his civil
service status would be determined
by that commission.
The city heads added that whether
they had stated in their order that
Mr.. Gill was dismissed without
prejudice" or with prejudice
would have no bearing on civil serv-
ice action, according to their in
formation.
The statement was issued late yes
terday because, the Commissioners
said, they had been asked if their
failure to include in the dismissal
order statement that it was with
out prejudice constituted an ex-
preston of ill-will toward MIR. Gill
Criticism was aimed at the city
heads by friends of Mr.. Gill who
complained that the recommends
ton of the trial board which heard
Mr.. Gill's case for the commissioners
was removal without jeopardy to
his civil service status The Com
missioners approved only the find
ings" of the trial board, not neces-
sarily its recommendations" They
neither confirmed nor denied ill-will
toward Mr.. Gill.
Mr.. Gill was fired Wednesday after
having been suspended December
by the Board of Public Welfare after
the escape of five prisoners from the
District Jail November "a.
Evening star., 1946-04-26
Woman Finds Honest Man. $81
In Sewing Machine Trade

Mrs. D. E. Frank, 226 Longfellow
street NV, has found the honest
man-"such lovely fellow" is the
way she referred to him-and has
recovered s81 which had beer
missing for more than 10 years.
The honest man is Frank j
Mcdowell, 206 Thirteenth street
NE, former captain of engineers
who served overseas. now assistant
manager for the Singer Sewing Ma
chine Co., at Gill Georgia avenue.
Mrs. Frank bought an electric
sewing machine from the company
turning in her old treadle machine
She wanted the sewing table that
goes with the electric machine but
that cost an additional $15.95. She
didn't take 1t but thought if her
children asked her what she wanted
Evening star., 1946-04-26

for a birthday present she would
mention the table.
Yesterday the new machine was
delivered and the old one taken
away. A little later Mr.. Mcdowell
telephoned and said he would like
to see Mrs. Frank. When he ap-
peared he handed her four $40 bills
and 81 bill and explained he had
found them wedged behind one of
the drawers of the treadle machine.
Mrs. Frank said she offered him
half, which he declined, and then
offered IS, which he also declined.
There certainly is something good
in that boy" Mrs. Frank said today.
The former captain is 90, married
and the father of a son, 2.
Mrs. Frank bought the table. In
fact, she said, Mr.. Mcdowell had it
outside in his car when he delivered
the money.
Evening star., 1946-04-26
Goaded by Hebert,
Welfare Board Meets
On Penal Reform Plan

In the face of demand from the
chairman of the House investigat-
| ing committee that District heads
stop beating around the BUSH and
carry out penal reforms, the Board
of Public Welfare announced it
would act this afternoon on the
Commissioners plan for co-opera-
ton in establishing new policies.
Representative Hebert, Democrat,
of Louisiana, returned to Washing
ton after an Easter vacation with
the charge that both the Commits
sioners and the Welfare Board have
given nothing but lip service to the
basic recommendation of his COM
mittee for immediate changes in ad-
ministration of the penal system.
He accused the city officials of dig
ging up legal technicalities as an
excuse for not carrying out the pro-
poSal to give an expert from the
Federal Bureau of Prisons full power
to make drastic changes in the op-
Grafton of penal institutions. James
v. Bennett. director of the Federal
Bureau of Prisons, will not lend an
lexpert unless he receives complete
authority to correct present evils, he
said.
Board to Weigh Proposal.
Edgar Morris, chairman of the
Welfare Board, reported it would
meet at 2 pm. to decide on the
proposal of the Commissioners that
the Welfare Board confer with the
Commissioners before taking action
on new policies for the penal in
stitutions.
The Commissioners announced
yesterday they are asking the At
torney General to provide a new
penal superintendent but said the
Welfare Board must continue to
possess complete control" over him
until the law giving the Welfare
Board administrative responsibility
for the prisons is changed.
Mr.. Hebert asserted the Welfare
Board could give the proposed penal
executive the needed authority "in
five minutes if it wanted to" simply
by telling the man, You take
over and what you do is OK by u.s."
AS to the Welfare Boards con-
tention that it still is responsible
for the prisons and would be to
blame if anything went wrong, the
Louisiana Representative compared
the Welfare Board to dying man
who won't take the prescription of
his doctor before he has time to
check on it,"
Sees Eventual Law Change.
If District officials don't volun-
tarily cooperate, they eventually
will have to because I am confident
the law will be changed" Mr.. Hebert
declared.
He bitterly criticized the Welfare
Board for its decision to consult"
with the new penal superintendent
before allowing him to revise the
rules and regulations for the District
Jail and to require him to submit
the finished rules for the Welfare
Board to pass on them.
Fred S. Kogod, who suggested this
procedure, run a string of thea
ters,' Mr.. Hebert noted. What
would he say if a bankrupt theater
owner came to him and asked him
to pull the theater out of the red but
Evening star., 1946-04-26
Veterans Contact Office
Set Upin Silver Spring

A contact service for veterans and
their dependents has been set up in
the servicemen's center at Jesup-
Blair Park, Silver Spring, it was an
nounced today.
Richard H. Cole of the Veterans
Administration will be on duty daily
except Sunday from m. to pm.
to advise Oh veterans problems and
file veterans claims.
Evening star., 1946-04-26

raincoats in order to get to work
safely.
However, it was win for the
forecaster, although by close de-
cision. The forecast made yester-
day called for clearing skies and
warm weather today. Actually, the
intermittent showers correctly pre-
dicted for last night "intermitted,
but lightly, this morning.
The Standings.
Won. Lost. Pct
Weatherman 3 .75O
The Forecast.
Mostly cloudy and windy, with
brief showers, today. Clear and
cooler tonight. Tomorrow sunny
and continued cool.
Evening star., 1946-04-26
Rotary Session 10 Hear
Groves on Atomic Bomb

Maj. Gen. Leslie R. Groves will
discuss the development of the
atomic bomb before the 180th dis
trict conference of District and
Maryland Rotary Club members
Monday afternoon in the Com
merce Department auditorium.
About 1000 Rotarians will assem-
BILE here Sunday for a two-day
meeting. Majority Leader Barkley
will address banquet Monday
night in the Willard Hotel.
Other speakers during the con-
ference will include Agriculture
Secretary Anderson, Secretary OF
Labor SchWellenbach, both Rotar-
ians and Sterilization Director
BOWleS.
Evening star., 1946-04-26
FILA 10 Inspect
All Emergency
Veteran Homes
Intends to Insure
Buyers of Getting
Full Value for Money
By Robert J. Lewis

Every home built in the District
area and in other parts of the
country under the veterans
emergency housing program will
be inspected by the Federal
Housing Administration to in
sure that buyers will get their
moneys worth, it was revealed
today.
The announcement came as FHA
released a tentative housing goal
for the District area which calls
for 1928 permanent houses and
apartment units to be started dur
ing the remainder of the year.
An overall 1916 goal for this area,
which FHA emphasized would be
subject to revision, has been set at
1880 dwelling units, of which 3.73l
nave been started.
OF the overall goal, Is per cent, or
l4,963 units, will be for sale, and Is
| per cent, or 4,987 units will be for
rent.
Half May Cost $4,000.
Half the units for sale may be
built to cost from $500 to $4,000.
This means that FHA has revised
the dividing line" for this area up
ward by 500 from an earlier figure
OF $500. The remaining so per
cent will be built to cost less than
$500.
Half the rental units may be built
to rent for from s57 to $50. This
also is revision. The earlier rem
tai dividing line for the District
area was set at S55. The remaining
half may be built to rent for less
than $57.
An FILA spokesman pointed out
that the tentative goal does not
necessarily represent the need here,
but only the Districts share of the
Nationwide goal of 950,0O0 perma-
nent dwellings. An additional ESQ.,
900 temporary units are included in
an overall goal of 100000 dwellings
IN the first year of the tWo-year
program calling for 2,700,o0O homes.
Wyatt Replies to Veterans.
The promise that FILA would in
spect houses built under the vet
Grams program came from Hous-
ing Administrator Wilson w. Wyatt
in reply to query from the Vet
Grams of Foreign Wars.
"As matters now stand" Omar B.
Ketchum, VFW national legislative
representative, wrote Mr.. Wyatt,
there seems to be nothing tc pre-
vent a builder from securing a prior
ity to build a $4,000 home, actually
building a $4,000 home, and then
selling it at the $4,000 figure"
Mr.. Wyatt explained the Govern
ment plans to provide inspection Of
all homes built with priority assist
ance and that at present, the Ma
tlonal Housing Agency is consider
ing how best to handle the Inspec-
ticn problem.
He added that obviously addi-
tional trained technical personnel
will be needed for the job.
Homes now under way for vet
Grams through FHA-insured financ-
ing already are receiving the estab.
lished FHA inspection. Those being
built without an FHA insured mort
gage at present receive no inspec-
ton.
Under the forthcoming order
establishing inspections for all vet
erans' homes, Mr.. Wyatt said, those
! built without FILA insurance will
be inspected on what perhaps will
be less-complete basis, but one
which we feel will give adequate
protection"
Evening star., 1946-04-26
Hearing for Policemen
In Jail Break POSTPONED

Preliminary hearing for Pvts. HUI.
bert G. Davis and Oscar C. San.
derlin, policemen suspended afte,
the Medley -MacFarland Jail break
and charged with permitting pris.
oners to escape, was postponed unit
May 3 today by United States Com.
missioner Needham c. Turnage.
The delay was at the request oj
Defense Attorney James j. Laugh.
lin, who is in New Orleans.
Evening star., 1946-04-26
High School Recital onioht

The annual spring recital of the
Washington-Lee High School choral
groups is scheduled at $3.50 o'clock
tonight in the school, it was an
nounced by Miss Jane G. Rice, Glee
Club president,
Evening star., 1946-04-26
Mrs. NeuhuuseI to Speak

How to Demonstrate Your De-
sires" will be the subject of a talk
by Mrs. Virginia Neuhausel, leader
of the Universal School of Truth, at
8 pm. tomorrow at the League for
the Larger Life, 1922 Vermont ave-
nue. NV. The public is invited.
Evening star., 1946-04-26

lutu tdlhlllS Ill d TSStduEd dIlL. lIleS
said. why should veterans get every
thing? They had to live some place
too. What they don't know is that
the veterans aren't getting all this
stuff they read about
The classroom at American Uni
versity was still. The other students
all disabled veterans like the speak
er, had talked about the gap they
felt was widening between the vet
Grams and civilians. They didn't
want it that way, but they felt that
was the way things were going.
Now they listened.
Baby Expected Soon.
TT isn't that we want a lot OF
preference" the veteran went on
Wed just like things to be the way
they were before we left. My wife
is having baby in June, and we
have no place to live. Somebody
suggested 1 get all our belongings
in a duff1e bag and just sit with
my wife some place till people no
tlced us. I shouldn't have to do
that.
You see the ads in the papers.
Veterans put in that their wives are
having babies, that they're disabled
all that sort of thing because they've
got to find some place to live.
They're having to appeal for pity
They shouldn't have to do that"
Another veteran took the floor.
Nylons Produce Results.
Il read in the papers," he said,
about place where they promised
nylons to everybody who gave a
veteran a room. They got hun
dreds Of calls. But the rooms were
Evening star., 1946-04-26
PTA Sponsors Show

A Home Talent Show, sponsored
by the PTA of the Clara Barton
School, Bethesda, will be held at
S:15 pm, May 3, at the Glen Echo
(MdO Firehau.
Evening star., 1946-04-26
Veterans Complain Preference
Produces Nothing But III Will
By Miriom Ottenbero

The veteran sounded tired People read in the paper he
said about all just for veterans surplus property aside
veterans-things like that
Sometimes they're little sore I heard couple of
Evening star., 1946-04-26
Weather Victory 'CIouded'

The weatherman, by the device
Of adding an ling" to the word
clear" managed today to escape
the consequences of weather which
forced Washingtonians to burden
themselves with umbrellas and
Evening star., 1946-12-08
Purkwuy Citizens to Meet

Mrs. John Woodworth of Alex
andria will speak on the schools of
Northern Virginia at a meeting Of
the Parkway Citizens Association of
Arlington at 8 pm. Wednesday at
Grace Episcopal Church, Fillmore
street and Lorcom lane.
Evening star., 1946-12-08
District and Vicinity
Share in S6O,O69,7 752
Army Building Plans

/ A $50, 1853 ,752 military construction
program announced last night by
the War Department includes Army
housing and other projects at sew
eral establishments in the Wash
| ington military district and Mary
land and Virginia.
Walter Reed Hospital is allotted
/ $70,590 for poSt-operative ward
land eight temporary housing units.
Fort Myer is slated for 80 housing
conversions and a SAL, TOO road re-
pair outlay. Arlington Farms is on
the list for $50 housing conversions.
The Washington Quartermaster
Depot at Alexandria will obtain
$4,000 for rebuilding its heating
system. Boiling Field will receive Is
temporary housing units, and An
drews Field will get $50.
The building or conversion OF
7.7l3 temporary dwellings at a cost
of SAL ,329,500 is the major part Of
the program authorized for inme-
diate action by Army Engineers.
The dwellings are the first to be
constructed since the war began.
Materials for these houses for off,
GERS and enlisted men and their
families will be obtained from the
dismantling of war camps.
The remaining $18,740,252 will go
largely for necessary construction
for research projects. The War De-
partment explained that these allo-
cations represented only a small
part of total building needs esti-
mated at $1,000, 900, 900.
| Included in the military housing
program are two blocks of bachelor
quarters and 123 housing CONVEX
sions at Fort Belvoir, Va, 108 units
at Fort Eustis, Va, IA units at A. p.
Hill Test Station, Va, $50 CONVEX
sions at Camp Lee, Va, eight tenn
| porary units at the Army General
Depot at Richmond, % conversions
| at Camp Detrick, Md, 16 conver-
sions at Edgewood Arsenal, Md, and
108 conversions at Fort Meade, Md.
Other scheduled projects include
a $1,000, 900 laboratory for terminal
ballistics and $390,000 for other
structures at Aberdeen, Md; $40
900 for a refrigerating building,
SAT 100 for safety devices, $50, 900 for
high pressure steam line and
$40 900 for conversion of sprinklers
at Edgewood Arsenal; $4,000 for
miscellaneous repairs for Signal
Corps installations at the Glenn l..
Martin plant in Baltimore, and
SIPS 900 for rehabilitation OF
boiler plant at the Holabird, Md,
Signal Corps depot; and a total OF
81 673,93l for five miles OF railroad
! a marine repair shop, railway and
Evening star., 1946-12-08
Maryland Job Service Puts
Brown in Old Publicity Job
BY the Associated Press

BALTIMORE, Dec. T.-Grafton
Lee Brown, who figured in the dis
pute over dictatorship Of the Mary
land State Employment Service, will
be assigned to his former position
of public relations director effective
tomorrow, Russell s. Davis, chair
man of the Unemployment Compen-
sation Board, said.
The claim of Mr.. Brown, who was
director OF the service when it was
transferred from Federal to State
control, to continue as director OF
the agency was denied by the State
attorney generals Office.
The Office upheld ruling by State
Employment Commissioner Walter
ID. Owens that reinstatement OF
David L. B. Fringer. who left the
post for military service, to the di-
rectorship as of November l6 was
..in accordance with law"
Evening star., 1946-12-08

/, bulkhead, roundhouse, school rooms,
hull repair shop, and heavy diesel
shop and laboratories at Fort
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-14
BY GAYNOR MADDOX
 MIA ctafP Writer

Buy two sponge layers ct the cor ner grocery. Prepare . maglcally easy chocolate frosting, From the candy store, got shamrocks in sugar candy as well as Q few harps. Now begin to finish your Blarney Cake Between the two sponge layers spread whipped cream or marsh- mailow whip with chopped green pistachio nuts or chopped green cherries in it. Then frost top and s:des with the jiffy chocolate
 JifRy Chocolate FrOstlng (Makes enough Co cover tops and sides of 2 (0-lnch) layers or top and sides of loaf cake generOuSly
 or about 2a cup cakes.)
 Two squares @ ounces) unsweet- ened chocolate, lM cups (i5-ounce can) sweetened condensed milk, tablespoon water. @sss,
 Melt chocolate In top of double boiler. Add sweetenea condensed milk, stir over boiling water five minutes until it thickens, Ado water. Cool. Spread on cold cake
 Part of the Blarney in this coke lies in the fact that you've used none of your precious sugar ol shortening supplies to make 1t.
 To make green pie in honoi of St. patricks Day, try this:
 Lime Chiffon Pie
 Three eggs, l-2 cup sugar, i cur water, package lime-flAvoreo gelatine, teaspoon grated lemon rind, 3 tablespoons lemon juice dash of salt, previously baked pastry shell,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-14

one one; swing and bend right on two; swing and bend backward on three; and swing and bend left on four: Come back to original posi- ton, and 90 the rounds again four times. Then reverse, and repeat four times more. Plan to make even more circles as you progress each day.
 Now for the hips. To roll of bulges lie flat on the floor with arms resting beside you, palms dcwn, legs straight. Now, swing left leg over right leg until the big toe of the left foot touches the fioor-a twist that gives you Q good lip roll. Bring the leg back to po- sltion, and Five the right leg and foot Q similar swing, working up momentum as you roll. Begin with five swings on each .slde, and in- crease that count.
 For hip exercise number two, lie stretched out on floor on left side with left arm outstretched, right arm placed in front of you for hracing your body. Slightly raise legs from fioor-keeping the upper part of your body glued to it-and move legs scissors fashion. That, Is one leg swings forward while the other swings backward. Turn to right side, and 90 through the same motions, swinging legs IS times al first and daily increasing the count,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-14
BY WILLIAM BRADY, M. D.

Having had shoulder bursitis l know how easy it is for the pa tient, and how difficult 1t is for the doctor to forestall the patients inclination to avoid the discom- fort or even pain of the passive movements or manipulations Of the shoulder by doctor or physi- cal therapist under the doctors direction or by a competent mem Der of the patients family under specific direction, which are so necessary in the successful treat ment of bursitis.
 Here is an alternative which nearly every one wno has shoulder bursitis must face: Which is pre- ferable, a few weeks of discomfort or actual pain for an hour or so a day, or a permanently crippled shoulder?
 So important is this passive man. ipulation and later active exercise in the treatment of shoulder bursi- tis that, in my judgment, 1t would be advisable to anesthetize the pa- tent, say with a few whifIs ot ni- trous oxide (langhing gas) and OK ygen every day for the seance II the patient is unwilling to cooper ate while conscious.
 The passive movements of the shoulder should begin as soon as the early inflammation subsidies. To leave the shoulder in a sling or otherwise inmobihzed for days or weeks before instituting such treat- ment is to invite more or less dis- ability for life.
 Anesthetizing the patient with gas or other anesthetc is not the only recourse for the physician when the patient behaves like a baby and refuse to endure the dis- comfort or pain of proper treat ment. Tn some cases it Is most sat- isfaetoFy 10 inject a local anesthe- tic into or around the bufsa and then manipulate the shoulder, Of course within reasonable range, after the anesthetlc has benumbed sense of pain,
 Aside from analgesies (paln- killers no internal meTictne that l know of Is worth one whit as q remedy for hursitls, unless 1t be Yitamln D. I'll give my conjecture about that a little later.
 Tn the great majority of eases bursitls is caused by either Q single injury or repeated injuries as in prolonged oyeTuse of the arm in some work or play involving violent or extremely heavy effort.
 Whether any cases at all are due to focal infection I don't know from the structure of the buEkas sush infection would seem unlikely % occur. but from the character of the lining of the buTsas lseTous
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-14
By ALICIA HART NEA Stan Writer

Unsteathe your slim waist and hips from superhuous paddings oi flesh, you who want (literally) to cut Q. figure in Easter flnery. Re- member that 1t took weeks of win ter inactivity to build up those pads, and 1t will take as much time to exercise them of.
 Actress Anna Lee, obliged to taper down for her role In 70 Mis- tress Mlne,", the Broadway hit, says 1t took four weeks before she could slip back Into a size 10 dress. She gave 30 minutes e day to exercise
 Broke 1t up jn two i5.ninute stints
 one each taken before breakfast and dinner.
 Want her routine2 Here 1t is starting off with the waistline whit tier.
 Stand up with hands on hips. To the count of four: bend forward
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-14
Loan Cottages To Veterans
By RUTH MILLETT N.E.A. Staff Writer

A Danville, H., man has offered cottage he owns to war veterans free for three-day honeymoons.
 Isn't there an
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-14
YOU'RE 4 BIG BOY NOW
Don't Be e Cry Baby OUer e Stiff Shoulder

membrane identical with the lining of the joints) we must acknowledge that focal infection is not out oi the question. If bursitis of this na- ture does occur, its general treat ment would be the same as the treatment for ordinary hursitis.
 QUESTIONS and ANSWERS
 Book About Life Without B's and B'S
 Please tell me the name of book about life, without the birds and bees nonsense. (Mrs. M. K. E0
 Answer-Write Institute of Fam fly Relations, GOT s. Hill St., Los Angeles, Calf, inclosing stamp and ask for list of publications.
 X-Ray Evidence
 Is 1t harmful to keep a tooth in the mouth if X-ray shows it is ab- scessed? (E. J. MO
 Answer - On X-ray evidence alone I'd sit tight. If there were kernels" (thickened lymph nodes under edge of jaw or in side of neck) I'd want the abscess drained, Not necessarily extraction of the tooth, however. Even a tooth cons demned by unsupported X-ray evil dence is worth saving, in my opinion.
 Eczema
 Troubled with eczema for years, 1t comes and goes but never clears up doctor said 1t was sort of a throWback to asthma which my father has, and that it can't be cured unless 1t goes away by it. self. (B. W)
 Over a year ago I went for your paper on Eczema, followed advice about calcium and Yitamin D and am now almost entirely free of it, besides feeling better than for years. Mrs J. H. ED
 AnsWeF-Defleiensy Of calcium