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Evening star., 1946-04-27
Extra Funds Voted
To CUT 'DisgracefuI'
Drug Pedd!inq Here

The drug peddling situation in
Washington was called "disgraceful"
by Senator Bridges, Republican, of
New Hampshire, speaking in support
OF a $50,800 increase in the enforce
ment fund of the Narcotics Bureau,
which the Senate approved in the
second deficiency bill late yesterday.
Senator Bridges said Harry J.
Anslinger, commissioner of narcotics,
told the Senate Appropriations Com
mittee recently that here in the Dis
trict of Columbia we ran into about
the worst situation that we have ever
seen in the way Of drug peddling."
He testified that he brought in 8 or
10 agents from different sections of
the country.
Criticizes Short Sentences.
Senator Bridges asked the commits
Sioner how he accounted for the in
crease here, and Mr.. Anslinger re-
piled:
"The average sentence here Is
eight months, and in Baltimore 1t
is 38 months. They do not have
peddling in Baltimore; even though
the indeterminate sentence law in
the District of Columbia requires
that the violator must serve the
minimum of eight months, never
theless, the average time served by
those paroled throughout the United
States was 13 months.
II have taken the matter up with
the Chief Justice of the District
Court and some of his associates
and have tried to point out that
with short sentences you are not
going to deter the traffic. We had
to spend $4,000 here for purchase
of evidence, travel and other ex-
penses. I have to keep as many
men in the District of Columbia as
in the New England district, or as
many men as we have in five mid
Western States"
House Concurrence Necessary.
In response to further questions
by Senator Bridges. Mr.. Anslinger
said he does not think the type of
population enters into it because
wherever you get lenient sentences
you get drug peddling. This is the
same thing we used to criticize the
japanese, Dutch and other Euro
pean governments for-not giving
sitter sentences"
After quoting the testimony, Sem
ator Bridges told the Senate he be-
lieves the additional enforcement
fund is needed, but Il think it is
oisgraceful when we have the worst
situation here in the National Capt.
tal." The increase must 60 back to
the House for concurrence.
Evening star., 1946-04-27

Being a quiz kid" at the age of
5 is good temporary job for Rich
ard Weixler of Chicago, but Butch
doubts if he will make a career of
it. He wants to be an air trans
port pilot and promote his father
to co-pilot.
Young Butch led his hosts at
Pennsylvania Central Airlines a
merry chase this morning, in and
out of airplanes and Link trainers,
up and down steps, all over, around
and through hangers and flight
aprons-not once but several times.
His escorts looked a bit on the
weary side.
1t all started when a Pea pilot
heard radios cerebral cherub"
broadcast to his public that he pro-
posed to be an air transport cap
tain when he got his years and
inches. Thereafter, public relations,
with one eye on Butch's future and
the other on the headlines, took
over.
Butch and his mother Wilma and
his father Raymond, a conductor
Evening star., 1946-04-27

weatherman prophesied cool and
sunny weather today. Shivering
Washingtonians this morning agreed
that it was at least cool, but the sun
was not to be seen as they headed
for work.
Today's loss came as relief to the
harrassed reporter whose job of bait
ing the weatherman was becoming
one-sided after two straight days of
correct predictions.
The Standings.
Won. Lost. Pct.
Weatherman - 8 z 900
The Forecast.
Partly cloudy, cool and windy, with
occasional sprinkles today. Cloudy
and colder tonight. Tomorrow fair
and warmer.
Evening star., 1946-04-27
Boy, 10, Who Left Home
After Quarrel Returns

Ten-year-old Joseph M. Joynt,
son OF 1t. Col. and Mrs. John B.
Joynt, Tysons Corner, Va, was back
home today after running away
Monday following a quarrel with
his elder brother Jackie, IA.
Mrs. Jonyt said the boy was
picked up by police yesterday after
he had entered a church and told
the minister he had left home. Col.
Joynt is director of administrative
management of the Veterans Ad-
ministration.
Evening star., 1946-04-27
; Children Runninq
Into Streets Injured
In Traffic Accidents

Three children were injured In
traffic accidents yesterday, all struck
by vehicles as they ran out into
the street, police reported.
While chasing a football in an
alley in the rear of 1912 Fourth
street NE, j. Allen Freschie, 6, of
305 Todd place NE, ran into the
side of a moving ice cream truck,
according to police.
The boy is reported in fair con-
dition today at Sibley Hospital where
he is suffering with head cuts and
possible fractures of the skull and
ribs.
Police listed the driver of the
truck, which belongs to the Good
Humor Ice Cream Co., 2607 Ninth
street NE, as Samuel E. Denver,
jr., %, of 125 Bates street NV.
Runs Between Parked Cars.
John j. Cooleen, 3, of 1926 o
street NV, late yesterday ran from
between two parked cars in front
of his home into the front fender
of cab. He is in Georgetown Hos
pital where he is said to be suf-
fering from head injuries.
Driver of the cab was Bernard
A. Mattingly, 81, of Forestville, Md,
police said.
In the third accident, Wilhelmins
Armstrong, 5, colored, of 86 Myrtle
street NE, also ran from between
two parked cars near her home or
Myrtle street and was struck by q
truck operated by a neighbor, police
reported. She was taken to Freed
mans Hospital and treated for con-
cussion.
The truck operator was listed by
police as James Maxwell, "a, colored
of AZ Myrtle street NE.
In another accident last night. 8
pedestrian, John F. Briggs, 36, col.
ored, of the 4400 block of Kane place
NE, was struck by a Metropolitan
Police Department cruiser as he at.
tempted to cross Third street neal
H street NV, police reported.
The cruiser, driven by 1t. Jere.
miah F. Flaherty, SO, of 231 Concord
avenue NV, head of the Homicide
Squad. swerved in an attempt tc
miss hitting the man and was struck
by car which was behind. Neither
the driver of the second car. said BY
police to be Marian C. Pyles, 20, o1
l103 Congress street Sc, nor 1t
Flaherty was injured. Both care
were slightly damaged. police said
Briggs was taken to Casualty Hos
pital in another police car and was
admitted, suffering from a possible
fractured pelvis and scalp lace.
rations.
Three Hurt as Cab Turns Over.
Three persons were injured about
8 am. today when a taxicab hit the
curb on the parkway circling the
Tidal Basin southwest of the Wash
ington Monument, careened along
for about 100 feet to smash down a
light pole and then ran another sc
feet to overturn on its side in the
middle of the roadway.
Park police listed the injured as
Malcolm Owens, 38, colored, of 1O(
block of P street S.W.: George
Coates. 81, colored, of the $500 block
Of I street NV, who police sale
was the driver of the cab, anc
Elijah Gerald, 18, colored of the
1900 block of Thirty-second street
NV.
Mr.. Owens was admitted to Emer.
gency Hospital suffering with {
fractured arm. Mr.. Coates also was
suffering contusions, park police re.
ported. Mr.. Gerald suffered minol
injuries,
Evening star., 1946-04-27
New Transit Schedule
To Ease Downtown
Congestion Due Soon

Taking its first postwar step
toward diverting passenger loads
from streetcars to buses, the Capital
Transit Co. plans to announce in
the next day or two a revised sched-
ule for streetcar and bus operations,
a transit spokesman said today.
Goal of the revised schedule,
Transit President E. D. Merrill said,
is to break up bad downtown traf-
fic bottlenecks, particularly at the
intersection of Pennsylvania ave-
nue., Fifteenth street and New York
avenue
Mr.. Merrill said the company has
enough buses, but still is short 300
drivers needed to get the buses
back to full operation.
Bus Riding Encouraged.
The company hopes through its
new schedule to get people in the
habit of riding the buses again
just the reverse of their procedure
during the war when streetcars
were emphasized to conserve gas
and tires.
To encourage bus riding, the COM
pany plans to take some Streetcars
off of special routings, where many
of them are not carrying capacity
loads.
To illustrate the extent of the
traffic jam at the Fifteenth street
intersection east of the White
House, Mr.. Merrill reported that
$3.50 streercars cross that intersec-
ton in a 17-hour period.
Proposals Studied.
Now under study by the transit
company are a number of different
possibilities to ease the downtown
traffic jam. Among them are:
l. Construction of a downtown
turn around east of the Fifteenth
street intersection. Mr.. Merrill ex-
planned that west-bound cars must
travel in front of the White House
and on to Washington Circle simply
because there is no place for them
to turn around Immediately east of
Fifteenth street. Main problem,
however, is where to put the turn
around.
2. Re-routing of some of the
rush-hour streetcars reaching the
Fifteenth street intersection from
Calvert and Mount Pleasant streets
NV. The company probably will
send these streetcars across H street
and down Fourteenth street instead
of across Pennsylvania avenue.
3. Construction of an underpass
running under Fourteenth street
from New York avenue to Pennsyl-
vania avenue. Mr.. Merrill en-
phasized that while there has been
much discussion of this underpass,
it is question for community
planning.
Shorter Waits for Lights.
4. Changing the traffic light cycles
to give streetcars shorter waits for
lights during off rush hour periods.
Mr.. Merrill said traffic light changes
were something for the traffic en-
gineers to decide. The transit COM
pany, however, has hired former
Army major, Gordon Gravelle, to
make traffic light study. Mr..
Gravelle, who was an Army trans
portation officer, will be available to
cooperate with District traffic Off
cials, Mr.. Merrill added.
Evening star., 1946-04-27
Bi|bo Shifts Districts
Affairs 10 Hoey, Heads
Home for Campaign

Chairman Bllbo OF the senate
District Committee started back to
Mississippi today for two-month
reelection battle, after designating
Senator Hoey, Democrat, of North
Carolina, to look after District prob
lens for him.
The Mississippian obtained per-
mission of the Senate late yesterday
to go home until July 2, after ex-
planning he has four opponents in
his race for denomination. In
Mississippi, winning the Democratic
nomination in July is tantamount
to election.
Talks Confidently.
Senator Bilbo had spent good
part of the day answering his maga-
zine and newspaper critics in the
North, and talking confidently of
the primary outcome.
81 have four opponents, but no
opposition" he observed at one
point.
Senator Bilbo centered his attack
on Henry R. Luce, publisher of Life
Magazine, and his wife, Representa-
tive Glare Booth Luce, because of
an appraisal the magazine made
recently of the 33 Senators up for
reelection this year. The magazine
described Bilbo as the worst man
in the Senate" In his reply, Sena-
tor Bilbo asserted:
at is indeed remarkable, but of
the 10 who made the grade in Life,
in the opinion of Papa Luce, and
tickle capricious Glare, are Re
publicans and only are Demo-
crats-4 lone Democrats out of 81
Democrats to be reelected, or about
13 per cent of the whole. To state
it another way, go per cent of the
Republicans are given a passing
grade, but only 13 per cent of the
Democrats are given the green light
out of 49,"
In addition to asking Senator
Hoey to look after local affairs in
his absence, Senator Bilbo indicated
he will arrange to fly back to Wash
ington on short notice if any urgent
business should require his presence.
Young Nomination Pending.
Among questions pending before
the Senate District Committee is
the nomination of Commissioner
John Russell Young for another
term.
The committee also must make a
decision within the next two months
on the question of recommending
another postponement of the law
which would require the closing of
alley dwellings in the District on
July /.
Two other important local bills
the hospital center and slum clear
ance measureS-are still in the
legislative mill. They have passed
the Senate, but are awaiting House
action. If that body should pass
them with changes, they would 60
back to the Senate committee for
final adjustment.
Still another House bill, to reor-
ganize the Board of Public Welfare
and control of penal institutions,
may claim the attention of the
Senate committee during Senator
Bilbo's absence, if the House passes
IT,
Evening star., 1946-04-27
Library Group to Elect
Officers on Mondoy

Officers will be elected by the
Business Libraries Group of the
Washington Chapter of Special
Libraries Association at the groups
annual meeting at $50 pm. Monday
in the Ivy Terrace Tea Room.
Louis N. Dembitz Federal Reserve
Board economist, will speak on 1.-THE
International Bank and the Inter-
national Monetary Fund"
Evening star., 1946-04-27

and brakeman for the South Shore
Railroad, Chicago, we're flown over
last night, put up at the Hotel Stat
ler, and will call on their members
of Congress, see the sights, drop in
on J. Edgar Hoover of the FBI and
fly back to Chicago tomorrow.
On the quiz program Butch spe-
cializes on handing out the answers
to Biblical and geographical ques-
tions, all the way from Noah's age
to the length of the Parana River.
Butch put peas Link trainer
through some fancy PAGES and a
moment later scrambled aboard a
big four-engined Skymaster on the
ramp. He hurried forward to the
office" and climbed into the lap of
Capt. Harry Smith, chief pilot.
Butch clutched the controls and be-
gan to issue orders:
boy, oh boy, oh boy! Get those
big fans turning over! We're 60
ing to hedge hop!'
Maybe Butch ought to turn
down the transport pilots job and
enlist in the Army Air Forces" re-
marked an observer.
Evening star., 1946-04-27
Embassy Tour Benefit
Tickets Placed on Sale

Tickets for a tour of embassies
and outstanding Washington houses
to be held May II for Jlle benefit of
the Washington Home for Incura-
bles, went on sale today at the
American Automobile Association
Seventeenth street and Pennsyl-
vania avenue NV, and the Francis
Scott Key Bookshop, Twenty
eighth and o streets NV.
The tour is sponsored by the
board of directors of the home. Mrs
George Maurice Morris is in charge
OF the Arrangements Committee.
Evening star., 1946-04-27
Bethesda Civitun Club
Opens Carnival Toduy

The Bethesda Civitan Club carni-
val will open today on Wisconsin
avenue, north of the Bethesda
Theater. Scheduled to last for two
weeks, the carnival is being staged
to obtain funds for the clubs char
ity program.
The carnival will be open each
evening from 7 o'clock until mid
night,
Evening star., 1946-04-27
Weather Report

DISTRICT Of Columbia - Partly
cloudy, cool and windy; highest
temperature in low SOS this after
noon. Clearing and colder with
diminishing winds, frost or freezing
temperature in the suburbs and
about 81 degrees in the city tonight.
Tomorrow fair with slowly rising
temperature.
Virginia and Maryland-Clearing
and colder with diminishing winds.
Frost in the interior tonight. To-
morrow fair and warmer.
River Report.
From United States Engineers.l
Potomac River clear at Harpers Ferry
and Great Falls; Shenandoah clear at
HarperS Ferry.
Evening star., 1946-04-27
OES Chapter Plans Dance

The Hope Chapter, U. D., Order
of the Eastern Star, will hold a
dance at 8 o'clock tonight in the
Fairfax High School.
Evening star., 1946-04-27
Weothermon Gets ChiIIino

Rumors Of an offer from the Mex
lean Baseball League for the services
OF the District weatherman were
floating around today as loss was
scored against him, dropping his
average score to a bare so per cent.
Evening star., 1946-04-27
temperature ana humldIty.
fpoodipos Of xx,a ship,to, N,+;a,, A;

Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest, SO, on April 23
Lowest, IL, on January 28.
Tide Tables.
FURNISHED by United States Coast an
Evening star., 1946-04-27

Precipitation.
Monthly precipitation in inches in til
Capital (current month to date):
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-02
CHESTER ORCHESTRA
STATES APPEARANCE
HERE THIS WEEKEND

Bob Chester and his well-known
orchestra will play in Lumina pa
Wilton at Wrightsville Beach to-
morrow night.
Advance ticket sales now in
progress at the Wilmington Travel
Agency, 1913 Princess Street and
at Lumina pier, indicate Chester's
first showing in this part of the
state will attract a large house Of
dancers.
Appearing with the orchestra in
the role of vocalists are Phyllis
Lane and Lou Gardner, two song
sters whose voices are familiar to
millions of radio listeners and
record collectors.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-02
90-Help Wanted Female

LADIES. THREE YOUNG, AGES 2l-2s,
positions with a future now open.
Must be free to travel u. S Transport
tation furnished. Expenses advanced.
Apply 9 a.m.--12:30. Mrs. Leroy
Loftin, Room 210, Hotel Wilmington.
No phone calls.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-02
Pneumonia

NEW YORK, Aug. 1-R-Death
of an American soldier aboard
the troopship Colby Victory, which
Wednesday caused a Coast Guard
flight and the transfer of toxins
at sea to combat diphtheria, was
caused by pneumonia, the Army
port of embarkation announced.
The Army said that an autopsy
showed the soldier died of "pneu-
monia, bilateral, all lobes, both
lungs"
He was buried at sea and his
name was withheld pending notifi-
cation of next of kin.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-02
l56-Sit., Work, Wanted

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tor desires job. R. F. D. l, Box SO,
Delco, N. c.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-02

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parasites. 1t provides trace minerals and
reliable stimulants. For layers TOO. In
expensive and convenient. lib. can
enough for 400 chicks for a month, 75c.
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Evening star., 1946-03-31
Bonnet Urges UN0 Council
To Promote World Amity
BY the As<ocioted Press

Henri Bonnet, French Ambassa-
dor, said last night the United Ma
tions Security Council must do
everything in its power to promote
good understanding and mutual
confidence between nations"
In radio address, M. Bonnet, his
country's delagate to the Council,
obviously referred to the Iranian
question before the Council in men,
tioning an especially delicate" case.
"The fact that the Council has
the sacred duty of removing every
threat to the peace of the world
does not mean that it can overlook
the fact that it must do everything
in its power to promote good under
standing and mutual confidence be-
tween nations.
From that point of view, the New
York session has, so far, lived up
to the obligations of the charter.
1t answered the appeal addressed
to it by one of the nations which,
although a member of the United
Nations, has not the privilege of
being at this time a member of the
Security Council. All the same, it
took steps to avoid any hasty de-
cision and to leave the door open
to Cancellation"
He said he was certain the sug-
gestion Of Secretary of State Byrnes
will lead to settlement of the
differences of opinion which ap-
peared in the first session."
Evening star., 1946-03-31
Chinese Jurist Heads
League Of lawyer
OF United Nations

Judge Wang Chung Hui, secretary
general of the national supreme
defense council of China, last night
was elected the first president of the
new United Nations League of
Lawyers.
John Foster Dulles, New York at
torney who was the adviser to the
United States delegation at the
London United Nations meeting and
who served as one of Gov. Dewey's
advisers during the last presidential
campaign, was elected executive
vice president. Col. Heber H. Rice.
former president of the Federal Bar
Association, was elected secretary
general, and DR.. Don Hector David
Castro. Ell Salvador Ambassador. was
chosen treasurer.
Representatives of 18 nations were
present at last nights initial meet
ing in the National Museum audi
forum. 1t was decided that the
headquarters of the organization
would be in Washington and that
the organization would hold an an
nual conference.
The primary objective of the
league is to promote friendship and
understanding between lawyers of
the United Nations and between the
nations themselves. While the league
has no official connection with the
United Nations organization, it
hopes to cooperate with it to make
law work for world
peace.
This theme was struck bv Asso-
clate Justice Rutledge of the Su-
preme Court, who presided dur
ing most of the meeting. One of
the sponsors of the organizat tions
Justice Rutledge warned that the
nations of the world have the choice
OF establishing the rule of justice
through law universally, or to sue
cumb to the rule of sheer force, uni
versally, for all countries and all
men,"
Declaring that after the last war
the world had this chance but let
1t slip away, Justice Rutledge said:
We have that chance once again.
II it be missed, there can be no more
than a breathing spell until other
and greater horrors break on a world
unawares. Your effort is token that
lawyers now propose that this shall
not happen"
The countries represented at last
nights meeting included Belgium.
Brazil, Canada, China, Cuba, Czecho-
slovakia, Dominican Republic, Ell
Salvador, France, Greece, Guate-
mala, Iran, New Zealand, Panama,
the Philippines, Poland, the United
Kingdom and the United States.
Evening star., 1946-03-31
Better Discip|eship'
Urged on Baptists

Most people allow athletic, politi-
cal, educational or professional in
terests to precede Christianity in
their lives, DR.. Joseph A. Cooper,
representative of the Council on
Finance and Promotion of the
Northern Baptist Convention, de-
clared last night.
The world has desperate need
OF better discipleship," he told the
Baptist Youth Discipleship Convo-
cation in National Baptist Memorial
Church, adding: The kind of dis
cipleship we've had isn't good
enough"
Following DR.. Cooper's address,
participants in the tWo-day convo-
cation filed to the altar to deposit
signed commitments to specific
church services.
The commitment session was con-
Quoted by Roger Fredrikson, ma
tional president of the Baptist
Youth Fellowship, who was one of
team of five here to enlist active
young disciples. The others were
Prof. John w. Thomas of Grocer
Theological Seminary, Chester, Pa;
Miss Waka Mochizuki, an American
OF japanese ancestry, who is promo
tional secretary of the American
Baptist Home Mission Society; Ken
meth Dannenhauer, pastor of Oak
Lawn (R. - Baptist Church, and
DR.. Cooper.
Evening star., 1946-03-31
Meat Institute Figures
Denied by BowIes

Chester Bowles disagreed yester-
day with figures of the American
Meat Institute showing survey
indicated housewife had less than
one chance in five of buying meat
within OpA ceilings.
An institute official had told the
House Agriculture Committee Fri
day a shoppers checkup at. 1903
stores in II cities showed 83 per
cent exceeded ceilings.
Mr.. Bowles, stabilization director,
told the House Banking Commit
tee yesterday: This just doesn't
check with anything I've ever seen
or heard and I don't think that
many merchants are dishonest"
Similar views were voiced earlier
by both District and national OPA
officials. The institute claimed 81
per cent of SIG purchases made in
242 Washington stores were over
charges, but District OPA Director
Vincent A. Holmes said a recent
survey by his office showed a very
small percentage of violations.
Evening star., 1946-03-31
Noble Freed Under Bond
In Mass Sedition Case

Robert Noble, one of 20 remaining
defendants in the mass sedition case,
has been freed under 5000 bond
pending his appearance if the case
is again brought to trial.
A mistrial in the case was declared
in December, 1914, after the death of
Chief Justice Edward C. Eicher, who
was presiding. Noble had been given
a severance in that trial. Chief
Justice Bolitha j. Laws of District
Court recently postponed motions to
dismiss the case against 20 defend
ants.
The bond for Mobiles release,
pending possible retrial of the case
was set by Justice Laws on Friday,
after Noble had completed serving
time on sedition charge on which
he was convicted in a California
Federal Court. The defendant i'm
mediately posted the bond.
Two sedition indictments. re-
turned here before the pending case,
were nolle pressed as to Noble on
Friday.