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Henderson daily dispatch., 1946-01-24

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Evening star., 1946-11-05
Virginia Man Indicted
lon BiqamY Charge

James Leighton Sweeney, 3S, of
Herndon, was indicted in Richmond
yesterday by the Hastings Court
Grand Jury on a charge of bigamy,
after being freed of similar charges
October 18 in Arlington County
Court.
The indictment alleges that
Sweeney was married bigamously in
Richmond in January, l945, to Mrs
Ann Marie Sweeney, 900 block of
North Pollard street, Arlington. Mrs.
Sweeney swore out the warrants,
both in Arlington and Richmond.
According to Mrs. Sweeney, he
was first married about 20 years ago
in Rockville, and later divorced. He
married his second wife, the former
Alice White, in 1899 in Frederick,
and had two children by her,
according to testimony by Mrs.
Sweeney at the hearing in Arlington
Records in Fairfax County Court
indicate that suit was brought in
May by his second wife, seeking
divorce and naming the third Mrs.
Sweeney as correspondent.
Evening star., 1946-11-05
Maryland Oyster
Dredging at SfandstiII
By the Assoeioied Press

BALTIMORE, Nov. with the
bottom dropped out of the market,
oyster dredging Is virtually at
standstill, Edwin Warfield, jr., chair
man of the State Department of
Tidewater Fisheries, declared yes
terday.
Mr.. Warield attributed this con-
dition to the end of meat control
and the unseasonably hot weather
Maryland has felt recently. An
other factor, he said, is the high
cost of labbr. both of fishermen and
packers.
The chairman announced that
as a result of the lack of a market
the State viii hold of indefinitely
opening Poplar Island for dredging.
The season here was scheduled to
open November l.. Kent Island and
Old Rock, two other State oyster
grounds, also win be withheld until
conditions improve, Mr., Warfeld
said. s.se ..
He stated that If the estimated
10000 to 10000 bushel yield avail
able for dredging at Poplar Island
should be dumped on the market
at this time, the price might drop
to Is cents a bushel And of this,
Mr.. Warf1eld said, the oystermen
would have to pay a 20-cent State
tax. Before October % the price
was So a buShel.
Mr.. Warf1eld had a word of en-.
couragement for fishermen, however,
for he predicts an increased demand
with Thanksgiving and cold weather
approaching. At Cambridge packers
have told the dredgers not to go out,
and longing has been cut to mini
mum by the warm weather.
Evening star., 1946-11-05
Three 0ystermen
Forfeit Bonds
Nv the Associoted Press

LEONARDTOWN, Md, Nov. s.
Three Eastern Shore oystermen,
charged with illegal dredging IN the
Potomac River, yesterday failed to
appear at scheduled hearing and
forfeited their bonds.
Sheriff Howard Hammett OF st.
Marys County said, "As far as we're
concerned, this ends the case
The three charged were Charles
Webster, his brother Rufus Webster,
and Robert Shores, all of Chance,
Md. Charles Webster forfeited bond
of s155, while Rufus and Shores for
feited $105 each. All bonds were in
cash, Sheriff Hammett said.
The offense charged was said to
have occurred October 4, and Sheriff
Hammett said Charles Webster had
been shot in the back by a Conser-
vation officer in attempting escape.
The hearing date had been set for
November 5, but was moved up when
Chief Trial Magistrate Ralph Abel
who had been out of town, returned.
The case was complicated by the
fact that st. Mary's County officers
had profesesed ignorance of whether
warrants for the arrest Of the three
ever had been served in Somerset
County, where the defendants live.
Evening star., 1946-11-05
Government Lays OFF
6,619 Here in Month;
1888 on Payroll

The Federal Government dropped
6,61s employees here in September,
the Civil Service Commission an
nounced yesterday. The number
Of Government workers in Wash
ington now stands at 225 1888.
Nationally Government employ
ment decreased by 1882 during the
month and now stands at 2,154, ,109,
the lowest level in Federal employ
ment since January, 1912. The
peak employment month in Gov
ernment was June, 1945. when
3.77O,000 persons were on the Fed
eral payroll.
Most of the reduction In the ex-
ecutive branch of the Government
during the Is months occurred in
the War Department, which cut It's
rolls 81 per cent from 1881 900 to
728,000 The Navy Department
lowered its civilian workers from
5000 to 394,000.
During this period the Veterans
Administration increased its EN-.
ployment from $1,000 to $4,000. The
Post Office Department also ex.
panded, with 10000 employees added
during this period, bringing tota
Post Office employment to 495,O00
More drastic cuts are still to come
in Federal agencies, with more than
100000 employees slated to be dis
missed by next July under provi-
sions set up by Congress in the Fed
|eral Pay Act of 1916.
Evening star., 1946-11-05
Suffrage Supported
In Association Vote

Both local and national suffrage
won out by a large majority last
night in a preliminary straw vote
conducted by members of the Manor
Park Citizens Association at meet
ing in Whittier School, Fifth and
Sheridan streets NV.
The voted showed so in favor OF
national suffrage, and only 6 op-
posed, and 46 in favor of local suf-
frage, 10 opposed.
The association added its pledge
of support to today's plebiscite by
adopting a motion indorsing both
local and national suffrage.
A round table discussion of the
plebiscite was presented by Wilbur
S. Finch, past president of the Fed
Grafton of Citizens Associations
Harry N. Stull, delegate from
Stanton Park Citizens Association,
and John H. Connaughton, delegate
from the Petworth Citizens Asso-
citation, all of. whom urged citizens
to vote today.
Leverett A. Meadows, president,
conducted the meeting.
Evening star., 1946-11-05
Bethesda Chamber Elects
Skates Member Of Board

Malcolm Skates was elected a
member of the Board of Directors Of
the Bethesda Chamber of Commerce
at the November dinner meeting last
night in the Bethesda Woman's Club.
Mr.. Skates will fill the unexpired
term of Ed Stocks, who resigned.
The chamber heard three talks by
staff members of the United States
Public Health Service. DR.. Leonard
Scheele, assistant director of the
National Cancer Institute, said that
institutions chief need was clinical
research center.
DR.. Sara B. Matthews, bacteri-
ologist at the National Institute of
Health, and DR.. Eloise Gran, zoologist
at the institute, also spoke.
Wives and husbands OF chamber
members were guests at the dinner.
Evening star., 1946-11-05

tions, letter from the group stated,
are those of A. F. Whitney, presi-
dent of the brotherhood, and were
made last week at a national con-
vention in Miami Beach, Fla.
Estimates of today's Statewide
turnout have run as high as 224.000
about the same as the number
who voted in the August primary
Other guesses place the vote as low
as the 10000 vote for the Cover
nor last November.
Although there is no voting on a
bond issue, in Arlington the Citizens
Committee for School improvement
has workers stationed at the polling.
places distributing four-page pam
phlet describing the improvements
which they desire in a $4,000, 900
bond issue proposed for early next
year. .
Evening star., 1946-11-05
Continuation Of Bonus
Will Cause ; Million
Loss, ERGO Claims
BY the A.sociofed Press

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 5.-Fight-
ing regional Wage Sterilization
Board prosecution of alleged wage
decreases, the Engineering & Re-
search Corp, Riverdale (Mdo air.
plane manufacturer. yesterday con-
tended it would have to pay 3,000,-
900 in liabilities if it were forced
to continue bonus payments.
In a nearing before the third
regional Wage Sterilization Board
the company asserted bonuses to It's
employees were paid out of profits
and added that in the first quarter
of 1916, it suffered a $500,000 loss.
Declaring bonus payments cannot
be discontinued under the law with
out approval of the board, Jacob
Seidenberg, WSB enforcement at
torney, and Esther Klein, staff at
torney, said the bonus had been
paid uninterruptedly from 1912
through 1945.
$1,000, 900 Loan Involved.
To continue bonus payments
would have cost the company $685.
900 for the first three quarters OF
the year, Bernard r. Nordlinger,
company counsel, declared.
The company has a 81 200. 900
bank loan which falls due when
company losses mount to approx
mately 500, 900, Mr.. Nordlinger said.
This, with other involvements,
would necessitate payment Of
So, ,000, 900 in liabilities II the WSB
order to continue bonuses is upheld,
he said
The case landed with the WSB
when employe members of the Inter-
Association of Machinists
(AFI) filed a complaint.
The third regional board ruled
that since the bonus was paid con-
tinously during the three-year
period it constitutes a part of the
employees wage and is, therefore,
covered by wage stabilization regu-
lations with respect to decreases.
Employees Called to Testify.
The company challenged the con-
stitutionality of WSB's prosecution
under the wage-decrease regulations
and declared the emergency under
which the measure was adopted now
is ended.
The board called as witnesses
three company employees who as
serted they understood the bonuses
constituted part OF their wages.
Henry A. Berliner, former presi-
dent and now chairman of the board
of the company, which manufac-
lures the Ercoupe, a small pleasure
airplane, and Lester A. Wells, presi-
dent, testified bonuses never were
paid by the company when there
were no profits.
The hearing was adjourned until
November q.
Evening star., 1946-11-05
Prince Georges Group
Studies Teachers Raise

Wesley c. Durling of Greenbeit
has been named chairman of a
committee to study possibilities of
increasing teachers salaries in
Prince Georges County, it was an
nounced by G. Gardner Shugart,
county superintendent of schools.
The committee is studying SAL
aries in other States and counties,
costs of living in the county and
the effects of increased salaries on
the county's budget, he said.
The committee includes J. v.
Powers, Hyattsville; Mrs. Theodore
Byerly. Beltsville; Miss Ellen Bowl
ing, Upper Marlboro: Mrs. Elizabeth
S. Fugitt. Greenbelt; J. A. Miller,
Hyattsville, ana Paul D. Cooper,
William S. Schmidt and Mrs. Mary
Beth Wackwitz, representing the
Board of Education.
Evening star., 1946-11-05
O'Conor and Lane
Line Up together to
Vote for komesokes
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Assoeioted Press
BALTIMORE, Nov. 5.-Marty
O'Connor, pressman on a Wash
ington paper, got in line to vote
here this morning. He spoke to
the man next to him and
learned his name was Eugene
Lane.
The two Democrats cast their
votes for Gov. O'Conor for
United States Senator and VIII
liam Preston Lane, jr, for
Governor.
Evening star., 1946-11-05

Ask Custer Of
City Manager
Town Council Voted
Confidence in Him
: Several Months Ago

:. A petition which has been circu-
lated through the second, fifth and
sixth wards asks the removal from
office of Alexandria City Manager
Carl Budwesky.
Addressed to the City Council,
which appoints the city executive
head, the document says:
The city will progress better in
the future than 1t has under Mr..
Budwesky, if a new manager is ap-
pointed.
The city manager is responsible
for increased real estate assess
ments.
Mr.. Budwesky is absent from his
Office in the City Hall too much.
Commenting on the custer move,
the manager said, Everybody has
the privilege of circulating and sign
ing whatever he pleases."
He pointed out. however, that as
sessments are made by the city real
estate assessors Office, created by
the State Legislature, and the as
SCISSOR was appointed by the City
Council. Although any citizen has
the right to file a court appeal If
he feels the assessment is too high,
he added, there have been only two
such appeals since the office was
created in 1943.
Several months ago, in an execu-
tive session. the Council gave Mr..
Budwesky a vote of confidence
when it was reported there was
petition against him. Nobody pub
licly presented such petition to
the Council at that time.
Although widespread rumors cred.
it sponsorship of the current petit
tion to several prominent political
figures no one will admit he Is re-
sponsible.
Evening star., 1946-11-05
Sparrows Point Building
Work Nears Completion

BALTIMORE, Nov. 5,-The Beth
ienem Steel Corp. announced today
that a $45,00o, 900 building program,
which will nearly double its produc-
ton facilities at Sparrows Point,
was nearing completion.
The improvement program in
cludes a hot-strip mill, cold-re-
ducing mill, new battery of coke
ovens, and installation of machinery
in the wire mill, which is being mod
ernized.
The hot-strip mill, started six
months ago, will almost double plant
production when completed next
year. The cold reducing mill also
is nearly finished after one year OF
construction. The new buildings
will provide employment for an ad-
ditional 1000.
Evening star., 1946-11-05
Falls Church Council
Defers Sewer Fund
Action in Hot Debate

A meeting of the Falls Church
Town Council called last night to
discuss next years budget turned
into a heated discussion of whether
funds from the water and sewer de-
partment should be diverted to other
uses. After a long session the
Council deferred action until next
Monday
The five members of the Council
who already have gone on record as
favoring diversion of $4,000 from
the water and sewer fund we're
sharply criticized by many Of the
towns leading citizens.
Capt. John Bethune, former
Mayor, presented petition signed
by about 140 citizens protesting any
diversion of sewer funds and asking
an accounting of the funds received
to date.
A letter from ]. H. Parmelee.
Council member in 1887 when the
sewer fund was voted, declared he
was "astounded that any funds of
the sewer department were diverted
W ally otIlci puIpoocs
Oppose Diversion.
Mr.. Parmelee and others argued
that if any benefits accrued from
the operation of the sewer depart
ment they should be returned to
the sewer users in the form of re-
duced charges.
La Rue Van Meter, town counsel,
told the group he was strictly neut-
raj, but believed the council could
use the fund for other purposes.
Capt. Bethune and his supporters
had taken the position that the
council was under a moral obliga-
ton not to take the money for other
purposes.
Councilman J. H. Mccarthy, who
has been the center of the con-
troversy, attended the meeting for
the first time since he walked out
of council meeting several weeks
ago in protest against the diversion.
-e Faced With Suits.
He warned that the sewer depart
fnent was faced with suits which
might cost the town more than 1t
now had in sewer funds. He said
the town now has sewer on private
land where it has no legal easement.
Mr.. Mccarthy also declared that
infiltration of surface water must be
corrected in the near future and
that it might require as much as
$100, 900.
Mayor Fenner H. HazeIgrove
stated that in his opinion the town
has IAN inferior sewer system"
He added that, if there is inflltra-
ton in the town sewers, he is op-
posed to any diversion of funds.
Evening star., 1946-11-05
sofety Slogan Contest

The Commissioners Traffic
Advisory Board is seeking a
slogan for use in the current
traffic safety campaign and is
offering cash prizes. The de-
tails:
The contest is open to every
one. It closes at midnight Sun
day. Slogans should be not
more than six words in length,
Entries will be judged by a
board selected from member
ship of the Advertising Club
of Washington. First prize is
500; second is $50; third is $25,
and there are five prizes Of $5
each. A certificate accompanies
each award.
Entries should be mailed to
Traffic Slogan Contest, Room
1011, Municipal Center, 30l c
street NV, Washington /. D. G.
Evening star., 1946-11-05
Jury Acquits Grover
OF Bus Crash Charge;
II Damage Suits Pend

Stephen Lee Grover, 10, of 1900
Connecticut avenue NV, was &C
quilted late yesterday by a Munich
pal Court jury of charge of negli-
gent homicide growing out of the
collision of his car with an Arnold
Line bus on Memorial Bridge Au-
gust 2.
The jury's verdict ended one
phase of the accident in which A
persons were hurt, one of them IA
tally. The bus plunged through a
guard rail % feet to the roadway
below after collision with Mr.
Growers car, which skidded on the
wet pavement.
Meanwhile, II damage suits aris-
ing from the accident are pending
in District Court. They total more
than $500. 900. Defendants include
the Washington, Virginia g. Mary
land Coach Co. (the Arnold Lines
Mr.. Grover and his mother, Mrs.
Louise r. Grover, and Robert M.
Hills, the bus driver.
Mr.. Grover took the stand in his
own defense yesterday. He testified
his car made only one skid.
United States Attorney John B.
Diamond III, in closing argument,
said the, testimony showed MIR.
Grover was driving too fast. James
F. Reilly, counsel for Mr.. G. over,
contended this had not been shown
and said the evidence clearly showed
the accident was the result of a
"misadventuYe."
William P. McCracken, jr., 1888
Benton place NV, former Assistant
Secretary Of Commerce, testified
young Grover had an excellent re-
putation for law and order.
Mr.. Grover, a junior at Yale Uni
versity, said he would not return
to school until next year.
Evening star., 1946-11-05
Children Urge Parents to Try
For Prizes for Safety Slogans

Safety makes sense to kinder-
gartners.
The 5-year-olds at Kimball
School, Minnesota avenue and Ely
place Sc, heard about the traffic
slogan contest of the Commission
ers' Traffic Advisory Board. Prompt
ly, they became one of the most
enthusiastic groups of entrants.
In Mrs. Jacqueline Mullen's class
the pupils prepare news books. They
report daily on things seen and
heard which are new to them and
bring pictures clipped from news
papers and magazines for inclusion
in the books.
Brings News to School.
Marsha Singer, S, 1918 Burns
street Sc, learned of the slogan
contest at home. She brought the
news to school, where. safety Is an
important kindergarten subject.
ut was like spontaneous COM
hustion," Mrs. Mullen said. Right
away everyone wanted to enter the
contest"
The six-word limit proved diff
Guilty. Most pupils used more words
in their first tries. Finally a list
of slogans was prepared and mailed.
Even Mrs. Mullen was represented d.
Many of the efforts were safety
messages directed to youngsters,
but others were worthy reminders
for city-dwellers of all ages. Among
them were:
Look Both Ways" "In a Car,
Mind the Policeman" Riding or
Walking, Watch for Cars" Don't
Hang on Poles-Be Safe" Don't
Play in the junk" Don't Climb
Trees Alone" Gross at the Cor
ners" and "Stay Away from Moving
Cars"
Didn't Restrict Ideas.
AS can be seen, the youngsters
didn't restrict their ideas to traffic
safety. Mrs. Mullen pointed this out
in her letter accompanying the en-
tries. She explained they had been
studying all phases of safety in
class.
The teacher said she began safety
instruction at the beginning OF the
school year and is emphasizing eau
ton in walking between home and
school. A traffic game" is part OF
the classroom program.
II worry about them and feel I
should~do what can to teach them
to be careful" Mrs. Mullen said.
The children now have carried
their interest in the slogan contest
home. They are urging their par
ents to try for the cash prizes.
Evening star., 1946-11-05
County AAA Programs
Election Dutes Set
by the As.oeic.ed Press

Elections of local officers, to ad-
minister the county AAA programs
will be held in Maryland from No
vember 18 through November 80,
Joseph H. Blandford, director of
the Maryland Production and Mar
keting Administration, announced
yesterday. He said the focal county
committee would determine the ex-
act date and place Of community
election meetings.
Evening star., 1946-11-05
SAB Arrests in Month
Reported in Arlington

A total of 543 arrests were made
during october, Arlington County
Police Chief Harry L. woodward, re-
ported yesterday. Arrests for traffic
violations numbered 378, he said.
There were 80 automobile acci-
dents in the month, which resulted
in injury to 10 persons and death
Of two, according to the report.
Evening star., 1946-11-05
Police Question Suspect
In Assault on D. {. Woman

A suspect was being questioned by
police today concerning the attack
last Saturday on 24-year-old
Washington mother in her apart
ment in the 1700 block of Trinidad
avenue NE. He was described by
police as a 25-year-old colored
handyman now on conditional re-
lease from Lorton Reformatory. The
man was said to have long police
record
Evening star., 1946-11-05
Community Fair 10 Open
In Sandy Spring Tomorrow

The annual community fair, spon-
sored by the Sherwood High School,
Sandy Spring. Md, and the Future
Farmers of America, will be held
at the school tomorrow and Thurs
day.
Poultry, grain. and household
goods will be exhibited and prizes
awarded tomorrow. A creased pig
contest will be held.
Hours of the fair will be from 8
am. to noon, and then $3.50 to 9 pm.
tomorrow, and from am. to 9 pm.
Thursday.
Evening star., 1946-11-05
Construction in Arlington
Totals S1,9O7, ,9O9 in Month

Building operations in Arlington
last month reached the highest level
since March, 1943, with issuance Of
1874 permits for construction valued
at $1,907 ,909, County Building In
spector Andrew Jensen announced
yesterday.
OF the permits, 88 were fer one
family dwellings valued at $829. 600:
eight we're for apartments contains
ing 1853 units, $815,000, and 10 for
emi-detached dwellings, S120, 600.
The 172 permits issued in Septem.
Der amounted to 81 las, ,643 and in
cluded 40 one-family houses and
apartments of 72 units.
Evening star., 1946-11-05
So, 900 Diamond Theft
Reported in Baltimore
By the Associoied Press

BALTIMORE, Nov. 5-Two trays
of diamond rings valued at $1,000
$4,000, and a 40o-pound safe con-
tanning $2,771 and two wrist watches
were stolen yesterday from Bali-
more establishments in separate
burglaries, police reported.
The rings were part of a window
display in the Charles street store
Of S. and N. Katz's jewelry chain.
The watchman, Richard Harrison,
65, said the thief shattered the win
dow and escaped in an automobile
before he could sound the burglar
alarm. The second burglary took
place at the Madison Mite Club,
robbed for the second time since
August, when thieves made of with
S4(1.
Evening star., 1946-11-05
Streetear Operator Here
Cleared in Traffic Death
From Yesterdays Last Edition.) }

From Yesterdays Last Edition.)
william G. Farran, Is, Of 1914 C
street Sc, streetcar operator, this
afternoon was cleared of blame in
the traffic death of Albert r. Niedo-
manski, So, of 1920 Colesville road,
Silver Spring, Md.
Mr.. Niedomanski was driving an
automobile which was struck as it
attempted a left turn across the
streetcar track in Benning road over
the Benning barrier. The accident
occurred October 26 and Mr.. Niedo-
manski died five days later at Cas-
ualty Hospital.
A coroner's jury ruled his death
was the result of his own negligence.
Evening star., 1946-11-05
Soldier Held in Theft
Of Lanes Automobile
BY the Assoeioted Press

ABERDEEN, Md. Nov. 5-Ofiicers
at the Aberdeen Proving Ground
provost marshal's Office announced
yesterday the arrest Of Pvt. Earl w.
Shomber, IS, Baltimore, on charge
of stealing an automobile belong
ing to w. Preston Lane, jr., Demo-
cratic gubernatorial candidate.
The car was described as q 194i
model previously reported missing
by the candidates wife, who said
she had left it parked on a Balti-
more street.
Evening star., 1946-11-05
COLLEGE, to Enter New Class

WILLIAMSBURG, Va, Nov. $
R.-Receiptss of numerous requests
for admission to the College of Will
liam and Mary in February has led
to a decision to enter new class at
that time in the colleges st. Helena
Extension at Berkley, according to
President John E. Pomfret.
Evening star., 1946-11-05
Germans S Libel Suit
Dismissal Is Upheld
BY the Associa:ad Press

SHANGHAI, Nov. 5.-The Shang-
hal high court today upheld dis
missal by the District Court of
Wolfgang Schenke's libel suit
against Walter Rumble, United Press
correspondent. The decision is final.
Schenke, former German news
paperman, and 26 other Nazis are
on trial here before an American
military commission on charges of
helping Japan wage war on the
United States after We day in vio-
lation of Germany's surrender
terms. : His suit was based on Mr.
'Rundle's reporting of those charges.