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Evening star., 1946-08-08

remedy this situation, he explained.
Both schools are of brick con-
struction and of simple, modern
lines. Some structural glass has
been used.
The Thomas School, built under a
$4,000 appropriation, is three
story structure containing "a class
rooms. 1t is named for late Dun
bar High School teacher who was
an active social worker and leader
in affairs of the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored
People.
Final Inspections Soon.
The Turner School, of the same
general des .32, is two-story, To-
classroom building of the 'exten-
sible" type for which $242, 900 was
allocated. 1t is capable of support
ing a third story, which probably
will be added eventually. This new
school honors the memory of a
woman who served the school system
for nearly half a century, first as a
teacher and latter as director of
health and physical education in the
colored schools.
Final inspection of the Turner
School probably will be made within
a week or 10 days, according to
Archie G.. Hutson, director of con-
struction in the municipal architects
Office. The Thomas School should
be ready for the last check-over
prior to acceptance by the District
within two weeks, Mr.. Hutson said.
Evening star., 1946-08-08

Board of Trades biennial competi-
ton for excellence in design of
buildings and also reviews designs
of memorials, public buildings and
other structures.
Development of District libraries,
with particular reference to the
public library system, is the interest
of the Committee on Libraries. This
committee was in a large measure
responsible for obtaining the orig
inal grant from the late Andrew
Carnegie to erect the main public
library building on Mt. Vernon
Square. Three former chairmen
of the committee are now on the
Board of Trustees of that institu-
ton.
Mr.. Locraft was born here and
after taking his degree in architec-
ture at Catholic University in 1926,
studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts
in Paris for three years. He is
past president of the Washington
Chapter of the American Institute
OF Architects and a member of the
Washington Building Congress. He
recently was appointed a member
OF the National Committee of the
American Institute of Architects to
study designs for the headquarters
of the United Nations.
Mr.. Wilson was employed by the
Chesapeake g. Potomac Telephone
Co., for six years before he became
treasurer of the Potomac Electric
Power Co., in 1885, He was the first
president of the Washington Junior
Board of Commerce in 1884. He
is member of the Auxiliary Vestry
Of st. David's Chapel and also served
on the Department of Finance for
the Episcopal Diocese of Washing
ton.
Evening star., 1946-08-08
? Schools Nearing Completion
For Opening Next Month
By Chris Mothisen

Completion of two new elemen-
tary school buildings will make pos
sible elimination of part-time in
struction in pair of older District
schools when classes are resumed
next month.
The additions to Washington s
educational system are the Neval
H. Thomas School, Anacostia ave-
nue. and Foote street NE. and the
Anita j. Turner School, Stanton
road and Alabama avenue Sc. Orig
inally due to be finished last March,
the projects were plagued by ma
terial shortages but now are nearing
completion.
For Colored Pupils.
Both slated to serve colored pupils,
the buildings will relieve congestion
at the Garfield School, Twenty fifth
street and Alabama avenue Sc, and
the George Washington Carver
School, Whittingham and Lane
places NE, where part-time in
struction programs have been in
effect.
According to Assistant Supt. OF
Schools A. Kiger Savoy, teachers
have been hampered by overcrowd-
ing particularly in the Carver
School. which has been attended by
many children living in the rapidly
growing Parkside area where there
are several large housing develop
ments. The Thomas School, located
in the Parkside neighborhood, will
Evening star., 1946-08-08
Naval Reserve to Form
Officers Unit Tonioht

Activation of the first officers
division of the Naval Reserve of
Washington-the first such division
in the Nation-will take place at
8 o'clock tonight at the meeting of
the Potomac River Naval Command
Organized Reserve in the Naval Gun
Factory, it was announced today by
Capt. L. A. Abercrombie, director of
the reserve.
The organization will consist OF
200 volunteer officers who will be
associated wit hthe organized units
on an equal-pay basis, and will
accommodate officers for whom no
billets with the seven surface divi-
sions OF the reserve are available.
1t also was announced that appIi-
cations for assignment with sub
marine units also are being accepted
and that ship keepers and station
keepers are being recruited for LIST
987 and the Naval Reserve Armory.
Evening star., 1946-08-08
100000 Bales Of Cotton
This Year Forecast by u. 5.
BY the Assoeiutsd Press


The Agriculture Department re-
ported today that a cotton crop of
$3.50 ,000 bales of 500 pounds gross
weight Is indicated by conditions
prevailing August /.
This estimate compared with g.
015,0O0 bales produced last year and
with a 10-year 1935-44) average
of 1858 900 bales.
The department said the final
outturn OF the crop will depend on
whether the various influences af-
fecting the crop during the re-
mainder of the growing season are
more or less favorable than usual
The indicated yield of lint cotton
per acre for harvest was reported
at 247.9 pounds compared with 251
pounds last year and with 10-year
average of 1882.
Evening star., 1946-08-08
Truman Urged
To Bring Back
Patent Units
President Has Sole
Authority to Act,
Attorney Declares

An appeal to President Truman to
take action personally to consoli-
date all divisions of the Patent Of
flee again in Washington was made
today by Charles M. Palmer, patent
attorney.
Mr.. Palmer, who has Offices in the
National Press Building here and
In New York, said the Public
Buildings Administration not only
has failed to act to provide Office
space in Washington for the Patent
Office divisions now in Richmond,
but is returning Office space to pri-
vate owners.
He told the President in a tele-
gram, 1T appears you are the only
one with authority to accomplish
this important and essential result
(the removal Of Patent Office divi-
sions back to Washington immedi-
ately."
Action Follows Protest.
Mr.. Palmer's action followed a
letter issued by the Patent Office
Society, composed of Patent Office
examiners, calling attention to the
tremendous number of patent appli-
cations awaiting action as asserting
that 'the present desperate condi-
ton" stems from the splitting of the
Office between Richmond and WASH
ington. Patent Office figures show
that in the year between mid-July,
1945, and mid-July, 1916, the Patent
Office backlog of applications await
ing action increased 81 per cent to
1l7,934.
Unless efficiency is restored
promptly by reconsolidating the
Richmond and Washington sections
Immediately" Mr.. Palmer's telegram
to the President said, further dis
integration of the Patent Office staff
obviously is inevitable.
Bernard L. Gladieux of the Sec
retary of Commences Office, in The
Washington Star of July 80, 1916,
stated that the Commerce Depart
ment has no authority to provide
space by ousting nondepartmental
units from the Commerce Building
at Washington =" Mr.. Palmer
continued.
Space Held Available.
"The Public Buildings Admin
istration controls all Federal space
and under your recent order has
full authority to provide space in
the Commerce Building for the en-
tire Patent Office staff. The Public
Buildings Administration has failed
to act, and instead has returned 20
acres of Washington Office space to
private ownership and expects to
triple this figure shortly.
Congress has passed and you
have signed a bill providing funds
for returning the Patent Office Rich
mond unit to Washington. Why
the delay, therefore, by allowing
this highly serviceable and in
dispensable agency to remain in
such a critical and divided state?
ut is vital to reconversion, full
employment, and in the vitalization
Of old businesses and in the inau-
guration of new business enterprises,
all to hold the line against inf1a-
ton"
All examining divisions of the
Patent Office and the classification
and interference divisions were
moved to Richmond as a wartime
measure. Twenty eight examining
divisions and the classification and
interference divisions have been re-
turned to Washington, but 81 ex-
amining divisions still remain In
Richmond.
Evening star., 1946-08-08
u. ). Board Considers
Several Sites for
Veterans Hospital

Several sites, one of them across
the Potomac River from Washing
ton, are being considered by the
Federal Board of disqualification as
the location of the new 750-bed
Washington veterans hospital, but
many weeks of "spadework" remain
before the board makes a recon-
mendation to President Truman, it
was learned today.
While the Veterans Administra-
ton is repeatedly anxious to place
the hospital within 10 minutes
driving distance of downtown doc
tors Offices, it was understood, both
nearby Montgomery and Arlington
Counties have been surveyed for
possible locations.
The Veterans Administration, in
answer to queries, said the 23-acre
tract owned principally by Avon
M. Nevius, vice president of Riggs
National Bank, was one of the sites
under consideration. This tract is
on the Virginia side of Memorial
Bridge adjacent to Arlington Ma
tional Cemetery.
According to the Veterans Ad-
ministration, Mr.. Nevius Is one of
several property, owners with whom
the acquisition of property for the
hospital has been discussed. In
the absence of her husband, Mrs
Nevius said her husband had been
approached by the Veterans Ad-
ministration but had said he was
not interested in selling the land
to the Government.
Reports that the Government was
interested in the land and might go
50 far as to condemn it drew an
immediate protest from Arlington
County Manager Frank c. Hanra-
han, who said the county had less
than "a square miles and the Gov
ernment has already made consid-
cradle inroads into it, thereby elm
mating q badly needed source of
revenue.
The National Capital Park and
Planning Commission last fall
showed concern over plans to erect
q large apartment development on
the land. They expressed fear that
the development would ruin the sky
line OF the Federal axis looking
west from the Capitol.
Evening star., 1946-08-08
Judge Assois
$40 Fine Limit
On Wotered Milk

Judge John P. Mcmahon in Mu-
nicipal Court yesterday called for
a revision in a health regulation
which limits to $40 the fine for the
offense of offering aduIterated milk
for sale.
The jurist called for a change in
in the penalty provision in SEN
fencing the Richfield Dairy Corp,
1880 South Capitol street, to $40
fine through its president, Harry
J. Riganis, on charge OF selling
milk adulterated with water.
A Health Department chemist re.
ported that q quart of milk obtained
from the dairy on June a contained
9 per cent added water.
IF I weren't restricted, I would
have fined them at least $780," de-
clared Judge Mcmahon. The law
ought to be amended so far as the
penalty Is concerned. As it is, it il
travesty on justice"
Evening star., 1946-08-08
1.-Two Sisters Overcome
Suspect in Staying
OF Railway Detective
BY a stoff Correspondent Of tn. stor

~ ~'a'i Se'fSstcHSSfi VI tU1 StoT
CATLETT, Va, Aug. 8.-The quick
thinking of a 51-year-old Fauquier
County housewife and her 54-year-
old sister, former nurse at ST.
Hospital in Washington,
resulted in the capture here last
night of a 43-year-old man in con-
nection with the fatal shooting
Monday of a Southern Railroad
detective near Catlett Station.
The suspect, whose selective
service card listed him as William
Davis, colored, South Boston, Va,
was being held today in the county
Jail at Warrenton. Commonwealth's
Attorney Charles G. Stone said
formal charge of murder would be
placed against the man.
The detective, John Holcombe
WoodSon, was shot when he and a
fellow detective, T. L. Thomas, at
tempted to question a man regard
ing recent entries into railway sta
tions at Calverton and Nokesville.
Mr.. Stone said Davis had been iden-
titled by Mr.. Thomas as the man
he and Mr.. Woodson sought to
question.
Demands Food in Holdup.
Davis was captured at the home of
E. G. MuSselman, retired Washing
ton policeman, 2 miles west of Cat
lett, after he had entered the house
armed with rifle and demanded
food. Mrs. Musselman gave the fol-
lowing account of what happened ::
After forcing Mr.. Musselman's
son, Raymond, II, to tie his fathers
hands and Mrs. Musselman to tie
her sons hands, the man ordered
Mrs. Musselman to prepare some
food for him.
Meanwhile, Mrs. Musselman's
sister, Mrs. Effie Thompson, who
retired as a nurse from st. Eliza
beth's Hospital two years ago, had
been told by neighbor that she
had just heard a scream at the
Musselman home. She Immediately
drove to her sisters home to in
vestigate and was ordered to sit
down near the wall as she entered.
The man then ordered Mr.. Mus
selman to pass over his wallet.
Woman Seizes Rifle.
AS Mrs. Musselman handed the
wallet to the man, he released his
grip on the rifle. Mrs. Musselman,
who is feet 3 inches tall and solidly
built, grabbed the butt of the rifle
and at the same time, Mrs. Thomp-
son leaped onto the man and both
fell to the floor.
Mrs. Thompson managed to place
her knee against the mans throat.
Raymond freed himself and united
his fathers hands. They then went
to Mrs. Thompson's aid and knocked
him out.
Evening star., 1946-08-08
Builders Hampered
Astounding Company
Workers Go on Strike

Washington's governmental and
private building, already suffering
from a three-week-old concrete
truck drivers strike, was dealt an
other blow today, when the entire
distribution force of the Thomas
Somerville Co., wholesale plumbing
and heating supplies, First and N
streets NE. went on strike this
morning for higher wages.
About IS per cent of the plumbing
and home building supplies that
come into the District was tied up
today by the Somerville strike that
began at 7:30 am. Some so ware
housemen, drivers and laborers
walked out on their jobs at the
plumbing supply firm
Richard w. Goodrich, Labor De-
partment conciliator, who has been
handling the concrete truck drivers
strike, announced today that he has
tentatively arranged a meeting
Tuesday night at the Labor De-
partment in an effort to reach a
settlemest.
Representatives of the seven firms
involved and the ITS employees ir
the transit cement mixing industry
here, practically the entire working
force in this field, are being invited
by Mr.. Goodrich to come in and
talk it over.
Strike Began July Is.
The concrete deadlock, which has
materially hampered building here
began July Is, when the Drivers
Chauffeurs and Helpers Union, Lo-
cal 639 (AFL) was denied an hourly
increase from 81 to $l.20, as vel
as an eight-hour day and a guar
antee of $48 per week.
In the interim, number of con.
tractors have resorted to the costly
method of hand mixing cement ir
an effort to keep things going, bu,
large-scale work has been definitely
slowed down.
The cement and plumbing strikes
are affecting CT housing and other
big building operations, building in
odooiy 1CPA ACoCAtdt4tCS odlQ.
Seek Wage Increase.
The employees are members of
Local 222, International Long
shoremen's Union, CIO, which is de-
manding wage increase of 1919 to 20
cents an hour for truck-drivers,
yardmen and other employees as well
as improved safety provisions. Office
employees of the firm as not af-
fected.
William E. Furey, attorney for the
firm, said that the company was
unable to meet the unions wage de-
mands. He said the firms sales are
Is per cent below normal and that
labor costs are up 60 per cent.
The company offered a straight
10 cents an hour raise but the un-
lon rejected it, Mr.. Furey said. Ne
gotiations broke down last week
after four meetings failed to reach
an accord.
Picketing was resumed this morn
ing at the plant. The strike action
was approved by the union last night
at a meeting held at headquarters
Of the local. 1015 M street NV.
Evening star., 1946-08-08
So 900 Reported Stolen
From TroveI Office Safe
(From Yesterdal's Last Edition.l ]

IFTOW eSIeTuUy LuSI EuTttOH.J
Police today were investigating
the reported theft of $1,000 last
night from a safe in the Office of the
Bianchi Travel Service, 800 Tenth
street NV.
Don Bianchi of 4704 Cooper lane,
Brookdale. Md, the owner, told po-
lice his Office apparently was entered
with duplicate key and that the
money was taken from large cab
inet-type safe.
Evening star., 1946-08-08
R. {. Myers Heads
Sovinqs Bond Unit

Randolph E. Myers, secretary of
the YMCA here, has been named
chairman of the local organizations
committee of the D. c. Savings
Bonds Division Of the Treasury De-
partment. it was announced yester-
day by w. J. Waller, division chair
man.
A member of the YMCA staff for
more than rs years, Mr.. Myers is a
member of the Washington Board of
Trade, vice president of the Lions
Club and a director Of the Home
Building Association.
Evening star., 1946-08-08
Court Delays Action
On False Alarm Case

The case of an Army veteran ac-
cused by police of sending fire en-
gines to the home of his former girl
friend because he was angry with
her, was still unsettled today as
Municipal Court Judge John P.
Mcmahon took the case under ad-
visement.
I'm satisfied you were peeved
at the young lady" Judge Mcmahon
told Anthony Gluhoski, SO, of Alex
andria, but what to do about you
Ill decide later"
Capt. Archie Winfree of the sew
enth precinct said that he had the
ex-staff sergeant arrested after he
was suspected of sending a stream
OF police cars, ambulances, and fire
engines to the home of Mrs. Dorothy
Alarid, 2400 block of Chain Bridge
road NV, during the past few
weeks. He is charged specifically
with sending fire equipment to the
home on July 81 and August 3.
On the stand today Gluhoski testi-
fled that when he returned from
overseas last July he demanded
that Mrs. Alarid return some $1,80C
in allotments which he had beer
sending her. Mrs. Alarid, on the
other hand, told police previously
that she had put all the money in
War Bonds in his name as she
received and had returned them tc
him.
Still denying that he sent in the
false alarms, Gluhoski testified to-
day that he couldn't remember
where he had been on the night OF
July 81, but that on August 3 he
was in front OF downtown restau.
rant waiting for a waitress at tht
time of the alarm.
Gluhoski told the court that hi
was discharged last June, 1945, a.
a psychoneurotic and that he "didn'
think it affected him any excep
for a quivering of his hands"
Evening star., 1946-08-08
40 Students 10 Graduate
AT Bethesda Summer Hioh

Forty students will graduate from
the Bethesda Chevy Chase Summer
High School at ceremonies at II
am. August l6 in the school audi
torium.
Hugh G. Price, dean of the Mont
gomery Junior College, will deliver
the address and E. Merritt Doug
lass, member of the County Board
of Education, will present diplomas
Graduates, regular students Of the
following schools, include:
MONTGOMERY blair.
eSsner e6sm,n ReEabs G9Idon L. McAAiisteE cAIae p N
Sromsr, Theodore e R. seh1Hss Meintirs. G. W. w.
Holmes, Charles w. Smith, Paul r.
H:;:;::, s: 3
sethesda-Chsvy Chase.
PssIs. Regina ma {. ssass. %aef.. dl.nMn M I. r.
Esssts4 HE;ss SsSsss 5sss E %%fIss; %Isss: i,
Hill. j. M, jr.
Richard Montsemery.
Psek. sas0n Lucy e 4 smth sashfsr' dlsoe hsss. A
Damascus.
Etchison. M. r.
c.,s.. Gaithersburx.
Grimth, p. 6. Wilson, J. e., jr.
,,.,, Peolesville.
Evening star., 1946-08-08


Engine House at Nineteenth and
H street NV.
Mr.. Emery said:
John Clagett Proctor Is more
than an individual. He is an in
stitution. He is master Of re-
search, an historian, journalist, pub>
licist, philosopher and poet laureate.
His weekly page on old Washing
tom is as much a fixture in The
Star as the stars and planets in
the canopy above us. His readers
extend from the Cumberland Noun
tains to the lower reaches Of the
Potomac and to some extent across
the continent. 3"
Noyes Letter Quoted.
Mr.. Emery quoted from a letter
written by Mr.. Noyes for the oc-
casion of the celebration at the fire
house of Mr.. Proctor's 18th birthday
anniversary several years, ago. 1t
read:
How vast is the value OF our
friends services to the Association
Of Oldest Inhabitants, first, as senior
vice president, and, in the presi-
dents absence, our efficient and
popular acting president; secondly,
as our poet laureate whose init
mately personal, simple-worded,
humorous verses cheer us on oc-
casion and tend to tighten wartime
gloom; and thirdly, as the associa-
tons expert historian, whose chror-
icles put on record local and national
matters of Importance or special
association interest and serve in
future association discussions as the
basis If stirring and sometimes
contradictory "reminiscences, indul-
gence in which is the Oldest In
habitants' most notable character
istic."
Mr.. Emery concluded by saying:
John Clagett Proctor will go
down In the annals of Washington
as an outstanding figure in the city's
civic and professional life. He is a
veritable human encyclopedia on old
Washington. Spring an inquiry at
him and a fount of information
gushes forth. He knows Cowtown,
Funkstown, Hamburg, Carrolburg,
Duddington, Pasture, Hop Vinyard
and New Troy He can recall
Blodgett's and Tunniclif1e's of early
days and Wormley's and Welcker's
of later days, with equally faclle
memory: they were well-known ho-
tells in their time.
Davy Named Successor.
HE is an ever-spreading source
of fact and intermittent humor. He
sheds emeralds and rubies and
sapphires of knowledge and wisdom
and philosophy all along the line.
The field is his, and may he always
keep it, as The Stars shining light
on ancient days in the home town. ;"
Members We'd with one another in
seconding the nomination.
Orrin J. Davy. secretary of the
association, was unanimously elected
to the vice presidency made vacant
by DR.. Proctor's elevation.
j. w. Barse, who is 81, urged
members to accompany him on q
cruise down the river August 20 on
the steamer Mount Vernon, spon-
sored by the Junior Order of United
American Mechanics.
L. Whiting Estes. 3031 Sedgwick
street NV, was elected to mem
bership.
Evening star., 1946-08-08
Truman Signs Bill 10 Give
{. & 0. Canal Park Status

An act giving the c. 6 o. Canal,
historic waterway from Washington
to Cumberland, official status as a
national park project was signed
late yesterday by President Tru-
man.
The signing Of the measure gives
the park agency a green light to
seek adequate appropriations for its
administration, maintenance and
improvement.
Purchased before the war by the
Reconstruction Finance Corp, the
canal was turned over to the Ma
Itional Park Service for custody.
Evening star., 1946-08-08
.Locraff and Wilson
Named Trade Board
Committee Heads

Joseph c. McGarraghy, president
of the Washington Board of Trade,
today announced appointment of
Thomas H. Locraft as chairman of
the Architecture and Architectural
Awards Committee and Robert w.
Wilson as chairman of the Com
mittee on Libraries.
The new chairmen will hold meet
ings of their respective groups in
early autumn to make plans for the
new administrative year.
The Architecture and Architec-
tural Awards Committee, in further
ing the artistic development of
the Nations Capital, conducts the
Evening star., 1946-08-08
Horrisonburg Soldier
Found Dead in Reich
BY the Assoeiated Press

FRANKFURT, Aug. 8.-The body
of TI5 Cecil M. Humphrey, 35, of
Harrisonburg, Va, the father of
three children was found beneath
his billet window in Bad Wildungen
last Sunday, the Sd Army announced
last night.
The Army said the constabulary
trooper apparently had fallen to his
death from his room. Humphrey
was clad In his nightclothes. An in
yestigation is underway.
Evening star., 1946-08-08
Howard Johnson Fire
Couses $500 Dumooe

A fire started by burning grease
at the Howard johnson Restaurant
on Wisconsin avenue Just across the
District line this morning caused
damage estimated at approximately
5000.
The fire was confined to the
kitchen, and no one was injured,
according to restaurant employees.
There were no patrons inside at the
time and about Is persons were at
work when the blaze occurred. The
Bethesda and Chevy Chase Fire De-
partments responded to the alarm.