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Evening star., 1946-04-02
Killer Miller Stakes $4,000
On Ability as Externinotor
Brooklyn Crusader
Opens Attack on
Capitol Reaches

Take the word of Jay D. KILLER"
Miller of Brooklyn, the war is just
beginning on the House side of the
Capitol Building. He is betting
$4,000 that within five weeks all
cockroaches and water bugs in the
place will be dead
If he loses. then the American
Cancer Society, Inc. will be $4,000
richer; if he makes good the boast
he broadcast today on the steps of
the Capitol. the accomplishment
will, he declares, ''re-echo around
the world and people everywhere
will know that they don't have TO
put up with insects
Doing Job Free.
In either case. only the insects or
the killer" stand to lose. The
Russian born crusader will do the
job free, assisted by 25 workmen
loaned him by John c. Page. build
ing custodian. He guarantees not
only to rid the House side of cock
reaches and water bugs, but also
to eliminate all such visitors and
their descendants for an entire year.
The Killers" confidence is based
on lethal mixture which attracts
crawling insects from distances as
great as SO feet. Small cardboard
boxes are filled with this. set in out
of f-the-Way spots, and then the glad
tiding of good things to eat is passed
around the cockroach kingdom. The
crusader is positive cockroaches have
language of their own. They nib
BILE. become punch drunk and
Stagger off to die in a crevice, he
says.
Studying Insects for Years.
MI Miller has been studying the
habits of crawling insects since the
days years ago when he owned a
secondhand furniture store. He
experimental, found what he is will
ing to wager is the right answer
and promptly ran up against world
of human Scoffers. He is still trying
to convince them. His record shows
cleancut victories over the insects in
Evening star., 1946-04-02
Akron Transport Union
Withdrows Compromise

AKRON, Ohio, April ,P.-Strik-
ing CIO transport workers last night
withdrew a compromise wage offer
and returned to an original demand
for hourly increases as this rubber
industry hub continued without
public transportation.
The strikers voted against arbi-
tration of their dispute with the
Akron Transportation Co. and re-
turned to their previous demand
for a raise of 80 cents an hour.
They received SO cents an hour be-
fore the strike began at midnight
Sunday.
Trolley and bus riders took the
stoppage in stride. Rubber COM
panies employing about 100000 ar
ranged share-the- ride systems and
reported Job attendance near nor
mai. although many reported late
School attendance was reduced
sharply, Supt. Otis c. Hatton re-
OOrteG
Evening star., 1946-04-02
Packing House Strike
May Be Resumed
BY the As,oeioied Press

CHICAGO, April 2.-The posi-
bility" of resumption of the packing
house workers strike appeared to-
day, while OPA spokesmen denied
''emphatically' that any BLACK mar
ket in meat is growing"
Philip Weightman. executive vice
president of the CIO Packinghouse
Workers Union, reported at a news
conference yesterday that the take
home pay of workers has been dras-
tically reduced despite a recent
pay increase of Is cents an hour,
through layoff of an estimated 20
900 employees.
There is a good possibility Mr..
Weightman added, that We will re-
sumo our strike"
The union, Mr.. Welghtman said
feels 1t has never formally termi-
mated its strike. which tasted from
January 2l until January 20, and
has never formally accepted the
l6-cent hourly wage increase rec
commended by fact-fnding panel.
The Government seized the plants
January 26
Evening star., 1946-04-02

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Evening star., 1946-04-02
big Rail Lobby Uses
Pressure Tactics,
Arna|| Charges
BY the Associoied Press

Gov. Ellis Arnall of Georgia told
the Senate Interstate Commerce
Committee today that the Associa-
ton of American Railroads main
tains the Nations largest and
strongest lobbying organization.
Gov. Arnall also accused the asso-
citation of shadow boxing" in sup
porting the Bulwinkle bill to exempt
railways from antitrust laws in the
fixing of freight rates by agreement
among themselves.
Never in the history of this
country he said, has there been
an aggregation with as big a lobby
or as strong a lobby as the Associa-
tion of American Railroads"
The assertion was in answer to
questions by Committee Chairman
Wheeler as to why numerous South
erners have appeared in support OF
the House e-approved bill.
Gov. Arnall read into the record a
letter from r. V. Fletcher, rail-
road association vice president, urg-
ing a subordinate organization to
select men who could be ''requisl-
toned to appear before congress
Sional committees. 1t, however, was
written before the pending measure
was introduced.
Referring to the 64 witnesses who
appeared TO support the bill, Gov.
Arnall said that the railroads were
shadow boxing to make it
look all one way"
The Georgian reiterated belief
that the BulWinkle bill would throw
out of court an antitrust suit by
which his State seeks a readjuSt-
ment of freight charges.
Gov. Arnall said the associations
alleged lobbying system called for
certain member Representatives to
be assigned Ito individual Sena-
tors" and declared 1T is an awful
shame to operate on the theory that
they can pressure, squeeze and buy
="
The Governor and A. F.. Cleveland,
a railroad association vice president,
engaged in sharp exchanges, the
latter eXclaiming at one point that
statement by Gov Arnall was
not So
Evening star., 1946-04-02
Representative Cochran
Reported Improving

Representative Cochran, Demo-
crat, of Missouri seems to be a little
bit better" today, hospital authori-
ties at the Naval Hospital at Be-
thesda said. The Representative
was taken to the hospital Saturday
after being stricken i'll at his apart
men in the Shoreham Hotel.
Frank Karsten, his secretary, said
1t was believed he had suffered a
stroke but the diagnosis Of his ILL
ness had not been completed
Evening star., 1946-04-02
Chevy Chase Day School
Damaged by Fire

Fire in the kitchen of the Chevy
Chase Country Day School. II Graf
ton street, early today caused dam
age estimated by school officials at
5000,
Stanwood Cobb, operator OF the
school, said the blaze apparently
was caused by burning grease. The
fire was eXtinguished by the Chevy
Chase Fire Department. The school
has Is resident children and 80
children who attend from 9 am to
pm. daily.
Evening star., 1946-04-02
Union Offer 10 End
Detroit Transit Strike
Rejected by Mayor
BY the Associated Press

DETROIT, April 2.-Mayor Ed
ward J. Jeffries today rejected a
compromise offer to end the shut
down of the citys transit system
and a brief conference with a high
union official ended with no progress
reported.
No further negotiations were
scheduled.
The offer was made by James
Hoffa, business agent for the AFL
Transfers Union, who was called in
by union leaders as the strike went
into its second day
MI, Hoffa proposed that the city
grant the striking bus and Streetcar
operators a l5-cent hourly increase
and submit the question OF contlnu-
ing wartime overtime privileges to
arbltratlo
Repeats Assertion
The answer is absolutely no"
Mayor Jeffrles replied when in
formed OF the compromise plan. He
repeated his assertion that no new
offers would be made by the city
until the more than 5000 strikers
return to work
While thousands without cars
walked to work or hitched rides
with other drivers, downtown de-
partment stores reported nearly
so per cent drop in business.
The union. which called the strike
early yesterday to enforce its de-
mand for wage increase of 18
cents an hour. made no move to put
buses and trolleyS back into opera
Evening star., 1946-04-02

Commerce, the Treasury Depart
ment, in Army post exchanges
throughout the South and through
out an entire block in his home city
Of Brooklyn.
In battling the insects in the
House side OF the Capitol, he will
donate a service valued at $4,000.
The reason: 1T would be dis
grace to let the Capitol go as 1t is
now"
Evening star., 1946-04-02
Busby Berkeley Divorced

LOS ANGELES, April lP,.-
Busby Berkeley's fifth marriage
all to screen actresSeS-ended in
divorce yesterday when Marge Penn
berton. %. whom he married in
Tijuana Mexico. last May obtained
a decree on cruelty grounds from
the 50-year-old film dance director
Mr.. Berkeley'S previous wives were
Esther Muir Myrne Kennedy, Clair
James ard Myra SteffenS.
Evening star., 1946-04-02
Public Health Meeting

The public health section of the
Graduate Nurses Association will
hold a panel discussion on public
health nursing in the United States
Chamber of Commerce Building next
Monday at 8 pm. United States
Public Health Service consultants
will participate.
Evening star., 1946-12-26

The Arny's overcoats may be
warm but they don't do thing for
mans figure, number of WASH
ington area GIs agreed yesterday
when asked why so many soldiers
appear without their overcoats even
in the coldest weather.
One of 10 coatless soldiers ques-
toned admitted he was wearing a
suit of the Army's new ltchless long
handled underwear. The other nine,
comprising so per cent ct the SCI
diers who passed Eleventh street
and Pennsylvania avenue NV. in
80 minutes yesterday, said they
would rather be cold than uncom-
Portable in bulky issue overcoats or
binding "heavies."
Pvt. Walter Ziegler, 81, of Buffalo,
N. Y, said he didn't have any par
ticular reason for not wearing the
Army's long johns, but added that
he didn't use his overcoat because
it fit him as if Omar the Tentmaker
personally had designed it. A SOL
dier for three months, Pvt. Ziegler
is stationed at Fort Belvoir.
Although he 'shivered in the crisp
temperature, Pvt. ziegler said he
considered Washington tropical
paradise compared to his native
Buffalo.
Another Fort Belvoir soldier, Pvt.
Wallace Velie, 18, of Rochester, N.
Y, didn't care to be mistaken for
Evening star., 1946-12-26
Two Men in Navy Uniforms
SOUGHT in Three HoIdups

Two men wearing sailors uniforms
were hunted by police today after a
taxicab driver was robbed Of his
money and automobile and a couple.
picked up by the cab, also was
robbed. The same men also are sus-
pected in another holdup.
Wilson Stevens, 10, of 1911 Mary
land avenue NE, the cab driver,
said he picked up the men and drove
them to Rhode Island and Eastern
avenues NE, where, he said, they
robbed him of So and forced him
out of the cab.
Police believe the men are the
same who later robbed James Jack
son, 80, colored, of 1451 U street
NV, and his companion, Miss
Emma Brown, %, of 1720 s street
NV, after picking them up in the
stolen cab.
Mr.. Jackson told police he and
Miss Brown engaged the cab at Third
and M streets NV. and were driven
to Mount Olivet Cemetery, where the
men drew a gun and robbed him
of $14.
Uniformed men also robbed Lucius
Harris, so, of 1918 Second street
NV, a postal clerk, of $28 on Christ
mas eve as he sat in his automobile
in the first block of G street NE,
police said.
Evening star., 1946-12-26
Proper Care of Auto Batteries
Advised as Shortage Continues

Nurse your automobile battery
along as if it were the last one you'll
get for some time. Because maybe
it is.
A few shipments are trickling into
this area, but not nearly enough
to satisfy the demand.
A spot check of several places IN
Washington disclosed only a few
which had batteries for sale. Most
of them were holding the supply
for regular customers, although a
few were selling "over the counter
as the batteries come in.
If your old battery is beginning
to run down, you'd better do some
thing about it. 1t may last while
longer if you have it recharged
properly.
Even if your car or battery is new,
it's a good idea to have the bat
terry, the generator, and particularly
the voltage regulator checked now
and then by an expert, say the
men who know batteries. Many
batteries are injured by being over
charged while the cars are being
driven.
The shortage of batteries Is the
result of the lead shortage, accord
ing to the Civilian Production Ad-
ministration. 1t may be as long as
two years before the supply Of this
essential metal brings the battery
Evening star., 1946-12-26
Capital Transit Route
To Kensington Slated

The Maryland Public Service Com
mission has granted permission to
the Capital Transit Co. to establish
bus service, starting Sunday, from
Kensington, to the streetcar and bus
terminal at Georgia and Eastern
avenues, It was announced today.
The new line, which will be known
as the route Y-2 Kensington- Silver
Spring line, will operate at approx
mately hourly intervals from 5:51
am. to 10:40 pm.
1t will provide new service to the
Capitol View Park area, between
Forest Glen and Kensington, and
additional service over the route Z-2
Silver Spring community bus line
between Forest Glen and the Silver
Spring District line terminal, the
company said. Schedules have been
arranged to provide connections
also with the route L-8 Connecticut
avenue line to Wheaton and
Kensington.
Three cash fare zones will be
instituted on the new line, the
company revealed. A 12-ride weekly
punchcard ticket, however, will be
available in zones / and between
Forest Glen and the terminal to
cost 4 cents a ride.
Evening star., 1946-12-26

A leart-broken mother has asked
that other parents be warned
against a long-legged hair-snipper,
who, she said. clipped off her
daughters waist-length braids to-
day on a Mount Pleasant streetcar.
Mrs. Edward D. Sklarsky, 1920 S
street NV, said her 12-year-old
Diane tearfully told this story:
She boarded streetcar at Con
necticut avenue and S street NV.
shortly before $50 o'clock this
morning, planning to visit her
grandmother at 1887 Montague
street NV.
Diane was wearing scarf over
her head, but the long, dark-broWn
braids hung down her back. She
took one of the, single seats in the
car. A man took the seat behind
her. She noticed only that one OF
his long legs stretched into the
aisle.
The young Powell Junior High
School student felt tug on her
hair. She did not turn around, be-
Evening star., 1946-12-26

Ipolar bear, he said, and therefore
did without Army overcoatS COM
pletely. He added, however, that
he wore a neat-f1tting outfit of long
woolens without apprehension be-
cause nobody can see them, can
they?"
Washington weather was far too
balmy, in the opinion of TVS Robert
Skolsky, 10, of Philadelphia, to war
rant either heavies or an overcoat.
Robert, a bugler in the Fort Myer
Ceremonial Detachment. wears his
overcoat, though, in wintertime
ceremonies at Arlington Cemetery
and other posts because. that's
orders"
Pvt. Bob Skipton, II, of Shenan-
doah, Iowa., stationed at Fort Bel
voir, said his issue overcoat was too
heavy and bulky. He preferred
summer underwear and a battle
jacket and was we'll satisfied with
both.
A soldier from Fort George G..
Meade, who would not give his
name, looked furtively over his
shoulder when first asked why he
didn't have on his overcoat-evi-
IDENTITY mistaking the reporter for
a mysterious agent of the MPs.
When he was reassured, he replied:
Look. buddy. I'm not supposed
to be off the post, but skipped out
because this is Christmas. Get
somebody else, will ya?"
Evening star., 1946-12-26

supply back to normal. Lead is short
because of inadequate labor supply
at the mines and the wartime lag in
developing new mines.
A spokesman for the American
Automobile Association said: "Up to
this month there has been a great
dearth of batteries, all over the
country. Now they are coming in
very limited quantities."
CPA officials say this increase, al
though slight, is the result princi-
pally of Government removal of the
ceiling price on lead and the lifting
of restrictions so the general trade
may buy lead anywhere it can find
it. Previously most of the lead was
bought by the Government for al
location.
Hints on how to preserve batteries
came from men in the industry. The
slow charge, which takes from 48
to 60 hours in shop, is best method, |,
according to E. J. Payne, wholesale
distributor in this area for the Exide
battery. The best fast-charging ma
chimes are about 80 per cent as
efficient as the slow-charging Sys-
tenn, ne explained.
One difficulty in getting battery
slow charged is the shortage OF
rentals for use while the old battery
is in the shop.
Evening star., 1946-12-26
S9S, $50 Building Permits
Issued by Fairfax Office

Twenty-eight building permits,
with an estimated valuation of $685.
$50, were issued by the Fairfax
County commissioner of revenues
office during the past week. They
are as follows:
w. Alvord Sherman, cinder block
dwelling, $1,000, Old Courthouse sub
division: E. L. Terry, improvements,
$500, Groveton: Guy Watson, cinder
block house, $1,000, Forestville; w.
C. Wills, garage, $1,000, Annandale;
Ruben Yancey, cinder block house,
$4,000, Thornrose subdivision; w. H.
Barley, frame addition, $4,000, near
Balls Cross Roads; H. j. Bruin,
frame house, $4,000, Germantown
road; George D. Clark, frame house,
$500, Telegraph road; Roy H. Car
son, cinder block grocery $1,000,
near Burke; Frank H. Downs, frame
house, 500, OK road.
A. F. Deem, frame house and ga
rage, $4,000, Falls Church; j. w.
Demory, frame addition, $100, Ok
road; Virgil B. and May L. Gerald,
brick house, $4,000, Pinecrest; Ed
ward F. Gheen, frame addition, $500,
Fairfax Station; Joe Hatfield, frame
addition, $4,000, Centerville; Lloyd
B. Hudson, improvements, $7O0, Falls
Church; Ronald Jetmore, cinder
block garage, $3.50, Merrif1eld; Gill
bert L. King, brick and cinder block
service station, $4,000, Centerville;
Walter Lipscomb, frame addition,
$500, Mclean; M. S. McGehee, Gin
der block building, $3.50, Providence
district; Robert I. v. Miller, frame
house, $3.50, Fair Lee subdivision;
Iva B. Mudd, frame house, $4,000,
Merrifeld; R. c. Morris, frame
house, $4,000, Rockland Village; w.
G. Plaugher, three frame houses,
$500 each, Franconia road; John
L. Shaw, improvements, $500, near
TySonS Cross roads.
Evening star., 1946-12-26
Montgomery Public Asked
Views on Bond Issue Vote

The Montgomery County Charter
Board released today its sixth ques-
ton in a series designed to aid the
board in framing proposed new
county form of government.
The question is: Do you favor a
referendum on large bond issues?
Under the 1914 charter a refer
endum on bond issues in excess
of one fourth of per cent of the
assessable value Of Montgomery
County property was provided if
per cent of the registered voters pc
titioned for such a referendum.
County residents who have opin-
ions on this question are asked to
contact by telephone or mail any
of the following board members:
Norman B. Ames, George Rust
Handy, Howard P. Bailey, William
C. Hanson or James j. Hayden.
Evening star., 1946-12-26
New York Woman Is Killed
In Baltimore Hotel Plunge
BY the Associated Press

BALTIMORE, Dec. ga woman
identified as Mrs. Elizabeth Poor, 80,
of New York fell to her death yes
terday from 10th-foor window OF
the Lord Baltimore Hotel, IN the
heart of the downtown section,
police reported. Her body landed
on the top of an entrance marquee.
Police said they were told by Mrs:
Poor's aunt, Miss Jane Durham OF
New York, that Mrs. Poor, a patient
at a Baltimore hospital, came to
visit her in the hotel.
Miss Durham reported, police said,
that Mrs. Poor asked her to leave
the room so she could telephone her
husband in New York. Miss Dur
ham went out in the corridor, and,
when she felt a draft from under
the door about 10 minutes later,
entered, the room to find her niece
gone and window open.
Evening star., 1946-12-26
Wednesday Is DeadIine
To Reinsfafe GI Insurance

The Veterans Administration an
nounces that veterans who con-
verted their National Service Life
Insurance policies to permanent
plans, only to allow them to lapse,
have until Wednesday to reinstate
them without physical examina-
ton
All veterans have to do is sign a
statement that their health is as
good now as when the policy was
dropped. They must pay all the
premiums that are past due, plus
one premium in advance
Veterans who have lapsed term
insurance policies such as they car
ried in the service and have not as
yet converted them to a permanent
plan have until February to re-
instate them without examination.
Such a policy can be reinstated If
the veteran signs a health state
ment and pays two monthly pre-
miumS.
Evening star., 1946-12-26
Women S Clubs 10 Urge
Virginia School Pay Rise
BY the Associated Press

RICHMOND. Va. Dec. 26.-Mem-
bers of the Virginia Federation of
Women's Clubs plan a concerted
effort to urge upon State legislators
the passage of bill to increase
salaries of public school teachers.
The General Assembly meets in spe-
cia1 session January 6 to consider
raising teachers pay.
Mrs. O. F. Northington, jr., of
Fredericksburg, federation president,
disclosed she has sent to each club
president in the federation direc-
tive urging that the $1,000 or more
federation members make con-
|certed effort to see or telephone our
representatives before they leave
for Richmond" She suggested spe-
Ecial sessions of the 234 clubs to con-
slider course of action.
If Gov. Tuck feels so strongly the
need for enactment of the legisla-
tion (as to call special session of
the General Assembly,, we as cit
liens should feel just as vehemently,"
Mrs. Northington said.
Evening star., 1946-12-26
District Man Killed
AsPoIice Report Light
Christmas Traffic

One man was killed last night
when struck by a truck, but police
reported a low injury and accident
toll in yesterdays light Christmas
traffic here.
The dead man was Leonard Nay
lor, so, colored, of 1908 Fourth street
NV. He was injured fatally when
struck in the 300 block of Florida
avenue NV. The list person killed
in traffic here this year, Mr.. Naylor
was pronounced dead at Freedman S
Hospital.
Police listed the driver of the
truck as Henry G. Hughes, q, of
1876 r street NV.
Lula Parks Little, colored, so, of
487 Locust court S.W., suffered a
broken left leg and a possible skull
fracture when struck by an auto
mobile which knocked her into the
side of moving street car early
today in the 1700 block of Seventh
street NV, according to police.
The woman, who is in unde-
termined condition at Casualty Hos
pital, was running from the curb to
a street car loading platform when
she was struck. police said. The
motorist was listed as Fred P. Rich
ardson, colored, 81, of 1888 Corcoran
street NV
A Potomac Electric Power Co.
cableman, Vivian Ellis, 81, of 526
Eleventh street Sc, received pos
sible fractured leg today when struck
by delivery truck while he was in
specting a manhole at Fifth and
I streets NV He was taken to
Garfield Hospital.
Police said the truck driver was
Jerome P. Wilkes, 81, colored, of
1916 B street Sc.
Evening star., 1946-12-26
Winter Too Cold,
So Pet GuzeNe
Is Given to Zoo

The National Geological Park to-
day had the first gazelle in its his
tory, thanks to the fact Eastern
Shore, Maryland, winters are too
rigorous for such animals.
The f1eet-footed antalope-like an
imal is the gift of Mr.. and Mrs.
Newton Shaffer of Hobbs, Md, near
Denton. 1t was sent from Arabia by
their son, Newton Shaffer, jr., while
he was in the service and had been
pet for 10 months.
The Eastern Shore climate, how
ever, made the Shaffer's decide to
eive their. pet to the Zoo where it
now has warm billet in the an
telope house and experienced care
takers. The Skaters tried moving
the graceful creature into their
home before they decided gift to
the Zoo would be more practical.
DR.. william Mann, Zoo director.
said the gazelle now is on exhibit
after being quarantined for two
weeks.