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Evening star., 1946-08-25
Deficient Hearing Reported
In More Than 5000 Pupils

Five hundred District school chill
dren have serious loss of hearing,
examinations conducted last year
by the District Health Department
physicians show.
This was pointed out in a fourth
Of a series of articles on Are They
Fit to Go to School," by DR.. George
c. Rutland, District health officer.
The physician said an estimate
during the past school year showed
that from 5000 to 5000 school chill
dren have sufficient hearing loss to
require some special educational ad-
justlnelt. - a.g4aa
A child born deaf or who loses
his hearing through illness, does not
have to be condemned to a life of
illiteracy and loneliness, he said. If
dealt with early, the child can en-
Evening star., 1946-08-25
Po|iceo Of TwoCounties
Hunt Shotgun Slayer
Of Virginia Girl, II
BY the Associoted Press

RUCKERSVILLE, Va, Aug. "a
r. N. Early, Commemorative at
torney of Greene County, said here
tonight that a murder warrant has
been issued for Ralph Shif1ett,
about %, following the death last
night of Edith Crawford, II, who
was killed by shotgun blast on a
Ruckersville street.
The girl, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Henry Crawford, near here,
was standing near the intersection
of routes 80 and 20, when a truck
drew up beside her and someone
shot her in the head, according to
Coroner M. D. Foster. Witnesses
said she had just alighted from a
bus from Richmond.
The warrant for Shiflett was
sworn out after a Ruckersville resi-
dent reported a conversation he had
with the youth shortly after the
shooting, Commonwealth Attorney
Early said. A half dozen other wit
nesses reported to Mr.. Early that
Shiflett was the driver of the truck,
the Commonwealth Attorney said.
A search for Shiflett, former
Greene County resident, now living
in Albemarle, was instituted today
by police of both counties, aided
by State troopers.
Sheriff R. A. Melone of Greene
County said he arrived on the
Srapo Short1y aftar tho shooting hit
the girl was dead and the truck
gone. Witnesses said no conversa-
ton took place between the girl
and the driver before the shooting
and that after she fell the truck
continued on.
Mr.. Early said the information
he had received led him to believe
jealousy was the motive for the
killing.
Evening star., 1946-08-25
Land Use zoning Plan
For Bethesda Ready;
Hearings 10 Be Held

Copies of the land use plan for
the Bethesda business district as
worked out by Maryland-National
Capital Park and Planning Com
mission are now available, it was
announced last night.
At the same time. Fred w.
Tuemmler, planning director for
the commission, said a public hear
ing on the plan will be held in Oc-
tober, the exact time and place to
be announced later.
Land use maps will be available
September at $500 Colesville road,
the commissions offices, or at 1850
East West highway, Bethesda,
while copies of the plan, without
the maps, are available currently at
the Colesville road address.
The commission said a number Of
changes have been made in the plan
proposed by Mr.. Tuemmler after
consideration of views of Bethesda
area residents.
Shows Rezoning Boundaries.
One map will show the boundaries
within which the planning body will
recommend immediate approval of
applications for rezoning. The
second map will show the commits
sion's views concerning directions
and localities into which apartments
and business zoning will extend in
the future. The commission ex-
planned that in these areas it will
not recommend approval of re-
zoning petitions at this time.
Mr.. Tuemmler's plan calls for the
commercialization of the Woodmont
Triangle between Old Georgetown
road and Wisconsin avenue as far
north as Rugby avenue and pro-
posed new street system for the
area that would make 1t available
for business use as the need de-
velops.
1t also called for establishment
OF off-street parking facilities and
imitation of street-widening pro-
gram.
Along with the proposed COM
mercial development in the plan.
was proposal to rezone for apart
ment use a large tract of land be-
tween Rugby avenue and the Wood
mont Country Club west of Wis
consin avenue.
Bond Issue Sold.
The commission also announced
the sale of a $132, 900 bond issue
bearing IL per cent interest to the
Farmers Bank & Trust Co. of Rock
vile, Kensington and Poolesville.
Proceeds of the bond issue will be
used to repay the Federal Govern
ment for it's contribution toward
purchase of land in Section III in
Rock Creek Park This tract ex-
tends from Connecticut avenue south
of Kensington to the Garrett Park
Kensington road north of Kensing-
ton.
The commission said the Govern
ment contributes one-third of the
cost of the park lands in the main
valleys Of the park and planning
district and lends the remaining
two-thirds to the commission with
out interest for eight years. The
$4,000 bond issue, it was explained.
will refund the two-thirds portion of
the Federal loan.
Evening star., 1946-08-25
Alexandria Councilman
Asks Road Name Chunoe

A proposal to change the name
of King street road in Alexandria
to Leesburg drive to avoid confu-
sion with King street, the towns
main shopping thoroughfare, has
been made by City Councilman Ev-
erett A. Hellmuth.
In making his proposal to the city
council, Mr.. Hellmuth pointed out
that confusion in addresses is fire.
quent as King street road extends
diagonally westward from King
street.
Evening star., 1946-08-25
Drivers Association Says
Hackers Still Are Members
BY the Assoeioied Press

BALTIMORE, Aug. 24.-Despite
dispute with its union members,
the Safe Drivers Association today
contended it still represented the
Greyhound Cab Co. drivers.
Hyman A. Pressman, attorney for
the association, said his announce
ment yesterday of the unions with
drawal had been premature. He
said arrangements were made for
the withdrawal but that the union
demurred at the last moment.
The dispute started Thursday
when 200 cabbies staged a 24-hour
walkout in protest against a con-
tract which the union had Just
signed with the management.
Meanwhile Leroy Griffin, presi-
dent Of the union, said the walkout
by 200 drivers was "a wildcat strike
and that the drivers who had hired
Mr.. Pressman to represent them
were group of insurgents"
Evening star., 1946-08-25

and telegraph service, large parking
lots, a medical aid station, and q
special gate so that military passes
need not be obtained to the de-
pot. Veterans who buy In large
quantities also will be able to deal
directly for the first time with an
on-the-spot unit to arrange for i'm
mediate shipping.
Although most of the veterans
expected at this sale are believed
likely to come from nearby states,
ex-servicemen and women certified
from any part of the country are
eligible. VIVA officials said re-
ports from other regional Offices
indicate this model sale" has at
tracted unusual attention through
out the entire East.
Evening star., 1946-08-25
New Methods Planned to Raise
Brick Output at Workhouse
By Colt HendIey

In spite of prisoner shortage,
plans are being made to increase
brick production at the plant op-
Grated by the District Workhouse
at Occoquan, Va, to 1000, 900 bricks
a month to prepare for the expected
revival in District government
building, Donald Clemmer. superin-
tendent of penal institutions, re-
vealed yesterday.
Bricks made at the Workhouse
plant are used for all District gov
ernment building projects.
Present production at the plant
now runs about 100000 bricks a
month as compared to more than
100000 a month in 1941, according
to William C. Meade, superintendent
of industries at the Districts penal
institutions. During the war years
production fell even lower, Mr.
Meade said.
New Methods Planned.
Mr.. Clemmer and Mr.. Meade said
complete mechanization of the
plant, now operated mostly by hand
| labor, would be undertaken and
that a survey of machinery needs
and new methods which might i'm
prove production is now underway
After the survey shows just what
! is needed, a request will be made
to the Commissioners for the equip
ment necessary TO produce the
100000 bricks per month in spite
of the prisoner shortage.
Reasons for the drop in produc-
ton is explained in various ways
by District officials but the con-
sensus seemed to be not enough
honest prisoners were being sent tc
Jail. This fact is upheld by COM
parison of the number of mer
committed to the Occoquan Work
house, which furnishes labor fol
the plant.
Commitments Drop.
Mr.. Clemmer said that in July
1941, a total of 1,249 prisoners were
sent to the Workhouse while ir
July, 1916, only 482 were commit
ted to the institution.
This seeming paradox in the
face of the admitted rising crime
rate in the District was explained
partially by Mr.. Clemmer, Mr.
Meade and various court and Dis
trict officials.
Since the war, money and jobs
have been easier to get and the
pay, as a whole, has been higher
Consequently, many men convictee
Evening star., 1946-08-25
Use of Psychiotrists
In Police Courts Urqed
BY the Associated Press

BALTIMORE, Aug. 24.-Dr.
George H. Preston, commissioner of
mental hygiene, today called for
trained psychiatrists to advise Police
Court magistrates and to serve in
State penal institutions and training
schools.
DR.. Preston, commenting on q
proposal by Baltimore Magistrate
Elmer j. Hammer that psychiatrists
be assigned to police courts, said:
There is no question of the value
of having a psychiatrist to assist
magistrates in determining the
mental condition of persons ap-
pearing before them"
Evening star., 1946-08-25
Police Suspend Two
After Injured Man
Is Handled as Drunk

Two veteran policemen have been
suspended pending investigation
into circumstances leading to the
discovery a week ago Friday of a
seriously injured man in the rear
of the station, Capt. Robert j.
Pearce of No. / precinct disclosed
yesterday.
The two policemen are Pvts.
Henry j. Peterson, AZ, and Willie J.
Matthews, 81.
Both have admitted they had
picked up William Coley, 48, of the
800 block of Fifth street NV, in
a patrol wagon at Fourth and I
streets NV, where he had COL
lapsed. and then let him out two
blocks farther when they thought
he had "sobered up" according to
Capt. Pearce.
Discovered in Station.
Later that day, Capt. Pearce said
Mr.. Coley was found lying in the
rear of No. ! precinct on New Jer-
sey avenue. He later was taken to
Casualty Hospital where he was
found to be suffering from a cere-
bral conclusion.
Capt. Pearce said Mr.. Coley evi-
IDENTIFY had fallen and injured him.
self at Fourth and I streets NV,
and the two policemen responding
to the scene probably thought he
was drunk. A few blocks later, the
officers decided he was all right and
let him out, Capt. Pearce said.
Good Records Cited.
Both policemen had exemplary
records until this incident, it was
said. Pvt. Peterson has been a
member of the force since 1880, and
Pvt. Matthews has been a police
man here for % years.
It has not been determined how
Mr.. Coley managed to get to the
rear of the station, Capt. Pearce
said, nor has it been explained why
Casualty Hospital physician
called to the station said the man
was drunk. 1t wasn't until Mr.
Coley was taken to the hospital
that his condition was diagnosed as
cerebral conclusion.
Evening star., 1946-08-25
|VPI Enrolment Closed:
Teachers, Space Lacking
By the Assoe;oted prex

BLACKSBURG, Va, Aug. "a
DR.. Walter S. Newman, Virginia
Tech vice president, announced to-
day that VPI's entrance rolls have
been closed because the college has
neither sufficient faculty members
nor enough classroom facilities to
care for more than the 3,700 stu
dents already accepted for the fall
quarter beginning September 26.
The total at which admissions
were closed represents an increase
of about 800 over the largest num-
ber of students ever to receive in
struction at Tech, school officials
said.
Evening star., 1946-08-25
MechunicsvilIe Firemen
To Hold Joustinq Tourney
RY tha As.ociated Pras,

UT NSSVCfSFeu FTcSS
MECHANICSVILLE, Md. Aug. "a.
- The Mechanicsville Volunteer
Firemen's jousting tournament will
be held here September with Will
liam Preston Lane Of Hagerstown
and Mayor Theodore r. McKeldin
of Baltimore, Democratic and Re-
publican gubernatorial candidates,
respectively, as speakers.
Evening star., 1946-08-25
Rites Held at SoIomons
For Mrs. Leutherinq, 90
BY the Assocjofed Pres.

SOLOMONS, Md, Aug. 24.-Fu-
neral services were held today for
Mrs. Cecilia F. Leathering, 80, one
of Calvert County's oldest citizens,
who died Thursday at her home
near here.
She was the widow of Sewell
Leathering, former Calvert County
school commissioner.
Evening star., 1946-08-25
Potato Yield Is High
Special Dispatch 10 The Star

BERKELEY SPRINGS, w. Va,
Aug. "a (SpeciaD Ralph Beddow
yesterday reported a yield of 81
bushels of potatoes from 200 pounds
of planted seed, which Is better
than a peck of potatoes for each
pound Of seed.
Evening star., 1946-08-25


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Evening star., 1946-02-22
Court Requests 10 VA
For Psychiatric Aid
To Veterans Studied

The Veterans Administrative has
been called on to give psychiatric
help to veterans now being hailed
into court for variety of offenses
DR.. Daniel Blain, chief VA psychia-
trist, told a news conference yes
terday.
He disclosed that VA now is
studying requests from several
judges, who have written Veter-
ans Administrator Bradley to ask
whether VA psychiatrists can talk
to and treat the increasing number
of veterans being arrested.
DR.. Blain said that as soon as
the Veterans Administration gets
its mental hygiene clinics set up
it will be able to provide psychia-
trio consultants in the courts where
ever necessary.
Wife Beating Cases.
Some time ago, the United States
Attorneys Office here complained
OF the number of veterans who were
being brought into court for WIFE
beating. DR.. Blain said wife beating
probably wasn't limited to veterans
but, he added, men who have been
Evening star., 1946-02-22

through combat find it much easier
to hit somebody" than they did
before they went to war.
Wives. he said, are more liable to
be the victims of veterans irritation
than strangers, but the super
irritability" that follows war also is
showing up in more lost tempers in
business offices and more jobs tossed
away after few days trial.
DR.. Blain estimated that 100, 1000
veterans will be needing treatment
In VA mental hygiene clinics in the
next year and that $4,000 veterans
will have to be hospitalized for men
tai illness by 1947.
446,l53 Medical Discharges.
He partially based these estimates
on reports from the Army and Navy
that 446,15 servicemen have been
given medical discharges as neuro-
psychiatric cases and another 1884,
600 have been discharged for in
eptitude." A high percentage OF
these veterans, he said, should have
some kind of psychiatric care.
To care for the expected load, DR.
Evening star., 1946-02-22
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muscular pain. What reliefl What q
blessing Extra strong, but won't burn.
Get it today. Only 3st at all drug stores.
Evening star., 1946-02-22
Maryland Police
Probe Deaths Of Trio
Found Shot on Farm
BY the Associated PRESS

TEXAS, Md, Feb 22.-Baltimore
County police were investigating to-
day the deaths of 65-year-olo
farmer, his son and daughter, whose
bodies were found yesterday on their
farm near here.
Police reported that Benjamin F.
Chairman, ST., about IS, was found
shot to death in cemetery near his
home, and the bodies of his son and
daughter were found in the house
Patrolmen Henry Kone and Ed
ward Andrew identified the son as
Benjamin F. Chairman, jr., about
35, and the daughter as Irene Chaff
man, about 80.
Dead for Two Days.
Assistant County Medical Ex-
aniner Rollin c. Hudson estimated
all three had been dead more than
two days.
States Attorney James D. c.
DoWnes said he and police believed
a fourth person was involved, al
though they did not discount the
theory of family quarrel.
Parts of % caliber rife, broken
In four pieces, were found in the
kitchen of the house.
The patrolmen said the father
had been shot once through the
head and possibly through the
body. A brief preliminary exami-
nation did not definitely disclose
the manner in which the others
met death. but police said they
thought" both also had been shot
Bodies Found in Kitchen.
Mr.. Kone and Mr.. Andrew re-
ported that the son and daughter
were lying face down on the kitchen
floor of the three-room, two-story
stone house located at the rear of
the st. Joseph's Catholic Church
and Cemetery.
DR.. Hudson said holes were found
in the heads of the daughter and
brother, and that they could have
been made either by bullets or a
sharp instrument. An autopsy was
to be held today.
Mr.. Chairman was employed at a
Baltimore manufacturing company
and the daughter had kept house
since the death of Mrs. Chairman
last July. Another son was reported
serving in the Army in Alabama.
Two boys shedding down a ceme-
terry hill found the fathers body.
Police said there was snow on the
body, but none under it, indicating
the man had been shot before the
last storm, which began about noon
on Tuesday.
Evening star., 1946-02-22


Blain said, 1000 more psychiatrists
will be needed by VA. He explained
that he expects to get them by ask
ing every class A medical school to
take on the training of 10 doctors
interested in specializing in psychi-
|atry. The men would spend halt
their time in VA mental hygiene
clinics and the other half in school
at an estimated cost of SIS, ,OOO, ,OOO
to VA.
Seven of the authorized 80 VA
mental hygiene clinics, including one
in Washington, are already in op-
Grafton, DR.. Blain reported. He also
expects to have contracts soon with
between 100 and 200 private clinics
which will help in the treatment of
mentally i'll veterans.
Evening star., 1946-02-22
Morgot Grohome Goes
To Nevada Dude Runch
BY the Associated De-.

BY the Associated Press
LAS VEGAS, New, Feb. 22.-
Actress Margot Grahame has
checked in at an exclusive dude
ranch and promptly went into Sc
clusion.
Efforts to learn the purpose of
her trip were unavailing, clerks re-
porting she had given orders not to
be disturbed.
She Is the wife of Allen McMartin.
wealthy Canadian.
Evening star., 1946-02-22
III Insurance Firms Open
Court Fiqht on Rate Order

A total of I'll fire insurance COM
panies which, it is claimed, do more
than 30 per cent of the insurance
business in the District in their
class of insurance, have filed suit
in District Court seeking to halt
recent rate adjustment order of
Albert F. Jordan, District superin-
tendent of insurance. The order
would reduce premium rates per
cent, it was said
The complaint names Mr.. Jordan
and the Insurance Rating Bureau
of the District as defendants. The
suit claims rates for fire and light
ming insurance as ordered to become
effective April l would not provide
for ? reasonable profit as provided
for IN the rating act
Asking that the defendants be
enjoined from enforcing the new
rates, the complaint claims the
order violates provisions of the Dis
trict of Columbia Code and it also
violates the 14th Amendment to the
Constitution in that it would take
property without due process of law.
Dute Crop Increases
The United States date crop has
grown from one to 18 million pounds
annGally in the past 20 years.
Evening star., 1946-02-22

germs before they go after you.
Gargle full-strength Listerine An
tiseptic right away!
In actual tests over a 12-year
period those Vho gargled Listerine
Antiseptic thrice day had fe,ser
colds, and usually had milder colds,
and feaoer sore throats, than those who
did not gargle Listerine Antiseptic
Evening star., 1946-02-22
louisionu Doctor Dies
In Tractor Accident
BY the A.soeioted Pres.

BATON ROUGE, La, Feb. a.
Parish Coroner Harry Johnston re-
ported last night that DR.. Rufus
Jackson, prominent Baton Rouge
physician and civic leader, was
killed yesterday in tractor acci-
dent on his farm near here.
An inquest was planned Saturday
morning.
Survivors include his wife and a
son by a former marriage. Harris
Jackson, Associated Press man re-
Gently discharged from the Navy
and believed to be in San Francisco
en- route to an AP assignment in
Singapore.
Evening star., 1946-02-22

Sc. yesterday and after asking for
six quarts OF ice cream leveled a
gun at Miss Hazel Mcdaniel, 35, a
clerk, and stole $25 from the cash
register. He did not take the ice
cream.
In another robbery yesterday a
colored man snatched a pocketbook
containing $40 from Mrs. Kath-
crime Guthrie, 1906 Connecticut ave-
nue. NV, in the HOO block of Con-
necticut avenue NV.
Evening star., 1946-02-22
THE EVENING STAR Washington D. c. B-o
FRIDAY.
SORE THROAT?

lisierine Aniisepiie reaches
way back on ihroat +. . . kills
surface germs by millions.
Don't play around with the
sore throat that so often accom-
panies cold! The time to strike
at any germ infection is at it's very
outset. So 60 after throat surface
Evening star., 1946-02-22

About 439, 900 miles of the Nation s
highway system are paved.
Evening star., 1946-02-22
Ice Cream Store Loses
SIS in Robbery

A colored man entered a Highs
ice cream store at 101 Fourth street
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1946-09-19

her schooling. She was accom-
panied by Mrs. Warren l.. o.
Hara, who expects to remain in
Texas during the school year.
Mr.. and Mrs. James j. Sloan
were Billings visitors Saturday.
Kenneth Rennick returned
on Monday morning, Sept. 16,
from Three Forks, where he
had been employed during the
past summer with the U. S.
Reclamation Service. Kenneth
will visit with his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. l.. C.. Rennick, for q
week before returning to Mon
tana State college at Bozeman.
Don B. johnson returned
from Payette, Idaho, Monday,
where he was under special as
signment for the past six
weeks. En- route home he Wis
tied for several days with Bud
Waters at Manhattan. Don will
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Urges Careful Managing
Lambs in Feed Lot

Bozeman. - Careful manage
ment of lambs when making
the change from range to feed
lot conditions can do much to
prevent the loss of lambs due
to coccidioSis, or scours, SAID
DR.. Howard WEIGH of the Mon
tana veterinary research lab.
oratory at Montana State COL
lege.
Another important factor in
cutting losses from scours is to
buy only good quality, we'll de-
veloped lambs, he added. Stud
les have shown that small,
runty lambs are more suscepti-
BILE to scours, DR.. WEIGH said.
He suggested that when max
ing the change from range to
feed lot, shipments should be
handled so that there is as lit
tie shrink as possible. Giving
the lamb a chance to fill up
and rest on pasture for about
a week after their arrival at
the shipping point will help
them before the change to alfal-
ia and concentrates. DR.. WEIGH
said that grass may be used for
the first week rather than al
falfa if pasture is not available.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1946-09-19

at st. Vincent's hospital in Bill
lings on Friday evening. Mr..
HARDWOOD is special officer with
headquarters at Grow Agency.
Bill Baca left on Tuesday for
Great Falls where he will at
tend school. His mother, Mrs.
Mike Baca, accompanied him as
far as Billings, returning to
Grow Agency Wednesday.
Miss Rose Blue Thunder
spent Friday shopping in Sher-
idan. Miss Blue Thunder is a
nurse at the local hospital.
Miss Enid Olson spent Friday
shopping in Billings.
Miss Katie Froze spent the
weekend visiting her parents,
MI. and Mrs. Fred Froze, at
their home in Hardin.
Miss Iva Dell O'Hara left Oh
Saturday for San Antonio,
Texas, where she will continue