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Evening star., 1946-08-27
Puppet Returned to Greece

ATHENS, Aug n (P,.-Hector
Isironicos. Vice Premier and Min
lister of Finance In the Greek puppet t
government during the Nazi occu-
patton, who was sentenced to death
in absentia, was returned from Ger.
many last night by American au.
thorities.
Evening star., 1946-08-27
A short course in Rui|roudinq
...for Airline executives

Airline executives are mighty proud of their air
lines and we don't blame them The arlines have
been progressive and they have their place in the
transportation scheme of things just as the rail-
roads have theirs.
But we wish they wouldn't spend so much time
talking about the railroads in their advertising
They seem to know so many things about railroad
service that aren't so!
They may know the airline business very well
but they're little hazy about the railroad
business
We don't like to mention a competing service
in advertising but now we're rather forced to
talk about the airlines in order to inform the air
lines (and the public, too about some of the facts
of the railroad business
The airlines compare their fares with railroad
fares and come to the conclusion that air travel is
cheaper But they always compare the one way
fares. Since airlines make no reductions on round
trips for travel in this country the airline people
apparently think the railroads don't, either. As
matter of fact, railroads make substantial reduc-
tons for round trip tickets. We figure most people
have to get home sometime
Here some round trip fare examples
A,sl,hr RAiLRoAe
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wa.hino,on- San francisco .772zo sebu s,1su
llos Angeles
San Froneiseo-los Angeles 5000 sll.9o s2l.9o
The airlnes, in comparing fares always add in
the cost of Pullman lower berth. A comparison
S.P II. t,,.,
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Evening star., 1946-08-27

of seat in plane and berth on the train is the
as comparing chair with bed The am
lines aren't operating sleeper planes the services
aren't comparable on that point at ALL
The airlines don't seem to know about our Day
lights, so they don't mention the fact that you can
60 from San Francisco to Los Angeles and back
on these luxurious streamners, the fastest trains
between the two cities, for $11.90 round trip or
So 25 less than the one way fare by plane.
And while we're talking about economy of rail
travel we'd like to mention that we carry children
free accompanied by adults when they're under
years of age, and at half fare when they are
to II inclusive. And children get seats for their
individual use. The airlines charge full fare for
children except for babe in arms
the airines forget to add in the bus fares to and
from the airports land bus travel time as welb
Also they overlook their limited baggage allow
ances, which increase air travel cost with
normal amount of luggage. These added costs,
we think, overbalance the pleasant free meal
furnished air travellers when aloft.
We accept the fact that airplanes have one
primary advantage But we think trains
have lot of advantages, too, including economy
and plenty of room to move around
CLAUDE E. PETERSON
Vice-President SYSTEM PASSENGER TRAps.c
SAN FRANCISCO s, CALIFORNIA
NOTE: Fares shoDn subject to the 15ee federal rs
wtich applies to all forms Of transportation.
Evening star., 1946-08-27
The friendly Southern Pacific

Southern Pacific route of the seamned Da Lark and
City of Francisco the
and is building streamlned trains for 1947 delivery
Evening star., 1946-06-01
Marriage License
Boom Brings
Larger Quarters

Dan Cupid is doing such a grow
ing business here that it has been
decided to move the marriage license
bureau in District Court to larger
quarters.
Col. Charles Stewart, chief clerk
of the court, said more than $4,000
licenses are issued annually as
against half that number 10 years
ago. With the license seekers FORM
ing long lines daily at the counter
where licenses are issued and oc-
casionally overf1owing into other de-
partments, expansion was inevitable,
he said, if the more prosaic business
of the court, such as filing tax liens
and suits, was to continue unim-
peded.
The new white and green quarters
will open sometime next week in
the basement of Municipal Court
Civil Division Building, Fourth and
E streets NV. BY that time furn-
ishings will be complete and records
covering more than 100 years of mar
riages in the District Court building
will be transferred. The new quar-
ters will adjoin those Of District Ra-
ton Board No. 10, which has oc-
cupied part of Municipal Court Di-
vision Building for the last few
years.
Evening star., 1946-06-01
Be|tsvi||e Man Killed ,
Companion Injured
In Auto-TraiIerC Crash

Thomas D. John, As, of Beltsville,
Md, was killed and another Belts
vile man was injured seriously when
their automobile collided with a
tractor trailer truck on the Balti-
more Washington boulevard early
today near Muirkirk, Md, State
police reported.
Mr.. John was a shop employe at
the Agriculture Department Re-
search Laboratory at Beltsville. The
injured man, who was driving the
car, was identified by police as Harry
L. Sneade, As, also an Agriculture
Department farm employe. Mr..
Sneade was taken to Leland Me-
mortal Hospital, Riverdale, by the
Branchville Rescue Squad. He is in
critical condition, the hospital said,
with undetermined injuries.
Police said the accident occurred
while the automobile was making
a U-turn and was struck by the
truck. The right door of the car is
reported to have opened and Mr..
John was thrown out. The impact
of the crash pushed the car on top
of him. police said, and he was
pinned there nearly an hour before
his body was removed.
The truck driver, William w.
Breen, %, of New York City, was
uninjured. Police said he was held
under $1,000 bond on a charge of
manslaughter, pending a hearing
tentatively set for July l in the
Hyattsville Police Court.
Similar charges will also be placed
against Mr.. Sneade, police said.
Evening star., 1946-06-01
Luckett 10 Seek Place
On Alexandria Council

Charging that the Alexandria
Democratic Committee has illegally
appointed candidate for the June
II City Council election to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of City
Councilman John A. Logan on May
9, r. Samuel Luckett, ST., 604 King
Street road, last night announced he
is seeking support as a write-in can
didate on the Democratic ticket for
the council seat.
Upon Mr.. .Logan's death after his
nomination for reelection as the
party candidate in the primary April
2, the Democratic Committee on
May % nominated DR.. Truman E.
Carneale, 38, BIT East Bellefonte
avenue.
Mr.. Luckett charges the Demo-
cratic Committee does not have the
authority to select a candidate un-
der the circumstances.
Mr.. Luckett is a native Alexan-
drian and has owned a hardware
store at King and Royal streets for
IA years. He is chairman of the
Alexandria Juvenile Welfare Com
mittee and former president of
the Alexandria Chamber of Com
merce.
Evening star., 1946-06-01
Old Church 10 Honor
War Dead Since 1852

Members of st. Paul's Episcopal
Church, one of the oldest in Amer
lea, will hold special memorial
services at 1920 am tomorrow at
the church at Baden, Md, near
BrandyWine.
Though the church was organized
IN 1892, the memorial services in
honor of it's war dead will be the
first of its kind during it's history,
according to Herbert Freeman. for
mer District of Columbia Depart
ment vice commander of the Amer
ican Legion and a member of the
parish, who will deliver a short
commemoration address.
Led by the pastor, the Rev. George
Boys, a former World War chap
lain with the 1st Division, the con-
gregation will form at the Baden
Elementary School and march to
the church. Following ceremonies
there, they will go outside to the
surrounding church cemetery for
the traditional massing of the
colors, TAPS" and decorating of the
individual graves.
Mr.. Freeman said veterans of the
Civil War, the Spanish-Americar
War ano the World War are buried
In the church's cemetery, but none
from World War II.
Evening star., 1946-06-01
Apple Growers Hope
Sun May Cure Blight
BY the Associated Pres,

! WINCHESTER, Va, June L.
Apple growers in the Shenandoah
area were looking hopefully toward
the sun today for a cure of the
scab on trees, caused by the recent
wet weather.
] DR.. A. B. Groves, pathologist at
the Winchester Research Laboratory
Baid a change to dry and warm
weather would check the disease on
the trees. He said failure to control
the scab had resulted largely from
inability to apply sprays during the
wet weather of May.
A. H. Teske, State extension
horticulturist, of Blacksburg, who
had been inspecting orchards in this
area, said he has never observed as
much scab as has been seen recently
hnd predicted it would reduce the
crop by a fourth to a third. Mr..
Teske noted an improvement, how
ever, in the peach outlook, although
he said there was not enough labor
in sight to thin the fruit properly.
The fruit growers were told by
Marvin Powell, assistant farm labor
supervisor, they had been allotted
200 Bahamians to assist in the apple
harvest here beginning September /
The State quota of 1,150 for last
year has been reduced, Mr.. Powell
said, to 300. Mr.. Powell stated, how
ever, that he expected that many
war veterans now returning from
4he service would be available for
orchard work next fall, since former
war industries will not need as many
men as formerly.
Evening star., 1946-06-01
Monthly Liquor Ration
|Cut 10 Fifth and Pint
Virginia ABC Board
BY the Associofsd Press

RICHMOND, Va, June 1.-Pur-
chasers of domestic whisky from
Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control
Board stores will find the amount
obtainable on their coupon ration
books reduced today and new sys-
tenn of handling coupons as the ABC
tnaugurates its liquor dispensing
program for June.
The changes, announced yesterday
by the ABC Board, are expected to
continue through December in an
effort to conserve rapidly dwindling
liquor supplies and obviate the ne
cessity of complete new registra-
ton and issuance of new ration
books.
The June ration will consist of one
fifth (or possibly one quartz and one
pint Of domestic whisky or distilled
dry or foreign gin, or one container
regardless Of size, of bottled-in bond
Scotch, Canadian or other imported
brand.
Purchasable merely on presenta.
ton Of the book are whisky liuuers
bourbon liquors, grape and apple
brandy and foreign brandy ane
cocktails. Other items, such as wine
and vodka, may be bought without
exhibiting the book.
This ration allotment is expected
to continue through December.
In Its effort to conserve the sup.
ply OF whisky, the board, beside cut.
ting the ration, has placed back or
the ration list all current" domestic
Whiskies which have been unra.
toned the past three or four months
These are the young brands" whis,
kies not more than 80 days old.
Evening star., 1946-06-01
see the town burning as the Union
troops went through.

see the town burning as the Union
troops went through.
At the age of 1s, he returned from
the wars, convinced that a world
had ended. His father insisted that
he continue his education. Gen.
Howell believes that is one reason
he has lived so long. He learned to
take the broad view of life. He re-
gained his Zest for living.
Gen. Howell went to normal school
in Illinois, then to the University of
Pennsylvania and to Harvard. He
became a professor of the history of
English at the University of Ar
kansas, was appointed president of
Mountain Home College in Arkansas
and then of Intermont College in
Virginia.
Gen. Howell's first wife died after
they had been married for 63 years.
Six of their nine children still are
living. He has 16 grandchildren
and about nine great-grand-ch child
rem, I've stopped counting them"
Yet at the age of 88 he began
looking around for a wife.
Il lived with my daughter for a
while. But a daughter can't take
the place of wife If I was going
to go on living, I would have to
marry again. I considered quite a
few. I courted several of them but
kept on looking until I met the
right one"
The Howells have been married
for u years now. They are in
Washington as the guests of the
Confederate Memorial Committee
and of Mrs. Lena Epperly Mac
Donald of the New Colonial Hotel
Today the general is attending GER
emonies marking the birthday OF
Confederate President Jefferson
Davis at the Capitol. Tomorrow
Gen. Howell will take part in cere-
monies for the Confederate dead at
Arlington National Cemetery.
Evening star., 1946-06-01
Committee 10 Beqin
Study Of: Alexandra
Housing Next Week

Housing problems in Alexandria
will be studied next week by Is
man Emergency Housing Committee
composed of three city officials and
IL civic leaders. it was announced
today by Mayor William T. Wilkins,
who heads the committee.
He said the time and date for the
will be set when accept
ances have been received from the
committee members who were
named yesterday.
The committee will make recon-
to the City Council and
Alexandria Building Inspectors Of
flee for providing new areas for
home construction and encouraging
the use of newly found processes
of construction developed by indus
try during the war.
Mr.. wilkins also said the COM
mittee will work to combat the
housing black market by attempt
ing to stabilize prices and to break
bottlenecks in obtaining material.
Committee members are City
Manager Carl Budwesky and City
Councilman Paul L. Delaney, Rob-
ert S. Marshall of the Alexander
Housing Authority, Eugene Simp-
son, building contractor; Eugene
Olmi, real estate; David c. Book
Chamber of Commerce; DR.. Henry
C. Reese, Alexandria Retail Mer.
chants Association; F. Clinton
Knight, American Legion; Bernard
Gollinger, Veterans Information
Service; j. L. Seabright, Alexandria
Carpenters Union, AFL, and w. II
Gable, secretary-treasure Alexan-
dria Central Labor Union.
The Mayor was asked to form the
community group by Federal Hous-
ing Expediter Wilson w. Wyatt.
Evening star., 1946-06-01
Faculty Changes Made
Al Fishburne School
By the Associoted Press

WAYNESBoRo. Va, June l.
Changes in the faculty of Fishburne
Military School for the next session
were announced here yesterday by
Col. Morgan H. Hudgins. superin-
tendent.
Maj. A. K. Van Scoy, commandant
of the school since the departure last
January of Maj. Alexandria Gait,
will be guidance director of the
cadets next year and also will con-
tinue as head of the science depart
ment.
COL Hudgins also announced the
resignation of Maj. Charles M. Pace
as headmaster. Maj. Pace, who has
been associated with the school for
II years will enter business in
Waynesboro. He viii be succeeded
by Maj. Edward P. Childs. jr., who
has been associated with Fishburne
for 20 years. Maj. Jack S. Springer,
Fishburne alumnus, has been
named commandant of cadets for
next year, Col. Morgan said.
Evening star., 1946-06-01

At the age of 100, Gen. Julius
Franklin Howell, past national
commander of the United Confeder-
ate Veterans, is going strong, with
thriving insurance business, wife
less than half his age, a pungent
sense of humor and memory some
times too keen for pleasure.
Before catching the train for
Washington to attend Confederate
memorial exercises tomorrow, he
worked at his Office in Bristol, Va,
until 6 pm, typing business letters.
Although he can still hear a stage
whisper. Gen. Howell did put his
foot down two years ago and refused
to serve another term as president
of the Board of Trustees of Inter-
mont College on the ground he
couldn't hear all the arguments at
board meetings.
When he celebrated a century of
good living last January II, lot of
organizations. including the Baptist
Church, passed resolutions honoring
him.
They said a good many things I
don't deserve" he remarked. Il
don't mean to say they Intentionally
lied"
Gen. Howell doesn't let all the at
tention he receives go to his head.
Resplendent in the uniform of the
United Confederate Veterans, he
points out he was only a corporal" !"
He won't even tell you about the
impromptu speech he made before
Congress two years ago.
Poignantly, he recalls the day the
Confederates evacuated Richmond
He had been wounded. His horse
had died, and unable to find another
Gen. Howell was a loot soldier. Al
the Confederates marched out Of
the town, liquor from barrels they
I had broken ran irlsthe cutters. MANI
of the towns inhabitants walked
alongside the troops rolling barrels
of flour, carrying clothing and meat
From across the river, they could
Evening star., 1946-06-01
Mrs. Soroh Nicholson
To Be Buried Tomorrow

Funeral services for Mrs. Sarah L,
NICHOLSON, 81, wife of John Richard
Nicholson. who died Thursday at
Montgomery County General Hos
pital, Sandy Spring, after brief ILL
ness, will be held at pm. tomorrow
at the funeral home of w. Reuben
Humphrey, Rockville. The Rev. Will
liam B. Waters, pastor of Faith
Chapel, Derwood, will conduct the
services and burial will be In the
cemetery at Darnestown.
Mrs. Nicholson is survived by her
husband, three sons, Hubert L. and
John w. Nicholson, both of Spring
Lake Park, and James Russell Mich
olson, Washington; two sisters, Mrs
Maggie E. Nicholson and Mrs. Will
liam Hogan: two brothers, George
and Burton Lucas, and three grand
children. She was a lifelong resi-
dent of Montgomery County.
Evening star., 1946-06-01
|0'Conor Seeks RuIinq
On Status Of Veterans
In Primary Ba||oting
BY the Associated Press

ANNAPOLIS, Md, June 1.-The
Maryland War Ballot Commission
will meet with Gov. O'Conor in the
State House Monday to determine
whether it has authority to permit
veterans who registered under the
Absentee Ballot Act but did not
affiliate with party to vote in the
June "a primary.
Servicemen who registered by mail
at the same time they applied for
absentee ballots for the 1914 general
election were not required to register
a party preference, and few did.
Under the permanent registration
system in effect in Baltimore City
and Montgomery and Washington
Counties, there will be no new regis
tration before the forthcoming
primary, and there is a question as
to whether these unaffiliated vet
erans can express party preference
in time to cast ballots.
Authority Extensive"
Gov. O'Conor said last night that
Attorney General William Curran
reported the commission was given
rather extensive authority" under
the acts
The meeting will attempt to de-
termine whether the authority
stretches far enough to give veter-
ans permission to cast ballots June
"a.
If it Is found that it does not
Mr.. Curran said, it would be neces-
sary to pass emergency legislation
at a special session of the General
Assembly to permit them to vote.
Gov. O'Conor has had requests
from veterans groups and several
primary candidates for the calling
of such a session of the Legislature
He said last night that he con-
sidered it necessary to clarity the
boards authority under the Absen-
tee Ballot Act in regard to the un-
affiliated voters before making a
decision about special session.
Two Counties Affected.
Only Baltimore City and the two
counties will be affected by the rul-
ing. since the 81 other counties will
hold another day of registration
June 18.
Those who are unregistered or are
now listed as independents and wish
to affiliate with a party may do so
in those counties on that day.
Meanwhile, the tempo of the Re
publican gubernatorial race quick
ened today following the announce
ment by five COP leaders who had
supported Theodore r. McKeldin in
previous campaigns that they had
thrown their support to his oppo-
nent, Herman L. Mills, in the June
"a primary.
Appearing at meeting of the
Mills City Committee here last night
were COP National Committeewom-
an Lulu E. Powell, Mrs. Calvin Ga
oriel, former national committee
woman; Charles H. Heintzeman. ST.
a power in South Baltimore politics
Tor more than so years: Maxwell
Suls, former chairman of the Balti-
more zoning Board of Appeals, and
MRS. Nellie Frey. past president of
the Baltimore Federation of Repub-
lican Women.
Each announced support of Mr.
Mills, and Mrs. Frey and Mrs. Ga
oriel said they would stump the
State in the interests of the Hagers-
town mans candidacy.
Evening star., 1946-06-01
Annapolis SchooIboy
browns in Round Buy
BY the Associoied Press

ARNOLD. Md, June IA l6-
year-old Annapolis High School boy
Donald Cover, was drowned yester-
day while swimming in Round Bay
with classmates.
Police said the youth, whose home
is at Arnold, was swimming to-
wards a raft anchored about IS feet
from shore when he went down
Companions made futile attempt
to rescue him.
Evening star., 1946-06-01
Bethesda High 10 Start
Summer Work AUGUST IS

Summer sessions will be held from
June "a to August Is at the Be-
thesda-C Chevy Chase High School.
Two classes will be held daily, one
from 9 to 1l:30 IN. and the other
from 1890 to pm. Free trans
portation to and from the Silver
Spring area will be available.
Courses to be offered include Eng
lish /, 2, and 4: plane geometry,
solid geometry and trigonometry;
modern European and American
history, tipping, French, Latin, prob
lens of democracy, economics and
sociology.
Tuition is $3.50 per course for
Montgomery County residents and
must be paid in advance. Those de-
string to should call Miss Leonara
Aiken, Bradley 00O4.
Evening star., 1946-06-01
|Chincoteogue Penning
Scheduled for july Is
By the Assoeioted Pes,

CHINCOTEAGUE ISLAND, Va,
June 1.-The annual pony penning,
which attracts horse wranglers to
this community from Maine to Geor-
gia, will be held July Is, the local
Volunteer Fire Department an
nounced yesterday.
The Fire Department took over
the penning tradition as part of its
annual carnival some Is years ago.
Evening star., 1946-06-01
Pay Asked for Women
'SuppIonted by Veterans
By the Assocjufed Pres

bY me ASSocIofed PFes3
BALTIMORE, June Legislation
to permit unemployment compen-
sation to women workers who re-
linquish their jobs to returning
veterans will be proposed to the
Legislative Council at it's meeting
Wednesday, DR.. Horace E. Flack,
council secretary, announced.
Evening star., 1946-06-01
Miss Strother Named
Dean at Fuirfux Hall
BY the Associated Press

WAYNESBORO, Va, June l.
Miss Aura Vance Strother of Dur
ham, N. c., has been appointed dean
of women at Fairfax Hall Junior
College for 1857, beginning with
the September term, President w. B.
Gates has announced.
Miss Strother, who succeeds Miss
Lucille Sloan of Princeton, w. Va.
was until recently a lieutenant in
the WAVES, assigned as a person.
mel officer in the Naval Code and
Signal Laboratory at Washington.
Evening star., 1946-06-01
McLurney Joins Faculty

Prof. William j. McLarney has
joined the staff of the College of
Business and Public Administration,
University of Maryland, it was an
nounced today. He comes here from
Iowa State College.
Evening star., 1946-06-01
New Books Reviewed in
7 Tomorrow's Sunday Star

FOR ONE SWEET GRAPE" by Kate oBrien. Doubleday
THE HUCKsTERs" by Frederick Wakeman. Rinehart)
THE REASONABLE SHORES" by G. Stern. (Macmilan9
THE ADVENTURES WESLEY JACKSON" by William
Saroyan. (Harcourt Brace)
ROAD FROM oLIvET," by Edward F. Murphy. (Bruceo
WRATH IN BURMA" by Eldrdge. Doubleday
others
guide Sunday leading
booksellers of Washington suburban
the books which sell best This presented the
weekly chart the Sunday Section which
offers timely authoritative reviews of
FOR BOOK NEWS READ
Evening star., 1946-06-01
39 10 GET Diplomas
AT Missionary College

Thirty-nine seniors at the WASH
ington Missionary College will re-
ceive their diplomas at exercises at
1890 am. tomorrow in the Sligo
Seventh-Day Adventist Church,
Carroll and Flower avenues, Takoma
Park.
DR.. Benjamin G. Wilkinson will
award the diplomas and the Rev.
Frances D. Nichol, editor of the
Review and Herald, will speak. The
list Of graduates follow:
Bachelor of Arts.
Aprile. William Perdue. Evelyn L.
Brown. Kenneth S. Priest James p.
Burch, Alta D. Raith, Boston lie Roy
burning, Mary L. Rails. W. A., jr
Frederic. Gordon w. Sickler, Betty Cook
Holiord Charles r. Soles. Charles I.
howard; Edgar r. Stockton. Thomas H.
Jones, Henry 3. Summerour. E. J.
Knight, Paul M. Taylor, D. Bruce
Mauldin, Lois L. Walker, Celia Jane
MinesingeT. GeorEene walker, w. H.. jr.
Mitoma. Crashi
Bachelor of Arts in Elementary Education
Young. Ethel Lillian
Bachelor of Arts in Nursing Education.
Anderton, Rachel M. Holford. La Verne
Bowen. Lois Rachel Nishikafa, Kirko
Durham, Dorothy H. Stuart. Lillian c.
Gowan. Naomi May Tidmore. Gladys E.
Hafner Florence
Two-Year CurricuIa.
Kornajcik; Betty Taylor. Virginia N