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Evening star., 1946-12-08
19 Compete This Month
In instrumental Semifinals

Nineteen boys and girls competing
In the Boys Club of Washington in
strumental contest will appear ir
the senlifnals later this month fol-
lowing their selection at Eastern
High School last week.
They are: Ronald Sebol, 7, of sos
Powhatan place NV; James STAN
Gil, 9, of lis North Columbus street
Alexandria: John Holland, IL, ol
3647 Suitland road, Suitland, Md.
Robyne Willoner, 8, of 4106 Seven
tieth street, Landover Hills, Md,
Ralph Borzillo, 13, of 2104 Branch
avenue S. E.; James c. Hutchinson
IA, of 506 Eighth street, District
Heights, Md.
Also Doris Smith, IA, of 1914 Fifty
fifth street Sc; Royal Bivins, IA, o1
II Neptune green S.W.; Phyllis
Gregory, IA, of 1881 Lyman place
NE; John Ramey, 13, of 1922 Tenth
place Sc; James Babcock, IS, 641l
Meadow lane, Chevy Chase, Md;
Ellis Aronson, Is, of 1886 Ogder
street N. w.
Also Natalie Eek, Is, of 9515 Semi.
mole street, Silver Spring, Md; Cors
Lee Hall, 16, of 1342 F street NE;
Edward Morrison, 16. of 5504 Tilder
road, Sunnybrook, Md; George Ka-
fig, Is, of 6313 Sixteenth street
NV; Thomas Dreschler, IA; Robert
Dreschler, 13, and Russell Nusbickel
13, all of $500 Good Hope road Sc.
Evening star., 1946-12-08
PUC Resumes Study Dec. II
On RossIyn-Benning Buses

The Public Utilities Commission
yesterday set 10 am, December II,
as the date it will resume its inves-
tigation of Capital Transit Co.
proposal to substitute buses for
streetcars on the Rosslyn- -Benning
route east of Fifteenth street NV.
The plan has been indorsed by
several civic groups in Northeast
but opposed by business men who
have built up their trades along the
car route. District highway and
traffic officials also have objected
to the proposal.
At the same time the commission
announced public hearing at 10
am, December 16, on the applica-
ton of the Washington Railway and
Electric Co. to be allowed to sell
outstanding stock in the Braddock
Light and Power Co. to the Potomac
Electric Power Co.
The petition Is in line with the
plan of dissolving the giant North
American Holding Co. and its sub
sidiary holding company, Wreco, de-
signed ultimately to leave Pepco in
control of Braddock as single
utility.
Evening star., 1946-12-08
Symphony Is Greeted
WarmIyin Amsterdam
spee;oI pispo,eh 10 The s,ur

AMSTERDAM, N. Y, Dec. TN
the first concert by major SYM
phony orchestra heard in this area
in the last three or four decades
music hungry audience tonight
greeted DR.. Hans Kinder and the
National Symphony Orchestra and
received from the Washington mu-
sicians a program of such excep-
tional merit that 1t held them spell
bound.
1t was musical fare particularly
well adapted to the occasion and the
long deprived listeners responded
with enthusiastic acknowledgment.
Opening with the Bach-V -Vivaldi
Concerto Crosse in D Minor, the
orchestra received warm approval
that was sustained throughout the
second offering, Mozart's Symphony
in A Major.
Excerpts from the ballet. ''Gaya-
neh" by Khachaturyan, drew the
most enthusiastic response of the
evening, the Dance of the Sabres'
being repeated when it was sensed
that the unusual orchestration of
the young Armenian had brought
about the demand for more.
Beethoven's Fifth Symphony Of
fered new pleasures in the sound
musicianship and capable interpre-
tation of the players and their dis
tinguished conductor.
Time limitations prevented the
encorces that were eagerly awaited
but the requests were partly salts
fed by the wedding procession
music from Mozart's Marriage of
Figaro"
Evening star., 1946-12-08
Youth Held for Jury
In Robbery, Cor Theft

Clarence j. Craddock. Is, of the
1900 block Of D street NE, yesterday
was held in $4,000 bond for grand
jury action on q charge of robbery
IN connection with q $700 holdup
and car theft on November ~.
Arraigned before Municipal Court
Judge Thomas D. Quinn, Craddock
pleaded not guilty. His bond was
raised to $4,000 when the court
learned the defendant was on $4,000
bond for q previous housebreaking
count at the time of his arrest Fri
day.
Accordingly to police. Craddock
staged the alleged pistol-point rob-
berry OF Robert Schulman, 1900 block
of Fort Stevens drive NV, as Mr.,
Schulman was entering his car,
parked in the 800 block Of G street
S,W. Police added the youth then
drove of In the Schulman car, which
was recovered two days later in an
other part Of town.
Evening star., 1946-12-08

makes all the abSurdit1eS" ne nad
seen abroad.
Gen. Grant III said he hoped the
Oldest Inhabitants would come for
ward to help him If the Decatur
house or the Blair house were ever
in danger. II would like to save the
Cosmos Club" he said of the old
Lafayette Square building-a portion
of which was the home of the
widowed Dolly Madison-"but I am
afraid it is already too late"
A Honey Village
In keeping with the custom of the
oldest inhabitants, the general fell
to reminiscing about the old Wash
ington he knew. He first came here,
he said, for the Mckinley inaugura-
ton March 4, 189D. What a de-
lightfully honey village Washington
was in those days" he said, "and
how countrywide after coming from
New York. My grandmother widow
of the President) was living at 2100
Massachusetts, avenue and every
thing was country beyond. In 1906
when I was first stationed here, the
Long Bridge at the foot of Four
teenth street was still standing and
West Potomac Park Hains Point)
was being reclaimed by dredging.
In 1910 when the Lincoln Memorial
was proposed, Speaker Joseph Can
non said that the structure would
shake itself into collapsing with
loneliness ague in the swamps."
Miss Bernice Ferris, who as La
Bernicia appeared at the old Poll
Theater on the same bill with Eil
Harry Lauder, entertained with
songs. Mr.. Proctor, who is also poe
laureate of the organization. reag
some Of his verses, and Brook,
Johns also entertained the member
with songs
Evening star., 1946-12-08
LongfeIIow 10 Retire;
Life Saving Crusader

Wilbert E. Longfellow, IS, first
American Red Cross life-Saving in
structor and water safety crusader
for SO years, is retiring this month
He will be honored by associates
at a farewell banquet at pm
Tuesday in the Hotel Statler. Among
the speakers will be Maj. Gen
Robert U. Patterson, retired, former
Army surgeon general, who was
director of the Red Cross flrst-aid
department when Mr.. Longfellow
Joined the staff in 1914. E. K.
Fretwel, chief Scout executive, Boy
Scouts of America, also will speak.
Mr.. LongfelloW began his interest
in life saving in 1900, when work.
ing as a newspaper reporter in
Rhode Island. He joined the United
States Volunteer Life-Saving Corps
and became commodore and State
superintendent in 1905. Although a
spinal ailment forced his to give up
reporting in 1907, he continued his
life saving education by mail and
later gave lectures even while he
was in a plaster cast. He became
commodore in chief and general
superintendent of the corps in 1909.
He prepared material on life saw
ing for the first Boy Scout Hand
book in 1911 and received the Scout
Silver Buffalo Award for "distin-
guished service to boyhood."
Mr.. Longfellow, whose early title
OF Commodore has remained with
him throughout his career, was the
sole worker in the Red Cross life
saving corps when it was established
in 1914. It now comprises 1878
volunteer instructors, in addition
to staff members.
On retirement on December II
Mr.. Longfel1ow will return to Rhode
Island with his wife to continue his
life saving lessons as volunteer.
Evening star., 1946-12-08
|NeighborhoodC Concert
|0f Symphony Set for
Leland Junior Dec. is

The National Symphony Orches-
ira will give the second of the
neighborhood concerts arranged by
The Evening Star on Monday night,
December is, at Leland Junior High
School in Chevy Chase, with DR.
Hans Kinder conducting.
This will be the only concert in
suburban Montgomery County and
in order to have as representative
an audience as possible, 200 invita-
tions were distributed through Mont
gomery-Blair High School, SOC
through Bethesda Chevy Chase High
and 300 through the host school.
In addition, 200 invitations will be
distributed at the information coun-
ter in the lobby of The Star Build
ing starting at $3.50 am. tomorrow
1t is probable that the supply will
be exhausted quickly, as was the
case when invitations were made
available for the first concert at
Roosevelt High School.
The concert will be broadcast by
Station WMAL and like that at
Roosevelt will be in the nature of a
studio program. All guests must be
In their seats by BIS o'clock to avoid
confusion or background noise when
the program goes on the air.
DR.. Kinder and his 100 musicians
are now on a tour which includes
appearances in Troy, Schenectady,
Syracuse, Glens Falls and Amster-
dam in New York State, Springfield,
Mass; Hartford and Meriden, Conn.
Morristown, N. j., and York, Pa.
Another concert scheduled for Nj
agara Falls was cancelled because of
coal shortage.
Invitations for the Leland concert
may be obtained at the three schools
mentioned above or early tomorrow
at the information counter in The
Star lobby.
Evening star., 1946-12-08
Papertroopers Collect
30, $50 Pounds in Day

Another 30,35O pounds of old
newspapers and magazines collect
ed by Papertroopers in the 5th dis
trict of The Evening Star-PTA pa
per salvage campaign Friday brought
last weeks total to 139, $50 pounds
and the grand total to 26,28S,s57
pounds.
Among collections not previously
reported were ,Seaton, 4,250 pounds;
Hardy, 2,705 pounds; West, 2,521
pounds; Westbrook, 1927 pounds;
Mann, 2.525 pounds; Key, 969
pounds; Woodbridge, 1905 pounds;
Burrville, 1880 pounds; Smothers,
LOIS pounds; Kenilworth, 1856.
pounds; Benning, 4,319 pounds;
Hayes, GAL pounds; Ludlow. 1,315
pounds; Pierce, 1924 pounds; Ed
monds, TOO pounds; Merritt, $3.50
pounds; Glenmont, 3,159 pounds:
Takoma Park, 2,071 pounds; Stod-
dert, 1880 pounds; Janney, 2,341
pounds; Murch, 3,588 pounds; Blair,
296 pounds; Oyster, 354 pounds;
Morgan, 1883 pounds; Sumner-Ma-
gruder, 400 pounds; Stevens, 1903
pounds; Grant, 1856 pounds; Lafa-
yette, 6,851 pounds.
Collections tomorrow in the 1st
district, together with the leaders,
L
Evening star., 1946-12-08
| Keneipp to Urge
| Plan for Uniform
| Arm Signals

Traffic Director George g. Keneipp
will go before the Commissioners at
10 am. Tuesday seeking approval of
his plan for uniform arm signals for
washington motorists.
Mr.. Keneipp submitted his pro-
posal to the city heads recently and
was told to refer it to Corporation
Counsel Vernon E. West for study.
The traffic director proposed
amending the traffic regulations to
specify that raising the left arm and
hand signifies a right turn, extend
ing them horizontally means left
turn and lowering them indicated
slowing down or stopping.
Mr.. Keneipp said this system is
used in many States and variations
of it in still more. He has just re-
turned from West Coast confer
|ence of traffic directors which EN-
phasized general uniformity of sig
mails and traffic rules throughout the
country.
Present rules simply require the
driver to extend his arm for all
changes in direction and movement
Evening star., 1946-12-08

the publishing of Federation
newspaper.
The following officers have been
appointed in addition to the elected
officers: Rev. Kenneth c. Buker
chaplain; Harry N. Stull, parliamen-
tartan; David Babp, historian; John
IL. C. Sullivan, reading clerk; George
H. Marshall, sergeant at arms, and
Mrs. Franklin G.. Sartwell, public
relations officer.
Appointed to the Executive Board
were: Kenneth P. Armstrong, Mr.
Babp, John H. Connaughton, Joseph
III. Deckman, Ralph w. Donnelly
Mrs. Olive G. Faircloth, Wilbur s.
Finch, Ernest F. Henry, j. M. Heiser
Clifford H. Newell, Baxter Smith
Harry N. Stull, Fred S. Walker, Wal
ter F. Wasson and Harry S. Wender
Named as delegates to the Inter-
Federation conference were: Mr.
Armstrong, Henry w. Austin, Eugene
E. Ditto, Mr.. Finch, Mr.. Newell, Mrs
Sartweu, Mr.. Stull, Mr.. Wasson.
Personnel of various committees
was announced. Those named chair
man of standing committees are:
Membership and credentials
James T. Scott.
Law and legislation-William j.
Bartle.
Public utilities - Col. Milo H.
Brinkley.
Education-Geary w. Lewis.
Fiscal relations and taxation
Kenneth P. Armstrong.
Safety, highways and waterways
Baxter Smith.
Police and fire protection-P. j.
Abelman.
Public welfare-Mrs. Ernest w.
Howard.
Zoning-M. Douglas Clarke.
Health-Dr. j. Ross Veal.
National and Local Suffrage
Wilbur S. Finch.
City Planning and Parks Gnclud-
ing recreation)-Ernest F. Henry.
Public Celebrations-Mrs. Carrie
G.. Smith.
Auditing-Reed F. Martin.
Special committee chairmen are:
Constitution and Rules Amend
ment-R. w. Donnelly.
Projects Co-ordinating Ernest F.
Henry.
Dinner-James A. Crooks.
Youth Problem-Dr. M. Virginia
O'Neil.
Official Organ-Wilbur Finch.
Legislative representatives for
committees were announced as fol-
lows:
Law and Legislation-Eugene E.
Ditto, Harry Wender.
Public Utilities-Col. Milo H.
Brinkley, John H. Connaughton.
Education-W. Herbert Gill, E. c.
Hartung.
Fiscal Relations and Taxation
Kenneth P. Armstrong, George W.
Hodgkins.
Safety Highway and Waterways
Baxter Smith, George H. Brown.
Police and Fire Protection-P. j.
Ableman, Orrin j. Davy.
Public Welfare-Mrs. Ernest w.
Howard, Mrs. Olive G. Faircloth.
Zoning-M. Douglas Clarke, Mrs.
Leslie B. Wright.
Health-Dr. Ross Veal, Joseph H
Deckman.
National and Local Suffrage
Wilbur S. Finch, Harry N. Stull.
City Planning and Parks-Ernest
F. Henry, James A. Crooks.
Projects and Co-ordinating-
Ernest F. Henry, Col Milo H.
Brinkley.
Evening star., 1946-12-08
Right Rev. John [. Reilly
To Be Honored Today

The Rt. Rev. John J. Reilly. for
the past six years director Of the
National Shrine Of the Immaculate
Conception at Catholic University,
will be invested as Domestic Pre-
late to His Holiness Pope Plus XII
at the Shrine at 10:45 am. today.
The Most Rev. Amleto Giovanni
Cicognani. Apostolic Delegate to the
United States. will be the invest
ing prelate.
The ceremony will precede a
Solemn Pontifical Mass in honor Of
the Feast of the Immaculate Con-
ception, which Is the patronal feast
Of Catholic University. Msgr Cicog-
mani win be the celebrant Of the
mass. The sermon will be given by
the Most Rev. John F. Noll. bishop
Of Fort Wayne, Ind.
Evening star., 1946-12-08
|Dr. 0'Nei| Becomes
First Woman 10 Win
Star 5 Civic Trophy

DR.. M. Virginia O'Neil, leader
in the Federation of Citizens Asso.
Citations program for study of jiIv-
emile delinquency, was chosen urlar1-
imously to receive The Evening Stal
Trophy for civic service at a meet
ing of the Federation last night.
DR.. ONeil, a delegate 3of the
Mount Pleasant Citizens Associa-
ton, is the first woman to be named
for the award.
When asked by Clifford H. Newell
Federation president, to address the
meeting last night, DR.. O,Neil
praised the leadership of Mr.. Newell
and Mr.. Wender and Wilbur s.
Finch, both past presidents, which
she said was largely responsible for
progress of the Federation's juvenile
delinquency program.
Youth Must Participate.
"We must have youth participa-
ton, not only in planning, but In
carrying out those plans" she COM
mented. I'VE need good teachers
who know about delinquency and
also an early diagnosis of delin-
quency."
She asked the federation to fur
ther a campaign of the Georgetown
Progressive Citizens Association to
eliminate horror programs on the
radio.
DR.. ONeil will receive the trophy
at't11e annual banquet of the Fedora
ton in March. Her name will be
inscribed on it, and it will remain
In her possession for year.
The trophy was given to the Fed
Grafton by The Star in 1888 for
presentation to the years outstand-
ing civic worker.
This years winner is native OF
Washington. She was graduated
from Northwestern University, re-
ceived a masters degree from Co
lumbia University and a doctorate
from Ohio State University.
Studied in Berlin.
She has ses$ed as youth coun-
selor in several educational insti-
tutions and for some time has beer
supervisor of student teaching al
Wilson Teachers College. She has
written numerous articles.
In 1888 and in 1887, DR.. O'Neil Wis
lited Germany and studied at the
University of Berlin.
She Is member of the Lay Ad-
visory Committee of Juvenile Court
During the recent Attorney Gen
erals conference on juvenile de-
linquency, she served as the Fed.
eration's delegate.
DR.. O'Neil was president of the
Mount Pleasant Citizens Associa-
ton in 1910 and 1941.
She lives at 1852 Eighteenth street
INV,
Evening star., 1946-12-08
Gen. Grant Confesses He Likes
State Building, Ugly as It's

The Old Post Office Department
Building on Pennsylvania avenue
must go, Maj. Gen. U. s. Grant III,
chairman of the National Capital
Park and Planning Commission,
said last night, but he confessed
a fondness for the old State, War
and Navy Building fnow the State
Department. ugly as it is
The general was the speaker at
the annual dinner of the Associa-
ton of the Oldest Inhabitants of
the District of Columbia who aban-
doned their quarters in the Old
Union Firehouse to dine at the Ho-
tel 2400.
"MiIestone of Lowest Depth"
The Old Post Office, said the gen.
eral, never was good and always
was incongruous-as well as unutili-
tartan" The same could be said, he
continued, of the old Pension Office
Building which houses the General
Accounting Office. He recalled that
Gen. Philip Sheridan had remarked
to Maj. Gen. Montgomery Meigs,
Quartermaster General of the Army,
when the latter proudly showed him
through it. quite 4 building,
Meigs, but you know it has one
fault-it's flreproof."
But the State Department build
ing, Gen. Grant said, should be pre-
served as "ti1e milestone of the
lowest depth of American taste" ."
He recalled reading an article in
The Sunday Star by John Clagett
Proctor. president of the Oldest In
habitants. who was presiding. The
article told how the generals grand
father, former President Grant. hac
remarked on his return from his
world tour that the building "ch.
Evening star., 1946-12-08
st. Duvid's Society to Elect

st. David's Welsh Society will
elect officers at its meeting tomor-
row night in the parish house OF
st. Johns Episcopal Church, 821
Sixteenth street NV. Welsh hymns
and Christmas carols will be sung
under the direction of Mrs. Mar
garet B. Gealy, and travel pictures
will be shown by Miss Martha Nor
gan. w. J. Hughes will preside.
Evening star., 1946-12-08
Clio Public Workers
Ask Flat $500 Raise
10 Avert Tragedy

The United Public Workers OF
America, CIO, yesterday asked the
80th Congress to grant all Federal
employees a fiat $500 raise to Offset
the rise in the cost of living.
More than 800 delegates from
UPWA locals throughout the coun-
try attended the special Emergency
Wage and Security Conference in
the Hamilton Hotel, called by Abram
Flaxer, the international president,
and approved resolution asking
that the $500 increase be given to
Government workers as soon as
possible.
Immediate action is needed to
avert swift economic tragedy which
now confrontS the Nations public
workers who have SO loyalty and
patriotically carried on their duties
to the Nation despite low wages
that exist in the Federal and postal
services" the resolution read.
Says Dollar Has Been Slashed.
The statement declared that the
value of the dollar had been slashed
until Federal employees, no matter
how they scrimp, can scarcely get
by from day to day with the bare
necessities of food, clothing and
shelter, much less such emergencies
as sudden illness" 1t asserted fur
ther that most Federal employees
were forced to use their savings
to close the gap between their earn
ings and living expenses and that
some of them had been forced to
take supplemental employment.
Referring to a recent movement
to study and revamp the current
Federal salary scale which was
established under the Classification
Act of 1923, the resolution expressed
the unions approval of this move,
but stressed that this would not
meet the immediate problem.
In another action, the delegates
asked Congress to provide dismissed
Federal employees with unemploy-
ment compensation, the same as is
accorded workers in private indus
try. Until such legislation can be
enacted, the union asked that pro-
visions be made to grant dismissed
workers a compensation of 5000,
False Economy" Opposed.
Regarding the current reduction
in-force program. the delegates re-
solved that the union was in favor
Of economy In Government, but that
it strongly opposed false economy
which will serve only to disrupt the
efficiency of the Government sery-
ice and seriously endanger the
health, happiness and welfare of the
American people,
The delegates criticized recent
statements OF some Republican Con-
gressional leaders that 1000, ,000
Federal employees should be fired,
asserting "UPWA insists that vital
Government services which affect
the lives Of the American people
shall not be curtailed behind false
economy smoke screen. =
Addressing the delegates earlier
in the day, Mr.. Flaxer charged that
big business, together with its
agents Of propaganda-the newspa-
pers. radio and reactionary politi-
clans, conspired to inject q false
issue of Communism ii the recent
national CIO convention. He said
this side noise" was injected to
obscure the real objectives Of the
|CIO convention the national Sc
curity and welfare Of the American
people.
Evening star., 1946-12-08
u. 5. Cafeteria
Workers File
Strike Notice
20 Per Cent Increase
And Welfare Benefits
Demanded by Union
BY Joseph Young

A 30-day strike notice has been
filed by the CIO United Cafeteria
and Restaurant Workers, Local All,
against the, operators of sthe SIS
cafeterias in Government buildings
here in dispute over wage increase
demands, The Star learned last
night.
Filed last Monday with the Ma
tional Labor Relations Board, the
notice will become effective Janu-
ary / and union officials say their
members will go on strike unless
the demands are met. The men,
bership was said to constitute about
98 per cent of the cafeterias per-
Sonnel.
The union, which is affiliated with
the United Public Workers OF
America, is seeking a 20 per cent
wage increase for its members. as
well as sick leave and welfare fund
benefits. Abram Flaxer, interna-
tional president of UPWA, has
pledged that the union will give
the local its full support If strike
is necessary.
Cafeterias Involved.
Involved in the unions demands
Is Government Services, Inc, which
operates So Federal cafeterias, and
the National Food Corporation
which operates cafeterias in the
Pentagon and the Agricultural De-
partment buildings.
Richard Bancroft, president Of the
union, said discussion with the COM
panies had been fruitless thus far
He asserted that Government Serv-
ices had offered to bargain with
the union on the wage demands or
the other requests but that the COM
pany refused to bargain on all the
demands.
The present contract of the union
with the cafeteria operators ex-
pires at the end of the month. Last
January the employees received
wage increases which union officials
said amounted to nine cents an
hour. In seeking an additional 20
per cent increase now union officials
declare that the increase in living
costs makes a wage raise impera-
tive. Mr.. Bancroft estimated the
average wage of cafeteria employees
at $40 a week.
s292,563 Loss Reported.
Government Services reported last
week that in the first nine months of
this year 1t took loss Of 1892, ,563.
The loss brought the working capi-
tai of the services down to $64, ,059,
lit was said. Government Services
has reported that its losses were due
In part to the salary increases it
granted last January.
UPWA officials, it was reliably re-
ported viii back its cafeteria local
to the limit of the national unions
ability if a strike develops.