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Arkansas State press., 1946-01-11
Brutality Described By Witnesses
Indicates Abuse OF Authority
Forces Child In Ditch Of Water With
Temperature 2 Degrees Above Freezing
Seeking Article AIIegedIy Stolen

The Negro population in and around the South Martin
Street section became aroused to action last week the
of Mrs d. D. James, assistant probation officer, in
what described abuse of power of her office she
prosecuted girl turned over to her by white
officers who arrested the child alleged charge of
stealing watch from neighborhood home complaints of
the neighbor.
Arkansas State press., 1946-01-11

The League will adopt a pro-
gram for the taking over of
Townsend Park, and 1t is ex-
pected that city-widc support
will obtained for the successful
prosecution Of the project
Evening star., 1946-04-02
St. Andrews Society
To Heur Embassy Aide

Robert Henry HadoW, counselor
of the British Embassy, will discuss
the San Francisco and London
United Nations conferences at pm
Monday at meeting of the Stan
drew's Society of Washington in
New York Avenue Presbyterian
Church.
The meeting, open to the public
will include motion pictures, Scot
tish songs and bagpipe music.
Evening star., 1946-04-02
Manor Park Asks Clean Streets
As Cleanup Week Example

The Manor Park Citizens Associ-
alton will support District Cleanup
Week, beginning next Monday. but
it wants the Commissioners to set
a good example by keeping the city's
streets clean.
After a half dozen members had
protested what they described as
the city's failure to keep streets
clean, the group voted to call on the
Commissioners for more in the way
of hose trucks and white wings"
Not until after this resolution was
passed did the membership consent
to vote on participation in Clean
up Week.
Voted approval of legislation in
Evening star., 1946-04-02

troduced in the House by Represent
ative Sasscer, Democrat, Of Mary
land to name the New Hampshire
avenue bridge after the late Charles
A. Langley, Chillum Heights civic
leader.
Told the District Commissioners
something ought to be done" about
the starlings. One member sug-
gested roping off streets at night and
gassing the birds.
Asked peoples counsel to help
Evening star., 1946-04-02
Luxury Taxes Net More
Than During War Days
BY the Associated Press

Americans are paying a lot more
taxes on liquor, cigarettes, jewelry
toilet goods, travel tickets and club
dues than they did when the war
was on.
The same is true of the Treasury S
income from admission tickets, radio
sets, refrigerators, phonograph rec
ords, musical instruments, automo-
biles and camera apparatus.
Altogether, a Treasury report yes
terday on the month of February
showed the Bureau of Internal
Revenue realized S4,102, 1876 6,4l4,
topping the previous February by
S116,8O8,975.
Evening star., 1946-04-02

it fight for resumption Of rush hour
buses on the J-3 route.
Nominated the following for asso-
citation of1ices: L. A. Meadows, for
president; j. c. Breck. first vice pres
ident; John B. Smoot, second vice
president; George A. Corbin, record
Evening star., 1946-04-02

ing secretary; Mrs. Walter Ward,
corresponding secretary; H. e. Cor
coran, treasurer, and James T. Scott,
incumbent president, and Mr.. Cor
bin, delegates to the Federation of
Citizens Associations.
Evening star., 1946-04-02

vile Negro, died in the Indiana State
Prison electric chair early today for
the sash cord strangling Of Mrs.
Julia Gottman
Mrs. Gottman's body was found in
the basement of her home Novem-
Der 20, 1914.
Evening star., 1946-04-02
The enemy's greatest
SPY TRICK

Dots. Simple, innocent dots
like those that come after Mr..
Or Mrs. What was the mystery
Of the little dots, which a German
spy-n,dsfer boasfed would never
be solved? April Readers Digest
brings you the inside story-told
by J. Edgar Hoover-of how the
FBI started with one flimsy,
battling clue >. and unraveled
one of the wars deadliest secrets.
Evening star., 1946-04-02
Evansville Man Executed
For Staying Widow
BY the Associutsd Pres

by me ASsoeIofed FTesS
MICHIGAN CITY, Ind, April q
Frank Quarles, 44-year- old Evans
Evening star., 1946-02-24

~ Il
Mason won case before the
Federal Trade Commission
by reciting poetry which, by his own
admission, was corny.
But he didn't stop there. An erudite
attorney who has been a District resi-
dent for eight years, he became a Fed
eral Trade Commissioner himself and is
now on the other side of the fence. He
was appointed by President Truman five
months ago-the only commissioner who
ever fought a case before his ETC
colleagues.
Last week Commissioner Mason initi-
ated the first spiritual get-together in
any Government agency when FTC en-
ployes sat down at the first of a series
of monthly "comradeship breakfasts"
The idea was novel but it typified the
Commissioner, whose unrestrained eX-
uberance and impeccable attire Gnclud-
ing bow tie), represent something as
tonishing even for Washington
He's Great Believer
In Outdoor Exercise
First thing in the morning he either
walks or cycles miles. In the summer
he'll paddle the distance in his canoe
instead Forty-nine now, he insists he
wants to remain fair, fat and 40"
The canoe will have to do until he can
get new cabin cruiser. He gave his last
one-a 30-footer-to the Coast Guard
the day war broke out. He and members
of his family, en- route to Florida via the
inland waterway route, pulled into
Evening star., 1946-02-24
Asked H. L. Mencken
For an Opinion

During the litigation. Mr. Mason ac-
tualy wrote H L. Mencken for an
opinion on whether it was possible to
restrict the use of words in such 4
case. Mr.. Mencken answered:
1T seems to me that you make a
really powerful argument but am not
optimistic enough to hope that the
Federal Trade Commission will decide
in your favor. All the bureaucratic out
fits now decide all cases against men
of enterprise. The ideal American citi-
zen becomes the dolebird."
With the case won, Mr.. Mason again
wrote Mr.. Mencken advising him of the
outcome. and the latter replied IT offer
my congratulations and testify to nv
astonishment. For the first time that
I can recall, you have induced a Federal
agency to decide, a case sensibly."
Ed Freeman was so happy about the
whole thing that he presented Mr..
Mason with beautifully detailed ship
model, which now reposes in the latter's
FTC Office.
Evening star., 1946-02-24
Commissioners Sons
In War Action

The commissioner is a native of Chi.
cago But now that he is more or less
permanently settled here, he and his
vile have furnished a pleasant home at
51l7 Chevy Chase Parkway NV. They
have daughter, Jimilu, Is. The Com
missioner also has four children by a
former marriage, William E. Mason III.
26, an Army first sergeant on Guam:
Lowell B., jr., 20, who was injured at
Cologne before the big Allied push:
Nancy, %, and Barbara, 2e
Besides his work in connection with
the NRA investigation, Commissioner
Mason has been an assistant corpora
ton counsel IN Chicago, a member of
the Illinois Senate, and of the first
Illinois State Aviation Commission. He
has also been general counsel of the
National Recovery Review Board and
counsel to the Senate Interstate Com
merce Subcommittee. He is a Mason
and member of the District and ILL
nois Bar Associations.
Evening star., 1946-02-24
Mason Won His Case
With h'CornyPoetry'

Charleston, S. c., to learn the conflict
had started.
GO ahead, take it. Don't be afraid"
he told Coast Guard officer impul-
sively. Before he knew it, he was handed
check to pay for recopversion.
The money rolled in easy even then,
but only few years before that Mr..
Mason was living in a dingy rear room
on Seventeenth street NV, debating
whether to spend his last 80 cents for
popular brand of biscuit which he heard
"was full of starch and filled you up
cheaply.' He usually ate on a park
bench in Lafayette Park.
He Had to Climb Back
Up From the Bottom
He had lost everything in the Wall
Street crash. Probably his darkest
moment was when he ordered Scent
bottle of pop and found the price was a
dime-after he drank it. "The guy who
sold me that pop was a crook and I'll
never forget him." Commissioner Mason
grimly recalls to this day. I'D like to
meet him again.. He swore pictur-
esquely.
Already the possessor of law degree
from Northwestern University he began
the long climb back. That was about 13
years ago. Persevering, he saved his
cash.
On train trip he met an old friend,
Clarence Darrow, the great attorney.
Until l am. they argued about con-
trolled economy. After that it was in
evitable that the pair join in probing the
National Recovery Act, an investigation
Evening star., 1946-02-24

must give more consideration to people
on the ground. These improvements
would 60 long way toward breaking
down resistance to establishment of
convenient fields.
Another kick of cross-country flyers
is the lack of private fields which can
provide facilities like lunchrooms, Quick
serVlclng of airplanes, lodging and sur.
lace transportation. There can be littla
question that demand for these service,
Will increase greatly this year.
But There Are Still
Some Handicaps
Lack OF them still limits the utility Of
the light plane. Another discouraginp
factor, IN addition to the high cost of
private flying, is an accident rate which.
many experts agree, can be cut in half
by spinproof airplanes with tricycle
Landing gears. In the past. it is esti-
mated, at least IS per cent of beginners
gave up flying lessons before obtaining
licenses.
Although new-type planes with sim
plified controls admittedly are safer and
easier to fly, old-time pilots, especially
the professionals, prefer conventional
types which are more maneuverable but
much harder to land. This view finds
solid backing among some of the biggest
manufacturers in the field.
Other improvements urged by plan.
ners despite apparent indifference of
the industry are folding or readily de.
tachable wings for cheap storage and
readable airplanes to relieve congestion
at airports and eliminate surface trans.
portation delays.
AT any rate, it seems safe to say that
neither the present crop of returning
airmen nor the youngsters yet to get their
wings are going to be satisfied long with
prewar airplanes in the postwar era
ahead.
Evening star., 1946-02-24

1t entirely relaxed
his mind, and it is
worth noting that
he preferred musi-
cal com e y and
good vaudeville to
erious dramatic
works. He wanted
to laugh at the
clowns, admire the
pretty legs of the
chorus girls - like
any normal man he
had a deep and sin
cere appreciation of
l~ fzn,~I1 f~,~~
Evening star., 1946-02-24

and he loved good dancing. being himself
an accomplished buck-and- wing artist
Often took him backstage to meet
some of the performers, particularly
the good-looking ladies' Seeing him
walk into the White House after an
enjoyable evening at Keiths. the Be-
lasco or the National, it was easy to
observe that his face was less care
worn.''
Evening star., 1946-02-24

incest, K ] n d e S I 4,
friendliest person on
earth. Maybe l
never will be able
to understand him.
He's too strong a
mixture for ny
blood. But I reckon
in a country where
a statesman has to
be a politician in
order to accomplish
something for the
peoples good, it's
the only combina-
tion that will work. "
Evening star., 1946-02-24

uIltu the HOuT Oh
his death he was
never free from our
surveillance. H i S
acts are things to
which I can swear.
He never did any
thing more repre-
hensible than cuss
mildly at a golf ball
and play poker with
his friends. He was
the kindest man I
ever knew. But he
was weak, and he
trusted every one"
Evening star., 1946-02-24
HOOVER:

an Oriental. / lik-
ed my new boss. but
he h e ! d himself
aloof. He was
handicapped. I felt,
by certain habits
he had acquired
during his career as
an engineer. and by
the fact that he
thought of human
ity as an abstract
quality instead of a
collection of highly
differentiated per-
sonalities."
Evening star., 1946-02-24
OF COOLIDGE:

Half owl, half elf
wise and solemn
yet he was full of
mischief and laugh
ter. The two were
b | e n d e d in him
m ore completely
than in most peo-
pie. The average
persons serious and
humorous aspects
are separate. In
President Coolidge
they were mixed, SO
that the one inter-
p e n e t at ed the
other"
Evening star., 1946-02-24
Cutting Down Restrictions
Is Clearing Sky for Amateurs
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Georges County Md, including Hyde
Field near Clinton, College Park and
Queens Chapel.
Improvements Under Way
In Local Flying Fields
The CAA estimates these fields are
scarcely adequate to take care of pres
ent needs and increased private flying in
the next to 10 years will require at
least 20 small airports within 20 or
rs mile radius of Washington.
At request of the CAA, the National
Park and Planning Commission. with
the aid of Maryland and Virginia plan
ming agencies, is making a survey of
nearby sites suitable for development
under Federal aid and airport legisla-
ton now pending in Congress. No suit
able areas have been found in the
District.
The Virginia survey is nearing COM
pletion, but Maryland planners are said
to be running into considerable opposi-
ton from property owners, especially
in areas where housing rentals are high
enough to indicate large percentage
OF private plane owners. Meanwhile, it
seemed likely that further delay in Con-
gress may hold up plans for Federal aid
airport development until after the
coming building season.
Need for Small Airports
And Standard Restrictions
Controversy over whether small air.
ports are nuisance or an asset to resi-
dental communities can only be settled
by concessions from both sides. Plan
ners anxious to bring the two together
say more light planes should be equip
ped with muf1lers, and propellers de-
signed to cut down noise. Too, military
as well as civilian airmen, 1t was said.
Evening star., 1946-02-24

Was asked II tne dlSputed product, IN
her opinion, was porcelain. With q
giggle, she said in effect: This stuff
porcelain? Don't be silly!"
Mr.. Mason then quoted a. L. Menck-
en-. the noted language authority, to
the effect that many new verbs are
made by adding "ize' to nouns or ad-
jectives. On this basis, Mr.. Mason con-
tended his client had the right to add
lie" to the word porcelain without
claiming the product to be legitimate
porcelain. The point went over big.
The favorable verdict was foreor-
dalned when Mr.. Mason quoted his
poem, reproduced here in part:
when you buy polish, your car to
rub up,
Who the heck pants to bun a china
teacup?
But the attorneys AFRAID that some
people wish
To haze tenders and bumpers made
OF clay-like dish"
Evening star., 1946-02-24
Kilbourn Held Important
Government Posts

In 1849 he went to California, but
later settled in Iowa where he was made
a Lincoln presidential elector When
Mr.. Lincoln came into Office he was
made chief clerk of the census and
later chief clerk of the Department of
the Interior. President johnson, who
appreciated his ability, nominated him
to be Assistant Secretary of the Treas
ury, but this appointment he was forced
to decline on account of the pressure
of private business.
Mr. Kilbourn had his enemies as we'll
as his friends, which is always the
case with people who do things, and
during the period when the Territorial
Government of the District of Colum-
bia was being investigated, he, as a
member of the so-called real estate
pool, was cited to appear before a con-
gressional committee to give testimony.
THIS was one of the celebrated cases
involving the rights of the citizens de-
ci6ed by the courts.
In speaking of the decisions of Chief
Justice David K. Cartier of the Su-
preme Court Of the District of Column
bia, Judge job Barnard makes mem
ton of the Kilbourn case, saying:
Among the more important cases
hea1d by him was that of Hallet Kill
bourn. Mr.. Kilbourn had been sum-
moned before a special committee of
the House of Representatives in March,
1876, as a witness, and declined to an
swer certain questions asked him con-
corning certain real estate transactions
in which it was thought Jay Cooke &
Co. had been involved, and also de-
clined to produce certain private pa
pers called for. He was brought be-
fore the House, where he again declin-
ed to answer the questions or to pro-
duce the papers called for, when he
was adjudged to be in contempt and
was arrested by the sergeant at arms
by direction of the House of Repre-
sentatives and imprisoned in the, Jail
of this District.
Also Mr.. Kilbourn had refused to
answer questions and to produce pa
pers before the committee, the Speaker,
under the provisions Of sections I02,
Evening star., 1946-02-24
What Col. Startling Wrote
OF Presidents He Served
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a combination of MARCEL Polo and the
Fuller brush man.
In his book Col. Startling describes the
Presidents as plain human beings with
the full revelation of one who knew them
intimately He wrote
Evening star., 1946-02-24

WHICH Mr. barrow had undertaken fol
the President
Here is how the commissioner reveres
the memory Of the famous lawyer:
Outside of my father, the late Sena-
tor William E. Mason, Darrow taught
me more about tolerance than any man
alive. He showed me how to look be-
nignly upon the worlds foibles."
Says He Is Now Having
The Time of His Life
AS Federal Trade Commissioner Mr..
Mason is now having the time of his
life" He takes his job very seriously.
He'll speak to any litigant with or
without appointment and there's no
standing on ceremony. And that rule
applies, even if the litigant is a little
man without lawyer. "Me?" the
Commissioner queries, "Why, I'm Just a
hired man doing a job, and that's the
only way to do it,"
AS to his work on the commission, he
has one paramount aim. He believes
that the body should be more akin to
policeman directing traffic rather than
to one operating speed traps I'VE need
more cops and less cases and then
everything will be perfect" is his COM
ment.
He likes to tell of the unorthodoX way
in which he met his wife, Mrs Rose
d Amore Mason, concert pianist.
She always says I wanted to marry
her to hear her music. Well, maybe
she's right" he added. 1T was when I
was broke. I needed music bad and
didn't even have the price of concert
ticket. A friend told me where could
hear beautiful pianist. l checked on
1t and it was Rose. So I sat with my
feet on the windowsIl of her apartment
and ended up by marrying her"
He Says He Won the Case
With "Corny Poetry"
He then insisted on discussing the
case in which the poetry was the decid-
ing factor. 1t was something unique
even in the annals of the FTC because
tiiC Poct4y NdS liOl only dQI1llLeQ as teS-
timony but the case itself was referred
to Mr.. Mason by dead man.
1t had its beginnings in Denver, Colo.
Where Ed Freeman ran little shop in
which he made product called "Porce-
lainize.' Ed was charged by the ETC
with Misrepresentation He came to
Mr. Mason, then struggling with his pri-
vate law practice.
Joe OConnen sent me- Ed said.
But Joe's been dead six months"
Mr.. Mason replied
Maybe So said Ed. "I guess I'm a
little late. Maybe I waited too long,
Anyway he said you'd take the case
Ed outlined the details" Mr.. Mason
remarked. 1T seems the prospectus for
the product stated that when applied to
a car, 'Porcelainize' would give it shiny
finish like porcelain. But it didn't sav
anything about the product actually
being porcelain. That's where the hitch
came in"
Evening star., 1946-02-24
OF WOODROW WILSON:

Looking back on it now I realize
that the proud Woodrow Wilson got
more genuine recreation from the
theater than he did from anything else.
Evening star., 1946-02-24
He Was Cousin of
Gen. Robert E. Lee

Admiral Lee, for many years an Of
ficer in the United States Navy, is
probably best recalled for the part he
played in the Civil War, in which his
distant cousin, Gen. Robert E. Lee, took
the opposite side.
In 1862, when Admiral Lee was in
command of the advance naval divi-
sion Of Farragut's Squadron, he, on
May Is, made demand for the sur
render OF vicksburg, but instead Of
Evening star., 1946-02-24
House Was Occupied
By Leland Stanford

Alter tne mouse on K street was va
Gated by Mr.. Kilbourn 1t was occupied by
Senator Leland Stanford, who founded
the Leland Stanford Junior University
in California, followed by Senator Ed
ward Murphy of Troy, N. Y Repre-
sentative Edward Morrell of Pennsyl-
vania also lived here and Charles w.
Fairbanks bought the house for his
residence while serving as Vice Presi-
dent of the United States. Later 1t was
the Russian Embassy under Ambassador
Bakmetieft until 1918. The following
year the present owner, the Washington
Club, took possession and still occupies
this corner.
This fine organization of women
whose objects are for literary purposes,
mutual improvement, and for the pro-
motion of social intercourse" was prob
ably the outgrowth of the Cobweb Club,
little group of women who had met
weekly at the home of Mrs. Margaret
j. M. Sweat, one of the women who,
on April 6, 1891, incorporated the
Washington Club, of which Mrs Eliza
beth Blair Lee was the first president,
serving for IA years from the date of
its inception
Mrs. Lee was woman of disting-
uished ancestry, being the daughter of
Francis Preston Blair, friend of An
drew Jackson and editor and founder
of the Washington Globe, and one of
the principal movers in the establish
ing of the Republican party. known
as the captivating Betty Blair" Mrs.
Lee became the wife of Admiral Sam
uel Phillips Lee, the marriage taking
place in the old Blair mansion, and
proving to be one Of the outstanding
social events of that period. One thou
sand invitations were issued, and in
point of numbers and distinguished
guests, the affair is said to have been
one of the most magnificent ever given
In the Capital. For many years Mrs.
Lee had two homes, one at Silver
Spring, which she inherited from her
father, and her town house at 1853
Pennsylvania avenue, adjoining the
Blair house. The city home in 1864
and later was only two stories high
and was known as No. Presidents
square. He and his wife later moved to
his father-in-law's home at Silver
Spring. After the death of Francis
Preston Blair, Mrs. Lee inherited life
estate in the Silver Spring property,
with remainder to her son, Blair Lee,
Senator from Maryland from 1914 to
1917, who died recently.
Evening star., 1946-02-24
OF ROOSEVELT:

He is as hard and cold as steel with
any one and every one when it comes to
things he wants done. When it is a
matter of ordinary relations, he is the
Evening star., 1946-02-24
The Memorial Reception
To Admiral Dewey

At the time of the Spanish American
War the house was occupied by Mrs.
Mary L. Mclean, widow of Washington
Mclean, and it was here that Admiral
George Dewey was rendered a memo
rial reception upon his triumphant re-
turn from Manila.
In 1885, and subsequently, Minister
Charles De Struve occupied it as the
Russian Legation, and at another time
it was the Chinese Legation. Senator
Don Cameron once occupied it as his
Washington residence.
The residence at the east end of the
block, 1701 K street, was first occupied
by its owner, Hallet Kilbourn, who re-
manned there until about 1888 Kill
bourn was a prominent resident and
one of coterie of enthusiastic Wash
ingtonians who backed up Gov. Shep-
herd in his efforts to make Washington
the City Beautiful. His biography is
an interesting one.
He was the son of Dr. Alpheus Kill
bourn and was born in Rochester, N. Y,
in 1881. A sketch of him tells us that
he first came to this city during the
administration of President Buchanan,
and here he made many acquaintances
among the older and more important
families of the District as well as the
public men of that day. His great
courtesy of manner was noted in his
early manhood and continued through
out his active life and as consequence
in the years of his greatest prominence
he was called Prince Hall" by his inti-
mate friends.