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Evening star., 1946-03-19
Bethesda Group Asks
Market Traffic Chance

The Bethesda (Md.) Chamber OF
Commerce Board of Directors last
night requested the Montgomery
County Commissioners to pass an
ordinance permitting only north
bound traffic to enter the Farm
Women's Market grounds from Wis
consin avenue on Saturdays. Under
the plan, exit would be made one
way eastbound by way of Willow
lane.
In approving a report Of the Safe
ty Committee. headed by A. j. Bar
gagni, the board also requested in
stallation of 600-candlepower lights
on Wisconsin avenue instead of the
2O0-candlepower lights now in use.
The report pointed out that three
policemen have been required to
handle two-way Saturday traffic in
the vicinity of the market.
The chamber will not make, an
award of the Oliver Owen Kuhn
Memorial Cup for the year 1945
The cup is given by The Star each
year in recognition of some out
standing physical improvement in
the community. Because of wartime
building restrictions there are no
candidates for the cup.
Clarence Keiser, member of the
Maryland National Park and Plan
ming Commission, announced the
master plan for land use of the
Bethesda business district is ready
for public hearing.
A special meeting of the cham
Der will be called for April 8 in the
Bethesda County Building when the
plan will be explained.
Evening star., 1946-03-19
Red Cross Fund Drive
Near $1,000, 900 Mark
By Miriom Ottenbero

A hope of passing the $1,000, 900
mark was held today by leaders of
the Washington Metropolitan Area
Red Cross campaign as they awaited
q report Of the Government Unit.
Drive Chairman Richard H. Will
mer said there was good chance
the hope would be realized through
today's additions to the $685., 1924 to-
tai announced at yesterdays report
luncheon of other campaign units in
the United States Chamber of
Commerce Building. That figure
amounted to 5503 per cent of the
$1,573.400 local goal.
The Residential Unit, with 78 per
cent OF its quota pledged, was lead
ing the campaign divisions. Arling-
ton County (Va.) Unit had account
ed for 1865 per cent of its assigned
figure.
Yesterdays report session was
shortened in respect for the memory
OF Miss Mabel r. Boardman, q
founder of the District Red Cross
Chapter, who died Sunday night
Chapter Chairman j. Clifford Folger
and Mrs. David Finley, chairman OF
volunteer special services, q post
held by Miss Boardman for MANY
years, paid brief tributes to the late
Red Cross leader.
Evening star., 1946-03-19
MeCarran Proposes
Charter Commission
OF Seven Residents

Seven Washington residents would
be named to draft proposed char
ter for an elected council-city man.
ager form Of self rule" for the
District, under plans tentatively
adopted by Chairman McCarran OF
the Senate Judiciary Committee.
just who the members of the pro-
posed charter commission would be
was left to be determined following
a conference yesterday afternoon
between the Nevada Senator and
Wilbur Finch, president of the Fed
Grafton Of Citizens Associations.
This point has been left silent so
far in the McCarran bill proposing
creation of the charter commission
SO as to permit receipt of suggestions
from civic spokesmen. A suggested
procedure, however. was discussed
at the conference yesterday and
should lead to something definite,
Senator McCarran said.
Discussions of membership on the
charter commission, he added, in
cluded mention of representatives of
various organized groups, sections
and races, such as the Board of
Trade, the Bar Association, organi-
cations of citizens and womeh's
groups.
Mr.. Finch is to report back to
Senator McCarran after discussing
the charter commission membership
further with civic and other groups.
Senator McCarran, who heads a
Judiciary Subcommittee which will
hold hearings soon on the proposal,
said final decision on charter COM
mission membership probably would
not be settled until after the
hearings.
Evening star., 1946-03-19
Appeals Court UphoIds
$4,000 Howard U. Tax

. The Court of Appeals has affirmed
a ruling of the District Board of
Tax Appeals which held that How
ard University had to pay more
than $500 taxes on certain prop
erty in the vicinity of the university
All of the property involved at the
time of the Tax Appeals Board
ruling was being rented to private
tenants at the university, the ap-
pellate court said, and 1t affirmed a
finding Of the board that the prop
erty was not used exclusively "for
the education of YOUTH" which
would have made it tax exempt.
The opinion, handed down yes
terday, was written by Chief Justice
p. Lawrence Groner Of the Court Of
Appeals.
Evening star., 1946-03-19
Youth Faces Charge
OF Posing as Major

James Carlisle Robey, jr., 10, Co.
lumbia Park, Landover, Md, today
was being held by Alexandria (Va.)
authorities for transfer to the Dis
trict to face a charge of illegally
wearing the uniform of a major in
the Army Air Forces, the FBI an
nounced. Robey, the FBI said. was
listed as 4-F in the draft and has
never been in service.
He was arrested Saturday night
after chase at Arlington Farms,
Va, near the WAVE barracks. When
accosted, he struck at an FBI agent,
authorities said, and then ran. A
civilian and naval officer Joined in
the chase, which ended in a nearby
field. He was taken before the
United States commissioner at Alex
andria yesterday on charge of
being fugitive from the District
and waived removal proceedings. He
will be brought here when the Fed
eral judge for the Alexandria dis
trict signs the necessary papers, the
FBI said.
Robey, who admits he served a
year in the Chillicothe (Ohio) Re-
formatory on a bad-check charge in
1943, according to the FBI, within
the past six weeks has been escort
ing service women, hiring taxicabs
all day and then having the women
write checks for him. The checks
he authorized turned out to be in
valid, authorities said, and Robey
has but limited education, having
difficulty with reading and writing.
The FBI says he is on parole from
the National Training School for
Boys here and cashed checks with
merchants and even visited Boiling
Field.
WACS at Walter Reed and
WAVES at Arlington Farms were
Robey's victims, authorities said.
Evening star., 1946-03-19
More Crimes CHARGED
To -Four Youths Held
In Assault Case

The list of crimes attributed tx
four Huntsville Md.) colored youths
charged with criminal assault on S
19-year-old Seat Pleasant Md CIR
early Sunday. continued to grow to.
day. One Of the four was accused
in another criminal assault case and
all four were said to have admitted
five or six robberies.
A 20-year-old colored girl who
lives in the TOO block of Sixty
seventh avenue, Fairmont Heights
Md. partially identified one of the
youths as the man who stabbed
robbed and assaulted her at 6 am
March 8 near her home. police said
The girl picked Charles Ross, 20
from lineup of seven men as the
man who assaulted her, according to
Policemen Charles Caldwell and Lee
Pumphrey.
She said the man grabbed her as
she walked to work, stabbed her in
the neck, took dollar from her
billfold and assaulted her two blocks
from her home. Ross would not
confirm or deny the charge.
Admit Prince Georges Robberies.
The youths admitted they COM
mitted five or six robberies in South
ern Prince Georges County in the
last few months, police said. One
OF the youths, Raymond Washing
ton, l6, also has admitted he killed
Mrs. Annie Jones. 81, of Landover,
Md, last February Z.
Also held in the assault on the
Seat Pleasant girl are Willie Tay-
lor. Is, and Walter Ross, 81.
Washington Detective Sergts.
George Cooper. August Helwig, Al
bert Embrey, John L. Sullivan and
Otto Fuss questioned the four
youths on a number of criminal as
sault cases and robberies committed
in the District in recent months.
Talk Freely With Reporters.
Police said Washington's record
shows he was arrested in the Dis
trict recently on juvenile delin-
quency charges.
The prisoners talked freely with
reporters last night, making no ef-
fort to deny their guilt in the attack
on the Seat Pleasant girl.
All four will be arraigned April /
In Marlboro Police Court.
Evening star., 1946-03-19
Pupils Get Samples, Write
Truman on Ships' Waste

NEWPORT NEWS, Va, Mar 10
[P.-Members of the sixth grade at
Hilton Village School don't like the
way some of the ships crews In the
harbor are jettisoning perfectly good
articles of food, furnishings and
medical supplies.
So, after searching the beaches for
manifold examples of the waste.
they have taken their case right to
the top-addressing letters to Presi-
dent Truman, Senator Byrd and
Representative Bland, both demo-
Gratis, Of Virginia.
The campaign for less waste
started some days ago when pupils
OF the school began to find a varied
assortment of useful articles thrown
up on the shore by the waves in the
lower James River. An exhibit of
the salvaged articles was arranged
for the schoolroom under direction
OF the teacher. Miss Peg Lomas. and
the pupils have added assiduously to
the collection as wind and tide
brought more exhibits.
Then came the letter to President
Truman embodying the protest of
the school pupils against waste at
time when conservation is sorelv
needed.
Evening star., 1946-03-19

for women now as opportunities in
other fields expand. That is the
career of marriage. The more op-
portunity you have to earn a living,
the less opportunity you will have
to find man to take on that job
for YOU"
Mrs. Luce was introduced by
Margaret Lynn, president of Mortar
Board, the student boy sponsoring
the event. Special sessions on Job
opportunities were conducted by
Elisabeth May Craig, Washington
correspondent; 1t. Col. Mary Agnes
Brown, adviser on women veterans,
Veterans Administration; Mrs.
Henry Grattan Doyle, president of
the District Board of Education;
Helen Hostetter, editor of the Jour-
nal of Home Economics; Josephine
Callan, speech and drama depart
ment, Catholic University; Mary E.
Switzer, assistant to the adminis-
traitor, Federal Security Agency;
Eloise Cram, National Institute of
Health, and Dorothy C. Atkins,
test division, Civil Service Com
They agreed: 1T takes hard work
Tor woman to build a career"
Evening star., 1946-03-19
Mcmillan Asks
Big Increase in
Pound Loaves
Move Would Require
No Legislation,
He Tells Mason

Chairman John L. Mcmillan Of
the House District Committee today
called on Washington bakers to
manufacture at least one-half or
two-thirds of their output in half
pound loaves.
In a letter to Commissioner Guy
Mason, Mr. Mcmillan cited his in
terest in President Truman,s food
conservation program and requested
Mr.. Mason to plead" with the man.
ayers of local bakeries to emphasize
the half-pound loaf.
Stating his belief that a great
amount of bread could be saved If
small families could purchase the
half f-pound loaf, the committee
chairman said he did not believe ad-
ditional legislation would be neces.
sary to conserve bread here If bak-
cries will manufacture more half
pound loaves."
Under District law, bread must be
baked in half-pound, pound or
pound-and-a-half loaves, or any
multiple thereof.
Meeting Called Thursday.
Meanwhile, the Commissioner
announced they would discuss
Thursday at 1890 am. with District
| officials and representatives of bak-
ers a proposal by the Employing
Bakers Association of Washington
that the law be amended to permit
them to reduce the size of their
bakery products 10 per cent with
out decreasing the price in accord
ance with a recent Office of Price
Administration ruling.
The proposal has been referred
to Corporation Counsel Vernon E.
West for an opinion.
officials still were hopeful, mean
while, that working COMMITTEES of the
Combined Food Board would be able
to get together on supply and de-
mand figures for grain as it was
learned that Argentina has refused
to join in a program to Coordinate
food shipments to Europe and Asia.
The committees have been working
on recommendations for allocations
Iof foodstuffs during the next three
months, but to date have failed to
reach agreement.
A spokesman for the board dis
closed that Argentina has indicated
she prefers to work out her own
shipping schedule for grains, despite
efforts of the board to bring about
planned shipping schedule of all
exporting countries to assure eaui-
table distribution of rice and wheat,
The Agriculture Department an
nounced last night that Walter S.
Straub, former OPA food rationg
chief and Chicago food manufac-
turer, has been named to head the
newly created Office of the Emer-
gency Food Program and will work
under Secretary of Agriculture An
derson and Chester C. Davis, CHAIR
man OF the Famine Emergency
Committee.
Evening star., 1946-03-19
House Group May Act
Friday on Bill for
.0H-Street Parkinu

Action may be taken by the House
District Committee Friday on the
Senate version of the bill directing
the provision of minimum amount
OF street parking facilities at or
near Federal buildings here.
The session was called by Chair
man Mcmillan to bring the COM
mittee calendar up to the minute
with action possibly to be taken
on a number of measures.
The House has passed the park
ing bill, but it was considerably
broadened in the Senate at the
instance of the subcommittee of
the Senate District Committee,
headed by Senator Huffman, Demo-
crat, of Ohio. AS amended, it calls
for off-street facilities wherever
practicable at existing Federal
buildings here as well as at all
future buildings. In addition. the
Senate version provides for nominal
charges to be made for parking of
private cars on Government lots.
The minimum would be space for
cars for 10 per cent of the occupants
Of the building.
Definitely scheduled for action
Friday is the legislation proposed
by the Commissioners to enable
them to use available and unobli-
gated District funds to pay the
costs of the operation in the next
fiscal year Of the Veterans In.
formation Center at Fourteenth
street and Pennsylvania avenue
NV.
Other bills to be called up are
those to require future installation
OF gasoline pumps using the decimal
system of measuring the fuel and
to legalize the use for residential i
purposes the penthouse on the
apartment Hotel 24O0 Sixteenth
street.
If the Harris Subcommittee has
acted meanwhile on legislation to
enable the Washington Railway g.
Electric Co. to carry out its plan
for dissolution this may be brought
up for full committee action Friday
The Wreco plan involves the grant,
ing of exceptions from the LaFollette
'antimerger" law of 1918. Another
hearing on this issue is Scheduled
for Thursday before the Utilities
subcommittee headed by Repre-
sentative Harris. Democrat, of
Arkansas,
Evening star., 1946-03-19
Yankee WAC Hits Memorial,
Pivoting Confederate to North

A WAC sergeant Of Yankee ex-
traction ran her car into Confed-
crate monument in Alexandria early
today, hitting it such a blow that
the soldier who customarily faces
south found himself suddenly peer
ing in q somewhat northerly di-
rection.
No less outraged than any good
champion Of the old South, Alexan-
drias defenders of law and order
took to task Sergt. Doris T. Duperre,
80, Of Chicopee Falls, Mass, but
temporarily resident of Fort Myer.
They said Sergt. Duperre was
Evening star., 1946-03-19
Work Cuts Marriage Chance,
Clare Luce Tells Career Girls
Rise to Congress
Resulted Without
Planning, She Says

Representative Clare Boothe Luce
the glamorous Republican Of Con.
necticut, started her career making
fancy paper nut cups and believes
that If she stayed in Congress much
longer, I would wind UP making nut
cups again."
Unfettered by any desire to wir
another election (she already ha.
announced her coming retirement
from politics. the blond politician
told 500 would-be career girls 9
thing or two at George Washington
University last night.
Il am the worst possible advertise
ment for career planning or higher
education" she said. T neve,
planned a career in my life and have
practically no education, she added
ignoring biographical accounts. II
have had a fairly interesting time
without any preparation whatso-
ever"
Her observations were given the
career conference for women stu
dents in the university's hall of
government before nine of WASH
ington's leading career women, who
were about to conduct speciality ses-
sionS on how to succeed in drama
government, newspaper work, home
economies, etc.
Began Earning in Teens.
Mrs. Luce recalled that she had
climbed the dizzy, dismal ladder of
failure" through all these profess
sions ito final success in Congress. /"
While still in her teens, Mrs. Luce
was making $21 week in the paper
factory. That's what she said she
believes really forecast her future
role in life when, at the age of IL
she produced play for the Amer
ican Red Cross.
"The play was Cinderella. You
can see by the title that originality
marked my old career, particularly
the part about being Republican. !"
BY her own account, Mrs. Luce
began to get an education for the
first time when she entered Con-
gress. If any of the university's CO.
eds find themselves in Congress
some day, Mrs. Luce hopes they will
have as rich, happy and firing an
experience in power and respon-
sibility as I did" She hopes they
will learn that the key word is "re-
sponsibility."
Marriage Is One Career.
She believes that women think
pretty much like men. For instance,
she believes that most women be-
long in the home. Just as firmly,
she believes they will continue to
leave it.
None of you need worry about
opportunities opening for women"
she declared. There is only one
career that is slowly, surely closing
Evening star., 1946-03-19
Artur Rubinstein to Become
American Citizen Next Month
Polish Pionist Thrilled
At Realization of
long-HeId Ambition

Artur Rubinstein, the famous
Polish pianist who appears with the
National Symphony Orchestra at
Constitution Hall tomorrow night
has played in every country in the
world except Tibet and has friends
almost everywhere, but he seemed
most thrilled today over his ap-
preaching naturalization as an
American citizen.
Mr.. Rubinstein might be consid-
cred cosmopolitan in every sense
he is verSed in no less than eight
languageS-but he explained at the
Mayflower today that he will realize
a long-held ambition when he be-
comes an American. He will be
eligible to take his final oath of citi-
zenship in Federal Court at Los
Angeles late this month, but concert
engagements will delay the cere-
mony.
'I1l take it in April" the musician
said.
Mr.. Rubinstein had a stroke of
luck recently when he learned that
the American troops had discovered
in Berlin his highly valuable collec-
tion of books which the Nazis stole
from his home in Paris.
Mr.. Rubinstein had despaired of
ever seeing any of the books again.
They are in eight languages, he ex-
planned, and include some rare works
in history, philosophy and literature.
Pointing out that he had collected
the books from all over the world.
the pianist added:
Don't call it a hobby. That
sounds trivial. Collecting books was
a passion with me-"
Mr.. Rubinstein saw two conflicting
tendencies in American music of the
moment, one upward, the other
downward. He pointed out more
people In this country hear more
good music than ever before.
The master grimaced. Then
there's that boogie- -woogie stuff" he
added. 1T leads straight back to the
Evening star., 1946-03-19

driving recklessly when her car
struck the monument at Prince and
Washington streets, moving the
heavy concrete base 2 feet, jolting
the sculptured soldier from his usual
stance and running up a $500 dani-
age bill.
The sergeant also had the matter
of q $3.50 carrepair bill.
The incident also supplied some
credence to contention OF the Ma
tional Capital Park and Planning
Commission that the monument
created a hazard and should have
been moved long ago. It was erected
in 1899.
Evening star., 1946-03-19
Club Gaming Case Jury
Dismissed; RetriaI April ;

Trial of three men charged with
setting up gaming table in the
Trojan Club. 1700 block of Massa-
chusetts avenue NV, resulted in a
hung jury late yesterday at District
Court.
Justice Jennings Bailey dismissed
the jury. which had deliberated ap-
proximately three. hours. Justice
Bailey set April as a date for re-
trial.
The three defendants are Joseph
B. Walling, 40, whose address was
given as the 1700 block of Mas
sacnusetts avenue NV, president
of the corporation which is said tn
have run the club; Charles r.
Warde, 50, of the 2100 block Of
Massachusetts, avenue NV. and
Byron M. Jones, "a, colored, door
man.
Evening star., 1946-03-19
Arnuson to Give Talk

II. Harvard Arnason, acting chief
Of the evaluation unit Of the State
Department Once Of International
Information and Cultural Affairs,
will be principal speaker at the
YWCA World Fellowship Luncheon
at 1880 pm. Thursday in the
YWCA Building, Seventeenth and
K streets NV.
Evening star., 1946-03-19
Hospital Guild to Meet

The Woman's Guild of Sibley Me-
mortal Hospital will hold its regu-
lar monthly meeting at Rust Hall
1850 North Capitol street, at II am
Thursday. Miss Kathryn Smith Of
the Commerce Department will
speak on international Trade II
Peace and In War;"
Evening star., 1946-03-19
New School Head Tells
Teachers 10 Reconcile
Pay Bill Differences

uDl1C SCIlOOi LedClleTS COQdy mac
a reproof from their new sumrin-
tendent, DR.. Hobart M. Corning, who
declared their objections to the
teachers pay raises proposed by
Senator McCafran, Democrat, OF
Nevada are in such state of con-
fusion" that an immediate confer
ence Of teachers should be called to
reconcile their differences.
Attire a two-hour hearing yester-
day, during which more than a
dozen groups took exception to the
McCarran proposals, DR.. Corning
said members of Congress would
never be impressed enough to pass
the bill unless the teachers reached
a united 'front.'"
Principal among the provisions of
the McCarran bill is 500 raise
for nearly all teachers. Mrs. Mary
Resh, chairman Of the Joint Legisla-
tive Council. said the 80 educational
organizations in her group believe
all teachers-especially the $1,50o
elementary ones-should get an
immediate $500 raise.
Flat 20 Per Cent Suggested.
Both the current high cost of liv-
ing and the dignity" of the teach
ing profession demand this increase
Mrs. Resh said.
Miss Sue Brett, representing the
High School Teachers Association
suggested fiat 20 per cent raise
for all existing pay scales. These
salaries were raised last July.
The hearing at the Franklin Build
ing also touched on revision of
the present teachers retirement
scales, proposed by Representative
Combs, Democrat, of Texas. Daniel
Lloyd, representing the men teach
ers of Washington" objected to the
bill because it eliminates an ad-
vantage the present system gives to
men on the basis of their tendency
to die sooner.
Russell Reagh, a representative of
the United States Treasury, jumped
to his feet to declare that the pro-
posed new system is "fairer."
A joint legislative and personnel
committee of the Board of Educa-
ton, which conducted the hearing,
took the objections Of the teachers
under advisement. DR.. Corning
warned that since congressional
committee hearings may be held
soon on both bills, the teachers had
better "get together soon."
Supporter for Bill Heard.
Mrs. Resh said the Joint legisla-
tive council would consider asking
all teachers to meet with them soon.
The only proponent of the Nc
carran proposals was Miss Mary
Dent, representing the Teachers
Union, American Federation Of
Labor. She said her group had
asked Senator McCarran to propose
his bill to remedy faults of last July's
pay raise. She was surprised to
find the wishes of teachers already
had progressed so far beyond Sena-
tor McCarran's bill, under which the
largest raise would be $500 for GER
tain junior and senior high school
teachers In high bracket.
Among the organizations wanting
higher raises were the Association
Of Elementary School Principals,
National Capital Vocational Associ-
alton, Senior High School Principals
Association and the United Federal
Workers, CIO, Local No. /; the
Teachers Advisory Council to the
superintendent and the Elementary
Classroom Teachers Association.