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Evening star., 1946-07-11
Change Offers Hope
For Federal Workers
Health Services Bill

New hope for the Randolph bill
to establish health services for
Federal workers was seen today
after Senator Murdock, Democrat
of Utah, expressed satisfaction with
an amendment which Chairman
Downey of the Senate Civil Service
Committee said he will offer when
the measure reaches the floor.
Senator Murdock had objected to
the measure when it had come up
in the Senate previously and the
bill was recommitted to the COM
mittee. Since then, Senator Downey
explained, there have been two ses-
sions of the committee on the mat
ter Civil Service Commissioner
Arthur S. Flemming, after a con-
ference with President Truman, in
dicated he would favor the proposed
amendment.
Responsibility to PHS.
The amendment, Senator Downey
said. will provide that the "pri-
mary responsibility" for establish
ing the health services be given to
the United States Public Health
Service, instead of to the Civil Serv-
ice Commission.
Senator Murdock earlier had in
troduced a new measure to give
such authority to the Public Health
Service. But after a conference
last night with Senator Downey,
! Senator Murdock said the proposed
amendment was satisfactory.
1t was understood the amendment
was considered satisfactory by
Chairman Randolph of the House
Civil Service Committee, author of
the measure.
The bill is expected to be called
( up soon on the floor.
Teacher Bill to Senate.
! Meanwhile, the teachers pay bill,
which passed the Senate yesterday,
goes to the House, and will be re-
ferred to the House District Com
mittee. Representative Feighan,
Democrat, of Ohio, chairman of the
Education Subcommittee of the Dis
trict Committee, which is expected
to consider the measure, said he did
not know when hearings would be
held.
He said he felt teachers should
be adequately compensated but was
not in a position now to pass judg-
ment on whether the $3.50 fat raise
annually for all people in the school
system was a fair increase.
AS Congress heads toward its
summer recess. several other meas
ures of concern to the District are
awaiting action.
May Act on Slum Bill.
The 10-year, $4,000, 900 slum re-
development bill, which was re-
ported out of the House District
Committee Monday, still is expected
to be placed before the House for
action as soon as possible. Principal
difference between the House meas
ure and the Senate-approved bill is
the definition of public housing.
The long-pending Tydings bill to
authorize Federal aid for a hospital
center will come before the House
District Committee at 1890 am.
Monday instead of on Friday, as
previously scheduled
Evening star., 1946-07-11
U. S. Hospital Troinees
Get New Poy Setup

President Truman today issued an
executive order excluding student
trainees and resident trainees of
Federal and District hospitals from
the provisions of the Classification
Act.
The pay of these groups hereafter
will be fixed by the heads of the
establishments involved, but the
Civil Service Commission will set
maximum levels.
Those affected include medical
and dental internes and student
nurses, dieticians and therapists.
Evening star., 1946-07-11
Business Group to Meet

The American Business Associa-
ton will meet at 2:15 pm. Tuesday
in Bonat's Restaurant, 1922 Ver-
mont avenue NV. J. A. Kamerow
of the Mutual Life Insurance Co.
will discuss "Membership-Lif
Blood Of Any Association" in con-
nection with the associations men,
bership drive which will terminate
in October.
Evening star., 1946-07-11
Return Inspections
After Correction Of
Gar Defects 10 End

Relief from the inconvenience of
automobile inspection after minor
mechanical and body defects have
been corrected was in sight today
for District drivers.
George E. Keneipp. District traffic
director, told the Lions Club of
Washington at a Mayflower Hotel
luncheon yesterday he is working out
a plan to place motorists on their
honor regarding cracked headlights.
faulty windshield wipers and other
minor defects which he did not
enumerate. Here's how he intends to
do it:
Next year if a car passes inspec-
ton, except for one or more of the
Evening star., 1946-07-11
Finding Eddie, Lost 10th Time,
sJust Routine to Police Force

For the tenth time in the past two
years, seven-year- -old Eddie Lewis,
of 811 Seventh street NE, a born
wanderer, was lost and found again
today.
Police are so accustomed to Eddie's
wandering that they have worked
out a routine for use whenever his
mother, Mrs. Edith Lewis, a secre-
tary and stenographer. calls up to
say that he is at it again. They just
keep an eye on H street NE.
Today Eddie was located with
ease by Pvt. John Sirola, Of No.
Evening star., 1946-07-11

defects to be listed. it will get an
approved" sticker plus penny post
card which the motorist is to send in
when he has had the defect or de-
fects remedied
Check Is Planned.
If he fails to send in the card. his
registration application will be held
up and the police will be given his
number.
In this way Mr.. Keneipp hopes to
cut down the number of return in
spections now necessary.
Last year. hetold the Lions. only
81 ,039 cars out of l40167 inspected
were passed the first time.
He said he also hopes to stream
line inspection procedure for cars
which change ownership shortly
after having been inspecte.
Turning to other traffic matters
which face him, Mr. Keneipp said
that any move toward abandoning
staggered opening hours for Gov
ernment departments and schools
would seriously increase downtown
congestion as we'll as create added
hazards for school children. Re-
Gently pressure has been brought
by one large department and by
the Board of Education to return
TO the 9 am. opening hour.
Staggered Hours Needed.
Staggered hours are not a war
time measure, but a traffic measure,
he said.
Mr.. Keneipp said 87.l73 cars, by
actual count made this spring, enter
the area bounded by Seventh street.
Fifteenth street. Pennsylvania
avenue and New York avenue NV
between 6 a m. and II pm. In this
same period, the number of persons
counted entering the area was 754,-
444. he said. A change in the stag
ger system would have to be con-
sidered pretty carefully he said
Shifting to traffic lights, Mr.
Keneipp said. there are 938 miles
OF District streets which make
1922 intersections. Only 491 in
tersections have traffic lights and
1850 have stop signs, he said
| Congress was unwilling to ap-
propriate funds for more lights
he added.
This year the only light changes
will be improved circuits and shift
existing lights to intersections
where they are most needed, Mr.
Keneipp explained.
Speed Problem Cited.
| If District motorists would have
their speedometers checked and then
drive at exactly Is miles per hou1
on main arteries like Sixteenth
street. where lights are set fo1
this speed morning and evening
they would never have to stop, he
pointed out
But, he said, according to qualified
experts, 81 per cent of all speedo-
meters are off. His own, he said
was checked and he found that
when he was doing 80 by the speed
ometer he actually was driving 81
miles an hour.
He said he was opposed to block
lighting, where traffic lights 60 rec
and green simultaneously as on New
York's Park avenue, and added that
New York traffic officials now are
trying to get rid of the block system
Sitter Tests Planned.
AS to operators licenses, he said
he has plan to stiffen up examina-
tions for issue of permits and call
in licensed operators at the age OF
so as we'll as repeat violators for
additional eye tests. This would
mean an increase in traffic bureau
personnel, he said.
Downtown parking eventually will
be reserved for transient parkers
he said, and all-day parkers will
have to make use of fringe" park
ing facilities. BY the end of the
year, he added, TOO of Washington s
1000 downtown curb parking places
will have meters.
Evening star., 1946-07-11
u. ). Information Service
To Change Phone Number

The telephone number of the
Government Information Service,
Bureau of the Budget, which for a
number of years has been Republic
7500. will be changed to Executive
$500. effective at pm. tomorrow.
The Division of Public Inquiries
and the Division of, Press Intelli-
gence can be reached Monday
through Friday by calling Extension
780 on the Executive $500 line. On
Saturday, the Division of Press In
telligence can be reached on a direct
line, Executive 1881, and the Divi-
sion of Public Inquiries can be
reached by calling Executive 1882.
These divisions are open daily.
Monday through Friday, from $50
a m. to $50 pm, and on Saturday
from $50 am. to 1890 pm.
Evening star., 1946-07-11
Third Division Society
Talks Of 1918 G|ories
AT 9th Convention

Veterans OF World War II may
know the Sd Division as the outfit
that took Casablanca on November
IL. 1912. and never stopped fighting
until it reached Berchtesgaden 80
months later.
But old timers from the Sd Divi-
sion, gathering at the Hotel Hamil-
ton today to celebrate the 9th ma
tional convention of the Sd Divi-
sion Society, remember an earlier
November IL which brought peace
and victory to the Marine" Division
of 1918
The "Marne" Division Of the First
World War won undying fame at
Chateau T'hierry on July IS. 1918,
when it held of desperate German
attacks in the last great enemy Of
fensive, and later in the Meuse-
Argonne offensive in October.
Veterans like William A. Sho-
maker of 22l2 Thirteenth street NE.
were reminiscing about these cam
paigns this morning as they greeted
old comrades of the last war.
Mr.. Shoemaker is the founder and
secretary-treasurer Of the Sd Divi-
sion's Last Mans Club, organized
In 1887. 1t now has 800 members,
among them such notables as Maj.
Gen. Orlando Ward, Maj. Gen. Will
liam Kepner and Maj. Gen. Ken
meth Bush, all Sd Division vets.
The club meets each year on the
anniversary of Chateau-Thierry to
swap yarns. elect new officers and
present outstanding members of the
old Sd Division with awards of
recognition
The Sd Divisions 1916 convention
will be highlighted by an address at
the Mayower Hotel Saturday eve
ming by Gen. Jacob L. Devers, COM
manding general of the Army
Ground Forces. Gen. Devers COM
manded the 9th Army Group, under
which the Sd Division operated
during the Colmar Pocket drive.
Evening star., 1946-07-11

9 precinct, at Fifteenth and H
streets NE. Eddie disappeared from
his home Tuesday evening.
Last week Eddie branched out. He
took his little brother, Joseph, 2,
with him. Police returned Eddie
and his brother from Wisconsin and
Massachusetts, avenue NV.
Eddie Is plainly marked and there
isn't policeman In the city who
couldn't give his description from
memory. He is missing two lower
front teeth. has dimpled chin and
wears a sweater marked Bernard"
across the chest.
Evening star., 1946-07-11
Vaughan TO Relieve Truman
OF Veterans Affairs Details

Maj. Gen. Harry H. Vaughn.
President Truman's military aide,
today was given an additional as
signment as White House co-ordi-
nator of matters pertaining to
veterans. A White House statement
explained the appointment would
relieve the President of certain
preliminaries on policy matters
which he must decide.
THE need for coordination at
the White House level has long been
evident since there are some IA
Federal agencies directly involved in
veterans affairs" Mr.. Truman said.
Evening star., 1946-07-11
MutuoI Offices to Move

The Washington Office of the Mu-
tual Broadcasting System, now at
712 Jackson place NV, will be es-
tablished in the building at 1927 K
street NV, effective Monday. The
K street building is the one in which
Station VOL has Offices and studios
and Mutuers telephone service will
be through the VOL switchboard.
Evening star., 1946-07-11
Reed Patients to Toke Cruise

Wounded veterans at Walter Reed
Hospital will be guests of the Sd
Division Society on its cruise of the
Potomac at 10 am. tomorrow. The
cruise is one of the program events
of the current national reunion of
the Sd Division in Washington.
Evening star., 1946-07-11
CoIored Cof1oIics PIun Trip

The annual outing of the Father
Burgess Council of the Federated
Colored Catholics of Washington
and vicinity will be held Sunday,
July 81. at Carr's Beach, Annapolis,
Md. The outing is held in conjunc-
tion with colored Catholics of Balti-
more.
Evening star., 1946-03-26
Dunbar Boys Protest
Athletic Facilities

About All boys at Dunbar High
School, dissatisfied with their ath-
letic and locker equipment, have
presented a list of "unbearable con-
ditions" to their principal, Harold
Haynes.
Mr.. Haynes said the Dunbar Alum
nj Association, at a meeting at 8
o'clock tonight, will appoint COM
mittees to study the students re-
port.
The boys met week ago to select
a committee of 81 to list their griev-
ances, Mr.. Haynes said. John Jack
son, president of the Student Coun-
Gil, headed the committee.
The athletic equipment in the 30
year-old school is outmoded, Mr.
Haynes said. A request for money
to plan new stadiums for both Dun
bar and Armstrong High Schools
was eliminated from the 1885,
budget by the District Commission
ers, he said.
The lockers are too small and
many have poor locks, the boys re-
ported to Mr.. Haynes. There are
not enough shower and toilet facili-
ties, in the gymnasium. and not
enough athletic equipment, the re-
port continued.
Evening star., 1946-03-26
1n Mrntnriaitt

ACTON, JOSEPH GROVER. In loving
remembrance of my. dear husband, 10
SEPH G. ACTON, who departed this life
two years ago today, March 26, 1914.
There are times my heart is lonely,
When friends who are true are few
And then comes memory flowing
With loving thoughts, dear husband, of
you
OF you and your sweet understanding
That was there for my every need;
And then I am happy in knowing
That l had treasure indeed.
Deep in my heart lies picture
or loved one laid to rest;
In memory's frame 1 shall keep it,
Because he was one of the best.
HIS DEVOTED WIFE, EMMA.
BRADFORD, FLORENCE. Sacred to the
memory of my dear mother, FLORENCE
BRADFORD. who departed this life six
teen years ago today, March IS, 1890.
A token of love and remembrance
OF mother shall never forget;
Her memory to me is a treasure,
Her loss lifetime regret.
HER DEVOTED DAUGHTER, GLADYS
JOHNSON.
Evening star., 1946-03-26
Coroner's S Jury Clears
Two OF Blame in Deaths

A coroner's jury yesterday exon
Grated Charles Cohen. 80. Baltimore
OF responsibility in the case of Henry
Glascoe, 79. of 1888 Montello avenue
NE, who died of traffic injuries in
Casualty Hospital last Friday.
Police testified Mr.. Cohen was
driver of an automobile which struck
Mr.. Glascoe on March IA in the
1400 block of New York avenue NE
In second inquest, Ludwick w
Haney, 36, Stannardsville, Va, was
freed of blame in the death OF
Frederick H. Collins, 4S. of Route l
Fairfax, Va. Mr.. Collins death was
ruled due to natural causes.
Testimony brought out that Mr.
Collins died Sunday of a heart at
tack As minutes after a scuffle with
the defendant.
Evening star., 1946-03-26
Col. Kenneth N. Briggs
Rites in ARLINGTON Today

Services with full military honors
for Col. Kenneth Milton Briggs, AZ,
who served as intelligence officer of
the Panama Canal Department dur
ing the war, will be held at 1890
pm. today at Arlington Cemetery.
Col. Briggs, who lived at 2511 Clay
street, Alexandria, Va, died Sunday
at Walter Reed Hospital.
A native of SusanVille, Calf, he
was graduated from West Point in
1929. Col. Briggs had two tours of
duty in Panama Before his second
tour, which began in 1910, he was
in charge of the aircraft warning
system in the Chicago area.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs
Elma B. Briggs; his mother, Mrs
Flora Briggs, and brother, Robert
H. Briggs, both of San Francisco.
Another brother, Walter P. Briggs,
veteran commercial airline pilot,
was killed early this year in plane
crash in the West
Evening star., 1946-03-26
Mrs. Mary Semmes, "a,
Dies in Suburban Hospital
BY the kssocioied Press

Mrs. Mary Hodges Semmes, "a, OF
1903 Massachusetts avenue NV,
died yesterday at Suburban Hospi-
tai, Bethesda.
Mrs. Semmes came to Washing
ton in the 1870s from Georgia. She
was the widow of Alexander H.
Semmes. Washington lawyer. She
was a member of the Peirce Guild.
the Mayf1ower Society. the OAR, the
Washington Club and the Church
OF the Pilgrims.
Surviving are son, Harry H.
Semmes; four grandsons and a
brother, Henry w. Hodges, all of
Washington.
Funeral services will be held at
II am. tomorrow at Gawler's fu-
neral home, 1856 Pennsylvania ave-
nue. NV. Burial will be in Oak
Hill Cemetery.
Evening star., 1946-03-26
Pennsy Through Sleeper
To Coast Starts Sunday

Inauguration of through sleeping
car service between Washington and
San Francisco, effective Sunday, was
announced today by the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad.
Part of the plan by major rail-
roads to eliminate the stopover in
Chicago on transcontinental trips
Pennsylvania through car will
leave here at 1880 pm, E. S. T, on
the Golden Arrow. The car will be
switched to the Chicago & North
western at Chicago, arriving at San
Francisco at 9:20 am, Pacific time
the fourth morning after leaving
Washington.
Evening star., 1946-03-26
Hoover Praises Swiss
For Care Of Children
BY the Associated Press

GENEVA, Mar. 26-Herb t
Hoover praised Switzerland's food
distribution system and care of war
victimized children at a press con-
ference here today.
\ Never has so little nation
done SO much for humanity in all
history" said the former American
President, now chairman of the
American commission investigating
the European food situation.
Switzerland has performed a
gigantic task in most able fashion
not only in caring for children but
also in caring for the great mass
OF refugees and soldiers who were
prisoners of war.
IF all the world had a democ-
racy so dedicated to peace" Mr.
Hoover added, world civilization
would be two centuries ahead Of
where it is today
Mr.. Hoover and his party left for
Paris around noon. He said he would
remain there overnight and leave
tomorrow for Warsaw
Evening star., 1946-03-26
Rites for Miss Heiberger
ARRANGED for Tomorrow

Funeral services for Miss Eva
Katherine Heiberger, former su-
perintendent of the nursing school
at Sibley Memorial Hospital, who
died Sunday at her home, IA S
street NE. will be held at pm.
tomorrow at Hysong's funeral home,
1900 N street NV. Burial will be
in Bonneville, Mo.
Miss Heiberger was born in Boone
vile and came to Washington in
1909 to attend the Lucy Webb Hayes
National Nurses Training School
Two years later she was graduated
from the nursing school at Sbley
Hospital and took postgraduate
course in surgery at the Mayo Clinic
Rochester, MINI.
Returning to Washington, she
was named head of the nursing
school at Sibley and also had charge
of the operating rooms, holding both
positions until she retired in 1941
because of i'll health.
She is survived by two sisters
Mrs. Fred Erkert and Mrs. C. E
Ashley, both of St. Louis, and a
brother, Charles Heiberger, Hanni-
bal, Mo.
Evening star., 1946-03-26

Association for 80 years, he was Sec
retary and past president.
Mr.. Wen was friend of the late
Col. Edward J. Kelly. superintend-
ent of police, who often called on
Mr.. Wen to help maintain peace in
Chinatown. During the war, Col,
Kelly and the District Commission
ers appointed Mr.. Wen inspector of
auxiliary police for the Chinatown
district, which centers around Sixth
and H streets NV.
Mr.. Wen is survived by his widow
Mrs. Ruth E. Wen; three daughters,
Mrs. Ann Mathers, Mrs. Robert
Wynne and Mrs. Eleanor Fawcett
all of Arlington, and five grandchil-
dren.
A funeral procession in the an
cient Chinese style will wend
through Chinatown, beginning at 2
pm. Thursday from GOT H street
NV. Further arrangements have
not been completed.
Evening star., 1946-03-26
Artist Ernest Albert, 88,
Dies in Connecticut
By the Associated Press

NEW CANAAN, Conn, Mar. 26.-
Ernest Albert, 88, first president of
the Allied Artists of America who
helped design the 1893 Colombian
Exposition in Chicago, died yester-
day at the home of a daughter, Mrs.
Thaddeus A. Du Flor.
Born in Brooklyn, Mr.. Albert was
well known here and abroad as a
landscape artist. Specializing in
stage and scenic designing, he was
responsible for the sets in many of
the Shakespearean plays produced
in New York.
In the last 80 years he was repre-
sented at many exhibitions in New
York. Chicago, San Francisco, Los
Angeles and other cities.
Evening star., 1946-03-26
Poison Arrow Druq
Lauded as Anesthetic

A scientifically purified form of
curare, long used by South Ameri-
can Indians on their poisoned ar
rows, is being used here with graf
flying results as an anesthetic,
especially in abdominal surgery.
Praise for the relatively new drug
came last night from anesthetists
and surgeons at a dinner meeting
of the Washington Medical and
Surgical Society at the Hotel
Statler.
DR.. j. Phelps Hand, formerly
major in the Army Medical Corps
in the Mediterranean theater,
discussed it among other drugs
in a. paper on Modern Trends
in Anesthesia." The intravenous
administration of curare, he said.
has proved most beneficial as
supplemental agent when made
quate relaxation has been obtained
from the anesthetic agent chosen"
Used in a combination with pen
tothal or with one Of the gases. or
combination of both, he said it
was excellent" for abdominal
surgery. The patient, he explained,
can be kept at light plane OF
anesthesia and still excellent re-
Taxation maintained"
DR.. Francis O'Bryan said curare
was being used at Providence Hos
pital, supplemented by other
agents. He emphasized that 1t is
helpful in getting the patient
awake and restored to normal as
soon as possible"
DR.. George B. McLain, surgeon
and society president, said "curare
is excellent" but he stressed that
he also wants the gas machine"
close by.
Others who spoke included DR..
John Everett, anesthetist; DR.. Ed
ward Macon, anesthetist, who said
ether was indicated for use on chill
dren: Dean Paul Briggs of the
school of pharmacy of George
Washington University Medical
School and Dr. Robert H Harmon,
who discussed a case of acute drug
poisoning.