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Evening star., 1946-08-28
Home Builders Call
Cut in Construction
Only Paper Gesture

New and drastic measures to
speed up the veterans emergency
housing program announced by
Housing Expediter Wilson w. Wyatt
today drew from a spokesman for
washington home builders the COM
ment that the actions were "only
paper gestures
Ernest Henry, executive director
Of the Washington Home Builders
Association, declared the announced
cut In nonhousing construction and
the placing of q scarce building
materials on the priority list were
paper gestures which are too little
and too late for this years housing
program"
Charges Move Is Delayed.
These steps, Mr.. Henry said,
should have been taken at least
eight months ago, when it became
apparent that Mr.. Wyatts ambi-
tious but impractical housing goals
could not be reached unless there
was drastic curtailment of other
construction and strict channeling
of scarce materials for the housing
program"
The spokesman pointed out 1t
would be a nip and tuck" race to
finish houses started but now stalled
for lack of materials, before winter
sets in.
He said Washington home builders
were willing to start more houses as
soon as materials are available, but,
he added, I'VE are still waiting for
Mr. Wyatt's winter, spring and sum-
mer promises to be fulfilled before
we are ready to swallow more of
them"
Recalls Old Survey.
Mr.. Henry recalled survey last
winter showed Government con-
struction was consuming about 80
per cent of al local building sup
plies.
Despite that disclosure, Mr.. Wyatt
exempted such construction from his
limitation order, and that tremen-
dous drain continues to remove
critically short materials" he de-
clared.
Up to now, he added, the ma
terials priority system has worked
against our housing efforts.
I'VE hope that the new paper work
announced by Mr.. Wyatt will prove
to be more fruitful than the past"
he said.
Evening star., 1946-08-28
Boys Club Winners Picked
In Model Plane Contest

Winners in the Boys Club of
Washington Model Plane Contest
were announced yesterday by the
competition co-sponsors, the "Helrs
Angels" Marine Reserve Fighter
Squadron and Capital Air Lines.
Bill Hissey, 1920 G street Sc, first
prize winner in the solid models di-
vision, will be made an honorary
captain" of the airline and receive
a flight in Capitaliner and solo
hop" in Link trainer.
Bobby Vogel, 214 Eighth street
Sc, flrst-prize winner in the fly
ing division, was commissioned an
honorary captain" in the Marine
air squadron and will accompany
Bill on the flight
Other winners include. Mickey
Taylor, 1707 Bay street Sc, second
in flying and third in solid; Melvin
Vaughn, 214 Fifteenth street NE,
first prize in the eight to 11-year-old
class; Bernard Shulman, 1902 First
street Sc, second prize in the eight
to IL group and Tommy Hardy, 243
Seventeenth street Sc, third prize
in flying.
Evening star., 1946-08-28
Three Children
Locking Selves
In Rooms Freed

Rescue squads were called to re-
lease children at three different ad-
dresses yesterday after calls from
distraught mothers that the young
sters had locked themselves in
upperstory rooms.
While his mother was busy IRON
ing, Louis Dennis, 81 months old,
toddled into a second-story bath
room and locked the door. His
mother, Mrs. Dorothy Dennis, sum-
moned firemen to the home at 1884
Macarthur boulevard NV. In half
an hour, the boy was free and Mrs.
Dennis spent the next half hour
showing Louis how to manipulate
the lock.
Louis r. Schuler, 20 months, was
released from second floor apart
ment at 2714 Quarry road NV. His
mother, Mrs. James s. Schuler, said
she had paused in the hall to talk
to neighbor and, while she chatted
Louis darted into the neighbor's
apartment and locked the door.
Fearing that the child might climb
through an open window, Mrs.
Schuler notified the rescue squad.
At 2246 Forty-ninth street NV,
3-year-old Linda Stevens locked her
self inside bathroom and couldn't
get out until the rescue squad
climbed through the window and
unlocked the door.
Evening star., 1946-08-28
Only One Try
Another in series OF jogs for
tagging memories regarding Dis
trict traffic lnrS.

Hearing Fire Engine A coming
behind him, motorist is car B prop
erly comes to stop as near the
curb as possible to let apparatus
pass. He then follows engine to-
ward fire as close as possible. What
should driver have done?
/. Driven closer behind speeding
apparatus so as not to lose track
of 1t?
2. Gone about his business with
out following?
8. Passed the fire truck and blown
his horn vigorously to warn other
motorists?
4. Followed engine at no closer
than a city blocks distance?
Answer 4 Is correct, although the
Fire Department does not mind if
one follows to applaud its work as
suggested in Answer 2. Section a
of the traffic and motor vehicle reg
ulaticns states:
No driver of any vehicle other
than a vehicle of the fire or police
department or an ambulance shall
follow closer than city block any
fire apparatus travelling in response
to fire alarm -
Evening star., 1946-08-28
Shanghai Broadcaster
Chisholm Wins Release

The Justice Department has
ordered the release of Robert
Donald Chisholm, former Baltimore
newspaperman, who has been held
in China for nine months in con-
nection with radio broadcasts al
legedly made by him during the
japanese occupation.
A Justice Department spokesman
refused to elaborate on the release
order issued yesterday. It was at
the request of the department that
Mr.. Chisholm was seized by the
Army in October, 1945.
A petition for habeas corpus was
filed in District Court here last
Tuesday by Attorney Edward B.
Williams, who sought Mr.. Chisholm's s
freedom on the basis of the fact no
charges had been placed against
him.
Mr.. Chisholm Is native of Balti-
more who received his schooling in
Washington, according to the attor-
ney. Mr.. Williams said he had been
engaged by the newsman,s mother,
who resides in Baltimore.
The attorney said his client had
been forced to make his broadcasts
over a Shanghai radio station
at the point of a gun. Before
the japanese occupation Mr.. CHS
holm wrote gossip column for the
Shanghai Express.
Evening star., 1946-08-28
7 Armed Bandits Rob
Woman in Bedroom;
{ Thefts Net STA

Six robberies and thefts early to-
day and last night netted thieves
"a total of STA in cash and property
police reported
Mrs. Pinky Dockery, 1874 Stevens
road Sc, was robbed of $34 by two
armed colored men, she told police,
after they broke into her bedroom
last night and threatened her with
pistols. Her husband, John Dockery
a Pennsylvania Railroad fireman,
was at work, Mrs Dockery told po-
lice. Police said the intruders en-
tered by breaking the glass in the
kitchen door.
A pickpocket took a wallet con-
tanning 5000 from Joseph D. Fore
man, 1900 block of Twenty-first
street NV, as he was sleeping in a
bus terminal at Twelfth street and
New York avenue NV. last night,
police reported.
Another thief delayed Washing
toms building program slightly dur
ing the night, police said, when he
took a complete set of carpenters
and electricians tools from prof.
ect in the 400 block of I street NV.
The tools, stolen from shed, were
valued at $3.50,
Other robbery victims during the
night, police said, included:
Samuel Chernikoff, 1900 Bladens-
burg road NE, who was robbed of
$116 In cash and property when
thieves broke into his store.
Elmer Hopper, 1905 w street
Sc. who said some one entered
his apartment using a duplicate
key and took Sis in cash from
his bedroom.
Peter Carlino, 243 K street NE,
who reported thief broke a back
room window at his grocery store
and removed $50 from the cash
register.
Evening star., 1946-08-28
Crubmeot Consignment
Seized in Alexandria

A consignment of % one pound
cans of crab meat packed by COM
pany at Crisfleld, Md, was seized
in Alexandria yesterday on order of
United States Attorney Harry H.
Holt, jr., who charged it was con-
taminated.
The crab meat was received by
an eating establishment in the 500
block of South Washington street,
Alexandria. G. Stuart Hamm
United States deputy marshal
seized the consignment.
The packing company is allowed
until September to file an answer
to the charge, Mr.. Hamm said.
Evening star., 1946-08-28
Hatch Sees Political Need
For 4-Year House Terms
BY the Assoeioisd Press

Senator Hatch, Democrat, of New
Mexico, said today he has enlisted
the backing of several colleagues
for proposed constitutional
amendment to set House termss at
four instead OF two years.
The New Mexico Senator told a
reporter he plans to introduce leg
islation next January proposing the
change in an effort to minimize the
division of responsibility that arises
when one or both houses of Con-
gress are controlled bv a political
party not represented in the White
House.
when the people vote for a
change in party control of Con-
gress," Senator Hatch said, they
are entitled to have change in the
control OF the Government at the
same time. / think that one of the
worst things that can happen to the
country Is to have one party repre-
sented in the White House and the
other controlling one or both houses
OF Congress"
Evening star., 1946-08-28
Big Increase in District Births
Sends Old Records to Cellar

A tremendous increase in records
due to the steady rise in District
births over the last 10 years is fore
ing the Bureau of Vital Statistics
into the ground for the first time
in its history.
With every wall in the birth divi-
sion in Municipal Center already
lined with books containing the rec
Iords, officials declared today the
only recourse is to start storing them
in the cellar.
This will mean trip to the cellar
every time an older birth record has
to be consulted, according to Assist
ant Director Pietro Giancoli. He
said the older records would be
stored In the cellar first.
AS things are now, 100 sectional
shelves line the walls of the birth
division from floor to ceiling. They
are jammed to capacity with ap-
proximately 1900 record books dat
ing from 1871. each of which con-
tains $50 birth records, for total
of over 10000 individual certif-
icateS.
Some 100000 additional birth
certificates also area temporarily
stored in nearby rom. which is
Evening star., 1946-08-28
Two Cruisers Ordered
For D. {. Harbor Police

District Purchasing Officer Roland
M. Brennan said today he has
ordered two new Steelcraft cruisers
for the police harbor precinct.
The new boats, which will have
speeds of Is to 80 miles an hour, will
answer the complaint of police OIL
cials to Congress last winter that
their old boat at the harbor precinct
is too slow for the necessary work.
Police officials told a House sub
committee the old boat required As
minutes to make the trip from the
harbor precinct to the vicinity of
Key Bridge. The new boats are
expected to make the same trip in
about Is minutes.
Mr. Brennan said the new cruisers
would be about 30 feet long and
would cost $500 each. Delivery Is
expected within 30 dayS.
Evening star., 1946-08-28
VFW Unit Named to Aid
Return Of Service Dead

A World War II Repatriation
Committee to assist Montgomery
County families who wish to have
a serviceman brought home for
burial or cremation has been ap-
pointed by James r. Miller, COM
mander of County Post No. 1858,
Veterans Of Foreign Wars.
The committee, headed by Robert
A. Pumphrey, also will assist in
furnishing military pallbearers, color
guards, bugler and firing squads.
Evening star., 1946-08-28
0ct. 81 JuryTria|
SET for Grover
In Bus Death
Youth Freed on Bond
After Not-GuiIty PIeo
To Homicide Charge

Stephen Lee Grover, 1S, pleaded
not guilty today and was granted
\ Jury trial on a negligent homi-
eide charge lodged against him
as result of the death of William
Friess, IS, in the August auto-bus
crash on Memorial Bridge.
Judge Ellen K. Raedy in Municipal
Court set the trial for October 81
and continued bond at $1,000. The
youth, who was at the wheel OF the
passenger car which collided with a
Washington-bound bus when Mr..
Fiiess was fatally injured, also is free
In 81 900 bond on reckless driving
charge
Grover was found responsible for
the death of the 65-year -old bus
passenger by coroner's jury yes
terday.
Faces Reckless Driving Charge.
The inquest was DELAYED until
Yesterday to permit injured victims
to recover sufficiently to testify.
Grover is the son of Mrs. Louise
Grover of 2900 Connecticut avenue
NV.
The collision with the Arnold
Lines bus sent the bus crashing
through the bridge railing to a road
way % feet below.
Mr.. Fr1eSS died the next day.
Forty-three others suffered injuries.
Testimony brought out that Grover
was south-bound on the bridge. en-
route to his desk at the Navy De-
partment Annex, when the crash
occurred. The bus driver said the
Grover car swerved into the bus's
path and collided with the packed
vehicle before the driver could
sWerve out of the way.
Steering Control Knocked Out.
Mr.. Hills said in statement to
police that his steering mechanism
was locked by the impact, prevent
ing him from averting the plunge
through the bridge railing. Motor
Vehicle Inspector Charles Violette
testlfled that his examination of the
wreckage of the bus showed that
the collision rendered its air brakes
and steering apparatus imperative.
witnesses differed on the speeds
at which both vehicles were travel
ling, but other testimony indicated
the Grover car made wide turn
into the bridge, skidded into the
wrong side of the highway and into
the bus while out of control.
Growers statement to police said
he was in a state of terror when he
saw the bus in front of him and
remembered nothing after the
collision.
Evening star., 1946-08-28
Garfield 70 Lend 500
MatricuIation Costs
For Nurse TRAINING

Garfield Hospital, trying for more
than a year to stimulate it's nursing
recruiting program, announced yes
terday it will advance the entire
matriculation cost of approximately
5000 in its nursing school in Sep
tenber.
DR.. Francis j. Eisenman, super
intendent Of the hospital, announced
that as many nurses "as we can GET
will be accepted under this plan.
Garf1eld's freshman quota is rs, of
which only third have signed up.
Expenses covered by the plan are
costs of books and uniforms. Each
student, after the three-year course
is completed, will repay the amount
within one year, under the agree
ment with the hospital. Under an
increased salary scale, nurses will
get $170 month and meals and
laundry.
The Garfield plan, first in the
District, probably will be followed
by the other institutions. All hos
pitals reported yesterday that only
up to half of their quotas have
been filled. Between $50 and 300
students can be handled in the fall
session at Providence, Georgetown,
Garfield, Emergency, Sibley and St.
Elizabeth's Hospitals. Only 1873
have enrolled to date.
Miss Edith M. Beattie, executive
secretary of the Graduate Nurses
Association, called the Garfield plan
"a very excellent businesslike idea. >
Shortages of student nurses are
blamed on high-paying Govern
ment. jobs and the marriage of
prospective applicants. Candidates
must pass an aptitude test and be
of the upper half of their school
graduating class.
Some scholarships are available,
and women veterans are eligible
under the CT Bill of RIGHTS
Evening star., 1946-08-28
Razing Of Buildings
In Municipal Center
Area Is Started

Work on razing a number of ole
buildings in the Municipal Center
area has been started as part oil
the Districts program to modernize
its Government structures.
The Civil Service Commission
regional office is moving out of q
building at 462 Indiana avenue
NV, to make room for District
offices moving in from the con-
demned buildings. Civil Service is
establishing new Offices in the
Tariff Commission Building, on F
street between Seventh and Eighth
streets NV.
Scheduled to move into the In
diana avenue building are the Pub
lie Welfare Departments baby
clinic and childrens services, the
Hospital Permit Bureau and the
Public Assistance Division of the
Welfare Department.
Already coming down or ssched-
uled for razing soon are buildings
at 458 and 460 Indiana avenue and
at 46l and 469 G street. The Ace
Wrecking and Building Materials
Co. is paying s3,655 for salvage
privileges.
These buildings will be replaced
by new West Administration
Building, styled like the present
Municipal Center Building.
Other buildings will be razed
later, including those at 472 and
480 Indiana avenue, now occupied
by divisions of the Health Depart
ment. When the new administra-
ton building Is completed the Dis
trict is likely to dispose of the old
Havenner Bakery warehouse at 467
G street NV, now used for stor-
age, and the old Metropolitan
Church at 230 John Marshall place
NV.
Razing of the buildings repre-
sents a start of the reconstruction
program interrupted by the war.
Evening star., 1946-08-28
Porolee ChoreedWithSwitching
Dime Store Ring for Real Gems

The trial of Mike Day, %, a
paroled convict, charged with steal
ing two diamond rings from WASH
ington jewelers. and leaving substi-
tutes of lesser worth in their places,
was continued today until Saturday
by Municipal Court Judge Ellen X.
Raedy.
Day is charged with grand larceny
He was released In $4,000 bond pend
ing trial. The continuance was re-
quested by his counsel, Denny
Hughes.
Day. who lives in the HOO
block of Holbrook terrace NE, ac-
cording TO police, bought a "dia-
mon6" ring at the bauble counter
OF a 5-and-10-cent store last We'd
nesday and Immediately set out to
improve his holdings.
Detectives said he went to the
Jewel Mart. 500 block Of Fourteenth
Evening star., 1946-08-28
Sons Of ; Army Men
Switch Allegiance,
Enlist in Marines

Three 'teen-aged Fort Belvoir
tVa0 youths-sons of Army fathers
who served an aggregate Of 10 years
enlisted in the Marine Corps to-
day.
I'VE never lived anywhere but on
an Army post" the three said as one
man. I'VE had to go into the service
anyhow, SO we decided to be Ma
rines."
The boys are: Christian v. Miller.
jr., 18, sophomore at Mount Ver-
non High School, near Lorton, and
a native Washingtonian: John F.
Dewey, II, who graduated from
Western High School in June and is
also a District native, and Charles
E. Ford, jr., IT, a sophomore at
Western. They took the oath from
Capt. F. w. Baker at the Marine
recruiting office. Fourteenth street
and Pennsylvania avenue NV.
Pvt. Dewey said he selected the
Marines In compliance with mis- dead
fathers wish. His dad, Clark H
Dewey, served as a technical SER
geant in the Army engineers for q
years until a wild bullet fatally
wounded him during target prac-
tice at Quantico, Va, in 1895.
Pvt. Miller said he had lived on
Army posts with his father, a re-
tired master sergeant, all his life
The Millers. father and son, agreed
he should join the Marines when he
became old enough. The elder Mil
Ter served "a years with the Army
8 years with the Navy, 3 years in
the Canadian Army and 3 years
with the merchant marine. Some
how he missed the Marines.
Pvt. Ford ran into parental oppo-
sition. His father, NJ /Sergt. Charles
Ford, sr., post food and meat inspec-
tor at Fort Belvoir, wanted his boy
to follow him into the Army. Charles
said he had enough of Army life.
All three leave for boot training
at Paris Island, S. c., tonight. They
will serve two-year bitches in the
Regular Marine Corps, and all three
plan to resume their education wfe1
they are discharged.
Evening star., 1946-08-28
Terminal Renovation
PIonned by A., B. & W.

The Alexandria, Bancroft g. Wash
ington Bus Co. yesterday announced
plans for renovation of the bus ter
mlnai at Pitt and Cameron streets
Alexandria, at cost of $4,000.
A candy concession to be operated
by two blind persons recommended
by the Virginia Commission for the
Blind will be installed and separate
waiting room sections will be pro-
vided for white and colored passen-
gers.
Evening star., 1946-08-28
Virginia Milk Dealers
Urqed to Hold Price Line
BY tho Associotsd Pres,

RICHMOND, Va, Aug. 28-The
Virginia Milk Commission urged
producers and distributors today ito
do everything within their power
to avoid any further increase in the
price of milk.
Calling attention to the decision
of the National Price Decontrol
Board holding that milk increases
thus far had not been out of line
in view of the discontinuance of
Federal subsidies, the State Com
mission sent letters to distributors
chairman and secretaries of local
milk boards, and Producers AS
sociations, urged them Ito hold the
line"
Evening star., 1946-08-28
Three Typhoid Fever Cases
Reported in Last Week

Two cases of typhoid fever were
reported at Childrens Hospital yes
terday, bringing the District total
for the year to % as compared to
10 at this time last year.
The new cases are a 13-month-
old girl of the 300 block of Seventh
street Sc. and 1-year-old girl of
the 1700 block of Massachusetts,
avenue NV. Both are doing well.
A third case is being treated at
Gallinger Hospital. The victim is
a 4-year-old colored boy of the 1900
block of Twelfth street NV, ad-
mitted week ago and also doing
we'll
Officials at Children's Hospital
said it was not unusual to have two
or three cases at this time of year.
Evening star., 1946-08-28
Illinois U. Editor Dies

BUTLER, Pa, Aug. % tR.-H.
Carl Oesterling. 81. former editor OF
the University of Illinois Press. died
in Butler Hospital yesterday of a
fractured skull suffered in a 20-foot
fall from a porch roof. Mr.. Oester-
ling retired three years ago because
OF i'll health.
Evening star., 1946-08-28
Model Town PIunned

A new modern industrial town,
"the last word" in community de-
signing, is to be built at Talara, on
the coast OF Northern Peru, If the
plan is approved by an international
petroleum company operating there.
The town would replace the pres
ent oil-camp towns of Talara, and
Negritos.
Evening star., 1946-08-28
Enlist for Occupation

In New Zealand, 1898 men had
enlisted for service with occupation
troops in Japan, according to latest
reports in Wellington. The total
was made up of 1855 Europeans and
1,173 Maoris, an encouraging fea-
ture was that about rs per cent OF
volunteers were found fit for service.
Evening star., 1946-08-28
Burton Hawkins to Speok

Burton Hawkins, baseball writer
for The Star, will address the Co.'S
mopolitan Club of Washington at
its luncheon at 1890 pm. tomorrow
in the Carlton Hotel
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-10-31

U S. DEPARTMENT COMMERCE., WEATHER BUREAU
 ALASKA DATA M, 12OTH MERIDIAN TIMf WEATHER BULLETIN
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-10-31
MARTHA SOCIETY
 OF N. |. CHURCH
 MEETS TOMORROW

The Martha Society will meet for dessert and business in the parlors of the Northern Light Presbyterian Church, tomorrow afternoon at l o'clock. Mrs. Julia Rice and Mrs. Harvey Starling will be hostesses
 All members are urged to be prompt, in order that the business of completing plans for the an nual bazaar. to be held Nov 15, may be finished by 2 o'clock. It is hoped all members will then attend the program with the Pres byterial Delegates at that time.
 Any sewing which has been com pleted for the bazaar should be turned in at this meeting.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-10-31

engineers that it looks as if the strike will go into next year
 Apparently resigned to the fact that the shipowners and the up- ions are as far from settlement as they have been at any time in the last 31 days, GNU co-chairman Harry Bridges called a joint strike strategy and negotiating committee to meet and tighten up" the freeze cn shipping from west coast ports.
 It is apparent from the ship owners attitude that no early set tlement--or even further negotia- tions with one of the unions-is in sight" Bridges said
 It looks as :s the strike will go into next year. The unions are con- vinced their existence is at stake. Moreover. the shipowners are guaranteed by government funds against any real money losses, no matter how long the strike con- tinues."
 Attorneys for Waterfront Elm ployers Association meanwhile be- gan a study ot the $6,000,000 dam age suit brought by the CIO In- ternational Longshoremens and Warehousemen's Union. The long shoremen charged that tl,e employ CTS had withheld retroactive wage increases agreed to last June.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-10-31
SHIP READY,
 CONDITIONS
 MADE OVER

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