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Evening star., 1946-12-09
Art Center and Council
Here Urged al Meeting

Establishment Of q Washington
community art center and formation
Of council of local artists. educa-
tors and others to increase public
interest in art were urged at meet
ing yesterday at the Washington
Workshop, 2020 Massachusetts, ave-
nue NV.
The discussion was led by DR.. Paul
Douglass. president of American
University; Charles Seymour. jr.
assistant chief curator Of the Ma
tional Gallery Of Art: Herman VIII
liams, assistant director Of the Cor
coran Gallery of Art: Robert r
Gates. president Of the Artists
Guild; Thomas c. Parker, director
Of the American Federation Of Arts;
Helmuth F. Kern, manager of the
Potomac Broadcasting Cooperative,
and Leon Berkowitz, art instructor
at Eastern High School and pro-
gram director Of the Washington
Workshop. More than 100 repre-
sentatives Of art groups and schools
attended.
Washington artists, 1t was agreed
at the meeting, should not "stay in
an ivory tower" but should be active
in acquainting the general public
with art work and resources here.
Television may be used eventually
at American University as public
art education project, Dr.. Douglass
said. At the suggestion Of Mr.. VIII
liams, 1t was decided to set up an
art council which eventually would
include representatives OF many
groups interested in art.
Evening star., 1946-12-09

Depleted coal stocks were about
all that remained today to remind
the Warrington area Of the effects
OF the 17-day soft coal strike.
i The short supplies did not cause
concern because Of the apparent as
surance that they would be replen-
ished before reaching an acute
stage. However, it will be at least
q few days before consumers can
get all the coal they want when
they want 1t,
The Solid Fuels Administration,
meanwhile, announced cancellation
Of an emergency conference sched-
uled tomorrow for State coal con-
servators and Governors repre-
sentatives.
The Baltimore q Ohio and the
Chesapeake & Ohio Railroads an
nounced the restoration OF all pas
seneer trains discontinued early In
Evening star., 1946-12-09
Park Central Tenants
Jam Rental Hearing

Approximately 125 residents Of the
Park Central apartment house, 1900
r street NV, filled hearing room
to overfiowing today as hearings
began on proposed rent increases for
the apartment before the District
Rent Control Board.
Most OF the throng are members
Of the newly formed Tenants Co
operative Association, which was
organized when Morris Cafritz, large
real estate operator, sought the
boards approval Of rental increases.
The rental increases asked by the
Park Central owners range from
IS to ~ per cent, with an average
of Is per cent.
AS attorneys for the real estate
concern began to present their case
before Examiner Ernest Williams,
Charles Kohen, tenant for IA years,
shouted from the rear Of the room:
Mr.. Examiner, I'd like to be heard
now. / have q one-man business
which I had to close to be here
and I also have an important Amer
ican Legion meeting at noon"
Examiner Williams told Mr..
Kohen he would hear him "the first
thing" tomorrow. Mr.. Kohen, salts
field, left the hearing.
He operates hobby shop In the
TOO block of Seventeenth street. He
said he was a founder of the Vet
Grams of Foreign Wars and the
American Legion in the District.
Evening star., 1946-12-09
200 Veterans on Hand
AT Folf Meade Surplus Sale

About 200 veterans some Of whom
arrived several hours before the 8
am opening, were on hand at q
surplus property sale Of $842, 900 in
automotive spare parts today at
Fort Meade.
The sale is being conducted by
the Baltimore district of1ce Of the
War Assets Administration and the
first four days Of this week are for
certified veterans. WAA oficials
said the material includes new as
well as used parts and is being
offered In lots priced from 500 to
$500.
Other priority groups will have
an opportunity to buy next Friday,
Monday and Tuesday. Three days,
December 1920, have been set aside
for commercial dealers.
Evening star., 1946-12-09
Paper Collections
Pass 10-Ton Mark

A total Of a. schools have bought
the wastepaper collections in The
Evening Star-PTA program beyond
the lotion mark since resumption of
collections this fall.
The "a schools, with their individ-
ual totals, follow: Shepherd, 1851
pounds; Lafayette, 61,629 pounds;
Buchanan, 5O,l01 pounds; Wood
ridge, 1901 pounds; H. d. Cooke,
39,038 pounds; West, 37,619 pounds;
Stoddert, 36,367 pounds; Jefferson,
30,341 pounds; Benning, 30,133
pounds; Stanton, 29, ,926 pounds; Orr,
e, ,210 pounds; Mrlrch, 29, ITO pounds;
Takoma Park, 27,838 pounds; Randle
Highlands, 27,347 pounds; Barnard,
26,959 pounds; Mott, 25,005 pounds:
Seaton, $500 pounds; Wallach, 49,
142 pounds; Noyes, 22,634 pounds;
Kimball 22,419 pounds; Powell,
81 800 pounds; Bryan, 21,356 pounds:
Bancroft, 81, ,223 pounds, and Brook
land, 20,608 pounds.
Collections tomorrow in the second
district, together with the leaders,
will be as follows:
Evening star., 1946-12-09
MedIey's Last Chance
To Live Appears Gone

Joseph D. Medley's last chance Of
escaping death December 20 in the
electric chair at District Jail ap-
parently vanished today with the
announcement that his attorney,
Charles e. Ford, plans no legal
action to follow a psychiatrist's re-
port on the convicted slayer.
Mr.. Ford, called into the case at
Medley's own request In an eleventh
hour effort to avoid the chair, issued
the following statement:
'tOne of the country's outstanding
psychiatrists has examined Mr..
Medley at the District Jail. ! have
his report. I do not contemplate
any legal proceedings"
Medley was examined In his death
house cell by DR.. Seymour ]. Ros-
enberg. He was convicted Of the
murder of Mrs. Nancy Boyer after
an all-night poker party.
Also scheduled to die with Medley
on December 20 are Julius Fisher
and William Copeland, colored.
Evening star., 1946-12-09
Big Inch Cos Delivery
To Midwest Continues
BY the Asseeiaisd Press

@ & r, t-
A War Assets Administration ON
cial said today that the end Of the
coal strike would not change the
Governments agreement for tenn
porary use Of the Big and Little
Big Inch pipelines to carry natural
gas to the Midwest.
WAA has entered into q contract
whereby the Tennessee Gas q
Transmission Co. viii operate the
lines until next April 80 as q gas
conveyer. The gas will be piped
from the Southwest Is far East
as Ohio.
Meanwhile, WAA Is preparing .
report to the House Surplus Prop
erty Committee on plans for dnal
disposition Of the lines.
Evening star., 1946-12-09
Flames Rout 80 Families in Lonier Place;
Heavy Loss Averted by Prompt Action
Blaze Sweeps Up
Shaft Into Kitchens
OfApurtments

Approximately 80 families were
routed from their apartments
but escaped injury early today
when fire-resistant materials
and the prompt arrival Of 1ire-
men were credited with averting
possible loss OF life in an apart
ment house at IT'S Lanier
place NV.
The blaze was said to have
started in q dumb-waiter shaft at
about am.
The shaft runs to the top Of the
three-story brick building, serving
six apartments. Damage was
chiefly confined to the kitchens Of
the apartments, all Of which were
badly charred.
The blaze was discovered by John
G.. Broumas,, occupant Of ground
floor apartment. He said he was
awakened by cracking sounds from
the wall between his bedroom and
kitchen. He ran to the kitchen,
where flames were already shooting
from the dumb-waiter.
Hurriedly awakening his wife
Ruth and their daughters, Carol, 8,
and Susie, 6, Mr.. Broumas led his
family to safety, then called the
Fire Department.
In . third-floor apartment d.
rectly above the Broumas apart
ment, Mrs. Roberta B. Winkler and
Miss Ella. Welker were Awakened by
the commotion and fed to safety
when they saw flames and smoke
coming from their kitchen.
Mrs. Winkler Is assistant secre-
tary to Representative Lea, Demo-
crat, OF California, while Miss
Welker is to be the secretary Of
Senator-elect Watkins, Republican.
of Utah.
In another third floor apartment
on the other side Of the dumb
waiter was Mrs. Belle Burden, Cen
eral Accounting Once employe, and
a roommate, Miss Donna Perry.
Mrs. Burden said she pounded on
the wall to awaken her neighbor,
while Miss Perry rolled her cloth
ing into bundle and hurled 1t to
the ground.
Firemen managed to limit the
blaze to the kitchens Of each apart
ment. No. 81 engine company Is
located only q block away and re-
sponded quickly. Fourteen pieces
of equipment were on the scene.
Firemen attributed the relatively
small damage to the f1re-resistant
building materials which delayed
the spread of the flames.
In another weekend fire three
persons suffered minor injuries
when they were forced to jump from
a second-story window to safety at
1414 Eighth street NV, the Fire
Department reported.
The two-story frame,and-brick
house, set afire by an overheated
stove, was damaged considerably,
firemen said. Those who escaped
were Catherine Luck, 81; Quincy
Belle Robinson, 23, and Elizabeth
Marshall, II, all colored. The three
were treated at Freedmen's Hos
pital. @s.
Evening star., 1946-12-09
Greenbrier Conversion
Is Pressed by Mayor
~ the Asyoejosed Pres,

Officials of White Sulphur Springs,
w. Va, sought today to expedite
Federal authorization of work on re-
converting the Greenbrier Hotel to
private use.
Mayor Kenneth M. Gillespie said
he planned to talk with Civilian
Production Administration officials
about a permit he said had been
pending for about two months.
Authorization of work, to cost
about size, 900 is asked in the permit
application made by the Chesapeake
81 Ohio Railway. The railroad re-
Gently reacquired the property for
about $4,000, 900 after the Army de-
clared it surplus as hospital.
Evening star., 1946-12-09
ForeweIi Porty for Willis
Given by Indiana Society

A farewell party In honor Of
Senator Willis, Republican, of In
diana was sponsored by the In
diana State Society here yesterday
at the old Lord Baltimore House.
Senator Willis will be succeeded in
the Senate in January by william
E. Jenner, Republican.
The 500 guests at the tea were
greeted by Senator Willis, Maj. Gen.
Lewis B. Hershey, vice president of
the society; Senator and Mrs. Cape
hart, Representative and Mrs.
Charles A. Halleck and Rear Ad-
miral and Mrs. Leslie Clark Stevens.
Evening star., 1946-12-09
Bishop NoII Outlines
Completion Program
For Shrine al {. U.

The Catholic hierarchy Of the
United States has authorized COM
pletion Of the National Shrine Of
the Immaculate Conception ut
Catholic University, the Most Rev.
John r. Noll, Bishop Of Fort Wayne,
Ind, announced yesterday at the
shrine during his sermon in OBJ
servance of the patronal Feast Of
the Immaculate Conception.
Bishop Noll spoke at the solemn
pontifical mass which followed the
investiture OF the Right Rev. Msgr.
John J. Reilly, nationai director Of
the shrine, as domestic prelate to
His Holiness Pope Plus XII. The
Most Rev. Amleto Giovanni Cicog-
mani, apostolic delegate to the
United States, was the investing
prelate and also celebrant Of the
mass.
The investiture ceremony took
place at the Mary altar in the
shrine. Wearing q purple cassock.
and carrying the rochet and man
telletta, Msgr Reilly knelt before
Archbishop Cicognani. The apes
tolic delegate blessed the robes and
formally invested the new mon-
signor.
Msgr. Reilly, a native Of Hartford,
Conn, was ordained in 1923 by the
late Cardinal Mercier of Belgium.
He has been director of the National
Shrine Of the Immaculate Concep-
ton for six years. His appointment
as q domestic prelate to Pope Plus
XII was announced October "a.
Bishop Noll said the first Ma
tion-wide collection to raise money
for completion of the edifice viii
be held on Mothers Day, May II,
1947. Observing that the cost of
erecting the superstructure and the
campanile and of embellishing the
interior will be millions Of dollars,
Bishop Noll said, Divided among
all Mary,s devotees, the burden on
each will be extremely light"
The Very sRev. Thomas E.
Mitchell dean Of the school Of social
work at Catholic University, was as
sistant priest to the apostolic dele
gate at the mass. The Rev. Pascal
Parente Of the school of sacred
theology and the Rev. Frank p. Cas-
sidy Of the graduate school Of arts
and sciences of Catholic University
were deacons Of honor to the apos-
tolic delegate.
Evening star., 1946-12-09
CorneIia OTIS Skinner Gets
Post in March Of Dimes

Cornelia Otis Skinner, actress and
author, will be the 1947 March Of
Dimes chairman of women's activi-
ties, it was announced today by Basil
O'Conor, president of the National
Foundation for Infantile Paralysis.
Miss Skinner will greet the women
State advisors Of the national foun-
dation at their second annual con-
ference Thursday through Saturday
of this week In New York. Last year
she served as vice chairman of the
women's division of the Greater New
York Chapter.
Evening star., 1946-12-09
BruziIiun Chief Of Stoff
To Honor u. S. Unknown

Gen. Salvador Cesar Obino, chief
of the joint general staff Of the
Brazilian armed forces, will place
a wreath on the Tomb Of the Un-
known Soldier at 11:15 am. tomor-
row, the War Department an
nounced today.
Gen. Obino arrived in Washing
ton last Tuesday to inspect Amer
lean military installations as guest
OF the War Department. His official
host during the ceremonies will be
Brig. Gen. Claude B. Ferenbaugh,
commandant Of the Washington
Military District.
Evening star., 1946-12-09
Mrs. CIoro M. Page Dies;
Native Of Washington

Funeral services for Mrs. Clara
M. Page, native Washingtonian, who
died yesterday at Homeopathic Hos
pital after a long illness, will be held
at II am. tomorrow at the Hines
funeral home, 2901 Fourteenth street
NV. Burial will be in Cedar Hill
Cemetery.
She was employed for 10 years in
the United States Chamber of Com
merce. She leaves her husband,
Bacon K. Page, chief clerk at the
Cosmos Club. The Pages made their
home at 1929 Twenty-eighth street
NV
Evening star., 1946-12-09
Meeting Put Off Again
By MucfurIund PTA

The Macfarland Junior High
School Parent Teacher Association
will not meet tonight. It was er-
|roneously announced yesterday that,
due to the resumption Of coal pro-
duction, the group would hold its
regular meeting.
Today, however, School Supt.
Hobart M. Corning, who was sched-
uled to speak at the meeting, in
formed PTA officials he could not
|rearrange plans he made after he
had received word Of the cancella-
tion last week,
Evening star., 1946-12-09

Yes, Virginia, there Is q Santa
Claus but his bag of gifts this year
is as up-to-the-minute as q jet
plane. Santa is nobody's fool. He
knows Virginia's little heart will
beat faster when she sees her new
doll. Santa also knows virginia's
Christmas tree win be q wisely
dressed tree, because it viii have
tucked onto its branches crisp new
United States Savings Bonds. Long
after Virginia's dolly has hobbled
down the sentimental road of yes
terday, Virginia,s Savings Bonds will
be with her to make her future
Christmases brighter and happier.
~. s. Trea3kry Department
Evening star., 1946-12-09

has not been set. Charles 5. Walter ID.
The accident happened while the
boy was riding his bicycle In the 800
block of West Virginia avenue NE,
police said. He had served as an
altar boy in several masses at Holy
Name Catholic Church earlier in the
day, according to his parents, who
live at ll65 Neal street NE.
Charles, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles S. Walter, jr., was an eighth
grade student at Holy Name School
He was pronounced dead Of frac-
tured skull and broken leg at Cas-
ualty Hospital. Funeral arrange
ments for the boy have not been
made as yet, his father said.
At this time last year, police said,
80 persons had met death In traf-
fic accidents here. The 1945 total
was 96.
Meanwhile, Coroner A. Magruder
Macdonald scheduled inquests for
today in two earlier traffic deaths,
those of Robert G. Dyson and Har-
old KERN.
Joseph j. Trimachi, 20, Of 534
Sixth street Sc, was driver of the
Car which struck Mr.. Dyson, 70, of
632 B street Sc, on October 8 in
the 200 block Of Seventh street Sc.
Mr.. Dyson died last Tuesday at
Casualty Hospital.
Also scheduled to appear today
before the Coroner's jury Is Marvin
Kaplan, II, Of 1418 Floral street
NV, who police said was the driver
Of the car which struck Mr.. KERN
early Saturday. Mr.. KERN, IS. who
lived at 2420 North Capitol street,
was struck at Fourteenth and Irving
streets NV. He was pronounced
dead at Emergency Hospital.
Evening star., 1946-12-09
Bar Association 70 Meet

The District Bar Association will
discuss proposed legislation to be
submitted to Congress and win hear
committee reports at the monthly
association meeting at 8 o'clock to-
night in the Mayfower Hotel
Evening star., 1946-12-09

0eneaCn an Ol
truck with which
his bicycle coll
lided, according
to police.
N orm a n g.
Cohen, "a, of 280
Twenty : eighth
street NV, list
ed as driver Of
the truck, was
held for action
of the coroner,
but police said
an inquest date
Evening star., 1946-12-09
Boy CycIist, Is, KILLED
By Truck in Years
66fh Fatal Accident

Wasfflngton's 1916 traffic fatality
toll rose to 66 over the week end
with the death yesterday of Charles
s. Walter Sd, 13, who was crushed
Evening star., 1946-12-09


compensate for the inadequacies of
= other services, and the commercial
nIaesment and training agencies
thrive because they fill need which
the public agencies should fill and
do not.
The activities of the placement
agencies are unplanned attempts to
fill day-to-day orders with no day.
to-day applicants, the Survey
pointed out, and In addition no at
tempt is made to follow up the
placement to see If the worker is
still employed.
Veterans being the largest group
OF applicants for jobs, the Veterans
Administration should become more
closely integrated with other voca-
tional services in the community
and should collaborate with other
agencies In developing training Qp-
portunities for veterans. Handi-
capped veterans at the present
time, the report claims, are the only
ones receiving proper training, and
in many cases after the veteran has
finished his course, the Veterans
Administration cuts him loose.
Washington has long been known
as an area with wide employment
opportunities for women, and pos
sibly more women are employed
here than in any other area its size,
the report points out. Most of the
major industries here are tradition
ally employers of women. The cleri-
cal nature of much Government
work and private trades and sery-
ices have always been attractive to|
large, numbers Of women.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-02-13
Catholic Daughters To Hold re-Lenten
 Card Parry Feb. 4

Seven new members were vel coned into the Catholic Daughters of America Court here last night, with initiation ceremonies presided over by Mrs. Walter Hellan, Grand Regent, assisted by the other off cers of the Court.
 The new members include Mrs. D. Bolton, Mrs. Dorothy Sweeney, Mrs. Mary Ellen Zach, Mrs. Estelle Hebert, Mrs Anna Macleod Mrs. Margaret McCarrcn and Miss Mar garet Miller.
 Following the initiation cere- monies Mrs. Henry Harmon gave a beautiful rendition of ave Maria" which was much enjoyed by her audience. The Rev. Louis Fink, s. J., made short speech of welcome, and the Rev Wm Mo- Intyre, s. J. was also a guest who added his greetings to the Courts newest. members.
 Mrs Jack Maloca, a member of the Ketchikan CD. of A. Court, was a visitor at last nights meet ing, with an interesting account to give of their activities in Ketchi- kan
 Mrs. Norman Buoy and Mrs. Thomas Rudolph, who were in charge of last nights social hour, served delightful refreshments which were greatly enjoyed by the many present.
 At the business session which followed initiation, a Pre-Lenten card party to be held Tuesday evening, Feb. 26, at o'clock in the Parish Hall was arranged.
 Serving on the committee will be Mrs. Katherine Nordale, Mrs Wm. Riggs, Mrs. Thomas Rudolph and Miss Dess O'Neill. The card party will be a public affair, and every one is cordially invited to remem- Der the date and to be there to enjoy an evening of whist, bridge CT pinochle. Prizes will be awarded, and refreshments served.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-02-13

type manufactured by Douglas. They were made at the Oklahoma City plant and modified at Santa Monica to PNA's specifications.
 Polly Knight, formerly with the American Airlines, is chief stew ardess. Other stewardesses are: June Rees, Ely Crane, and Louise Leitner.
 The q passengers making the inaugural flight here were as fol- lows; Anchorage Mayor John Man ders, A. c. Woodley, President of PIMA; Mrs. A. G. Woodley; R. w. Slough, Alaska Examiner of the Civil Aeronautics Board; Mrs. R. w. Slough; Norman Brown, editor of the Anchorage News; Robert Atwood, editor of the Anchorage Times; Ken Laughlin, KFQD man ager; Lou Nichols, Public Rela- tions Director of Douglas Air craft Company; Walter Plett, Re- gional Director of Civil Aeronautics Authority; Ed Davis, President of the Anchorage Chamber of Com merce; Cecil A. Durose, PIMA Op- erauons Manager; Robert Baer, representative of Whitney Aircraft Company; ATney Harbert. William Fawcett, Shirley Oliver, 1 Robert R. Evelyn. Edgar Pearson, J. A. Matocka, Cecilia Thomas.
 Local passengers boarding the plane for it's return flight to An chorage were Pfc. T. D. Williams, D. Douglas, Mrs. D. Douglas, Ed Coffey, Mrs. D. Starr, Ward John son, D. Hobit and Chas. Douglas.
 Invited out to the airport to offi- cially greet the new DC-3 were ap- proXimately 20 Juneau residents in- cluding Mayor Ernest Parsons, Sec retary of Alaska Lew Williams, Ma ior Chet Waggoner of Support, It. Eddie Nugent of the Coast Guard, and representatives from all local airlines, newspapers, churches and large business firms.
 Weather conditions prevented the group from taking a previously planned courtesy flight over Taku Glacier in the new plane.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-02-13

Marking the first time any en- tirely new airplane has been put into operation by an Alaskan air service, Pacific Northern Airlines luxury coastliner arrived in Juneau yesterday afternoon on it's inaug- ural flight with Capt. Robert Des- marias and Co-pilot Ed Bowman at the controls.
 The plane, the first of a fleet Of new DC-3's to be put in service by PIMA, will be used on the regu- lar schedule between Anchorage and Juneau, Kodiak and western Alas ka points.
 Flying the PIMA insignia which ln- corporatas the company name and the flag of Alaska, the silver trans port bears red stripe with a black border from nose to tail.
 The latest in electronic devices for safe flying are incorporated in the 21-passenger plane, which can be operated on an automatic direc- tion finder.
 Done in desert sand and hunters green, the luxurious interior of the transport is appointed with many special comforts and gadgets.
 Among them are; reading lights for individual seats so that pas senger may read without interfer- ing with his seat mates privilege to lights out; built-in kitchen cite from which hot foods may be served; the latest improved ven- tilation system; chimes instead of the usual buzzer for stewardess service; a heavy carpet over the entire plane floor which insures maximum quietness in the almost totally sound -proofed passenger section; desert tan blankets with PIMA insignia in green; chairs go connections that passengers can almost lie down in them, and mag azine racks at each seat.
 On the forward wall of the pas senger section is photographic mural of a mountain scene north of Anchorage.
 The coastliner and it's compan- icn DC-3s were the Hast of their
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-02-13
New York Schools 10 Reopen Tomorrow;
 Criticism by Mayor

NEW YORK, Feb. 13.-Schools will reopen tomorrow despite the tugboat strike. Mayor William O'Dwyer said there had been a more orderly distribution of fuel deliveries and improvement in the amount of supplies.
 The Mayor previously had lifted his fuel-saving edict and made pos sible the re-opening of business es- establishments throughout the city. O'Dwyer criticized the method of organizing the distribution of gov crnment-seized tugboats by Federal authorities. He said this caused the city to have only 5000O0 gallons of oil last Monday night, enough for "one quarter of a days essen tial activity"