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Evening star., 1946-09-09
Bradley Ruling
Asked on Neviius
Hospital Site
Bennett Wants Dutu
On Conferences With
Planning Commission

A clear-cut statement from Vet
erans' Administrator Bradley on the
Nevius tract rs site of the new
Washington veterans hospital was
to be sought today to clear the way
for action by the Federal Board OF
disqualification tomorrow.
B. Frank Bennett, director Of the
Republication Board staff, said he
would ask Gen. Bradley to report on
the results of conferences with the
National Capital Park and Planning
Commission.
Despite reports that the commits
sion and the veterans agency were
unable to agree on restrictions in
constructing a hospital at the Ar
lington County site, Mr.. Bennett
said SO far as he knew the confer
ences had been amicable.
Bradley View Sought.
Mr.. Bennett said Gen. Bradley
would be asked to state specifically
what restrictions he would agree to
If the hospital was put on the
Nevius tract.
The Park and Planning Commis-
sion, Mr.. Bennett said, probably
would agree to the site but would
advise certain restrictions as to
height and building materials
While the commission has no veto
power, he said, it is desirable that
IT'S recommendations be followed.
Gen. Bradley, he added, will have
10 decide whether the restrictions
would add so much to the cost OF
construction and operating the hos
pdtal as to be prohibitive.
Height an Issue.
He said the commission had been
talking in terms of low building
not over six stories. VA engineers,
on the other hand, have been talk
ing about a taller building, in line
with the standard architecture of
veterans hospitals elsewhere, Mr..
Bennett explained.
The Park and Planning Commits
sion has made it clear it wants the
hospital ito be inconspicuous" and
not to strike discordant note be-
hind the Lincoln Memorial.
To insure an inconspicuous de-
sign, the Park and Planning Com
mission wants the architect to be
approved by the Fine Arts Commits
sion before his appointment, Mr..
Bennett said. The veterans agency
customarily leaves the choice of an
architect to the chief of the Corps
Of Engineers.
There's nothing controversial in
this" Mr.. Bennett said. Its just
question of whether the Veterans
Administration can see its way clear
to acceding to the recommenda-
tions Of the Park and Planning
Commission"
He said he hoped he would be
able to get report today SO the
board can review it at its meeting
tomorrow.
Evening star., 1946-09-09

apartment. MT.
Wright's body
was sent to his
sisters home at
Monmouth, Me.
The driver of
the car was un-
l n j u r e d, the
trooper added.
The head-on
crash which sent
five persons to
Annapolis Emer-
gency Hospital
early yesterday
occurred on De-
ferSe highway
ne ar RartQiS'
Evening star., 1946-09-09
Police Still Follow Leads
In Fatal Kemp Stabbinq

Inspector Robert j. Barrett, chief
of detectives. today said his men
still are working on several good
leads" in connection with the knife
murder of James Anthony Kemp
eight days ago.
The detective chief refused to say
what the leads are or whether an
arrest is ifnu1issent .gTl IS
Mr.. Kemp, a, former saflor eriz
ployed at the Naval Gun Factory
and father OF two small daughters,
was stabbed to death at the in
tersection of Thirty-seventh place
and Thirty-seventh street Sc. at
about l am. September /. Police
have been unable to uncover sus-
poets or a motive in connection
with the crime.
Evening star., 1946-09-09
Vote on Charter
Asked by 1904
In Montgomery
Question of Bourd
Would Be Submitted
At Polls Next Fall

The Montgomery County Board
Of Election Supervisors today re-
ceived a petition bearing l0,04l
signatures calling for a referendum
In November on the creation OF a
charter board to prepare a proposed
home rule plan.
The petition, filed by the County
Charter Committee calls for a vote
on the question of establishing
hve-member board to draft
charter for submission to the voters
in 1948. The referendum would be
held in connection with the regular
November elections this year If the
election supervisors determine the
petition contains the minimum of
9,252 registered voters required.
Among those from the Charter
Committee who were in the delega-
ton at Rockville today were former
Orphans Court Judge Thomas C.
Kelly, Darnestown, member of the
board of directors; Mrs. Lawrence
M. Vaughan, Bethesda, chairman of
the field division in charge of pre-
pairing the petition; Clarence N.
Smith, chairman OF a Silver Spring
precinct; Col. Norman B. Ames,
chairman Of q Bethesda precinct:
Mrs. Horace j. Nickels, of the Ex-
ecutive Committee Of the filed divis-
ion, and Mrs. John N. Werner, ex-
ecutive secretary.
Failed in 1914.
If the petition is certified. It will
be the first time since 1914 that
Montgomery County voters cast bal
lots on the home rule issue. In that
year the question failed to carry
by 1913 votes out of total Of
more than 10000.
The Charter Committee today
issued a statement which declared
the signatures represent "the efforts
OF large corps Of public spirited,
unpaid, voluntary workers who have
labored untiringly in support of the
charter program. Many OF them
sacrificed vacations to do this work
in the public interest"
Their work, the committee as
serted, revealed support for the
charter movement has increased
since 1914 as many who opposed it
then have said they would support
a charter this year.
A total of IS per cent Of those
approached signed the petitions in
the average" community while in
some areas the figure was 95 per
cent, the committee said.
Say They Feared Reprisals.
Additional signatures are being
obtained and will be filed in a sup
plement to the main petition, it
was stated.
"A substantial number Of citi-
zens, including the. families of some
county euap1oyes, .tn1icated that
they favored the charter program,
but, beeAtise of fear tof reprisas by
the county political machine in
power, we're unwilling to make their
support public by supporting the
petition" the committee declared.
There was similar evidence in Ger
tain apartment houses operated by
interests tied in with the county
political machine of fear that
they would lose their apartments if
their support of the charter be-
came publicly known"
A petition will be circulated later
to nominate five citizens selected
by the Charter Committee for the
proposed board. This latter petit
ton must be filed at least 20 days
before the November election, the
committee said.
Evening star., 1946-09-09
Signal Expert to Discuss
!np EIectronic Devices

Noel j. Granger, research analyst
office of the chief signal officer, War
Department, will discuss japanese
electronic and optical equipment a.
the meeting of the Institute of Radio
Engineers at pm. tomorrow, at
the Commerce Department Audi
torium.
The equipment discussed by Mr.
Granger will be available for in
spection after the meeting, accord
ing to Fred w. Albertson, chairman
Of the group.
Evening star., 1946-09-09
ussey Tent to Meet

The Ellen Spencer Mussey Tent,
Daughters OF Union Veterans Of the
Civil War, will meet at 20l5 Massa-
chusetts avenue NV. on Septem-
Der 16 with Mrs. Laura Kane pre-
siding. Birthdays Of June, July and
August will be honored. The 44th
anniversary Of the tent will be OBJ
served at the October I meeting.
Evening star., 1946-09-09
Prince Georges Opens
Schools, With 1900
Enrolment Expected

Prince Georges County public
schools opened today with an en-
rollment expected to reach $4,000
when records are complete.
Montgomery County schools open
next Monday and the public schools
in the District on September %.
The anticipated Prince Georges
enrolment would be nearly 1000
more than last year. Only incom-
plete figures were available this
morning because Of failure of all
new pupils to register last week,
School Supt. Gardner Shugart said.
School principals, most OF them
in their shirt sleeves and perspir-
ing. reported that some Is per cent
more pupils reported this morning
than registered last week.
Greenbelt Schools Open.
The Greenbelt schools, both ele-
mentary and high, opened in spite
OF reports last week that opening
day would be delayed because of
several cases Of infantile paralysis
in the community this summer.
John Speicher, principal of the
Greenbelt High School, estimated
that last years enrolment of $50
probably would be exceeded.
AT the Bladensburg High School,
Paul Barrhart, principal, said That
although only 500 pupils registered
last week, close to 900 arrived be-
fore noon.
Bladensburg Expects 500.
Wilbur Hoopengardner, principal
OF the Bladensburg Elementary
School, said that enrolment prob
ably would be close to 500 pupils,
200 more than registered.
Indications at the Hyattsville Ele-
mentary School this morning, how
ever, that its normal capacity of
approximately 300 might not be
reached, according to Mrs. Mary
Petty, principal.
Annual Increase 500.
There has been an annual increase
of about 500 students in the county S
SO public schools for the last 20
years, Mr.. Shugart said.
Faculties have been completed
with the exception of about 10 po-
sitions, mostly in the elementary
schools. he said. He expects to
have complete faculties at all
schools when housing facilities can
be provided in communities affect
ed. Applications for teaching posi-
tions exceeded available positions
for the first time this year.
Mr.. Shugart indicated there has
been little demand for veterans
education, but plans will be ex-
pended to meet the need If it
develops.
1874 Teaching Days.
There will be 1874 school days
In the school year beginning today
and ending June 10, 1947.
Holidays in the schedule include
October Is when members of the
faculties attend the State Teach
ers' Association meeting in Balti-
more; November S, election day;
November IL, Armistice Day; No
vember 28-December /, Thanksgiv-
ing; December 2l-January S, Christ
mas and New Year Day; April 3-S,
Easter, and May 80, Memorial Day.
Evening star., 1946-09-09

T/5 Edward Gustave Kleinkauf, jr.,
26, stationed at Fort Meade, were
killed when the motorcycle collided
with an automobile on Route Is
about a mile south of Thurmont,
State Trooper William Houke re-
ported.
Corpl. Kleinkauf and Mr.. Wright
lived in the same Mount Rainier
Evening star., 1946-09-09
Three Killed as Train
Strikes Cor Near Euston
BY the Assoeiotsd Press

EASTON, Md, Sept. 9.-Lt. Paul
Randall, commander Of the Eastern
Shore division Of the State police,
said Pennsylvania Railroad train
struck an automobile mile north
Of Easton yesterday fatally injuring
Oliver r. McNeal, SO, and his two
grandsons, Thomas McNeal, 8, and
Evans McNeal, 4.
All were from Easton.
Evening star., 1946-09-09

Corner according to hospital re-
ports.
Joseph Pindell and John Henry
Pindell, both colored of Gambrills,
Md, were admitted to the hospital
with multiple lacerations, and
Emery Smith, Riva, Md, suffering
from fractured jaw and other
head injuries.
Jonas Edelin,. 10, Gambrills, and
John Nevin, d, of near Annapolis,
were treated for minor injuries and
released.
Evening star., 1946-09-09
Virginia Teachers to Meet

Members of District G of the Vir-
ginia Education Association will
meet October IL at Winchester. The
district consists Of eight counties
having approximately l,2oo teachers.
Evening star., 1946-09-09
Do You Know That

Many mothers have thanked
God for Children's Hospital,
where their little children
were loved as well as nursed
back to health?
Help Children's Hospital
reach Its goal In its new build
ing fund drive.
Amount needed I'll SOC, 10000
Contributed to date 1,028, ,619.70
Received yesterday - .131.00
Still to be raised 271,249.30
Please send contributions
to Children's Hospital, Thir-
teenth and v streets NV.
Evening star., 1946-09-09

yesterday. Dis
trict police re-
ported no major
traffic accidents
within the city
over the week
end.
Robert Gross
Wright, 80, of
the 1900 block
Of Twenty-sev-
enth S r e e t,
Mount Rainier, ,
said by police to
have been the
operator of the
motorcycle, and
Evening star., 1946-09-09
Two Motorcycles
Killed in Collision
Near Thurmont, Md.

Two motorcylists were killed
near Thurmont, Md, and five per-
sons were injured in head-on
automobile collision near Annapolis
Evening star., 1946-09-09

Nothing tells the story Of our
eountry's strength better than the
sight OF children at school. Multiply
the scene you will witness this
month by thousands. Backing up
the dreams and hopes OF millions
OF youngsters and their parents for
sound future must be reality.
A few dollars saved regularly every
pay day and invested in U. S. Saw
ings Bonds have the power to pro-
vide education, business opportunity,
travel, better housing. health, or any
other vital asset you want for your
children.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1946-01-24
Flank Attack

Inc house committee on Un-American
Activities, sired by Representative John E.
Rankin of Mississippi and dominated bv
him, has carried out an indirect, but very
effective attack against eight radio com
mentators. The committee accused the men
of nothing, 1t simply requested that the
radio stations and networks which EMPLOY
them furnish the manuscripts these men
used for their broadcaStS over a two-month
period. That and nothing more-except that
the names of the men were printed in the
press as persons under investigation" by
Congressional group concerned with "Un-
American" activities.
We submit that that action is of deep con-
Germ to all of us in the United States. Two
of the commentators have already been
taken off the air; third remains only be-
cause he refused to accept his sponsors offer
to be released" from his contract: whether
the sponsors of the five others contemplate
polite releases" when their contracts ex-
plre, is something of which of course they
would not speak now. The fact is that every
radio commentator IN the country has been
given notice; he has received unspoken, in
direct, but unmiStakable warning that mere
announcement of an interest in\his COM
mentarieS by the Rankin committee could
cause MN 10 lose ms sponSor lose his job,
be cut off the air, be denied his Constitu-
tlonal guarantee OF freedom of expression.
That is why, aside from the natural SYM
pathy all Americans have for any man per
secuted by unfair methods, we are con-
cerned.
Freedom of expression is one of the sacred
things for which Mrs Browns boy lost his
life on the Rhine and Mrs Jones' husband
lost leg at Okinawa. We don't think that
the survivors of the one or the family of
the second should be denied any of the
freedoms that cost so dearly And we want
those freedoms for ourselves too. We recon-
mend that Mr.. Rankin and his colleagues in
Congress take care not to attempt to deprive
us of them without due process of law
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1946-01-24
Veterans Beware!

The dawn of new age finds us plagued
by the hangover of war.
Dislocations, insecurity, unrest. uncer-
tainty are the dangerous by-products of vic
tory. They can be the seeds of future strife.
Inc preservation OF the peace, as the Win
nlng OF the war, rests largely with the
100000 young Americans who, in uni
form, fought fascism
Theirs is still the choice of whether we
do or die" Let 100000 veterans be-
ware -.
We have all inhaled as it was planned that
we inhale, the poisonous pro paganda of our
conquered enemies. Such fumes are not
easily eXhaled
The native counterparts of those we met
on foreign battlefields know that our casual
ties are more than those whose sacrifice is
marked by little white wooden crosses and
Stars of David They know the poison OF
hate we breathed in the heat of war can
still destroy our Victory. They seek to
divide the 100000 into conflicting camps.
to set group against group, to set fighting
comrade against fighting comrade on bases
OF religion and race and other distinctions
which the heat of war should have dissolved
Those among us who fought against the
wiz "oulu llOW play upon war
conditioned minds to keep strife alive, know
their target for today-the 100000
We must never forget that the u 900 900
strong are strong only if they know that
their welfare depends upon the welfare of
our nation. 100000 veterans are not apart
from their mothers and fathers and sisters
and brothers, they are part of the national
whole. we fought war because man forgot
that ne IS his brothers keeper, forgot that
security IS lndlvlslble. Let the veterans be-
ware of those who would separate them
from their families and from their firhtinq
comrades.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1946-01-24
Make II A
March Of Dollars

Part of the American tradition is the aid
and cooperation fellow Americans give to
those who are afflicted and need their help.
Thousands of Americans have now volun-
teered their services in behalf of a great
cause.-the March of Dimes to raise funds
for polio victims by the National Founda-
ton for Infantile Paralysis.
The support given by Wyandotters in past
campaigns proves that they understand the
desperate need for funds to carry on the
battle :. to assure victims that one day they
will walk =. and play again . . relieving
the suffering in homes where the tragedy
of polio has struck =.
Infantile Paralysis is an expensive, un-
practicable disease which flares up again
and again despite the attempt of modern
medical science to stamp it out
So once again Wyandotters are asked to
help in the fight i. and make the March of
Dimes a march of dollars to rescue some
child from the crippler
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1946-01-24
Politicians
Plight

It's Just possible that although they GER
tainlv weren't in Japan at the time Amerl-
can political bosses of both major parties
may have been among the victims of the
atomic bombs that fell on Hiroshima and
Nagasaki.
. The existence of political bosses has al
ways been made easier by clear-cut issues
Separating one party from another. Hlgh
tariff versus low tariff, and SO on. Such
issues have made politics easy. All poll
tician had to do was to find an issue to
which majority of the people seemed SYM
pathetic and then find a candidate to spear
head it.
Unfortunately, since that atomically-lt
high noon in Hiroshima, no issue has so
consistently and completely occupied Amer
leans thinking as saving Buffalo and New
Orleans, Takoma and Jacksonville, from a
similar fate All the evidence suggests that
Republican is just as afraid OF being vapor-
lied as a Democrat, and that Democrat
can be atomically annihilated just as lnStan-
taneouSly as a Republican, which means
that the first likely-lOoking bit OF PreSl-
dental timber who comes out with an IN
telligent and fortnight plan for saving the
world from destruction IS going to cut across
party lines so fast and so thoroughly as to
eaten the pOIlIclaIlS WIFI tnelI ISSUES uOWH'
Something like that happened recently when
Captain StasSen of the U. S. Navy said, IN
effect: Lets forget this nonsense about
keeping the atomic bomb secret. 1t isn't
one. Let's stop talking futilely about out
having it as a weapon. Any desperate ma
ton is likely to use it. Let's not pretend that
the United Nations Organization, as now
constituted, can possibly prevent atomic
warfare. Let's realistically face the fact that
nothing short of world government can
possibly exist in an atomic age" Now ex-
Governor Stassen is theoretically, Repub-
lican; that that kind of talk doesn't sound
like anything other Republicans have been
SAYING. And it certainly doesn't sound like
anything Democrats are voicing. AS mat
ter of fact, it sounds rather like what a
lot of plain American citizens have been
trying to say. A man who talks like that
belong to no party; he belongs to the people
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1946-01-24
4WASHtNGTON\a,
: SkARsAoTS 10

One Of the vital things about
taxation, in the opinion of Assist
ant Secretary of the Treasury Roy
Blough, is that it concerns so many
people with different occupations
and points Of view
Blough prefers to take a con-
structive view about taxes-a sub
ject which most of us find easy to
grippe about-and he is convinced
that individuals and business in
general are in a healthier financial
condition than ever before. In fact.
he anticipates business will be so
good within the next few years that
the nation will have a surplus in
the Treasury and will be able to
retire its huge public debt.
Get Out Bugs
AS Director of Tax Research for
the Treasury Department, Blough
knows Federal taxation from the
inside and is quick to admit that
the tax system needs smoothing
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1946-01-24
Europe's Death
March Continues

When the survivors of Bataan's death
march came out of their Japanese prison
camps, nothing was too good for them. The
emaciated skeletons who had been heroes
in defeat were the object of a nations care.
If they had needed our sacrifices to give
them food to rebuild their strength, the
flood of red points would have buried the
Capitol.
But if those men had been cut off from
cur aid and become dependent upon our
allies for their food, we would have eX-
pected them to get the beSt-well, anyway
as good as our allies give their own soldiers
If our allies had done less, inter-allied friend
ship could hardly have stood the strain.
The United States is doing less, much
less, for the heroes of Europe's death march.
Millions Of men and women and children
who have survived a terror equally hor-
rible and twice as long as that which the
men of Bataan went through must look to
the United States for the food to rebuild
their emaciated bodies
Faced with that responsibility, there ought
to be no question of talk. There should not
have to be as much talk as is taken up
by this editorial. There should only be food
and lots of it and fast.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1946-01-24

out. There are bugs in the tax law
which do not interest the mass Of
people very much. but which must
be gotten rid of if business is going
to be stimulated.
A native Of Pittsburgh, Blougb
got interested in tax matters after
some time spent in teaching al
Manchester College, where he VOL
his Alb. He has been in charge
o. tax research for the Treasury
since 1888. He makes his home =
Arlington, Va.
His first public job was as Stats.
tician for the Wisconsin Tax Com
mission, and after three years ht
was appointed chief StatiSticiab
In the middle 1905 he served a.
assistant director of research ano
statistics for the Federal Ener
gency Relief Administration anU
as consultant for the Social Sc
curity Board.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1946-01-24

lures for military requirements all
contribute to the postwar picture
of high taxes.
Amid all the feverish rush to get
a slice of the state melon at Lam
sing, the following observations are
in order:
A return of unemployment, such
as was experienced in 1882 and 1888
and again in 1888 and 1899, would
probably bring a return of deficits
in the state treasury. Hence the 3
per cent sales tax, now in the 'plus"
bracket as to actual needs, may be
a life-saver again when human
wants come to the fore.
Local governments - state, coun-
ty. school and municipalities -
might well re-eXamine their tax
structures and put their house to
order duringg the boom years.
Michigan is one of four states
with sales tax as high as per
cent out of a total of % sales tax
states. Illinois has cut its tax from
to per cent; California from 8
to 212 per cent. Hence there appears
to be some justification for a def
mite program in Michigan of fl
nancial assistance to distressed To-
cal governments.