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Evening star., 1946-08-02
Three Held After Soldier
Beats Off Robbery Attempi

Three colored men were being
questioned today by police after
they had been arrested early this
morning on charge of beating and
attempting to rob Fort Myer (Va.)
soldier.
Police also connected them with
the earlier beating of another man
in Franklin Park, Thirteenth and K
streets NV.
Pvt. Russell De Vito, "a, stationed
at Fort Myer. told police the three
men Jumped on him at the corner
Of Ninth and K streets NV. Police
men Lavelle Edmonston and Albert
Fielder of precinct No. l said they
found Pvt. De Vito holding his
own" with the three men.
Police said the men were the same
who, an hour earlier, had beaten
and robbed William D. Wright, 800
block Of Fifth street NV, of S12 as
he was sitting on a bench in Frank
lin Park.
Mr.. Wright suffered bruises of the
face and chest while the soldier
sustained few scratches, police
said.
Evening star., 1946-08-02
Mailed Tax Returns
Jam Substation

Receipt of an additional six and
a quarter mail bags full of personal
property tax returns yesterday
sWelled the already record volume
OF filings to the point where Post
Once substation attendants at
the District Building temporarily
stopped normal routing of mail to
handle the tax forms.
Assistant Tax Assessor James l.
Martin reported several hundred
persons also brought their forms to
the office unaware that the tax dead
line had passed at midnight Wednes-
DAY. Those late are being fined the
usual 20 per cent of the assessable
tax, he said. Delinquent flers also
have to pay an additional l per cent
for each month beyond the dead
line.
Mr.. Martin said the entire tax
staff would be kept on the Job full
time in an effort to prevent delav
in the mailing of bills for personal
effects. taxed at the rate of SITS
per 500 worth of property. The first
half of the tax is payable in Sep
tember. and tax officials are at
tempting to clear all filings in time
to mail out the bills by September /.
With the filings nearly double the
29,ool received by the corresponding
date last year, tax officials have ex-
pressed concern over their ability to
meet the, billing deadline.
Evening star., 1946-08-02
Commissioners Give
Hebrew Academy
use Of Curtis School

The Commissioners today gave
the Hebrew Academy of Washing
ton, Inc, permission to use the
abandoned Curtis School at Thirty
second and o streets NV. pending
construction of new plant for
the expanding institution.
The action clears the way for the
Hebrew school to carry on its edu-
Icatlonal program which until today
had been blocked by the building
material shortage and civic opposi-
ton to expansion of the Academy IS
main plant at 1902 Decatur street
NV.
About two years ago, the Academy
was granted temporary permission
to operate at the Decatur street
location pending construction of a
proposed new school building on
property it owns at Sixteenth street
and Fort Stevens drive NV.
Unable to proceed with the new
structure, the Academy a week age
Wednesday asked the Zoning Board
for permission to continue in opera
ton on Decatur street, and sub
Isequently was granted permission to
continue there a year.
Academy officials could not be
reached Immediately to determine
whether they intend to use the
Decatur street site in addition te
the Curtis School.
Evening star., 1946-08-02
Montgomery 10 Open
JuniorC Sept. Is

The first Junior college to be adj
ministered by a Maryland county
board of education will open Sep
tember Is at the Bethesda Chevy
Chase High School with an enroll
ment of about 200 students, it was
announced today.
Dean Hugh C. Price said the
Montgomery County Junior College,
as it will be known, will limit its
classes to about 80 students each
who will attend weekdays from 4
pm. to 10 pm. Courses offered will
be liberal arts for students planning
to transfer to another college and
vocational training.
Meanwhile, plans were being de-
veloped for opening junior colleges
in Baltimore and other parts of the
State. The Washington County
Board of Education has announced
action will be taken next week on
whether or not to establish a Junior
college at Hagerstown, the Associat-
ed Press reported.
Evening star., 1946-08-02
Slump in Meat Production
Within Next Week Forecast
By the Associoied Press

A drop in meat production within
the next week or 10 days was indi-
Gated yesterday, although output
may still be above prewar levels for
this season.
This was based on an Agriculture
Department report showing a sharp
break in receipts of meat animals
at the principal livestock markets
during the past week
The department said the de-
creased supplies of meat animals
offered for sale during the past
week might be attributed to a tenn
porary drop in prices during the
previous week or to reported short
age of railroad cars.
However, large share of cattle
that might normally go TO feed lots
for fattening are being sent to
slaughter-due in part TO current
high prices and partly to a feed
shortage.
The department predicted total
livestock numbers may be down S
per cent by next January If live
stock marketing continues at the
present rate.
During the past week cattle re-
ceipts at the IL principal markets
dropped to 252,966 from 371 1884 for
the previous week while calves
dropped to 58,878 from 70,712: hogs
222,932 from 3o8,91o, and sheep, 60
305 from l03.472.
Evening star., 1946-08-02
Segregation Policies
OF uses Defended

Robert Goodwin, director of the
United States Employment Service
yesterday rejected the plea of a
delegation from the Washington
Industrial Council, CIO, to abolish
racial segregation at the District
Employment Service, a federally
operated Office.
While expressing his personal op-
position to Jim Crow" practices
Mr.. Goodwin said local policies
of USES either followed State laws
or were supported by strong feel
ing and considerable practice in
the community"
He pointed out that the House
Appropriations Committee had ex.
pressed opposition to the elimina-
ton of racial segregation in the
District of Columbia Employment
Service five years ago.
Asked whether he felt the USES
was complying with the President:
directive to Government agencie!
against discrimination in hiring, Mr.
Goodwin replied: "As far as
know, the President has never sale
anything on this particular prob
lem"
The Washington Industrial Unior
Council announced it would begir
a three-week campaign on Monday
to obtain $4,000 signatures on {
petition to President Truman seek.
ing his intervention to eliminate
segregation at the local USES Office
Yesterday about 200 members o.
CIO union, including delegation
from the United Public Worker!
of America, picketed the Office a
Fifth and K streets NV. from
noon to l pm
Evening star., 1946-08-02

executive director of the Home
Builders Association of Metropoli-
tan Washington, will continue to
head the recreation committee.
In announcing the reappoint-
ments, Mr.. McGarraghy said:
"The Military and Naval Affairs
Committee is concerned with the de-
fense of Washington and all mat
tiers of a military and naval nature
which affect the people of Wash
ington. - The committee has
made several attempts to secure an
enlarged quota of District candidates
at the Naval Academy and the Mil
itary Academy
THE Recreation Committee was
in large measure responsible for the
formation of the District of Colum-
bia Recreation Board and has been
working for many years to make
maximum recreational areas >avail-
able to Washington residents"
Both committee chairmen plan to
call organization meetings in the
near future to plan programs for
the 1867 administrative year.
Evening star., 1946-08-02
Insane Escapee Sentenced
To Asylum for Child Attack

Lewis Vernon May, 81, Glen Echo
Md. who was captured last June in
Asheville, N c., after escaping from
the Springfield State Hospital
Sykesville, Md, has been confined
In the Spring Grove State Hospital
criminal insane division, Cations
vile, Md, as the result of an order
issued by Judge Charles w. Wood
ward in Montgomery County Cir.
cult Court at Rockville.
May, who was charged with Grim
inally attacking a 15-year-old CIR
last March after she alighted from
a streetcar near her home in Cabin
John, had been adjudged insane BY
State Board of Mental Hygiene
physicians.
In mis- order Judge WOODWARD
specified that May be returned tt
the Rockville court for trial if hi
RECEIVERS.
Evening star., 1946-08-02

which measures the speed Of pro-
jectiles - shells, normally - passing
over 1t.
Hundreds gaped at Little David"
SO, 600 pound siege mortar with the
yard-wide muzzle. This piece was
designed for the reduction of con-
crete Notifications in the campaign
on the japanese mainland, which
never materialized. Range: seven
miles
A new item was a 75-millimeter
automatic cannon built for installa-
ton in the nose of attack bombers.
A vicious looking new model of anti
tank gun capable of penetrating IA
inches of armor also held the public
eye.
In the tank department, in addi-
ton to the standard models of
American design and the celebrated
German King Tiger which almost
did not make the show because of
transportation difficulties. was a
General perched on a motorized
barge. 1t was explained the barge
hull is filled with foam rubber to
keep the craft afloat despite bullet
penetration on high seas. Once
ashore, explosive bolts in the hull
are detonated, blowing the hull
apart and permitting the tank to
land. 4
Variety of Bombs.
The AAF. for whom Army Ord
nance supplies all weapons and am
munition, has contributed bombs
and planes to the exhibit. Bombs
range from the 42,000-pound city
buster which could only be carried
by the still experimental xB-36
flying wing, to four pound butterfly
bombs. Aircraft include American
and German jets, the buzz-bomb
and the W., which is shown intact
and in cross section.
In dozen tents, ordnance men
displayed and disassembled small
arms, described numerous ordnance
| testing devices and answered hun
dreds of questions of laymen In
one corner area stood a recruiting
bus, but business there was not
heavy yesterday.
| The show will be on daily from
10 am. to 6 pm. through September
9. The band will play from to 5
pm, during demonstrations on the
obstacle course. Admission at all
times will be unrestricted. Visitors
/ may bring cameras.
Evening star., 1946-08-02
School Opening Dates
Announced in MARYLAND

School will commence Septembe,
20 in Prince Georges County ano
September 16 in Montgomery
County, DR.. Thomas G. Pullen
State superintendent of education
announced yesterday in Baltimore
Dates for other Maryland counties
are:
September 3 in Charles, Fred
erick, Kent, Wicomico and Wor.
cester Counties; September ir
Calvert, Caroline, Carroll, Hartford
Queen Anne's, Somerset and Wash
ington Counties; September in
Baltimore City. Allegany and Tai
bot Counties; September 8 in Anne
Arundel, Baltimore, Cecil, Howard
and st. Mary's Counties.
DR.. Pullen said there still is a
serious shortage of elementary
school teachers but that the situa-
ton in high schools is fairly well
in hand"
Evening star., 1946-08-02
U.S.. Printing Workers Give
S1,088 10 HOSPITAL Fund

The Children's Hospital drive for
S1,300,000 for a new building started
toward the final 100000 today with
a gift of 81 ,088 voluntarily collected
among employees of the Governmer5
Printing Office, Rear Admiral C. r.
Train, U. S. N. retired, director
of the drive, announced.
Yesterday the drive reached ST.
100000 with gift of $3.50 from
Norman B, Frost, an attorney, Of
Chevy Chase, Md.
Evening star., 1946-08-02
Sheep Herding Show
Scheduled for 0|ney

Pete" sheep dog that won first
place in the North American Sheep
Dog Field Trials at. Staunton re-
Gently, will give sheep herding
demonstration tomorrow afternoon
at a picnic of the Montgomery
County Farm Bureau on the T. A.
Barnsley farm near Olney, instead
Of at the Poolesville Livestock Show
which previously was enormously
announced for tomorrow.
The dog also will give demon
stration at the 9th annual Pooles-
vile Livestock Show slated for Sat-
urday, August "a, Ellis Robertson
president of the Poolesville Chapter
Future Farmers of America, an
nounced.
The sheep dog is owned by John
Lockwood, herder at the Spring
Valley Herford Farm in Upper
Montgomery County.
Evening star., 1946-08-02
Remote Control PIune
Tests Slated by Novy

A test Of remote controlled dive
bombers and other aerial equipment
will be held at the Marine Corps Air
Station, Cherry Point, N. c., on
Tuesday, officials Of the Navy De-
partment announced today.
The test was to have been held
July "a at the Naval Air Stetion,
Patuxent, Md. but was Cancelled be-
cause of electrical interference with
the eullinnent
Evening star., 1946-08-02
Col Bliss and Henry
Named Trade Board
Committee Heads

Joseph C. McGarrahy, president
of the Washington Board of Trade,
today announced reappointment of
Col. E. Goring Bliss and Ernest F.
Henry as committee chairmen in
the trade group.
Col. Bliss, assistant general man
ager of the Chesapeake and Potomac
Telephone Co, will retain the chair
manship of the Military and Naval
Affairs Committee, and Mr.. Henry
Evening star., 1946-08-02
Commerce Job
PriorityP|edged
To Dismissed
Move Follows Union
Protest Thot Many
Are By-Possed Now
By Joseph Young

The Commerce Department soon
will order its bureau heads to cease
all outside hiring in jobs that can
be filled by the several hundred dis
missed employees Of its Office of In
ternational Trade, it was learned to-
day.
The order to give dismissed en-
ployes of the trade Office first crack
at available jobs followed strong pro-
tests by the United Public Workers
of America that these employees were
being Disseminated against in their
attempts to find jobs in other
bureaus of the department. UPWA
claimed many of the bureaus by
passed these employees and hired
outsiders.
While Commerce officials have not
officially acknowledged such dis
elimination existed, they promised
UPWA officers that bureau heads
would be specifically told to give the
dismissed employees first chance at
all the jobs they can fill.
1t is estimated that between $50
and 300 of these employees lost their
jobs recently when the Office of In
ternational Trade was forced to cur
tail its operations because of reduced
appropriations. The jobs range all
the way from clerical and steno-
graphic work to professional posi-
tons OF economists, statisticians and
foreign trade analysts.
Top Commerce officials have also
promised to try to find jobs for
these employees in other departments
and agencies if it is found there
are not enough jobs to go around
in the Commerce Department to
take care of all the employees.
During the period the Govern
ment is in the process of returning
to the permanent peacetime system
Of hiring. Federal agencies have
the right to hire employees directly
for temporary jobs without approval
by the Civil Service Commission.
President Truman's executive order
setting up the interim method of
hiring stressed. however, that war
veterans and dismissed war service
appointees must get the first chance
at these jobs.
There has been considerable criti-
cism from various employees groups
that some departments and agencies
have not strictly adhered to this
principle and have by-passed vet
Grams and war service employees
to hire outsiders.
Evening star., 1946-08-02
Council to Study Budget
For District Welfare

Plans for the l948 District welfare
budget will be discussed at a meet
ing at $3.50 pm. Monday of family
child welfare and corrective execu-
tives of the Washington Council of
Social Agencies at 110l M street
NV. Mrs. Thomas F. Norton, act
ing executive director of the council
announced today.
Evening star., 1946-08-02
Donvi|Ie Triple Staying
Probe Begun by FBI
By the Assoeiuted Press

DANVILLE, Va, Aug. 2.-The
Federal Bureau of Investigation is
taking part in continuing probe
into the mysterious triple Staying
near Danville last week, Pittsylvania
County Sheriff Archer OVERLY said
last night.
He refused to disclose the role of
the FBI in investigation of the
deaths of Mr.. and Mrs. John w.
Kizee, sr., and his step-father
George johnson.
Sheriff OVERLY said the finding
of $4,000 Of Mr.. Kizee's money in
Danville banks and his home, ruled
out an earlier theory of triple
murder with robbery as the motive.
Evening star., 1946-08-02
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
As Army Opens 6-Week Exhibit
By John w. Stepp

Small boys Chamber ecstatically
about the tanks and guns. Adults
studied the pieces, shuddered and
were glad the war ended no later
than it did Ordnance men beamed
happily at the mixed public re-
sponse.
While the Air Forces celebrated
an anniversary elsewhere in the
city, more than 5000 spectators yes
terday turned out at the Monument
grounds for the opening of the
Army Ordnance Departments own
show. Hundreds of pieces of equip
ment of all types and sizes, of war
time and postwar design, were on
display.
Secretary Of War Patterson off,
cially opened the six-week exhibit.
Worlds Most Powerful.
Here you will see some of the
worlds most powerful weapons, "
the Secretary said. Most were not
developed until war was upon us
That was part of the price we had
to pay for not being prepared.
| L wish we could have had these
weapons at the beginning of the
war, but we have never been pre-
pared at the outset of any of our
wars.
We ought to have more power
ful weapons until We can be as
sured that war has been outlawed
for all time and the country has
obtained lasting peace The de-
velopment of powerful weapons
should continue until we have that
assurance"
| AS the Army Band played, In
traditional carnival fashion, the
spectators trooped off to a demon
stratlon of motorized equipment ir
action. They saw a new mode,
light tank, unloaded from a tank
transporter, plunge over an obstacle
course at high speed Two am
phibians, the weasel and duck
passed in review as an announcer
portrayed their merits over the
public address system. An cage,
jeep dashed onto the scene ane
ran the obstacles without batting
a fender.
Mortar for Japan's Assault.
Following the carnival spirit. one
exhibit consisted of a canvas target
| for baseballs thrown by the Gus
TONER'S There were no prizes
however. The arrangement was tc
demonstrate an electronic device
Evening star., 1946-08-02
Bethesda Legion Names
Convention DELEGATES

The Bethesda Chevy Chase Post
of the American Legion has named
the following delegates and alter
mates to the department convention
to be held in Cumberland on August
ID, Is and Is:
Delegates-James l.. Martin, Rich
ard Chamberlin, George Phelps,
John c. Batham, Tom Edward, Les
lie B. Bell, Carroll M. Murnane,
Arthur E. Crago, E. Edward Nc
Lean and T. M. Duff; alternates-
Marc G. Phillips, Richard Schaub,
A. A. Hileman. c. M. Dawson, John
M. Nader, Martin E. Keffer, C.
M. Crown, Richard L. Tedrow and
William H. Mcneil.
Evening star., 1946-08-02
House Hearing on Bill ChestFederation Units
To Give District Three List Goals in Drive
New Judges CoI|apses For 81, 100000

A last-minute move for House ap-
proval OF the bill for the appoint
ment of three additional judges for
Municipal Court developed this
morning only to fizzle out shortly
before noon.
A special meeting of the House
District Committee was called fol-
IL am. for hearing on the bill
which was passed recently by the
Senate but was blocked in the
House because no hearing had beer
held, due to lack Of time.
A group of witnesses arrived tc
testify as to the need for the extra
Judges, but there was no hearing
because only one of the 81 members
of the committee was able or willing
to attend the session. This was
Representative Link, Democrat, oil
Illinois.
House action on the measure was
blocked yesterday by Republican
Leader Martin of Massachusetts. He
has insisted bill of this importance
should not be enacted without be-
ing considered at a public hearing
He said yesterday he could not un-
,derstand why the legislation was
not considered earlier in the ses-
sion if the extra judges were SO
badly needed.
Advocates of the bill. therefore
agreed today it would be better to
depend on the bare chance for House
passage of the bill by unanimous
consent before the House adjourns
than to rely on the results of a
poorly attended hearing.
If the bill fails this session its
enactment will be sought early in
the next.
Those appearing at today's meet
ing included Chief Judge George
Barse of Municipal Court, Austin
Garfield, president of the District
Bar Association: Corporation Coun-
Isel Vernon E. West and Assistant
Corporation Counsel Chester GRAY
Evening star., 1946-08-02
Farm Machine Operator
Dies in Tractor PLUNGE
Special Dispoich TO The S.or

NEW MARKET, Va, Aug. q
Glen Crider, 4S. Mount Jackson
threshing machine operator, was in
stsntly killed late Wednesday at
Mount Jackson when the tractor
he was driving went out OF control
plunging down steep hill and over
turning several times.
Mr.. Crider had completed thresh-
ing on the farm of Ernest Foye and
was preparing to hook the tractor
TO the threshing machine when he
lost control of 1t.
Evening star., 1946-08-02
Bank Stock Oversubscribed

Stock in the proposed First Ma
tional Bank of Bethesda has been
oversubscribed, William L. Lebling,
chairman of the Organizing Com
mittee, announced today. Subscrip-
tions will continue to be taken, how
ever. and the controller of the cur
rency will be asked to increase the
amount OF capital stock in proper
ton to the amount sold.
Evening star., 1946-08-02

Leaders of eight Community Chest
Federation campaign units yester-
day announced individual goals in
the $4,000 fund drive opening
October % for support of 1s47 Chest
activities.
Daniel w. Bell, campaign chair
man, said the drive will be the first
postwar effort to unite drives ir
Washington and nearby Maryland
and Virginia counties. Funds raised
will support operations of about IL;
separate welfare agencies, Mr.. Bel
said.
Unit quotas include:
Business, s1,450,413; Government
$1,790,202; Washington residential
SSH 1856; Alexandria, s76,925: Arl.
ington, $60,485: Fairfax, S43,634
Montgomery, $l26,656, and Prince
Georges, s49,799.
An additional 100000 will be as
signed to appropriate" units after
the drive gets under way, Mr.. Bel
asserted
Quotas and Requests Differ.
Expressing confidence that leaders
would meet the quotas, Mr.. Bel
pointed out that there is no rela-
,tionship between campaign goals anc
the amounts that will be assigned
for use in suburban chests.
The Prince Georges goal is s49,-
799, for example, he said, while the
county has requested nearly double
that amount from the federation.
Suburban chairmen said it is pos
slble many county residents will
support the federation through
gifts made in Washington Offices
County quotas are based on gifts
received in previous years from cit
liens who live and work in the
counties, they explained.
County Setups Strengthened.
b Meanwhile, the appointment O.
William E. Robey as assistant busi.
ness manager and Mrs Howard M
Murphy as Speakers Bureau head
to complete the leaders of the 1874
county campaign was announced b,
the Arlington unit chairman, Ste
phen M. Smith.
Mr.. Robey, vice president of tn,
Old Dominion Bank, has been /,
campaign worker since 1889. H,
also served as county chairman TO-
all eight War Bond drives.
Mrs. Murphy will be serving he,
third year as Chest Speakers Bu
reau chairman.
In Alexandria, the appointment O
Mrs. w. K. Thompson. 214 South
Royal street. as chairman of tn,
wonpen's division for the 1947 cam
paignssgas announced by Joseph w
Phillips, general chairman.
Mrs. Thompson was formerly {
worker in the auditing department
and special gifts section of the Mil
waukee (Wis.l Community Ches
and also participated in Milwaukee,
Red Cross drives.
On the women's division Advisor,
Committee under Mrs. Thompson
are Miss Katherine Douglas, Mrs
Harry A. Councillor, Mrs. Leon Ed
dington, Mrs. Albert L. Miller, Mrs
John Evans, Mrs. Robert G.. Whit.
ton, Mrs. John G. NOEL, Mrs. Caro-
Twon, Mrs. Alfred Van Tassel ane
Mrs. Donald A. Campbell.