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The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-05-23

the Franco government. Spain really should have g Republican form of government, and think that faction was right in the Span ish Civil war;"
 CLARENCE TOBIN,
 Recently Returned Veteran, N Wall Street:
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-05-23

Rhode Island has 668.6 persons per square mile while Nevada has one person per square mile.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-06-07

eide squad files Henry Eisenbarth.
last Tuesday, day after Mr.. Glen
dening's body was discovered. Po-
lice have launched a widespread
search for the missing soldier.
Mr.. Glendening, 48, radio repair
man, was slain with an Indian war
club in his apartment at 321 E
street NE, probably Saturday morn
ing.
The inquest was called after 10000
wanted for murder" circulars were
printed for distribution over the
Eastern Seaboard, and Detective
Chief Robert j. Barrett said police
had enough evidence to obtain an
indictment.
Police identified Eisenbarth, q
New Yorker, as the same youth who
spent four nights last week at Glen
dening'S apartment.
His identity was established after
woman said she saw him park
Glendening's automobile in front OF
500 Rhode Island avenue NV.
shortly after noon Saturday.
He was described as ID years old
but looking older. He is 5 feet 6 OF
T. weights about $50 pounds, has
blond, curly hair combed back, a
tilted nose and a few freckles. Police
said he left Fort Belvoir February
16 while taking basic training.
According to the information on
the police bulletin, the youth was
wearing a white shirt, gray trousers
and brown plain-toed oxfords when
last seen. He was known to fire.
quent taverns while in Washington.
Police said a robbery motive was
apparent in the Glendening murder
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-06-07
Officials of 80 Nations to See
Star Model Plane Meet SUNDAY
: Army Will Give First Public Demonstration
Of Radio Controlled forget Aircraft

Contest officials said the demon
STATIONS will be put on periodically
all during the day. The first event
is scheduled to take place at 10 am
and no planes will take the air after
5 pm.
With more than 500 entrants ex-
pected to compete for a long list OF
prizes and trophies, contest officials
expect about $4,000 spectators. Con-
siderable interest has been aroused
by news that at least one jet-pro-
PEELED model plane will be entered
Special bus service has been pro-
vided by the A. B. g. w. Transit Co
which will send special buses from
the terminal at Twelfth and Penn
sylvania avenue NV. to Hybla VAL
ley and back all day.
Open Until Last Minute.
DR.. Walter A. Good, who partici.
pated in the Nays radio-controllee
model aircraft projects during the
war, is contest director. David A
Robb of the National Airport Clut
is general arrangements chairman
Mr.. Robb said registrations for con.
testants will be accepted up to tn.
last moment before flight time Sun.
day. with registration fee of 81
cents and gasoline-powered mode
plane the only requirement.
Hybla Valley is on U. S. l. about
5 miles south of Alexandria, Va
Prizes will be awarded to winning
contestants in two classes of com.
petition: Controlled line speed run.
and free flight. Officials will hanc
the winners their prizes between
and 6 pm. Immediately after the
last flights.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-06-07
Green Asks Court Ban
On virginia Poll Tax

John Locke Green, Arlington
County treasurer, yesterday filed a
suit in the Alexandria Federal
Court for the Eastern District Of
Virginia asking that the commits
sioners of revenue and treasurers
for the Is counties and two cities
under the courts jurisdiction be re-
strained from assessing or collecting
State poll taxes.
The suit was filed by Mr.. Green
on behalf of Lawrence Michael,
Republican candidate nominated
for the House at the 9th district
convention last month.
Gov. Tuck and Attorney General
A. P. Staples, were made defendants
to the action.
The suit charges that the State
poll tax law as set up in the Vir-
ginia constitution is arbitrary and
unreasonable" and does not apply
to all citizens and classes alike"
1t was further charged that it sets
up distinctions to deprive certain
classes of citizens of their right to
vote, in violation of article Is OF
the United States Constitution.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-06-07

Military and air attaches of 80
nations will be on hand Sunday for
the National Airport Club-Evening
Star Model Plane Contest at Hybla
Valley (Va) airport to observe the
latest model plane developments
and designs. 1t is the first model
competition to be held in this area
since before the war.
Contest officials said nearly all
representatives of the Big Five who
were invited have accepted, includ-
ing the Russians who are sending
six observers to the meet. Every
Latin American nation also will be
represented.
OF 1900 diplomats, members of
Congress, Civil Aeronautics Board
members, Civil Aeronautics Admin
istration officials, military men and
other government and industry
leaders, more than half have al
ready accepted invitations.
At the same time, the Army an
nounced the first public demonstra-
ton of Army radio-controlled model
planes will be staged by trained
technicians from Fort Belvoir and
Camp A. P. Hill. During the war
radio-controlled model craft were
mostly in the experimental stage
but were used for target practice by
all services.
Parachuted to Ground.
These Army developed models are
extremely maneuverable, can fly fol
Is minutes and are parachuted
safely to the ground for refueling
when their tiny gas load is con-
sumed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-06-07
Body Of Boy, 7, Drowned
With Brother, Is Found
By Joseph Young

Harbor police yesterday recovered
the body of Richard Forest Coles.
T. OF $40 M street NE, who drowned
with his older brother last FRIDAY
while playing along the Anacostia
River near the Benning Bridge.
The body was found in a Ily
pond about 2 miles upstream from
the drowning spot. 1t was dis
covered by Charles N. Meade of
Ills Fifteenth street Sc, a sur
veyor for the United States engi.
neers.
Identification was made at the
District Morgue by Richards father.
Earl Coles, ST. Harbor police re-
covered the body of Herbert Milton
Coles, 10, last Friday. The two
boys drowned while a third brother.
Earl, jr, looked on helplessly.
The body of a white man, identi-
he'd as George C. Bailey, IS, of
Oxon Hill, Md, an employee of the
Flagship Restaurant, Municipal Fish
Market, was recovered from the Po-
tomac River of the Ford plant In
Alexandria, Va.
Police said his description fits
that OF a man who plunged from
the top deck OF the excursion steam-
er Potomac on Sunday, near the
torpedo plant in Alexandria. DIR.
Christopher j. Murphy, deputy COR
oner, is investigating. Identification
was made through Army discharge
papers and a Maryland drivers
license found on the body, police
said. Mr.. Bailey apparently had
no relatives in this vicinity, it was
said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-06-07
Whitney Urges 5eamen
To Ignore Secrecy Ban

A. F. Whitney, president of the
Railroad Trainmens Brotherhood
yesterday urged Maritime Union
chiefs to ignore the rule of silence
imposed on Cancellation conferences
by the Labor Department.
Mr.. Whitney charged that there
was a sinister purpose" underlying
a similar restriction imposed or
conferences leading up to the short
lived railroad strike last month.
The message, sent from Cleveland
to Joseph Curran and Harry
Bridges, presidents of the CLIO Ma
tional Maritime Union and the
West Coast Longshoremen, respec-
lively, wished them success and
continued:
The Presidents Fascist program
in dealing with the engineers ano
trainmen, was well framed, anc
every effort was made to keep the
facts from the public.
DIR. Steelman (John r. Steelman
special presidential assistant on Ia.
bor) insisted that Johnston (Alvan.
ley Johnston, Engineers Brother.
hood head refrain from releasing
news for the press, and we did moi
realize until we had been stable
IN the back by the Presidents radie
address May "a that there was 8
sinister purpose in his advice"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-06-07
Mass for Capt. 0'Gara
Is Said al GEORGETOWN

A solemn requiem field mass for
Army Chaplain Martin J. O'Gara,
80, native of Brooklyn, and former
head of Georgetown University's
department of religion, who died
in an Army airplane crash near
Naples, Italy, last Saturday, was
said on the Georgetown campus to-
day by Deputy Chaplain C. E. lie
linski of the Army Air Forces.
Capt. O'Gara joined the George
town faculty in 1910, leaving in 1913
to become a chaplain in the Air
Transport Command. He was re-
turning to the United States from
India to be discharged when the
plane crashed. Only nine of the 80
in the plane survived.
The mass was attended by the
college faculty and student body.
The college ROTC provided color
guard and sounded TAPS" and fired
a volley. Three Army Boss from
Boiling Field circled the college
quadrangle during the blessing of
the flag-draped catafalque. Music
for the mass was provided by the
college choir,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-06-07
Ordination Rites BEGUN
By Bishops al Catholic U.

Comforting of Holy Orders on
seminarians from the religious
houses of study at Catholic Uni.
versity began last night at the Ma
tional Shrine of the Immaculate
Conception and will continue
through next Tuesday when 80 will
be ordained to the priesthood.
The most Rev. John M. Mcnamara
and the most Rev. Michael j. Reyes
are the officiating prelates. Bishop
McNamara last night conferred the
tonsure of 104 candidates at last
nights service. Bishop Keyes con-
ferred the minor orders of porter
lector, exorcist, acolyte and reader
at 7 am. today. Bishop Keyes will
ordain 50 men for the subdeaconate
at Z am. tomorrow, and on Monday
morning will advance Is to the rite
of deacon. .....
Ordination ceremonies for the
priesthood will begin Tuesday morn.
ing at 8 o'clock.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-06-07

father was a wine mechant. Hel
mother carries on the business
Miss Brunier now resides in Brunoy
near Paris.
Mr.. Watts, native of Riverdale
Md, was graduated from Laurel
Md High School. After entering
the University of Maryland, he
entered the Army in January, 1943
and served until October, 1945. He
was 80 months in France and Ger
many. He said that he met Miss
Brunier in Paris on September 6,
1914, at a huge street dance cele-
brating liberation of that city.
After his discharge from the
Army, in Etamps, France, some SO
miles south of Paris, in October
last, he worked as a civilian for the
United States Army Signal Corps in
Paris. In March he signed with the
Merchant Marine in France and
worked his way back to the United
States, landing at Norfolk. He wants
to be an athletic coach. and will
major in physical education at the
university.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-06-07
Mrs. Finkenstaedt Named
Red Cross SEWING Chief

Mrs. Edward r. Finkenstaedt, 1923
N street NV. has been appointed
chairman of the American Red Cross
District Chapters Production Corps
Sewing.
The corps, which has a workroom
on the second floor of the chapter
house at 1730 E street NV. has ur-
gent need for volunteer workers to
meet the demand for garments to be
rushed overseas, according to Mrs.
David E. Finley, chairman of the
chapters Volunteer Special Services
group who made the announcement
of Mrs Finkenstaedt's appointment.
Mrs. Finley said requests by Red
Cross overseas workers have resulted
in the National Red Cross asking
chapters to rush making of garments
and 81 ,000, 900 worth of textiles have
been purchased for volunteers to
make into children's garments-the
most-needed item.
Mrs. Finkenstaedt has served with
the corps since 1910 and with the
National Speakers Bureau on the
Prisoners of War Service also since
1910.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-06-07
Abe TO Study Charges
Of Liquor Sales 10 Minors

The Alcoholic Beverage Control
Board yesterday afternoon took un-
der consideration the case of Peter
Malevitis, owner of Pete's Tavern
1896 M street NV, charged with
selling beer to minors on March o.
after hearing testimony of five OF
his employees.
All employees, Milton Beach, man.
ager of the tavern; two Dartenders
and two mattresses, denied seeing
the girl and two boys who police
charge were sold liquor there that
night. They said they saw the
youths for the first time when pc.
lice brought them to the place later
in the evening.
Harry S. Wender, attorney for Mr.
Malevitis, in summing up evidence
produced before the board, pointed
out conflicting testimony by the
three youths and said his witnesses
had told the same story. He pleaded
that the owner should not be penal.
lied on the strength of what hac
been brought out at the hearing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-06-07
Mount Rainier Veteran to FIy
To Paris to Wed French Girl

r. C. Watts. jr., %, of 1910 Rus
sell avenue, Mount Rainier, Md, was
to take off at 10:45 am. today
aboard an American Airlines plane
for Paris to be married there to a
23-year odd French woman, he met
overseas in the service.
Mr.. Watts. who plans to re-enter
the University of Maryland in the
fall, where he attended before enter
ing the service in January, 1943,
has arranged to return to the
United States by surface ship about
the end of August or early Septem-
Der with his bride. They will live
with his step-father and mother.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lawrence E. Allison,
at the Mount Rainier address.
The bride, Miss Irene Brunier, is
a women's wear buyer for a Paris
department store, Mr.. Watts ex-
planned yesterday. They will be
wed at the Church of the Madeleine
in Paris about the end of July, he
said.
= She comes from Championix. in
the French Alps, where her late
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-06-07
Social Agencies Name
Ernest Henry Head
OF Recreation Unit

Ernest F. Henry was reelected
chairman of the recreation division
of the Washington Council of Social
Agencies yesterday at the groups
25th annual meeting at the YWCA,
Seventeenth and K streets NV.
Also reelected were the following
Executive Board members: Miss Ma
bel r. Cook, general secretary of the
YWCA; Mrs Howard S. Leroy,
member of the board of Barney
Neighborhood House; Lloyd H. Sny-
der, jr., education director of Mount
Vernon Place Methodist Church
and R. A. Van Orsdel, board member
of the Boy Scouts of America.
Harry c. English, director OF
neighborhood centers for the Dis
trict Recreation Department, the
fifth board member, was elected for
the first time.
DR.. Andrew ]. Kress, incumbent
vice chairman, will remain in Office
until a successor is picked. James
~. al lIOlO, WIZ WdS tIle SOLE 1lOIIll
nee for the post, was unable to &C
cept because of his appointment as
executive director of Harlem branch
YMCA, in New York.
Miss Sibyl Baker, assistant super
intendent of the District Recreation
Department, briefly traced the 25-
year history of the recreation divi-
sion, which she said had exerted an
extraordinary influence" in shaping
the course of recreation here.
Senator Aiken, Republican, of Ver-
mont told the meeting recreation
can no longer be considered as q
pastime for only those who have
both the time and money to indulge
it. ut should be regarded as an
activity which can mold character
in youth and a satisfying way OF
life in maturity" he said.
The division adopted resolution
expressing recognition of the work
of Mrs. A. w. Roberts, executive
secretary of the Washington Coun-
Gil of Social Agencies. whose retire
ment becomes effective July / after
"a years service.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-06-07
Col. Hamilton 10 Head
Walter Reed Surgery Unit

1t. Col Frank E. Hamilton, former
assistant professor of surgery at
Ohio State University. has been ap-
pointed chief of the surgical service
at Walter Reed Hospital, it was an
nounced by Brig. Gen. George C.
Beach, jr., commanding general OF
the medical center.
Col. Hamilton, whose home is in
Columbus, succeeds Col. Ralph
Bowers of Frederick, Md, who Is
leaving the service to resume his
post as a professor of surgery at
Cornell University.
Col. Hamilton entered the service
IN 1912, serving in England, France
Holland and Germany. He came tc
Washington from England General
Hospital, Atlantic City, N. j.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-06-07
-Four Public Pools
Scheduled to Open
AT ] Pm. Tomorrow

Four public swimming pools
will open at 1 pm. tomorrow,
according to an announcement
of Government Services, Inc,
operator of the pools. The four
are Takoma Park, Anacostia
Park, Mckinley and Banneker
pools. Francis pool will open
June 81. The East Potomac
Park pool has been open since
Memorial Day. Rates are 40
cents for adults, 20 cents for
children and 10 cents for serv-
icemen.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-06-07
Truck Wreckoge
Gives Up Coins
Saved for Years
By the Associoted Press

BALTIMORE, June 7.-William
Fleckenstein, who saved $4,000 in
nickels and pennies over a period
of years.! only to have it stolen,
figured his luck has turned good
again today.
State police reported that Mr..
Fleckenstein's hoard-all of it, they
think-had been discovered scat
tered about the wreckage of truck
near Fort Smallwood.
1t was gathered up and taken to
Baltimore police headquarters. He
had the money in three 5O-pound
lard cans when it was stolen from
his store May 30.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-06-07

p r in is taken
from Mr.. Glen
dening's auto
m o lie W er e
/ d e n t i fl e d as
those of Henry
E i S e n b ar t h,
AWOL Fort Bel
voir soldier.
The policeman
said the finger
prin t S t a k e n
from the steer
ing wheel of the
ear were checked
against those in
FBI and homi-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-06-07
Dr.. Bernard J. He I'm
Gets Lutheran Post

The Rev. DIR. Bernard j. Holm
pastor of st. Matthew's Lutheran
Church. was elected vice president
of the Eastern District q tt lie Ameri-
can Lutheran Church west erday at
its 18th annual conventitanI in Bir-
mingham, Pa, the Associa. ted Press
reported. Z,
DR.. Holm is president Of the
Washington Lutheran N ihisterial
Association. The Rev. DR.. Walter E
Schuette of Sewickley, Pa, was re-
elected president of the Dir nrict for
the seventh consecutive ye r..
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-06-07

loss on the pools had been incurred,
the corporation would have been
able to deposit half the amount of
loss, or roughly $4,000, to the credit
of the District of Columbia In the
miscellaneous receipts account of
the United States Treasury. ~
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-06-07
Soldiers Fingerprint,
Found on GIendeninq
Car, Policeman Says

Policeman John H. Haynes of the
Identification Bureau, testifying at
an inquest into the death of Don B.
Glendening, said today that finger
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1946-02-01
RACE RELATIONS
COUNCIL TO CONFER

NEW YORK, Feb. l (ANP)-
To focus attention on the Negro's
needs and on recommendations for
constructive city-wide action, the
City-Wide Citizens committee on
Harlem in cooperation with the
John L. Elliott institute of the So
ciety for Ethical culture this week
begins series of conferences on
"Gains and Goals in Race Rela-
tions."
The sessions, to be held weekly on
Monday evenings at $50 at the So
ciety's meeting house, will bring
together community leaders and
public officials to discuss goals and
plans for action in the fields of en-
ployment, housing, health, educa-
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1946-02-01

sioner Scott Gambler of DeKalb
county, the new settlement has
been named George w. Carver hill.
General Motors assumed response
bility of laying-out streets and paw
ing them. Electricity and running
water are to be installed in the
project. With the opening of the
plant the residents may look for
ward to a four-lane highway and
trackless trolley service.
Doraville is located approximate
ly IA miles from Atlanta on the Bu-
ford Gainesville highway and near
the Southern railroad right-of-way
to Washington and points east +.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1946-02-01

not be ready for occupancy until
late summer. In fact actual con-
struction of the building has not
even started, but the site has been
cleared and grading is underway.
Here is the part Negroes played for
the benefits they received and
stand to receive.
Negroes owned approximately
80 of the APT acres selected by Gen
eral Motors for the new plant. For
sentimental reasons these families
were reluctant at first to sell their
homes. But General Motors report
edly paid $40O per acre for the land
and purchased an additional 80
acres on the side of the road and
sold lots to the families at a very
liberal price. Some of the moved
families had their old homes moved
to the new locations intact. The
motor firm provided large lots for
the school and church and had
them moved.
With the approval of Commits
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1946-02-01
GENERAL MOTORS pAvES
way FOR GA. COMMUNITY

ATLANTA, Jan. 81 (ANP)-
For generations to come Negroes
at Doraville, Ca, will look back on
the coming of the General Motors
corporation to the community with
a sense of appreciation and salts
faction. This event may be associ-
ated with the improvement in the
standard of living for several Ne
gro families and the paving of the
way for development of an ideal
community.
The General Motors plant will
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1946-02-01

tion and crime prevention.
Among those directing the meet
ings are Mrs. Dorothy Norman,
New York Post columnist, chair
man; Algernon D. Black, chairman,
Harlem committee, and Jerome
Nathanson, director of the Elliott
institute.
The Coolidge examiner., 1946-01-04
sy KATHERINE HUPFEL

when be makes up his mind can't
nothiu' move him ... Course you
can build a fire under the critter.
but facts don't have the same ef-
rect on no ignorant man
Which is 10 be regretted. since a
man who realizes his ignorance has
taken the first step toward knowl-
edge.
Two Okie women were having
a heated discussion on a Main
Street corner Saturday. You
Amt got no call to say my boys
alvin beyond his means" de-
elared one loudly. 4 shore
have" retorted the other. II
Jest seen him pass here In a ne"
silk shirt" "Yuh did? Which
way did he go7" The indig-
nant mother started in the direc-
tion indicated, but stopped
The Coolidge examiner., 1946-01-04

that | sometimes eat muscle-build.
ing Wheetie flakes for
breakfast. If the price offered were
high enough-but if | decide to
make my life an open book would
prefer to do it for one Of the cor
tession magazines and not pour out
my innermost secrets 10 an un-
known investigator who comes
knocking at my door.
WAR opinion
There is one real contribution
which polls may make to humanity.
however. For maybe polls can help
prevent future wars.
When any prospect of war arises.
If the people of our nation or any
other nation were asked the ques-
tion, Shall we go to war;" the
would most always be mo. =
When war threatens, the peo-
pie of every nation hope up to
The Coolidge examiner., 1946-01-04

There are two things about
which IL Is A waste Of time TO ar
cue. says the Main Street phil
osopher religion and politics.
4 We lived heap o. years an
aln't seed airy thing but hard feel
i-'s some from sech arguments. an
amt nobody's opinion changed by
EN- one whit" he says But they's
Other things a man can argue about
where there some chance o con
vincin' the other fellsr. or bein'
convinced himself. Course that de
perds on whether the two Of EN-
knows what they're a-talkin' about.
for under them conditions an argu-
ment air the exchange o. opinions
20 bring out the facts. II amt
no use 10 argue with a ignorant fel-
Ter. for the less he knows the
harder he air 20 convince. A
feller like that air like a mule,