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Evening star., 1946-04-24
Progress in Dairy Wage
Negotiations Reported

A Labor Department spokesman
today reported wage negotiations be-
tween II Washington diaries and
1,700 organized milk truck drivers to
be progressing satisfactorily"
Commissioner Jacob r. Mandel-
baum Of the Labor Departments
Cancellation Service came here from
New York to aid in the negotiations,
The first effective strike notice
date set for tomorrow by the Dairy
Drivers Union is not expected to
take effect Immediately because of
the reported progress in the nego-
tiations.
The union has been demanding a
81 weekly raise for both retail and
wholesale drivers, plus increased
commissions. Other demands are 81
cents more per hour for plant work.
ers, restoration of seven-day deliv-
cry service, 40-houre work week
and a weeks sick leave for, workers
with more than a years service,
Evening star., 1946-04-24
Naval Services Reservists
Form Washington Chapter

The Washington Area Chapter o1
the Reserve Officers of the Naval
Services officially came into being
last night with adoption of a con-
stitution and bylaws by 80 Navy
Marine Corps and Coast Guard man
and woman Reserve officers.
The meeting was held at the
United States Chamber of Com
merce Auditorium. A. Murray Pres
ton, temporary chairman, presided
A temporary treasurer was ap-
pointed to collect So dues set ur
by the constitution, and member
ship and nominating committees
were created.
The Membership Committee will
seek to enroll all Reserve officers of
the several corps and their wom-
ems auxiliaries residing within the
Potomac River Naval Command.
The group decided to hold month
ly meetings the first Monday of
each month at s pm. The first of
these, however, will come the middle
OF May rather than the first week
to permit time for organization and
committee work.
Evening star., 1946-04-24
Reports Builders Divert
Housing Materials Probed

Reports that a number of Dis
trict-area builders may have diverted
materials obtained for veterans
housing to complete non-veteran
housing already under way are be-
ing investigated by the Civilian Pro-
duction Administrations compliance
division, Morris S. Werner, jr., d.
rector, said today.
I'VE are making thorough in
vestigation of all reports Of this
kind on what may appear to be
diversions" he said.
In cases of violations, firms
would face loss Of priority assistance
Reports that he had charged
builders were engaging in illegal
diversion were not true Mr.. Werner
added. I'VE simply have received
reports and, as usual under such
circumstances, are going ahead with
an investigation" . -
Evening star., 1946-04-24
Junior Police 10 0pen
Play Center Tomorrow

Youngsters of the Junior Police
and Citizens Corps will open theil
new play center for colored children
at 2134 Ninth street NV. with q
special program at 2:30 pm. tomor-
row.
Bandleader Duke Ellington will
be on hand for the opening, and
the program will include music by
Hooks Novelty Band" the musical
group of children of the "Cowtowr
Unit" who will use the center.
Policeman Oliver A. Cowan, dt.
rector of the corps, said today the
center will be directed and used by
children of the area for such ac-
tlvltles as boxing shows, especially
at times when they are not able tc
use playground facilities of the
vicinity.
The corps is composed of unit.
throughout the city, numbering
about 10000 kids between the age,
of 7 and 49," he said.
Mr.. Cowan said the center site
covered with rubbish couple OF
months ago, has been put into
shape by the children themselves
and the opening has a particular
Importance because the children
Will be able to have a place of their
own.
Evening star., 1946-04-24
Bond Issue Supported
By Arlington Official

Declaring the proposed Arlington
lS46-47 budget "is woefully made
quate to finance needed improve
ments," Chairman Edmund D.
Campbell of the Arlington County
Board today was on record in sup
port of a $4,000. 900 bond issue.
Speaking to the Arlington Forest
Citizens Association last night, Mr.,
Campbell said hfr needs are so
,greatahat they Fan not be met BY
ordinary taxing policy"
.Ha1 pointed S0 the necessity of
putting county school grades, from
the third through the sixth, on a
normal basis" at an estimated cost
Of 100000. The same steps for
secondary schools, he added, will
cost approximately $1,4s3, 900.
Under the general fund he de-
scribed the following needs:
1ncinerator. $3.50, 600; courthouse
addition, $780, 600; work shop and
truck storage building, 500, 900, and
sewage treatment plant enlarge
ment, $4,000.
emphasizing his recommendations
include only minimum needs Mr..
Campbell said the present budget
is inadequate to finance needed i'm
provements in streets, sidewalks,
curbs and cutters or any capital
expenditure of any kind.
1t Is about all we can do to
keep the county government roino
on our present income" he said.
Evening star., 1946-04-24

responsible Tor his unfulf1lled pre-
diction, the Weather Man. only shook
his head and redoubled his study of
the leaves in his morning cup of tea.
The official report on yesterdays
scant sprinkling was, Not enough
rain to measure" That means, by
the inflexible rules set for this
Weather Man versus the elements
series, that he was nosed out. If
the truth be known, we are some
what bitter because we decided not
to bother watering our lapel gardenia
after we read the forecast yesterday.
Now we will have to buy another
and we would send the Weather
Man a bill If we thought we could
get away with it.
The Standings.
Won. Lost. Pct.
Weather Man --- l / 500
-.. The Forecast.
Cloudy and cooler today. Occa-
sional rain tonight and continuing
most OF tomorrow. =
Evening star., 1946-04-24
ConneNys Wonder
|How to Welcome
| Som S Paris Bride

The Connolly family of 1914
Seventeenth street NV. means
what it says about not knowing
how to greet the French bride Of
Capt. Daniel w. Connolly tomorrow
night.
They don't speak French, and the
l8-year-old Parisienne who is ar.
irving at New York aboard the ship
Brazil can't speak q work of Eng
lish. The YOU BRIDES husband is
the only mel of the Connolly
family who 4 Bpeak French flu-
emily, and he i'll is in Germany
Capt. Com Us mother, Mrs
Mary j. Conn and her daughter
will meet the y1lip at the dock, but
they aren't counting on really get.
ting to know the new addition tc
the family until Capt. Connolly is
sent home. Originally from Louisi-
ana. the Connellys know some Gre
ole French. They understand, how
ever, that won't help much when it
comes to understanding the Partisan
variety.
Capt. Connolly and the former
Miss Nicole Malapert were married
last December while he was sta
toned in Paris. He has been over
seas since 1943 and currently is in
charge of trucking outfit engaged
in transporting men to embarkation
points.
Evening star., 1946-04-24
Nursing Care Held Vital
To National Health Plan
BY ne Asseeiotsd Press

The American Nurses Association
today asked that any Government
health program provide for "neces-
sary nursing care"
Miss Katharine j. Densford, Min
neapolis, president of the associa-
ton. told the Senate Labor Com
mittee that no program could be
considered complete" without pro-
vision for such service.
she said any Federal program
also should contain safeguards to
insure high standards Of nursing
education.
The committee is considering leg
islation to establish compulsory
health insurance, financed through
deductions from payrolls similar to
social security taxes. From the
funds collected the Government
would pay medical bills of insured"
persons.
Evening star., 1946-04-24
By J. B. Zotmon.

Stories of veterans and their fam
lilies crowded into unfinished attics,
Easements and trailers are con-
tanned in the more than $50 appli-
cations on file with the Montgomery
County Housing Authority at the
Silver Spring Liquor Dispensarv
Building.
In addition, John E. Weisman, in
charge of the Office, said he re-
ceives an average of so calls daily
from veterans applying for billets in
temporary units to be erected within
so days in Sligo Valley Park.
Both the applications and phone
calls bear testimony to the acute
housing shortage and give impetus
to efforts by county officials to al
leviate the condition.
One veteran lives with his wife
and two children in a basement
room on Old Bladensburg road.
Another lives with his family in
an unfinished attic while others are
crowded into single rooms.
They don't want sympathy, ac-
cording to Mr.. Weisman, because
many ask him not to reveal their
present addresses What they want
is a chance to live decently with
their families, he emphasized.
Take the case Of the Rossheims,
for example. Isador Rossheim, his
wife, and l3-month-old child live
in one room converted from bar
Der shop at 8 Post Office road,
Forest Glen. -,
A partition separates the parents
living quarters from the child's crib
which is jammed into a corner sur
rounded by furniture from the Ross
helms New York apartment.
Mrs. Rossheim washes the baby's
clothes in a bathroom-type sink.
The bathroom is shared with patrons
of the adjoining restaurant. There
are no closets. For these accomo-
dations, Mr.. Rossheim pays $50 a
month.
It's pretty bad" Mrs. Rossheim
said, "but we do the best we can.
OF course, we hope to get one of
the units In Sligo Park and that
keeps US going" e.t
Mr.. Rossheim was DISCHARGED from
Evening star., 1946-04-24
Gas Light Co. Dispute
Settlement Expected

Prospects were brighter today for
settlement of contractual difficulties
between the Washington Gas Light
Co. and two unions before May 4,
date of proposed walkout of l.
200 employees.
Within week union members will
vote on acceptance Of an 1871 cent
raise offer made by the company at
a negotiations meeting last night.
If members ratify recommendations
Of their Negotiations Committee, a
contract will be signede and the
strike averted.
Just three days ago the manage
ment and unions appeared hope
lessly apart. The unions asked for
81 cents more an hour to compen-
safe for the take-hone pay lost In
. return to 40-hour week. The
companys best proposal was IA
cents.
With the aid of Federal Concilia-
tor Lucien F. Rye, the gap was mar
rowed to a 24-cent union demand
and an 181a-cent company offer
The company offer included 2-cent
raise given last October, which by
Wage Sterilization Board policy
must be included in computing the
current raise.
The union negotiators, headed by
H. B. Douglas, an American Fed
Grafton of Labor specialist, agreed
to the 1S1a-cent figure contingent
or ratification of the two unions
Local 50, International Chemical
Workers, and Local 2, Office En-
ployes International Union.
w. r. Probey, president of the
office workers, said the unions would
be called into meeting probably
early next week to vote on the
proposition.
j. D. Dingwell, assistant vice
president OF the company, expressed
optimism that the unions will accept
the offer.
Evening star., 1946-04-24
City yHeadsSiudy
Bill 10 Establish
Penal Division
Measure Would End
Correction Powers
Of Welfare Bourd

The Commissioners today are
studying tentative draft OF a bill
to establish department of correc-
tions under their Jurisdiction.
The draft was prepared by Cor
poration Counsel Vernon West and
Is In the form of an amendment to
the pending welfare reorganization
bill now before a House District
Subcommittee. The bill would take
from the Board of Public Welfare
all administrative powers and make
1t advisory to welfare department
under the Commissioners.
Mr.. West said yesterday his draft
constituted almost rewriting of
the original bill but was designed to
set up two departments-one well
fare and the other corrections.
He said this measure was not in
tended as substitute for legisla-
ton recommended by the Hebert
subcommittee report on long-ranee
planning for the penal institutions
to be prepared by a special commit
tee Of experts appointed by the
chairman Of the House District
Committee.
Mr.. West said that, as he under
stood 1t, the subcommittee's idea
was to have the committee of ex-
perts study and codify the existing
laws governing the custody and
treatment Of penal inmates. While
the Commissioners bill would set up
the corrections department, it was
indicated, the special committee
legislation would write a sort OF
legal charter of operations for the
department.
The special committee recon-
mended by the Hebert group would
include a member of the House Dis
trict Committee, the chief Justice of
the District Court, representative
OF the Attorney General, preferably
his director Of PRISONS represent
attve Of the Commissioners, pre-
ferrably Mr.. West, and a private
citizen, preferably Chairman Edgar
Morris Of the Welfare Board.
This group would draft a law
defining In careful but broad terms
the powers and duties Of the pro-
posed departments framework
within which the director would
have broad discretion for operation.
Evening star., 1946-04-24
District Firms Bid Low
For MARYLAND Rood Job

The American Asphalt Products
Co, 60 p street Sc, yesterday SUBJ
mitted low bid of $101 ,780 to the
Maryland State Roads Commission
for the resurfacing OF "a miles OF
Wisconsin avenue from the District
line to Chestnut avenue and 3.5 miles
Iof University lane, from Seeks Cor
ner to College Park.
The commission, meeting in Balti-
more, also received a low bid OF
81, ,093, 1925 from the Empire Con-
struction Co., Baltimore, for con-
struction OF a new Matapeake ter
minal for the Chesapeake Bay ferry
system, the Associated Press re-
ported. ...,..
Evening star., 1946-04-24
$2,183,651 Toxes Paid
On Maryland Incomes
BY the Assoeioted Press

ANNAPOLIS, Md, April 24.-The
State income tax division yesterday
reported that up to April 18 total
of $2,l83,651 had been paid and
7o,277 returns filed on 1945 income
taxes. ,t
Individuals paid $1,529,s10 of this
sum, making 68,092 returns. Corpo-
rations filed 1,272 returns and paid
$596, ,989 and 913 other returns were
received, accounting for S56,s52.
Evening star., 1946-04-24
Citizens Group to Meet

A meeting OF the Hyattsville
Fourth Ward Citizens Association
VIII be held at pm. Friday in the
Mount Rainier High School. Chief
John Sullivan and Fire Marshal
Wayne Read Of the Hyattsville Fire
Department will be guest speakers.
Evening star., 1946-04-24
PUG Opens Hearing
On Rate Reduction
For ". N. & A. Buse.

Inc POpnc utilities Commission
today began public consideration OF
whether the Washington, Marlboro
& Annapolis Motor Lines, Inc.
should reduce its present 10-cent
bus fare between its downtown ter
minal and the District line.
Reduction is sought by citizens OF
the Southeast areas, mainly Brad
bury Heights, Fort Davis and Ran
die Highlands, who ride from the
vicinity Of Alabama avenue up Penn
sylvania avenue to the vicinity OF
the Capitol or the Eleventh street
NV. terminal.
After a study last fall, the COM
pany advised the PUG it could not
afford to lower the 1O-cent fare.
The commission then ordered q
study by its own accountants of the
intra-District operations of the cor
poration and the corporation
finances to determine a valuation
for rate purposes.
History of Operations.
v. A. McElfresh, chief accountant
for the PUG, was first witness today
and recited history of the bus op-
erations Of L. L. Altman, corpora
tion president, from 1922 to date.
Mr.. McElfresh told the hearing
that in l94l Mr.. Altman owned all
but two shares of the common stock
OF the corporation and all of the
preferred stock. That same year
he continued. Mr.. Altman formed
with his wife. Lucy Altman, q
partnership which owned and oper-
ated the garage used by the corpo-
ration at 1910 Southern avenue ir
Bradbury Heights. In 1912, the &C.
countant continued, Mr.. Altman
transferred to his wife all of hi,
preferred stock holdings.
BecausGrQfss the close financial
iinkup which he said existed Sc:
tween, the partnership and the cor.
poration, Mr.. McElfresh recon.
mended consolidation of the bal.
ance sheets and income statements
for purposes of evaluatins the COM
pany.
Attorney Objects.
James P. Donovan, attorney fol-
the company, objected on grounds
that the hearings should cover only
the operations of the corporation
and moved that Mr.. McElfresh's
statement be stricken from the
record.
Chairman James H. Flanagan of
the commission overruled the OBJ
lection.
Mr.. McElfresh had contended
that Mr.. Altman dominated and
controlled" the corporation and the
partnership "in the conduct of a
single enterprise" Consolidation of
the financial reports Of the two are
essential to "a true and comprehen-
sive picture" Of the bus company
operations, he said.
Before the PUG accountant
opened his testimony Mr.. Donovan
announced that he might move for
a continuance to permit the COM
pany to prepare exhibits. He said
he had asked the commission for
the valuation arrived at by its in
veStigators some two weeks before
the hearing but had been given no
figures.
Evening star., 1946-04-24
Weights Aide Admit!
All Bulk Ice Cream
Has Air Spaces

James G. Dance, deputy director
OF the Department of Weights
Measures and Markets, admitted to.
day in the Municipal Court trial o,
two Ice cream dealers. charged with
fshngt MEASURE sales, that it probably
b Impossible to pack ice cream with.
out leaving air spaces.
There are" he added, however
large spaces and small spaces"
He conceded also under cross
examination that there would be
some loss of volume in the transfer
Of the ice cream allegedly purchased
from the two dealers from the
original cartons to a glass measure
A previous Government witness
had testified that the ice cream at
the time it was measured in the
weights and measures Office was on
the "soupy" side.
The defendants are Harold Hem
minger, whose ice cream shop is In
the 1700 block Of Columbia road
NV, and Samuel Steinberg, deal
ing in ice cream at a drugstore in
the 200 block Of E street NV.
Testify on Fluid Ounces.
A quart Of ice cream purchased
from Mr.. Hemminger's store and
two pints bought from Mr.. Stein
berg's on March IA were packed in
dry ice and taken to the Department
Of Weights, Measures and Markets,
according to the testimony. Voids
were revealed in the packing when
the containers were stripped away
1t was charged. Transferred to a
graduated measure, the quart filled
1T up to the 26-ounce mark, while
the two pints measured only Is
ounces, 1t was said.
Assistant Corporation Counsel
Clark F. King contended, as the trial
began yesterday, that the ice cream
should have measured 50 fluid
ounces. In support of the defense
premise that the law provides a
57% -cubic-inch measurement for a
quart Of ice cream, Defense Attor-
ney Bernard Margolius brought out
that the ice cream was not measured
for cubic-inch volume.
Sees End Of Bulk Sales.
Edward L. Koepenick, executive
secretary of the National Conference
of Ice Cream Industries, said that
II the District wins the case, it will
prevent every one In the city from
selling bulk ice cream" He reported
that every ice cream firm in the city
was represented in the courtroom.
The ice cream industry, Mr.. Koe-
penick explained, anticipates a 100
per cent overrun" in the manufac-
tured product; that is, from five
gallons Of mix" 10 gallons of ice
cream result. Thus, he said, any
melting which had taken place be-
tween the time of the purchases and
the measurements at the weights
and measures Office would cause a
decrease in the volume.
Mr.. Koepenick and Mr.. Margolius,
members of the law firm OF Buckley
& Danzansky, and Ford Young,
jr., counsel for the dairy section of
the Merchants and Manufacturers
Association, are conducting the de-
Tense.
Evening star., 1946-04-24

The forecaster took it like a man.
when told he was being scored with
a loss because the showers he fore
saw for yesterday arrived only as
few scattered drops. Even when
asked If a sudden blast of hot air
from Capitol Hill could have been
Evening star., 1946-04-24
Tuck Names Welfare Prober

RICHMOND, April "A (R.-Gov.
Tuck yesterday appointed Judge
G. E. Mitchell, jr., Of South Boston,
Va, to head a commission by the
recent General Assembly to in
vestigate the State Department Of
Public welfare.
Evening star., 1946-04-24
Weather Man Buttinq 500

The Weather Man was the picture
Of desolation today, distraught with
the knowledge that he can no longer
construe q certain twinging in that
wound he suffered during the Boer
War to mean that showers are
coming.
Evening star., 1946-04-24
Doylight Saving Time Voted
HAGERSTOWN. M,

HAGERSTOWN, Nd, April a (P).
The Hagerstown City Council last
night ordered the adoption of day
Light saving time for the city from
April 2S through September 70.
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Misses Coots

4 Originally 1895 coots-
1000 wool twill fitted three
quarter dress styles in black,
navy, brown. Sizes z and Is,
$500
4 Originally $500 Wool Top
pers-Three-quorter length in
1909 wool suede finish. Brown
ond navy. Sizes 10, II. IA,
1900
z Originally 1895 Fitted Dress
Coots-lOO9o wool in yarn
dyed eroy. Fitted, full-Ieneth
coots. Size $500
7 Originally $500 coots-Coi-
fornio rop-oround of 1000
wool. Black. oroy, navy. Sizes
10 to lo--------29 1900
! Originally $500 Chesterfield
-'OO9o wool aroy pin stripe.
IA Originally 1926 coots-
1000 wool crepe fitted styles
in block, oquo. powder blue,
navy and eroy. Sizes II to Is,
$500
z Originally $500 coots-Fit-
ted, fulI-lenoth dress coot of
1000 wool in red with q black
belt. Size IA. black size l6,
$500
5 Originally 1895 Summer
weight coots 1000 wool
dressmoker styles in green, blue
ond navy. Sizes 4 to Is, $500
! Originally 1926 coot-Fit-
ted, dressy style Of noy blue
1000 wool crepe. Size IA,
44.oo
8 Originally 1895 pressmoker
Coots-lOO0o wool crepe in
black and navy. Sizes 10 to 1e,
$500
l Originally 1926 Chesterfield
--lOO9o wool boxy style in
block. Size l8----38.oO
Misses Goats, Third Floor,
The Hecht Co.
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Domestics

4 Originally 7.es Cotton Che
Mile Spreads, full bed size, 500
IS Originally l1.ss TO lbs
Cotton Chenille Spreads, twin
size ---9.99
Is Originally 3se White Mop
kins, l6xl6 inches --1ee
Is Originally 1879 AII-wooi
Blankets, 72x84---5.9e
Is Originally sse Cotton loee
Seorfs, 1890 inches--29e
5 Originally 5.2e Both Not Sets,
peach onIy-----8 se
; Originally 500 shos Rugs.
36x7O inches --2.99
z Originally $40 Printed Cot
ron TobIeeIoths, 52x52 inches,
l.e9
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Curtains

81 Originally 3.I2 cottose Sets,
cotton morouisette; white with
red trim set | 80
1os Originally Sc Dining Room
Choir Scot Covers, cotton Gre
tonne for 100
10 Originally 1863 Paper Dropes,
domoeed; rose floroI pottern,
pr. SOC
II Originally 800 Seconds Of
Printed Cotton cretonne Dropes,
, 70 in. wide and 2H2 yds. long,
pr. 2.99
IS Originally 800 Royon Cur
toins, seconds, assorted lengths,
pr. 1879
! Originally 1880 Studio Couch
Slip Cover. damaged 500
! Originally 5.o9 Boudoir Chair
Slip Cover, domoeed--I.99
z Originally 4.e5 to 500 Choir
Slip Covers, domoeed l.99
Originally 1913 Soto Slip Cover,
damaged 800
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Mems Shoes

81 Originally l.99 Mems and
Boys Hilltop TENS Shoes with
convos uppers and rubber soIes.
Sizes 2R to oI2---79e
IS Originally $50 Mems Sum-
mer Shoes. white and brown ond
white, composition soles, Leather
ond composition. Sizes 6 to Y
in the gorup- -4.98
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Cotton Dresses

20 Originally 800 Printed Cot
ton Dresses with contrasting
trims. Sizes SO ond 4O---1.OO
Is Originally 800 Checked Cot
ton Pinofores, sizes IA to Is,
1913
IS Originally 4.3o Spun Royon
Dresses. novy. Sizes SO to AZ,
1873
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Sportsweor

J Originally SOS Skirts for Jr.
Misses. brown, green, in sizes 9
ond u in the eroup---39e
z Originally 5.95 Jumper. in size
II, wrap style
IS Originally 200 to $50 Royon
and Cotton BIouses. white and
oolors, broken sizes 100
"a Originally z.29 Cotton Jersey
blouses in white ond oolors, sizes
ore broken------ 39e
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