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Evening star., 1946-03-06
Virginia Butter Output
9 Pct. Under Averoqe.
BY the Associoted Press

RICHMOND. Va, Mar. 6.-The
Virginia Cooperative Crop Report
ing Service placed the output of
creamery butter in January at $780,
600 pounds, 9 per cent less than
the average January production in
the previous five years and IA per
cent under that of 1945.
Price schedules are blamed for a
large scale diversion of butterfat
to competing products such as whole
milk, condensed milk, powdered
milk and ice cream.
Milk production in the State is on
par with last year, at approxi-
mately 121,000,000 pounds per
month.
For the Nation as a whole, butter
production in January was 80 per
cent under the previous year and
4s per cent below the five-year aver
age.
Evening star., 1946-03-06
Ensign Ehrman Killed
In Crash on Coast

Ensign Herbert A. Ehrman, ir.. %.
OF 4510 Walsh street, Chevy Chase.
Md, Navy fighter pilot, was killed
yesterday in collision of his fighter
with Navy training plane in Cali
fornia, near the Mexican border,
according to an Associated Press
dispatch.
Mr.. Ehrman, Sr., a technologist
with the Bureau of Standards, said
his wife was visiting their son in
California when the accident hap
pened. She had gone there to see
him because it was understood he
was about to leave on sea duty.
The Ehrman's have a second son
Robert, student at Bethesda
Chevy Chase High School.
Herbert Ehrman graduated from
that high school and had finished
two years at Gettysburg College
when he entered Navy aviation.
1t. q. g. Eugene G. Casey, pilot
of the training plane, suffered a
broken leg when he parachuted to
the earth. A student pilot with
him, Ensign L. j. Geldreich, 81, OF
Coronado, Calf, was killed.
Evening star., 1946-03-06
C. & P. Planning to Maintain
Service During Phone. Strike

While it is generally understood
that most long-distance service will
be halted coast to coast, still unde-
termined is what will happen to
news services, such as the Associat-
ed Press, radio chains and trans
oceanic service.
The union version is that every
thing points to impairment of all
three services, since all three are
operated by the long Lines workers
Of the American Telephone & Tele-
graph Co., whose 1900 members
are pledged to strike.
Maintenance Chief Factor.
However, Mr.. Morrison said the
company expects to be able to
maintain regular service on all pri-
vate lines, press and radio. The
union argument is that they cannot
hold out indefinitely without main
tenance service, and that mainte-
nance men will be on strike.
The union has been reluctant to
disclose strike strategy. planned on
a regional basis with overall direc-
ton from the Annapolis Hotel here
with Carl Werkau, NFTW official,
in charge.
Mr.. Werkau said the union ex-
poets to use operators to best advan-
tage as pickets. They will be as
sisted by 200 Association of Com
munications Equipment Workers
and another 200 Association of Tele-
phone Equipment Workers. affiliat-
ed installation and maintenance
unions.
The strike committee announced
that it was prepared to furnish legal
assistance to fight anticipated in
junction suits and added that legal
aid has been offered by both the
Congress of Industrial Organiza-
tions and the American Federation
Of Labor.
Few Afhliates Strike.
The company will take steps to
assure prompt emergency service
for police, ambulance and fire de-
partment calls and the police will
insist on orderly picketing.
Although only II of the NFTW's
so affiliates have voted to strike,
the union expects other groups to
respect picket lines which will be
strung locally around some 20 ex-
changes and all installa tions of the
A. T. & T.
One Washington union, the Dis
trict Federation of Telephone Work
ers, held meetings last night to
iron out final details of co-opera-
ton. The District Federation has
signed a new contract with the
company, but its general assembly
has recommended that its 2,4OO
members respect picket lines.
Evening star., 1946-03-06
Mrs. Marshall Gensemer
Weds Lawrence Smell

Mrs. Marshall Adams Gensemer,
80, who conducted the Listen
Ladies" morning radio program
here over station VOL, and Law
renee w. Smell, 43, New York social
registerite were married in Reno,
New, Monday night, the Associated
Press reported.
Mrs. Gensemer had just obtained
divorce from Jack Paul Gensem-
er, an architect, on grounds of cru
city. The Gensemers, who were
married May 7, 1896, lived aboard
a yacht off Maine avenue.
Besides Station VOL, Mrs. Smell
has worked for the Washington
Post and the Philadelphia Inquirer
Bureau here. Mr.. Smell had been
married twice previously, both mar
riages ending in divorce.
Evening star., 1946-03-06
VA Works on Plan
For Psychiatric Aid to|
Veterans Facing Court.

Counsel by Veterans Administra-
ton psychiatrists will be made
available to veterans brought into
court on criminal charges under
plans now under discussion by NUM-
cipal Court and VA officials.
Judge Ellen K. Raedy said yes
terday she had talked with VA OFF,
eials in the hope of helping veterans
who get into trouble ''by getting
someone down here at court who
speaks their language" Especially
where the ex-serviceman is a first
offender and is placed on probation,
she felt, someone experienced in
veterans problems could do much to
help him get on the right path
again.
May Avoid Court.
Assistant United States Attorney
John B. Diamond, Sd, said where it
is warranted, the veteran might be
referred directly to the VA consult
ant and his problem Strengthened
out with his being taken into court.
I'VE have come across some puz-
zling cases." Judge Raedy said
For instance, one veteran before
me recently had, for no good rea-
son apparent to us, been standing
on a street corner shooting a gun.
He came from good family and
had no previous criminal record"
Under circumstances such as this,
she feels there is a need for in
vestigation and handling such as
that now being discussed.
Conference Slated.
DR.. Daniel Blain, chief VA psy-
chiatrist, said he had written to out
of-town doctors and had the con-
sent of one local psychiatrist in con-
nection with proposed meeting
next week to consider what type of
program might be feasible. This
probably will be followed by another
meeting with court officials, he said
DR.. Blain disclosed at a news
conference recently that VA has
been studying requests from several
judges who have called Veterans
Administrator Bradley to ask
whether VA psychiatrists can talk
to and treat the increasing num-.
Der of veterans being arrested.
The discussions now under way
embody the belief that veterans
hailed into court on various charges
who may be in need of physical or
mental disqualification or observa-
ton should not be thrown in with
Evening star., 1946-03-06
Driver Brings
| Burning Truck
To Fnehouse

When large trash truck caught
fire at New Jersey avenue and M
street NV, yesterday, the driver
called the Fire Department, not tc
summon help, but to notify the
nearest firehouse he was on his way
with his burning truck.
James Lewis, 80, colored, 1925 U
street NV, the driver, and Daniel
Ferguson, 40, colored, 1152 Twenty
fifth street NV, thought it would
save everybody lot of trouble.
A passing motorist informed the
Commercial Trash Removal Service
Co. employees that their vehicle was
afire.
Moments later and eight blocks
away, Mr.. Lewis stopped in front OF
No. engine house at 439 New
Jersey avenue NV. The alerted
firemen promptly extinguished the
blaze.
Evening star., 1946-03-06
Removal Of Fund
May Close D. {.
Veteran Center
$100, 900 Allotment
For OCD Transferred
To U. S. Treasury

The Veterans Information Gen.
ter, clearing house for thousands
OF District ex-servicemen, is in dan
ger of closing June 80 because of an
unsuspected financial tangle discov-
cred by the District Commissioners
today.
The Commissioners had been
counting on 100000 left over from
the civilian defense blackout appro-
priations to run the center for at
least two more years after June 30.
They have enough money through
June. They learned today, however,
that a congressional joint resolution,
passed about year ago to reduce
Nationwide air raid and blackout
appropriations, contained an obscure
clause eliminating the 100000 the
Commissioners thought they had.
The 100000 has been placed in
the surplus fund of the Treasury
Department and is definitely "lost"
as far as the District is concerned,
A. R. Pilkerton, District auditor,
said.
MIR. Pilkerton and Walter Fowler,
District budget officer, conferred to-
Gay with Corporation Counsel Ver-
non West to find solution. Mr.
Pilkerton said it might be possible
to get some legislation through
Congress soon to authorize the Dis
trict to request money for the Vet
Grams Center in the appropriation
bill now being considered by the
House Appropriations Committee.
The Commissioners said through
spokesman they were determined
to keep the Veterans Center open
They believe that Congress will sup
port them, it was said. However
they want to find a solution as
quickly as possible to avoid any un-
certainty in the minds Of veterans
as to the fate of the center.
Evening star., 1946-03-06
DIR. 0ppenheimer Honored
By Georgia Hardwood Co.

DR.. j. Robert Oppenheimer, who
headed the scientific development
of the atomic bomb, was given the
Wedge Award of the Georgia Hard
wood Co. yesterday at a luncheon
at the Carlton Hotel.
The Wedge Award is made an
nually ito those interindustry men
or women whose accomplishments
in their line of duty are reflected
toward the betterment of others.
1t was the second presentation of
the award and was made by the first
recipient, John j. Pelley, president
of the Association of American
Railroads.
Evening star., 1946-03-06
Ship Worker browns
After Fall From Vessel
By the Associated Prsss

BALTIMORE, Mar. GA 22-year-
old shipward worker, William Will
helm, Of Baltimore, was drowned
yesterday after he fell from a ship
at the Maryland Drydock Co. re-
pair yard at Fairfield.
Fellow employees said Mr.. Will
helm fell accidentally. The COM
pany physician pronounced him
dead after workers took him from
the water to the yard dispensary
where efforts to revive him failed.
Evening star., 1946-03-06
$3.50 Share in D. c.
Costs Urged by Group

The Columbia Heights Citizens
Association last night took the stand
that Congress should meet the Dis
trict's mounting expenses on a So
so basis, holding that it was un-
reasonable that the District should
pay for services existing solely for
the Federal Government.
The association, meeting at Co
lumia Heights Christian Hall, 1435
Park road NV, heard John H,
Connaughton, attorney and chair
man of the Legislative Committee
Of the Federation of Citizens AS
sociations, discuss Property Cove
nantS
Mrs. Ernest w. Howard, president,
introduced the speaker.
Evening star., 1946-03-06
Nye TO Run Against Young
For Senatorial Nomination
BY the Associated Press

Former Senator Nye, North Dakota
Republican, indicated today he
would oppose Senator Young, Repub-
lican, for the short term and not
be a candidate against Senator
LANCER, Republican, for the long
term in this years elections.
At the same time, sources close to
Representative Lemke, Republican,
said he probably would be a candi-
date against Senator LANCER. Mr..
Lemke told reporter he would not
make definite statement for a few
days.
Mr.. Nye recently announced he
would seek to regain the Senate seat
he held for nearly 20 years prior to
January 8, 1945,- but had not decided
at that time whether to oppose Sem
ator Young or Senator LANCER.
Evening star., 1946-03-06

Americas great voice created by
the genius of Alexander Graham
Bell 10 years ago will fade to a
whisper tomorrow if the Nations
250,000 telephone workers abide by
the National Federation of Tele-
phone Workers strike dictum.
In Washington, most subscribers
Of the Chesapeake & Potomac Tele-
phone Co. will awaken to find long
distance service virtually suspended
except for what emergency calls
company supervisory workers can
handle.
The areas 5000 telephone girls
will be thrown into idleness for the
second time in two months. Like
thousands of other operators over
the Nation, they are demanding $40
"a week more for keeping Mr.. and
Mrs. Public chatting over nearly
% SOC, 900 telephones.
May Affect Dial Phones.
Most of Washington will carry on
its normal quota of business, thanks
to the dial telephone, But how long
this 95 per cent of the areas service
remains unaffected will depend on
how long the workers man the
picket lines instead of the tele-
phone lines.
Union leaders predict the dial
systems will break down In 10 days
or two weeks without mechanical
adjustments. The company is more
hopeful. j. B. Morrison, c. e. P
vice president, said barring unex.
pected developments, the system
should function without care "fol
many months"
Five per cent Of the areas $685..
600 telephones are operated manual.
ly, that is, through a central opera
tor. In these localities the tele.
phone company will make every
effort to keep calls going through
but it will be impossible to main
tain normal service.
Manually operated exchanges are
located at Rockville, Capito
Heights, Locust and Spruce, ano
Marlboro, all in Maryland; Falls
Church, Ivy and Jackson in Vir.
ginia and Ludlow, in the District
Service Depends on Substitutes.
How often Mrs Jones will be
able to tell hubby to bring home
loaf of bread in those suburban
areas will depend strictly on how
effectively nonunion substitute op.
orators function. During the oper.
ators' strike January 10-17, some
of these exchanges reported almost
normal service. The company re.
ported during this shutdown thai
service generally, including long dis.
tance, improved daily.
Evening star., 1946-03-06
President Of NFFE
Opposes Any Change
In Retirement Plan

Strong opposition to the proposed
plan to include Government en-
ployes under social security bene-
fits was expressed today by Luther
C.. Steward, president of the Ma
tional Federation of Federal En-
ployes.
Appearing before the House Ways
and Means Committee, Mr.. Steward
declared that any change in the
present Federal retirement system
would be detrimental to Govern
ment employees. The committees
special investigating unit recently
proposed that Government employees
be covered by social security pro-
visions as well as the Federal re-
tirement system.
Mr.. Steward, who said that 10000
Government workers are members
of his organization, said that the
civil service retirement system is
based on actuary figures like any
insurance policy and that social Sc
curity benefits are based on need.
Combining the two systems would
react unfavorably to the interests
of Federal employees who now re-
ceive liberal benefits under their
system, the witness said.
Finds No Approval.
Il have never seen any Govern
ment employe who wished to re-
main in Federal service who wanted
any changes to be made in the re-
tirement SYSTEM" Mr.. Steward de-
clared.
The witness added. however, that
1t would be plain justice" to give
social security credit to those Fed
eral employees who leave the serv-
ice after less than five years and
therefore are not eligible for Fed
eral retirement benefits.
Acknowledging that future i'm
provements might be made in the
retirement system, Mr.. Steward de-
clared, "We feel that whatever is
deemed necessary to liberalize re-
tirement benefits for Government
employees should be done with the
thought of preserving intact the
present Federal retirement system. -
Would Split Deduction.
The House committees recent re-
port advocated that 81 per cent
of a Federal employees salary should
be deducted for the Federal retire
ment system and IL per cent for
social security. At present the en-
tire per cent deducted from salary
goes into the civil service retire.
ment fund.
The report pointed out that So
cial security provides workers with
survivorship insurance payments,
something which the Federal re-
tirement system does not do.
Evening star., 1946-03-06
Denuld Bowie's Will.
Probated at Rockville

Mrs. Laura Burdette, widow of the
tsstator, is the only beneficiary un-
der the will of Donald Bowie. jr.
which has been admitted to probate
in the Orphans Court in Rockville
Md. She Is named testatrix.
The will, executed September q
1943, does not reveal the value OF
the estate.
Mr.. Bowie, prominent Rockville
attorney, was at the time of his
death an assistant to the Attorney
General of Maryland.
Evening star., 1946-03-06
Mrs. WedeI to Address
Montgomery Women

Mrs Theodore o. Wedel, wife of
Canon Wedel of the Washington
Cathedral, will address the Upper
Montgomery County Council of
Church Women, observing the
world day of prayer, at the Method
ist Home for the Aged at Gathers
burg at 2 pm. Friday.
The day also will be observed by
the Rockville Christian Church at
2:30 pm. Friday. Mrs. j. Warren
Hastings, Washington, will speak
and music will be directed by Mrs
Henry Connors. Bethesda.
Evening star., 1946-03-06
MilIion-DoIIor Fire Rozes
Baltimore Paint Firm Plant
BY the Associated Press

BALTIMORE, Mar. 6.-The chem
ical plant Of the Glidden Paint Co,
was virtually destroyed late yester-
day in a five-alarm fire, with dam
age estimated by company official
at S1,100,000.
The blaze was in the selenium re-
covery plant, one of several installa-
tions of the American Zirconium
Corp, at st. Helena, near the Bal
timore Municipal Airport. The cor
poration is the chemical and pig
ment division of the paint company.
Chief Engineer Howard Travers
of the Fire Department said lack
of water hampered flremen.
Evening star., 1946-03-06
Christian Churches Begin
Lent With Special Services

Christians marked the beginning
OF the 4o-day lenten period today
Ash wednesday, with special serv-
ices and devotions.
In Catholic churches the tradi-
tional ashes, signifying penitence
were placed on the foreheads of
members of the congregations. Cath
ohcs in good health over the age
OF Il must eat only one full meal
q day until Easter Sunday.
Churches of all Christian denomi-
nations observe today the beginning
OF the period of penance with spe-
clal rites and communion services
which will be held throughout Lent
Evening star., 1946-03-06
Edward Howard Dies;
Vaudeville Strong Man
BY the Associated Press

PHILADELPHIA, Mar. Edward
(Spike) Howard, 58-year-old one
time professional strong man whose
family estimated he gave 1856 pints
of blood, died today.
Although professional donor, Mr..
Howard furnished blood literally for
the Red Cross during the war. He
was vaudeville performer and re-
lated that he won a strong man
championship by towing a 15-ton
fire truck 100 feet with his teeth at
Madison Square Garden in 1922.
Evening star., 1946-03-06

hardened criminals It is felt
that with sympathetic and expert
aid, they may have an opportunity
to begin again with a clean record.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-12-14
The PAC's Pr0wess
Cincinnati EnquireD


 Aside from the devastatinE impact of the off-Tsat elections on the Democratic Party, the effect upon the Political Action Committee of the Congress Of Industrial Organizations is hardly less noteworthy This the first election in which the PAC "on it's own" in national politics espousng candidates shorn If the magic Roosoveltian mantle.
 The results, from political unions point of view was am-s. c3tasJcphic 4 host of PAC-backed c,nd5- dates were showed under in the voting Even such wheelhorses as Joe Guffey of Pennsylvania were defeated Candidates backed by the PAC were done
 little good at the polls. and these opposed by the group were not visbly harmed
 IL was in the metropolitan centers, where the CIO political organization should have it's iTeatest effectiveness that the PAC showed it's weakness. Big cities which in years have returned whopping Democratic maorites either reduced them CT went all the way Republican
 This may have been only because the PAC was "buckng the trend but the organization has taken credit fer electng defeating candidates in the face of countervailng trends and 10 merit the reputation for political prowess which the PAC has taken unto itself it should be able deliver the goods matter what the political weather
 As a matter of fact, in contrast to the situation of several years ago when most ofceholders quaked at the thought of PAC opposition there were w.de- spread evidence during the campaign just past that PAC endorsement was hndrance rather than help Yet the PAC followers worked at the polls and per formed all the many campaign chores which custom 8ril.' yield votes.
 The neral is that merely playing politics" won't make a political power of any labor union unless it so comports itself that it command general public respect During the past year, when so many CIO unions were hinderng industrial reconversion, great legacy ef resentment against the PAC accumulated It paid eff" on election day.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-12-14

February March, 1945, the delegates from twenty American republics Argentina was not present. voted to rotate the governing board chairmanship each year. Concur rently, a resolution was passed re- quiring all member nations to name special ambassadors to serve on the board. Previously, this body had been composed of the regularly ac- credited Ambassadors in Washing ton from the Latin republics, plus the U. s Ssc; -tary of State.
 1ho ovision for mandatory ap- pointnent ol special envoys never went into complete effect, because some of the smaller countries com pllined it would be Q financial bur del. The matter was deferred therefore, to be brought up again at the 1947 Pan American confer ence in Bogota. But this left the matter of the rotating chairman ship strictly up in the air, since the two resolutions had been I16ed
 m the voting at Ml,ico Cit
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-12-14

they can borrow into homes of their own that will provide adequate shelter and measure of privacy. They would rather risk future losses than endure present privations General Bradleys warning vii not be needed by such veterans. But we trust it will have a restraining effect on veterans who are under less pressure to find quarters, and influence the policies of lending agencies that finance homebuying
 Aided by Government guaranteed loans. veterans are able to acquire properties that ordinarily would be entirely beyond their reach. They may, in some cases borrow all the funds required without
 liberal financing arrangements designed to help the veteran lending agencies may be tempted to disregard customary safeguards against excessive lending. For f veteran subsequently, finds the burden of interest charges too heavy be borne and defaults the lend ng agency is protected by Government guarantees against loss
 Of course any buyer of residential property ir' today's inflated real estate market risks possible loss from decline in the sales value of his property But that Is a risk that a veteran afford to take if he buys a house suited to his needs selling at price that he can afford to pay. The major danger against which the home-buyng veteran needs to be protected is this kind of less but the lcss-s sulting from mourning debts that excessive in relation to the borrowers income. For if debt charges de interest and amortzaton) take too large proportion of a veterans income, he may lose his home as General Bradley fears
 Responsible bankers can do a great deal to prevent such catastrophe and will be doing veterans favor by refusing to make leans unless convinced that the earning capacity of the borrowers is sufficient to enable them to meet debt charges without hardship As further protection against less responsible lend CTS veterans greatly need sound advice that Gen. eral Bradley points out, be given to them only in their own communities