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Evening star., 1946-05-06
Virginia Businesswomen
Elect Officers, Delegates
BY the Assoeiofed Press

NORFOLK, Va, May 6.-Closing
their 25th annual convention at
Virginia Beach, the Virginia Fed
Grafton of Business and Profess
sional Women elected officers and
national convention delegates yes
terday.
Elected to serve for the coming
year and installed by Miss Marion
Holmes of Rochester, N. H., ma
tional finance chairman, were:
Miss Lena Cobb, Danville, presi-
dent; Mrs. Irene Pancoast, Alexan-
dria, first vice president; Mrs. Let
tie S. Brockwell, Norfolk, second
vice president; Miss Ethel Smith
ers, Richmond, recording secretary
and Mrs. Elsie M. Breedlove, Ports
mouth, treasurer.
Delegates to the national conven-
ton at Cleveland in July are Mrs
Lucille Niche, Charlottesville; Mrs.
Nina B. Horton Avery, Richmond;
Mrs. Pancoast and Mrs. Brockwell.
Mrs. Avery also was named a
candidate for the national third
vice presidency.
Achievements awards for out
standing club work went to the
Alexandria, Charlottesville, Suffolk
Bedford and Pulaski clubs.
Evening star., 1946-05-06
Baby Dies as Chesapeake Island
lis Left Without Medical Care

Mrs. Lora Whitelock, wife of the
mail boat captain, said Mr.. Evans
had asked Mr.. Whitelock to make
a special trip early yesterday morn
ing, but the baby died within the
next half hour.
Meanwhile, as efforts were being
made yesterday to remove two of
the islands three seriously i'll per-
sons to Crisfleld hospitals, several
cases of measles also were reported
to have broken out.
The two for whom disqualification
on the mainland was sought are
elderly women.
For nearly quarter of a century,
this 210-year-old community-eom-
prising the islets of Ewell. Tylerton
and Rhodes Point-has been oper-
ating under a socialized medicine
plan. A monthly medical fee of
S1.50 is paid by each of the approx
imately 200 families.
The money goes to a medical
board which is authorized to employ
a salaried doctor and furnish him
a combined house and clinic on
Ewell Island.
DR.. Seabold, the latest of the
resident doctors. was paid 5000
monthly. He was retired Philadel-
mia police surgeon. j
Evening star., 1946-05-06


Mrs. Cochrans screams shortly after
midnight. Her husband, 1t. Hewitt
Cochran, U. S. A., assigned to the
personnel division of UNRRA,:is out
of the city and still has not been
located, according to police.
The building was engulfed in
flames and smoke when he arrived
there, Mr.. West said. He said he
thought he saw Mrs. Cochran In a
smoke-fllled window and urged her
to jump the II feet to the ground.
When no response came, the dane
ing teacher seized a sledge hammer
and attempted to batter his way into
the apartment. He was cut about
the face by glass and twice was
driven away from the door by flames.
After flremen responded to the
scene and extinguished the fire,
Mrs, Cochran's body was found in a
rear sitting room beside a window.
The fire may have started in q
stuffed chair, fremen theorized.
1t. Cochran, who is thought to be
from Denver, Colo, served overseas
with UNRRA and only recently re-
turned to the United States.
In a second early morning blaze,
two persons were burned slightly
and residents were routed from their
beds when an incinerator caught
fire in the basement of the Kennedy
Warren apartments, 1888 Connecti.
cut avenue NV.
Police said the assistant resident
manager, Marie S. Sieber, was
burned on both arms and Edwin
Jackeyer, 35, apartment engineer,
was burned on the left hand assist.
ing her. Damage was neglible.
Evening star., 1946-05-06
Ernest B. Pugh Heads
CIO Membership Drive
By the Associated Press

RICHMOND, Va, May ernest
B. Pugh of Richmond, regional di-
rector of the Congress of Industrial
Organizations, was named to head
the State CIO membership cam
paign at a conference here yester-
day of representatives of CIO locals
throughout Virginia to map a mem
bership drive
Mr.. Pugh told the approximately
100 delegates that Virginias goal
would be at least 100000 new mem
bers in the CIO, and that the Cam
paign would get under way immedi-
ately.
Van A. Bittner, Pittsburgh, direc-
tor of the southern organization
drive for the national CIO, told the
conference that the purpose of the
drive was to organize Virginia work.
ers not affiliated with the union into
local unions in the CIO.
Evening star., 1946-05-06
Alexandra DAV Chapter
Organizing Auxiliary

An auxiliary for Alexandria Chap
ter No. II, Disabled American Vet
erans, is being organized under the
leadership of Mrs. Mabel K. Howard,
8l3 Chetworth place
Mrs. Howard is national commit
teewoman of the National DAV
Auxiliary. and is the wife of the
Rev. Penn H. Howard, chaplain of
Russell Mitchell Post No. 600, Vet
Grams of Foreign Wars, Alexandria.
The auxiliary and the reorganized
DAV post in Alexandria will hold
a joint meeting at 8 pm. May % in
the auditorium of the Virginia Elec-
tric g. Power Co., 1T South Wash
ington street.
Evening star., 1946-05-06
Nearby Hospitals P|on
Public Inspection Doy

Three hospitals in nearby Mary
land and Virginia will open their
doors May u for a public inspection
of their facilities in observance of
National Hospital Day.
Suburban Hospital, Bethesda, and
Arlington Hospital will be open all
day with special programs to be
sponsored by the women's auxii-
aries in both institutions. Alex
andria Hospital will be open from
2 to 4:30 pm.
Evening star., 1946-05-06
Funeral Of John |. Snyder
To Be at Browninqsvi|Ie

Funeral services for John L.
Snyder, 96, former Maryland con-
tractor, who died Friday at the
home of daughter, Mrs. William F..
Smith, 1899 Military road NV. will
be held at 2 pm. tomorrow at the
Bethesda Methodist Church, Brown
ingsville, Md. Burial will be in the
church cemetery.
Mr.. Snyder, native of GERMANY
came to America with his parents
when he was years old. For about
40 years he lived in Browningsville
ana operated as contractor in
Frederick and Montgomery Coun-
ties.
He was one Of the founders and
the Oldest member of the Bethesda
Methodist Church in Browningsville,
: Also surviving are two other
daughters, Mrs. James Burdette,
Woodford, Md, and Mrs. R. G. Ben
son, Baltimore, and four sons, M. N
Snyder, Browningsville; Newton G
and R. L. Snyder, Baltimore, and
P. l.. Snyder. Rockville.
Evening star., 1946-05-06
By the Associoted Press

SMITH ISLAND, Md, May g.
With the death of a 6-month-old
baby already attributed to the lack
of medical care, this crab and oyster
fishing island community of TOO is
seeking a physician to care for its i'll.
Elmer Evans watched his son
Clayton die in his arms yesterday
as he awaited boat to take the
child to the nearest doctor IL miles
away on the mainland.
Smith Islands only doctor, w. F.
Seabold, 72, died 48 hours earlier of
cancer, and the community was left
without medical practitioner.
A physicians diagnosis in Cris-
field, hours after the death Of the
Evans baby, showed the child to
have been suffering from an acute
attack of bronchial pneumonia, the
parents said.
They added they had thought the
ailment was measles and were told
by the Crisfield doctor that medical
attention could have saved the
baby's life.
A mail boat, which leaves Smith
Island once daily at 7:30 am. and
returns about 1890 pm, is the only
means Of transportation. It does
not run on Sundays. L
Evening star., 1946-05-06
Jews to Push Plan
To Rebuild Palestine
BY the Associoted Press

RICHMOND, Va, May 6.-Judge
Morris Rothenberg, president of the
Jewish National Fund of America,
said yesterday that work will be
carried forward relentlessly to re
build and repeople the land pal
estine) that is indissolubly bound
up with the Jewish destiny"
Judge Rothenberg spoke at the
second days session of the joint
annual conference of the seaboard
region, Zionist Organization OF
America and Hadassah. Final con-
ference sessions will be held today
Joseph w. Spector, Baltimore, was
elected president and I. S. Turnover
Washington, was chosen as chair
man of the Administrative Commit
tee.
Vice presidents named include
Bernard DanZanSky, WASHINGTON.
Evening star., 1946-05-06
Fuirfux Plans Parade
For Citizenship Dov

A parade will highlight Fairfax
County ceremonies marking Citizen
ship day, May 10, on the courthouse
green at Fairfax.
Churches of the county have been
asked to observe May 10 as Christian
Citizenship day, it was announced.
The program is being arranged by a
committee headed by Mrs. Stanley
Stewart and Mrs. Mary Walton Nc
Candlish Livingston.
Citizens have been asked to sub
NIT names of those who have become
2l during the year to one of the
following teachers:
Miss Martha Rely, Fairfax High
School; Mrs. William Rulman, Falls
Church High School, Mrs. Katherine
White, Herndon High School, or Miss
Clara Mergler, Mount Vernon High
School.
Evening star., 1946-05-06
Thomas w. Crown
Dies in MONTGOMERY
Special Dispatch 10 The Stoy

ROCKVILLE, Md, May 6. -
Thomas w. Crown, 81, lifelong resi-
dent of this vicinity, died yesterday
at Montgomery County General
Hospital, Sandy Spring, after an
illness of three weeks.
He Is survived by his widow, Mrs
Jessie Crown; two daughters, Mrs
Herman Hinton, Travilah, Md, and
Mrs. Walter Smith, Hunting Hill:
three sons, Ralph E. and Norman
F. both of Hunting Hill, and Clin-
ton M, Bethesda; a sister, Miss
Maude Crown, Washington, and
five grandchildren.
He was employed by the Capital
Transit Co. for 27 years. Funeral
arrangements have not been COM
pfeted.
Evening star., 1946-05-06
Falls Church Student
Heads Cooperative

James O. Beard of Madison School,
Falls Church, Va, was named chair
man of the elementary section Of
the Northern Virginia District Stu
dent Cooperative Association at a
meeting at Oakton School, Fairfax.
Commentator was given students
who are beginning to participate in
community problems through youth
planning.
Miss Frieda Koontz, State execu-
tive secretary of student cooperative
associations, and Fairfax County
School Supt. w. T. Woodson, spoke.
Musical selections by the Madison
Glee Club and rhythm dances by a
Vienna CVa.) group were presented.
Evening star., 1946-05-06
Prince Georges Man
Is Killed by Another
In Penitentiary Game
speeioI Dispoteh 10 The Stor

BALTIMORE. May GA 21-year-
old convict, who stabbed another
inmate to death in the Maryland
Penitentiary yesterday, has been
placed under a special guard while
authorities complete an investiga-
ton. The victim, former Wash
ingtonian, was identified as Theo-
dore Roosevelt Quesenbury. His as
sailant was not identified.
States Attorney j. Vernon Wells
said no charge will be lodged against
the prisoner today and added the
case will be taken directly before a
grand jury instead Of a magistrates
court.
Quesenbury, 80, died on an operat-
ing table shortly after naming his
assailant. Both men had been con-
victed in Prince Georges County
Quesenbury was fatally wounded
over the heart with dagger made
from file blade.
Stabbed During Baseball Game.
The stabbing occurred during a
baseball game between two prison
teams, officials said. They said it
was the result of a feud between
the two men.
Warden Patrick j. Brady said
the inmates were lining up to re-
turn to their cells just after COM
pletion of the game when Quesen-
bury staggered out of one of the
groups and told Deputy Warden
William P. Kennedy:
I've been stabbed"
Taken to the hospital, he died
before a doctor could arrive.
Both Sent From Prince Georges.
Both Quesenbury and the assail-
ant, prison officials said, were serv-
ing sentences for crimes committed
in Prince Georges County. Quesen-
bury was convicted of attempted
criminal assault on a Suitland Man
or married woman in October, 1943,
and spent a little more than a week
in the Prince Georges County Jail
with the second man, who was ar
rested for assault with intent to
kill and robbery with a deadly
weapon.
Warden Brady said the man held
admitted having had falling out"
with Quesenbury before they en-
tered the penitentiary, where they
worked in different shops, lived in
different cells and seldom came in
contact with each other.
States Attorney A. Gwinn Bowie
of Prince Georges County confirmed
the feud between the two men. II
distinctly recall hearing him make
the remark that he was going to
get Quesenbury-sooner or later"
Mr.. Bowie said,
Evening star., 1946-05-06

NAL methods and wrote Agriculture
Secretary Anderson they would like
to contribute the check to hunger
relief.
The Canadays were invited to
Washington. They arrived by air
Yesterday and were met at the
Washington airport by Secretary
Anderson. After a round of sight,
seeing in the cabinet members lin
CUISINE, the couple put up at the
Hotel Statler.
The check will be presented to
Director General La Guardia at a
ceremony this afternoon. Meantime
the Canadays will continue to look
over the Capital. At noon they were
to be guests of honor at luncheon
given by Agriculture Department
home demonstration agents who are
meeting here.
Evening star., 1946-05-06

An Iowa farm couple today will
turn over to Director General
Fioreno La Guardia of UNRRA a
check for $1,000, which represents
the proceeds of a conservation prof.
ect carried out on their 1,5OO-acre
grain and livestock ranch.
When the Government asked
farmers to feed fewer hogs in order
to save grain to help feed the worlds
hungry, Mr.. and Mrs. Claude Can
aday of Bloomfield, Iowa, complied.
AS a result of their efforts, Mr.
and Mrs. Canaday saved 1000
bushels of corn. They then sought
to sell it directly to the Government
to be channeled to famine areas.
But the Canadays were unable to
sell their corn to the Government.
So they disposed of it through nor
Evening star., 1946-05-06
.M. U. Dean to Address
Women Democrats

Miss Adele Stamp, dean of women
at the University of Maryland, will
address the Women's Democratic
Club Of Silver Spring at 8 o'clock
tonight at Jesup Blair Community
House.
The club will complete arrange
ments for an old fashioned dance to
be held Saturday night at the Sill
yer Spring Armory. Mrs. Joseph
brennan is chairman of the affair.
Evening star., 1946-05-06
Teachers Pay
IncreaseUrged
Al Alexandria
School Head Asserts
Garbage Collectors
Receive More Pay

Pointing out that some Alex
andria school teachers get less pay
than garbage and trash collectors
City School Supt. Thomas C. Will
liams today announced he will ask
the Board of Education to grant a
S725 annual salary increase for the
teachers.
Teacher salaries In Alexandria
range from 81 ,675 to $2,275 for those
with IL or more years of experience
and a majority of the teachers
are eligible for the maximum pay,
the superintendent said. The mini
mum pay for garbage and trash
collectors in Alexandria is $1,000
and the base pay for rookie" police
has been raised from $1,000 to
$2,160, according to Mr.. Williams.
Under the present city budget the
teachers are to have $50-a-year
increase beginning next fall, COM
pared to a $30-a-month increase
which has been granted to police
men, firemen refuse collectors, dog
pound assistants and other munic-
ipal employees
An important factor involved in
any consideration of teacher sal
aries, Mr.. Williams said, is that the
State provides Is per cent of the
cost and the city IS per cent. New
York and California pay SIS per cent,
the superintendent stated.
Mr.. Williams, VINO has drawn up
. comparison of teacher salary
scales in nearby Virginia, Maryland
and the District which, he said,
shows Alexandria has the lowest
rate of pay, declared he expects the
school board will be in favor of the
proposal.
The pay request, if approved, will
be submitted to the City Council.
Mr.. Williams said that in his
opinion the Alexandria minimum
teacher pay scale should be $1,000
to $4,000.
when the budget for the city
was drawn up in October for a $50
a-year teachers salary increase in
Alexandria, he said, I'VE were de-
pending upon the OPA to hold the
line. We had no idea that there
would be such a price and salary
rise as we are experiencing now.
With living costs continuing to 20
up, the city should act for the bene-
f1t OF teachers as it has for other
employees" Mr.. Williams said.
Evening star., 1946-05-06
Group 10 Direct
Cathedral Fund
Drive Selected
$4,000, 900 Sought;
Gen. Marshall Named
Honorary Choirmon

A committee of % men and
women, with Gen. George C. Mar
shall as honorary chairman, was
announced today by the Rt. Rev.
Angus Dun, Bishop of Washington,
for leadership in the Washington
Cathedral national building fund
campaign.
The campaign has a $5,000,000
goal for completion of the Patriots
Transept at the Cathedral, includ-
ing a war memorial chapel and
five additional bays of the unfin-
ished nave.
Instructions for District workers
will be given at dinner Thursday
evening in the Mayflower Hotel
with former Senator George Whar-
ton Pepper of Pennsylvania and
Bishop Dun as speakers.
Macarthur Pledges Support.
Support of the project was pledged
by Gen. Douglas Macarthur in a
letter dispatched from his Tokyo
headquarters.
Il know that you will receive the
full support of all Americans" he
wrote Bishop Dun. Throughout
our history the inherent strength
Of the American character has never
asserted itself with greater force
and clarity than when the country
was threatened with the violence
Of war-and blood was the price
that our liberties might survive.
Then the men and women of Amer
lea have risen to their full spiritual
stature to take their invincible
stand.
ITO consecrate those immortal
qualities of American citizenship of
the past in the manner you plan
Is to provide the inspiration which
will insure that American citizen
ship of the future is no less nobly
endowed"
Group of Sponsors Named.
Named to the Sponsoring Com
mittee from Washington were Mrs.
Dwight F. Davis, Joseph c. Grew,
Eugene Meyer, Admiral Nimitz,
Senator Saltonstall of Massachu-
setts and Eliot Wadsworth.
New York members are Miss
Evangeline Booth, F. Trubee Davi-
son, John w. Davis, Clarence Dill
Ion, Miss Helen Clay Frick, Junius
S. Morgan, Augustus N. Hand,
Thomas w. Lamont, John R. Mott,
Mrs. Percy R. Pyne and Myron c.
Taylor.
Others are Thomas S. Gates and
Owen J. Roberts, Philadelphia; Mary
Pickford, Beverly Hills, Calf; Hen
ming w. Prentis, jr.. Lancaster, Pa:
Mrs. William Cooper Proctor, Glen
dale, Ohio; Mrs. Harper Sibley, Ro-
chester, N. Y; DR.. Kenneth M. Sills,
Brunswick, Maine: Charles P. Taft.
Cincinnati, and John Gilbert Wi
nant, Concord, N. H.
Evening star., 1946-05-06
Health Study Centers
Attention Of County
On Need for Funds

The blast against medical facili-
ties in several nearby counties in
the report Of the Washington Met
ropolitan Health Council is still
echoing in Prince Georges County
After William A. Carson, presi-
dent of the county's Board of Com
missioners asserted following the re-
port that the "only time we might
be handicapped would be if an cpl
demic broke out" DR.. John M. BY
ers, county health officer, protested
that the department is overworked
at present and barely keeping its
head above water"
The situation is critical as far
as the staff is concerned he de-
clared. citing nurses and other work.
ers who resigned during the war
because of too much work.
Conditions Above Normal.
DR.. Byers agreed with Mr.. Carson
that health conditions were above
normal" in the county. So did the
Medical Council which expressed
surprise in the report of the survey
that so much has been accom-
plished in Prince Georges County
with its meager financial resources" !"
Due to misunderstanding, 1t
was reported Thursday that the
Prince Georges county commission
ers had approved the addition of
two nurses to the II already in the
health department. Actually, there
are only eight nurses on duty, DR.
Byers asserted.
The misunderstanding, he said
was because nurse at the Green
belt Health Department, Govern
ment employe, and two in the coun-
ty for the Metropolitan Life Insur-
ance Co., who service policy holders
only, were included in the figure
These can't be considered among
health department nurses, DR.. Byers
added.
The new nurses who are author
lied cannot be added until July
when the new fiscal year becomes
effective, DR.. Byers explained.
Bureau Got S35,000.
The health officer said his, de-
partment had received $35,0O0 for
the coming fiscal year in the
county budget, an increase of IS 900
over last year. This, he reported,
was exclusive of $4,000 allowed
for typhus and rodent control in
the county, and funds from other
sources, including the State, Fed
eral Government and private
agencies. He said the health de-
partment spent $71,457 in all its
work last year.
Mr.. Carson said that nurses and
other health department personnel
have been granted a 5000 increase
in salaries over last year.
The county board president said
1t was difficult envisioning too
rapid expansion of the staff with
out raising the tax rate in the
county, which for the past three
years was $1.55 per 500 valuation.
THE commissioners hesitate
raising taxes" he said. "The ma
jority of people in the county can't
pay more. Last year there were
approximately 1900 tax sales in the
county"
Neither Mr. Carson or DR.. Byers
knew where additional funds could
be obtained.
Evening star., 1946-05-06
Arlington Republicans
Plan Mass Meetino

A Republican mass meeting for
Arlington County will be held at 8
pm, May II, at the Lyon Park
Community Center.
Delegates and alternates to repre-
sent Arlington at the 9Th district
convention at. Alexandria, May 20,
will be selected at the meeting
which is sponsored by the Arling-
ton County Republican COMMITTEES
Evening star., 1946-05-06
Roundup Health Clinic
Is" Set for Wednesday

The first summer roundup clinic
Tor Montgomery County will be held
wednesday beginning at 9:30 am.
at the Glenmont School, the county
health department announced yes
terday.
The department urged that par.
eats bring children who will enter
school next year to the clinic for
physical examinations, and also
recommended smallpox and diph-
theria inoculations and dental
checkups for the pre-school children.
DR.. John A. Norcross of Silver Spring
will be clinician.
Evening star., 1946-05-06
Marriage Licenses Set
Record in MONTGOMERY

Whether or not it was the spring,
it was certainly love in bloom last
month in Montgomery County, where
$50 marriage licenses were issued for
an all-time record.
Il guess maybe it was on account
OF Easter" said Mrs. Lucille Fen
nington, license clerk in Rockville,
"or maybe all the boys coming back
from overseas"
The former record was 311, chalked
up in June, 1945. The monthly
average for last year was 255, she
added.
Evening star., 1946-05-06
Wedthermun Still Winnino

The Weatherman, tickled pink at
the 11th victory to his credit in the
fine Sunday that bore out his pre-
diction, offered a quatrain which
may explain why a forecaster can
look either harassed or happy but
never calm.
And noU among the fading embers,
These, in the main, are my regrets,
When am right no one remembers,
When ! am 1Drong no one torgets.' -
Evening star., 1946-05-06

stroyed the in
terror of her one
bedroom apart
ment over a ga
rage In the rear
of 1928 De Sales
street NV.
A n t h o n y
w est, dancing
school proprietor
who lives in the
residence 'front.'
ing on De Sales
street, told fire.
men he rushed
to the garage
when he saw the
fire and heard
Evening star., 1946-05-06
HyuttsviIIe Meeting
On Trade Body Set

A meeting to form a Hyattsville
group OF the Independent Trade
Association of Prince George County
will be held at $50 pm. Thursday
in the Hyattsville Council Chamber
The association also is setting up
groups in other towns. Colmar
Manor has formed unit with Judge
r. A. Donley as chairman.
Evening star., 1946-05-06
License Renewal Due

Clayton K. Watkins, clerk of the
Circuit Court, has warned Mont
gomery County business people
that their state licenses must be
renewed during the current month
to avoid penalties. The law requires
him to impose 10 per cent penalty
for each month after May until
renewal.