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Evening star., 1946-05-15
Youth Is Going to Have Its Fling
When USO Selects Hostesses

girls would be a matter for local
decision. In Washington, for in
stance, the organization prefers that
hostesses have finished high school.
Not only will there be regular
sessions in junior and senior hostess
training courses to consider the
needs of the younger inductees, but
older Junior hostesses, familiar with
USO standards calling for dignity,
poise and adherence to regulations
of conduct, will themselves give spe-
cial training to the 16-year-old
girls" USO said.
USO headquarters urged special
programs, with cooperation and
permission of parents, wherever
younger girls participate.
The directive said care should be
taken that the younger girls do not
mix in the general activities with
the older men"
Evening star., 1946-05-15

EIks Outline Program
For Flag Day Parade

Plans for Flag Day. parade,
ceremonies and a fireworks display
on June IA were outlined last night
by Washington Lodge, No. Is, of
the Elks.
The parade will be composed of
units from all American Legion
posts and their auxiIaries here,
Veterans of Foreign Wars, State
societies, other organizations and
probably school cadets. It is sched-
uled to start at Sixth street and
Constitution avenue NV. at 7:30
pm. and proceed to the Sylvan
Theater on the Washington Monu-
ment Grounds, where the cere-
monies will be held. Prominent
speakers are expected and President
Truman has been asked to attend
The fireworks display will follow
the ceremonies.
Brig. Gen. John w. Oehmann,
veteran national guardsman and
retired District building inspector
is chairman of the Flag Day Com
mittee, and Arthur E. Daley, RFC
accountant, is secretary.
Persons prominent in American
Legion and fraternal affairs here
and officials of State societies were
guests of the Elks at last nights
dinner, held in the organization
quarters, '919 H street NV
Evening star., 1946-05-15
Judge Leaves
Bench, GroppIes
With Defendant
BY the Assoeiotsd Press

GARY, Ind, May 15.-Superior
Judge Homer E. Sackett, So, left
his bench yesterday and grappled
with and twice threw to the floor
Virgil Underwood, 35-year-old, g.
foot 3-inch, 175-pound tavern owner
Of Black Oak, Ind. ...-
Bailiff Joseph Meier said that
Underwood, who was in court as
defendant in a divorce case, during
a conference with his wife, her at
torney, Richard S. Kaplan, and wit
nesses, had struck woman witness,
blacking her eye
Judge Sackett grabbed Under
wood, pulled him over a 3-foot rail-
ing and threw him to the floor, after
which, Mr.. Melzer said, Mr.. Kaplan
came to his aid.
Underwood got up and swung at
the jurist, but Judge Sackett, who
is S feet Z inches tall and weighs
165 pounds, seized him around the
neck again and threw him to the
floor. Deputy sheriffs ran in from
the hallway and took charge of Un-
derwood.
Judge. Sackett returned to the
bench and fined Underwood 5000
and sentenced him to 80 days in jail
for contempt of court.
Evening star., 1946-05-15
County Boards Depleted
Under New Draft Bill

Few. if any, men will be available
Tor induction in nearby MARYLAND
and Virginia under the revised draft
law extension, according to reports
today from county Selective Service
Boards.
The Fairfax County Board. one of
the largest in Virginia with a total
OF 5000 registrants, reports the sup
ply OF eligible men between the ages
OF 20 and IS, is exhausted.
In Prince Georges County. where
three boards have total of more
than 81 900 registered, only one man
is available and he probably will
oe nducted on the next call on
May %, according to Mrs. Virginia
G. Kirtley, chief clerk of County
Board No. 2 at Upper Marlboro.
Of the approximately 10000 men
registered with the three Montgom-
cry County draft boards, none is
available for induction under the
new draft regulations, board clerks
said. ->''
In Arlington, Mrs. Pearl Payne
chlef clerk of Board No. l, said
eney nave approximately $50 reg
istered who are eligible for induc-
ton. The majority, she explained
are students who have already been
ca!ieo Tor induction. but have been
deferred until June IA, to allow them
to graduate.
AT Board No. 2, in Arlington.
mrs. Eleanor c. Ford chief clerk,
said she didn't believe her board
had any one eligible.
Miss Virginia Jefferson, chief clerk
OF Alexandra Selective Service
Board, said the board is awaiting
instructions from State headquar-
tiers in Richmond.
Evening star., 1946-05-15
Commissioners Study Changes
In District Building Code

How small should builders be per-
mitted to make the kitchen in your
apartment?
Should recirculated air be per-
mitted from one living unit to
another in air-conditioning systems?
These were major points Of dis
cussion today as the Commissioners
held a public hearing on 20 pro-
posed changes in the District build
ing code designed to speed housing
construction without weakening the
code.
Nine Proposals Accepted.
The 20 notifications were studied
by a special committee OF District
officials, architects and builders
which recommended but turned
down II Of the suggestions.
Architects and builders want to
lower the 60-square- foot limit on
the size of apartment kitchens, not,
they told the Commissioners, to
build all such kitchens smaller, but
to have the fiexibility of design to
do so when necessary. Z.
An arbitrary kitchen size. they
testified, forces allotment of less
space to other living features in
small accommodations. '
Both electric and gas kitchen
units are now being manufac-
tured, the hearing was told, to re-
quire as little as 2S square feet and
for families without children,
kitchen size is relatively unimpor-
tant.
Louis Justement and Alvin Aub-
inoe, architects, championed a re-
duction of the size Limitation, as did
Builder Harry Poretsky.
Small Kitchen Rejected.
The Health Department and q
private citizen disagreed, as did the
Commissioner Committee, which
refused to recommend the proposed
change.
The kitchen is the "workroom of
the home" 1t. Col. w. H. Cary, chief
of the Health Departments SANTA
ton bureau, told the group. Size OF
the kitchen, he said, in the interest
of cleanliness, should not be re-
Evening star., 1946-05-15
Selection Of Jury Begun
In Summers Death Trial

A jury was being picked in Dis
trlct Court today for the trial of
Mrs. Maude o. Summers, So, of the
$500 block Alabama avenue Sc. on
a charge Of second-degree murder
in the fatal shooting February u of
her daughter Annie, II.
Mrs. Summers is represented by
Attorneys Charles E. Ford and H.
ChHord Alder. She is being prose-
cuted by Assistant United Attorney
John p. Burke. Justice Alexander
Holtzoff is presiding.
Mrs. Summers was quoted by po-
lice as saying she knelt by her
daughters bed and shot her while
she was asleep. The mother, it was
claimed, had been worried about her
daughters threat to leave home.
Evening star., 1946-05-15

The two-day convention will con-
tinue discussions this afternoon and
will conclude with an address by DR..
Hobart M. Corning, superintendent
Of schools, at dinner at 7 o'clock
tonight at the Mayfower Hotel. New
officers will be installed.
Last night the. convention was
told that higher salaries and an
occasional II love you" notes from
parents would keep District teach
ers from leaving the schools.
The advice on keeping good teach
ers here came from DR.. Ralph
Mcdonald of the National Educa-
ton Association, and DR.. Benjamin
w. Frazier of the United States
Office of Education.
$500 Raise "Not Enough"
Even the 5000 raise now proposed
for teachers by the District Board of
Education is not anywhere near
adequate" for people who carry both
a class schedule and many civic
duties, DR.. Mcdonald said. He
pointed out that the Washington
teacher now starts at 81 900 a year
and that the highest salary is So, TOO
Professional Government employees
start at $4,000 and may get as high
as $4,000, he said.
DR.. Frazier said parents should
invite the teachers to dinner once
in while or tell her that you love
her" Many good teachers would
stay in the profession despite the
low salaries. if they thought their
contribution to the community was
appreciated, DR.. Frazier said.
! Nominated officers, for whom the
convention will vote today, are:
For three vice presidential vacancies,
Mrs. j. D. Phenix, 1905 Brandywine
street NV: Mrs. Burdell Read,
president Of the Edmonds- Maury
School Parent Teacher Association
and Mrs. John Bittner, treasurer of
the Powell PTA: recording secretary
Mrs. Andrew G. Weaver, president
of Petworth PTA; assistant secre-
tary, Mrs. Margaret Cox, president
OF Park View PTA: treasurer, Mrs.
A. L. Smith, now filling out an un-
expired term in that office; assistant
treasurer, Mrs. Crawford Shanks
editor Of the PTA Sunday column
in The Star, and historian, Mrs
Mackall F. Fetzer, a past president
OF the congress.
Evening star., 1946-05-15

The postwar teen-age Army re-
quires special treatment to keep the
boys happy, such as dancing part
ners and hostesses as young as 16,
the USO said today.
Influx of 18-year-olds into the
Army makes it necessary to lower
the minimum age of these girl COM
psnions from l8 to 16, the USO
added So great is the demand for
younger girls that the organiza-
ton which provides. recreation for
servicemen has issued a directive to
its field forces calling attention to
the need.
With more than 900 installations
throughout the country, USO be-
lieves the need for younger girls will
continue for some time despite Con-
gressional action discontinuing
drafting of 18 and 10 year olds.
USO said invitation of younger
Evening star., 1946-05-15
Two Youths Get Five Years
On HOUSEKEEPING Charges

Two Washington youths today
faced flve-year penitentiary terms
following convictions in Arlington
County Circuis Court for house
breaking.
Harry K. Cation. 10, of 1904
Twenty-fifth street NV. was found
guilty of housebreaking and SEN
fenced to serve five years on each
OF two counts, to run concurrently
John N. Kelly, 10, of 819 Fifth
street NV. was found guilty of
the same charge and sentenced to
serve five years on each of three
counts, the terms also to run con-
currently.
A third Washington youth, Gill
bert Lee Follin, 20, of 26041a L
street NV. was given a five-year
suspended sentence on the same
charge and placed on probation.
Evening star., 1946-05-15

duced. They should be big enough
to permit mothers with babies to
have their babies with them In the
kitchen for supervision, while the
mothers are cooking.
The citizen, Mrs. Helen Duey Hoff-
man, formerly executive director of
the Washington Housing Associa-
ton, Joined Col. Cary in opposition
to smaller kitchens. She said that
she was herself working out OF a
small modern kitchen in which
there Is not room for two persons
at the same time.
Until the housing shortage here
is over, Mrs. Hoffman said she did
not think kitchens should be built
for a specific type family. Com
missioner Guy Mason observed that
because a couple was cnildless. at a
Certain time did not necessarily
mean that the condition was perma-
nent.
Called Health Protection.
In the matter of air condition
ing, recirculation is now permitted
back to the same unit but prohibited
from one living unit to another to
prevent communication of germs.
the Commissioners COM
mittee, headed by Assistant Engin-
eel. Commissioner Kenneth E. Mad
sen, also refused to recommend un-
limited recirculation, spokesmen for
the ventilation and refrigeration in
dnstry contended there was recircu-
lation Of air between living units in
apartment houses through corridors
and doorways even without any me-
chanical ventilation. They also
asked for ruling on when mechan-
ical air circulation was classed as
ventilation and when it became air
conditioning
"This is too weighty subject for
a swift conclusion" observed j. M.
Lambert Of the York Corp.
Martin Beline Of the Washington
Refrigeration Co. urged a restudy of
the code rules governing mechanical
ventilation.
Architect Julian E. Berle told the
Commissioners there are now grave
defects" in the administrative con-
troll imposed by the building code
which places too big a burden on the
Districts inspection service. He
urged that the building inspectors
be free to work only on the technical
aspects Of construction here.
The testimony taken at today's
session, together with the nine pro-
posals recommended by Col. Mad
sens committee and the IL rejected
by the committee, will now 60 to the
Commissioners for final approval or
disapproval
Evening star., 1946-05-15
Quick Approval
Of 14% i. ). PAY
|ncreaseSeen
Randolph to Seek
House Approval
Of Plan Friday
By Joseph YOUNG

Sponsors of the Federal pay
bill today predicted speedy ap-
proval by Congress of legislation
giving Government workers a
fiat IA per cent wage increase
and calling for drastic reductions
in Federal personnel during the
next year.
Chairman Randolph of the House
Civil Service Committee said he
would bring up the bill for House
action on Friday. The Senate will
act after the House takes action.
Conferees on the measure finally
reached agreement late yesterday at
their 18th session. The bill would
become effective July 1.
LANCER Plans Minority Report.
Both Mr.. Randolph and Chairman
Downey of the Senate Civil Service
Committee said today they thought
the conferees' bill will be quickly
approved by Congress. The vote of
the conferees was not unanimous,
Senator LANCER, Republican, of
North Dakota, holding out for the
fiat $400 increase voted by the
House.
Senator LANCER said today he
would file minority report on the
conferees' bill. The conferees' meas
ure provides $3.50 annual minimum
wage raise guaranteed for Federal
employees in the lowest brackets.
The $3.50 guarantee, however, doesn't
apply to janitors and other custodial
employees making less than $1,000
. year.
Representative Rees, Republican,
Of Kansas said he was far from
satisfied with the agreement, al
though he was on the committee
while it had to be accepted as
. compromise" Mr.. Rees, ranking
minority member of the House
Civil Service Committee, said, IT
am not entirely agreeable. I ia
vored and still do, a sliding scale
of increases which would give the
lower salaried Government en-
ployes more of an increase than
those who are higher paid"
ITO give the $8,000-a-year man
another $1,000 is OVERRIDING things"
Mr.. Rees declared.
More Generous Than Senate.
The bulk of Federal employees do
not fare as well under the con-
ferees' measure as they would have
under the $400 House bill. However,
the conferees' bill is more generous
than the II per cent Senate bill.
Here is how classified Federal
workers in the executive, legislative
and judicial branches of the Gov-
ernment, including the District gov
ernment, will fare under the con-
f-.fY
Evening star., 1946-05-15
6. !. Hansen to Head
Purchasing AGENTS

G. Irving Hansen, director of pro-
curement of the United States
Maritime Commission, was elected
president of the Purchasing Agents
Association of Washington at the
groups annual meeting last night
at the Mayflower Hotel.
Other officers included A. v. Haw-
kins, purchasing agent of the Po-
tomac Electric Power Co., vice pres
ident, and A. w. Alexander, assist
ant purchasing agent of the Engi-
neering and Research Corp, secre-
tary treasurer.
Directors are Clifton E. Mack, di-
rector of procurement of the Treas
ury Department; E. P. Scully, gen.
erai purchasing agent of the Engi-
neering and Research Corp, and
Roland M. Brennan, purchasing
agent Of the District government.
Evening star., 1946-05-15
$1,000 Limit Remains.

The present $4,000 Federal wage
ceiling was not lifted, explaining
why s9,S0o-a-year officials get only
a 5000 raise under the bill. Legis-
lative employees, in addition to the
raise, will be permitted to retain
their present compensation of 10
per cent Of their salary in lieu of
overtime This is because most Of
them have to work six days, instead
OF the five-day week performed by
Government workers. The 10 per
cent overtime payment also applies
to Supreme Court employees, but not
to other judicial workers.
As can be seen by the table, en-
ployes in the middle and most of the
top brackets get far better break
under thet conferees' measure than
under the $40o House bill. Sponsors
of the legislation had pleaded for
substantially better wages in these
brackets to secure and retain top
calibre employees.
The conferees also adopted per-
sonnel ceiling amendment which
seeks to bring Federal employment
down to 1612,670 persons by July /,
1947. At present there are approx
mately 100000 Government work.
ers.
Personnel Ceilings Established.
Personnel ceilings were set up for
two groups-so-called old-line agen-
cies and the War and Navy Depart
ments. Employees whose salaries are
fixed by wage boards are not includ-
ed in the personnel ceiling require
ments, but the confereeS emphasized
that they expect that many of these
workers also will be dismissed by
July l, 1947.
Quarterly ceilings were set up for
Federal agencies other than War
and Navy Departments. At present
these agencies have about $4,000
employees. BY October 1, they will
be required to have only 528,975
workers. A further reduction to
501,771 workers is to take effect by
January, 1947. April 1, 1947, will see
the personnel reduced to 474,567 en-
ployes and the conferees set the July
/, 1947 figure at AT 1863 employees.
No quarterly ceilings were set for
the War and Navy Departments.
The conferees instructed the War
Department to reduce its present
classified staff of $4,000 employees to
10000 by July l, l947, and the Navy
Department to cut its present classi-
fed force of $4,000 employees to
100000 by the same date.
Psychological Effect"
Senator .Downey acknowledged
that the ceiling did not preclude
the possibility that the employ
ment figures would not be met.
Congress cannot bind itself to future
commitments and its appropria-
tions committee can still expend
sums for greater Federal personnel
should the occasion warrant it.
Senator Downey declared that the
conferees hoped the amendment
would have."a psychological effect
on agencies and bureaus to make
them reduce excessive pay rolls and
eliminate unnecessary waste of
manpower.
1t was pointed out that the
amendment did have some teeth to
1t because deliberate violation of its
provisions by agency heads would
Evening star., 1946-05-15
Parent 7eocher Congress Splits
On Sex xEducution RESPONSIBILITY

The District Congress of Parents
and Teachers split today on whether
sex education belonged in the home
or in the school.
During a discussion of resolutions
at convention In the depart
mental auditorium the parents and
teachers refused to reafflrm the
stand of three previous conventions
that sex education belongs entirely
in the home and that outside groups
should only help-not replace-pa-
rental instruction.
The resolution was sent back to
the Resolutions Committee after
Mrs. Carey Winston of the John
Eaton School said teachers should
supplement home education "at
lease in junior high school,"
Amends Suggestion.
Mrs. Mildred Riemer Of the
Janney School amended Mrs. VIM
ston's suggestion to read that "spe-
cially trained personnel" should
teach sex education at all levels, in
cluding elementary schools.
The Resolutions Committee prob
ably will report new version of the
sex education policy to an execu-
tive committee June IL, Mrs. P. C.
Elicit, a spokesman said.
Also referred back to the Resolu-
tions Committee was another long
standing tenet that children belong
in the home and that day care GEN.
ters be set up to relieve parents of
this responsibility only in emergency
So many mothers leaped up to say
that day care centerS have become
an actual necessity for many homes
that Mrs. Arthur c. Watkins, re-
firing president, announced the
Parent-Teacher Associations will
hold meetings soon to discuss pos
sible approval of permanent day
care centers.
Seek Adequate Teacher Pay.
The House has passed and sent
to the Senate bill proposing the
wartime day care centers of the
District become a permanent part
OF the educational system.
Resolutions approved by the con-
vention include a recommendation
Of adequate salaries" for school
personnel; a special teacher for
safety education for the whole
school system and a full time IL
brarian for junior as well as senior
high schools.
Evening star., 1946-05-15
Business Rent Control
Foes 70 Get Hearino

Opponents of commercial rent
control in the District are to be
given a hearing at 10 am. tomorrow
before the Healy Subcommittee of
the House District Committee.
The hearing will be held in the
Claims Committee room 327, Old
House Office Building, because the
District Committee hearing room
will be taken by another group.
Spokesman for the Washington
Board of Trade, the Washington
Real Estate Board and the Building
Owners and Managers Association
are to testify against the Barry bill
for control of commercial rents.
Evening star., 1946-05-15
Quarter Of Maryland
Abbutoirs Unlicensed
BY the Assoeioted Press :

BALTIMORE, May Is (R.-About
a fourth of the slaughterhouses in
spected in Maryland have been op-
Grating without licenses, James S.
Morrow, jr., food enforcement at
torney of the Office of Price Admin
istration has reported.
Mr.. Morrow said an intensive
check designed to break up black
market operations showed that 80
per cent of Maryland's class two
slaughterers were violating one or
more OPA regulations. Most, he
added, involved failure to keep
records.
Evening star., 1946-05-15
PenciIed Words
| Add $65,000 to
Cost of Terminal
BY the A.socioted Press

BALTIMORE, May 15.-The new
ferry terminal at Matapeake will
cost the State $65,000 more than
it might have-all because of a few
words in pencil.
The words should have been in
ink. Because they were in pencil
one bid submitted to the State
Roads Commission had to be dis
qualified. The bid, by the Tide
water Construction Co., Norfolk,
was for $1,028, 900, and would have
been the lowest. and therefore, the
winning bid but for the technical
error.
The lowest bid in proper form
was $65 1000 more than the Tide
water proposal.
Evening star., 1946-05-15
Starts
Traffic Campaign

Montgomery County will Cooper
ate in the national traffic safety
check campaign beginning today
and ending July l.
County Police Chief H. Leslie Car
lin said all cars stopped for viola
tions OF traf1ic regulations will be
checked for mechanical defects in
the program to prevent accidents
At the same time, he warned that
police have been ordered to crack
down" on .speeders and motorists
who pass stop signs.
Posters urging motorists to check
your driving, your car and check
accidents" will be placed in garages,
filling stations and business estab-
lishments throughout the county.
Evening star., 1946-05-15

It was felt by the official scorer
that the Weatherman launched his
prediction with full knowledge that
the dictionary defines the word "oc-
casional" as meaning "at irregular
intervals" and "infrequent"
The Districts dampened citizens
can testify that yesterdays collec-