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The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-04-19

stant vigilance to constructlvely guide the city ofilciai4 in the judi cious spending of our tax money. It is equally important to prevent the syphoning of our tax money into channels that do not benefit the majority of the people.
 Answer "In Mayors Lap"
 Tn recent communication the chief executive again demonstrated how to say I decline to answer your question in a wordy letter consisting of one and one-half type- written pages. Are we to assume that the chief executive is ap- preaching the same avenue MT. Jenks is travesing by refusing to answer the Community Clubs questions relating to public in- terest? We trust this is not so.
 The answer to the issues at stake lies Fundamentally in the mayors lap by virtue of the strong mayors" charter. These issues hit the small home owners squarely between the eyes. These samll home owners have worked all their lives to improve and pay for their little places.
 These home -owners, as the mayor should know, have struggled to raise their families in the face of economic stress, through sickness and @ host of other kindred diffi. culties. How many of our aged now living in their little homes on fixed incomes can afford to pay a property tax increase of 100 percent or more? Are not these people en- titled to well, hard-earned rest after decades of toil2 Can we bear to see these people leaving their cozy homes to live in with strangers or their children's families? Of this we can only repeat that political difflculties, City Hall-made, are now besetting the city fathers, and they are now crying Wolf" to the Gen. eral Assembly.
 We are not misled by the cries emanating from the inner sanctum of our City Hall. This Is not a po- litical election year for the mayor and his royal family, and he can yet demonstrate to the people of Waterbury that he understands the problems of home life in It's fullest sense. He can demonstrate his in-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-04-19

dependence of action and thought by informing the people that the revaluation had been performed hastily, and consequently is in CT. TOT. The mayors present trend Is one of political expediency we fear. Were this not so then why did he cloak his movements in secrecyP Do we elect our mayor to keep from us those things which are vital to every taxpayer in Waterbury, Does 1t not seem that something must be very wrong with the tax situation to account for the mayors behaviour in Hartford yesterday These questions we are sure will re- main for the people themselves to answer
 Tax bills have been placed in the mail, and the mayor, having re- fused to commit the city to @ po- sition which would protect the tax payers, the Community Clubs ex- pect to publish very shortly full instructions as to how taxes may be paid, so that the greatest amount of protection will be af- forded to individual taxpayers. It is most unfortunate that the city does not choose to cooperate in our efforts. Nevertheless, we will not abandon our right to obtain justice.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-04-19
Martino Scores MoUe To Validate Action
 Plays Administration for What Is

into a belief that the only relief for the troubles of the City of Wa. terbury, brought about by the wilful disregard by city officials of char ter provisions, is through valida- ton of the grand list of l045. To validate such Q grand list will not improve the situation, but will only cover with @ cloak of legality the deliberate failure of city officials to discharge their duties. The Com rnunity Clubs urge, and will urge before the Legislature, that this attempt of the city administration to place @ stamp of approval upon their rnisdeeds, be rejected,
 The Community Clubs will fur- ther urge the General Assembly to relieve the taxpayers of the City of Waterbury from the unjust site uatlon which has developed through the acts of the city's ofticials by first: Making. clear the power of the city to raise, by a tax upon the grand list of lo44 sufficient monies to meet all proper expenditures of the city, and second: By establish. ing procedure under which the in- dividual taxpayers, may by joint action, have due and orderly inc quiry made into the justice and fairness of their individual assess f11ents.
 There is now little doubt in any persons mind that the Council of Community Clubs Is rendering to It's members and to the people of the city of Waterbury Q distinct and meritorious service. Without the help of the people, this could not have been possible. We are jointly indebted to the cause of good, sound-minded government and to you as citizens. It is irr1- perative that we maintain 8 con-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-04-19

ready for the usual iast-Inlnute de- mands for items forgotten earlier.
 Fair and mild weather is pre- dicted for Sunday, the weatherman promising cooperation to help make Waterbury's first postwar Easter parade a brilliant spectacle{
 Shortages of many items were plaguing housewives and other shoppers. Chicken and turkey will be the principal Easter dishes, the traditiodnal ham being extremely and most other meats also being
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-04-19

unavailable. Butter and certain other foods appeared to be non-ex- istent. Even candy supplies for Easter were below normal, and small stocks on hand were bought up rapidly.
 Closed for Good Friday were most factories, all state and city offices, schools and banks. Regular mail service was maintained. Liquor stores were closed, and serving of liquor by the drink was banned. The end of Lent ct noon tomor-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-04-19

When Ezequlel Padlla, candidale for President of Mexica, campaia ned in the State of Nayarit, hig supporters claim the Government forbade the hotels to give him shel- ter and he had to stay at the homo of friends.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-04-19
Local DriUer Held EoLLo1Uinq Accident

After the car he was driving over- turned on the Bristol Waterbury
 Road near Cedar Lake yesterday, Joseph J. Dance, 35, of 20 West Farm Street was arrested by Bristol
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-04-19

police and ordered to appear ln W Court there Wednesday Follfa said Dance, charged with speeulne was uninjured althougi hisscar Naa severely damaged.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-04-19

row win set off a series of gay so- clal event sthat will continue through Easter Week.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-04-19
PFe-Euster Rush Neurs Peck Tod0y
 Merchants Report
 Heavy Buying
 OF Accessories

The pre-Easter rush reached It's peak today as thousands of shoppers Hooked to the downtown business district. With most factories and of fices closed for Good Friday, retail stores furnished the city's principal business activity of the day, Mer- chants expect the rush to taper off somewhat tomorrow, but will be
Evening star., 1946-09-25
Poll Tax Suit Hearing
Due Monday at Richmond

A hearing on a motion to dismiss
the poll tax suit of John Locke
Green, Arlington Republican, will
be held Monday in the United States
District Court in Richmond.
The motion to dismiss was filed
by Attorney General A. P. Staples
In the suit which asks that the
commissioners of revenue and treas
urers of Is counties in the 9Th
congressional district be restrained
from collecting capitation taxes. Mr.,
Green filed the suit as counsel for
Lawrence Michael, COP nominee for
the House
Meanwhile, Mr.. Green called for
a second time upon the United
States Department of Justice to in
tervene in the suit on the grounds
that the department is charged with
enforcing the Constitution and the
laws of Congress which he alleges
are being violated by Virginia's poll
tax laws.
Evening star., 1946-09-25
Arlington Hospital
Drive Is Extended

With more than half of the $50
900 goal collected, the first annual
fund drive of the Arlington Hospital
has been extended to October /,
John F.. Phelan. director of the cam
palgh, announced yesterday.
Funds would be expended as fol-
lows: $4,000 for painting, $4,000 for
repairs and requirements and $780,
900 for maintenance and operations,
including some charity cases
Total on hand as of yesterday
date the two-week drive was sched-
uled to end-was $27,26111, Mr.
Phelan announced. He added that
the report was not complete because
many of the workers had not yet
been able to cover completely the
territories assigned them.
The report showed the source OF
the contributions as follows:
Special gifts, $10,620; business
$772, and residential, $l5,869.11.
Business and residential solicita-
tions will continue Mr.. Phelan said
until every business house and FAM
lily in Arlington has been given ar
opportunity to contribute"
Residents may send contributions
direct to the hospital without wait
ing for, solicitor to call, Mr.. Phelar
said.
Evening star., 1946-09-25

week." he stated, I'VE hope to insti-
tute an effective full-time program" "
Tentative plans call for the pro-
posal Of various fire ordinances in
the county designed to tighten pres
ent regulations, bringing public at
tention to fire hazards through
parent teacher associations and
other organizations, and inaugural
ing an educational program on fire
prevention.
Mr.. Marschalk. who made a pre-
liminary survey of fire hazards in
the county last year as member Of
the Fire Prevention Committee Of
the county association, said there
are many serious fire hazards in
Montgomery.
Victor Bender of Silver Spring
has been named chairman of the
Fire Prevention Committee. -Four
additional members will be ap-
pointed soon by Mr.. Marschalk and
the new chairman.
Evening star., 1946-09-25
Mother Gets 4 Years
In Houseboat Murder

Mrs. Cleo Kinchloe, 22-year-old
mother Of two, today was sentenced
to four years in the State peniten-
tiary for killing her husband last
July in a Hunting Greek houseboat
near Alexandria.
The sentence was imposed In
Alexandria Corporation Court by
Judge william P. Woolls after Com
monwealth's Attorney Albert Bryan
told the court, THE facts make this
a crime of voluntary manslaughter
rather than murder" Mrs. Kinch-
loe then pleaded guilty.
Mrs. Kinchloe Sobbed after the
sentence and was helped from the
room.
She was arrested after she shot
her husband Charles in the head
with a shotgun as he slept in their
houseboat. The shooting climaxed
quarrel in which, Mrs. Kinchloe
later told police, her husband had
struck her with a dish.
Mrs. Kinchloe's two small chill
dren by a previous marriage are
being cared for by welfare authori-
ties.
At her arraignment on September
8 Mrs. Kinchloe had pleaded not
guilty to charge of murder. She
was represented by Attorney Robin
son Moncure.
Evening star., 1946-09-25
-Four Women Are Among 81
Admitted 10 Maryland Bar
BY the Associated Press

BALTIMORE, Sept. Is. - The
State Board of Law Examiners yes
terday announced that 81 candi-
dates, including four women, had
passed Maryland bar examinations
given recently.
Robertson G. Hesse of Baltimore
took top honors. Humphrey M.
Peter. 300 Grosvenor lane, Bethesda
was fifth.
Fifty-two of the successful can
didates were from Baltimore.
Others who passed include:
B. F. Carpenter, Frederick; H. p.
Babock, r. L. Edwards and w. P.
Starr, jr., Hyattsville; E. N. Cory
j.. and W.. ]. Miller, jr., College
Park; H. E. Fox, jr.. Landover; J.
A. Kuhn, jr., Friendship Heights;
Stedman Prescott, jr., Rockville; S.
M. Irvey. Annapolis; E. S. Digges
La Plata, and Jane M. Lucas, Fair
mount Heights.
Evening star., 1946-09-25
Virginia Funeral Held
For Strang|ed Girl;
Neighbor, 70, Is Held
BY the Associoted Press

TAzEWELL, Va, Sept. 25.-
Funeral services were held today at
the Mount Pleasant Church for
Aileen Lockhart, 15-year- high
school girl, who was criminally as
saulted and strangled just off the
Tazewell Country Club golf course
early Monday.
The Rev. P. c. Foote conducted
the services Burial followed in the
Maxwell Cemetery.
Yesterday police announced that
20-year-old Harold Duane Beavers
of Maxwell, neighbor of the girl
had been charged with murder
and criminal assault. He was ar
rested by Sheriff Bowen Thompson
and State Police Sergt. Ira Ratliff
when he signaled them for ride
or State Route 10, near Abingdon
so miles from here.
Beavers complained that he suf-
fered' memory ''lapses" since his
discharge from the Army last June
and denied any knowledge of the
crime Since his arrest he has shed
little light on the attack
The ex-soldier answered the de-
scription given by driver of bus
who said a couple answering the
description of Miss Lockhart and
Beavers had ridden the night be-
fore the girls death.
The bus driver, j. o. Stalcup of
Tenn. identified the
youth in the presence of officers as
passenger aboard a Tennessee
Coach Lines vehicle, and as sitting
with the slain girl from Bristol to
Maxwell. He said the two had
alighted from the bus together.
The girl had left home Sunday
for Oak Ridge, Tenn, with
an older sister. Dorothy, and two
young men. En- route their car
broke down and the sisters con-
tinued their trip by bus. The vic
tim was put on bus Sunday night
in Knoxville for TazeWell.
Beavers, separated from his wife,
told officers he had gone to Bristol
Saturday night to seek employment.
He said he did not remember" what
he had done between his arrival
in Bristol, and the time of his
arrest.
Evening star., 1946-09-25
Housekeeper WMed $4,000
Finds II Cats Are No Trouble

Of the elaborately furnished four
story house, and the garden has
been walled off from the street for
their protection.
Mrs Schwarz said she had no par
ticular favorite among the felines,
but Capt. Edie's favorite was Felix,
a 7-year-old that was crippled as a
kitten when it was dropped by its
mother, Judy, now nine years old
and the mother" or. grandmother
of all the cats. Judy is a mixture of
Angora and ManX.
The father" of the brood was
Punch, Persian, killed few years
ago by an automobile The captain
bought the pair nine years ago and
kept small number of kittens from
each litter. He gave the others tt
friends.
Mrs. Schwarz. a shy white-haired
woman who still speaks with the
accent of her native Austria, said
she did not know where she woulo
live but, wherever it may be, she
will take the cats with her. Capt
Edie gave his residence at 1923 Six.
teenth street NV. to St. John
Episcopal Church parish,
Evening star., 1946-09-25
AAF Officers Suicide
In Fairfax Is Laid 10
Inability 10 Readjust

Difficulty in readjusting to peace
time military life today was given
as the reason for the suicide of 1t.
Col. Charles c. Parmele, 26-year- old
Army Air Forces headquarters Off
Ger. whose body was found in q
closed coupe off Lee highway near
Fairfax
Dr. Nelson Podolnick, Fairfax
County coroner who yesterday is
sued certificate of suicide from
carbon monoxide poisoning, said
notes found in the car limited at
failure to readjust after the war.
Col. Parmele, who lived in tran
sient officers quarters at South
Post, Fort Myer, drove the coupe
into the woods short distance off
Lee highway between Fairfax and
Fairfax Circle and connected rub
ber hose to the exhaust pipe and
turned the other end of the hose in
through window, police said.
Sergt. r. F. Utz of the Fairfax
County police investigated the
parked car and found the body.
One of the notes was addressed
to Col. Parmele's wife, Mrs. Anna
Mae Parmale in Lincoln, Nebr.,
police said. Army associates said
she was expecting a child soon. A
second note was addressed to 1t.
Col. R. A. Stroller, who, police said,
was identified as close friend and
owner of the car.
Col. Parmele returned from over
seas in July, l945, and went on in
active reserve status Last month
he received a commission in the
regular Army and was assigned to
the Office of the Assistant Chief of
Air Staff and Personnel His per-
manent rank was first lieutenant.
He served in Panama before Pearl
Harbor, then went to England with
a bomb group attached to the 9th
Air Force. As squadron COM
mander he won the Distinguished
Flying Cross with Bronze Cluster
and the Air Medal with four Clusters.
Evening star., 1946-09-25
Arlington Court Weighs
Decision on School Funds

A decision in the suit in which
Frank L. Ball, jr., Arlington at
torney. seeks to require Arlington
County school officials to deposit
athletic funds with the county
treasurer, was under consideration
today by Judge Walter T. Mccarthy
following a hearing yesterday in
circuit court.
Commonwealths Attorney Law
renee w. Douglas, representing
school officials, argued the suit
should be dismissed since receipts
of athletic contests are not public
funds that ought to be handled by
the county treasurer. Attorney
Frank l.. Ball, sr., contended the
matter should not be decided until
school officials have testified and
produced certain records.
The suit has been pending for
almost year.
Evening star., 1946-09-25
New Building inspector
Named in MONTGOMERY

Appointment of j. G. Loehler,
Kensington, as building inspector
in the western suburban area of
Montgomery County to succeed G.
Eddington Bell, who died recently,
was announced today by the Mary
nd-National Capital Park and
Planning Commission.
Mr. Loehler, who lives at 60 Con-
cord street, is an engineer and a
builder. He will receive $2,70O a
year. E. Brooke Lee, vice chairman
of the commission, said successor
to Martin F. Iverson, former build
ing inspector for the eastern sub
urban area, has not yet been named.
Mr.. Iverson was appointed super
visor of school property yesterday
to succeed Calvin w. Schaeffer,
who resigned.
Evening star., 1946-09-25

Caring for the IA cats left her un-
der the terms of a will filed yester-
day in District Court is no new task
for Mrs. Bertha Schwarz, house
keeper for the late Capt. John Ru-
flls Edie, whose will provides for
Mrs. Schwarz to receive the cats
and $4,000.
Mrs. SchWarz said she had been
taking care of the felines since the
captain acquired the first two, about
nine years ago.
I've always combed their hair
and fixed their food" she said. 1T
was hard to keep a cook when they
found out that, besides preparing
the captains meals. cooks were ex-
pected to fix meats and fish for more
than a dozen cats"
While she talked, several of the
cats walked in and stretched out on
the rug in the captains study. 9th
ers played on the staircase leading
to the second floor, and another
three or four ran back and forth
between the study and a small FORM
al garden connected to the house
by screen door which was propped
open. The cats have the freedom
Evening star., 1946-09-25
Maryland Traffic Deaths
Placed at 29 in August
Bv the Assoe;oted Pyssx

BALTIMORE. Sept. rs Ten
Maryland counties had no traffic
fatalities during August when %
persons were killed, the Maryland
Traffic Safety Commission reported
yesterday.
During the month there were
1,347 traffic accidents investigated
by police agencies. A total of 728
persons were injured, the commits
sion's report said.
The counties having no fatalities
were: Allegany, Caroline, Dorches-
ter, Frederick, Garrett, Howard,
Kent, Queen Anne, Talbot and
Worcester.
Pedestrian fatalities accounted
for 38 per cent Of the lives lost dur
ing August.
During the first eight months Of
this year trafilc deaths have de-
clined 2 per cent from a similar
period last year, but injuries have
increased IS per cent, and accidents
investigated have jumped "a per
cent
Evening star., 1946-09-25
Veterans Unit Seeks
New Site for County
Vocational Center

The Prince Georges County Vet
Grams Service Council today was
seeking new site for establishment
Of vocational training center for
the county, after the county COM
missioners yesterday gave the
council authority to go ahead with
plans for a new temporary school
building instead of constructing a
S35 900 addition to the Bladensburg
High School. which had been in
tended for the center.
Bids for construction of the Bla-
densburg structure were rejected
July 25 by the County Board of
Education because all were more
than double the appropriation
granted earlier by the county COM
missionefs The lowest bid at the
time was s73,44s
One possibility offered veterans
by the commissioners was use of
vacant property owned by the county
rs result of tax sales on Tuxedo
avenue, Columbia Highlands, in the
Tuxedo Cheverly area, for construc-
tion of a new building of concrete
Or 5cinder block or for erection of
a Quonset hut.
Renting Building Considered.
Another suggestion, by Maurice
p McGrath, assistant State service
officer of the Maryland Veterans
Commission, who appeared before
the commissioners yesterday, was
to rent a building in a more accessible
locality. He said the former Holmes
Building on Rhode Island avenue,
Brentwood. would be considered.
Daniel J. Burke, of the Boswell
Burke Co., Hyattsville. and member
of the Veterans Service Council,
told the commissioners that veterans
taking on-the-job training were not
learning anything in many cases
because they were put on one job
and kept there. He said the pro-
gram under the GI Bill of Rights
is now year old. and most veterans
can take advantage of it for only
three years. 1t is necessary for
them to receive IA hours of related
training annually. he pointed out
Could Accommodate 800.
Original plans for the building
were intended for instruction OF
1000 veterans this year.. Mr.. Burke
said he could guarantee 300 would
attend right now"
The commissioners directed work
be completed at the least possible
cost, after Mr.. Burke explained
that many businessmen would con-
tribute labor for installing needed
equipment, for which veterans could
get first priority. Mr.. Burke Offered
use of his shop three nights week
to start the program.
William A. Carson, president o1
the county commissioners, SaiC
granting permission to the veterans
to go ahead with plans would moi
interfere with the Bladensbure
High School addition, which will
go ahead when conditions permit
Evening star., 1946-09-25
japanese Submarine
On View at Carnival

A captured japanese two-man
submarine is one of the features at
carnival sponsored by Montgomery
County Post No. 1858. Veterans OF
Foreign Wars, at the Rockville fair
grounds. The carnival will close
Saturday.
Proceeds of the affair will be used
to build a clubhouse. James Il.
Miller is commander of the post,
and Bill Jobes is chairman OF the
committee In charge Of the carnival.
Evening star., 1946-09-25
College Park Granted
Permission 10 Use
Unexpended Funds

Permission to use unexpended
funds to defray community expenses
for garbage and trash collections
and for electric street lighting has
been granted College Park (Md)
pending outcome of an appeal from
Prince Georges County Circuit Court
decision September 9, which invaH-
dated the town as an incorporated
area, it was learned today.
A $1,000 appeal bond was signed
yesterday at Upper Marlboro by
Chief Judge Ogle Marbury.
The defendants who appealed the
decision included nine town officials.
They had been named in suit filed
by like number of residents of
northern sections of the community
who challenged legality of the act
for failing to include mention of
their areas in the corporate title.
In signing the appeal bond, Judge
Marbury declared that giving of such
would not in any way operate as a
stay of the original decision, ex-
cept that the defendants are per-
mitted to use such portion of the
unexpended balances in their hands
as may be necessary under existing
or similar contracts or arrangements
to collect garbage and trash and to
maintain the electric street lights
in that portion of the territory
covered by the bill of complaint"
Attorney T. Howard Duckett. who
with Attorney Nicholas Orem, jr.,
represented the town, said about
$4,000 now in the College Park
treasury would be used.
Tax refunds to residents of the
area will be held up, pending out
come of the appeal.
j. Frank Lillard, attorney repre-
senting the plaintiffs. said yesterday
the town could not spend additional
money coming in to the community
as tax payments since the invanda-
ton on September 9.