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Evening star., 1946-06-29
1,750 Due in U. 5. Today
From Overseas Areas
By the Associotsd Press

Transports carrying 1,225 troops
and 494 war wives and children are
due at New York today, while four
other vessels with 81 servicemen are
expected at West Coast ports. Ships
arriving:
At New York-The GAINESVILLE Vic
tory, from LIE Havre, with l,141
troops, and the Claymont Victory
from Southampton, with "a. The
John Ericsson, from Southampton
with 494 brides and children.
At San Francisco-Ard (f1oating
drydock) No. 9, with 3 Navy men.
At San Diego-Submarine Cabe-
zon, from Pearl Harbor, with 8 Navy
men; APA Grimes, from Assedo
Japan, with 16 Navy hospital cases.
At Seattle-The Alaska, from
Alaska, with 4 ARMY men.
Evening star., 1946-06-29
County PTA Collects
81, ,497 for Library Fund

The collection of $2.497 by stu
dents and the Parent-Teacher Asso-
Citations of the SO Prince Georges
County schools as their contribu-
. tions toward the proposed county
memorial library system fund has
been announced by Mrs. Louis P
Ditman, chairman of the PTA Col
Lection Committee.
In a letter to G. Gardner Shu-
gart, county superintendent OF
schools, Mrs. Ditman disclosed that
the 60 schools for white students
collected total of $1,854 and the
30 schools for colored pupils a total
et $643.
Evening star., 1946-06-29
Police, Firemen Pay Raise
Bill Sent 10 President

A IA per cent pay increase for Dis
trict policemen and firemen is on its
way to the President for signature
today after being passed unanimous
ly by the Senate late yesterday.
The police-fire pay measure also
includes the Park POLICE and the
White House force. It is intended
to give these uniformed forces the
pay raise Congress recently enacted
for all other Government employees.
The Senate also passed and sent
to the House a bill to change the
District unemployment compensa-
tion law to permit the buyer of an
established business to receive the
benefits Of the former owners ex-
Iperience, rating in computing the
tax rate for unemployment COM
pensation.
Evening star., 1946-06-29
District Residents
Faced With. Prospect
Of Meat|ess Sunday

Meatless Sunday dinners in MANY
homes and meager meat items or
most restaurant menus were ir
prospect as dealers here marked
time today in bare warehouses be-
cause of the continuing shortage OF
livestock shipments.
Several of the largest supply
houses which ordinarily provide
fresh meat for approximately 600
public eating places and institutions
reported no beef on hand and only
small quantities of other varieties.
The Southern Hotel Supply Co.
still is getting poultry, but the
scarcity of meat has increased the
demand for chickens to such an
extent that the general poultry
shortage is likely to grow worse, an
official said
One of Baltimores oldest and
largest packing concerns, the Will
liam Schluderberg-T. J. Hurdle Co.
will close down because of the live
stock shortage. William F. Schlu-
derberg, the president of the 90
year-old company, was quoted by
the Associated Press as saying the
move was due entirely to our
virtual inability to secure sufficient
livestock to operate"
The National, District and Colum-
bia Hotel Supply Cos. here took is
sue with reports that meat ship
ments to this city during June were
at least as great as during the cor
responding period last year. Spokes-
men for the companies said this
probably was accurate SO far as
packaged meats and similar varie-
ties were concerned, but that dur
ing the past two weeks there have
been sharp drops in beef, lamb and
pork arrivals. 2
The National company spokesman
declared he has mo beef at all to-
day" but has been receiving small
quantities of fresh meat from time
to time in recent days. The South
ern company, a spokesman said
hasn't thing to sell today" so fal
as fresh meat is concerned. The Dis
trict company official reported that
packaged meats, sausage and lunch
con meats have been coming in, but
fresh meat supplies have fallen fal
below normal.
Evening star., 1946-06-29
Flight Scholarships
or Students Approved
By School Board Unit

Flight scholarships offered by
four nearby flying services to Sc
lected boys and girls in aviation
classes of senior high schools were
approved yesterday by the Board
of Education's Committee on Stu
dent Activities, with the proviso
that the school system be protected
from any liability.
The proposal, which will be pre-
sented to the board Monday, calls
for the corporation counsel to draw
up papers of acceptance of the offer,
SO as to protect the board from
any legal responsibility" Parents
would be required to give written
consent. The offer is confined to
divisions / to 9 of the public schools.
Four Fields Available.
The offers came from Brincker-
hoff Flying Service, College Park
Airport: Sky Supply, Inc, Beacon
Field. Alexandria; Ashburn Flying
Service, Inc. Alexandria Airport,
and Schrom Airport, Greenbelt. Md.
All four fields are approved by the
Civil Aeronsutics Board, it was said.
The Buildings and Grounds Com
mittee recommended approval of
plans for two-story addition TO
the Taft Junior High School at
Eighteenth and Perry streets NE.
submitted by Supt of Schools
Hobart M. Corning. The addition
will provide 10 classrooms and two
gymnasiums. Plans for the new
second floor to the Adelaide Davis
Elementary School, Forty fourth
place and H street Sc, also was ap-
proved.
The committee recommended the
so-called Harbor Garage, Ninth and
H streets S.W., be returned to the
District government. Acting Chair
man Melvin Sharpe explained it was
intended the District should tear
down the old garage, when the sum-
mer vocational training is finished,
so the site can be added to a recrea-
tional area there.
Playground Use Approved.
The Recreation Committee ap-
proved the use of the Lucy Diggs
Slowe Fairgrounds and tennis court,
and Elliot School grounds for recrea-
ton purposes from July l to Oc-
tober /.
Four school grounds were recon-
mended for use from July 20 through
September by the District Health
Department for incubation of dogs
against rabies. They are the Adams
School, Nineteenth and California
streets NV; Burroughs, Eighteenth
and Monroe streets NE; Whittier,
Fifth and Sheridan streets NV,
and Deal Junior High, Fort drive
and Nebraska avenue NV. Hours
for the inoculations will be from
4 to 6 pm. Mondays, Wednesdays
and Fridays during the period.
Evening star., 1946-06-29
Funeral Scheduled Today
For Vernon Lee Hill, Y

Funeral services were to be held
this afternoon at the Chambers
funeral home, Riverdale, for Ver-
non Lee Hill, 12-year-old Hyattsville
boy who died Wednesday in the
Washington Pa.) Hospital of head
injuries received when struck by
a hay rake while vacationing on
his grandparents farm.
Boy Scouts of Hyattsville Troop
No. 292, of which he was member,
will be pallbearers. Burial will be
in Fort Lincoln Cemetery.
He was the only son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Vernon E. Hill of 37O2 Kennedy
street, Hyattsville.
Evening star., 1946-06-29
Preacher Dies in Attempt
To Save Drowning Boy
BY the As.oeioted Press

EVANSVILLE, Md, June ga
Methodist minister and an 8-year-
old boy he was trying to rescue were
swept over a mill dam and killed in
starm-swollen Casselman River. a
mIe from this Garrett County town,
yesterday.
The victims were the Rev. Charles
Sisk, pastor of the Grantsville Meth
odist Church, and Billy Steicher, son
of former State Senator and Mrs.
Harvey. Steicher of Grantsville.
The preacher, the boy and other
Grantsville residents were attending
an impromptu picnic. The boy,
walking along the bank, slipped into
the stream, the swift water carrying
him rapidly toward the falls.
The Rev. Mr.. Sisk leaped in and
reached the youngster, but could
d t escape from the stream. Both
WIRE carried over a 10rfoot dam.
Evening star., 1946-06-29
Construction Bill
Pushes Court and }
Other Big Projects

ADDITIONAL stop-gap public build
tngs legislation which would au-
thorize appropriation of more than
s., ,000, 900 to purchase land and pre-
pare plans for four top-priority con-
struction projects in and near WASH
ington, including the proposed new
$50 ,300, 900 District Court Building.
was introduced in the House late
yesterday.
Sponsored by Chairman Lanham
OF the House Public Buildings and
Grounds Committee, the bill would
authorize the architect of the Cap
ltoI to proceed with plans for the
court structure. It calls for an ap-
preparation of $400 900 for this pur-
pose and sets up a new formula for
creditlng the District with the value
OF the court site-the block bounded
BY Constitution avenue, Third street,
G street and John Marshall place
NV. The formula provides:
Compensation for the site, which
Is herein fixed at $2,420, 900, shall
constitute a credit to the District
OF Columbia for its share of the cost
OF the entire project as hereafter
established by Congress"
Hurdles Argument.
Earlier legislation provided that
the District pay a full half of the
expense and be credited with onlv
half the value of the site, which is
District land.
The new bill would permit a start
to be made on the court project
without further delay being caused
by argument over the financing
plan.
In addition to the court project
the bill would:
l. Authorize appropriation of ST.
SOC. 900 for purchase of square 529,
bounded by Fifth, Sixth, G and H
streets NV, for an annex to the
new General Accounting Office
Building for which excavation has
already been made in the block i'm
mediately to the east and for draw
ing of annex plans and specifica-
tons. The annex would be con-
nected with the main building by a
tunnel. Total cost of the two build
ings has been set in long-range
building plans at $l8,900,000 but
actual construction has been held
up by Congress in view of the vet
erans' housing shortage.
Provides Film Storage.
2 Authorize 81 ,16O. 900 for draw.
ings and specifications for a $5.O0o.-
600 film storage building at Suitland,
Md, and construction of the first
unit of the building-a group of 230
film vaults to house the millions of
feet of irreplaceable warmade and
copyright film now in the possession
OF the Government.
3. Authorize appropriation of
1925 600 for drawings and specifica-
tions for a $500, 900 combined rec
ord storage and Office building at
Suitland.
The office-record storage building
project is key part of the admin
istration's campaign to cut down on
the amount of privately owned Office
space rented in Washington. A
considerable amount of Government
used Office space in the Capital now
is filled with banks of filing cabinets
containing duplicate files and records
which are used only occasionally.
The new bill would authorize
appropriations of $50 ,OO0, 900 for land
purchase and preparation of building
plans outside of Washington and
contains provisions designed to
strengthen the control of the Public
Buildings Administration over ONCE
space and equipment.
Evening star., 1946-06-29
Welfare Unit Opposes
Senate Bill Imposing
|Day-Care Jurisdiction

The Board of Public Welfare was
unanimously on record today against
Senate-approved bill giving the
board jurisdiction over the child
day-care program.
The Senate passed the bill by
unanimous consent yesterday at
about the same time the Welfare
Board was giving serious considera-
tion to proposal to limit the num-
ber of children already served by
the Welfare Board-even at the risk
that some of the unserved children
would wind up in prison.
Caught by surprise when the SEN
ate District Committee instigated
the transfer Of the child day-care
program from the Board of Educa-
ton to the Welfare Board, the latter
lost no time at its monthly board
meeting yesterday in unanimously
opposing the bill.
Change Imposes Limit.
Transfer Of the program to the
Welfare Board was one of the two
major changes made by the Senate
IN the House-approved bill. The
other change limits the program to
one year, beginning Monday. The
House bill placed no limit on the
duration of the program, under.
which up to $50O000 year could
be spent on nursery schools for the
day care of children.
These changes in the bill will be
submitted to joint House Senate
Conference Committee, unless the
House accepts them.
Welfare Director Ray L. Huff. in
a l5-page report, proposed that the
board restrict populations of welfare
institutions to the number per-
mitted by health regulations and di-
rect institution superintendents to
exclude uncomfortable" children
with Is days notice to the welfare
department.
OvercrOwding Cited.
Mr.. Huff told the board the chill
dren's institutions were overloaded
as follows: Industrial Home School,
a recent high population of 157,
compared with the ITO maximum
population allowed by Health De-
partment regulations; Industrial
Home School, 1874 at present, COM
pared with the 100 maximum per-
mitted; District Training School.
657 now, compared with the 600
allowed; Receiving Home, 90, COM
pared with the SO allowed. The
National Training School for Girls
is permitted maximum population
of SIS and has only 81.
To balance these proposals, Mr..
Huff suggested meetings with pri-
vate agencies to seek help in making
room for some of the wards of the
Welfare Board in foster homes and
private institutions. He also pro-
posed that the. board reinstate its
preventive service to children in
school to reduce delinquency, that
the case loads of staff workers be
reduced and that the board make
new efforts to get the money it
needs for construction.
Raymond F. Clapp, principal as
slstant welfare director, differed
sharply with his chief on fixing the
number of children in the Indus
trial Home School at 80 boys and 30
girls, as Board Member Fred S: Ko-
god and Mr.. Huff proposed. Mr..
Clapp said there was no way to
guarantee the school population
could be kept below those figures
unless the board is willing to in
struct the staff to refuse to give care
to children for whom the board can
find no other place"
Evening star., 1946-06-29
Mode Acquires Store
On Connecticut Avenue

The Mode, Inc, Eleventh and F
streets NV, has acquired a store
at 1881 Connecticut avenue, formerly
operated S lobby Pelzman Mems
Shop, the ownership transfer to be-
come effective on July l.
Walter Nordlinger, president of
The Mode, said the move is the
first step in an expansion program,
negotiations now being in progress
for the purchase of an establish
|ment near the Mayflower Hotel. The
Mode was founded in 1902 by Sidney
II. Reizenstein, now vice president.
Evening star., 1946-06-29
Suit Filed Against Bakery
On Sunitury Churqes

A suit asking that the Athens
Baking Co., 400 block of L street
S.W., and three partners in the
company, be enjoined from produe-
tion under alleged insanitary condi-
tions was filed yesterday in Dis
trict Court.
The action, brought by the United
States, under the Federal Food,
Drug and Cosmetic Act, also asks
that the defendants be enjoined
from selling bakery products manu-
factured under insanitary condi-
tions.
Defendants named were Thomas
and Peter Stethopulos and Louis
Mantis.
Evening star., 1946-06-29
Heat in Low 90s Forecast
For Today and tomorrow

The Weather Bureau predicted
more near-record heat for today and
tomorrow, with the temperature ex-
pected to rise to the low COS. Low
clouds kept the temperature at a
cool "a degrees through most of
this morning.
The forecaster said the clouds
would disperse about noon today.
Widely scattered thundershowers in
the Washington Maryland Virginia
area may move in this afternoon or
late tomorrow.
The temperature dropped to So
degrees at S am. today and the
forecaster said yesterdays high was
80 degrees at ala pm.
Evening star., 1946-06-29
libraries Here 10 Close
Saturdays and Sundays

The Central Public Library and
al branches will remain closed Sat-
urdays and Sundays, beginning July
6 and running through September
%, it was announced yesterday by
Miss Clara w. Herbert, District
librarian.
The libraries will be open today,
a usual. They will be closed on
tn lrsday for the holiday, will re-
open Friday and will be closed next
Saturday.
This emergency measure of Sat-
urday closing is necessary, Miss
Herbert said, because of the failure
of the Appropriation Act of 1947 to
provide additional service to COM
pensate for the 40-hour week and to
restore personnel funds cut in acts
the two previous years."
Evening star., 1946-06-29
Delay Of Week Due
In Sand Deliveries
As Smoot Strike Ends

! Although the Smoot Sand &
Gravel Corp. strike, which tempo
rarlly slowed down millions of dol
lars worth of construction here since
May 8 was ended last night and the
men will return to work Monday
officials said today it will be a week
before the firm can make sand and
gravel deliveries to its customers
The $50 workers involved voted to
end the strike at a meeting held at
525 New Jersey avenue NV, last
night.
An 1872 cents average hourly
wage increase is provided under the
terms of the contract, it was an
nounced, and an arbitration system
is set up to determine disputed
points. A board, comprising two
members of the company and two
from the union. will sit on interpre-
tation of the contract, the duration
of which is still to be settled.
If the four cannot agree on settle
ment of dispute, it will then be re-
ferred to an arbitration panel, COM
prising Admiral Ben Moreell chief
of the Navy Bureau of Yards and
Docks, and Richard Gray, vice pres
ident of the International Brick
layers Union (AFL).
Two Locals Involved.
| Involved in the strike were Local
n of the International Union of Op-
Grating Engineers (AFL), headed by
j. P. Shields, it's president and one
of the chief union negotiators, and
Local 63S, International Brotherhood
of Teamsters (AFL).
The agreement provides for reduc-
ton in the number of job classifica-
tions and reduction in the work
week. The workers were reported te
desire wage increases ranging from
II cents an hour for truck drivers
to go cents an hour for crane op-
orators.
District government officials previ-
ously announced they would bring
in crushed stone from Martinsburg
W. Va, and sand from Branchville,
Md, as the strike hampered munich
pal, as well as private construction
This threat, however, was never
actually carried out.
The Smoot firm has plants at 1920
K street NV. and Half and @
streets Sc.
Commissioner Clyde M. Mills of
the Cancellation Service of the
Labor Department said, Both the
union and the company officials
feel that the settlemtnt arrived at
is of such nature that there should
be no more labor trouble"
Bins Must Be Replenished.
A Labor Department statement
said:
Union employees maintained the
company's plant, tugs and dredges
during the strike SO that the COM
pany will be able to get into imme-
diate operation. However, it will
be approximately week before
bins will be replenished and the
company will be in position to make
delivery of sand and gravel to their
customers"
Construction of District Govern
ment projects was slowed down for
a time, but contractors absorbed
the increased cost of hauling in sand
and gravel from nearby areas, in
order to keep their working crews
together, authorities said.
Home builders said today they
were not greatly affected by the
strike, except that delays in high
way and street construction ham,
pered their work and that alternate
sources of supply raised costs. They
said they could obtain sand ano
gravel from other sources in this
area
Evening star., 1946-06-29
Gen. Hart to Direct
Marine Corps Personnel

Brig. Gen. Franklin A. Hart, re-
Gently director of public information,
will become director of personnel
at Marine Corps headquarters Mon-
day, succeeding Maj. Gen. Thomas
E. Watson.
Gen. Watson, veteran of Marine
campaigns in the Marshalls and
Marianas, already has left the city
to assume his new duties as COM
manding officer of Camp Lejeune,
N. c. He relieves Maj. Gen. John
Marstop, who is to retire.
Evening star., 1946-06-29
Two Killed When Auto
Jumps Over Boy
By the Associated rre,,

CHRISTIANSBURG, Va, June
29-Two men were killed near
Christiansburg yesterday when an
automobile left the highway, leaped
over small boy and drove its engine
into the ground.
Killed were Maynard Cole, 80,
Radford, and Hubert L. Cundiff,
Bluefield, Va.
The boy, working in a garden
near the road, heard the car ap-
preaching and looked up to see 1t
hurtle over his head, Grafton
Thompson, his father, said.
Evening star., 1946-06-29

WED so YEARS-Mr. and Mrs.
Julius Koblenz recently cele-
brated their golden wedding
anniversary at the home of
their daughter, Mrs. Anna B.
Dering, 3211 Fifth street Sc.
They have three children, six
grandchildren and two great
grandchildren.
Evening star., 1946-03-15
| taxpayers Urge j. 5.
10 Double Allotment
For District Budget

The Washington Taxpayers Asso-
citation made public a statement to-
day urging the Federal Government
"at least" to double the contribution
1t now is making tosthe District.
In letter to Chairman Coffee OF
the District Subcommittee of the
House Appropriations Committee
Rufus S. Lusk, association president
contended that Federal pay raises
and other policies are being reflected
In increased costs to the District
government.
While the association for the last
IA years has concerned itself princi-
pally In urging economies in the
operation of the District govern
ment, Mr.. Lusk added, I'VE have al
ways known that, in justice, the
District government was entitled to
much more-at least tWice-than
the 5000, 900 that Congress now ap-
propriates for the Federal share"
Mr.. Lusk said much of the in
creased expense facing the District
government will result mot from
the action of taxpayers in the Dis
trict of Columbia. but from legis-
latjon relating to Federal employees.
When Federal salaries are in
creased" he said, District salaries
Evening star., 1946-03-15

are increased. Much of this Fed
eral legislation does not at In with
the operation OF q city government,
but our city government must fol-
low the Federal pattern. 2
The association said q recon-
mendation from Mr.. CofYee's group
to increase the Federal share In
District expenses will carry much
weight" with the House District
Committee and the House itself.
The association urged the SUBJ
committee not to hesitate In cut
ting the proposed $1,000, 900 District
budget wherever possible and speci-
fically recommended the installation
of photostatic machinery in the<of-
flee of the recorder of deeds.
Evening star., 1946-03-15
Divorce Given Woman, II;
Couple Separated in 1923

Mrs. Katherine May Van Sickler,
II, of the 900 block of New York
avenue NV, today was awarded a
divorce by Justice F. Dickinson
Let's of District Court from John
Edgar Van Sickler, 81, of Accokeek,
Md. The couple were married in
Leesburg, Va, in 1890, according to
the suit.
The divorce was granted on
grounds Of voluntary separation
since June, 1928. The suit said the
couple has five adult children.
Mrs. Van Sickler was represented
by Attorney Joseph A. McMenamin
Mr.. Van Sickler, who did not ap-
pear, was represented by Attorney
Allen J. Krouse.
Evening star., 1946-03-15
Police Enter Windows
To Seize s in Raid

~
Pouring through windows In front
and In back Of the building and
through the doors, five members Of
the anti-gambling squad and .
United States marshall yesterday
rounded up six persons, said to be
members of q ring Of numbers
writer's at an address in the 2200
block Of N street NV.
Those arrested and charged with
operating lottery, being In possess
sion Of lottery slips and With con-
spiracy were Frank v. Dorsey. 80,
colored, and his foster mother,
Elizabeth Dorsey. rs, colored, who
lived at the address: Alethia Hogue,
"a, colored::s Eleanora Williams, 81,
Evening star., 1946-03-15
Mrs. La Du to Speak

Mrs. Blanche La Du, head Of the
Women's Division Of the Penal
Institutions Of the District, will
address the Workers Conference
LOT the Lutheran Inner Mission So.
ciety at 8 o'clock tonight in the
chapel Of Luther Place Memorial
| Church at Thomas Circle.