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Evening star., 1946-01-26
Bethesdo-Chevy Chase
Memorial Library Urqed

The Bethesda Chevy Chase War
Memorial Committee has decided
upon the erection of q $150OOO Ii.
brary building as the most fitting
way to honor the men and women OF
the area who served in the armed
forces, the Rev. j. Raymond Nelson,
chairman of the committeephas an
nounced.
j. Philip Schaefer, secretary of the
committee, said plans will be drawn
up by local architect and q public
meeting will be held in the spring to
form an association to raise funds
for the edifioe by public subscription.
DR.. Nelson said present plans call
for building to be built on site
which will serve both Bethesda and
Chevy Chase. It will contain refer.
enee and reading rooms and meet.
ing room, while q memorial garden
will be built around Il.
Evening star., 1946-01-26
Mrs. Marietta Harris
To Be Buried Tomorrow

Funeral services for Mrs. Marietta
Harris, 81, of Potomac, Md, who
died Wednesday at the home of, her
son, Joseph R. Harris, in Potomac,
will be held at pm. tomorrow at
the Potomac Methodist Church.
Burial will be in the church cem-
etery.
Mrs. Harris had been a lifelong
resident of Montgomery County and
for many years was member of the
Potomac Methodist Church.
She is survived by her husband,
Joseph M. Harris; three sons, Jo-
seph Harris, Norman l.. Harris, Po-
tomac, and j. Frank Harris, Wash
ington: two sisters, Mrs. Blanche
Snoffel, Potomac, and Mrs. Clara
Gingells, Berwyn, Md; three broth
ers, Roger and Lewis Collins, Wash
ington. and David Collins, Arling-
ton, Va, and three grandchildren.
Evening star., 1946-01-26
Three Arroiened in Theft
or 80 Electric Irons

Three colored men were arraigned
before United States Commissioner
Needham C. Tugnage today on
charges of taking 80 electric irons
valued at $50 from a truck of the
Eagle Transfer Co., Inc, 300 block
Of E street S.W., Tuesday while it
was parked near the firms offices.
The men, listed as Carlton S. Har-
comb, 90, of the 1900 block Of Union
street Sc; William Moore, "A, of
the 100 block of M street S.W., and
Joseph Ball, A, Of the first block of
Gessford street Sc, were granted
a continuance to January 80 to con-
suit lawyers. Bond was fixed at
81 500 each.
Police reported the men were ar
rested yesterday while attempting to
sell the irons.
Evening star., 1946-01-26
Zoos Spiny- oiIed Lizards Seen
Answer to Cockrouch Problem

Five spiny-tailed lizards, a novel
solution for the cockroach problem,
and a dozen dwarf chameleons,
among the few living things which
can look in front and in back of
themselves at the same time, are
the newest arrivals at the Zoo.
A beauty contest judge might have
a hard time deciding which group
should win the BOBBY prize. But DR..
w. M. Mann, director of the Zoo, is
proud of them. Brought from South
Africa, these are the first dwarf
chameleons the Zoo has owned and
the first spiny-tailed lizards it has
had for five years.
The lizards, about 6 inches long,
are welcome guests in the house
holds of some African natives be-
cause they eat insects and other
vermin as well as cockroaches. Al
though their bodies are covered by
vicious-looking pointed scales, the
lizards are absolutely harmless, DR..
Mann said.
The scrawny chameleons, 3 to 4
inches long, are a far cry from
Evening star., 1946-01-26
Hose Mill
Stands in Line to
Get Pair for Wife

Even a manufacturer of nylon
and rayon hose may have trouble
getting pair for his wife.
George Smith of Reading, Pa.
operator of three hosiery mills
stopped here today with his wife
who discovered she had ripped her
last pair of hose. use your inf1u-
ence," she told her husband.
Mr.. Smith did. He called his local
distributor here, the Marilyn Spe-
cialty Shop, 1874 F street NV.
/ Meyer Revitz, owner of the store
was amiable but firm. 1--WE just
placed some rayons on sale and
there are about 1000 women lined
up outside the store" he told Mr.
Smith. IF you want any stockings
you'll have to stand in line like the
rest of them. I don't want any riot
on my hands"
Mr.. Smith came down and stood
in line. After nearly an hour he
departed triumphantly with a pair
of rayons.
Evening star., 1946-01-26

planted, and when the school moved
to its site on the East-West highway
the tradition was repeated. The
school yearbook takes it's name from
the tree and the school class rings
have pine tree insignia on them.
A Student Council meeting was
called yesterday to discuss acquisi-
ton of a new tree. A general as
sembly was held later in the day,
when spokesmen from the Mont
gomery-Blair High School, Silver
Spring, assured the student body
that their school had had no hand
in the act of vandalism.
Montgomery-Blair and Bethesda
Chevy Chase have long been rivals
in athletics, and Bethesda defeated
Blair Wednesday night in a basket
ball game at the University of Mary
land.
Members of the faculty stressed
the fact that there was no evidence
of who had cut the tree down.
Evening star., 1946-01-26
Crabbe 10 Retire From Posi-
As Maryland Dry Leader

By the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, Jan. 26.-George
w. Crabbe has announced that he
will retire as superintendent of the
Maryland Anti-Saloon League after
20 years of leadership.
The announcement came on the
eve of the 40th annual meeting of
the organization, to be held here to-
morrow.
Mr.. Crabbe, who is also general
superintendent of the Anti-Saloon
League of America, did not indicate
on what date he planned to retire
as head of the State organization,
but said that tomorrow's meeting
would be his last as its head. Asso-
ciates said the dry leader also is
contemplating retiring as head of
the national league.
Supt. Crabbe promised that at the
meeting here we will oppose any
compulsory military training for the
Nation as long as beer is sold on
Army posts.
Evening star., 1946-01-26

the dainty little things men. like
to fix to their wives coats wher
they go to a circus. In fact, DR..
Mann reported that they are at
opposite ends of the lizard family.
The chameleons have protruding
eyeballs and they can look in two
directions at once because the eye
balls move almost completely inde-
pendently. Like the circus chame-
leon. they change color at will.
Unlike the circus variety, they have
rubbery tongues that can pop out
for 2 inches to pick off a juicy
insect. They also can swing from
twig to twig using their tails.
In case you thought that all
chameleons were small, DR.. Mann
pointed out there is a variety in
Madagascar 2 feet long. He plans
to place half of these chameleons in
humid atmosphere and the others
in a dry atmosphere to see where
they thrive best. They are found
both in the tropics and the dryer
regions of Cape Colony.
Evening star., 1946-01-26
2,4OO Housing Units
Reported Available
At Fort Washington

The attention of District officials
was called late yesterday to the
existence of housing units sufficient
to accommodate 2.4O0 families at
Fort Washington. which lies across
the Potomac River from Mount Yer
non, as a possible solution to the
city veterans housing problem.
A. E. Demaray, associate director
of the National Park Service, told
members of the National Capital
Park and Planning Commission of
these units at the closing session of
its January meeting yesterday. ac-
cording to Thomas S. Settle.
Mr.. Settle said the commission was
considering at the time the ques-
ton of finding sites for 600 tempo
rary housing units which the Fed
eral Public Housing Authority has
said it will build in the District if
the District can find sites and finance
road and public utility connections.
Park Land Sought.
The Commissioners have been
quoted as considering asking the
National Park Service if they can
place the units On park land.
The Fort Washington units were
converted from Army buildings at
the old fort, one of the key Civil
War defenses of the Capital, when
it was transferred prior to the war
from the War Department to the
National Park Service.
The park service turned the units,
which total 5000, over to Govern
ment Services, Inc, which operates
Government cafeterias and park
recreational facilities, for operation.
The Army requisitioned the fort
for use as school during the war
but has now given it up.
Fort to Become Hospital.
The National Park Service has
turned the fort over to the Veter-
ans Administration, which plans
using part of it for soldiers home
and hospital which eventually
would accommodate 1000 invalids
and semi-invalids.
Mr.. Settle quoted Mr.. Demaray as
Saying that to date only 600 of the
units are occupied.
Col. Joseph D. Arthur, Assistant
Engineer Commissioner for the Dis
trict, told Mr.. Demaray, according
to Mr.. Settle, that he would look
into the matter but it appeared, at
first hand, the accommodations
might be too far off and too lacking
in transportation facilities.
Evening star., 1946-01-26
First Of 700 Discharges
Leaves Andrews Field

The first of more than 700 men
Immediately eligible for discharge at
Andrews Field started driving west
toward separation center and
home yesterday.
The field reported that 100 more
men would become eligible for dis
charge February / under the new
Army Air Forces rehabilitation
policy.
First man to be processed for
transfer to a separation center was
Sergt. William L. Polling. veteran OF
a. months service.
Sergt. Poling's ultimate destina-
ton is Sacramento, Calf, his home
He said he intended to keep on driv-
ing until he got there-except for
q brief stop at Mcclellan Field sep
aration center near Sacramento.
Evening star., 1946-01-26

ercise room. The hospital gave
him a "walker"-the sort of de-
vice on which babies learn to walk,
but built to accommodate a SIX
footer. Walking braces came next
and, finally. crutches.
He has begun to feel sensation,
including pain sometimes, as far
down as his left knee and the mid
die of his right thigh.
I'VE hope to get him to the point
where he can rise and sit down in
a chair by himself, 60 up and down.
stairs, be independent of other peo-
pie and go back to his old job"
explained Mai. Kaufman, who
said he devoted about an hour and
half day to his prize patient.
The 32-year-old soldier wanted
to show how far he had gotten. AS
the reporters and doctors watched,
he grasped parallel bars, swung his
feet up on box the size of a stair
step and backed down.
I'm trying" he grinned, when
he had settled himself in his wheel
chair again. Il want to go places
and be something. I don't want to
sit in a wheelchair the rest of my
life"
A reporter wanted to know if
time hung heavy on his hands.
"Oh, the time goes pretty fast.
There's the hydrotherapy and the
exercise bars and reading. My wife
comes over from Ellicott City, Md,
to see me two or three times a
week and I went home for Christ
mas. Some nights I don't sleep too
well but that's to be expected"
The doctors said men who had
suffered an injury like Corpl. Con-
nell's used to become institution
cases, if they lived They said his
recovery was the best they had
ever seen. Corpl. Connell put it
more simply as he went to work
again on the parallel bars.
I'm getting there" he said.
Evening star., 1946-01-26

Corpl. Wilbur E. Connell walked
across the Mount Alto Hospital exer-
else room.
His legs were stiff in braces. He
leaned heavily on crutches. But
he walked, and that was the miracle
reporters had come to see.
Army doctors were responsible for
the beginning of the miracle. They
saved his life when a shell fragment
cut halfway through his spinal cord
on July 8, 1914, in. Normandy.
A so per cent cut of the. spinal
cord will kill, according to the med
ical experts, but Corpl. Connell didn t
die. Sulpha, penicillin, quick ope-
ration to prevent uremic poisoning
and later operation to remove the
fragment pressing on what was left
of his spinal cord kept him alive.
Instead. he was paralysed from the
waist down. He couldn't feel a
touch, pain, heat or cold. Doctors
call that injury to the spinal cord
resulting in paralysis, "paraplegia. y
1t was the name they gave Gen.
George S. Patton's injury.
When Corpl. Connell arrived at an
Army hospital in West Virginia three
months later, he had begun to have
some feeling down his left side. He
never left his bed. Instead, his
muscles were massaged as he lay
there.
Fourteen months ago, Corpl.
Connell was discharged from the
Army and moved into Mount Alto.
His ward doctor, Maj. William p.
Kaufman, graduate Of the
Georgetown University School of
Medicine, told him that some day,
with certain limitations, he would
be able to walk.
For the first time, he got out of
bed. He was carried on litter to
the physiotherapy room, where he
would lie in a tub of water into
which electric currents were shot.
Then he started going to the ex-
Evening star., 1946-01-26
BiemiI|er Says ANA
|Misrepresents Health
Insurance Measure

The American Medical Association
today was charged by Representative
Biemiller, Democrat, of Wisconsin
with misrepresenting to the public
the pending Wagner-Murray-Dingl
bill for providing compulsory health
insurance for the American people.
Speaking at forum conference OF
the District chapter Of the physicians
at Pierce Hall, the Wisconsin Repre-
sentative declared the ANA had
made several attacks against the
pending bill which were not sup
ported by facts.
Mr.. Biemiller told the group of
about 300 men and women that
members of Congress are receiving a
steady flow of kilograms and letters,
which, he believed. were stimulated
by ANA propaganda to bring pres
sure" on Congress.
Says ANA Blocks Plan.
While the ANA is in favor of vol
untary prepayment medical care
plans, the speaker declared the or
ganized medical profession "still is
blocking any real plan, such as
President Truman's proposal, to
meet the Nationwide need for bet
ter medical care"
The ANA, he said, apparently has
established its "shock troops" be-
hind it in the form of the National
Physicians Committee which is, in
the eyes of the ANA, an apparently
expendable group"
The ANA" Mr.. Biemiller de-
clared, sis trying to get the populace
confused"
Contrary to the organized profess
sion's claims, the individual patient
still will have the so-called free
choice of physician" and the Sur
geon General of the United States
will not be dictator, he said. He
contended the plan would be help
full to physicians themselves, who
would be assured of getting pa
tents bill paid through a pool of
funds established by taxes, probably
supplemented by funds from the
Government
Labor Backs Bill.
Organized labor supports the
pending measure for health insur-
ance, Nelson Cruikshank, director of
Social Insurance Activities of the
American Federation of Labor, told
the gathering.
A forum participated in by Federal
officials developed facts designed to
point up the need for wider distri-
button of medical care and better
means for meeting its costs. Parti-
cipating in this forum we're: DR..
Fred Mott, chief medical officer of
the Farm Security Administrations;
Harry Becker, Children's Bureau,
Labor Department; Mrs. Ida Mer-
riam, Social Security Board. and
DR.. Joseph Moulin of the Public
Health Service.
Presiding was the Rev Francis
McPeek, director of the Department
of Social Work, Washington FEEDER
alton of Churches.
Evening star., 1946-01-26
Counsel for Connors
To Seek Vinci' S Story
Prior 10 Testimony

Joseph Gittle Joe) Vinci was to
be interviewed in District Jail today
by James j. Laughlin, attorney for
Raymond Connors, in anticipation
OF Vinci's appearance as a Govern
ment witness at Connor's trial on
charges he murdered Edward
Barker and Pany Casbarian last
February %.
Vinci is alleged to have been the
accomplice of Connors, 32-year-old
former automobile salesman of
Yonkers, N. Y, in the double slay-
ing. Vinci is expected to testify in
District Court Monday.
AS the Federal Code is interpreted,
defense attorney must be given an
opportunity to interview any wit
ness called by the prosecution-but
Vlnci, as a man charged with par
uicipation in the crime, need not
talk to Connors' lawyer if he does
not want to.
May Tell Inside Story"
No inside story of the Barker-Cas-
barlan murder has been told. 1t is
expected that Vinci will furnish it.
Mr.. Barker, IS, Fourteenth street
used-car dealer, and Mr.. Casbarian,
operator of a rooming house next
door, who used to play gin rummy
evenings with Mr.. Barker in the
auto-trailer office on his parking lot
at Fourteenth and N streets NV,
were found bound hand and foot and
shot to death in the trailer.
Connors was arrested in Yonkers
in August after Washington detec-
tives had gone there on a tip. The
District grand jury, after hearing
testimony from the detectives, 1t.
Robert Murray and Sergt. Edgar
Scott, indicted Connors and Vinci on
six counts of murder and robbery in
the double slayings. Vinci, about
whom little has been divulged by the
police, remained at large until Janu-
airy is, four days after Connors had
gone on trial. Then he was arrested
in New Jersey.
Defense Overruled.
Justice David A. Pine denied a
defense motion yesterday which
would have kept Vinci from testify
ing because his name was not on a
pretrial list of witnesses served on
the defendant in conformance with
a provision of the Federal code.
Vinci is expected to put the de-
fendant in Washington at the time
of the Staying, something the Gov
eminent has been unable to do UP
to now. Evidence against Connors
SO far is that II months before the
Staying he sold Mr.. Barker stolen
car; that shortly before the Staying
he told a Yonkers waitress he was
going to Washington; that the day
after the Staying he bought her a
full coat for S477 and showed her a
mans diamond ring.
The Government also has intro
duced evidence to show that shortly
after the murder Connors had a
jeweler remove a diamond from
mans ring and that Connors pawned
a diamond with Bronx pawnbroker
in March. The diamond was re-
deemed in May, but neither diamond
nor setting has been recovered.
Evening star., 1946-01-26
d Ships Carrying
19,304 Troops Due
Today al i. 5. Ports
BY the Associated Press.

Ey the Associated Press.
Nearly $4,000 returnees are ex-
pected to debark from 13 ships to-
day at six West Coast ports, while
1904 servicemen will arrive at New
York aboard 10 vessels.
Ships and units arriving:
At New York - Lyman Abbott
from Marseille, 500 troops, including
Companies C, E and L of 398th In
fantry Regiment.
Fitzhugh Lee, from Antwerp, SIS
troops, including medical detach-
ments of 4156th Quartermaste1
Truck Company and 338th Harbor
Craft Company.
John Brown. from Marseille. 564
troops of Tooth Infantry Division
Empress, from Southampton, 445
troops, including 413th Military Po-
lice Escort Guard Company, 3256th
Signal Service Company, 9th Air
Force members.
Miscellaneous on following vessels:
Frederick Howe from LIE Havre, rs;
Rufus Choate from Swansea, 26;
Nathan Towson from Barry, "a:
Francis A. Retka from Barry, 18;
Henry Baldwin from Barry, $50;
Exceller from Marseille, 481.
At San o-Sakatonchee
II miscellaneous.
At San observation-disclosures on
following: Escort Carrier Thetis Bay,
l ,208 Navy and Marine Corps;
Escort Carrier Kula Gulf, 1,520 Navy,
Marine Corps and Coast Guard:
Navy tug Alta 202, eight Navy.
At Los miscellaneous on
following: Knox from Manila, ,495;
LCI's 1876 and 713 from Pearl Harbor
number.
At Tacoma-U. S. S. Gen. Stewart
from Karachi, 3,304 miscellaneous;
U. S, S. Gen. Eltinge from Shanghai
and Manila, 1853 miscellaneous:
U. S. S. Bottoneau from Nagoya
l ,981 miscellaneous.
At Seattle-U. S. S. Shamrock Bay
from Yokohama, 1,107 miscellaneous
U. S. S. Beckman from Sumar, eight
Army; 1853 Navy.
At Portland-Kenton from Yoko-
hama, 2,065 miscellaneous.
Evening star., 1946-01-26
Oil Firm Pays S162,7OO
In 0PA Overcharge Case
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
The OPA announced yesterday
that it had settled a claim with the
Sun Oil Co. for $l62,7
The agency said in a statement
that this represented the amount
OF overcharges on petroleum prod
ucts sold by the company between
January %, 1945, and January 1,
1916. OPA added that the over
charges did not occur at retail
Settlement was made without
court action, OPA said. It added
that investigation of the company's
sales prices was started by the
OPA's Cleveland regional office.
After it had been determined by
OPA that sales were being made in
excess OF ceiling prices" the agency
noted, "the investigation was con-
tinued by New York regional OPA
enforcement men who checked sales
volume record at Sun Oils principal
office in Philadelphia.
Evening star., 1946-01-26
Soviet Admiral Visits
u. S. Naval Academy
y the Associated Press.

ANNAPOLIS, Md, Jan. 26.-Rear
Admiral s. s. Ramishvilli of the
Soviet Navy visited the Naval Acad-
emy yesterday on an inspection tour
Under the direction Of Vice Ad-
miral Aubrey w. Fitch, superintend-
ent, Admiral Ramishviln visited va
rious departments Of the school, the
midshipmen's dormitory at, Bancroft
Hall and the academy museum.
Evening star., 1946-01-26
Firemen's Bouquet Toniqht

The Kensington Volunteer Fire
Department will hold its annual BAN
quet at o'clock tonight in the
Kensington Town Hall. Fire Chief
Newman Carmack is chairman of
the committee in charge.
Evening star., 1946-01-26

United States Savings Bonds,
Series E, are the poor mans pot Of
gold at the rainbow's end. After
10 years he finds four dollars
where there were only three.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-05-03
Iekesin
 WaIkoui


 SAN FRANCISCO, May 3.--Har- old L. Ickes made brief appear ance today at stockholders meet ing of the Standard oil Company of California, protested what he said was the company's failure to return Ralph K. Davies to a vice presidency, rapped absentee con- trol," and, then stalked from the loom.
 Ickes stated he had received a telegram from Davies, his deputy petroleum administrator when he was Secretary of the Interior, say ing Davies would resign from Stan dard
 Ickes also declared that another of his purposes in attending the meeting was to protest as a citizen that this great company should submit to absentee control"
 He and his attorney, Thurman w. Arnold, left the meeting before the stockholders went on record to express confidence in the manage ment.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-05-03
WARNING TO AUTOISTs

Streets Will pc washed Sunday morning starting at 5 o'clock. All autoists are warned to keep cars from parking on principal down- town streets until job is finished by order of
 J. L. WILLIAMSON.
 Police Chief.
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Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1946-11-22
Francouzska vlada Sc rozhodla
k resignaci.

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niste nejsilnejs1 stranou sc 1876
poslanci.
Zatfm je otazkou, IDA sc da
prozat1mn1 president, premier
a spolu zahranicni ministr Bi-
dault pohnout, ably podrzel O.
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do ledna, kdy Sc narodn1 shro-
mazden1 Tadne ustav1 a zvoli
presidenta Ctvrte republiky
Vsechno nynf zalezi ma zvole-
mem predsedovi narodnfho
shromazden1, ktery Poole move
1stavy ma pravo pozadat ne
koho jineho, ably sestavil Via
du.