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Evening star., 1946-12-28
Bills Increasing Fees
On Auto Tags Favored
BY the Associated Press

BALTIMORE, Dec. 28.-The Leg
islative Council will submit bills to
increase motor-vehicle license fees
at the regular session of the Cen
eral Assembly which convenes
Wednesday night.
Under the proposals approved by
the council, the State would receive
an additional s2,300,0O0 annually.
A fiat $40 license fee per passenger
car would replace the present 80
-per-horsepower charge. Coun-
Gil members estimated this would
increase revenues by $65O,0O0.
Commercial trucks, tractor trucks,
trailers and semitrailers would be
taxed on hundredweight basis
Is cents per hundredweight on
trucks under $4,000 pounds and 40
cents for heavier trucks, tractor
trucks, trailers and semitrailers.
At present, privately owned COM
mercial trucks pay 80 cents per
horsepower and commercial for-hire
trucks pay according to chassis
weight schedule. The truck-trailer
rates would bring 81 500 900 in added
revenues, the council estimated.
Taxicabs would pay a fee of $40
per vehicle instead of the present
horsepower fee, and charter buses
would pay according to the following
schedule: % seats or less, SITS an
nually; 80 to 81 seats, 500; 38 to
As seats, $125; As and over, $3.50.
School buses would pay a fiat SIS
fee to cover school transportation
only, and would be charged an addi-
tional $50 if they also operated on a
charter basis.
Under another council bill, ap-
proved several weeks ago, excise fees
of $40 in Baltimore city and $3.50 in
the counties would be substituted for
the present property tax on auto
mobiles.
Evening star., 1946-12-28
Heurich Company Honors
Lonq-Time EMPLOYEES

Service pins to employees who had
been with the firm more than five
years were distributed by the Chris
tian Heurich Brewing Co. at a
Christmas party for employees in the
company gymnasium last night.
Fifty-fve workers whose en-
ployment totals more than 500 years
were awarded pins. Diamond pins
were given to five persons for 20
years or more service, 80 received
gold pins for 10 or more years, and
20 were presented with silver pins
for five or more years.
The awards were made by Chris
tian Heurich, company president.
This was the 18th consecutive
Christmas party given by the 79-
year-old firm, which is located at
Twenty-sixth and Water streets
NV.
Evening star., 1946-12-28
Mencken Warns
AQuinst Sneers
At Podunks

Don't laugh at Podunk, Henry L.
Mencken of Baltimore told the
American Dialect Society today.
It's a name townspeople in several
States take pride in, he said. There
are Podunks in Massachusetts,, New
York, Michigan and Nebraska.
In 1941, Mr.. Mencken said, George
Booth of the Worcester Telegram
sent out a safari which reached
Podunk, Mass. The explorers found
a community of fine people who saw
nothing funny in the name.
The American Dialect Society is a
section of the Modern Language
Association of America which is
holding its annual meeting at the
Mayfower Hotel.
Evening star., 1946-12-28
Julius (He Spells II Ceasar)
Fined SIS for Infoxication

Julius Ceasar appeared in Munich
pal Court yesterday, facing Judge
George D. Nelson on an intoxication
charge. He had been arrested Thurs
day. Police said he mistook his girl
friends landlord as her suitor. He
admitted his mistake. His assurance
to the judge that he could not
stand" whisky bore little weight,
however, when the court consulted
his past record of intoxication
counts.
CeaSar was fined $25.
Evening star., 1946-12-28
Amvet Meeting Decides
To Oppose D. {. Sales Tax

Disapproval of a District sales
tax was expressed at the general
meeting of the American Veterans
of World War II last night at the
Ambassador Hotel.
Amvet members urged the Dis
trict Commissioners to collect taxes
due the District rather than further
penalize the residents, who are
now carrying their load of the tax
burden. They pointed out that
many people who earn living in
the District do not pay any taxes
to the District.
The meeting was called by Sid
ney S. Faber, chairman of the
Amvet Membership Drive Commit
tee, as part of the program to get
5000 new members.
Evening star., 1946-12-28
0'Conor Signs Racing
Tax, Extra Funds Bill
After Special Session
BY the Assocfofed Press

ANNAPOLIS, Dec. 28.-By action
taken at siX-hour special session
of the General Assembly, Maryland
has a new set of racing revenue
laws today, pay raises to State en-
ployes will be continued and various
institutions will be supplied with
the extra funds needed to run them
through the current fiscal year.
The Legislature convened at
1890 pm. yesterday, and adjourned
sine die at pm. The appropria-
ltions and racing bills plus minor
measure were passed with little de-
bate. Gov. O'Conor signed them
into law one, hour and 10 minutes
later.
The predicted floor debate on the
race tax bill between Baltimore
city representatives and county
legislators did not materialize and
the measure passed the Senate by
unanimous vote and the House by
an 1888 margin.
4 Per Cent Tax on Gross.
1t establishes breakage at major
tracks at 10 cents, levies 4 pei
cent tax on the gross betting pools
and obliges the mile tracks to pay
a $1,000 daily license fee.
The General Assembly appropri-
ated total of $4,618,560 to con-
tiuue salary increases and to meet
extra expenditures by State insti-
tutions because of the rising spiral
of prices. The administration had
proposed originally that $3,937, $50
be appropriated.
The Legislature also appropriated
$25 900 to meet the expenses of the
special session. Apparently the leg
islators were determined not to ap-
propriate too little money in this
respect. The last one-day session
cost $6,823.
Under a clause of the new racing
enactment, Baltimore city is faced
with the necessity of repeating before
January l a recent ordinance i'm
posing a per cent municipal tax
on the gross betting at Pimlico or
losing it's share of the State turf
revenues.
Baltimoreans Vote.
Before the session, city officials
had termed the bill-a modification
of proposals contained in the Sher-
bow report-"unacceptable," e." and
had urged passage of bill adhering
strictly to the report.
All six Baltimore City Senators,
however, voted for the modification,
which was sponsored by the Legisla-
tive Council and had strong support
from Gov.-elect w. Preston Lane,
and only of the So Baltimore
members in the lower House dis
sented.
The clause making it necessary
for Baltimore to repeal its special
tax on Pimlico or be left out of the
distribution of State revenues from
racing had been suggested by Mr.
Lane.
Because they were passed under
suspension of rules as emergency
measures, all three bills became law
when Gov. O'Conor signed them.
The appropriations bill provided
81 ,5e2, ,766 from the States surplus
to continue increases in salaries
granted last September.
Evening star., 1946-12-28
D. c. Mon Held in S., 900
In Shooting of Wife

A 22-year-old colored man today
was being held in $1,000 bond on a
charge of assault with a deadly
weapon in connection with the
shooting of his wife during Christ
mas Day argument.
The defendant, Nathaniel Jones,
1900 block of Fifth street NV,
pleaded not guilty yesterday before
Municipal Court Judge Thomas D.
Quinn, who ordered the hearing
continued to January n pending
outcome of the victims condition.
The 21-year-old wife is under
treatment at Casualty Hospital for
a bullet wound in the abdomen.
Evening star., 1946-12-28
.AFL Council
Asks Probe Of
u. 5. Cafeteriias
Supports CIO Union
As Labor Officials
Seek to Avert Strike
By Joseph Young

Coming to the aid of the C1O
cafeteria workers union, the Gov
ernment Employees Council Of TIE
AFL today asked for congressional
investigation into the affairs of Gov
eminent Service, Inc, the nonprof1t
corporation which operates SO cafe
terias in Federal buildings.
The council, which represents 250,-
900 Government employees who are
members of the various AFL craft
unions and the American Federation
of Government Employees, declared
that domination of Government
eating facilities by Government
Services, Inc. appears long overdue
for ventilation by Congress"
The councils position was made
known after representatives Of the
GSI and the United Cafeteria and
Restaurant Workers, Local All, an
affiliate of the CIO United Public
Workers of America, failed to agree
on wage demands yesterday.
Four Days Left to Avert Strike.
Union officials declare that they
will call a strike next Wednesday If
their demands are not met.
With only four days remaining to
avert strike which would con-
siderably disrupt operation of Gov
ernment activities as well as incon-
venience Federal employees, Labor
Department conciliators plan to call
another meeting in an effort to
reach a compromise. The cafeteria
workers are asking for 20-cent-
an-hour wage increase.
In asking for a congressional In
vestigation, the AFL council said
Congress should determine the va
lidity of the origin of the contract
under which GSI operates, how the
sales proceeds are divided and any
reasons for continuing the present
operating arrangement" 1t raised
the question of whether it might not
be better to turn the operation of
the cafeterias over to some other
outfit.
Would Welcome Investigation"
Commenting on the councils re-
quest, GSI spokesmen said the COM
pany would welcome any investiga-
ton by the Congress or any other
appropriate or lawful body" The
spokesmen declared that GSI had
done "a wonderful job" in providing
food and recreation for Federal
employees land the more people who
learn the true facts about it the
better it will be-
At yesterdays meeting, GSI Off
cials stuck to their previous Scent
an-hour pay raise offer, asserting
that 100000 operating losses this
year forbade any larger wage boost.
Labor Department conciiiation Of
lfcials scheduled another meeting
for l pm. Monday. Besides its wage
demands, the union is asking sick
leave and welfare fund benefits.
Richard Bancroft, president of the
CIO cafeteria workers union, said
strike arrangements already had
been made in case the negotiations
end in a stalemate and declared
that the strike would shut the
cafeterias tight"
The international UPWA union
has promised its affiliate complete
support in any strike action.
Evening star., 1946-12-28
M. |. Wilson Is Elected
By Alexandria Chamber

Marvin l.. Wilson, insurance exec
utive, has been elected president of
the Alexandria Chamber of Com
merce for 1947, it was announced
today.
Other officers elected are Charles
D. Pullman, vice president; David G.
Book, business manager, and Mrs.
Lillian S. Gilmore, secretary treas
urer. 4
Evening star., 1946-12-28
Admiral Byrd Leaves
Norfolk January z
BY the Associated Press

Rear Admiral Richard E. BYRD
will sail from Norfolk, Va, January
2 aboard the aircraft carrier Philip
pine Sea to join the Nays Ant
arctic expedition which he heads,
the Navy announced yesterday.
The veteran Polar explorer stayed
behind when the first contingent
of the expedition left for the South
Pole several weeks ago.
He spent the holidays in Boston
and plans to arrive in Norfolk on
the day the Philippine Sea sails.
The Valley settler., 1946-08-01
WOULD YOU BEL IEVE TT?

At Livengood it is reported that two bea- vors arc busi1y building dam in opposi- tion to ono being built by Lytlo & Groom Construct ion Co. who arc building a dam at one end of the reservoir to raise the Wator level SO that water will flow into the tunnels and go whero needed in mining operot ions. The beavers arc industriously building dam ct tho tunnel end so as to obstruct tho flow. Every night they build 0 sound 4-foot dem. Every day Livongood plocor6 blast it out.
 It is under stood that tho dam contractors hovo offered the beavers potter than 'un ion wages to come and work on their sido, but the beavers have their oun ideas.
The Valley settler., 1946-08-01
TRI-VZLEas FEED VEIL, ON THE HIGHWAY

To understand thnt meals along tho High way to the States not only very good but roa sonoblo in prico. On tho menus aro- nicely morb1od roast beef, thick and tond- CT, and os many helpings as you like; half pound Of butter before every throc customers; sugar bowls filled to the brin. ThD TO is no second choice, You tdzo tho meal they sorvo and it costs you 75q.
 Tho answer to tho question of-- How do
 thoy do it?-is that tho Canadian Army is actually in charge of the highway and has supervision ovor tho posts along the route, Many soldiers and airmcn cat ct thoso places. Therefore, rotioning is not so strictly inpo sod and travellers along the Hi ghyroy benefit uhon they share tho fare
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-11-14
County Clock
To Be Stopped
Till January

The clock in the county court
house cupola will not run again
until next January, as a result of
its poor condition and the coun-
ty commissioners decision to
have improvements made to it.
A representative of the Inter-
state Power Clock Service Com
pany of Elmhurst, N. Y, exam
ined the clock at the request of
the commission. He reported that
two cables hung merely by
threads and were likely to break
and crash through to the lobby
if the clock continued running.
The cables were fixed SO that
they can not now fall, and the
contract for $988.75 to equip the
clock electrically and to install
an electric clock in the court
room and one in the lobby.
The county had been paying a
man $240 a year to take care of
the clock in the cupola,, and his
services will not be needed when
the self-operating electric clock
is installed.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-11-14
Hotel and Room
Landlords Given
New OPA Orders

a. lamalords now operating
mmsAaf the hotel and rooming
AsMss Fsnt regulation will be re-
asnEsa b. file . supplemental reg
mssssa.n statement for their es-
fs&lAs1naenta before December 81,
i#eM tfls oPA announced today.
Hhm registration Is necessary
81 ea1nplg with a provision of
tNx FHh8 Contgoi Extension Act
IS iaAs which @iifccts OPA to
gHssslr separately transient no.
fsia FraAfeutial or apartment no
tsla. Fsmaning houses and tourist
FawfA
AasBaihmsis must register all
asafls rNusing houses, boarding
fsns. Tourist homes. motor
Is. asao camps and trailer
EanEs fn rsnt control areas. How
ssef lansllords renting houses
mm8 enaFtmemts under the hous-
80 rfguiation need not file this
esttfaonal registration statement
a8aa are ut effected. OPA said.
fmmts can h. secured at OPA
Sect Offtce. Room 203, Federal
HasAina
Registration has been made as
cas- - possible for landlords.
~ emlY requirement is that they
b4 osa in duplicate a single
naNe fafm Landlords may obtain
sfea furms noW by calling at
f8setf iueai rent office.
Mhen ) landlord files the regis
tfagsam form in duplicate in his
kmal frmt 0lfice. the establish
aeua will be classified en- the
t.aan ug the data submitted by
tisa landlord and a copy returned
e. bern
al establishments will be clas-
algsed IN one of the following
fafeauftes transient hotel, resi-
aemalal hatel. rooming house or
aasnf eusrrt according to defini-
ttans aslsled o. the regulation No
ssmles 1. 1916. The hotel and
uus8nr cauFt Rent Industry Ad-
saasfv Committees were consult
"a hslaHe OpA made the neces-
sasv changes in the regulation.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-11-14

Waiter. there Is no wiShbone
im tess chicken"
"a aidnt need one. sir. That
rha kNn lived such a contented
haa that "a had nothing to wish
~
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-11-14
Bermuda May Ban
Cedar COffins

HAMILTON, Bermuda. -(AP)
-Bermudians may no longer be
buried in caskets of native cedar
if legislation prepared by Morris
A. Gibbons is passed by the
House of Assembly.
The Colony's supply of cedar is
limited and may become even
more scarce through the cedar
blight attacking some of the
trees and through craftmen's use
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-11-14

in making cedar articles for the
tourists.
There has never been any
thought given to having caskets
made of anything but Bermuda
cedar-the pauper as well as the
wealthy man being buried in a
cedar coffin.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-11-14

King salmon from Ketchikan,
Alaska, are shipped to market so
fast by plane that no refrigera-
ton is necessary.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-11-14

The most populouS possession
of Great Britain after India is
West Africa, with 20 million in
habitants.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-02-14
Miss Florence Gibson
Rites Tomorrow

Funeral services for Miss Florence
Wier Gibson, SO, will be held at 3
pm. tomorrow at Gawler's funeral
home. 1855 Pennsylvania avenue
NV. Interment will be in Muncy
Pa.
Miss Gibson died at her home
AIT Lowell street NV, Tuesday
after a brief illness. She had been
a resident OF Washington for more
than 20 years.
Previously, she had lived in New
York City and was active in poetry
circles there. She was a friend OF
Edwin Markham and was referred
to by him as little sister" Miss
Gibson was the second president of
the Browning Society of New York
and was elected honorary president
after serving two terms. She also
was a member of the Poetry Society
and the Pennsylvania Society there.
Miss Gibson was native of Bed
ford, Pa. She Studied music in
Germany and established her own
school OF music in New York on
her return. She Travelled extensive
ly, spending two years in the mis-
sion schools of India. assisting
church officials. Her father, the
Rev. Andrew Wier Gibson, was a
Methodist minister.
She is survived by nephew, Will
liam Lynch Gibson, of Lakewood,
Fla. Her late brother, Dr.. William
Selbert Gibson, was chief clerk of
the Navy Bureau of Medicine and
Surgery for half a century.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-02-14
Berordo Di Giucomo
To Be Buried Tomorrow

Requiem mass for Berardo d
Giacomo. SO, of 70 Allison street NE.
who died Tuesday at the Nava
Medical Center in Bethesda, will bt
held at 9 am. tomorrow at Holy
Rosary Church. Burial, with mill.
tary honors, will be held in Airing
ton Cemetery
Mr.. Di c. ONO was native o!
Italy and to this country A
years ago. - retired last month al
a Waterman after 26 years with TIT
Capital Transit Co. He was vet.
eran of the World War.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs
Anna Di Giacomo, and two daugh.
tiers, Miss Angelina Di Giacomo anc
Mrs. Mary Ann Donahue, all O.
Washington
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-02-14
William ". Carman, Jr.,
To Be Buried in ARLINGTON

Graveside services for William w
Carman, jr., 81, formerly a Com
merce Department employee, will be
held at l pm. today at Arlington
Cemetery. Mr. Carman died Mon
day at Summit, N. j.. where he had
lived the last two months.
Mr.. Carman was born in Brook
lyn, N. Y, and was a graduate OF
Wesleyan University, Middletown
Conn. He later attended Harvard
Law School. He came to Washing
ton in 1916 and from then until 1912
was employed in the Commerce De-
partment, resigning as assistant
chief OF the Textile Division, Bu-
reau Of Foreign and Domestic Com
merce. For the next three years
until he became i'll about 10 months
ago, he was Washington consultant
for New York rayon firm.
Mr.. Carman was a member OF
Beta Theta ri fraternity and the
University Club. He served as a.,
infantry captain in the World War
\ Surviving are his widow, Mrs
Madeline Sutphen Carman; a
daughter. Miss Virginia Carman
Boston; son, William w. Carman
III, New York; his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. William w. Carman, Summit
two sisters, Mrs. Lanier Branson
Charlotte, N. c., and Mrs. Dorothy
c. Macmillan, Maplewood, N. j.;
and two brothers, Allen Carman
Shrewsbury, N. j., and Douglas Car
man Milwaukee
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-02-14
Mrs. Ida A. Shaw Dies;
Wife Of Retired General

Mrs. Ida A. Shaw, wife of Brig
Gen. George C.. Shaw, U. S. A., re-
tired, died yesterday at Walter Reed
Hospital. She lived at 300 Con-
necticut avenue NV.
Gen. and Mrs. Shaw have made
their home here since his retirement
in 1880. She was native of Fen
ton, Mich.
Mrs. Shaw was a member of the
Army and Navy Chapter of the
Daughters OF the American Revolu-
ton and the Washington Club.
Surviving besides her husband
are two daughters, Mrs. E. X. Daley
wife of Col. Daley, Army Service
Forces, Washington, and Mrs. War
wick Perkins, whose husband is press
secretary OF the United States EN-
bassy in Ankara, Turkey.
Graveside services will be held at
2 pm. tomorrow In Arlington Gem
etery.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-02-14
Rites for George Garner ,
| Federal Guard, Held

Funeral services for George M.
Garner, So, retired farmer and
Commerce Department guard for
the last four years, who died Tues
day at Sibley Hospital, were held
today at Chambers funeral home,
1400 Chaplin street NV. Burial
was in Arlington Cemetery.
Mr.. Garner, who lived at l343 I,
street NV, was sergeant in the
World War and served in France
with the motor transportation
corps. He was a member of the
Perry Post, Veterans of Foreign
Wars.
He was native of White Sands,
Miss.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs.
Rowena M. Garner; a son, Clyde
M. Garner, of the L street address;
IA brother, Samuel H. Garner, Fitz-
gerald, Ga; and three sisters, Mrs.
Ruth Thompson, FL Dorado, Ark;
Mrs. Jimmie Farmer, Hopewell, Va.
and Mrs. Evolee La Grow, Rich
mond.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-02-14
Baby With Heart Outside
Lives Only Three Hours

Despite efforts of surgeons baby
girl born with her heart outside her
chest died yesterday at Sibley Me-
mortal Hospital.
The child, otherwise well formed
and weighing pounds ounce al
birth, was the daughter of Mr.. and
MIS-. William Scott Jones. 1900
SiXty-third avenue, Cheverly. Md
The father is an employe in the
Naval Gun Factory distribution and
drafting department.
DR.. Oliver Cox performed a rare
operation to place the beating heart
in an opening of the chest, but the
child lived for only three hours and
20 minutes.
DR.: Michael Buckley. resident OBJ
stetrical surgeon, said it was the
first case of its kind at the hospital
but that similar case was reported
at Gallinger Hospital in 1940 That
child lived for % days.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-02-14
Strike Ban Repeal
Passes in Commons
BY the Associoted Press

LONDON, Feb. 14.-Repeal of the
strike-restricting 1927 Trade Dis
putes Act-an important goal of the
Labor government - appeared as
sured today by the overwhelming
majority accorded the repeater on
its decisive second, reading in the
House of Commons.
Cheering Laborites singing THE
Red Flag" rushed the measure
through by vote of 1863 to 1874 last
night on the 40th anniversary of the
founding of the party. 1t will 60
to the House of Lords after a third
reading in Commons.
The Trade Disputes Act forbids
general strikes, restricts the affilia-
ton of government workers with
unions and bans compulsory con-
tributions to political parties. It
has been bitterly opposed by labor
since it was first introduced follow
ing the 1925 general strike.
In a speech before Commons
voted last night, Foreign Secretary
Ernest Bevin expressed regret that
Former Prime Minister Winston
Churchill-now in the United States
was not present to witness the pro-
ceedings because he is the father
Of all these struggles"