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Evening star., 1946-04-01
Radio Amateurs Get
More Air Room

Radio hams" today had more "air
room" in which to talk to one an
other by voice or code, but few in
the Washington area were in a DO
sition to enjoy it.
Frequencies from 3,700 to 1000
kilocycles became available today in
accordance with a previous Federal
Communications Commission an
nouncement. They had been re-
served for the armed services
throughout the war. The amateurs
now are permitted to use 5000 to
1000 kilocycles for voice transmits
sion and the balance for key work.
However, many hams" disposed
OF their equipment during the war
time shutdown, and others find suf-
flclent replacement parts unavail-
able as yet. Still others converted
to the 10-meter band when that Sec
tlon OF the dial was freed for anna
teur use last fall.
Hermann E. Hobbs, assistant COM
munlcations officer for the District
Maryland and Delaware in the At
lantic Division of the American
Radio Relay League, Nationwide
hams" organization, said he did
not expect to hear many local anna
teurs working the newly available
trequencleS for some time.
Evening star., 1946-04-01

count when some one calls to say
thou hast won the Irish Sweep
stakes. Thy bookie knows It's run
this Friday.
6. Remember thou that two can
play at handing out exploding
cigars.
7. Call not to st. Elizabeth's tc
ask for Mr.. Mutt. Mayhap they
will come after thee with net.
8. Sniff not the flower in they
friends lapel. He is apt to squirt
thee.
9. Worry not if an undertaken
comes to thy abode and asks where
the body can be picked up.
10. Keep they temper. Thou wilt
need it all for thy mother-in laws
next visit.
1t would also be well to thinl
twice before acting if your phone
rings and a voice says:
This is the Pot O. Gold program
We have just picked your name al
random. All you have to do is rir
the top off your radio, chisel youl
name on the top and mail it to us
along with 20 sewer tops, and we
will send you the grand prize-ful
title to a penguin ranch in Little
America"
Don't bother answering your door
bell either. Even if the ringer isn't
one of the neighborhood urchins, II
is probably somebody you don't like
People with hyperthyroid funny
bones won't catch mapping any OF
the agencies which usually are har-
ried on April /. The Zoo. the house
Evening star., 1946-04-01
.Two-Month Sentence
Imposed in Staying !

Kermie Bledsoe, 10, of the 1000
block Massachusetts, avenue NE,
was sentenced by Justice David A,
Pine In District Court today to
serve from to II months on a
manslaughter charge in the fatal
stabbing last December of John j
Heard, SO, of the 1000 block of B
street NE, in Heard's home.
Bledsoe was found guilty by a
jury on March 20.
The defendant is lame from hav-
ing had infantile paralysis. In i'm
posing the light sentence Justice
Pine said he recognized Bledsoe had
acted under considerable provoca-
ton in the stabbing, although he
was not justified in killing. It was
testified during the trial that Heard
had struck Bledsoe.
The stabbing was done with a
japanese dagger which had been
brought back by a serviceman as a
souvenir,
Evening star., 1946-04-01
[usk Changes His Mind,
Backs Sfandup Drinking

One of the men most responsible
for introducing sit-down drinking to
the District, Rufus Lusk, real estate
analyst, has joined the forces cam
paigning for stand-up drinking at
bars here.
Mr.. Lusk explained his turnabout
in a letter to the Commissioners.
IF man wants a drink, he sits
down and has one and generally sev-
eral more, and = often he has too
much to drink without either the
bartender or the man realizing it
until he stands up." he said. II am
frank to state that this was a big
mistake and should be repealed
Mr.. Lusk said the sit-down drink
ing provision which he helped to
draft was just as foolish as the pro-
vision, later repealed, which said
customers could not watch drinks
being mixed
Evening star., 1946-04-01
Science Show 10 Be Held
Al American University

The biennial American Univer-
sity science show will be held Fri
day and Saturday in Hurst Hall on
the campus, under sponsorship of
Beta Beta Beta, honorary biological
fraternity, in cooperation with the
science departments of the univer-
sity.
The exhibits, including trained
mice, "a archaeological rainbow" !"
"the visible voice." chemical gar
dens and "hot water without heat"
will be open from $50 to 10:3O pm.
Friday and from to 10:30 pm. Sat-
uday.
Watson Davis of Science Service
will speak at 8 pm. Friday on
Things of Science" William
Fletcher of the Agriculture Depart
ment will speak on weather fore
casting and Ira Hook of the Amer
lean Brass Co. will discuss brass
production Saturday afternoon.
At s pm. Saturday Murl Deusing
naturalist and lecturer of the Mil
waukee Public Museum. will speak
on Back Yard Safari."
Evening star., 1946-04-01

If you find an escaped wombat
or a wandering aardvark in your
Victory garden, you'll just have to
wait until April 2 before the Zoo
will come get it.
There are all sorts of medieval
torture instruments available this
year in novelty stores for adding tc
the gray in the hair of your init
mates. The war and reconversion
have not affected the supply OF
dribble glasses, eye-blackening tele-
scopes, sneeze powder, portable ink
spots or whisky bottles from which
lively green snakes slither.
Things are fairly quiet in Indo-
nesia, Manchuria, Iran and other
world trouble spots. The war of
nerves today is being waged in
Washington where you can expect
life to be a bit more on the fantastic
side for the next "a hours.
Evening star., 1946-04-01
1rans-Wor|d Begins Flights
From D. {. 10 Cairo, Eqypf

Flights by Trans-World Airlines
between Washington and Cairo.
Egypt, started operating on a thrice
weekly basis last night in addition
to regular service between Washing
ton and Paris.
The first flight took off at II pm,
after christening ceremonies for the
Sphinx" Skymaster making the
first trip.
Participating in the ceremony
were Brig. Gen. Julius Holmes vice
president of Trans World; Mrs.
Charles Bruggmann, wife of the
Minister of Switzerland; Nine. AL
oerto Tarchiani, wife of the Italian
Ambassador; Nine. Hassan, wife of
the Egyptian Minister, and Mime.
Cimon Diamantopoulos, wife of the
Greek Ambassador.
Trans-World officials said Geneva.
Switzerland, will be included as a
stop on its international route with
in the next few weeks.
Evening star., 1946-04-01
Public Library Feels
Effects Of Staff Cut

The Public Library, harassed dur
ing the war with a shortage of per-
sonnel, now could get workers If
Congress meanwhile had not cut its
budget to fit the war staff.
Inadequacy of the staff has forced
Miss Clara Herbert, District libra
rian, to curtail the hours of opera
ton at the Tenley branch.
Twelve annual positions were
taken from the library during the
war years when check of its rolls by
budget officials consistently revealed
vacancies, Miss Herbert explained.
She was able to keep the branches
running then because library work.
ers were on 44-hour week. Now
that the 40-hour week has gone
into effect, the equivalent of % ad-
ditional workers has been lost, she
said.
Her only hope for relief from a
personnel shortage as serious in
peace as it was in war, Miss Herbert
said, is to get at least the IL annual
positions reinstated in the library
budget. Her request was not in
cluded in the 1867 District budget
sent to the House, but she hopes the
Senate may replace certain num-
ber" of salary positions.
Evening star., 1946-04-01
DR.. Corning Answers
Fowler, Defending
PAY Raise Demands

Washington's teachers, criticized
by District Budget Officer Walter
Fowler as a series of pressure
groups disagreeing over pay raises
were defended today by their SUI
perintendent as an underpaid body
fairly well agreed on immediate need
for S600-a-year pay raise.
DR.. Hobart M. Corning, referring
to a further statement by Mr.
Fowler that Washington already has
an unusually high minimum teach
erS' pay rate, said he is surveying
salaries in other cities. He will re-
port these-and any other replies
to Mr.. Fowler-to the Board of Ed
ucation Wednesday, DR.. Corning
said.
While he did not wish to cas-,
any doubt on Mr.. Fowler's report
to the Commissioners that Washing.
tons minimum rate Is now the
highest in the country, excluding
wartime bonuses, DR.. Corning said
he thought inaccurate figures may
have been given to the budget
officer.
Recent Hearing Cited.
AS for Mr.. Fowler's impression
that the teachers are honeycombed
with organizations who cannot
agree, DR.. Corning said he thought
recent teachers hearing had
shown all but few small groups
wanted 5000 pay raise instead of
the 500 raise provided in Senator
McCarran's bill.
1T might be asking too much to
get the teachers entirely together" :"
he said. Only two or three groups
approved the bill and they were
not very large. Many of these
speakers were only individuals or
representing small groups"
Miss Mary Dent, president of the
Teachers Union, was the main
speaker who approved the McCar-
ran bill at the hearing. She assert
ed at that time that the union had
asked Senator McCarran to intro
duce his bill to correct "inequities'
in the raises approved last July.
Council Speaks for 80 Groups.
Mrs Mary Resh, chairman of the
Joint Legislative Council, said her
group-"representing 38 educational
organizations''-is not a pressure
group" The council did not ask
any one to introduce a bill about
anything, she said, and only ex-
pressed its .disapproval of the Nc
Carran bill when the Board of Ed
ucation officially asked its opinion.
Mr.. Fowler had stated that he
got so many conflicting versions of
the teachers demands that he does
not know which represented genuine
teacher opinion. Mrs. Resh said she
was sure the council represents the
majority of the city's 5000 teach
ers, although she did not have fig
ures Immediately available.
Evening star., 1946-04-01
). ). District Of Columbia
In First Run 10 Norfolk

The steamer District of Columbia,
sole remaining vessel of the Norfolk
az Washington Steamboat Co.. last
night made its first postwar trip to
Norfolk under the company's flag.
The line has been returned to its
owners by the War Shipping Ad-
mlnistration, which leased the COM
panys ships and terminals during
the war and operated them as the
Washington-H Hampton Roads Line.
Before the war the line had three
steamboats,. Two were requisitioned
in 1942 by VISA. 1t operated the
one remaining ship until June %,
1945, when VISA took over and
added the old Meteor, a former
packet boat in Chesapeake and New
England waters, to the run from
here to Norfolk. The Meteor was
retired from service about a month
ago.
The District of Columbia, company
officials said today, will run every
other night on the same schedule
in effect before June %, 1945.
Evening star., 1946-04-01
DC. Agencies
Must Justify
Construction
School Projects
Appear Likely to
Go First to CPA

Departments and agencies of the
District government will be re-
quired to justify to the District Com
mlssloners any new construction or
building improvements before such
projects are submitted to the Ci-
villain Production Administration
for clearance. it was learned today.
Under terms of the CPA ruling
placing all building behind housing
for veterans, only projects deemed
absolutely necessary will be given
the green light by the Federal Gov
ernment. District officials are plan
ming to meet these specifications
where possible.
Col. Joseph D. Arthur, jr., As
sistant Engineer Commissioner, said
today that the District would pro-
ceed as far as possible under the
new regulations with its multi-mil-
lion dollar postwar construction pro-
gram of capital improvements de-
signed to bring the District to the
level of its rapid wartime growth.
"Catch-up" Program Affected.
With $16,000,O00 worth of new
construction in the 1947 budget and
a backlog of several additional mil
lion dollars in building from war
time priorities, the Commissioners
were ready to start big cleanup"
program when CPA's restrictive Or
der came out last Tuesday.
Col. Arthur, the Districts director
Of construction, said the District
was cooperating to the full with
Federal regulations, but added that
certain new work was urgently
needed ito bring Washington up to
date"
"If you build $1,000 homes" Col.
Arthur said, "it is equally important
to provide schools for the children
who will live in those homes. The
District now has a population of
$4,000 and a school system de-
signed to accommodate population
of 100000. Obviously, we need more
schools"
He said that the District agencies
which will be asked to justify new
construction would include the
Board of Education, the Board of
Public Welfare and the Health De-
partment. The same will apply, he
said, to all agencies which would be
affected by construction projects
for which money already is avail
able.
"Strict Screening" Planned.
Col. Arthur emphasized, however,
that the Commissioners will con-
slider only such building projects as
could be justified as monde
ferrable." He added that the Com
missioners would apply "strict
screening" to those projects sub
mitted for consideration.
Projects for which money is avail
able and which were scheduled to
be started for July l prior to the
CPA order include a new Receiv-
ing Home for Children on land ad-
jacent to the Columbia Institution
for the Deaf; a new laboratory and
pediatrics building at Gallinger Hos
pital; Sousa Junior High School;
requirements for the Cranch- Tyler
School and the Lucy Slowe School,
and additions to the Logan, Ran
dali Junior High and Kimball
Schools.
Evening star., 1946-04-01
Housing Note:
| Possums Double
IUp With Turtles

1t wasn't so bad when the baby
possum moved into her backyard
Friday evening, but when Momma
Possum showed up shortly after
dark Saturday night, Mrs. Daniel
Knowlton, 1929 Phelps place NV.
began to wonder if she was living
in the path of marsupial migra-
ton.
Mrs. Knowlton wouldn't mind
keeping the baby around-he's a
cute little fellow named Peter the
Possum"-but the mother looks far
too much like rat, she said.
She is puzzled about where the
creatures came from, too, because
she lives many blocks from the
nearest wooded area.
+ Maybe they are after the turtle
food" Mrs. Knowlton said. She
has turtles in her backyard, but
that's little different because she
Sput them there herself. ct was
the same way last year." the house.
wife added, eve had a regular
possum hunt in my yard then"
Meanwhile, Mrs. Kownlton will
permit Peter and his Nom to re-
main for a while if they behave.
Evening star., 1946-04-01
Delay on S|ums Bill
lin House Is Assai|ed
By Citizens Council

A new protest against continued
delay in action in the House on the
District slum clearance and redeveI-
opment bill was voiced today by the
Citizens Council for Community
Planning.
The bill, which proposes a 10-year
$40 100000 program. is in the hands
of the Judiciary Subcommittee OF
the House District Committee.
When hearings were concluded
last month, Chairman McGehee
went to Mississippi, his home State
saying he would be back some time
after April l. His Office said today
he might return late this week.
The citizens council declared in a
statement to Mr.. McGehee: 'It has
been five months since the unani-
mously passed Senate bill has been
in your committee. Every day the
Capitals slurns spread, grow more
delapidated and unfit for families to
live in
Responsibility for any further
delay, the group said, would rest
"squarely" on Chairman McGehee's
shoulders.
The House District Committee is
scheduled to meet Wednesday, but,
due to the absence of Mr.. McGehee
the slum bill is not expected to be
called up.
Chairman Mcmillan said today he
planned to bring up for discussion
proposals for legislation to place the
District on daylight saving time
during the summer months. If he
finds there is strong public demand,
he plans to sponsor a bill to make
the change effective.
Chairman Bilbo of the Senate
District Committee has registered
opposition to the plan.
Evening star., 1946-04-01
Mother Who Regainet
Sight Looks Forward
To Tour Of Capital

The blue eyes of Mrs. Shirley Jane
Vetter and her 9-month-old daugh-
ter, Tamara Jane, whose birth re-
stored the mothers sight, looked to-
day with equal interest on sunlit
Washington.
Mrs. Vetter, who arrived at Ma
tional Airport yesterday after a
plane trip from her home in Seattle
plans to spend two or three months
visiting her mother. Mrs. Matilda J
Rowland, 3130 Wisconsin avenue
NV, and looking again at scenes
she once thought would be blacked
out to her forever.
The wedding trip of Mrs. Vettel
and her husband Bernard ended dis
astrously near Annapolis in August
1914, when the bride fell and hit
her head on a stone. The shock
caused psychological blindness, ply.
sicians at Johns Hopkins Hospital ir
Baltimore told her.
Repeated efforts to restore tn,
brides sight ended in discourage
ment. When her husband was dis
charged from the Army, she wen
with him to Seattle. He took a iol
as accountant with the Seattl
Housing Authority. Tamara wa
born last July.
The first week after the baby
birth. the mother began to dis
tinguish dark and light, to maxi
out small form. AS the baby grew
the mothers eyesight improved.
On the trip to Washington, Mrs
Vetter and her baby looked wide
eyed at cities and vistas neither hat
seen before. The excitement wa
almost too much. Neither of then
was feeling well today.
I'VE are going to rest. And thez
we are going sightseeing tn,
mother laughed today.
The tiring trip was worth it, Mrs
Vetter decided, when she saw hel
mother, a nurse at S. Kann Son
Department Store, for the first tim,
since the accident.
Evening star., 1946-04-01
|Concertmuster to PIuy
At Arlington Forms

Jan Tomasow, concertmaster oil
the National Symphony Orchestra
will give violin recital for women
Government employees at $50 pm
Friday at Arlington Farms Recrea-
ton Building. This concert is one
OF series to provide concert music
for the residents at reduced rates
Mr.. Tomasow will play Vivaldis
Suite in A Major" Franck's
Sonata Desplanes' "Intrada, y
Paganini's Caprice Xxx" Bales
"Poeme," Corelli- "Varia-
tions" and Wieniawski's "Polonaise
Brillante."
Evening star., 1946-04-01
$22 Minimum Laundry
Wage Is Recommended

Recommendations submitted to-
day to revise minimum wage rates
for female and minor workers
in the laundry, dry cleaning and
dyeing industries set a minimum
wage of $22 for work week of at
least II hours and SIS cents an hour
for each hour worked in excess of A.
The recommendations were sub
mitted to the Minimum Wage and
Industrial Safety Board by the
Laundry and Dry Cleaning Wage
Conference, which recessed Friday.
A public hearing on the recon-
mendations will be held May 1.
Waldron Faulkner was chairman Of
the conference.
Evening star., 1946-04-01
Inquest Calls Veteran
In Shooting of Wife

A recently discharged sailor
Charles R. Diggs, "a, of 822 Twenty
third street NV, will appear at g
coroner's inquest today in connec.
tion with the death of his wife
Mary, %, who died early yesterday
at Emergency Hospital from gun.
shot wounds in the thigh and back
Mrs. Diggs was shot during ar
alteration with her husband at hel
home, 2716 K street, Saturday night
police said.
Evening star., 1946-04-01
VA Clinic Answering Needs
OF Men With Raw Nerves =

angers. They give them reassur-
ance, explain to worried student
that naturally he will feel a little
rusty when he has been away from
his books for years.
"It's hard to measure how much
good we do" commented one of the
psychiatrists, "but some OF. the men
who have come here have sent
their buddies to see us. One boy
who was sure he was flunking out
is making excellent grades now
Some of them have put on 10 te
Is pounds while they've been COM
ing to the clinic. They can't under
stand how they can gain weight
and feel better physically when we
rarely give them any medicine"
Evening star., 1946-04-01
lowrenceviIIe Alumni
To Hear Heudmuster

DR.. Allan v. Heely, headmaster of
the Lawrenceville IN. j. School, will
address postwar reunion dinner of
alumni Friday night at the May
flower Hotel.
William Easton of East Falls
Church, will preside. Members of
the committee on arrangements are
Edmund G. Chamberlain, A. S.
Gardiner, jr., E. c. Ferriday, jr.,
Charles Wilfred Dare, jr., William
G. Berlinger, jr, Robert w. Flem-
ing, Walter G. Andrews and Jay
Lefevre.
Evening star., 1946-04-01

Washington now has a place
where a veteran can go when he
finds himself flying of the handle
at his wife's new hat or SO afraid
he'll funk his courses that he can't
study at all.
Since the mental hygiene clinic
for veterans opened on a small
scale in the Washington regional
Office of the Veterans Administra-
ton two months ago, more than
$50 veterans have found their way
there.
Now it's a going concern, stated
by a team of psychiatrists, psy-
biologists and social workers-all
veterans. Head of the Office is
DR.. Robert Webb, who runs it as
much like a private doctors Office
as possible.
To the fourth floor Offices in the
Municipal Building go men sent
by hospitals, social agencies, their
families or their buddies, as well
as men like the one who found his
own way to the clinic and told a
doctor, Il am either going to get
into trouble or I'm going to pieces
unless I get help"
Seen by Appointment.
Frequent calls come from wives,
mothers and girl friends. Most Of
them begin by saying their hus-
band or son is nervous" HE just
can't sit still" reported one. The
other night he got up and left in
the middle'of a movie" said another.
The clinic doesn't go out looking
for patients. They have to come
of their own free will, the doctors
emphasized. Once they have been
accepted for treatment, they see
the psychiatrist by appointment
twice weekly at first and later once
a week.
Their troubles aren't so different
from everybody else's, but they come
on top of the not-so-easy business
Of changing from the Army to civil
ian routine. Some can't get along
at their jobs. Some can't get the
loans or the equipment they need
to start business. Again and
again, they complain that they've
been nearly frantic trying to find a
place for their family to live or they
can't meet their bills because every
thing costs so much.
Il get home and the kids start
bawling and I get jittery," one told
the psychiatrist.
Let Them Sound Off,"
Il just can't stand my wife's
snoring. don't know what's the
matter with me. 1t didn't bother
me before I went away" COM
planned another.
The psychiatrists start by let
ting the veterans sound off," A
patient may confess, II don't know
why I lose my temper. I don't even
know what I'm mad about"
Then it's up to the psychiatrist to
find out what's really bothering
him. He encourages the veteran
to talk about his experiences In the
service, what his life was like be-
fore he went into uniform, what
IT'S like now.
All the psychiatrists in the clinic
as veterans, have gone through the
business of settling down them
selves. They know that it takes ad-
justing to get used to living with a
family again when you've lived for
years in an exclusively male So
ciety, that finding an apartment is
enough to unnerve the strongest
man and that it's easy to fix your
anger on small. irrelevant things
when actually it's something pretty
big that's worrying you.
Some Gaining Weight.
Patiently, interview after inter-
view, they try to make the veteran
understand what's behind the head
aches, the restlessness, the pointless
Evening star., 1946-04-01
1t Likely Will Be Black and Blue Mondov
But Don't Lose Your Temper-Just Hide!

Recalling at the last minute that
today is April Fools Day, the So
ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Dumb Human Beings has issued
a new "ten commandments" to pre-
vent the race being wiped out by
rank and rancid prankery.
l. Thou shalt not append "Kick
Me" signs to thy neighbor's coat
tails. Thy neighbor might kick
thee back.
2. Thou shalt not telephone
Aquarium Director Fred Orsinge1
to ask for Mr.. Fish. He will tell
thee Mr.. Fish is in his bath and
cannot be disturbed.
Evening star., 1946-04-01

3. Suppress thou the temptation
to kick the first derby thou seest
on F street. Thou hast 10 toes.
Fracture them not frivolously.
4. Stoop not to pick up the purse
thou art sure to see on the side
walk. And pay the writer no venge.
full visits when the man behind
thee finds $4,000 after thou passeth
by.
5. Squander not thy bank &C.