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Evening star., 1946-08-13
World Hunt Is Urged to Meet
CriticoIU. S. Metal Depletion

Antimony, SO per cent from Mex
leo, Bolivia and Peru; beryl, 90.6
per cent from Brazil and India !;
asbestos. 100 per cent from Rhodesia
and South Africa; chromium, SO G
per cent from South Africa, Turkey
New Caledonia and Cuba; cobalt
85.6 per cent from the Belgian
Congo; corundum ores, 100 per cent
from South Africa; diamonds, 100
per cent from Belgian Congo, Brazil
and Angola.
Also graphite, 100 per cent from
Madagascar and Ceylon; manganese
85.5 per cent from India, Cuba
Africa and Brazil; mica, SO per cent
from Brazil and India; quartz, SO
per cent from Brazil; nickel, 10C
per cent from Canada and New
Caledonia; tantalum ores, 80 per
cent from Africa; tin, 100 per cent
from Bolivia, Belgian Congo and
Nigeria; tungsten, 81. per cent from
China, Bolivia and Brazil.
Sets Depletion Dates.
Aside from the vast wartime uses
the rate of consumption of metals
and minerals in the United States
during the five years prior to 1898
was so great, DR.. Bateman declared
that mercury reserves now can be
expected to last only two years
tungsten three years, lead II years
zinc l8 years, copper 80 years, baux-
ite eight years, antimony three
years if the same rate of consump-
ton continues
Many OF the others, including
most of the ferro alloys are "almost
entirely lacking or absent" he
added.
Urging immediate building up o
reserve stockpile of all essentia
minerals and metals for possible
emergency use in the future, he
maintained:
Their very existence here might
help avert future attack and guar
antee the safety of our Nation ir
years to come"
The stockpiles which the Army
and Navy Munitions Board soor
will begin to gather are not confined
to minerals, War Department rep
resentatiye explained. They are
strategic materials not obtainable
in this country and include some
IS critical materials. The board has
not disclosed the quantities or types
to be purchased under an authorize.
ton passed by Congress and signed
last week by the President.
Evening star., 1946-08-13
Cash Register Thief Get.
1888 at Chinese Cote

Police and May Dish Kon. Chinese
restaurant owner, today are looking
for colored thief who grabbed
s268 from the cash register of Mr..
Kon's eating place at 1872 Eleventh
street NV, while the proprietor's
back was turned yesterday.
Mr.. Kon, whose restaurant Is
known as the Chung Lee, told police
he went into the kitchen for
moment and returned in time to see
the thief disappearing through the
front door.
Evening star., 1946-08-13
Carl Berueffy, Ex-0fficiaI
OF 0PA, 10 Wed Nurse Here

Carl w, Berueffy, IS, of 6220 Thir-
ty-second place NV. former chief
OPA enforcement attorney here
has applied for a marriage license
to marry Miss Mary Florence Ram
sey, "a. of 719 D street NE.
Mr.. Berueffy held the OPA post
for more than a year, from January,
1945, to February of this year. He
said the wedding will be Saturday.
Miss Ramsey, a native of Topeka,
Kans., and Mr.. Berueffy met here in
Washington. She is a registered
nurse with the District Health
Department.
Evening star., 1946-08-13

AS the Army ana Navy MunltlOns
Board prepared for a $2,100, ,00O, ,00C
war stockpile OF critical materials
Interior Department biologists to-
day supported a warning that an
acute scarcity OF metals and min
erals demands an immediate search
at home and abroad for emergency
resources
The warning came from DR.. Alan
M. Bateman, Yale University pro-
fessor Of economic geology, a for.
mer Foreign Economic Administra.
ton expert and editor Of Economic
Geology.
In the current issue of the pub.
lication he contended that "minera
stockpiles are as basic as battleship.
and bombers" Reserves of even the
most basic minerals have been sc
greatly depleted in this country, ht
declared, that the United State!
must use every art and device" In
finding ores. developing produc.
ton and making necessary agree
ments with other governments ir
order to accumulate stockpiles here
DR.. Bateman did not view such
effort as an international race. Hi
described it as worldwide CO.
operative program Of making ar
ardent search" to replace vital ores
which are dwindling in other parts
Of the globe.
The situation in the United States
he wrote, is especially critical be.
cause during the war, despite tire.
mendous production and use o
minerals and metals, I'VE simpl,
didn't have enough OF any of them.
From Pearl Harbor to vi day, ht
reported. the United States imported
more than s2,0O0,000 900 worth O.
metals and minerals from So differ.
ent countries. Except for coal, iror
and salt, some quantity of ever,
mineral needed here in the wa
effort had to be imported.
He noted that, of 20 of the mos
important war production minerals
only five were produced for the mos
part in this country. Nevertheless
"A per cent of the lead, 37.6 per cen
Of the copper, 43.2 per cent of th'
mercury, 324 per cent of the vana
dium and 36,7 per cent of the zin'
used here during the war had II
be brought in from abroad.
Cites Foreign Sources.
The following percentages, h.
stated, represent the foreign source
of other principal minerals employed
here in 1912, 1943 and 1914:
Evening star., 1946-08-13
Fine Of $40 Imposed
On JaywaIking Charge

A warning to pedestrians who
cross streets against the traf1c lights
was heard today in Municipal Court
when Judge Aubrey Fennell imposed
sentence of $40 fine or 10 days in
Jail for the offense.
The usual collateral required by
police on the charge is 81.
Walter J. Norton, 40, painter. of
the 1900 block S street Sc, received
the sentence after pleading guilty to
the charge. Norton was held In a
precinct station house yesterday
when he failed to post collateral.
Pvt. Bradford A. McClendon of the
accident investigation unit arrested
Norton at Fifth and E streets NV.
Evening star., 1946-08-13
Tokomu Pool to Hold
'FroIics of 1916 TONIGHT

Pool Frolics OF 1896" featuring
Washington swimmers and enter
tainers, will be held at 7:30 oclot k
tonight at the Takoma Pool, Fourth
and Van Buren, streets NV. under
auspices of the District Recreation,
Department and Government Serv
ices, Inc.
The Aquatic show will include
diving exhibitions, swimming dis
plays and the coronation of King
and Queen Neptune. Music will be
furnished by the Capital Theater
Orchestra.
Evening star., 1946-08-13
County G| Becomes
Builder 10 Beat
Housing Problem
By J. B. Zotmon

Two Montgomery County Army
overseas veterans are beating the
housing shortage, one by building
mis- own home and the other by
living in two-car garage converted
into three-room cottage.
Unable to buy house because
of high prices, Elwood Harding, %,
an employe at the Rockville Post
Office. Bronze Star winner who
served about three years in the
European theater, is building a
three-room frame bungalow for
himself and his wife on site miles
north Of Colesville.
He is aided by his father, Arthur
E. Harding, rs. whose house is near
by. The father works on the house
during the day while his son, who
lives in the neighborhood with a
brother Stanley A. Harding, does
his share at night and on his day
off.
A one-bedroom apartment in
Washington for which Mr.. and Mrs.
Harding paid S75 month, after
his discharge from the Army last
October, was not his idea of a home
so he decided to try his hand at
building his own house
He started work in June and the
framework and roof already have
been completed Although he has
been able to get materials so far
Mr.. Harding said his biggest worry
now is flooring and plaster. ANY one
who can furnish him with these two
materials will earn his gratitude
Mr. Harding said.
In addition to his father, Mr.
Harding said he also is aided by
Russell Brigham. 81, another Army
veteran, who lives with the elder
Harding. He said he and his wife
plan to live in the house only until
prices go down and he is able to
build larger home.
Garage Turned Into Home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Melvin Hogan are
living in three-room bungalow
near Ashton which they had in
tended for a garage when Mr.. Hogan
started to build it in 1910.
Mr. Hogan, 36, is employed by the
Washington Suburban Sanitary
Commission. He was discharged
from the Army in November, 1945
after serving since April, 1943, much
of the time in Europe.
"We intended to build a tWo-cal
garage first and then a house next
to it." Mr.. Hogan recalled. But
when ! saw the war clouds gath
ering, my wife and I decided tt
convert the garage into temporary
home until we found out what would
happen. My wife drew up the plans.
He said he would like to build 6
larger home, but prices of material.
are too high and he doubted whether
he could even obtain any, despite
veterans priorities.
Roomy and Well Furnished.
Despite its small size-20 by 2:
feet-2the cottage gives an impres.
sion Of roominess and Is we'll fur.
nished. 1t has a kitchen, 10 by 8: {
19-by-12 living room and 6la-by.
10la bedroom. There is one closet
an unfinished attic and plenty Of
windows. There is insulation in tht
walls and roof.
Heat is provided by coal stove ir
the winter and an electric heater ir
the spring and autumn.
Reconversion of the cottage into 8
garage would be simple matter
according to Mr.. Hogan.
"All we would have to do. 3" he
explained, would be to rip out the
partitions separating the rooms, one
wall and the flooring, since the con.
crete floor is already there"
Mr.. Hogan said he and his wife
plan to "sit tight" until materials
become available and the prices &C
down.
Evening star., 1946-08-13
Two-WayRadio
And Dial Phones
Installed al Jail
Communications
Renovated ALONG
Lines Urged by FBI

A 100-line interior dial tele-
phone system and extended two
way radio facilities are now be-
ing installed at the District Jail,
1t was disclosed today, in a Sc
ries of moves to renovate a COM
munications system branded
obsolete and inadequate" last
June by the Federal Bureau of
Investigation.
The new telephone system, ac-
cording to report from Supt. of
Fire Alarms Herbert A. Friede, will
enable guards to communicate di-
rectly and privately with the cap
tain's Office.
The system is designed to provide
continuous testing on all lines, Mr.
Friede said, thereby giving notice
of sabotage or trouble. 1t will tie
all guard stations, towers and other
important Jail posts into a network
which will provide the maximum
measure of safety" he added.
The installation also will be geared
to provide emergency conference
service on approximately six key
stations in case of trouble.
Vans to Be Equipped.
Under the radio extension pro-
gram, communication will be pos
sible between guard towers and, If
necessary, between the reformatory
at Lorton, Va, and the Jail in emer-
gencies
Prison vans and all mobile units
operating between Lorton. the Jail
and the courts ultimately will be
radio-equipped.
In this connection, Mr.. Friede
said the Metropolitan Police radio
station is monitoring the frequencies
used and will be kept fully informed
at all times as to conditions at the
Jail. Thus, in case of emergency, he
indicated. immediate assistance can
be provided.
FBI investigators made a detailed
study of the city Jail following the
escapes of Earl Mcfarland and
Joseph Medley from the death house
last April
Criticisms of the communication
system in their report included the
ability of prisoners to overhear
guards reporting. They recon-
mended complete modernization
The new installations have been
approved by the Department of Cor
rections which now controls the
city's adult penal institutions.
A brief outline of the improve.
ments was disclosed last Sunday In
report to the Federal Bureau OF
Prisons by Federal Warden J. Ellis
Overlade, who is now concluding q
reorganization of District penal ad.
ministration on temporary loar
from the Federal Penitentiary al
Terre Haute, Ind.
Mr. Friede also disclosed that the
mty electrical department Is max
ing an engineering study of the
feasibility and cost of a private am
pl1fcation system including pane
boards and receivers for the Jail
This would be designed to provide
prisoners at least two local radio
programs or could be used by Jai
superintendent Curtis Reid ps q
public address, system if necessary
Need for a public address system
was included In the FBI recon
nendations.
Evening star., 1946-08-13
CorrolI Sets Dute for Fair

FREDERICK, Md. Aug. 13 (P.-
The Carroll County Agriculture and
Fair Association has announced
that It's 46th annual fair will be
held September 24-28 One of the
feature attractions will be a horse
show on the last day.
Evening star., 1946-08-13

4 l V e q a I [ n e
S a m e address,
" a S sh OF t O
death at Catlett,
Va, last week as
he S t oppe e d a
m a n on t h e
tracks for ques-
tioning. A sus-
pect has been
C h a r g e d with
Mr.. Woodson S
murder.
Father Fatally
Hurt in Missouri.
T h e youths
father. DR.. HO-
IL ll
Evening star., 1946-08-13
Junior UNO Honors Tuck

RICHMOND, Va. Aug. 13 (P.-
Gov. Tuck yesterday received cer-
tiflcate making him an honorary
charter member of the Junior
United Nations Organization,
founded in Williamsburg this year
to promote the ideals of the official
United Nations in schools through
out the world.
Evening star., 1946-12-17
Army 1ightens Check
On Commissary Sales

A more careful check is being
made on purchases of food and per-
|sonal items by servicemen and thei,
dependents at Army post exchanges
and commissaries in the Washington
area following reports Of widespread
resale of scarce items to civilians
the Military District Of Washington
said today.
Capt. John Oppenhimer, MDW
public relations officer, said there
has been no case of actual profit
eering for personal gain"
There have been cases, however
rof wives buying items scarce on the
civilian market and distributing
them to neighbors," he said.
There also have been cases where
discharged personnel have retained
commissary cards for use after thei1
return to civilian life, Capt. Open
himer said.
To prevent such practices, new
cards are issued every three months
with the color changed so that old
cards can be easily spotted.
Capt. Oppenhimer pointed out
that a person convicted of resale OF
Army goods faces a fine of $4,000
and a six-month Jail sentence, with
similar penalty for "those who
urge personnel to get the items"
Evening star., 1946-12-17
Printers Withdraw Charges
AGAINST 20 D. {. Shops

Complaints charging 20 member
firms of the Washington Graphic
Arts Association with unfair labor
practices were withdrawn today, the
Baltimore region Office of the Ma
tional Labor Relations Board said.
The Withdrawals, officials said,
were requested by Samuel Levine,
Washington attorney representing
Columbia Typographical Union,
Local 101, for which they were filed
q week ago.
The complaint charged the firms
with refusing to bargain with the
local on a contract proposing to in
crease basic wages of District COM
mercial shop printers from $1.529
to So an hour.
At meeting Sunday the Colum-
bia local directed that the COM
plants be withdrawn after having
been notified by the Executive
Council of the International Typo
graphical Union that Jesse B. Man.
beck, local president, would be sus-
pended unless the Withdrawals were
requested before December 18. At
the same meeting, the local ap-
proved under protest new COM
mercial printers contract increas-
ing base wages to $1.87 an hour, as
recommended by the ITU.
Evening star., 1946-12-17
Penal Head BIames
| Parents for Actions
|!0f Young Criminals

The ruthlessriess of young Grim.
inals was attributed to the war anc
breakdown of parental control, ir
a speech yesterday by Donald Glenn
mer, director of District penal in
stitutions.
Mr.. Clemmer spoke at a luncheon
meeting of the Bureau of Rehabili-
tation at the Young Women's Chris
tian Association, Seventeenth ano
z streets NV.
He said child criminals are harder
to handle than adults. Its one
thing to hold up a man for his
money and another thing to ruth.
lessly beat him up when you don''
have to-" he declared.
He attributed juvenile crime te
past war conditions; the urge tt
have good time; the high cost O.
entertainment; the breakdown o.
parental restraints and the inedec.
tiveness of religious training.
j A trade training program
scheduled to start in District pena
institutions next month was de
scribed by Mr.. Clemmer. Person
now employed in the various work
ing units at the institutions win b
used as teachers,
Joseph e. Dayton, director Of tn
Bureau of Rehabilitation, reportet
on the progress Of the agency. III
said friendly counsel and kindness
have helped many persons aftel
they have been released from prison
G. Rowland Shaw presided at ths
meeting.
Evening star., 1946-12-17
Right Wing Opens Move to Bol
Reds From CIO Area Council

lumbia Council. Local SO Of the
Industrial Union Of Marine and
Shipbuilding Workers and local 327
of the United Retail, Wholesale and
Department Store Workers followed
suit.
Discussing a possible re-unifyine
move, Mr.. Dundon said:
T think, personally, that it is i'm
perative, but shall not retract
from the stand I took at the 1914
convention regarding any left wing
influence in the leadership of the
organization"
Withdrawal of the right wing
ers" at the 1874 convention followed
the reelection Of Sidney r. Katz
as secretary-treasurer Of the coun-
ell. Mr.. Dundon's textile workers
the marine and shipbuilding work
ers, and the store workers support
ed an opposing candidate.
Mr.. Katz resigned and left Balti-
more more than . year ago.
Evening star., 1946-12-17
Wright Flight Anniversary
Marked by Lectures Today

DR.. Theodore Won Karman
director of the Guggenheim lab
oratory at California Institute OF
Technology, was to deliver the 10th
annual Wright brothers lecture on
the subject Of supersonic aerody-
namics at 8 pm. today In the
United States Chamber of Com
merce Auditorium.
The meeting, endowed by the Ver-
non Lynch fund, commentaries the
43rd anniversary of the first sue
cessful airplane flights by Orville
and Wilbur Wright at Kittyhawk,
N. G.
Other speakers include DR.. Hugh
L. Dryden, associate director, Ma
tional Bureau of Standards; Francis
H. Clauser. chairman of the aero
nautics department, Johns Hopkins
University; Capt. Walter S. Diehl,
engineering division, Navy Bureau
of Aeronautics; F. w. Geiger, head
of the theoretical aerodynamics
branch, Cornell Aeronautical Lab
oratory; Col. Paul H. Kemmer, chief
Of engineering plans at Wright
Field, and John Stack. chief of
supersonic research, National Ad-
visory Committee for Aeronautics.
Evening star., 1946-12-17
Montgomery Decides
AGAINST Davis Search

Detective Capt. Theodore F. Voll-
ten of the Montgomery County
police said today that there are nc
new developments at all" in the
search for the slayer of Mrs. Frances
McAllister, 29-year-old brunette
found slain with a hammer a-.week
ago at house near Burtonsville
Md.
He added the county decided not
to send any members of the police
force to join the search for the sus-
pected murderer in Tennessee.
Montgomery County's new police
chief, Charles M. Orme; States At
torney Joseph B. Simpson, jr, an6
detectives conferred on the case fol
two hours yesterday.
Meanwhile, in Tennessee, FB1
investigators and State police con-
tinued to seek Bruce Davis, 31-year-
old employe at the Engineering &
Research Corp, at Riverdale, Md.
where the slain woman also worked
Davis, who originally came from
Edison, Tenn, has been charged in
a warrant sworn out by Montgomery
County Police, with the murder of
Mrs. McAlliSter.
Both Davis and his father have
been missing since the discovery
of an automobile belonging to the
slain woman on the fathers farm
near Edison.
Evening star., 1946-12-17
chiIIum Heights Delegate
To Meet With Manor Park

Leverett Meadows, president of
the Manor Park Citizens Association
last night urged members of the
Chillum Heights Association to unite
with his group in matters of gen.
eral interest in the combined area.
He pointed out many other asso-
Citations had formed councils, and
each group delegated a representa-
tive to attend various other meetings.
A delegate was appointed to at
tend the next meeting of the Manor
Park group when the. youth problem
will be discussed.
A resolution asking that the play
ground in Fort Slocum Park be
moved to a more accessible spot in
the park was passed by the associa-
ton. The location of the playground
now constitutes a hazard to children
crossing Kansas avenue it was said,
The meeting was conducted by
Theodore H. Naylor, president, in
the Luther Rice Memorial Baptist
Church, 5314 North Capitol street.
Evening star., 1946-12-17
Driver Freed on Charge
OF AssuuItinq Policemen

Vince Brown, 35, colored, of the
2100 block Of First street NV,
yesterday afternoon was acquitted
by District Court jury Of charges
of assault on a member Of the police
force and assault with intent to kill
Policeman Walter B. Sanderson.
Mr.. Brown had been accused of
driving so close to parked automo-
bile as to cause the officer to be
swept from the running board OF
the defendants car.
Officer Sanderson, attached to
police headquarters, had attempted
to question a motorist, following an
accident it was said. There was
doubt, however, that Brown was
the man, according to testimony.
Justice David A. Pine presided at
Browns trial.
Evening star., 1946-12-17
BY the Associated Press

sBALTIMORE, Dec. TIA re-
gional director of the CIO Textile
workers Union today reported 9
movement among so-called right
wing groups to return to the Mary
land-District Of Columbia Indus
trial Union Council and reorganize
it to the exclusion Of Communist
influence.
at is apparent, after summarize
ing proposed State legislation, par
tic,llarly that pertaining to u1l-
employment insurance and State
compensation, that all CIO unions
in the State should become united
again. said James A. Dundon. He
is regional director for Maryland
and West Virginia Of the Textile
Workers Union.
Mr.. Dundon, at the 1914 State
convention in Cumberland, led his
textile workers In a withdrawal
from the Maryland District Of Co
Evening star., 1946-12-17
Meyer Will Leave Office
In World Bank Tomorrow

/ Speculation over a new president
of the International Bank for Re-
construction Development increased
in financial circles today as Eugene
Meyer, the first president, prepared
to leave Office tomorrow. Mr.. Meyer
resigned recently after devoting six
months to completing the organiza-
ton Of the bank.
The executive directors of the
World Bank approved the appoint
ment Of Graham F. Towers, governor
of the Bank of Canada, as Mr..
Meyers successor, but Mr.. Towers
last week refused to consider the
post. M
Evening star., 1946-12-17
Clainos Trial Hears Sister
Tell Of Threat 10 Victim

Trial Of George A. Clainos, 20, of
the HOO block of Fourteenth street
NV, on charges of violating the
Mann Act, pandering and assault,
continued today in District Court
with Mrs. Edna Lee, Ashevilfe, N. C.
testifying.
She was described as the youngest
sister of Mrs. Heddy Marie Croxton.
the alleged victim of Clainos. The
Government specifically accuses him
OF bringing Mrs. Croxton here for
immoral purposes.
Mrs Lee told the jury Clainos
threatened to "hurt' her 27-year-old
sister If she did not return with
him from Asheville to Washington.
Mrs. Lee also told the court that
Mrs. Croxton told Clainos "she
didn't want to go to Washington
to work any more"