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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-03-10

her arms loaded with groceries
when her son darted ahead of her
and was struck by the bumper OF
the truck. She said he managed
to hang on to the bumper and was
dragged by the vehicle.
Boys Condition Fair.
DR.. Herman F. Slate, who treated
the boy at Alexandria Hospital, said
he suffered a fractured arm, several
fractured ribs and possible internal
injuries. He said the boys condi-
ton was fair"
Police listed the driver of the truck
as John S. Thomas, 40, colored
Bradock road and Quaker lane
Alexandria, who is employed as g
utility man at Episcopal High
School, Alexandria. He was helc
under $500 bond pending outcome
of the boys injuries.
Mr.. and Mrs. Smith live at 341:
Halcyon drive, Alexandria. TIL,
youth is second grade student al
George Mason Elementary School
Alexandria.
Car Strikes Tree.
Three Virginia youths were Sc.
riously injured yesterday when theil
car went out of control and STRUCK
tree on route $50, half a mile
north of Merrifield, Fairfax County
police reported.
Police listed the driver of the cal
as Carl r. Weathers, %, Fall.
Church, who suffered decorations tx
the face and a fractured jaw. 9th.
ers injured were Ernest E. McCau.
ley, II, Falls Church, decorations Of
the leg and scalp, chest injuries ane
possibly fractured skull, and Don.
aid j. Tiff, II. Dunn Loring, face
cuts and fractured ankle, police
said. All three were treated at the
Arlington Hospital.
Marvin E. Peterson, 8, of 663:
Rhode Island avenue, Riverdale, Md.
received broken right thigh anc
face cuts when struck by an auto.
mobile on the Baltimore boulevard
Riverdale, last night, Hyattsville DO.
lice reported. The boy was taker
to Leland Memorial Hospital where
hospital officials described his con-
dition as good.
Driver of the car was Walter N
Grabner, Toledo, Ohio, who was dis.
charged from the Army yesterday
as sergeant, according to police
Hyattsville police said no charges
were made against him.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-03-10
Revenue BureouHoIIs Thronged
|As Incon1e Tax DeodIine Neors

Throngs of District residents, bent
on paying their income tax INSTALL
ments before the Friday midnight
deadline or in search of advice on
filling out tax forms, damned corri-
doris in the Internal Revenue Bu-
Ireau office here yesterday as the last
week for penalty-free payments got
under way.
Tax payers who subscribed to the
Ipay-as-you-go withholding system
were thanking their lucky stars that
the weekly subtractions from their
pay envelopes already had met the
levy in full or, as in some cases,
more than met tax obligations.
Many people planned to spend
today-their last free period for
computing, deducting, and general
head-scratching - struggling with
their returns.
A Parks Rasin, agent in charge
at the local revenue Office, Twelfth
street and Constitution avenue NV,
said taxpayers can receive expert
advice on making out their returns
there between $3.50 am. and S pm.
daily except Friday. the last day,
He said the doors will remain open
to midnight for payments on the
deadline day.
Difficulty With W..
The greatest single difficulty in
come tax payers are running into
this year, revenue officials say, is in
how properly to fill out all Informal
ton required on withholding tax re-
ceipt, Wa. This little slip of paper,
furnished by an employer to an en-
ploye, gives the total amount of
wages or salary paid and the
amount of taxes withheld during
the year 1945. This slip may be
used as an income tax return.
But it must be filled out properly,
something that many taxpayers are
failing to do, officials say. AS a
consequence hundreds of these forms
are being mailed back to the tax
payer to be corrected.
The trouble with most W. slips
which have to be returned is that
the taxpayer has failed to fill in re-
quired information on the back.
This includes the names of depend
ents or the fact there are no de-
pendents. Without such informa-
ton. the Collector of Internal Rev.
enue cannot compute the amount
of tax due. The W. is the simplest
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-03-10
Two Officers Save Girl
From Highway Bridge Lean

. An 18-year-old girl was saved
from a suicide. leap off Highway
Bridge yesterday afternoon by two
Army officers, police reported.
The officers, Col. S. I. Weld of the
Army War College and 1t. Col
M. F. Radcliffe, 1912 S. Thomas
street, Arlington, Va, noticed the
young woman on the sidewalk guard
rail while crossing the bridge in
their cars. The officers immedi-
ately stopped, leaped out of their
automobiles and reached her at
about the same time, police said
According to police, the girl said
she had learned her boy friend was
married and had decided to lend
it all" The girl was taken to the
Women's Bureau.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-03-10
Truman Explains
Why Agencies
Haven t Moved
= Declares Program
To Clear Apartments
Is Stalled in Congress

President Humans answer on the
slowneSs of Government agencies
getting out of Washington apart
ment houses is that "the admins
tration program has been stalled
In Congress for such long time
that it has been impossible to carry
out the plan as first scheduled"
The President was replying to a
letter of Chairman Mcmillan OF
the House District Committee. Mr.
Truman's letter was released YES
terday.
Mr.. Mcmillan had asked for White
House aid in relieving Washington S
housing shortage by freeing apart
ment buildings occupied by Gov
eminent agencies for residential
use.
Agencies Being Returned.
Voicing his personal interest In
the housing problem, the President
said he was sure all possible CO.
operation would be extended the
District Committee chairman by
Wilson Wyatt, the housing expe-
otter.
In his letter Mr.. Truman reminded
Congress that the Federal agencies
moved out of Washington during the
war now are being returned.
The Presidents letter, dated
March 4, said:
Replying to your letter of the
hrst, we are having just as much
difficulty with Office space for the
Government Agencies now as we
ever had during the wartime. A
great many of the departments are
being returned to Washington and
the rehabilitation of others has
been much slower than was at first
anticipated. Some of those we have
demobilized have had to be recon-
stltuted, as is particularly true with
regard to the Price Control program.
Program Is Stalled.
Il started out with the intention
OF demobilizing these agencies Just
as fast as it could possibly be done,
put the administration program has
been stalled in Congress for such a
long time that it has been impossible
to carry out the plan as first sched-
uled. I regret this very much.
Naturally, I am more than in
terested In the housing program. AS
you know, I have appointed a spe-
clal housing expediter to accom-
plish the very things in which YOU
are interested and I am sure he
will give you all the cooperation
possible"
Mr. Mcmillan said that a sur
vey of the situation was being made
by an official of the Public Build
1ngs Administration. He said he
hoped it would result in moving at
least some of the Government
agencies out of residential build
lngs. He said he still chung to the
belief it would be possible to move
some of such agencies into tenn
porary buildings or into quarters
In the mammoth Pentagon.
He said he planned no further
steps in his campaign until the
survey report is submitted by the
PBA,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-03-10
Red Cross Solicitors
To Hear Reports on
Campaign Tomorrow

Volunteer solicitors Of the Wash
ington Metropolitan area Red Cross
campaign will hear reports from all
drive branches except the Govern
ment Unit at 1890 pm. tomorrow
in the United States Chamber OF
Commerce Building.
About 80 per cent of the 81 ,573, 40O
District quota remains to be pledged
in the campaign, now in its second
week.
John L. Dismukes, a Red Cross
field director who was wounded
twice in the European theater of
operations, will be guest speaker at
tomorrow's meeting.
Tuesday will be Navy Day" for
the Government Unit, which will
make reports at 1890 pm. at the
Chamber of Commerce Building
Secretary of the Navy Forrestal is
chairman of the Government Unit
At 4:30 pm. Tuesday, Red Cross
officials will pause in the campaign
effort to honor Jane A. Delano, first
superintendent of the Army Nurse
Corps and organizer of the Ameri-
can Red Cross nursing services, and
the Army and Navy nurses who gave
their lives in World War II.
Surg. Gems Norman T. Kirk of
the Army, Surg. Gen. Ross T. Nc
Intire of the Navy, Helen Hayes,
actress, who assisted in wartime
nurse recruiting, and Marine Sergt.
AL Schmid, who was blinded at
Guadalcanal after his machine gun
had killed 200 Japanese, will par
ticipate in memorial services at the
Delano monument in the Red Cross
national headquarters building.
Mrs. August Belmont, a Red Cross
volunteer worker since 1917, will
preside, and the Navy Band Or
chestra will play.
A domestic peacetime activity of
the District Red Cross Chapter
which shares in the current fund
drive, will be spotlighted at 1870
pm. tomorrow when a new series
OF free Classes for mothers and ex-
pectant mothers begins in Walsh
House, 2020 Massachusetts, avenue
NV. Miss Ellen Arid of the ma
tional Red Cross nursing class will
teach the course of six two-hour
lessons on care of infants, and
growing children on Monday
Wednesday and Friday afternoons.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-03-10
House Plans HEARINGS
On North American
Subsidiaries Sale

Chairman Mcmillan of the House
District Committee announced yes.
terday he would schedule public
hearings this week on legislation de.
signed to permit dissolution of tn.
Washington Railway & Electric Co
and separation of local utilities from
the North American Co.
He has introduced a bill to amend
the District code and the La Fol.
lette "antimerger" law to this ex.
tent, in response to suggestions con.
tanned In an interim opinion of the
Securities and Exchange Commits.
sion.
Witnesses to be called, he said
would include A. G. Neal, president
OF the Potomac Electric Power Co.:
r. Ray Dunn, also a Pepco official
and James H. Flanagan, chairman
OF the District Public Utilities Com
mission.
Ordered to Sell Interests.
The North American Co., a giant
holding concern, and its local SUBJ
salaries, 1t developed at hearings
before the SEC, found themselves
In dilemma when the Federal az.
ency several years ago directed the
company to divest itself of some OF
its more distant relations. under the
authority of the Holding Company
Act.
Plans for untangling the many
million dollars of intertwined in
terests, to comply with SEC orders,
1t was explained, could not be car
ried out even with SEC and PUG
approval unless Congress approved
necessary exceptions to provisions
Of the District statutes.
La Toilette Law Provisions,
Among other things, the La Fol-
lette "antimerger" law forbids the
payment of stock dividends and the
use of corporate funds to purchase
the stock of another corporation.
1t also forbids a holding company
except as authorized by Congress,
to own the stock of such companies
as Pepco and the transit company.
Unoer the proposed reorganiza-
ton plan, North American would
divest itself of its interests in Wreco,
which owns Pepco and has a half
interest in the Capital Transit Co.;
Pepco would succeed its parent,
Wreco, through an exchange of
stock; and Wreco and two of its
subsidiaries, the Washington &
Rockville Railway Co., of Montgom-
cry County, holding company, and
the Great Falls Power Co., would
be dissolved. In addition, Pepco
would acquire Wreco,s interest in
the Braddock Light & Power Co.,
which serves nearby Virginia.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-03-10
Flyers Down on Borneo Baked
At Rescue by Sub, Skipper Says
Two Of BIS Crew
Thought Hills Were
Safer; Stayed Behind

The paradox Of handful O
downed naval flyers refusing t,
leave the desolate Borneo coast in {
submarine because it was too dan.
gerous' was recounted yesterday b,
Comdr. David B. Bell, USN, now
visiting his parents, DR.. and Mrs
William B. Bell, at their home, 80:
Rittenhouse street NV.
The 32-year-old submarine skip.
per laughed as he told the story.
This BIS crew had been banging
at the Japs right along until they
! were shot down. When we tried to
pick them up, they said No dice,
they were scared Of subs. Finally
after being persuaded a sub wasn't
too dangerous, five got aboard, but
two wouldn't think of it. They
wanted to know if there was any
other way to get off the island. ]
said no. AS far as I know, they're
still in the hills of Borneo, those
two"
With a good part of his crew older
than he was, the young commander
often found himself acting as a
father confessor. The main prob
lem worrying his men, he said, was
the possibility their girls and wives
we're running around with the boys
at home.
81 told them not to worry, every-
thing would be okay, and most of
them went back to their work with
clear minds" Comdr. Bell said.
One of the crews gravest prob
lens was Peter the Rat" He
scampered up a hawser and disap-
peared into the depths of the vessel
as 1t lay moored to a pier one day,
The men set traps, plugged in cleo
trio plates, in fact did everything to
catch or kill the marauder.
They realized the hopelessness OF
the situation and decided they could
only beat it by making pet of the
rat. So they put out cheese. The
rat came and ate. friendships be-
tween the men and Pete" were
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-03-10
Navy Yard Workers
GET Pay Raise Pledge

The United Federal Workers of
America, CLIO, said last night that
Acting Secretary of Navy Sullivan
had promised that per diem work
ers in Navy yards and other pro-
duction ablishments operated by
the Navy Department would re-
ceive wage increases before the
end of March"
The UFWA announcement came
after a conference today between
union officials and Mr.. Sullivan on
the question of pay increases. Ship
yard workers have demanded Is
cents an hour wage boosts.
While the union said that Mr.
Sullivan did not commit himself
on the amount of the wage increase,
it reported that the increases will
be based on the 10 cents an hour
increases approved by the Govern
ment for workers in private in
dustry.
Per diem Federal employees have
their salaries fixed by wage boards.
They do not come under the juris-
diction of any pay bills passed by
Congress for classified Government
workers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-03-10
Girl, I, Leads Police
To Gambling Arrest

A 7-year-old colored girl yesterday
led police to the room in a building
in the HOO block of Sixth street
NV, where they arrested Tom
Foster, SO, colored, 900 block of N
stHeet NV, on charges of operating
a lottery and possessing numbers
SLIPS.
Detective Sergts. Howard Ogle and
Paul H. Clarke said they trailed
Foster to the entrance of the room
ing house and asked the child stand
ing there if she had seen the man.
"Oh, you mean Mr.. Radio? He's
up getting some numbers from nv
mama" the detectives said the girl
told them. She conducted them to
a second-1oor room, where they
found Foster. He was released in
$500 bond pending arraignment
Monday.
Arrested in a pool room in the
1900 block of Good Hope road Sc,
on gambling charges was Keith H.
! Greene, 30, of the 1900 block of
Shannon place Sc. He was re-
leased after posting $4,000 bond for
hearing tomorrow on charges of op-
Grating lottery, possession of num-
bers slips and setting up a gaming
table.
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Wafer Front Project
TO Be Resumed With
Building Of Pier 4

Improvement Of the Washington
Channel water front along Maine
avenue S.W. will be resumed shortly
after more than four years during
which the war blocked the work.
1t was learned yesterday that the
United States Engineer Office for
Washington soon will ask bids on
the construction of pier No. of the
water front project. The pier, which
will be just upstream of pier No. S
will be rs feet wide and $40 feet
long and will include Colonial style
offices, storehouses and comfort sta
tionS.
1t will be of durable construction
la timber platform on timber piles
with Stag fill, and a concrete tor
and concrete retaining walls.
In addition, it was learned the
Engineer Office, which completed
two yacht basins beside pier No. S be-
fore the United States entered the
war, is completing plans for yacht
basin No. 8, which will be con.
structed Immediately downstream
from basin No. 2; piers 3, 2 and
and a special basin for the use Of
the Coast Guard.
There still remain five years OF
work before the waterfront is COM
lpleted. Originally an eight-year
project. it required three years to
complete the two yacht basins and
one pier already constructed.
The project was undertaken in
1889 after the Board of Trade and
lother civil groups fought to have
the tumbledown wharves removed
Completion of Pier S, last project
completed before the war, came just
two days before Pearl Harbor.
The coming year will see construc-
ton of the pier and clearing and
dredging of the site for Yaoht Basin
| No. 8,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-03-10

sealed, and he made himself at home
in the torpedo room. When depth
charges threatened the sub, he'd run
around the room as If to assure the
men all was well.
But poor Pete never saw VIC
tor" Comdr. Bell remarked. Zone
day he started to go to sleep next
to two live wires. He rolled over
Poor Pete"
Comdr. Bell was in the submarine
service during the entire war and
was at Pearl Harbor on December
7, 194l. His role in the destruction
of more than 100000 tons of enemy
shipping won for him the Navy
Cross, Cold Star in lieu of second
Navy Cross, the Silver Star. Gold
Star in lieu of a second Silver Star
the Navy and Marine Corps Medal
and letter of commentator with
ribbon.
Gomdr. Bell will leave tomorrow
for New London, Conn, to assume
command of new submarine. He
is a graduate of Central High School
and attended George Washington
University.
He was graduated from the Naval
Academy in 1887.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-03-10
Inferior Department
Approves Wafer Bill,
With Two Exceptions

Provided two amendments are
adopted to protect parks and other
public lands against possible en-
croachments," the McCarran bill to
create centralized administration
for the Districts water supply and
distribution systems will be salts
factory to the Interior Department
A report to this effect, filed re-
Gently with the Senate District
Committee by Oscar L. Chapman,
then Acting Secretary of the In
terror, was released yesterday as
the voluminous file on investiga-
tions of the Water Department was
readied for possible early hearings.
Would Ban Free Water to U. S.
One of the detectives of the bill,
introduced by Senator McCarran,
Democrat of Nevada, a member and
former chairman of the District
Committee, is to stop the furnish
ing of free water to Federal agen-
cies. 1t would permit free service
only to churches and charitable in
situations. Present costs to the Dis
trict of giving water free to Federal
buildings have been estimated to
be nearly 100000 year.
Mr.. Chapman wrote Chairman
Bilbo of the District Committee that
the bill should be amended to pro-
vide that whenever the proposed
new Water Administration seeks
jurisdiction from another agency
over public property needed for use
for the water system that such per-
mission should be given only with
the approval of the National Capt.
tai Park and Planning Commission
A second proposed amendment
would require that where public
lands were to be involved in ex-
tensions or operations of the water
services the Water Administration
would have to obtain the permits
sion of the agency having juris-
diction over the area. Also it would
be required to restore the property
to proper condition when the work
was done.
Opposes Preferential Authority.
mo one agency, in my judgment"
Mr.. Chapman said, should have
preferential right to enter and oc-
cupy, virtually at will, any and all
of these public lands. Such prefer
entail authority is out of harmony
with the policy of overall planning
for the development of the national
capital"
Still awaited is a proposed bill
being prepared by the District Com
missioners to give legislative effect
to many provisions of the McCar-
ran bill which the city heads be-
lieve desirable, but excluding others
to which they voiced objection in a
recent report.
The whole subject has been re-
ferred by Chairman Bilbo, for study
and possible action after public
hearings, to a subcommittee headed
by Senator Johnston, Democrat of
South Carolina.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-03-10
Snyder Will Address
D. G. Purchasing AGENTS

Reconversion Director John W.
Snyder will be guest speaker at the
annual dinner of the Purchasing
Agents Association of Washington
at Z pm. Tuesday at the Mayflower
Hotel.
Other speakers will include
Charles L. Sheldon, president OF
the National Association of Pur-
chasing Agents, and Assistant En-
gineer Commissioner Col. Joseph D.
Arthur, jr.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-03-10
Teen-Age Book Show
To Be Held at Library

A teen-age book show under the
sponsorship of the District Public
Library in cooperation with Dis
trict schools, will be held in the
library's Petworth Branch, Georgia
avenue and Upshur street NV,
from April Is to 20.
The book show, designed to en-
courage reading among young
people, consists of a moving picture
and an exhibit of posters and books.
These also will be shown in Dis
trict schools.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-03-10
Dallas Engineer
May Be Named
DC. TrafficChiei
Former oDT Official
Was Here Recently
To Discuss Position

A Dallas (Tex.) traffic engineer is
believed to be the leading candi-
date for the post of District di-
rector Of vehicles and traffic.
William c. Brandes, head of the
traffic department at Dallas, first
was considered for the job of as
sistant director of traffic due to be-
come vacant this summer with re-
tirement of M. o. Eldridge, District
building sources said. The death
of william A. Van Duzer on Feb
ruary %, however, created a va
cancy in the top job and District
officials were said to have discussed
with Mr.. Brandes the possibility of
his accepting the post.
The Texan was in Washington a
few days ago talking with District
officials but was said to have re-
turned home.
Served in ODT Here.
Mr.. .Brandes was in Washington
during the war years as an official
of the Office Of Defense Transpor-
tation. He formerly was assistant
traffic director of Chicago and one
city official described him as zone
of the outstanding traffic engineers
of the country" =.
While the Commissioners have
made no decision among the several
candidates for the Sits position,
they are believed to have been i'm
pressed with Mr.. Brandes' back
ground.
The new traffic director will have
the job of launching the $555 900
postwar Swear traffic control pro-
gram approved by the Commission
ers last fall. 1t involves placing of
eight traffic lights on intersections
where there now are only four, a
central control system for the lights,
and a big increase in pedestrian
lane markers, parking meters and
pedestrian barricadeS.
Eldridge Past Retirement Age.
Mr.. Eldridge, who was 10 July 8.
1943, has been continuing on in his
job as assistant by virtue of extern
sions granted by the Commissioners
as result of the difficulties in OBJ
tanning qualified replacement. BY
law, 10 is the age of compulsory
retirement.
Meanwhile, it was learned that
Clifford Lanham, Superintendent of
trees and parking. who is due to
reach compulsory retirement age the
end of this month, may be con-
tinued in his job because suitable
replacement has not been found
Highway Director H. C. Whitehurst,
1t was learned, has asked the Com
missioners to extend Mr.. Lanhams
tenure indefinitely.