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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-09-27

Billings GaZette) when he DlaSt-
ed the proposed Missouri Valley
Authority as "communistic".
Either Mr.. Ecton is completely
bereft of knowledge regarding
the MVA; he is following the
dictate of the COP national COM
mittee to label anything with
which he does not agree as being
"communistic" or = likely = in
view of his voting record" as
member of the state legisla-
ture, he is continuing to show
his subservience to the interests
of the absentee-owned Montana
Power Company.
In attempting to analyze the
worth of such political prattle
Manfono xnfn1c ohn111d rafIOnt q
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-09-27
IMPORTANCE OF SOIL CONSERVATION

By DR.. HUGH H. BENNETT
Chief US.DA. Soil Conservation Service
Few indeed those who today will disagree that
soil conservation is major driving force for perm
prosperous American world agriculture.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-09-27
SHACK SWEEPINCS

Last week republican senatorial nominee Zaes Ecton
made the headlines of the states daily includ
ing two column, page 1 spread in the ACMowned
Evening star., 1946-04-19
War Assets 10 Offer
$500 Vehicles at Sale

Trucks, buses, scout cars, tractors
and trailerS will be offered for sale
next week by the War Assets Ad-
ministration at Fort Belvoir, Balti-
more and Camp Pickett, Va, it was
announced today.
No passenger cars or station
wagons are included, however, in
the total of $500 vehicles which
will be sold.
Federal agencies, State, county
and local government and tax-sup-
ported groups and qualified veterans
will have an opportunity to exer-
else their respective priorities in ad-
vance of dealer purchases at sales
opening April % at Fort Belvoir
and Camp Pickett.
More than 370 vehicles, including
dump trucks, carryalls, pickups
stakes, cargoes and panels are Of
fered at Fort Belvoir and over 1870
12-ton cargoes, tractors, ambu-
lances and pickups at Camp Pickett
The dates of sale at Fort Belvoir
are: Federal agencies, April % and
%; State, county, local governments
and tax-supported groups, April "a,
r25 and 26; veterans, April % and 30,
and dealers, May l and 2, with q
spot sale on May 3.
Evening star., 1946-04-19
Day Nursery Propose
OF Mothers Rejected
IBy Commissioners

The Commissioners today refused
to take action on plan to permit
operation of 20 child day care GEN.
tiers until July l nt corporation
of mothers whose children would use
the centers.
They said they could not approve
the proposal until the corporation
provides a specific agency satisfac-
tory to the Community War Fund
which is largely financing the
temporary project, to establish fees
for admission, and in the event
the demand exceeds accommoda-
tionS, to screen the applicants on
the basis of need.
They also insisted that funds tx
tide the project over until July
be advanced in full rather than
piecemeal on a weekly or monthly
basis, explaining that the District
must contract for certain supplies
and could not legally do so beyond
money in hand
The day care centers were op-
Grated by the Board of Education
with Federal funds until February
%. Since then, mothers of children
using the centers have sought tc
have the centers re-established un-
der some agency and founded the
corporation backed by Community
War Funds on suggestion of the
Commissioners.
1t is expected the details with
respect to fee-f1Xing and screening
will be worked out within the next
few days, but according to Corpora
ton Counsel Vernon E. West, the
Community War Fund has been un-
willing to advance it's entire guaran-
tee
The Board of Education recently
approved for use by the mothers, IA
school buildings in which centers
have previously been conducted with
the Federal funds. Approval by the
Commissioners is the final step in
getting the nurseries back into
operation.
Evening star., 1946-04-19
PIonner Nichols Urges D. G.
To Look Beyond Rigid Borders

Jesse c. Nichols, nationally known
Kansas City real estate developer
and city planner who has devoted
20 years to planning a better Capt.
tai as volunteer member of the
National Capital Park and Planning
Commission, last night told Wash
ingtonians a thing or two about
what they ought to do to make the
city better place in which to live
The occasion was dinner in his
honor given last night by Maj. Gen
U. S. Grant Sd, planning commission
chairman, at the Raleigh Hotel. Mr.
Nichols is the only original member
Of the commission, created by act OF
Congress April 80, 1926, who is still
serving.
Washington should, he said:
/. Think of itself as city cover
ing an area within a 25-mile radius
of the Capitol, not just the District
proper.
2. Every time it makes a plan, ask
itself, Can you make it pay?"
Urges Fight for Roads.
g. Fight to get built the Fort drive
the George Washington Memorial
Parkway, the Alexandria Shepherds
Landing Bridge and the Baltimore
Washington Parkway The Fort
drive, he said, would do more tc
help the traffic situation than any
other project"
T. Reduce it's lop-sidedness by put
ting future Federal buildings south
of the Mall and along East Capitol
street.
5. Try to improve its water front
especially the upper reaches of the
Anacostia River, which he said could
become a "veritable Venice"
6. Save downtown property values
by reducing traffic congestion.
7. Make its school and playground
system more efficient by designing
school buildings to double in brass as
recreation and community centers.
Suggests More Airports.
8. Retain and expand subdivision
control so that fewer and more eff
cient streets will permit better resi-
dental development.
9. Have more airports.
10. Not be carried away by the
"fanciful idea" that whole areas
need to be redeveloped because one
or two slum areas exist within them.
II. Demand better design in shop
ping centers. He described some
present centers as "hideous" and as
having too many "glaring neon
signs"
In short, Mr.. Nichols said, Wash
ington should be mecca" for the
Evening star., 1946-04-19

Miss Ann Barley. 36, is hunt
ing for a Washington apartment
with some sunshine" to which she
can take the 10-month-old French
war orphan she adopted and brought
from Paris yesterday.
Miss Barley is hunting with the
same determination that carried
her to Europe six months ago to
find the child she had always want
ed to adopt.
Young Patrick is not doing much
except waving his feet, encased in
his first pair of shoes, and grinning
at the photographers, reporters and
newsreel men coming to call on him
in his room at the Willard Hotel
Just as the red-haired, blue-eyed
baby charmed her in Southern
France, Miss Barley hopes he will
charm some Washingtonian into
telling her about an apartment.
There is another war orphan, a
2-week-old brunei girl, waiting in
France to be sent to Miss Barley
Evening star., 1946-04-19
Bishop Samuel Spreng,
Minister IS Years, Dies
BY the Assoeioied Press

NAPERV1LLE, Ill, April 49,
Samuel Peter Spreng, SO, bishop
emeritus of the Evangelical Church
in which he was a minister for 5;
years until his retirement in 1880
died at his home here last night.
He was former official member
OF the Federal Council of Churches
of Christ in America and held rec.
ord OF having attended 16 quadren-
nial sessions OF the General Confer.
ence of the Evangelical Church.
Survivors included two sons, DR.
Ralph Spreng, Dwight, Ill, ano
George B. Spreng, Shaker Heights
Ohio, and daughter, Miss L. Ethel
Spreng of Naperville.
Funeral services will be held here
tomorrow.
Evening star., 1946-04-19
Jewish Welfare Board
To Meet Here MAY 4

For the first time since 1912, the
National Jewish Welfare Board will
meet from May 4 to at the Will
lard Hotel to discuss problems of
war and peace.
Secretary of War Patterson will
address the board on the role of
volunteer welfare agencies in the
war at a dinner on May s.
Frank L. We'll, board president
will tell of the organizations peace
time program.
If he is still in the United States
Herbert H. Lehman, former director
general of UNRRA, also will speak,
board officials said. Other speakers
scheduled include Veterans Admin
istrator Omar N. Bradley and DR..
Lindsay F. Kimball, president of the
USO.
The board will pay tribute to the
Jewish war dead at memorial
service in Arlington Cemetery on
May 5.
Evening star., 1946-04-19

by the same French authorities who
listened to her pleas for Patrick
Their only request, she said after
her arrival by plane yesterday, was
that she let him be "a little French.
Il promised them I would" Miss
Barley said.
A former War Department en-
ploye here, Miss Barley said she
planned to write magazine stories
now. She wants to do one on the
amazing highways and byways'
discovered by woman who travels
through Europe looking for a baby,
because the American laws rarely
permit unmarried women to adopt
and rear a child.
Meanwhile, Paddy Barley needs
sunshine, because the French diet
has given him a slight case" OF
rickets. and he has only two teeth
instead, of the eight that Miss Bar
ley's mother, Mrs. Albert Barley OF
Detroit, says he should have at
10 months.
Evening star., 1946-04-19
Traffic Hero, II, Gets Medal
But Girl WithhoIds Thanks

They pinned a medal on an IL
year-old schoolboy patrolman yes
terday, but the 6-year-old girl re-
sponsible for the award is still as
stubborn as she was month ago.
At least, that's the way it looks to
Lawrence E. Soper, 73l Tenth street
Sc, guest of honor at the Junior
Board of Commerce luncheon at the
Annapolis Hotel. Speaker after
speaker praised Lawrence and at the
climax of the ceremony they gave
him the life-saving medal award of
the American Automobile Associa-
ton. He also received a scholarship
to Camp Ernest w. Brown at Scot
land, Md. where next September
prospective officers of schoolboy pa
trolls will train.
According to the speakers yesterday
LaW1once earned his medal because
he pitted his will against that of g.
year-old Gloria Finkelstein, 527
Tenth street Sc, and Won Gloria
was about to follow her faster COM
Evening star., 1946-04-19

panions across Eleventh and G
streets Sc. shortly after noon on
March S, when the traffic moved
suddenly.
Lawrence pulled her back. She
became indignant, jerked away. The
boy dashed after her, encircled her
in his arms and, while automo obiles
missed them by inches, carried her
back to the sidewalk. She squirmed
and protested, but he held on until
the danger was past.
In the opinion of Police Pvt. Oliver
T. Coffin, who was directing traffic
that day at the intersection, Gloria
would certainly have been killed il
Lawrence hadn't acted as he did.
But Gloria has never thanked
him, Lawrence told reporters. He
sees her every day at the Cranch-
Tyler School, Twelfth and G streets
Sc, but she never speaks to him
Does he mind?
NO." said Lawrence. "She's all
right. Anyway. she's better thar
she used to be-"
Evening star., 1946-04-19

rest of the country. 1t should be
a good place to look at, to live in,
to invest in and to do business in.
Before Mr. Nichols spoke. Gen.
Grant read letter from President
Truman which praised Mr.. Nichols
for his 20 years of voluntary. serv-
ice to the Capital. Volunteer men,
bers of the commission are appoint
ed by the President. their trans
portation to and from Washington
is paid. but they receive no pay
for service rendered)
Emphasizes Planning.
Describing Mr.. Nichols valuable
services so patriotically rendered
as great contribution" Presi-
dent Truman wrote:
Sound planning is of the utmost
Importance at this time, when such
a heavy and important program of
construction is needed to provide
for the permanent requirements of
our Federal Government, and for
the needs of the city's population,
now grown so far beyond the Ca
pacity of facilities that were barely
adequate before the war. Washing
ton is now, as never before, the
Capital of Capitals, and the eyes
Of the world are upon it.
A letter from Frederic A. Delano,
former commission chairman, said.
Few, if any, citizens of the United
States have done so much for our
National Capital"
Engineer Commissioner Gordon R.
Young, one Of the five ex-ofhcio
members of the commission, said
following Mr.. Nichols talk that post
war Washington presented the
greatest planning challenge" he
knew of. 1N
1t. Gen. Dan I. Sultan, former
District Engineer Commissioner,
said the commission should have
more authority in Metropolitan Sec
tions of Maryland and Virginia.
Senator Capper. Republican, of
Kansas, who played a leading role
in creating the commission and
providing it with funds, urged Wash
inguonians to take more interest in
their own affairs, adding that, de-
spite the fact that they are mot
properly represented" there are
many things which can be done to
help the situation if sufficient inter-
est is shown.
Forty Government officials and
professional and civic leaders were
present at the dinner. Particularly
honored were other members of the
planning commission: Henry v.
Hubbard, William A. Delano, recent
ly retired member whose place has
not been filled: Arthur E. Demaray,
associate director of the National
Park Service, an acting ex-dfncio
member, and Representative Ran
dolph, Democrat, of West Virginia,
a former ex-oficio member when he
wac chairman of the House District
Committee.
Evening star., 1946-04-19
Churches Observe
Good Friday With
3-Hour Services

Government and other District
workers took time of from noon
to 3 pm. today to attend Good
Friday services in commemoration
of Christ's Crucifixion.
Many churches throughout the
city were open during the three
hours for worshipers to observe the
holy day. President Truman Endorsed
the observance during this period as
one dedicated to a day revealing a
spirit of Christian love and CO.
operation most welcome in a world
sadly torn by discord and despair. u
Numerous civic, fraternal, business
and religious organizations in the
District expressed their approval OF
holding the three-hour services
Congressional leaders issued state
ments in support of the movement
Senator Murray, Democrat, Of
Montana said members of his staff
were given time off ito attend the
church of their choice during these
hours and I, as always, shall at
tend" Senator Outland, Demo-
crat, of California also stated in
message to the Rev. Joseph E
Gedra, secretary of the Three
Hours Observance of Good Friday
Committee and pastor of Immac-
ulate Conception Church, that
whatever may be mans religious
affliation, the observance of Good
Friday is important both for him
personally and for the spiritual
life of the Nation as a whole"
Other congressional leaders eX-
pressing approval of the observance
included Senator Wherry, Repub-
lican, of Nebraska; Senator Hatch,
Democrat, of New Mexico; Senator
O'Mahoney, Democrat, of Wyo-
ming; Representative Mccormack,
Democrat, of Massachusetts,; Rep
resentative Luce, Republican, of
Connecticut; Representative Kun
kel, Republican, of Pennsylvania,
and Representative Rooney, Dem
ocrat, of New York.
In anticipation of Good Friday,
numerous buildings and homes
throughout the District were lit
with electric light crosses from last
night until early this morning. At
the Municipal Center Building, 300
Indiana avenue NV, lighted win
dows formed a cross. The historic
symbol was made by 80 electric
bulbs, commemorating the years
Christ spent on earth, at the knights
OF Columbus Building, Sixteenth and
r street NV.
Among the other places displaying
the cross in electric lights were the
American Federation of Labor, Vet
erans' Administration, Potomac
Eectric Power Co.; Jelleff's Depart
ment Store, Tower, Denrike and
Sears, Roebuck buildings.
Chairman of the Three Hours OBJ
servance. of Good Friday Committee
was the Rev. DR.. Oscar F. Black
welder, pastor of the Lutheran
Chuch of the Reformation. Co.
chairman were Archbishop Michael
j. Curley of Baltimore and Wash
ington, the Right Rev. Angus Dun,
Episcopal Bishop of Washington,
and Charles w. Flint, Methodist
BiShOD of Washington
Evening star., 1946-04-19
Roll Easter Eggs
Into OmeIets, Famine
| Official Suqqests

Instead of rolling eggs this
Easter, use them to enrich holi-
day menus and release less
plentiful foods for shipment
abroad.
This is the advice given today
by Joseph H. Blandford of the
United States Department of
Agriculture's Production and
Marketing Administration, who
is also State manager of the
Maryland Famine Emergency
Campaign.
He anticipated a squandering
OF well over 16S, 100000 eggs"
throughout the country by ira
ditional rolling and called on
the public to roll" them into
omelets, cakes, salads and other
foods instead.
Evening star., 1946-04-19
3-Story Fall Kills Man.;
Another Dies in PLUNGE
Down Elevator Shaft

An employe Of the Interstate
Commerce Commission and a teleg-
rapher for the Southern Railway
System were killed and three other
persons injured as result of falls
in the last "a hours, police reported
today.
Urban E. Conlon, 81, of 208 Massa-
chusetts avenue NE died in Casu-
atty Hospital at $50 am. today of
injuries suffered when he fell from
the window of his third-floor apart
ment shortly after midnight. Mr..
Conlon was an examiner in the Bu-
reau of Motor Carriers at the Inter-
state Commerce Commission, first
| joining the bureau in 1896.
Earlier last night, Parlam M.
Irwin, Sc. of % West Del Ray
avenue, Alexandria, fell to his death
when he opened the doors of an
elevator shaft on the fifth floor
of the Southern Railway Building,
Fifteenth and K street NV, where
he worked, and stepped into the
shaft thinking the elevator was
there.
Police said Mr.. Conlon was dis
covered by telephone operator in
the apartment house who was told
by another guest that he heard a
thud.
Roommate Was Asleep.
James H. Noble of New York, a
friend staying with Mr. Conlon, was
asleep in the combination bedroom
living room apartment when the fall
occurred but knew nothing about it
until he was awakened by investi-
eating officers, according to police.
Mr.. Conlon completed three years
at Georgetown University in 1925
and obtained his law degree at Co.
lumbus University in 1888. He was
born in Haverhill, Mass, and was
unmarried.
The coroner and the homicide
squad are investigating.
Wife Witnessed Accident.
Mr.. Irwin, his wife Jetta and a
fellow worker. Milton B. Larkin,
5433 Fourth street NV, were leav-
ing for home when the accident
occurred, according to police. Mr.
Irwin, who was in the habit of
running the elevator every night as
he left work, used an emergency bar
to open the safety lock on the ele-
vator shaft door, police said. Step
ping into the darkened shaft, he
fell to the basement.
| He was removed to Emergency
Hospital where he died shortly
afterWard.
Deputy Coroner Christopher J.
Murphy said the death was acci-
dental apparently but delayed is
suance of a certificate pending full
investigation today.
| Falls From Flag Pole.
Daniel Martin, 36, of 9l4 Eighth
street NV. was treated at Emer-
gency Hospital for a possible frac-
tured right leg after he fell from
a flag pole to the roof of the Wash
ington Post Building yesterday aft
ernoon.
Robert D. Boykin, So, of 1903 M
street NV. suffered fractured pei
Wis when he fell from a ladder
while working on the roof of a
house in Chevy Chase, Md. He was
admitted to Casualty Hospital.
Anne Louise Kuldell, "a, of 3615
Davis street NV. was admitted to
Casualty Hospital with severe lac
erations to the left knee after fall
ing down the steps at the Church
of the Reformation, 202 East Capitol
street.
Evening star., 1946-04-19
Trade Aid Office Opened

The Commerce Department has
opened district Office in Baltimore
at 803 Cathedral street to be known
as the Office of Small Business, it
was announced today. Its function
will be to help small enterprises in
applying for OPA priority assistance.
Evening star., 1946-04-19
Militory Mission Okuyed

House passage sent to the Senate
yesterday legislation authorizing
the assignment of American military
and naval missions to foreign coun-
tries requesting them.
Evening star., 1946-04-19
Religious Drama Planned

The youth fellowship group of
Trinity Methodist Church, Alexan-
dria, will present a religious drama,
"He Lives" at 8 pm. Sunday.
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contributors were Mr.. and Mrs.
Thaddeus James, A. w. Thompson,
and Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Ampey.
$500 contributors were Mr.. and
Mrs. Rain Workout, Walter bod
son, Mr.. and Mrs. Worthy Turner,
Mr.. and Mrs. Qulncall Greene, Mr..
and Mrs. William Smalls, Major o.
Culberson Of Washington, d. @.
Contributing 800 we're; Mrs. Min
ME Rhodes, Mrs. Lucille McAdams,
Andrew Peppers, win TurnbauRh,
r. Threath, Edward Walker, Gwen
Crenshaw, Mr.. and Mrs. ". L.
Young, George Mae Clark, Avis
A, Day, ]. H. Gray, N. Watson,
Mercedes Brown, OTville Drake, Ira
Allen, Irwin Hisbon, Jake Lynch,
Howard Brown, Leonard Smith,
Charles Shelton, Ike Posten! Bruce
Burgher, w. M. Brown, Joe Baker,
Algerine Payne, Tim Howard, Art
Pettiford, ST., Isaac Moore, DR..
W. ID. Brown, Mr.. and Mrs. George
Peters, Dorothy James, Mr.. and
Mrs. I. Davis, Mr.. and Mrs. T.. A.
Williams, Mr.. and Mrs. o. Hau-
kins, J. W. Baldwin, Mrs. Rose
Richie, Mr.. and Mrs. W. +. Gray,
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one Of the times. He was finally
able to get accommodations at a
private home in south Minneapolis.
The next day, Alec Jones Of the
American Youth for Democracy
learned of the case, and along with
DR.. Wilkerson and a representative
of Minnesota Labor, CLIO publica-
ton, put it before Chief Of Police
Ed Ryan.
Mayor Hubert Humphrey, when
he found out about the case, called
the Dyckman hotel where DR.. Will
kerson was able to secure a room.
Humphrey has also put the matter
before his recently-formed Council
on Human Relations.
The owner of the Radisson hotel
is Thomas Moore, president of the
Minnesota COca-Cola company. The
hotel is managed by Byron Calhoun,
former manager of the St. Paul
hotel. 1t was during CalhOun's
management of the St. Paul, that
Negroes were frequently humili-
ated by being forced to use the
freight elevator to go up to radio
station KSTP.
Mr.. Moore was not in his office
at the company Tuesday afternoon,
but George Barton, Jr., public re
lations man for the company, said
he had no knowledge Of the Raids
son incident. Gerald Conway, pub
lie relations man at the hotel, took
the facts of the case when it was
reported to him on Tuesday, but
said he had not heard Of the Will
kerson incident previously. Cal
hOUn was not in the office to be
r~~nLod fOr q statement
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out that "the mob is coming" Some
shots were fired and four Of the
police were shot, none seriously
with buckshOt.
After the state police and Ma
tionaI Guard had taken over. and
there was no resistance on the
part Of any Of the Negroes, their
homes we're searched. All Ne
grOes were arrested who had
guns Of any description on their
premises. Of the 1902 Negroes
arrested sixty -four were eX-ser-
vicemen!
Rev. Moore told his audience
about the conference that he and
his two colleagues, one from Chi
cago and the other from New York,
both representatives Of Civil Lib
critics groups interested in getting
the true facts Of the Columbia Incl
dent, had with Governor Jim Nc
Cord of Tennessee in his office in
Nashville.
The Governor resented the COM
ing Of Outsiders" into the state to
investigate the disturbance. He de-
clared that the Negroes Of Colum-
bia had been good Negroes" and
that a few Of the Negroes had
been made bad" through the in
fiuence of outside organizations
like the NAACP and Southern
Conference for Human Welfare.
The Governor was quite disturbed
over the letters and kilograms he
had received condemning him and
other public officials for their
failure to treat the Negroes fairly
and to give them their constitu-
tional rights.
When they got to Columbia,
Mr.. Moore said, they were