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Evening star., 1946-01-24
Gill Custer Heafinq
To Be Closed Except
Ito Press Members

Only accredited members of the
press will be admitted as represen-
tatives of the general public when
Howard B. Gill goes before a three
man board of inquiry on charges by
the Board of Public Welfare of in
competence and inefficiency in the
management of the Districts penal
institutions.
This was decided yesterday by the
Commissioners with the explanation
that the hearing was to be admin
istrative" rather than courtroom
in character. Admission of the
press, they felt, was in conformity
with Mr.. Gill's request for full pub
licity.'
Several groups, however, which
have asked for admission to the ses-
sions, will be excluded under the
ruling.
Board Gets Free Hand.
The city heads also forwarded to
the inquiry board a set of instruc-
tions giving the members a free
hand to set up whatever rules tina,
they feel desirable in the interest o1
full, fair hearing of the case.
Opposing counsel are called to q
meeting at the National Press Build
ing Offices of Chairman Walter Bas-
tian of the inquiry board at 2 pm
today presumably to discuss when
and where the hearing will be held
No date has yet been announced. =
In addition to Mr.. Bastian, the
board includes Francis w. Hill, a
former president of the District Bar
Association as in Mr.. Bastian, and
Alfred H. Lawson, vice president of
the Washington Loan g. Trust Co.
Mr.. Gill was suspended December
6 following escape of five prisoners
from the District Jail November "a.
In addition the welfare board recon-
mended his dismissal. Mr.. Gill re-
fused to accept responsibility for the
jailbreak and charged Welfare Di-
rector Ray L. Huff with trying to
have him fired for other reasons
dating back to last June. He asked
that specific charges be prepared
and that he be given opportunity
to reply.
Assistant Corporation Counsels
Chester Gray and Lee F. Dante drew
up specific allegations for the board
which served them on Mr.. Gill. The
suspended general superintendent
then referred these to the Civil Serv-
ice Commission which advised him
and the Commissioners that six of
the 16 specific allegations were not
sufficiently detailed or specific to
meet civil service regulations.
These charges had to do with al
legged instances in which Mr.. Gill is
supposed to have reprimanded Of
ficials and custodians at the Jail
Evening star., 1946-01-24
Committee 10 Prepare
100000, Bill
For Construction Here

An executive meeting of the full
House Public Buildings and Grounds
Committee will be held at 10 am
next Wednesday to whip into shape
the Governments postwar Federal
buildings bill prior to reporting it to
the House, Chairman Lanham said
today.
Mr.. Lanham said also that q
similar meeting would be held as
soon as possible on the controversial
District Courthouse bill.
AS it now stands, the buildings
bill, H. R. 4276, would place Wash
ington on the Threshold of a Fed
eral office building program un-
paralleled in history. 1t would
authorize construction of nearly
5000, 100000 worth of buildings over
a period of years and provide
authority for the purchase of all
the land between B streets NE. and
Sc. from First street east to the
Anacostia River for the long sought
development of East Capitol street
New Department Buildings.
Included in the bill are new State
and Navy Department buildings, ex-
tension of the so-called new War
Department Building at Twenty
first street and Virginia avenue
NV, an Interior Department annex
extension of the Treasury Depart
ment Annex, a General Accounting
Office building in addition to that
for which funds have already been
appropriated, two new museums for
the Smithsonian Institution, an ad-
ministration building for the Bureau
of Standards, a general Federal
office building, Public Buildings
Administration service building, two
Federal records storage buildings
and improvements to the Zoo
The bill also would provide a
program of more than $500, 900, 900
for public building projects outside
of Washington with which to
fight future periods Of unemploy-
ment. Public hearings on the meas
ure were completed last November
The Presidents 1947 budget mes
sage stated that no appropriations
would pe asked for public building
construction until this measure has
been approved by Congress.
To Decide on Courthouse.
Mr.. Lanham said committee
members would visit the present
District Courthouse prior to passing
on the $10,30O,000 courthouse bill,
and would attempt to decide the
controversial question of how much
of the cost of the building should
be charged to the District before
reporting the bill out of committee.
At present the bill would place
the courthouse on District-owKed
land at Third street and Constitu-
ton avenue NV. At the same time
it would charge the District with
half the cost, giving it credit for
only half the value of the site, esti-
mated at $2,400,000.
This provision raised a storm CT
protest at hearings on the measure
last fall. The Federal Government
has borne the entire cost of past
Federal courthouses, it was stated,
and before the war had planned to
pay the entire cost of the building
in question on a different site. The
least that could be done, objectors
to the present $3.50 arrangement
said, would be to credit the District
with the full value of the Third
and Constitution site.
Evening star., 1946-01-24
Leg1ess Veteran Looks Forward
To Office Job, or Truck Drivinq
Ex-Pvt. Walter Tubuk
Making Comeback;
Now in VA Job

"It's trying to walk downhill that's
the worst" 21-year-old Walter
Tabak said, swinging his artificial
legs to and fro from his perch or
the desk, land I've stopped trying
to dance because there isn't any
rhythm in a set of tailor made
feet"
With these exceptions-and play
ing tennis-the former First Army
Medical Corpsman Is a prime ex.
ample of the comeback a totally
disabled veteran can make with Gov
ernment help and personal deter
mination.
EX-Private Tabak and his pretty
19-year-old wife of four months
Katherine, keep house in an apart
ment at 434 Buchanan street NV
Walter goes to his job as recep-
zionist in the contact division of the
regional Veterans Administration
office every day with the aid of a
cane and motorist who has been
picking him up pretty regularly at
the bus stop.
Explains Veterans Rights.
All day he interviews veterans
some of them disabled like himself
and all of them anxious to have
their rights and privileges explained.
He likes the job. He remembers the
time contact representative ex-
planned that the loss of both his legs
above the knee, his one blind eye,
his impaired hearing and the scores
of metal fragments he carries in his
body, entitle him to $270 per month.
He is more than 100 per cent dis
abled.
Walter was crippled early in the
war. He had postponed his school,
ing at Warren G. Harding High
School in Bridgeport, Conn.-his
home toWn-to enlist in the Army
in July 9, 1912. He was 18 then.
The fall of the same year found
him in England and he went ashore
as medic" at Oran, North Africa,
November 10. Attached to the 34th
Infantry Division, 1st Army, Walter
was in the battles for Kasserine
Pass, Ell Guettar, Blzerte, Ferryville
and TuniS.
The campaign was over and
Walters unit was resting five miles
outside of Ferryville when an oxy-
gen tank exploded under his feet.
Both legs were torn off, his left eye
was mangled and his body filled
with metal fragments.
Future Not Clear Cut.
TOO much pressure in the tank"
the veteran unused. II was rolling
it along the ground with my feet
because we were short-handed and
nobody around to help me carry
it, 1t just blew up, and my legs
went with it."
From that time until his dis
charge last July, it has been one
long list of hospitals-Walter Reed
General Hospital here was the last
Evening star., 1946-01-24
u. ). Workers
Map Drive for
Bigger Pay Bill
RondoIph's Stond
On Wages and Costs
Heurtens Unions
BY JOSEPH YOUNG.

Heartened by the statement of
Chairman Randolph of the House
Civil Service Committee that he
favors 16 to- 20 per cent wage in
creases for Federal employees, Gov
eminent employees unions here to-
day mapped plans to wage an in
tensive drive for House passage of
more liberal pay bill than was
voted by the Senate.
Mr.. Randolph clarified his posi-
ton on the measure yesterday when
he declared that Federal workers
were entitled to a generous wage
boost in order to enable them to
meet increased living costs.
Union officials have expressed
dissatisfaction with the Senate
passed measure providing an over
all wage increase of II per cent.
The bill originally introduced by
Chairman Downey of the Senate
Civil Service Committee called for
20 per cent wage boost, but the
ii per cent compromise amendment
offered by Senator Byrd, Demo-
crat, of Virginia, finally was
adopted.
New Statistics Prepared.
New statistics and material to
support their contention that the
rise IN the cost of living makes it
essential that Federal employees get
a ~ per cent increase in salary are
being prepared by union leaders
and will be presented to the House
C1Vll Service Committee when hear
lngs are held on the measure. Hear
lngs are tentatively set to begin
February l.
The major unions involved who
Will lead the fight for higher wage
increases are the American Fed
Grafton of Government EMPLOYEES
AFL; the National Federation of
Federal Employees, and the United
Federal Workers of America. CIO.
Strategy meetings on the bill al
READY have been called by UFWA
and the other unions have sched-
uled conferences on WAYS to push
a generous pay bill through the
House. Union leaders report that
new statistics uncovered will greatly
strengthen their arguments for
more liberal pay increases.
Delay May Aid Workers.
1t is considered likely that final
House action on the measure will
be delayed until a national wage
increase pattern is reached by pri-
vate industry and labor. Mr.. Ran
dolph and other supporters of the
measure feel that a delay might
help Federal workers get a more
generous pay raise from the House
than was voted by the Senate.
| For one thing, pay bill sponsors
feel that when industry and labor
hnaliy agree on a national wage
pattern it will be more than the
II per cent voted by the Senate
Another faitor is the belief that
members of the Hoose will be more
willing to take a stand on the Fed
eral pay bill once the industrial
crisis is past. During the Senate
debate on the measure, number
OF Senators told Senator Downey
that they felt the 20 per cent figure
was fair one, but that they could
not support it for fear that it might
be interpreted as the Senate's pat
tern for national wage reconversion.
Evening star., 1946-01-24
Center
Action Speeded
ByHouseGroup
Full Committee CuIIee
For Monday to Open
Hearings on Project

Chairman Mcmillan of the House
District Committee today scheduled
a session of the full membership OF
the group for II am. Monday in a
move to speed action on the measure
for the development of l,500-bed
hospital center for the District.
The measure, sponsored by Sena-
tor Tydings, Democrat, of Maryland
and Chairman Bilbo of the Senate
District Committee, was passed by
the Senate eight months ago.
A number of hearings were held
last year by subcommittee of the
House District Committee, but ac-
tion has been delayed because OF
widely different financing proposals
submitted by the Federal Works
Agency.
Financing Plans Differ.
A major feature of the proposed
revision offered by Maj. Gen. Philip
B. Fleming, FWA administrator,
would require the District govern
ment to repay one third of the
total cost, estimated by Gen. Flem-
ing at nearly $20,O00,OO0. Under the
Senate bill the United States would
advance the total fund needed and
the nonprofit private hospitals which
participate in the center would be
required to repay one-third over a
period of SO years with interest at
per cent.
The FWA plan provides that the
United States advance the neces-
sary sums and would require par
ticipating hospitals to pay annual
sums yet to be determined on a
lease basis, with the Government re-
tanning title.
The District government would be
required to repay one-third of the
development costs of the center in
Is years. In addition, the FWA
plan would authorize grants to nom
profit Washington hospitals not par
ticipating in the center, but need
ing financial aid for the expansion
or improvement of their existing
plants.
Time Limit on Payment.
The District government would be
required to repay one-third of these
grants in 10 years.
District officials estimated the
FWA plan would place an obliga-
ton of more than s6,000,000 on the
District and have protested that the
District does not have sufficient
revenues.
The Monday session was called by
Chairman Mcmillan at the request
of Representative Dirksen, Repub-
lican, of Illinois, the ranking minor
ity member of the committee.
Mr.. Dirksen had been receiving
petitions for action on the proposed
center because Of the inadequacies
of the old, private hospital build
ingS
Evening star., 1946-01-24
Chevy Chase Boy Injured
In Fall From School Slide

William Blundin, 8, of Quincy
street, Chevy Chase, Md. was re-
covering in Garfield Hospital today
from head and back injuries received
when he fell from a slide in the
Chevy Chase Elementary School
yard yesterday.
The boy, pupil at the school and
son of Henry A. Blundin, was taken
to the hospital by the Bethesda
Chevy Chase First Aid Corps.
Evening star., 1946-01-24
| DR.. Lise Neither
lon Way Here to
| Join Gu Faculty

DR.. Lise Neither, woman scientist
who played major part in atomic
research, was scheduled to arrive in
New York today by air en- route
here to begin teaching classes at
Catholic University February 6, it
was announced today.
DR.. Neither will take a nuclear
physics professorship at the uni
versity. She is expected to get here
by Monday.
George Washington University
also announced a faculty appoint
ment. DR.. Paul K. Smith, former
chief of the department Of phar-
macology and biochemistry at the
Army Air Forces School of Medicine
at San Antonio, Tex, will teach the
same subjects at the university
President Cloyd H. Marvin said.
Evening star., 1946-01-24

A Government witness, alleged tc
be New York gangster and a for
mer associate of the late Dutch
Schultz and other underworld char
acters of the prohibition era, testi-
fled today in District Court against
Raymond Connors, on trial for the
trailer murders of Edward Barker
and Pany Casbarian last FEBRUARY
The witness, Thomas J. Nc
Eneaney, Yonkers, N. Y, readily
admitted that he had known not
only Schultz, but also Jack Gegs)
Diamond, Lucky Luciano and Louis
Lepke alias Buchalter. He said he
had helped Connors steal car in
Yonkers and that Connors later
sold the automobile to Barker.
When the Federal Bureau of In.
vestigation picked up their trail
McEneaney said, Connors told him
There's a witness against me dowr
in Washington"
McEneaney told James j. Laugh.
lin, attorney for Connors, that hi
was mot mad at anybody" HI
said that applied to Mr.. Laughlin
Connors "or anybody else" A mo.
ment later, however, he became in.
furiated over Mr.. Laughlin's ques-
ton as to whether he was known
as stool Pigeon Tommy" Wher
he left the stand, he pointed two
fingers menacingly at the attorney
and the defendant.
The witness readily admitted his
criminal record which dated back
to 1916, when he was arrested for
burglary. He also admitted a more
recent OPA conviction.
That's trivial thing" he said
THAT don't mean anything to me-
Mr.. Laughljn tried to develop his
charge that the witness had been
promised something for his testi-
mony. He referred to stolen car
charge pending against McEneaney
do you expect to go free on
that?" the attorney asked. !.
Evening star., 1946-01-24
Final Curtain Falls
AtStageDoorCa Canteen
Last in j. ). 10 Close

The final curtain has dropped
Washington's Stage Door Canteen
where thousands of servicemen en-
joyed moment of cheer, has servee
its purpose and the Shubert Belasct
Theater is dark again.
The lights were lowered last nigh
while nearly 5000 of the 1000 ,OOt
men and women served by the Can.
teen since October 3, 1912, let tht
workers know what it all had mean,
to them.
They let their sentiments bt
known with cheers when Gen
Dwight D. Eisenhower and Admira
Chester w. NimitZ took the spotlight
briefly with their wives to thank al
those who had made possible Amer.
lean Theater Wings contribution tx
morale.
Gay Final Night.
Except for the nostalgia tha
seemed to grip those workers at
tending getaway night" this wa
as gay as any of the 1905 night
the Canteen had operated.
Grinning in response to a thun
derous ovation, Gen. Eisenhowe
presumed to be the representative
of the audience a few minutes t,
thank those in the entertainment
world and all the others who hat
kept the Canteen lively with laugh
ter for more than three years.
Admiral Nimitz spoke likewis
"for the men who have served il
my command" A special measure
of thanks went to Mrs. George r
Holmes, Canteen director notet
for her enthusiastic fund raising
Brig. Gen. Harry H. Vaughn, mill
tary aide to President Truman
presented her with Certificate O.
Appreciation" signed by the Presi.
dent, Gen. Eisenhower, Admira
Nimitz and Gen. Carl A. Spaatz
commander of Strategic Air Forces
Mrs. Holmes Praised.
Reading from the scroll, Gen
Vaughn said Mrs. Holmes devoted
efforts in obtaining financial sup.
port for the continued operation oi
this organization has made a sub.
stantial contribution to it's sigma
success and have earned the heart
felt thanks of the armed forces
of the United States"
Brock Pemberton, producer anc
chairman of the branches com.
mittee of the American Theatel
Wing, appeared long enough to ado
his thanks to the thousands of vol
unteers who worked selflessly tt
bring happiness to the servicemen
Mrs. Armina Marshall LANCER
vice chairman, brought a message
from Chairman Helen Hayes, un.
able to attend because of illness
Maj. Gen. E. R. Quesada brought
greetings and thanks from Gen
Spaatz.
Except for these brief appearances
and the note of sadness interjecteo
by those who had worked constantly
here throughout the war DAYS, il
might have been any other night al
the Canteen. There was music from
the Army Air Forces and Navy
Dance Bands-the same bands which
had opened the Canteen-and there
were the Junior hostesses who hao
brought a moment of hghtness, ano
perhaps romance, into the hives o1
lonesome soldiers, sailors and Ma
rines.
Along about midnight, they began
lowering the lights on the last of the
seven Theater Wing canteens in the
Nation to close down. The bano
plays Il Left My Heart at the Stage
Door Canteen." The laughter anc
talking subsidized.
Soon it was dark and the sign owe,
the Stage Door Canteen said
Closed"
Evening star., 1946-01-24
Leather Samples Stolen

Theft Of sample leather goods
valued at $500 was reported to police
today by Harold c. Wells of Arling-
ton, Mass. Mr.. Wells said the sam
piles were taken from his automobile
which was forced open while parked
near his hotel in the Union Sta
ton area.
Evening star., 1946-01-24
FEC Ends TeIevision
Hearings, Studies 6
Local Station Request!

The hopes Of six applicants for
authorization to provide Washing
ton with television service were in
the hands Of the Federal Communi-
cations Commission today following
conclusion of a public hearing last
night.
After study Of evidence presented
during the three-day airing, the
FEC will grant licenses for CONNER
cial operation of four television sta
tions here. The decision will be re-
garded by the industry as possibly
indicative of the pattern to be fol-
lowed in apportioning available
channels among the various inter-
ests seeking the opportunity to en-
gage in visual broadcasting, such as
equipment manufacturers, existing
radio networks and local business
interests.
Philco Plans Heard.
FEC Chairman Paul A. Porter
adjourned the hearing on compile
ton of testimony by Philco Prod
ucts, Inc, formerly known as Philco
Radio and Television Corp, which
now holds various experimental IL
censes and owns a transmitter site
at Lee highway and North Florida
street in Arlington County, Va. A
350-foot transmitting antenna tower
and two smaller towers used in
relay experiments between here and
Philadelphia have been erected.
F. j. Bingley, chief television en-
gineer of the company, testified
the Philco station could begin regu-
larly scheduled operation with tenn
porary facilities next October if a
license is granted in the near fu-
ture. He said operation with the
permanent transmitter could be
commenced in July of next year,
by which time a transmitter and
studio building of colonial design
would have been completed on the
Arlington site and main studios and
offices at an undisclosed downtown
location fully equipped.
John Ballantyne, president of the
company, told the hearing the Phil
co Corp, manufacturing parent
corporation of the applicant, hoped
to have some receivers ready for
sale this summer.
NBC Plans Outlined.
Technical data were introduced
by Raymond M. Wilmotte, consult
ing engineer.
Earlier, the National Broadcast
ing Co., now operating Station WRC
in standard voice broadcasting here,
had completed it's case with testi-
mony by Raymond F. Guy, facilities
engineer: Noren E. Kersta, manager
of the television department, and
Carlton D. Smith, general manager
of WRC, who would hold similar
position with the proposed television
station.
Mr.. Guy gave details of plans to
install transmitter and studio facil-
tiles, including 350-foot antenna
tower, at the Wardman Park Hotel
The Wardman Park Theater, located
in the hotel, would be used for
and other facilities for
visual pickups would be arranged in
the existing NBC Trans-Lux Build
ing quarters, he explained.
Other applicants for the four
available channels are the Allen B.
DuMont Laboratories, Inc. now
an experimental television
station at the Harrington Hotel; the
Capital Broadcasting Co., operating
Station WWDC; the Bamberger
Broadcasting Service, Inc, and The
Evening Star Broadcasting Co.,
operating Station WMAL.
Evening star., 1946-01-24
AIexundriun in Chino

Miss Lucy williams Brown, 8O2
Crescent drive, Alexandria, has ar
rived in Chungking, China, as well
fare worker for the United Nations
Relief and Rehabilitation Admin
|istration, it was announced today.
Evening star., 1946-01-24

United Savings Bonds, Series E.
are the poor mans pot Of gold at
the rainbow's end. After 10 years
he finds 81 where there were only So.
Enakopravnost. [volume] (Cleveland, O.[Ohio]) 1918-1957, 1946-05-23
ENAKopRAvNOsT

kulturne in splone odnosaje med Jugosavo in Zednje
mimi drzavami."
Ker Sc toliko govori UNRRA-i, sem vprasal marsa-
la tudi, kaj ina povedat ameriSkemu narodu pogedu
te institucije
"UNRRA, v kateri je Amerika igraa tako pretezno
vlogo je odgovor, je storia mnogo dobrega Jugosav
U najezjih trenotkih povojne dobe e pomagaa odvr-
niti nesreeo, XII e groza dezel Dosej je dobavljala
UNRRA zto in druge potrebscine onim predeom Jugo
slavic, XII tekom vojne nepopisno tpe kot Lka Bos
Daacija in crna CORA. Mas narod je globoko hvale
zen Zedinenim drzavam to pomoc Rad tega sem pre-
prean da nj nobene zapreke da bi vzpostavl Zed
njenmi drzavami zdravh gospodarskih in potcnh odno
sajev. nase strani ne DO nobenh ovr.'
Mas razgovor e traja ze poldrugo Ker Sc je ma
gibal svoemu koncu sem poskus prodreti tudi vsaj
do neke tanost XII odeva marsalovo osebnost po
sebno inozemstvu. "Gospod marsal," deja Vase
me e svetovn javnos sele alo casa ker ste dol
ga eta delovali podtano cu ze take eudne
dtve ko primer da spoh nste Hrvat tevec general
il Ukraine"
Marsa Tito je smeje odgovoril: "Skoda da vas nj BIZ
10 tu ko pris pozdravit knetje il mole donace va
s-z Klanjca Bill so tn tel sobi, pogovarja
starih cash in razmerah vasi Najbrze bi bill
mog dos ocno povedati kaksne vrste covek Sicer
pa imam Zedinjenih drzavah vec tet, XII nedvom-
spominajo Ako Amerikance. stvar zanna bodo
mogle brez nadaljnega potrditi moo identiteto'
Ko posavjal mi je bilo zivo zavesti, da sem
druzbi moza XII svomi deli pise zgodovino Organiz
raj skupino, XII sega najbol oddaene koteke dezele
Prenovl je JUNE Slovane Kral je odigra Vsakdo XII
e dal toliko ruda da je dobro premotr e moral
uvdet da je kralj vedno odpravlen Tesno brzdana
ederaeia sesth narodov e nadomestla stare kraevno
razredni borb XII e bila razva je prislo ponekod
do pretravanj, toda prvak XII komunisti, dobi
preustroa zdal dovolj trdnc da bodo osta pri krmu