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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-06-18
'Wolfenden's Condition
Grave After Boot BIost
BY the Associoted Press

PHILADELPHIA, June 1s.-Rep-
resentative Wolfenden, Republican,
OF Pennsylvania was reported in
grave condition last night at Jeffer-
son Hospital, where he was admitted
Saturday for treatment of injuries
received in the explosion of a cabin
cruiser May % at Ocean City, N. J.
His condition is considered grave,
but not critical at this time" Rep
tresentative Wolfenden's physician
said.
The House member was blown
into the water by the explosion. He
was taken to nursing home after
the accident. His physician said he
suffered burns on the hands, arms
and face.
Representative Wolfenden was
elected to Congress in 1928. He did
not seek reelection at last months
primaries.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-06-18

Men II to 30! In q civilian job
you must use your income to pay
for food, clothing, rent, education,
travel, entertainment and savings
for the future. ALI these things are
free to Navy men. You can now
enlist in the Regular Navy for 2, 3,
4 or years. Go to the Navy Re-
cruiting Station at 1920 G street
NV. TODAY!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-06-18


nonregulation steering wheel
only. Jerry has another which
Traffic Director George E. Keneipp
will be guest speaker at $3.50 pm.
tomorrow on the Washington Soap
Box Derby radio program over Sta
ton WMAL.
Mr.. Keneipp is expected to dis
cuss the value of the coaster car
competition In terms of safety edu-
cation. All registrants for the July
20 race are urged by Derby head
quarters to listen to his message.
A Derby entrant also will par
ticipate in the program, which will
be conducted by Bill Coyle, radio
director of The Star.
A telephone check of entrants by
Derby headquarters yesterday re-
vealed rapid progress by suburban
boys whose schools are closed. Stu
dents of public schools in the Dis
trict will have more spare time for
racer building after tomorrow.
Sets Now Available.
Wheel and axle sets now are
available at the Washington Rub
Der Co., Fourteenth and Belmont
streets NV, and the District Home
and Auto Supply Store, 1920 Good
Hope road Sc.
With the number of completed
racers increasing daily boys who
believe their work is done-except
for winning the Derby-should re-
check the steering arrangement of
the gravity powered cars.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-06-18
Rally Speakers Urge
Early House Action on
General Housing Bill

A panel Of seven speakers last
night called for early passage by the
House Of the Wagner-Ellender-Taft
general housing bill at a forum,
sponsored by the Citizens Council
for Community Planning OF Wash
ington in the Interior Department
Auditorium, and attended by nearly
1000 persons.
The speakers included the spon-
sors Of the bill-Senators Wagner, Of
New York, and Ellender, OF Louisi-
ana, both Democrats, and Senator
Taft, Republican. of Ohio. They,
along with Housing Administrator
Wilson Wyatt and Representative
Kefauver, Democrat, of Tennessee
agreed that opposition to the Sen
ate-passed bill now before the House
Banking and Currency Committee
centers largely around its low-rent
housing provisions.
Opposition Hit.
Those who oppose it on the
ground low-rent housing will COM
pete with business ARE defeating
their own ends" Senator Taft said.
The suggestions of private enter
prise have been fitted into the bill,
Senator Ellender said. Enemies of
the measure, he said, are either mis-
informed about 1t or have "a strange
conception Of the functions of the
Federal Government"
They seem to think" he COM
mented, that the first responsibility
of the Federal Government is to
help those who are doing fairly well
to do even better, and that the last
responsibility of the Federal Gov
eminent is to help those who are
depressed and suffering to better
their lot in life"
Must" Status Urged.
Senator Wagner called upon the
President ito put this bill on his
must list" and on the leaders OF
Congress to act on the legislation
at once.
Mr.. Wyatt said two of three essen
tial pieces of housing legislation al
ready wefe passed-the bill provid-
ing for temporary housing and the
Veterans Emergency Housing Act
but that without the Wagner
Ellender-Taft bill the administra-
ton would lack the tools for coping
adequately with housing shortages
The other two speakers touched
on the Districts own housing prob
lem. Maj. Gen. U. s. Grant III
chairman of the National Capital
Park and Planning Commission, said
there are more than $1,000 District
families who cannot pay more than
$4,000 for a house nor more than
$50 a month rent.
Herbert j. jacob, commander Of
the Washington Department of the
American Legion, said he spoke fol
the Legion in urging passage of the
bill.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-06-18
1890 Veterans Due Home
Today Aboard 10 Ships
BY the Associoted Press

Three transports, carrying 3,179
troops, are scheduled to arrive to-
day at New York, while at least
4,211 more service personnel are
due to debark from seven ships at
San Diego and San Francisco.
Ships arriving:
At New York Miscellaneous per-
sonnet on following vessels: Gen. G..
o. Squier from Bremen, 2,179; u. S.
Victory from LIE Havre, 988; M. E.
Commerford from Antwerp, IL (due
originally yesterday.
At San Diego-Repair ship Delta
(AR-9) from forward area, AS
Navy; YMS ITO from forward area,
no passenger information.
At San miscellaneous
on following: Sewer from Bikini,
1,510 Navy; Ism 101 from Pearl
Harbor, 2 Navy; LYNN 106 from
Pearl Harbor, Navy; Sea Runner
from Manus, 1888 Navy; Gen. Black
from Norfolk, Navy, 752 Army.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-06-18

H., paints his QeTDy racer. Inc
hown is being used for testing
is circular. Star Staff Photo.
Steering Is considered faulty II
the steering wheel can be moved
much without taking effect on the
front axle. To test it, grasp the
wheel with both hands, one at the
IS o'clock" position and the other
at - o'clock" Turn the wheel
clockwise until hands are at &c
o'clock" and 20 o'clock" The front
wheels should have begun turning to
the right by this time. If not. the
cables may be loose or the steering
drum too small.
Steering Big Factor.
More races have been lost by
faulty steering than through any
other cause, national headquarters
of the Derby reports.
Since the Derby is run on a
straight course. 1t is not necessary
to build a steering arrangement to
steer the racer around sharp curves.
However, it must be a system
which responds quickly as the driv-
er endeavors to keep moving in a
straight line.
Additional Derby registrants in
clude:
Vincent Michael Picillo. IA, 24O6
Fourteenth street NV; Lewis j.
Wilson, 10, 5l3 Third street NV;
Thomas R. Burton, Is, rs Daring
ton street S.W.; Jerry Doubro1, II,
8010 Georgetown road, Bethesda,
Md; Ronald c. Kile, IL, 6805 Exfair
road, Bethesda, Md; Phil Nc
Inerney, 10, 1912 River road NV,
and James Federline, IA, 7755
Georgetown road, Bethesda, Md.
/Redd The Sfnr for nerhu Nome
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-06-18
Big -Four Compromise
Looms on Question Of
Italian Reparations
BY the Associated Press

PARIS. June ia compro-
mise between Russia and the
Western powers on the question
OF Italian reparations appeared
In the making today as the Big
Four Foreign Ministers turned
their attention to the sum which
Italy must pay for joining with
the Nazis in waging war.
A more lenient Russian attitude
toward Italy, apparent in yesterdays
discussions of minor economic
phases of the Italian peace treaty,
gave rise to hopes that the repara-
lions issue might be settled.
Preparations. along with the future
of the port of Trieste and the dis
position of italian colonies, were
principal stumbling block which pre-
vented the ministers from reaching
any major agreements at their meet
ing here last month.
Preparations Ceiling Sought.
American informants quoted Rus
sian Foreign Minister v. M. Molotov
as saying during the discussions
yesterday that he wanted to make
the burden on the italian people as
light as possible.
At another phase in the debate,
Mr.. Molotov sought to place ceiling
on the total damages Italy might
be required to pay to Allied ma
tionals for the loss OF their property
within Italy.
Sources close to Secretary of State
Byrnes speculated on whether the
Western powers might relax some of
their objections to Russia's repara-
tons proposals in return for Soviet
consent to slice down other economic
penalties against Italy.
Mr. Molotov had insisted at the
last meeting that Italy pay $780,
100000 in reparations to the Soviet
and $500, 100000 to Yugoslavia,
Greece and Albania. The Western
powers. asserting that Italy's econ
omy could not stand such direct
levy. urged at that time that repara-
tons payments be in the form of
Italian warships and other categories
of specific materials.
Agree to U. S. Proposal.
The ministers agreed yesterday to
an American proposal that any
Allied nation holding Italian prop
erty be allowed to use that property
to defray claims of its nationals
against Italy. At the same time, the
conferees voted to require Italy to
renounce any claims for damages
against Allied nationals arising from
the war.
Mr.. Molotov at first opposed the
measure requiring Italy to renounce
her claims, on the ground that such
remuneration should be taken for
granted, American informants said
He finally yielded, however, in view
of the importance which the other
three nations placed on the pro-
posal, these sources added.
The ministers also agreed to a |
French proposal establishing the
machinery for the settling Of war
claims by Allied nationals. Under
this measure, various three-man
claims tribunals would be set up,
consisting of one person named by
Italy, one by the Allied country |
concerned and the third by the first
two. If the first two persons were
unable to agree on third, the
international court would be asked
to name that member
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-06-18
Chinese Reds CHARGE
Government Hampers
Chances for Peace
By the Associated Press

NANKING, June ia Chinese
communist spokesman charged to-
day the government had dimmed
hopes for peace by demanding that
the Communists yield a number of
strongholds in North China, includ-
ing all the coastnne of strategic
Shantung province.
The spokesman, Wong Peng-nan,
said the government memorandum
was handed to Gen. George C. Mar
shall, special American envoy, who
turned it over without comment"
to Gen. Chou En-lai, chief Com
munist negotiator.
The governments new proposal.
reported laid down as the price of
peace, was described by Communist
sources as most unsatisfactory"
Other than Shantung, where the
Communists have been closing in on
the great United States Marine-held
port of Tsingtao, the areas to be
given up were not detailed by the
spokesman.
Reds Cite Concessions.
He said they embraced several
provinces" north of the Yellow River
involving several OF the Communists
most important positions outside
Manchuria. (Yenan, Communist
capital, lies north of the river.)
Wong declared that the Com
munists already had made conces-
sions and had agreed to the restora-
ton of communications.
The governments Central News
Agency charged the Communists
had almost cut off Tsingtao from
any land routes by Selling four
cities in an arc bending down to
and including Chengyang, only 18
miles north of the port.
The other towns were Tsimo,
Lantsun and Kiaohsien, the latter
at the other extremity of the arc,
80 miles northwest of Tsingtao.
Central News asserted the Com
munists used japanese artillerymen
and fifth columnists in capturing
Kiaohsien and Lantsun.
AsCu SHlcI SdllS IOF fedce.
These developments came shortly
after the commander of all Chinese
Communists forces in Manchuria
said further civil warfare could
only bring catastrophe" to China
and spoke out for peace.
For the sake of the peoples well
fare our present stand is to realize
peace" the commander, Gen Lin
Piao, said in an interview carried
by the Communist New China News
Agency.
Gen. Lin's forces, which coded the
Manchurian capital of Changchun
without struggle. were falling back
before the northward march of
government troops. Field reports
said all serious clashes had ceased
Lin asserted his troops gave up
Changchun in the interest of peace,
but that the government in pushing
on north was attempting to turn
Manchuria into a Fascist area"
IF the Kuomintang Nationalist
party will cease attacks" he added
peace is at hand"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-06-18
Sweden Grants Soviet
$3.50, ZOO, 900 Credit
BY the Assoeiafsd Press

STOCKHOLM, June 18.-Sweden
has granted Russia a credit of
1000 1000 Swedish crowns $780,
DOC, 000) over q five-year period, a
well-informed source said yesterday
Trade discussions recently were
held in Moscow and covered posi-
BILE compensation for the estimated
S25 100000 frozen Swedish assets in
Estonia, Latvia and -Lithuania--au
absorbed by Russia.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-06-18

ohit Id tlOlldl dQ.
Jutant of the
Legion in charge
of its headquar--
tiers here, it was
announced last
night,
Ebert H. Burns,
former national
head of the
Legion's 40 and
8 affiliate, who
has been In
charge Of the
w a S h j n g t on
h e a d q u arters,
has been trans
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(Read The Star for Derby NeUs.
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Dr.. J. Peter Hoeuet, s., Dies

NEW YORK, June 18 (P).-Dr. j.
Peter Hoguet. SO, medical director
of the New York World Fair and
former national medical director of
the Medical and Surgical Relief
Committee of America, died yes
terday at the New York Hospital.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-06-18

adjutant's Office in Indianapolis, the
Legion said.
Col. Legendre had been on military
leave from the Legion since May,
1912, when he was called to duty
as major and assigned to the
Office of Civilian Defense as assist
ant to Commissioner John Russell
Young.
A veteran of both wars, Col
Legendre has been national field
secretary for the Legion, a claims
expert at the Washington head
quarters and chief of contact in
Washington.
He assumed his new Legion
duties yesterday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-06-18
Col. legendre Returns
10 W0rk With Lenion

Col. Leonce R. Legendre, former
executive officer for Washington
civilian defense, has returned to the
American LegtM and WIN be assist
Evening star., 1946-08-06
Junior.P Police Open
Activity Center

A new Activity Center was opened
last night at I'LL Third street Sc.
by the Southeast Division Of the
Junior Police and Citizens Corps
after parade led by the 40-piece
Junior Police Drum and Bugle
Corps.
Policeman Oliver A. Cowan, direc-
tor of the corps, said he expected
some 1000 youngsters in the area
to take advantage of the center
"thus taking some 2,00o children off
the streets and out Of trouble"
The center, which will be SUPER
vised by Francis Spriggs, is located
on former parking lot. Teen age
dances, talent shows and movies are
among the activities planned at the
center, Mr.. Cowan said.
The parade began at the st.
Cyprian Church, Thirteenth and G
streets Sc. at 8 pm. and ended at
the arena at the center. The arena
will be known as the Southeast
Junior Police Arena and will be
managed by Leroy Hollis.
Mr.. Cowan said the arena will be
shared with recently organized
unit known as the Golden Eagles OF
the Carrolsburg Dwelling, 400 L
street Sc. Mrs. Ethel A. Forrest is
manager OF the project and Ben
jamin johnson is the sponsor.
Evening star., 1946-08-06
S925,0O0 Fund Drive
Planned by 6. W. 10
Equip New Hospital

George Washington University
will seek a 1925, 900 fund to equip
its new hospital building in a cam
paign beginning September %, it
was announced today by Robert "
Fleming, chairman of the Board OF
Trustees of the university.
The drive will continue through
October 10.
washington, our Nations Capt.
tai, has been criticized severely for
its shortcomings in hospital care,'
Mr.. Fleming said in announcing the
fund-raising plans. Anticipated
buildings and lack of modern equip
ment are the chief causes for COM
plaint."
He praised local hospitals for
doing so much with so little" and
commented:
Given the proper tools, they can
do an even better job"
The new hospital, now under con-
struction at Washington Circle, was
made possible by q Federal grant,
but terms of the agreement between
the Government and the university
provided that the latter would stand
the cost of equipping it.
Last December, it was announced
solicitation of a $750,000 fund had
been authorized by the Board OF
Trustees. However, steadily rising
costs of equipment forced an up
ward revision of the goal
The new building will have ac-
commodations for 405 patients, as
against 80 in the outmoded present
quarters at 1899 H street NV. II
will be operated by the university
under lease from the Government
with an option to buy.
Evening star., 1946-08-06
Military Music Clinic Planned
At AAF Water Gate Concert
By George Kennedy

When the Army Air Forces Band
plays at the Water Gate tomorrow
night, "a Air Force band leaders now
in Washington for q "clinic" on
military music will be In attendance.
The concert will be one-half band
concert and one-half orchestra con-
cert, which is something of a new
departure. The band concert half
should be able to overcome the
acoustical difdculties of sending to
the audience from raft in the
Potomac. The brasses Of the band
will need no help from the ampli-
hcation system on the barge.
This problem of martial music is
more than the shrill trump, the
spirit-stirring drum and the ear
piercing fife to which Othello said
farewell. The military band has
more to do than to give elan to
the ranks on parade. An i'm
portant function Is to entertain
troops, to keep them happy. Thus
1t has to please both tastes, to ladle
out the hot stuff and the corn.
For instance, tomorrow night the
aggregation will, as an orchestra,
play Might on Bald Mountain" by
Moussorgsky. They will accom-
pany Harold Hirsch, their pianist,
through the bravura of Liszt con-
certo. And, as band, they will
play "In Bohemia" by Henry Had
ley. Their baritone, Abroffke
Robofsky, will sing.
Through the day. tomorrow and
Evening star., 1946-08-06
Boy Loses Three Fingers
In Signal Torpedo BIust

Explosion of railway signal
torpedo which he picked up at the
Benning road railway yards yester-
day cost Vance Thiele, IA, of 1850
Ames street NE, three fingers of his
left hand.
The youth said he had brought the
torpedo to the basement of his home
to study the mechanism, and was
holding it in his left hand while
striking 1t with a hammer with his
right hand, when the detonator
blew up.
The blast amputated his thumb,
index and middle fingers, and caused
powder burns to his left arm. He
was removed to Gallinger Hospital,
where his condition was described
as good"
Evening star., 1946-08-06
Capt. Marcy, Police Head
Al White House, Retires

Retirement OF Capt. Herbert L.
Marcy, head of the uniformed
White House police force since Sep
tember /, 1899, was announced by
the White House today.
Capt. Marcy, who lives at $3.50
North Lexington, Arlington, Va,
had been on the White House police
force since October /, 1922, when he
transferred from Park Police, where
he had served since May II, 1918.
He was made captain in charge
Of the uniformed police at the White
House in 1899 and had the respon-
sibility for the protection of the
Executive Mansion and grounds
during the war
The White House said that he
retired, effective July 81, for physi-
cal disability reasons.
Evening star., 1946-08-06
Woman Testifies
Threats Forced
Dual Marriage

A 35-year-old hacker was ordered
held in $500 bond yesterday by Mu-
nicipal Court Judge Ellen K. Raedy,
pending disposition September 10
of threats of charges brought by a
woman who testified she had been
told her marriage to him is not
legal.
The threats allegedly were made
July % by Raymond o. Barnes of
the 1400 block of Eighteenth street
Sc. against Mrs. Frances r. Krause
of the 1700 block of Lincoln road
NE. during a quarrel. Barnes de-
MED the charges.
Questioned about her marriage to
Barnes, whose name she said she
does not use, Mrs. Krause said she
had not been divorced from a pre-
vious husband at the time it took
place. She married Barnes, she tes-
titled, after he threatened to kill
me if / didn't 90 to Marlboro"
Evening star., 1946-08-06

Thursday, the visiting band leaders
will take 10-minute turns at con-
Quoting the 100-piece band in the
studio at Boiling Field.
Maj. George S. Howard, director
Of the AAF band, said the visiting
band leaders, most OF them Army
musicians of years service, are en-
thusiastic about the opportunities OF
popularizing their program sug-
gested by the exchange of ideas in
Washington. Tomorrow night S
concert is not exactly an example
OF that.
The concert tomorrow is a Demon
stration of what they can do in a
concert for music lovers-constant
concert goers.
Maj. Howard, who directed the
AAF Band through the war while on
leave from Pennsylvania State Uni
versity where he is head of the
school of band and chorus, had to
start in all over again to make a
peacetime band when 95 of his best
men were discharged last winter.
But strange to say he had 1900 ap-
plications from professional mu-
sicians and has auditioned 600 in
fashioning the present organization
"The men want security" he said.
This personnel problem is upper
most In the minds OF the visiting
band leaders. Their aggregations
are not up to strength. Today they
are conferring with personnel of
ficers to aid them In recruiting.
Evening star., 1946-08-06
Sin1i Named District Director
of Apprenticeship Training
Former Newsmun
Labor Department
Aide Since 1910

Secretary OF Labor Schwellenbach
today announced appointment of
Gino j. Simi, field representative of
the Apprentice Training Service of
the Labor Department to the new
post of director of apprenticeship
for the District.
William F.. Patterson. director of
the service, recommended Mr.. Simi's
appointment. Mr.. Simi, formerly a
neWspaperman here, has been field
representative for the District since
March, 1912. He joined the DEPART
ment in 1910.
In his new post, he will be re-
sponsible for carrying out new legis-
latlon concerning apprenticeship
here. The new act authorizes the
District Commissioners to name an
Apprenticeship Council, composed
of three employers and three labor
union members. Also represented
on the council will be the Superin-
tendent of Schools and the District
director of the United States En-
ployment Service. The District. with
LIZ firms approved for apprentice
snip program, stands 14th in the
Nation.
The D. c. apprenticeship law,
sponsored by Senator Bridges, Re-
publican, of New Hampshire and
Representative Randolph, Demo-
crat, of West Virginia was "enacted
largely through the efforts of Earl
w. Shinn, apprenticeship chairman
of the Washington Building Con-
gress with the cooperation of local