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Evening star., 1946-04-21

USES agrees that for $22 a week
(plus meals) a maid should have
had three years experience in the
kind of home where she could get
good training. She should be able
to take care of the children, prepare
and serve at dinner parties, do the
family washing except for sheets,
keep the place clean, know the ele-
ments of sanitation and cook ANY
food that can be obtained in Wash
ington markets"
USES admits, however, that a
housewife may not get all that for
$22 week. But housewives are max
ing allowances. If the maid isn't
handy with children but can cook a
good dinner, the housewife will look
after her own children.
Shorter hours and more pay are
the two principal changes the USES
has found in the domestic service
picture since it abandoned placing
Of domestics early in the war. Gen
orally. maids now work five and a
half days a week, with Sunday and
one-half day off. If there is more
than one maid in home, the maids
rotate their Sundays OF.
Evening star., 1946-04-21
Man Fined $50 for Threat
In Marital Assault Case

Municipal Court Judge John P.
Mcmahon fined a man $50 yes
terday on charge of trying to in
f1uence Government witness not to
testify in an assault case by means
of threat in a court corridor.
Harold Q. Brown, IS, colored, 100
block of R street NE, denied he
tried to interfere in the prosecution
OF Mrs. Frances H. Reeder, 27, COL
ored, TOO black of Twenty first street
NE, charged with stabbing her
estranged husband, John L. Reeder,
400 block of Forty-ninth street NE,
last Monday.
Mr.. Reeder said Brown approached
him before Mrs. Reeder's arraign-
ment and told him he had better
not 60 upstairs Ito the courtroom)
or he would see me later" Police
man H. c. Womble of No. precinct
said he heard Mr.. Reeder tell Brown,
well, you can get me, but I'm going
upstairs"
Il haven't scintilla of doubt but
that this man is guilty." Judge Nc
Mahon declared. Earlier, he had
granted Mrs. Reeder a continuance
in the assault case until April "a.
Evening star., 1946-04-21
Recreation Board Nav
Question Legality Of
Two Pool Contracts

The District Recreation Board
soon may carry Its battle for con-
troll of public swimming pools to the
corporation counsel. The board
met with a rebuff recently when
the Interior Department approved
a contract giving Government
Services, Inc. operational privileges
at six pools for another five years
Harry S. Wender. Recreation
Board chairman, said last night
he will pool the board this week
to see if majority favor investi-
CATION of the legal propriety of ex-
tending contracts on two of the
pools. The contract was signed
over the objection of the Recrea-
tion Board and the Commissioners.
Land Assigned in 1912.
The two pools in question, Ia
koma and Banneker, are on land
purchased with District funds. But
at the time the pools were built
the land was in the custody of Ma
tional Capital Parks until such time
as a recreation department was
founded capable of operating them
The lands were assigned to the Dis
trict government in October, 1912
There is a question whether the
Interior Department is entitled to
let contracts on these pools, al
though there is no contesting this
legality as it pertains to the Francis.
Anacostia, Mckinley lexington and
East Potomac pools, Mr.. Wender
said.
The Recreation Department al
ready operates pools at Rosedale and
Georgetown and expects to control
jointly with the Board of Education
other pools to be constructed at
high schools. The Recreation Board
wants jurisdiction of all pools be-
cause it feels a better public pro-
gram could be introduced, the chair
man added.
Shorter Contracts Favored.
Although the Recreation Depart
ment now has no funds to operate
the pools, he felt the contract with
Government Services should have
been renewed for a shorter period
and included a clause enabling the
department to take them over when
financially able, Mr.. Wender said.
A special committee will be named
at the May board meeting to study
the situation, Mr.. Wender said.
Evening star., 1946-04-21
Maryland Air|ines Offers
Taxi Service 10 Ocean City
By the Associoted Press

BALTIMORE, April 20.-Maryland
Airlines announced today its vaca-
ton service would be expanded to
include plane-taxicab service from
Baltimore to Ocean City.
Anthony G. Rytina, local repre-
sentative, said passengers will be
met at Rehoboth Beach with a
taxicab to take them the remain
ing 26 miles to Ocean City at a rate
comparable to bus fares.
He said that altogether the trip
would take LESS than two hours"
The airline's present schedule for
two flights daily from Washington
and Baltimore to Rehoboth Beach
will be increased gradually after
the vacation season opens, Mr.. Ry-
tina added.
Maryland Airlines mas four Cess
ma planes which carry four pas
sengers each and three Noorduyn
Norseman transports which carry
six to seven passengers.
Evening star., 1946-04-21
I Citizens Suggested
By McCarran 10 Draft
Home-RuIe Charter

Seven outstanding citizens sug-
gested as possible trustees in charge
of drafting the proposed charter
giving the District home rule were
named yesterday by Chairman Nc
Carran of the Senate Judiciary
Committee.
Senator McCarran has set 1920
a. m. Wednesday for the opening of
hearings on his bill setting up the
Federal City Charter Commission to
draw up plan of self-1ule for the
city. He heads a subcommittee
which has the measure under con-
sideration.
Senator McCarran made public
the suggested charter trustees after
conference with Wilbur S. Finch,
president of the Federation of Citi-
zens' Associations.
Mr.. Finch is one of those named.
The others are Renah Camalier,
Washington attorney and former
counsel for the Senate District Com
mittee; Woolsey w. Hall, Jesse B.
Manbeck. Joseph C. McGarraghy
Mrs. Louis Gutenberg and Mrs.
Charles Weston. All have been
prominent in citizens activities.
The Nevada Senator said in his
formal announcement that the
seven citizens have been suggested
as trustees of the proposed Federal
City Charter Commission"
He explained later that the list
was entirely tentative and was
made up simply to get the project
started. If the bill is passed, he
said, it will name the trustees
finally determined on The trustees
will be responsible for drafting the
charter to be submitted to Con-
gress. and, if approved, to the peo-
pie of the District for final ratifi-
cation
The McCarran bill merely sets
the charter in motion. Senator Nc
Carran recommended that it en-
power the city to levy taxes, make
expenditures and carry on all the
other usual functions of a munic-
ipal government. Congress, however
would retain general control over
the District.
Evening star., 1946-04-21
Sons Of Revolution Give
500 10 French Relief

The District Society of the Sons
of the American Revolution have
donated 500 for food boxes for
French children to be distributed
by American Relief for France.
The donation was voted Friday
night as the following officers were
installed:
Mcdonald Miller. president; Ira
w. Dennison, senior vice president,
Harvey B. Gram, jr, second vice
president: Stirling F. Wilson, third
vice president; Orville H. Walburn,
secretary: Rowland F. Kinks, assist
ant secretary; P Harry Byerly,
treasurer; Clifton P. Clark, regis
trar; Won Moltke Summers, as
sistant registrar; Robert D. Brin-
ker, historian; Wilbur D. Hawk,
librarian; the Rev. .ChauncAy C.
Day, chaplain; Charles Delmar,
trustee, and Benjamin D. Hill, jr.,
retiring president; w. Harvey Wise,
jr.; Robert F. Howard, Walter R.
Powell, jr., and Mahlon H. Janney,
members of the Board of Manage
ment.
The society will present an Amer
ican flag to Webster Americaniza-
ton School June IA.
Evening star., 1946-04-21
Garner Opens Defense
In Harrisonburg Trial
BY the Asxoeioted Press

HARRISONBURG, Va, April 20.
Presentation of the defense case
for Ralph H. Garner, charged with
the murder of Frank Smith, World
War II veteran, at his home here
February 20, 1915, opened today
after Judge H. w. Bertram denied
a motion to strike out the prose-
cution evidence. The trial began
Monday.
Witnesses in Rockingham County
Circuit Court testified they could
not definitely identify a person in
an automobile repeatedly seen en-
tering and later leaving the Smith
driveway the night Mr.. Smith died.
Mrs. Everett Rhodes, a neighbor
of the Smiths, has testified for the
State that she saw a person she
identified as Garner drive to and
leave the Smith home on the night
of the Staying.
The State has sought to prove
that Garner was at the Smith home
the night Mr.. Smith died. Mrs.
Smith, widow of the slain man,
was convicted and sentenced to 20
years after being found guilty of
first degree murder. Her appeal
is pending before the State Supreme
Court.
Evening star., 1946-04-21
Good Maids Get Jobs Quickly
For $22 d Week, Says USES

If you want an all-around maid
from the United States Employ
ment Service, you'll probably have
to pay $22 or more a week and
you can't expect her to fix up those
fancy foreign dishes your soldier
husband or son learned to like over
seas, according to the USES.
Now that it's back in the busi-
ness of supplying domestic servants
in addition to trying to keep WASH
ington businessmen supplied with
skilled and white collar help"
USES has this to say about the
maid situation:
There's no surplus of first-class
maids. AS fast as they come in,
they're sent to jobs. There is a
surplus, however, of second -raters"
and ones using domestic service as
stopgap.
Housewives who call the USES
for maid may say they'd like one
for $18 or $40 week. When they
are told that maids are asking
more, they are willing to go to $22
but they add that they expect q
good one.
Evening star., 1946-04-21

Dresser, Alexander Woollcott, Hey
wood Broun and Franklin P. Adams
won the novel recognition.
In an Introductory address, Dr.
Howard Mumford Jones, professor
of English and dean of the Gradu-
ate School of Arts and Sciences at
Harvard University, declared "Of
Human Bondage" fuses the three
elements of narrative, document
and work of art into a single re-
corded vision that human life was
so, and not otherwise" to make it
las certainly a classic as its prede-
cessors, Tom Jones, David Copper
field and Vanity Fair" He pointed
out that great works "sum up an
epoch, fix it for posterity, and so
influence our imaginations we can
not think of the age which produced
them except in terms their writer's
have laid down"
Mr.. Vaughan, who came to tn
United States in 1910 with one suit
case and is leaving with an accumu-
lation of things" revealed at the
dinner given prior to the lecture
that he is planning to return to his
home at st. Jean Cap Ferret in
France as soon as transportation
can be arranged.
An exhibition containing many OF
Mr.. Maugham's works is open to
the public today.
Evening star., 1946-04-21
Health Service Seeks
To Determine Value
OF Spotted Fever TEST

The Public Health Service. may
possibly have the long sought test
to diagnose accurately Rocky
Mountain spotted fever, and is
pleading that District doctors i'm
mediately submit any suspected
cases to the service for testing,
Comdr. Norman H. Topping, senior
surgeon of the Public Health Serv-
ice, said last night.
Comdr. Topping told a meeting
Of the George Washington Univer-
sity Medical Society at the GWU
medical school that the current test
for the fever takes SO long that be-
fore its completion the patient is
either we'll or dead. However, after
years of research, Comdr. Topping
said, there is possibility that
newly discovered laboratory proce-
dures may provide a quick and ac-
curate diagnosis.
He urged that doctors immedi-
ately submit specimens of their
patients blood to the health serv-
ice and said the service would even
be willing to collect the specimens
itself if the doctors desire.
The best preventive of the fever
is still the old-fashioned rule that
both children and adults should be
examined for ticks the minute they
come in from infested areas, Comdr
Topping said. He added that in
stances of the fever have now been
reported in all 48 States, so that no
community is free from possible in
fection.
DR.. James G.. Cummings, director
of the District Communicable Dis
ease Bureau, reported that about 80
per cent of the comparatively few
cases which occur annually in the
District are fatal. He warned that
any patient who is suddenly affected
by "a splitting headache, rising
temperature, and rash on the hands
and ankles" is a potential spotted
| fever caSe
Evening star., 1946-04-21
james Dixon, II, Dies;
MARYLAND Bankers Head

EASTON, Md, April 20.-Funeral
services were held today for James
Dixon, u, president of the Mary
land Bankers Association and of
the Easton National Bank, who died
Thursday. He was a former director
of the Baltimore branch of the
Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond.
Mr.. Dixon leaves his widow and
two sisters.
Evening star., 1946-04-21

however, he said. Commenting on
the report that he Should haye full
authority to select as officers those
individuals he considers most COM
petent," the police chief remarked
the department now has the power
to reject any appointee certified to
it by the Civil Service Commission.
Hope that all the recommended
tions of the report will be adopted
as soon as possible was expressed
yesterday by Rufus S. Lusk, presi-
dent of the Washington Taxpayers
Association, in letter to Chairman
Hebert.
He urged that a bill to strip the
Welfare Board of all its administra-
tive powers, over welfare as we'll as
penal matters. be enacted promptly
The bill now is before a House Dis
trict subcommittee headed by Rep
resentative Smith, Democrat, of Vir-
ginia.
Board Causes Friction.
The Welfare Board sis constantly
at loggerheads with the Commits
sioners, causing friction delay and
expense" Mr.. Lusk charged. "It
has failed in it's management OF
relief, of the penal system and OF
hospitals, which it formerly con-
trolled"
Queried on the proposal that he
loan competent director for the
corrections department pending
further legislative action, James v.
Bennett, director of the Federal Bu-
reau of Prisons, said he would have
no comment until formal request
comes to him.
He promised full cooperation,
however, in reforming the Districts S
penal system and remarked:
"We will try to do the best job we
can when the time comes"
Mr.. Gill, who has kept silent so
far on the recommendation for his
dismissal, was expected to have
something to say as soon as the
inquiry board reports to the Com
missioners tomorrow.
Walter M. Bastian, inquiry board
chairman, announced its findings
are being mimeographed over the
week end. He expects to hand them
to the Commissioners by 10 am.
The Commissioners have final
authority to remove or reinstate
Mr.. Gill. Before the Congressional
report came out, they indicated
they would follow the recomenda-
ton of the inquiry board they
appointed to hear the charges filed
by the Welfare Board.
Claude o. Botkin, resident super
intendent of the Jail, said he would
accede to the recommendation for
ais dismissal.
Evening star., 1946-04-21

A modest man in a blue suit stood
on the stage of the Coolidge Audi
torium in the Library of Congress
last night and presented the Library
with the original manuscript of a
novel considered by outstanding lit
erary critics as the equal of such
great works as Tom Jones, David
Copperfield and Vanity Fair.
The man was w. Somerset
Vaughan and the novel was "Of
Human Bondage" The Is medium
sized notebooks in the authors
hand were presented to the Library
by Mr. Vaughan in gratitude Ito
my fellow writer's in America, and
to a whole generation of American
readers and in thanks 'for the
kindness and the generosity with
which you received the women and
children of my country when, in
fear of a German invasion, they
came to America"
Mr. Vaughan added that "it is
not only for my own small family,
but for all of those of my fellow
countrymen who found refuge on
these shores that wish to offer this
manuscript to you, not as an ade-
quate return, not even as token
payment, but just as an acknowl-
edgement of the debt we owe you"
DIR. Evans Accepts Gift.
The gift was accepted by DR..
Luther H Evans, librarian of Con-
gress, with grateful thanks" After
the presentation, DR.. Evans an
nounced that Mr.. Vaughan had
been made Fellow of the Library
of Congress in Modern English Let
tiers and presented the English
writer with certificate to that
effect
In presenting the manuscript, Mr..
Vaughan traced the history of the
modern English classic. He pointed
out that his book was written when
he was % years old. shortly after
the publication of his first novel,
Eliza of Lambeth" and was origin
ally called "The Artistic Tempera-
ment of Stephen Carey"
The author related how he took
the book to London for publication,
but publishers refused to pay the
price he wanted. After he became
"a successful dramatist, Mr.. Maug-
ham spent two years writing the
book as it is now known, and ten
tatively named it Beauty From
Ashes" This title was changed be-
cause it had been used for another
book. "Of Human Bondage" was
selected from Spinoza's Ethics. Tie
novel was published in 1915.
Acclaimed by Critics.
Mr.. Vaughan then recalled how
its American publication, which pro-
vided the impetus for its eventual
lasting success, was brought about.
He said George Doran, then a pub
Usher who specialized in English
books, brought the work back to this
country for consideration. No one
read the novel because of its length,
until Mrs Doran, while ill, took it
up. Its subsequent publication and
favorable reviews by Theodore
Evening star., 1946-04-21
Chicken Supper to Be Held

The Women's Society of Christian
Service of the Burtonsville (Md)
Methodist Church will hold a chicken
and ham supper at 5 pm, May 2,
at the church.
Evening star., 1946-04-21

A MASTERPIECE COMES TO WASHINGTON Somerset
Maugham English author center the original
script of O Human Bondage" Dr. Luther H. librarian
of Congress right) gift for the Library Congress-
Howard Mumford Jones' professor of English
versty looks the presentation made last night
the Library Star Staff Photo
Evening star., 1946-07-07
Future Weddings
Are Forecast bv
A71NO1f11ce ce127entS

The engagement of Mrs. Leo v.
Warmers daughter, Miss jeanne
Durfee Graham, to 1t John David
Miley. U. S. A., has been announced
by Col. and Mrs. Warner. 1t. Miley,
who is the son of Brig. Gen. and
Mrs. William NJ Miley, u S. A., is
1916 graduate of the United States
Military Academy. The wedding is
! planned for December in the Cadet
Chapel at West Point, N. Y.
Maffos.MefcaIf
| Miss Jacqueline Mattox will wed
Mr.. WILDER Stevens Metcalf, jr., in
September. She is the daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. c. B. Mattox of
Gretna, Va, and her fance is the
son of Mr.. and Mrs Wilber Stevens
Metcalf of Washington.
Miss Mattox is a recent graduate
of Madison College, Harrisonburg.
and Mr.. Metcalf is presently at
tending Washington and Lee Uni
versity in Lexington.
RidseIy-Kennedy
The engagement of Miss Helen
Ridgely to Mr.. William Munsey
Kennedy. jr., has been announced
! by her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Harry
Sansbury Ridgely. The wedding will
take place August "a in the Bethle-
hem Chapel of Washington Cath
edral. The bride-elect was recently
entertained at miscellaneous
shower by Mrs. Alfred Richwine.
Befhnne-McCarf
August 4 is the date set for the
wedding of Miss Audrey Irene
Bethune and Mr. Brenton James
McCart. The ceremony will take
place in All Souls Memorial Church.
Miss Bethune is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. H. Bethune of Saskatoon,
Saskatchewan, Canada, and her
fiance is the son OF Mr.. and Mrs
j. S. McCart of Washington.
McNicholns-B0wen
The engagement of Miss Patricia
| Ann McNicholas to Ensign Thomas
J. Bowen, u. S. N, has been an
nounced by the bride-elect's parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Patrick J. McNicholas
Ensign Bowen is the son of Col. and
Mrs Carl D. Bowen of Washington.
Miss McNicholas attended George
Washington University, and Ensign
Bowen was a member of the June
graduating class of the United States
Naval Academy No date has been
set for the wedding.
Danof.ToIkman
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Danoff of
Washington announce the engage
Evening star., 1946-07-07

from the Navy. No wedding date
has been set.
SbiIane.ConneHy
Announcement has been made Of
the engagement of Miss Margaret
Elizabeth Spillane, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. John Spillane of Red
Bank, N. j., to Mr.. John H. Con-
nelly Of Washington. Miss Spillane
was student at Red Bank Cath
olic High School. Mr. Connolly
served three and half years in
the United States Army Medical
Corps and is now employed as a
medical technician at Walter Reed
Hospital.
Lorenf-Gibson
Mr.. and Mrs. Adam Lorent of
Kenosha, Wis, announce the en-
gagement of their daughter Miss
Virginia Louise Lorent, to Mr.. Joseph
Evening star., 1946-07-07

ment Of their daughter, Miss Helen
Danof, to Mr.. Jerome volkman
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Henry volk-
man of Brooklyn, N. Y Miss Danofi
is a student at the University OF
Maryland and Mr.. Volkman is q
graduate. of the College of the City
OF New York.
Bndman-WaSSer
The engagement of their daugh-
ter, Miss Esther Budman, to Mr.
Melvin Wasser, son of Mr.. and Mrs
Harry Wasser Of Washington, has
been announced by Mr.. and Mrs
Isadore Leon Budman, also of this
city. Miss Budman is a graduate
of Roosevelt High School and Mr.
Wasser has recently been discharged
Evening star., 1946-07-07
Cocktail Hosts

Mr.. and Mrs. Sidney I.ansburgh,
jr., were hosts at a cocktail party
recently at the Statler Hotel. The
latter part of this week they left
for Baltimore, where they will make
their home
Evening star., 1946-07-07

G. Gibson Of Upperville, Va. Mr..
Gibson served In the United States
Air Corps In Europe for three years.
The wedding will take place at an
carly date
Arizona sun., 1946-10-25


pact. Championing Yugoslavia's
cause. Molotov shouted that Russia
would not permit the western pow
ers to dictate to the new Slavic
democracies," and reiterated Len
in's axiom that ga people which
takes its destiny into its own hands
Is invincible."
The Russian bloc's objections to
the treaty centered against estab-
lishment of a strong, neutral gov
ernor for the key port Of Trieste, and
creation Of a new Itale-Yugoslav
border.
A strong governor would deprive
the mixed Italian Yugoslav popula-
ton of its seif-rule. Molotov declared
in calling for powerful constitu-
ent assembly. An alliance of Italian
Yugoslav Communists would have
given the Reds control of the stra-
tegic city.
The new Italo-Yugoslav border
leaves the Slovene population of Go
rizia and the Isonzo valley in Italy
as a racial minority, Yugoslavia
charged.
Arizona sun., 1946-10-25
ARMY:
Charge Misconduct

Claiming that he possessed infor-
nation involving highly placed
army officials connected with the
Nazi war crimes trials of miscon-
duct with wives of the prosecuted
bigwigs, Sen. Hugh B. Mitchell
(Dem., Wash.) revealed his inten-
ton Of asking the senate war inves-
tigating committee to make a full
blown inquiry into the charges.
Mitchell declared that he had
been informed that Frau Won Schi-
rach, wife of the Hitler youth leader
who received 20 years, was one of
the wives of the Nazi leaders who
was guest of honor at champag gne
parties allegedly thrown by the &C.
cused army officials. Wives of high
SIS. officers under investigation for
war crimes also were invited to the
"dimly it'' drinking jousts.
The senator stated that he had
been informed that Heinrich Hoff-
man, former personal photographer
of Adolf Hitler, served as a go-be-
tween for the women and u. S. Of
ficials. Detained to identify prom
inent Nazis, Hoffman was said to
be in the pay of the American gov
ernment.
Arizona sun., 1946-10-25
MEAT:
Predict Plenty

In pressing the administration to
Ndecontrol livestock, the beef indus
try advisory committee declared
that there were sufficient cattle in
the country to meet the require
ments of the hext IL months but
they were being kept from market
because of price inequities.
Citing department Of agriculture
statistics, the chmmittee said there
were 80 million head of cattle
and calves on farms Jan. l, of which
90 million were available for meat.
Despite heavy marketings this sum-
mer, So million head of cattle were
available for meat by Sept 24-30.
Estimating that supplies will be
fully IS per cent above require