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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-07-30
Foreign Service Bill
Boosting Pay Scales
lis Sent 10 Truman

A. bill designed to provide the
United States with bigger, better
paid, younger, more efficient for
eign service today awaited only the
signature of President Truman to
become law.
The House-ins5ituted measure,
passed yesterday by the Senate, pro-
vides that ambassadors and minis
tiers, who got their last raise in
1855. will receive top of $25, 900 ard
SIS, 000 respectively, as compared to
previous maximum salaries of ST.
500 and $4,000.
The bill, drawn along lines rec
commended by the State Depart
ment, is known as the Foreign
Service Act of 1916.
In addition to the providing for
pay raises for ranks below that of
minister. which would range under
the reorganization plan from $500
l3, 500-they now range from
$3,27l.80 to Sl0,000-the measure
would:
Change the age of mandatory re-
tirement from IS to so, and permit
an officer who had served 20 years
to retire voluntarily at 30.
Require foreign service officers to
spend three of their first Is service
years in the United States, allow
ing them home leave after every
two years abroad.
Establish the Navy's promotion
system, whereby an officer not pro-
NOTED within set period of years
is retired.
Establish a Foreign Service OFF,
GERS Corps, permitting specialists
to serve four years with the same
status as permanent officers and
thereafter to transfer at their OPP
Ition to the permanent service; set
Iup Foreign Service Staff Corps
for fiscal, administrative, clerical
and auxiliary personnel; provide
for Foreign Service Institute, COM
parable to the naval staff schools
Night baseball is attracting large
crowds in Cuba.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-07-30
Prices
Continued From First Page. \

shirts, shorts and pajamas have
been raised IL per cent by OPA, and
it was indicated further increases
are still to come.
The boost in cigarette prices was
applied by the Liggett & Myers To-
bacco Co, makers of Chesterfield
Fatima and Piedmont cigarettes, but
other firms are expected to announce
increases soon, inasmuch as tobacco
was one of the decontrolled COM
modities set up in revived OPA leg
islation
Retail Boosts Likely.
Retail sources said the wholesale
increase probably would mean a J.
cent rise for single packages OF
cigarettes still selling for IA cents
There was some doubt, however
whether 15-cent cigarettes would in.
crease to Is cents
In another development on tn,
price front, Washington hotel!
started reflguring their menu price
today with the possibility of Is tt
Is per cent price increase in meal.
before the end of the week.
A number of chain restaurant.
and drug stores already have order.
ed price rises in items containin,
decontrolled foods such as meat
poultry and dairy products.
While individual restaurants alst
were making changes, the Washing
ton Restaurant Association wa.
awaiting a Qualification from OPP
before issuing a general bulletin t.
its members.
Announcement on this question
was expected some time today, &C
cording to an official of the essocia
ton.
Retail prices of mems shirts
shorts and paiamas have been in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-07-30

for the city from June. 1923, to
June, 1925, when he left the Job of
chief craftsman in the architect S
office for private employment.
Until February, 1928, he was af-
filiated with a New York City
architectural firm, but returned at
that time to become an associate
architect. In 1890 he was appointed
chief of the architectural division
Mr.. Coe again left municipal
service in March, 1943, to accept a
commission in the Nays Civil En-
gineer Corps He was in service
until October l. 1945. when he re-
turned to the District as senior en-
gineer
He attended George Washington
University here and is member
of the American Institute of Archi-
tects and the Washington Building
Congress.
Former Post Abolished.
Mr. Hutson also has had 20 years
service with the District govern
ment After attending George
Washington University he went to
work for the city as structural
craftsman in the architects office
February Is, 1926.
He was made senior constructor
engineer in charge of buildings five
years ago, having been chief inspec-
tor of construction for the five years
before that. In approving his new
job as director of construction, the
Civil Service abolished his former
post. The new job pays $8,17950.
Mr.. Batson started working for
the District in 1918 as a timekeeper
for the Sewer Department. After
an absence of 10 months he returned
to municipal employ in 1920, again
being assigned to the Sewer Depart
ment. After rising to the position
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-07-30
Lynchinqs
Continued From First PaeeD

the Department of Justice are be-
hind this investigation.
Georgia Officials to Get Record.
Il hope for an early solution Of
these shocking murders. The en-
tire record of our investigation will
be made available to the Governor
of Georgia, if necessary. for proper
action of Georgia civil authorities.
This crime is an affront to de.
cent Americanism. Only due proc
ess of law sustains our claim te
orderly, self-government. l cal
upon all our citizens to repudiate
mob rule and to assist the authori-
tiles to bring these criminals tc
justice. The lives and liberties Of
none of us are safe when forces oil
terror operate outside the laws OF
God and man"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-07-30

creased II per cent nationally and
it was indicated further increases
are ahead
OPA officials said today that the
latest rise had nothing to do with
the new price control bill but was
granted under the old. act which
required industry earnings be main
tanned at the 1936-1930 Level.
Further Increases Ahead.
Further clothing price increases,
estimated by some officials at from Is
to 20 per cent, will be ordered later
under provisions Of the new bill.
On top of the general IL per cent
increase. OPA allowed another 10
per cent for mems and boys dress
shirts and boys sport shirts in the
lower-price fields.
The increases will compensate
manufacturers for rising labor and
material costs from August 10, 1915
to last June 30.
In other price actions, OPA con-
tinued Indefinitely 10 per cent
increase in ceilings on construction
machinery and equipment, pending
further study of industry costs.
The agency also announced manu-
facturers' ceiling price increases
ranging from As to II per cent for
plastic parts used in plastic-fin-
ished products, although retail
prices of such products are not i'm
mediately affected.
Meanwhile, an Agriculture De-
partment report disclosed that prices
received by farmers for cotton
grams, meat animals, poultry, eggs
and dairy products during the
month ended July Is were the high.
est in 81 years.
These increases, the Bureau of Ag-
riculturai Economics said. raised the
general level of prices received by
producers rs points over a month
earlier. to Pa per cent of the 1909
1914 average
The bureau said contributing fac.
tors TO the sharp rise were II point
rise in the index of crop prices ano
"a point rise in the price index fol-
livestock and livestock products
The report commented that the price
situation was generally confused
about the 18th of the month, making
it difficult to obtain representative
average prices on that date"
The agency added that much OF
this confusion appeared to stem
from the unwillingness of some
buyers to pay increased prices with
the possibility that price controls
might be reinstated before the COM
modify could be sold in central mar
kets."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-07-30
Virqinia Veteran browns

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va, July
80 P.-Fred T. James. "a. one of
four Charlottesville brothers, all vet
Grams of World War II, drowned
Sunday while boating on Albemarle
Lake near White Hall.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-07-30
FOUND.

GLASSES. gold frame; found Sunday morn
ing on park bench at Columbia and Kalo-
rama I'd. 1920 r st. NV. Apt A.
WHITE ESKIMO SPITZ. 2O07 n, Danyiije
st. Arlington, Va. CHI. 1850.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-07-30

group the department is investigat.
ing the lynchings fully.
A resolution presented to Mr.
Sonnet, also adopted at the New
York meeting Sunday, declared
"Bilbo and Talmadge are as guilty
of these murders as if they were or
the scene with smoking guns il
their hands" adding:
They purposedly inspired and en-
couraged this lynch-terror against
the Negro people. They should bt
punished"
Compliments District.
DR. Yergan paid tribute to thu
people of Washington, the Metro.
politan Police Department and the
groups that aided in the demonstra
ton here yesterday against the
jynchings, The police were compli.
Tmented for their "dignified escort
and not requiring a formal parade
permit.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-07-30
Conference
Continued From First Page

Minister of Foreign Affairs, pointed
out that China was longest in war.
Wang called for a full and free
discussion of all conference mat
tiers, saying he believed complete
frankness will be most effective
in promoting true understanding
among nations"
Five Committees in All.
Adoption of the press recon-
mendation will mean that all COM
mittee meetings, where details OF
various clauses in individual treaties
are to be debated, can be reported
fully to the world.
There are five committees in all
including the Rules Committee. The
others are the Economic Commits
sion for the Balkans, the Economic
Commission for Italy, the Legal ane
Drafting Committee and the Gre
dentials Committee.
In addition there is subcommis-
sion for each of the five defeated
nations involved in the treaties,
Italy, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria
and Finland.
Mr.. Byrnes led the fighS for free
dom of information from the first.
An American source said his motion
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-07-30
OPA Doubts Power
Over Menu Prices on
DecontroIIed Foods

OPA sources said today there
was some question" whether
the agency, under the new price
control act, can exercise any
form OF control over menu
prices in which foods no longer
under ceilings are involved.
Legal experts in OPA have
been working for several days
on the problem and have yet
to reach decision, spokes-
man said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-07-30
Standard Register Co.
Accused Of Monopoly
In Business Forms

The Standard Register Co. of
Dayton. Ohio, today was named de-
PENDANT in a Department of Justice
suit in District Court which charged
the firm with violating the Sherman
Antitrust Act and the Clayton Act
by attempting to monopolize and
contracting to restrain trade In
business forms.
The Government, which was
said by the Justice Department, to
be the largest single purchaser of
the firms products, filed the orig
tnal complaint according to Attor-
ney General Clark.
He termed the case, "one of
series being filed by the Patents and
Cartel Section of the Antitrust Di-
vision to eliminate the practice of
using patented devices to foster
monopoly in the production and dis
tribution Of unpatented material"
The complaint says the firm man.
ufactures and sells more than so per
cent of the total number of par
ticular type of business forms cited
in the suit.
lie COiIlpldlilt SOdtcS Gudt bCCd uSc
of the increasing volume and COM
plexity of Office records and other
statistical data in Government and
business, special attachment was
needed to use the business forms on
typewriters. The attachment aligns
the forms on the typewriter so they
can be fed into business machines.
The firm sells over 100000
worth Of such equipment year. OF
which $4,000, 900 is sold to the Gov
eminent, the complaint said. 1t
charges the firm leases the special
devices on condition they will not
be used to feed business forms other
than those sold by the firm.
The complaint seeks to nullify
the leases covering the special de-
vices and to require the company
to transfer ownership of them to
the leases. according to Wondell
Berge, Assistant Attorney General
in charge of the antitrust division
The complaint also required the
company to cancel all its outstand-
ing leases and in addition asks re-
lief against continuance OF the al
legedly unlawful use of the COM
pany's patents.
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Zoe

Continued From First Page
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-07-30
Police Promise Arrests
In Liquor Hijaeking

Three men who yesterday en-
gineered the theft of 300 cases Of
whisky, valued at $4,000, from q
parked trailer truck-a record hau
in liquor hijacking for the District
will be in police custody before the
day is out, Chief of Detectives Rob-
ert J. Barrett announced today.
Inspector Barrett told reporters
police have definite" suspects. He
intimated that the suspects were de-
tected through a man who rented
parking space to three men who
brought the looted van to lot near
Seventeenth and K streets NE. yes
terday.
The loaded tractor-trailer was
taken from the Washington Trans
fer Co. lot in the 1900 block of New
York ovenue NE. early yesterday
Police recovered both the truck and
the whisky the vehicle first
abandoned on the K street parking
lot, and the whisky several hours
later in a garage in the rear of q
residence in the 1900 block of Morse
street NE. A neighborhood tip
led police to the Morse street ad-
dress, Inspector Barrett revealed.
Evening star., 1946-12-01
Virginia Unit TO Begin Study
OF Schools for DeIinquenfs

The three-member subcommittee
of the Virginia State Welfare Board.
appointed by Gov. Tuck to consider
consolidation of training schools for
juvenile delinquents, will begin
hearings soon, it was announced yes
terday.
Charles r. Fenwick, 6733 Lee high
way, East Falls Church, is chair
man of the subcommittee, which
will conduct hearings and investi-
gate State and Federal systems be-
fore making its recommendations.
Other members are Mrs. Louisa
STROBE, Amherst, Va, and DR.. j. j.
Scherer, jr., Richmond.
Mr.. Fenwick announced he will
soon assign various phases of the
work to committee members and
select staff members of the State
Welfare Department for research.
Evening star., 1946-12-01
News Leader Marks
50 Years al Richmond
BY the Assoeioied Press

RICHMOND, Va. Dec. L. The
Richmond News Leader today OBJ
served Its golden anniversary. 1t
was on Monday, November 80, 1896,
that the reorganized Evening Leader
offered its Vol. /, No. l to the citi-
zens of Manchester, now South
Richmond.
The Leader was acquired in No
yember, 1896, by the late Joseph
Bryan, the name was changed to
the Evening Leader and the paper
was issued simultaneously in Rich
mond and in Manchester.
In January, 1908, Mr.. Bryan sold
the Evening Leader to John L. Will
liams k Sons, and acquired from
them the Richmond Dispatch, which
he combined with his morning news
paper, the Richmond Times, as the
Times Dispatch. The Williamses
combined the Evening Leader and
the Richmond News.
This arrangement continued until
1908 when the News Leader was re-
purchased by John Stewart Bryan
and associates. In April, 1914, the
morning paper was sold to the Win
ston brothers,
1t came back to the control OF
Mr.. Bryan in September, 1910, how
ever, with the merger of the two
papers. Mr.. Bryan was head of the
News Leader firm until his death in
October, 1914.
Evening star., 1946-12-01
Planning Group
Passes Fairfax
Project
Units on Greer Troct
Previously Approved
By Federal Authority

The Fairfax County Planning
Commission has recommended ap-
proval of rezoning application to
provide for construction of multiple
housing units on the Greer prop
erty, near Seven Corners, Falls
Church, 1t was learned yesterday.
Previously the group had recon-
mended approval of another APP
plication for the same purpose on
the Westcott tract on Annandale
road at Lee boulevard.
The commissions recommends
tions were presented by County
Planning Engineer T. j. Stockton
to the County Board of Zoning
Appeals, which conducted a hearing
on the application earlier in the
week.
The applications were made by
Kings Kitchens, Inc, for the Greer
tract. and Milton r. Westcott and
John p. Kerns for the Westcott
tract. Representatives of the petit
TONERS declared that the develop
ments would produce more taxes
than the same area of land devel-
oped by individual housing. 1t was
also contended that only multiple
housing projects or homes in the
lower price range could be con-
structed under prevailing restric-
tions on building.
Development Of both tracts for
multiple housing has been approved
by the Federal Housing Authority,
proponents said, because of their
proximity to Washington and be-
cause they border on an express
highway to the>pistrict. They also
said that curb, gutter. and side
walks would be furnished at the
expense of the developers.
Several letters from land owners
adjoining the Greer tract, recon-
mending the rezoning. were filed
with the appeals board.
Opposition to the rezoning has
been voiced by the Falls Church
Planning Commission, the Falls
Church town council. the Fairfax
County Federation of Citizens As
sociation and the County Fedora
ton of Parent Teacher Associations
Evening star., 1946-12-01
Rites al GaIesviIIe Today
For Mrs. (. A. Harfqe

Funeral services for Mrs. Susan
Virginia Edgar Hartge, co. widow of
Capt. Emile A. Hartge, will be held
at her home In Galesville. Md, at
2:30 o'clock this afternoon. Burial
will be in the Quaker burying
ground, Galesyille. She died Friday
at her home after short illness.
A native of Baltimore, Mrs.
Hartge was the daughter of Capt.
Thomas Edgar of the Old Bay
Steamboat Line. A few years after
her marriage in 1874 she moved
with her husband to White Stake
Point, Galesville. Capt. Hartge
who died in 1925, was one of the
early boat builders on the point.
Mother of II children, 10 of whom
survive, Mrs. Hartge also leaves sc
grandchildren, 10 great-grandchil.
dren, q brother, Capt. James w. Ed
gar, Baltimore, and a sister, Mrs
Hilarien Wilde. EaStport. Md.
Evening star., 1946-12-01
Tokomo Closes
Famous Spring.;
Water Is Impure

Takcma Parks famous spring at
Poplar and Elm avenues, patronized
by many Washingtonians, has been
closed to the public, it was an
nounced last night by Town Clerk
j. Wilson Dodd.
Mr.. Dodd said the spring was
closed because report by the Mont
gomery County Health Department
stated the water was unfit for drink
ing purposes. The Bureau OF Stand
ards confirmed the report.
Mayor Oliver w. Youngblood has
ordered the flow Of spring water di-
verted to drainage sewers and the
pipe outlet capped.
The Washington Suburban Sani-
tary. Commission will be asked to
make a thorough investigation of the
sewer system in the vicinity in an
effort to determine the source of
the contamination, Mr.. Dodd said.
Evening star., 1946-12-01
Home Accidents
~
| Kill 3, Injure
/ 7O3 in Week

Two District residents who died
last week as result of falls m thelI
homes and another who died Of gas
poisoning resulting from a leady
hose in heater, brought the total
of home accident fatalities here te
2O1 for the year, it was announced
last night by the District Red Cross
Accident Prevention Service.
The number of deaths is rs higher
than the total at this time last year
when ITS home accident fatalities
were reported.
Hospitals gave first aid and treat
ment to 103 home accident cases
during the week. Several persons
were scalded with hot water and
burned with grease while cooking
Thanksgiving dinners. Other VIC
TINS included children who ate
roach powder and rat poison and
drank furniture polish.
Another child was scalded when
a kitchen clock fell from the wal
and overturned pot of boiling wa
ter. An older brother dislocated
Ia 2-year -old boys shoulder while
carrying him by the arm. A To-
year-old boy suffered fracture
when he fell while roller skating
in his kitchen.
Other victims in the week in
cluded a housewife who suffered
hack burns when her apron strings
caughts fire.
Evening star., 1946-12-01
U. S. Major Figures He'd Owe
Nuzis SIS ,OOOIf They Had Won

Maj. Raymond P. Sanford, as
sistant base operations officer at
Andrews Field, would have a 5000
.'reparatior,s" payment to worry
about If Germany had won the war.
Whatever else the Nazis might
have done with him in event of an
Axis victory, he is certain today he
would have been handed a bill for
more than 5000 for equipment
that disappeared in German
prison camp.
Mai. Sanford, who lives at Route
No. /, woodward road, Upper Marl-
boro, Md, was taken prisoner when
his plane was shot down in raid
on the Schipol Airdrome at Amster-
dam. The veteran air commander,
now 26 years old, was made prisoner
supply officer at the Barth prisoner
Evening star., 1946-12-01
NewbiII Named to Head
Virqiniu Sunutorium
By the Assoeiafed Press

RICHMOND, Va, Nov. 30.-Dr
Joseph E. Barrett, commissioner OF
the State Department of Mental
Hygiene and Hospitals, today an
nounced the appointment of DR.
Hugh Page Newbill as superinten-
dent Of DeJarnette State Sanator-
ium at 'Staunton to succeed DR.. j.
s. DeJarnette who resigned In July,
1945.
DR.. Newbill will take charge OF
the sanatorium on January /, DR..
Barrett stated. At present DR.. New
bill Is assistant professor Of PSYCHE
airy at the University of Virginia
School of Medicine and associated
with DR.. David C. Wilson, profess
sor of psychiatry, in the operation
of the Davis clinic of the University
of Virginia Hospital.
Evening star., 1946-12-01
Arlington Fire Company
Plans Election Wednesday

Officers of Arlington County Vol
unteer Fire Company No. l will be
elected Wednesday from list of
candidates nominated November 6.
Five persons were nominated to fill
three trustee posts, including that Of
president and board chairman. They
include two incumbents, William
Clark and Pete Thomson The other
three are H. w. Bishop, Warren R.
Clardy and Hyme Sher.
Unopposed for reelection will be
George f Cook, vice president and
Firemen,s Association delegate; FL
mer j. Blackmer. jr., secretary-treas-
urer and board secretary; Hal Miller,
assistant secretary-treasurer, and
Elmer j. Blackmer, jr., alternate
delegate to the Firemen's Associa-
ton.
Also unopposed are Charles Helms,
acting deputy chief, and Robert l..
Tubbs, drillmaster.
Evening star., 1946-12-01
Rev. Ira Hudgins Assumes
Leesburq Rasforaie Today

The Rev. Ira Durwood Hudgins
of Washington, former Army chap
lain, today will assume the pastorate
of the Leesburg (Va.) Baptist
Church, succeeding the Rev. c. w.
Caulkins, reQntly transferred to
the Brookmont (Md.) church.
The new pastor was released from
the Army this month with the rank
of major. He recently had re-
turned from tour of duty in Japan.
A graduate of Mckinley Tecl1ni-
cal High School, the University of
Richmond and the Grocer Theologi-
cal Seminary, Mr.. Hudgins is the
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Earl
Hudgins, % Girard street NE.
Mr.. Hudgins served as student
pastor at several Baptist churches
in Virginia while attending the Uni
versity of Richmond, and as pastor
of the First Baptist Church, Wild
wood, N. j., while attending the
seminary.
He was ordained at the Bethany
Baptist Church in washington in
1943.
Evening star., 1946-12-01

Twenty thousand residents OF
Northern Virginia and Washington
yesterday turned out to watch the
mile-long parade, highlighted by an
1s-foot Santa Claus and 15-foot
balloon letters spelling out Merry
Xmas which opened the 1946
Christmas lane In Alexandria.
Lining King street, the spectators
applauded the bizarre balloon mon
sters, the five bands and over 200
boys dressed as clowns as the pro-
cession moved through the business
section.
Mayor William T. wilkins, accom-
panied by Vice-mayor George K.
Bender, reviewed the procession
from stand at King, Fayette and
Commerce streets. Other officials
and guests included Comdr. H. w.
Mills, American Legion Post No. "a;
the Rev. Norman Roberts, VIEW;
Roger c. Sullivan, city treasurer:
Councilman Charles L. Nash, Paul