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Evening star., 1946-12-08
TAFT Calls for Reform
of Campaign Fund Ac'
by Special Assembly
ey the A,soe;oted Press

BALTIMORE, Dec. 7.-Galen L
TAFT. chairman of the Republican
State Central Committee, suggested
today that the impending special
session of the General Assembly
should be broadened to embrace:
/. Appointment of committee
to draw up reforms in the Cor
rupt Practices Act in its applica-
ton to campaign expenses.
2. Appointment of a similar COM
mittee to review the administra-
ton of past liquor license boards
and their executives.
Mr.. TAFT said the calling of the
session by the States Democratic
administration "is curious confess
sion of their blundering or misuse
of State powers to assist their re-
cent election campaigns.
Republicans and Democrats alike
favored an increase of pay for State
employees to meet rising living costs,
he declared. But Gov. O'Conor
through the Board of Public Works
cutely advanced his tickets pres
tige and smugly reinforced the DEM
ocratic campaign funds by grant
ing $2,000,000 in pay raises before
the election" Mr. TAFT added.
I'VE now learn after the election
that the Democratic candidates al
publicly admit that the clever ano
illegal scheme just will not work
out. Instead of the boasted State
surplus, this move will have caused
a deficit early in l947.
"State employees and State agen-
cies will be unpaid unless members
|of the lame-duck legislature, with
l6 fewer Republicans than in the
next legislature, patch up and make
good the added expense caused by
these election-induced, illegal ap-
preparations.
Gov. O'Conor, in announcing his
decision to call the special session.
mentioned d single purpose-to pass
appropriation bills covering the pay
increases and extra expenses suS-
tanned by various Government agen-
|cies, particularly welfare depart
mentS.
Evening star., 1946-12-08
NeighborhoodC Concert Montgomery Police
I0f Symphony SET for Prefer R. W. Farmer
Leland Junior Dec. Is AS County Chief

The Montgomery County Police
mems Association has expressed
preference for Robert Watts Farmer
outgoing Democratic sheriff, as the
county's new chief of police to sue
ceed H. Leslie Carlin, it was-learned
last night.
The action was taken in response
to request by the Republican State
Central Committee for the county
The committee submitted list
of four names for the associations
consideration. Mr.. Farmers name
was not on the list but was placed
in nomination by the association.
Those on the committees list were
Capt. James S. McAuliffe, in charge
of the Bethesda substation; Charles
Orme, former police chief; Ernest
Hawkins, who has been appointed
clerk to the new Republican-d -domi-
mated Board of County Commis-
sioners, and Col. G. v. Sayer, mayor
of Kensington.
Capt. McAuliffe refused to con-
slider the appointment and Mr.
Hawkins, it was learned, has decided
not to change jobs.
After voting in favor Of Mr.
Farmer, the association voted unan-
imously to extend 100 per cent CO.
operation" to any police CHIEF
named by the commissioners.
Mr.. Farmer, it was reported, re-
ceived 80 votes. His nearest rival
was Mr.. Orme, who received q
votes, while Col. >Sayre received
votes. j. William Garrett, also g
former chief of police, and Ward w
Caddington, clerk to the Board OF
Election Supervisors, received :
votes each.
Evening star., 1946-12-08
Arlington Democratic Club
Elects Charles Fenwick

Charles r. Fenwick, former men,
Der of the Virginia General Assem-
bly, has been unanimously elected
president of the Arlington County
Democratic Club, it was announced
yesterday.
Other officers named include:
Griffin T. Garnett, first vice presi-
dent; Charles E. Ladson, second vice
president; M. Rex. Byrne, treasurer;
Mrs. Dorothy Stanton, recording
secretary; Mrs: Maud Norman Dove,
corresponding secretary; Lawson
Wimberly, parliamentarian, and Carl
Taylor. sergeant at arms.
Mr.. Fenwick was elected to the
State Legislature in. 1899 and served
three terms. In 1945 he ran for the
Democratic nomination for lieu
tenant governor.
Heads of departments in the
county and State government will
be invited to take part in forums to
be started soon.
Evening star., 1946-12-08
Reporter Who Saw 1t Will Tell
How War Come to Philippines

Co. IN Manila at the time OF Pearl
Harbor, he broadcast an eye witness
account of the Japanese attack on
Nichols Field. He won headliners
award for the broadcast. He con-
tinued his broadcasts in Manila un-
til the Japs took him prisoner.
Each Sunday afternoon at 2!30
o'clock he will continue his series
about the war, Gas Remember It.
He will also give daily news COM
mentaries at 1890 and 4 pm.
Another weekly feature OF the sta
tion will be a summary OF Maryland
news by j. B. Zatman, The Evening
Stars Montgomery County staff cor
respondent. This will be broadcast
at 1890 pm. each Saturday.
John w. Kluge is president OF the
new station which is broadcasting
on 1850 kilocycles. Joseph H. Brech-
ner is manager. The station is op-
Grated by the Tri-Suburban Broad
casting Corp.
Evening star., 1946-12-08
Agriculture Bureau MobiIizes
Planes to Bftz Crop Pests

ployed in this service, which Is
headed by Don Whittam, veteran
transformer and sky writer. He is
now at the Agriculture Department
Experimental Station, Beltsville,
Md, where he is grooming four of
the bureaus planes for the spring
and summer bug blitz.
Other headquarters for the planes
are ct Greenfield, Mass; Turner's
Falls, Mass; Harlingen, Tex; Gulf
port, Miss and Orlando, Fla.
It's no easy job to get pilots who
are not affected by flying Is feet
over treetops and fences.
According to Mr.. Sheals. several
wartime bomber pilots quit after
several weeks of flying for the Agri-
culture Department to return to
instrument flying at high attitudes.
Either transforming pilots or for
mer pilots of light artillery spotting
planes make the best pilots for spray
planes, he believes. One of their
best pilots once patrolled at low al
titude the Remagen bridgehead at
the Rhine.
100 Square Miles Treated.
One of the largest projects this
year, according to Mr.. Sheals, was
the treating of 100 square miles of
forest in New England and North
ern Pennsylvania against the gypsy
moth which by midsummer had
left bare of foliage some 800, 900
acres of woodland.
The planes will be shunted around
next year to meet the heaviest con-
centration of enemy forces. .
Whether it's the spruce bug worm
in the Northern forests, the pink
bollworm in Texas cotton fields, or
the white fringe BEETLE in Mississippi
the little air force, with puddle
jumper planes and herveless pilots,
will be there to blitz them before
spreading out again to routike jobs.
Evening star., 1946-12-08
PUG Resumes Study Dec. II
On RossIyn-Benning Buses

? The Public Utilities Commission
yesterday set 10 am, December H.
as the date it will resume its inves-
tigation of a Capital Transit Co
proposal to substitute buses foi
streetcars on the Rosslyn-Benning
route east of Fifteenth street NV
The plan has been indorsed by
several civic groups in Northeast
but opposed by business men who
have built up their trades along the
car route. District highway and
traffic officials also have objected
to the proposal
At the same time the commission
announced a public hearing at 10
am, December 16, on the applica-
-tion of the Washington Railway and
Electric Co. to be allowed to sell
outstanding stock in the Braddock
Light and Power Co. to the Potomac
Electric Power Co.
The petition is in line with the
plan of dissolving the giant North
American Holding Co. and its SUBJ
sidiary holding company, Wreco, de-
signed ultimately to leave Pepco in
control of Braddock as single
utility.
Evening star., 1946-12-08
Reussessment Results
In Herndon Available

Results of the recent reaSSessment
of property in the Herndon Magis-
torial District and the town OF Hern-
don will be made available to prop
erty owners Friday and Saturday
in the Offices of the Fairfax County
Board of Assessors at the court
house, it was announced yesterday.
Members of the board are Wilson
M. Wood, Annaridale; James Byrnes
Mclean, and H. L. Oliver, Forest
willie
Evening star., 1946-12-08

The National Symphony Orehes-
ira will give the second of the
neighborhood concerts arranged by
The Evening Star or Monday night,
December 16, at Leland Junior High
School in Chevy Chase, with DR..
Hans Kinder conducting.
This will be the only concert in
suburban Montgomery County and
in order to have as representative
an audience as possible, 200 invita-
tions were distributed through Mont
gomery-Blair High School, 300
through Bethesda Chevy Chase High
and 300 through the host school,
In addition, 200 invitations will be
distributed at the information coun-
ter in the lobby of The Star Build
ing starting at $50 am. tomorrow.
1t is probable that the supply will
be exhausted quickly, as was the
case when invitations were made
available for the first concert at
Roosevelt High School.
The concert will be broadcast by
Station WMAL and like that at
Roosevelt will be in the nature of a
studio program. All guests must be
in their seats by ais O'Clock to avoid
confusion or background noise when
the program goes on the air.
DR.. Kinder and his 100 musicians
are now on a tour which includes
appearances in Troy, Schenectady,
Syracuse, Glens Falls and Amster-
dam in New York State, Springfield,
Mass; Hartford and Meriden, Conn. !;
Morristown, NJ j., and York, Pa.
Another concert scheduled for Nj
agara Falls was cancelled because of
coal shortage
Invitations for the Leland concert
may be obtained at the three schools
mentioned above or early tomorrow
at the information counter in The
Star lobby.
Evening star., 1946-12-08
By A. A. Hoehiinq

A Government department is pre-
pairing this winter for a full-scale
aerial offensive next summer against
a relentless foe
The Bureau of Entomology and
Plant Quarantine of the Agricul-
ture Department is mobilizing its
own airforce for the greatest at
tack in it's history on such crop
and forest destroying bugs as the
japanese beetle. gypsy moth, white
fringe beetle, pink bollworm, spruce
bug worm, and the monstrously
greedy Wisconsin spittle bug.
Accordingly to Ralph A. Sheals,
veteran entomologist with the bu-
reau, his organization will use its
own airforce of at least Is planes,
augmented by any number of planes
chartered locally.
Planes Being Prepared.
''It looks like big season." he
said. There's hardly a private air.
port of any size in the country which
is not equipping at least one air.
plane with spray apparatus. Not
counting the spray solution itself
DOT and other solutions these
chartered planes will spray an area
at an average price of a little over
SO cents an acre"
What finally sold the department
on the method of aerial spraying,
he claimed, is that it was proven
this year that one plane can spray
1000 acres in one day, while to
cover the same area by ground
equipment would take 10 men with
seven machines five weeks.
The departments fleet of insect
killing planes are mostly biplanes.
Some are Is years old and their
worth is measured in terms of their
ability to fly slowly and at low
altitude. A.
Only eight full-time pilots are eTfl-
Evening star., 1946-12-08
A. {. Durfee Appointed
Maryland U. Editor

Arthur E. Durfee, Ithaca, N. Y,
has been appointed assistant extern
sion editor at the University OF
Maryland to succeed ]. T. Kangas.
who resigned recently to accept an
other position. The appointment is
effective December 16 +.
Mr.. Durfee has done feature writ
ing for the New York State Col
lege of Agriculture, has worked as
a county agent and assistant county
agent, and has been staff member
|of the office of extension teaching
and information.
Evening star., 1946-12-08
Arlington Legionnoires
TO Meet Wednesday

Unknown Soldier Post 312, Amer
lean Legion, will meet at pm
Wednesday in the Arlington Pres
byterian Church, $500 Columbia
pike. .... .......
Elmer j. Blackmer, jr., adjutant
will discuss "The Indoctrinatior
Program of the American Legion.
John w. Gait, State service officer
will describe handling of veterans
claims.
Application is now pending for g
charter for an auxiliary unit to<the
post, to be open to wives, mothers
sisters and daughters of veterans oi
World War I or II, and women vet
Grams of those wars.
Evening star., 1946-12-08
Welfare Group to Meet
In Alexandria Tuesday

The Alexandria Chapter of the
Southern Conference for Human
Welfare will meet at pm. Tuesday
in the YWCA Building, 602 Cam
eron street.
DR.. Roland Egger, professor OF
political science at the University
of Virginia, will discuss improve
ments in city government.
A description of the machinery
of the Alexandria city government
will be presented by Richard Kea-
tinge, chapter chairman.
Evening star., 1946-12-08
DR.. Annette Named 10 Head
Alexandra Hospital Staff

DR.. G. E. Annette has been elected
president of the Alexandria Hospital
medical staff, it was announced yes
terday.
Other officers named are DR..
Harrison 'Picot, vice-president, and
DR.. Colin MacRae, secretary.
The new officers, with the two
past presidents, Dr. John A. Sims
and DR.. Charles v. Amole, constitute
the executive committee of the staff.
Hospital officials reported a total
of 1888 births for November, 98 boys'
and IS girls.
Evening star., 1946-12-08
Guithersburg Center
To Hold Open House

The Gaithersburg CMd) Public
Health Lay Committee will hold
open house at it's new health center
on Summit avenue from 2 to S pm
Saturday.
DR.. Margaret Rioch, County Men,
tai Hygiene Society psychologist
will speak and music will be fur
nished by Mrs. Florence Garrett
and Mrs. L. M. Griffith.
Evening star., 1946-12-08
Gift House for Needy
Planned in Bethesda

A gift house for needy children
of the community this Christmas
will open Tuesday at TOO Wisconsin
avenue, Bethesda Contributions
will be received from 9 am. to 8
pm. daily.
Gifts of toys or money will be
received and will be distributed to
the children on Christmas Day.
The idea was started by Richard
Schaefer, John r. Reeves and Will
ton Allen of the Bethesda Chevy
Chase Lions Club.
Evening star., 1946-12-08
Churches Back
Brown School
Center Plan
Chevy Chase Pastors
To Deliver Appeal
From PuIpits Today

A call for Chevy Chase residents
to attend the Commissioners hear
ing Wednesday on E. V. Brown
School will be sounded from every
church pulpit in the Chevy Chase
area today.
The six religious leaders in the
area, representing as many differ
ent denominations, all plan to at
tend the hearing to indorSe the
community-s sponsored proposal to
convert the school into combined
public library and recreation center.
The unusual announcement from
the pulpits, it was explained, grew
out of the conviction of all the
churchmen that a center at E. v.
Brown School would contribute ma
terially to the welfare of young
people.
Endorsement Is Unanimous.
Unanimous in their Endorsement
of the proposal, the religious lead
ers have emphasized the need for
some place where young people
would have an opportunity to con-
gregate off the streets, where rec
reation could be supervised and
hobbies encouraged.
The church leaders who will ap-
pear at the hearing include Msgr.
Thomas G. Smyth of the Shrine OF
the Blessed Sacrament, the Rev. j.
Hillman Hollister, Chevy Chase
Presbyterian Church: the Rev.
Henry w. Snyder, ST. Pauls Lu-
theran Church; the Rev. Charles
w. Lowry, All Saints Church: the
Rev. Clarence E. Wise, Wesley
Methodist Church, and the Rev.
Edward o. Clark, Chevy Chase
Baptist Church.
Plans for the hearing, which will
open in the boardroom on the fifth
floor of the District Building at 10
am. Wednesday, were being COM
pleted over the week end.
The District Recreation Board
and a committee of the Board of
Library Trustees both expected to
discuss the hearing at meetings
Tuesday.
James E. Schwab, vice chairman
of the recreation board, said the
board at its monthly meeting will
prepare its case for a recreation
center and will decide who will be
the spokesman.
In the absence of Harry S. Wen
der, board chairman, Mr.. SchWab
probably will serve, assisted by Miss
Sibyl Baker, acting recreation
superintendent, and Harry S. Eng
lish, who heads the recreation de-
partment's neighborhood centers.
Library Trustees to Attend.
The case for using the school as
library will be presented by Albert
w. Atwood, chairman, and B. M.
McKelway and Nelson T. Harrison,
members of the Board of Library
Trustees. They will be assisted by
Public Librarian Clara w. Herbert.
Sam Higger, chairman of the
Chevy Chase Community Council,
will explain to the Commissioners
why the residents of Chevy Chase
are united behind the campaign to
get the school.
Mrs. Henry Grattan Doyle, presi-
dent of the Board of Education;
Henry M. Fowler, president of the
Chevy Chase Citizens Association;
Keith Seegmillers president of the
Woodrow Wilson High School STU
dent council, and the heads of other
organizations represented on the
community council will speak for
the project.
DR.. Hobart NJ Corning, superin-
tendent of schools, will lead the
delegation of school principals and
students planning to attend the
hearing,
Evening star., 1946-12-08
Bethesda PTA to Hear
Cancer Institute Head

DR.. Roscoe Spencer, director OF
the National Cancer Institute, will
talk on "a Biologist Looks at Man, :
at meeting Of the Bethesda Chevy
Chase High School Parent Teacher
Association.
The high school capexla choir
will sing.
Evening star., 1946-12-08
Record Sales Dep|ete
YuIe Stocks as Stores
Expect Greater Rush

With many of Washington's stores
reporting the biggest day in their
history yesterday, preparations were
being rushed to replenish depleted
stocks of certain items in expecta-
ton of even greater sales during the
coming week.
Obtaining more stock, especially
toys, will now be simpler problem
with the coal strike over, an official
of The Hecht Co. said, in reporting
that his store did the largest busi-
ness in its 50-year existence.
Crowds on F street were so thick
that pedestrian traffic overf1owed
into the street. The aisles of down.
town department stores were jammed
with shoppers to such an extent
that one store official threw up his
hands and exclaimed: I'VE simply
can't get anybody in anymore. !
have never seen anything like It'll"
Embargo Is Ignored.
Store officials said that although
most of the purchases made in their
stores were for local use, persons
who intended shipping presents out
of town paid little heed to size
limitations although they knew o1
| the embargo on the larger items be-
cause of the coal strike.
"They seemed to sense that the
strike would be over and that thu
embargo would quickly be lifted 81
they didn't worry about size, floor.
walker explained.
| None of the stores had exact fig
ures Immediately available on tht
/ amount of business transacted yes
terday but all agreed jubilantly tha'
records apparently were broken ane
that the business would be cunula-
tive, possibly attaining its peak nexl
Saturday and then tapering OF q
little. Last-minute shoppers, al
usual, would be active right up to
| Christmas eve, it was said.
Window Lighting to Return.
The end of the coal strike will
mean also the lifting of the brown
out, one official pointed out, and
this will draw even larger crowds
to the stores. He declared. how
ever, that this years shopper is a
most determined person and has
not been deferred to by the lack OF
outside illumination, anyway.
Apparently, high prices for GER
tain consumer items. have not re-
duced such purchases, even though
picket line of the Washington
Committee for Consumer Protec-
ton was active at the height OF
yesterdays shopping rush.
Urging shoppers not to buy gifts
at repeatedly exorbitant prices, the
pickets were active at Eleventh and
| F streets NV. Store officials in
that vicinity said the demonstra-
ton appeared to have little effect
on sales.
An employe of one five-and-ten-
cent store was delegated to do moth
ing but replenish stocks of decora-
tions, tree ornaments, wrapping
paper and Christmas cards which
were being snapped up by pur-
chasers as fast as they were placed
on display.
Evening star., 1946-12-08
Christmas Schedule
5peeded in Suburbs
By Post Offices

Special arrangements to handle
kthe Christmas rush were announced
yesterday by officials in charge of
the Hyattsville, Mount Rainier and
Silver Spring Post Offices.
The Hyattsville Post Office will
add approximately IS temporary
city carriers and five temporary
clerks, Postmaster Egbert F. Tingley
announced.
The additional employees will raise
to about 80 the personnel of the
Office, which will handle Yuletide
mail for upwards of $4,000 persons.
Starting Wednesday and continu-
ing daily, except Sundays, through
December %, the usual pm. clos
ing time for window service viii be
extended to 10 pm. On Sunday, De-
cember Is, and Sunday. December
%, the Office windows will be open
from 9 am. to 10 pm.
On Christmas eve, the Office will
close for general business at pm.
and on Christmas Day there will be
window service only from 8:15 am.
to 1915 am.
The Office force will be reduced to
a minimum Christmas Day to en-
able as many employees as possible
to join their families. There win
be no regular carrier deliveries that
day.
An extra truck will be furnished
the post Office for the rush period
and additional collections will be
made from the street letter boxes.
Receipts of the Hyattsville office
SO far this year have exceeded those
of 1945. according to Mr.. Tingley
Through November Is, receipts to-
tailed $50 ,138, ,094. For the same pc
riod a year ago, the figure was
$68 ,955 ,095.
In Mount Rainier, Postmaster
William F. Keys said the main office
at 1924 Thirty-fourth street win be
open from $50 am. to 9 pm. on
| weekdays. Money orders, however
will be issued only from 8 am. to
Is pm.
On Sundays, the Office will be open
from 10 am to pm. for the pur-
chase of stamps and the mailing of
parcel post packages and letters.
Station I at 2207 Varnum street
will be open from II am. to 8 pm.
daily for all postal business except
money orders, which will be issued
until 7:30 pm.
Star Hall, 3407 Rhode Island ave-
nue., will be open Z am. to Z pm. on
weekdays and on Sundays from
10 am. to pm. This Office is for
stamp purchases, mailing of letters
and parcel post only. No money
order or register business will be
handled there.
The substation at 4302 haywood
drive will be open from $50 to pm
on weekdays and from to 9 pm
on Sundays. This Office will handle
only the same type business as the
Star Hall station.
Special window service at the Sill
yer Spring Post Office for stamps
and parcel post will be available from
today until Christmas, Postmaster
william E. Bowman announced.
The Office will be open from 3 to
is pm. today. On the two following
Sundays it will be open from 9 am.
to 6 pm.
Window service also will be avail
able on weekdays beginning tomor-
row and continuing through Decem-
ber % for parcel post and stamps
| from am. to 8 pm
Evening star., 1946-12-08

OfC4 WAA =
yer S pri n G,
W hic h began
broadcasts yes
terday.
Mr.. Bell, who
with his wife,
Lille, and two
sons, Clarence,
Is, and Richard,
13, were prison.
ers of the Japa-
nese for 3 years
in Santo Tomas
Camp, Manila,
has been ap-
pointed director
of n e wS and
Evening star., 1946-12-08
Alexandra Lions Club
To Sponsor Tree Sole

The Alexandria Lions Club will
sponsor a Christmas tree sale, be-
ginning Saturday on a lot at 1903
King street for the benefit OF the
George washington High School
Band.
Lions Club officials said the
money would be used to purchase
instruments and music for the band.
Evening star., 1946-12-08
| Tokomu Park PTA to Meet

The Takoma Park Junior High
School Parent Teacher Association
will hold Christmas meeting at 8
pm. Wednesday at the school.
Carols will be sung by the schools
Melody Choir under the direction Of
Miss Miriam Rhoads.
HiehIond Park Election
Oficers will be elected by the
Highland Park Overlee Knoll Citi-
zens, Association at pm. Wednes-
day at Walter Reed School, Airing
ton.
Evening star., 1946-12-08
Sligo Club Porty Tuesday

The annual Christmas party OF
the Sligo Federated Music Club will
be held at the Sligo Cabin, Takoma
Park. from 7;;so to 1000 pm. Tues
day.
Evening star., 1946-12-08

Don Bell, radio commentator who
broadcast description of the bomb
ing of Manila, will recall his early
war experiences on the air today