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Evening star., 1946-12-22
Baird Unable 10 Take
Parole Board Post

Bruce Baird, 54-year-old District
banker. has declined to accept ap-
pointment on the District Board of
Indeterminate Sentence and Parole,
because Of the pressure of business
activities, it was learned last night. {
Mr.. Baird was appointed by the
Commissioners November 13 and the
appointment announced apparently
without consulting the banker as to
whether he would accept. He was
never sworn in.l
+ The situation thus leaves . va
cancy on the three member board
resulting from the resignation of
Wilbur La Roe jr., attorney, after
IL years service
Mr.. Baird has been identified with
progressive penal thought which
supported formation of local de-
partment Of corrections to admin
lister the adult penal institutions
instead of the Board of Public We'll
fare. When Mr.. La Roe resigned
Mr.. Baird was named to succeed
him.
The Commissioners are now
searching for new member and are
expected to fill the vacancy soon.
Other members of the board are Col
Campbell c. johnson and Leo A.
Rover.
Mr.. Baird is president of the Ma
tional Savings and Trust Co. and
lives at 400 Edmunds street NV.
Evening star., 1946-12-22
Returns Visit Mode
To Futher's House
During All Tour

Roger Newburn, an Iowa farm
youth of 81, is a guest for the
Christmas holidays Of Lord Inver-
chapel, British Ambassador, at the
Embassy residence.
Roger arrived yesterday. His visit
was in return for one the Ambas-
sador made in October to the farm
of Rogers father north of Des
Moines in the center Of Iowa.
The Ambassador, who is bache-
lor, one of his secretaries, Ian
Anstruther and Roger, spent the
evening in the residence last night
The only person in the Ambassa-
doris home who is near the guest
in age is Tom Mclean, the Ambas-
sador's piper. Tom is 10. He halls
from Lock Eek in Argyle. Scotland
the ancestral home of the Kerrs
which is the Ambassador family
name. But last night Tom said he
had not met the guest. .
The ambassador had given in
structions that Rogers visit was
personal and all inquiries as to how
the guest had been entertained were
futile.
The visit resulted from an inter-
view the ambassador gave group
of All boys who came to Wash
ington after attending meeting
of the organization in New York
Young Newburn invited the am
bassador to visit his fathers farm
and "see Iowa for yourself" The
ambassador accepted the invitation,
arrived at the Iowa farm, helped
Evening star., 1946-12-22
u. 5. Mediator Urges
New Meeting Friday
lin Cafeteria Dispute

Hope for settlement of the wage
dispute which threatens strike by
5000 Government cafeteria workers
rested today on a proposal by q
Federal conciliator for another par
ley between management and labor
Friday.
Federal Conciliator Richard
Goodrich proposed the meeting yes
terday after Government Service
Inc, officials and representatives OF
the United Cafeteria Employees
Union No. All failed to reach ar
agreement.
The proposed meeting would be
attended by a special three-mar
panel of Federal conciliators. De-
cision by both parties on whethel
to approve the meeting is expected
before Christmas.
The meeting yesterday lasted tive
hours. Union officials said they for.
mally reported action of the work.
ers last Wednesday in refusing tht
offer of a 6-cents-an-hour wage in.
crease and an escalator clause
which would be adjusted to the cost
of living. The union is asking 20.
cents-an-hour increase.
GSI officials hold that a rails,
greater than their offer would re-
suit in higher prices for the esti
mated 200, 900 Government worker
who patronize the So cafeterias -op
Grated by the organization.
Evening star., 1946-12-22
taylor Fund Gaining
Now Totals 4,08

The funds foE. the family of Po
licxna RichardaH. Taylor, who wa
shat and killed December 13 by /
14-year- -old boy, has grownsto NOR
than $4,000. the Police Department
reported yesterday.
Contributions to the fund are be.
ing received at police headquarters
and various precincts and by Wash
ington newspapers from sympathetic
District citizens and organizations
and fellow officers of the slain po-
hceman. The Star has received
amounts totaling $867.47.
Townsend Annes. slayer Of the
policeman, is now at Gallinger Hos
pital for psychiatric examination
He was committed by Juvenile Court
Judge Fay Bentley after a coroner S
jury held him responsible for Pvt
Taylor's death.
The policeman's death left his
family, Mrs. Taylor, an 18-yesr-old
daughter and a 14-year-old son, in
strained financial status. Mrs. Tay-
lor repeatedly will receive $500
from the Police Relief Association
and monthly pension of $40.
Maj. Harvey G. Callahan, super
intendent of police, has set up the
fund for Pvt. Taylor's family. In
spector Clement p. Cox, chief clerk
of the department, has been named
treasurer of the fund. which was
reported yesterday to have reached
$4,083.
A contribution to the fund of $100
from the East Gate Lions Club was
erroneously listed in The Star of
December Is as being from an indi-
vidual instead of the organization.
Evening star., 1946-12-22
Couple Dragged
By Streetc0r
Escapes Injury

A Washington woman and her
escort, a chief petty officer, were
knocked down, pinned beneath 9
streetcar and dragged more than Is
feet in downtown Baltimore last
night, the Associated Press reported
The couple, identified as Miss
Betty Stello, AZ, and James O'Conor
46. escaped with comparatively
minor injuries. Baltimore police
said. The Washington telephone di-
rectory lists a Betty Stello at 101t
Twenty fifth street NV. Mr.
O'Conor is stationed at the Navy
Yard here, the Associated Press re-
ported.
When the trolley was brought to q
stop, police found Miss Stello, still
conscious, on the fender. Her COM
panion was extricated from beneath
the car after about minutes effort
At Mercy Hospital, doctors said
Miss Stello had suffered possible
back injuries and cuts and bruises
O'Conor was treated for shock, q
possibl. head injury and bruises
Miss Stello told police that wallet
containing $40, disappeared from
her purse during the excitement.
Evening star., 1946-12-22
Commercial Fishery in River
PIunnedf for Lorton TRUSTEES
By John w. Thompson, Jr.

District convicts will fish the Po-
tomac River waters of the city's
nearby Virginia penal reservation
to supply municipal and federal
agencies with fish at fair market
prices" to be set by the Commis-
sioners.
The plan, made public yesterday,
adds new industry to the Lorton
Reformatory and Occoquan Work.
house program-target in recent
years of attacks from parole and
corrections authorities whic h
charged failure to ref1t local prison.
ers vocationally for Washington
employment opportunities during
parole or after release.
The new industry will include
fishing, cleaning the catch, and
preserving it by deep-freeze meth
DDS.
Director Of Corrections Donald
Clemmer said enough fish probably
Aould be caught during the fall and
winter months to supply the needs
of all city penal, health and vel
fare institutions at cost under
the general market price,"
He said his department uses
about $500 pounds Of fish year
at an average cost during the past
two years of 20 cents a pound,
while the Health and Welfare De-
partments together use about $4,000
pounds.
An. abandoned powerhouse will be
converted into a cold storage locker,
Mr.. Clemmer said, and nets and
other equipment purchased, at a
total cost Of about $4,000. The
project will be financed entirely
from the working capital fund Of
the prison industries.
Mr.. Clemlner pointed out that the
new plant could be used also to pre-
serve vegetables grown on the prison
farms and thus eliminate the can
merry, which must be replaced in the
near future"
The convicts will tish the waters
Evening star., 1946-12-22
Santa Claus Sees Too Much
OF Johnny and Turns Him In
Boy, 4, Isn't Tolking
When Parents Coll
At Women's Bureau

Johnny Atkins, 4, doesn't have
too high an opinion OF Santa Claus
today because the old man turned
him iIl."
johnny, son Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Harry Atkins, 1922 Ninth street
NV, wandered OF yesterday and
was gone for SIX hours. He spent
the time in Goldenberg's. where he
took his place In line OF youngsters
and was interviewed by Santa.
Not satisfied with the first inter-
view, Johnny went to the end Of the
line and worked his way back for
another talk. He did this four or
five times, until Santa decided even
the most patient parents wouldn't
wait around hours for that sort Of
thing.
Santa called store detective, who
concluded Johnny was out of bounds
and found him warm spot at the
Police Women's Bureau.
Evening star., 1946-12-22
Firemen Rushing 10 Flood
Have Minor Street Accident

Fremen found a flood instead oil
a fire last night when they re-
sponded to an alarm at Forty fourth
and Hunt streets NE.
To add to the confusion, one OF
their ladder trucks collided with a
dump truck while en- route to the
scene.
They pumped the flood out of the
basement of Paul Mallory's house
BIO Forty-fourth street NE. Police
said children had clambered onto q
wash basin and wrenched it from
the wall by their weight, breaking
two pipes.
The traffic mishap involved an
aerial ladder vehicle driven by Fire
man Ernest j. Hunsberger, 26, of
113 Forester street S.W.
Daniel F. Cromwell, A, of the 600
block of F street S.W., driver of the
dump truck was charged with fail
ing to yield right of way to an
emergency vehicle. He posted SOS
collateral.
Evening star., 1946-12-22
Edward Perkins, 80, Dies;
Chairman Of Bowie Bank

Edward E. Perkins, SO, chairman
of the board of the Bank of Bowie,
died yesterday at Garfield Hospital.
A native of Springfield, Md, near
Bowie, Mr.. Perkins lived in that
area most of his life. He worked
for the Bureau of Internal Revenue
in Baltimore for almost 80 years,
retiring when he was TO- For several
years he was in the real estate busi-
ness in Bowie and was formerly
president of the bank.
Surviving are a daughter, Miss
G. Caroline Perkins of Bowie, and
three sons, William T. Perkins,
Bowie, Edward E. Perkins, jr., At
lanta. and Hanson T. Perkins,
Washington.
Funeral services will be held at
q pm. tomorrow at the Perkins
Methodist Chapel, which his father
was instrumental in building. Burial
will be in the church cemetery.
Evening star., 1946-12-22
How to Enjoy YuIetide Tree
SufeIy Is Told by Firemen

fall and block a possible exit Of
means OF escape from ti,e room
Never use open flame 'lighSlng sucf
as candles to decorate the tree.
3. Watch your children CAREFUL,
If they are using toys that use al
cohol or other inflammable liquit
as source of heat or power.
4. Dispose of tissue paper wrap.
pings at once instead of letting
them accumulate.
5. Buy freshly y-cut tree, stand II
In a pail of water while 1t Is in ths
house and remove tree as soor
after Christmas as possible.
Evening star., 1946-12-22
New Arlington Station.
LWEAM, to Open in AZ

A new broadcasting station, which
will begin operations in Arlington
County early next year, will use the
call letters WEAM, according to j
Maynard Magruder, president o1
Arlington Fairfax Broadcasting Co.
Inc, the ncensee.
Mr.. Magruder also announced ap-
pointment OF Perry Walders as COM
mercial manager.
Another station, WARL, already
is operating In Arlington.
Evening star., 1946-12-22
Scramble to Get.
By Nearby Residents
Seen in Next 2 DAYS

With the bulk of the long
distance travellers gone, trans
portation agencies today pre-
pared for a rush tomorrow and
Tuesday of those going short
distances from Washington for
Christmas.
Union Station officials said
that while extra trains are run
ming, the traffic does not appear
to be so heavy as lastyear. They
explained that 1t far exceeds
the normal prewar period, how
ever.
The National Airport lobby
was packed last night, airline
officials describing the traffic
as "the heaviest ever" Clearing
weather, which followed sleet
and stormy skies. stimulated
flying. f.
Bus-terminal authorities de-
scribed yesterday as "just an
other Saturday" They said,
however, that the rush will start
tomorrow and continue through
Tuesday.
Evening star., 1946-12-22
Lecture Course PIunned
On Federal Tuxution

The District Bar Association Il
planning a 12-week lecture course
for it's members on fundamentals Of
Federal taxation, 1t was announced
yesterday.
Subjects for the course, which will
begin early next year, will include
items Of gross income, deductions
from gross income, sales and ex-
changes, problems of basis, capital
gains and losses, corporations, part
nershipS, estates and trusts, tax
practice and procedure, estate taxes
and gift taxes. Lectures on the SUBJ
jects will be delivered one day each
week between $50 and 7:30 pm.
The course will be conducted by
the Practicing Law Institute, nom
profit organization. ALI proceeds will
be used for further educational pur-
poses.
Evening star., 1946-12-22
Peak Is Passed
In Buying, Mail
Volume Here
YuIetide Rush Eases
As Post Office Report.
3 New Records Set

Washington consumers have just
about completed their biggest Christ
sn1as buying and mailing splurge or
record.
While two days remain for last
minute gift-buying, the peak in both
store sales and mail has passed and
from now on it promises to be easy
coasting for most postal and store
employees.
Perhaps no one in Washington
was more pleased with the way
things have been going recently than
Postmaster Vincent c. Burke.
Mr.. Burke reported yesterday the
peak of the mail, both incoming and
outgoing, had been reached Friday
night and that now we are in an
excellent shape" There were still
many parcels in the mail, but Mr..
Burke was looking for no difficult
ties in getting them delivered in
time for Christmas.
Temporary Workers Praised.
The postmaster attributed the sue
cess of moving mail through the
main post Offices and branches to a
perfected system of delivery and the
fact he had "an excellent" staff of
temporary employees.
Many of these are ex-GIs and COL
lege students, he said, and they are
doing top-notch job. &
The task of getting the mail out
has been performed SO well, in fact,
that about 900 temporary clerical
workers were dismissed yesterday.
Mr.. Burke also had high praise
for Washington residents who ap-
parently needed his warning to shop
and mail early.
The postal chief disclosed estab-
lishment of three records this sea-
son. The first was in receipts fol-
Evening star., 1946-12-22

The Fire Department last night
issued its annual warning against
carelessness with Christmas toys
and decorations that might result
ir cster.
,gested precautions include:
Use flame-proof decorations,
.,ecially the cotton under the
zee. Sparks from electric trains or
defective wiring in tree lighting
often have resulted in big blazes.
2. Place your tree well away from
stoves, radiators, heat registers and
fireplaces. Locate 1t where 1t cannot
Evening star., 1946-12-22
4 Of 5 Fatal Home Mishaps
In Week Due 10 Falls

Home accident fatalities continue
to run more than 10 per cent above
last years figures. with five addi-
tional deaths reported here last
week.
Four of the victims, ranging in
age from IS to n, died as a result of
falls. The other death was that
! of baby of months who was
strangled when the string attach
ing his bottle to the crib became
looped around his neck.
The years total fatalities mounted
to 212, compared with 191 reported
last year at the same date. There
have been 5,031 injuries during the
same period, slightly more than the
4,877 recorded in 1945.
The most unusual accident re-
ported during the week involved a
man treated for cuts to his finger
when he poked it. instead of pen
Gil, into a pencil sharpener.
Falls, cuts and burns topped the
list of accidents, as usual. Two
persons were injured by falling out
of bed and two infants fell from
high chairs. Three other children,
2 to years old, cut their throats-
with pencil, a curtain rod and a
piece of cardboard.
Evening star., 1946-12-22

of Occaquan Bay, of District-owned
property at Cherry Hill and "in
other legitimate fishing grounds in
the Potomac River"
Mr.. Clemmer told the Commits
sioners these waters will yield a
variety of fish, Including herring,
shad, yellow perch, blue perch, hard
rock, catfish and carp"
"We have heard that even with
less desirable type Of fish, such as
carp and catfish" Mr.. Clemmer said,
that new processes make them
edible"
I'm the event our fishing luck is
poor, he continued, 1--WE have found
1t would be possible to buy fish at
cheap prices from private fishermen
in the area, and with the cold stor-
age equipment proposed, process it
and sell 1t at profit"
Even if the luck is good, the direc-
tor said he thought fish should be
bought "once in a while" from the
local fishermen "as a matter of
good will"
In principle, such purchases. he
said, would be no different than the
present practice of the penal insti-
tutions of buying pig iron and scrap
metal for processing into casting by
the iron industry.
Mr.. clemmer estimated the prof.
ect will use about 20 TRUSTEES
Of whom five would fish and the
remainder operate the plant. He
said his department has three Gus
todial officers who have had expert
ence with commercial fishing or
with the Bureau Of Fisheries.
Addition Of still another new In
dustry- ceramics-is also under
consideration for the institution, ac-
cording to Commissioner Guy
Mason.
The present program includes
bricknaaking, making license tags,
lampposts, man-hole covers, and
shirts for police and firemen.,
Evening star., 1946-12-22
Women Foctory Workers
Goin During September
BY the Associated Press

Employment Of women In factories
Is rising again after postwar slump.
the Bureau of Labor Statistics re-
ported last night.
Women factory workers numbered
| :, ,227 900 In September, a gain of
293 900 since the reconversion low
point last February but still 1,600, 900
less than the wartime peak.
The number employed in Septem-
ber is well above the prewar number.
Evening star., 1946-12-22

sador was back in Washington.
The next news was that the
ambassador had invited the New
burn family to visit him in WASH
ington over Christmas. Roger may
CO." said Mrs. Francis e. Newburn,
his mother, when asked about it,
"but I am afraid it would be i'm
possible for all Of us to leave the
farm"
Evening star., 1946-12-22
IG. W. Alumni Asked
For Funds 10 Help
Equip New Hospital

Alumni Of George Washington
University are expected to play 9
major part in equipping the new
405-bed university hospital now
under construction, DR.. Charles
Stanley White. member of the uni
versity's board of trustees, told q
meeting of the university's medical
society last night.
He said list Of all graduates
living in the Washington area had
been compiled and each alumnus
would be called upon for a contri-
button. He stated no gift was toe
large or too small and no attempt
would be made to say how much
any one should give.
Mai. Gen. u. S. Grant II, CAM
paign chairman, reminded the meet
ing that the original estimate OF
equipment cost was 1926, 900 and
said the new hospital was the re-
suit of a "three-cornered partner
ship"
THE Government agreed to build
the &3O00,000 hospital" he said.
''Tae university in exchange agreed
to turn over its present hospital and
medical school to the Government,
and now 1t is up to the people of
the community and friends of the
university TO raise the funds for the
equipment" "
He, pointed out the school was
furnishing the money to finance
the campaign and no money con-
tributed would be used for any
thing other than equipment.
DR.. Walter A. Bloedorn, dean of
the School of Medicine, said the
equipment for many departments
already had been paid for. In
response to questions from the floor
he said facilities of the new hos
pital would be available to colored
patients.
He also predicted that a new
medical school would be built by
the university in "far less than five
years" the time when the present
building must be surrendered to
the Government. He said one
third of the new hospital would be
private rooms, one-third two-bed
rooms and the remainder wards OF
four and eight bed capacity.
DR.. ]. Burton Glenn, society presi-
dent, conducted the meeting which
some 200 attended. It was held In
the medical school, 1885 H street
NV
Evening star., 1946-12-22
~ Names Committee
For Open House Jan. !

Gordon Shaw has been named
chairman of the New Years Day
Open House Committee of the Gen.
trail Branch of the YMCA, it was
announced yesterday by Lloyd Sam
born, assistant general secretary.
Other members of the committee
are A. H. Hollister, secretary;
Roland Ackerman, A. j. Banks,
James Banks, w. E. Barker, Lou
Brott, Comdr. Lawrence Cunther,
Jack Hardesty, Homer Hayward,
David Linden, H. B. Niece, Miss
Geneva, Payne, George vidlak, Ira
Walsh and Lloyd Walsh.
The New Years Day activities at
the YMCA are scheduled to begin
at 2 pm. and will include enter
tainment by stage performers, exhi-
bition dances, sports events, tele-
vision show and musical program.
Evening star., 1946-12-22
Welfare Board
Seeks Changes
In.ChiId Care
CfficioIs Press Bill
To Remove Stigma
From institutions

Board of Public Welfare officials
yesterday disclosed they would ask
Congress TO enact legislation mod
ernizing the care and treatment OF
children in District institutions.
One of the main changes pro-
posed would wipe out the legal
identities of the District Training
School for Girls, the Industrial
Home School and the Industrial
Home School for Colored Children.
In their place would be created a
collective unit known as Welfare
Facilities.
The principal reason for this,
welfare officials say, Is to remove
the stigma or label that attaches
to a child who has been sentenced
by court to protective institu-
tion.
The proposed legislation asks that
the courts, instead of sentencing q
juvenile to one of the corrective
institutions, would commit them n
the care of the Board of Publ
Welfare and the board would place
them through the new Welfare Fa-f
cilities In the place best suited for
their care and adjustment.
Under the draft of the bill, the
Board of Public Welfare would be
directed to establish diagnostic,
treatment and classification serv-
ice which would provide scientific de-
termination of the needs of each
child under its protection or control
and the kinds of service necessary.
The service authorized would cover
the fields of medicine and psychia-
try, psychology, education and social
work and sociology.
Under the bill the board would be
directed to establish reception and
classification facilities in the District
which shall provide housing and
equipment with suitable segregation
for a. detention and security Of
children held for police and court,
and 20 children who are tempo
rarily homeless and for whom
proper care is not available in pri-
homes or other services, and 80, for
the professional services required
by children who become the respon-
sibility Of the board.
The board also seeks authorize
ton for the establishment of
child center in the vicinity of Lau-
rel, Md, where a start has been
made on the home for feeble minded.
Evening star., 1946-12-22
Rent Control Backers
To Present Petition

Representatives of the Emergency
Committee for District Rent Control
will meet with Rent Control Admin
istrator Robert r. Cogswell at II
am. tomorrow to present petitions
opposing rent ceiling increases.
The meeting has been arranged to
assure Mr.. Cogswell that the people
of the District stand firmly behind
him in his conviction that there
should be no blanket increase in
rents here" it was explained.
The committee is a co-ordinating
group for more than 20 civic, vet
eran, fraternal, labor, welfare and
religious groups working for reten-
ton of controls at the present level.
Evening star., 1946-12-22
Iowa Farm Youth Is Guest
OF British Ambassador Here

dry the dishes after each meal
weeded in the strawberry patch, saw
his first combine in operation and
went to bed each night at nine.
The story was a sensation in Iowa
when the news broke. One farm
Taper biazoned the story with an
eight column head. But the ambas-