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Evening star., 1947-07-30
Charter for Home Rule
To Be Prepared for
House in December

A charter proposing home rule for
the District government is expected
to be ready for consideration by a
House District subcommittee by next
December.
Chairman Auchincloss of the Home
Rule and Reorganization Subcom-
mittee announced this after a meet
ing of the group and its staff yes
terday afternoon. ,..+
DR.. George Galloway and Clarence
Pierce, the committee staff, Will
screen the mass Of testimony pre-
sented to the subcommittee during
almost a month of daily hearings
Mr.. Auchincloss said. They will pre-
pare preliminary draft of a charter
so the subcommittee can have II
available before Congress meets in
January.
The plan is to introduce a bill
early in the next session, providing
for some form of home rule and re-
organization of the District. Details
remain to be worked out, but Mr
Auchincloss has indicated the sub.
committee favors simplification frs
of the present commission form o1
government, and a charter for al
elected city council, which woule
choose city manager. .-.
other members of the subcom
mittee in the session yesterday, II
addition to the chairman and staf1
were Representative Jones, Demo
crat. of Alabama, and Represent
ative Deane, Democrat, Of Nortf
ICarolina.
Evening star., 1947-07-30

HARRISONBURG, Va, July 30
Here is list of the dead and in
iured in the Harrisonburg explosion: :
The dead:
Miss Dorothy Gail Bowman 20,
of Mount Jackson, Va.
Miss Pauline Marie Shelter, 23,
of Lone Fountain. Va.
Miss Elizabeth Seizle OF Harrison
burg.
Miss Bonnie Catherine Sites, is,
of near Keezeltown, Va.
Miss Dorothy zaruba Batzold, 20,
of (R. F. D. o Waynesboro, Va.
Miss Harriet Ann CARRIER, 50, OF
Harrisonburg.
Mrs. Charlotte McAllister Shreck-
nise, 80, Weyers Cave, Va.
| Mrs. Anna Payne Baker, 43
| Staunton, Va.
Mrs. Rebecca Sherman Crabill Of
near Harrisonburg.
Miss Wilda Gulley, 18, of Swoope
Vas r
Hospitalized.
Miss Ruth Eleanor Hart, 80, Front
Royal, critically injured.
Jesse James Mullen, %, Harrison
burg critically injured.
Miss Elsie Golloday, 20, Broadway
Va, critically injured.
Mrs. Olive Dove, 10, Harrisonburg
| critically injured.
Evening star., 1947-07-30
Continued From First Page.)

the walls fell. People started
shrieking."
Mr.. and Mrs. E. A. Lynch, who
live in the house with their three
children, were not hurt Their sons,
Houston, 8, and Carlyle, IL, were
cut and bruised. An infant daughter
of the couple normally is in her crib
in the room which suffered the
worst damage from the blast, but
she had been moved because OF the
radiator work being done.
John ONeill's brother, G. w.
O'Neill, had been painting the in
terror of a vacant store next to- the
iewelry store and had left Just a
few minutes before the explosion.
Less than block away, he rushed
back to help rescue the injured.
More than 100 men worked Tor .
hours digging the dead and injured
from the rubble.
One OF the first acts of Harrison
burg firemen was to dig to the gas
main at the rear of the beauty shop,
cut it off and plug it to prevent ad-
ditional explosions. =
Owner Had Left Shop.
Mrs. Pauline Kline Sullivan, own
er of the beauty shop, escaped
serious injury or death when she
left the shop about five minutes
before the blast.
Mrs. Ruth Rhodes, operator OF the
jewelry store, said she had slowed
her automobile to park In front OF
her store when a truck driver blew
the horn for her to move on. Sne
did so and was about block away
on South Main street when she
heard the blast. Mrs. Rhodes Is a
former holder of the womens state
golf title of Louisiana.
Three ambulances and two hearses
we're used to take the dead and IN
jured from the scene.
C. T. Lotus, administrator OF
Rockingham Memorial Hospital, SAID
blood plasma was flown in from
Richmond within an hour after
the blast.
Last Bodies Recovered.
The last three bodies were re.
covered at 6:45 pm. MIR. Mullen wa.
I the last injured person to be freed
He was placed in an ambulance a.
I4:45 p.m.-approximately two ane
one-half hours after the explosion
| Mr.. Lotus said the first injured
. began to arrive at the hospita
about five minutes after he heart
the explosion. The hospital Is abou
three-fourths of a mile from tn
jewelry store.
Squads of firemen from Ney
, Market, Staunton, BridgeWater
Elkton and Charlottesville aided il
the rescue effort.
Aiding them were powerful search
lights and electric bulbs hung from
wires strung above the powders
/ brick and plaster. A construction
I firm furnished steam shovels t
, shift the wreckage, and mechanlze'
, equipment from the telephone com
, pany was used to pull aside tn
; rubble. .
Evening star., 1947-07-30
Three Runaway Boys
Held in HOUSEKEEPING

Three teen-aged boys, who police
said ran away from their homes in
Pennsylvania, are being held at the
Washington Receiving Home pend-
ing investigation of a housebreak-
ing which police said the boys have
admitted.
Detective Corpl. Stanley Harding
of Montgomery County police said
the boys admitted breaking into .
home at 81 Sycamore avenue, Ia
koma Park, Md, Monday night and
stealing about $50 in cash and q
gold watch valued at $50.
Washington police, also investi-
eating the HOUSEKEEPING. said the
boys are being held pending action
of the Montgomery Juvenile Court.
Evening star., 1947-07-30
Jury 0uestionnaires
WILDE Sent 10 200
Montgomery Women

Approximately 200 women on the
voting lists in Montgomery County
will receive jury service question
naires within the next go days.
Montgomery is among the Mary
land counties affected by a law
passed at the last session of the Cen
eral Assembly permitting women to
serve on jurys, breaking a long
standing tradition OF all-male juries
in the Free State.
The questionnaires, which also will
60 to an equal number of men, will
determine the availability and quail
fications of the prospective jurors
for the November term of Circuit
Court. For example. any one called
for jury service must be at least
rs years of age.
Method Of Selection.
The names of the women to re-
ceive uuestionnaires will be selected
by Circuit Court Judges Charles w.
Woodward and Stedman Prescott
from the voting lists in the office OF
the supervisors of elections in Rock
vile.
The men who will receive ques-
tionnaires will be chosen from a list
of the male taxable inhabitants of
the county furnished the court by
the clerk to the county commission
ers. From the 400 men and women
to whom questionnaires will be sent,
Judges Woodward and Prescott will
select approximately 100 men and
100 women. The 200 names will be
placed in a box containing 13 COM
partments-one for each OF the Is
election districts in the county.
Will Draw Names of 48.
A few weeks before court convenes
on the second Monday in November
the names of 48 jurors will be drawn
from the box. When these jurors
report on the opening day of court
the judges will select one as fore
man of the grand jury.
The first % names drawn that
day will comprise the grand jury
along with the foreman and the
remaining Is jurors will serve or
the petit jury.
Judge Prescott emphasized thai
(; 1t is not necessary to own property
in the county to be eligible for jurS
service. While atheists and juoge:
of the Orphans Court are automa.
ticaEy disqualified from serving o.
the jury, anyone may be excused
f f.om sewing at the discretion o.
the court.
( 1--WE :Iy to select juries with {
7 good Ctal of care and atte npt Il
+ get ST antial men and women,
Judge Prescott asserted.
Evening star., 1947-07-30
Two Men Killed
Flying to View
| Explosion Scene
By the Associated Prsss

sTAUNTON, Va. July 30.-Two
men flying to view the scene OF the
Harrisonburg explosion were killed
yesterday when their single-engine
plane crashed in Bells lane several
miles from here and burst into
flames.
The men were identified as Fred
Showker of Craigsville, the pilot, a
World War II captain in the air
forces who was awarded the Air
Medal with one Oak Leaf Cluster,
land John Stump of Route l, Green
vile, an employe of Mr.. Showker.
The plane was owned by Richard
S. Showker, a brother OF the dead
pilot.
Officials at the Verona Airport
said the plane took of yesterday
afternoon for Harrisonburg.
An eyewitness said that before 1t
went down on farm property OF
w. R. Moore the motor seemed to
L be skipping and the pilot was trying
for a landing. The ship struck two
telephone poles before hitting the
ground.
Evening star., 1947-07-30

that. In his opinion, the police chief
felt there were certain things that
should be left up to the adm1nlstra-
ton of his department.
No Word on DR.. Shafer.
"I think he took the point of view
that he was in a better position to
deal with certain matters in his
department than the councilmen,' -
Mr.. Budwesky said.
Mr.. Budwesky said he had heard
nothing of the intended resignation
of DR.. Lewis Shafer. city health
officer, and added that he still had
received no communication to that
effect.
Mr.. Budwesky said he would meet
today with Col. Edward Markham,
who resigned as assistant city en-
gineer in charge of sanitation and
maintenance. That resignation, he
said, has not been formally accepted
and he told the Councilmen he would
furnish more information about Col.
Markham's reasons for resigning
after meeting with him today. Col.
Markham's resignation was at
tributed to lack of cooperation on
the part OF city officials
Two "Best Men" Lost.
Mr.. Delaney said he felt the city
already had lost two Of the best
men in the State of Virginia in
their respective positions" when
Chief Duncan and Chief Arnold
resigned, and expressed the hope
that the city would not also lose
Col. Markham.
Mayor William T. Wilkins called
on the councilmen to join with him
"and start running things in more
business-like manner" He sale
there was entirely too much talk
and too little direct action" but
hastened to add that there is
no rancor or anger or malice in my
remarks"
Evening star., 1947-07-30
Prince Georges Policeman
SUSPENDED in Beating Case

Arnett w. Cord, Prince Georges
County policeman, named defend
ant Monday in a $4,000 damage
suit, yesterday was suspended until
September II by the County Board
of Police Commissioners.
James Harvey Rogers, Cottage
City auto salesman who brought the
suit, said that he was beaten the
evening of July 20 by Cord and
two other policemen, and has been
in hospital since that time.
I Rogers was charged with being
drunk and disorderly by Cord and
now is under $1,000 bond. Prelimi-
nary hearing has been set for the
+ September date in Hyattsville Police
Court.
Norman H. Collins, president OF
the board, indicated that II Rogers
is found rot guilty, Cord will then
face a police trial board, otherwise
Cord will be reinstated to duty.
Evening star., 1947-07-30
ArIington-Fairfax Hadassah
Committee Heads Named

Mrs. Harold Vein, president OF the
Arlington Fairfax Jewish Center
chapter of Hadassah has announced
the following list Of committee
chairmen:
Mrs. Hanson Buchner, member
ship; Mrs. Charles Parker, program;
Mrs. Irving Sragow, education; Mrs.
Louis Plost, Youth Aliyah; Mrs.
Jacob Castleman, Jewish National
Fund; Mrs. Leon Lassen, Hadassah
Medical Organization; Mrs. Irving
Rogosin, child welfare; Mrs. William
Arkin, American affairs; Mrs. Sidney
Jervis, youth activities; Mrs. Mat
thew Calm, public relations; Mrs.
Isaiah Frank, publications; Mrs.
Louis Silvian, hospitality; Mrs. Rich
ard Cook, radio. and Mrs. Ridia Cass,
Palestine supplies.
Evening star., 1947-07-30
Let The Stor Follow
You on Vacation!

Leave your subscription at
the Business Office Counter,
18th street and Pennsylvania
avenue, or mail your vacation
address. In all cases payment
must be made in advance.
RATES FOR MAILING
Daily and Daily Sunday
Sunday Only Only
/ month ---- 1.25 rs so
/ week 80 .25 is
Evening star., 1947-07-30
10 Diabetic Children Start
Camp Vacation Tomorrow

Ten diabetic youngsters, aged 8
to 13, will start a month Of camp
ing at the Christ Child Farm for
Convalescent Children, Rockville,
Md, tomorrow.
The farm, a Community Chest
agency, normally accommodates 80
children convalescing from other
illnesses. To accommodate the 10
diabetic children, the playhouse has
been converted to a domitory for 10
children sufficiently recovered to re-
turn home shortly. The diabetic
children will sleep in the regular
dormitories.
Mrs. Margaret Gardner is super
intendent of the farm.
Evening star., 1947-07-30
Arlington 10 Receive
$1,000 From State for
Free textbooks in Al

Arlington schools will receive ap-
proximately $1,000 from the State
this year for free textbooks for
pupils, Assistant School Supt.
Charles j. Walsh said today.
The funds, Mr.. Walsh explained,
are paid on basis of 60 cents per
elementary school pupil. Arlington
has slightly more than 5000 such
pupils, he added. ..
Arlington has provided free text
books since 1925 out of local funds.
Mr.. Walsh said $15,500 has been
appropriated for this purpose for
next year.
The General Assembly of 1916 ap-
propriated $262,500 as a free text
book fund, which was made avail
able by the Governor for the first
time for the 1947-48 school year. In
dications are that less than 5000
will be paid out OF the fund, it was
said. ~"
Oficials listed the 16 localitie:
which have applied for State text.
book money on the basis OF 81
cents per pupil enrolled during ths
1946-47 fiscal year as: -...
Arlington, Chesterfield, Elizabeth
City, James City, Nelson, Norfoll
and Shenandoah Counties, and tn,
cities of Richmond, Hampton, Hope
well, Newport News, Norfolk, Ports
mouth, South Norfolk, WILLIAMSBURG
and Winchester.
OF these the free text book pla
will 90 into operation for the frs
time in Nelson, Norfolk and Shen
andoah Counties and the cities Q
Hopewell, Portsmouth, South Nor
folk and Williamsburg.
The act provided that any local.
ties could exempt itself from tn
/ plan by taking formal action prio
to July IS, 1916. Eighty-five coun
ties and IL cities promptly advise
the State Board Of Education the
did not desire to participate in tn
plan
Evening star., 1947-07-30
Arlington Treasurer
Asks Excess Tax Cash
Go for Courthouse

A suggestion that taxes collected
in excess of the estimate set up in
the budget be used for improve
ments to the Arlington Courthouse
was made to the County Board to-
day by County Treasurer John Locke
Green.
In letter to the board, Mr.. Green
advised that on June 80, the close OF
the fiscal year, 81 per cent of the
current Q946) tax levy of $2,737.872
had been collected.
This is a 10 per cent better COLI
lection than was set up in the
budget for that year" the letter
stated.
"The new budget is based. I
believe & upon collection Of 87ta
per cent" Mr.. Green said. Next
year, if our percentage of collection
runs as well, we ought to have at
least $250,000 above the amount set
UP in this years budget, exclusive
of any collections for the preceding
years remaining to be collected.
This money would go a long way
toward giving us much-needed cap
ital improvements in the Court
House." the letter continued. "As
I have heretofore pointed out to the
Board, the Treasurer's Office Is des-
perately cramped for space"
MIR. Green also pointed out that
81 per cent of the taxes for the
years 1941 through 1946 had been
collected and the remainder is being
collected. The treasurer said that II
interest and penalties were taken
into consideration, the county would
have almost 100 per cent collection
for those years.
AL Offices at the Court House
have been cramped for space for
some time and funds for an addi-
ton were contained in the $5, $50 900
capital improvement and public
works bond issue which was de-
feated by the voters in referendum
last May.
Evening star., 1947-07-30
40OTenanfsVot
Bancroft Rent Boost

The Bancroft Tenants Association
last night voted not to sign Is per
cent rental increase leases for the
apartments at Columbia pike and
South Thomas street, Arlington.
About 400 tenants, led by w. Ran
dolph Spicer, acting chairman, met
in the Thomas Jefferson High
School, South Fillmore and Sixth
streets.
The group also voted to send
letters to Congress asking exten-
sion of rent controls beyond the
, March 81 expiration date. They also
requested that tenants be given a
voice In selection of members OF
rent advisory boards to be set up
by Gcv. Tuck If he invoked the
Virginia rent control act after the
Federal law expires.
Evening star., 1947-07-30

Remittance may be made by
check, cash, money order or
stamps.
Evening star., 1947-12-07

Years Outstanding Books on Sports

has gathered an interesting collec-
ton of photos accompanied by a
brief, readable and seemingly accur-
ate history of the game. One meets
James Creighton, 19-year-old boy
wonder of the 1860s, of whom Bob
Feller is the modern counterpart:
Henry Chadwick, inventor of the
box-score and first recognized writer
on baseball; William A. Hubert,
father and first president of the
National League, who also organ
lied the first staff of official um-
pires.
Bill Brandt, a reformed baseball
writer, wrote an interesting book,
do You Know Your Baseball" that
readers old and young will appre-
ciate. He includes numerous box
scores and relates some of the out
standing events in baseball history.
The Phillies, he writes, always root
for filly to win the Kentucky
Derby because they won their only
National League pennant in 1915.
the year the only flly to win the
Derby, Regret, came home first.
Bob Feuer's "Strikeout Story"
tells of his fathers help in making
him one of baseball's most effective
pitchers, highest paid stars and
keenest business men. He reveals
his own part in the "cry baby re-
bellion of the Cleveland Indians
against Manager Oscar Britt in 1910
John Lardners cit Beats Work
ing" is a collection of his weekly
Newsweek sports columns in which
he deals more with personalities
than events, and couple of books
about Heavyweight Champion Joe
Louis add lively material to the
years best sports reading.
Bert Dunne's sensational success
with his first book ON technical
baseball. PLAY Ball, Son." ultimately
had to lead to this second volume
for adults, PLAY Ball" 1t has the
Endorsement of Joe Cronin and Ted
Williams, and is entertaining as we'll
as instructional.
Babe Ruth" by Tom Meany, is
an enjoyable story Of the home run
kings life. It isn't new theme.
and some of the anecdotes have
been told over and over again, but
any baseball fan, particularly any
Ruthian fan, will be unable to put
it down until it is read through.
Evening star., 1947-12-07

Tennessee Walking Horse, EARLY
Day Sports in u S. A" etc.
1t is interesting to note that in
the football section Mr.. Menke re-
fers to the record punt of 100 yards.
including the roll, Of Georgetown's
Jack Flavin against Holy Cross in
1921. For one reason or another,
the kick has been omitted from re-
cent record books and it is good to
see the old Hoya receive due credit.
The author gives Flavin's first
name as George, but in a work of
such monumental proportions (more
than 1000 pages), and involving
long, tedious research, some errors
are to be expected.
Walter Steigleman, former news
paperman now teaching journalism
at the University of Indiana. con-
tributes Horse Racing" to the years
collection of volumes. This is de-
scribed as "the authoritative, def
mite, complete story of how money
makes the mare go, and vice versa y
Evening star., 1947-12-07
Bv james BirchfieId

plative hours, there is David B.
Greenberg's "Countryman's Com
panion," compilation of essays on
country living from xenophon to
Thomas Jefferson. Here are the
thoughts on agriculture down
through the years-Washington CIV
ing directions to his plantation man.
ager; Thoreau and his bean patch;
and Gregor Mendel with his pea ex-
perimentS that changed mans con-
ception of plant and animal breed
ing.
"Countryman's Companion" is for
the farmer and the gardener. But
above all, it is for the man chained
to city desk with only his dreams
of some day having country life.
In the contemplative vein, also,
one should not overlook E. E. Fea-
ron's The Happiest of Men," nor
Spring in Washington" by Louis J.
Halle, jr. While Mr.. Halle does not
deal with agriculture, his book
points up the delights of nature in
the Washington area.
And many city gardeners should
enjoy This Was Ever My Dream"
in which Caroline B. King tells how
she built her garden by q small
steam and near a small wood. Her
book tells of the year-around tolls
of the gardener and of the joys that
a garden brings.
Certainly no farmer who is inter-
ested in the new trends in agricul-
ture will want to be without
Science in Farming" the current
Year Book of Agriculture published
by the Agriculture Department. The
first year book since the war,
Science in Farming" deals with
scientific developments in agricul-
ture made, for the most part, during
the war years.
From this volume one may learn
of the new insecticides, the new
hybrid plant strains or the newly
developed by-products of agricul-
ture. Research in nutrition Is
treated along with scientific prog
ress in almost every phase of agri-
culture.
Hand in hand with the year book
goes T. Swami Harding'S 1.-TWO
Blades of Grass" Mr.. Harding, a
resident of Falls Church, discusses
the history Of scientific development
in the Agriculture Department. He
tells us, for example, that the
money spent in agricultural re-
search gives returns far exceeding
the original investment.
Most farmers will agree that an
intelligent long-range agricultural
policy, now under consideration by
Congress, Is essential for continued
farm prosperity,
One phase OF such . policy Is
Evening star., 1947-12-07
Star Sports Columnist
Explains the Game

In "Everybody's Football" Francis
E. Stann, Star sports columnist, and
Maurice Dubofsky, Georgetown Uni
versity line coach. pooled their tai
ents to explain the complicated
modern game of football. The book
is invaluable in simplifying the high
ly technical operations of paStime
SO confusing at times that officials
ON the field are obliged to go into
huddle to get their bearings.
Cartoon-type illustrations by Artist
Ted Drake add mirthful relief to
the book, which Is enthusiastically
indorsed by such outstanding foot
ball players and coaches as Sammy
Baugh. Cecil Isbell, Carl Snavey,
Capt. Tom Hamilton, Clark Shaugh-
messy and others.
The New Encyclopedia Of Sports" !"
by Frank G. Menke, is revised, re-
written and expanded version OF
this veteran sportswriter's original
work, and q welcome addition to
every sports fans library. The book
includes nearly IS chapters Of in
formation not in the original publi-
cation on such topics as Mexican
Sports" Negroes IN Athletics,
-Sweepstskes-How They Function"
Evening star., 1947-12-07

countryman, either he who
is actively engaged in the
pursuit of agriculture or
- gardening or he who is pre-
Evening star., 1947-12-07

-HE YEARS production of
sports books brought a veri-
table windfall for Washing
- tonianS Two concerned
WashIngton's professional baseball
and football clubs, favorite topics
with Capital City cave-dwellers; an
other included chapter about pop
ular Charley Keller of nearby
Maryland, and fourth was Sim
pie, explanatory work on technical
football, authored by Star staff
sports columnist and an outstanding
local coach.
For this reason the 1947 yield was
rich for Washington sports fans.
There was a noticeable decline in
the number of technical books usu-
ally found at the top of the list.
This undoubtedly is merely q brief
ull while experts in the arts of an
ling. hitting mashie shot. ETC.. are
citing their second winds and
>ading up more material