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Evening star., 1947-07-21
Bill Pushed 10 Raise
Service Doctors Paw
BY the Associated Press

An alarming" shortage OF doc
tors and dentists in the armed
forces was reported today by Repre-
sentative Blackney, Republican, of
Michigan ir urging approval of
legislation to boost their pay.
The bill, recommended by an
armed services subcommittee which
Mr.. Blackney heads, would lift
medical officers base salaries 500
a month and provide an additional
Is per cent pay increase for those
designated as specialists.
Mr.. Blackney said the cost of the
legislat ton, applicable also to Public
Health Service officers. would be
around $9,000,O00 a year.
In a statement, the Michigan
lawmaker cited testimony of Gen.
Eisenhower, Army chief of staff,
that the present Medical Corps lis
sufficient only to maintain an Army
of 100000 men"
The Army current strength is
just under 100000.
The situation in the Navy is
equally acute" Mr.. B1ackney said,
reporting it's Medical Corps "for
the next few months will be able
to function only because, as in the
case of the Army. there are still
on duty over 1000 reserve medical
officers
When these are released, he
added, the Navy will be about IS
per cent short of its requirements
Mr.. Blackney said the income OF
the average civilian physician is
more than double that of medical
officers.
Evening star., 1947-07-21

the score of Chesapeake & Poto-
mac officials are willing to relax and
talk about the four-day open house
they plan in a couple of weeks to
show the public their new building.
Filled with s2,OO0,00O of up-to-
the minute equipment, it is called
the most modern in the country.
Though it took IT months to build
the whole building and lay the
wires to it, the officials call it the
fastest construction in c. & P. his
tory.
1t won't give everybody in South
east telephone who has asked for
one, telephone men said. but will
give them room to install another
$500 in the next couple of months.
1t was diplomatic task of the first
magnitude, they grinned. to deter
mine just who should get the 1900
that went in last week.
Evening star., 1947-07-21
Smith Heads Chapter
Of Housing Officials

Leroy Smith, management super
visor for the National Housing AL
thority, has been elected chairman
of the Potomac chapter of the Ma
tional Association of Housing ON
cials, it was announced today.
Mr.. Smith was named to the post
by the Executive Committee of the
group in a meeting last Friday
Other officers include Bernard E.
Loshbaugh, also of the NCHA, re-
firing chairman, vice chairman;
Miss Louis Rehr, of the Washington
Housing Association, secretary, and
Mrs. Shirley Hart. of the Federal
Housing Administration. treasurer.
Mr.. Smith announced that the
group now has a total of 300 men,
berS.
Evening star., 1947-07-21
Hearing Set on Fare Rise
By Southern Railroads
BY the Associated Press

The Interstate Commerce Com
mission today set a hearing for
August 26 at Atlanta on the appli-
cation of Is Southern railroads for
authority to increase their basic
passenger coach fares from % to
rs cents mile.
A hearing previously was fixed
for the same date and place on the
petition of 81 Southern lines to
boost passenger fares in sleeping
and parlor cars from 33 to 3.5
cents a mile.
ICC Commissioner John L. Rogers
and Examiner Burton Fuller will
hear the cases.
Evening star., 1947-07-21
|GuerriIIas Withdraw
After Two Attacks in
Northern Greece
By the Associated Press

ATHENS, July 21.-Press dis
patches reported today that guer-
rilla bands had attacked two points
in northern Greece near the Yugo-
slav border, and that in each case
they withdrew after battle to Yugo-
slav territory.
Greek troops pursued harassing
action against leftist forces in the
mountains near the frontier of AL
bania, Yugoslavia's western neigh
Dor, after repelling the offensive
against Konitsa last week.
Dispatches today from Salonika
said 400 guerrillas had attacked
Mouries, Is miles north of Salonika
at dawn yesterday but were repelled
by Greek commandos who killed 10
before the remaining guerrillas fled
across the Yugoslav border two
miles away.
Army casualties were two killed
and two wounded.
Police Station Raided.
Other dispatches said 800 guer-
rillas raided police station at
Mesahori, about two miles south of
the Yugoslav border and II miles
northeast of Phlorina, where Greek
authorities said they have feared a
possible invasion" Simultaneous
ly a band armed with heavy ma
chineguns and mortars was reported
to have attacked the nearby village
of Mesokambos, setting fire to nine
houses, despite strong opposition by
armed peasants.
One newspaper account declared
the attack was supported by ma
chinegun fire from the 58th Yugo-
slav frontier post.
Meanwhile, the United Nations
subcommission investigating Greek
border disorders announced that it
planned to visit Konitsa to inspect
the area where guerrilla forces
launched their first big attack
against government forces eight
days ago.
Wore Albanian Uniforms.
A government military leader told
the subcommission the guerrillas
at Konitsa wore Albanian uniforms
and launched the offensive to set
up free government at Konitsa.
Government circles, meanwhile,
expressed surprise that the guer-
rillas who were routed last week
by Loyalist forces in Northwestern
Greece had not proclaimed the area
a Communist free state"
"We cannot understand the de-
lay" Foreign Ministry spokesman
said. 'We have been expecting it
any day. The only reason probably
is because the Communists have
not been able to induce any non
Communist leftists to participate
in such a government.
1--WE have information, he said,
that a number of respectable left
lists have been contacted, but they
declined. The Communists want to
camouflage the operation behind
some respectable name"
Evening star., 1947-07-21
Flying Pastor Installed
In First Air Parish
BY The Associated Press

LENNON. S. Oak. July Ala
pastor who turned aviator to help
spread the gospel was installed yes
terday by the Evangelical Lutheran
Church in its first "air parish"
spread over sparsely settled 5000
square-mile area in Northwestern
South Dakota.
AS crowd of sheep raisers and
cattlemen and members of his scat
tered congregations offered silent
prayers for his success, the Rev.
Norval Hegland. 35-year-old former
Miles City CMont) pastor, took his
plane aloft for dedication cere-
mony while the ship cruised over
the Lennon Prairie Airport.
Evening star., 1947-07-21
Ten Companies Lost
Money in WaIkout,
Phone Union Saws

Ten Of the % Bell System COM
JAMES lost money during last April's
Nation wide telephone strike with
only the Chesapeake & Potomac Co
of that group showing a gain in
revenues over April, 1916. the Com
munications Workers of America
asserted today
The Communications Workers
Group is an unafflliated union, sue
cessor to the National Federation OF
Telephone Workers which called the
six-week strike involving more than
100000 workers
Joseph A Beirne, union president
said % Of the struck Bell companies
showed a net profit of $1,703, ,00C
during April. in comparison to s18,-
525, 900 profits of the previous month
Long Distance Calls Drop.
He said the company average for
handling long distance calls during
April was 40.6 per cent of the pre-
vious months figure, even when five
companies not struck were included
The union claimed that while
only 10 companies went in the rec
during the first weeks of the strike
all but the C. & P. showed declines
in revenue from April of last year
The largest slllmps were suffered
by the Southwestern and Illinois
Bell companies, both dropping of
$2.000,000, the union said.
The report compiled by the
unions research and statistics de-
partment said that while G. & P.'s
originating toll calls from April Z
to April 80 were 28.4 per cent below
the same period in 1916. net income
for the month was $295,816 COM
pared with $247,313 for April, 1916
Public Seen Paying.
c. & P. originated 314,873 toll
messages last April compared with
736.911 in April, 1916, it added.
Mr.. Beirne declared the workers
would make up strike losses by wage
increases won, but the loss in earn
ings by the company is likely to be
paid for by the public
He said the Bell System is not
likely to reduce its 50 dividend COM
mensurate with the income lost
during the strike.
That telephone users will pay
the bill is evident from the fact that
a majority of Bell companies are
presently seeking rate increases
from State public utility commits
sioners." he said. These increases,
some of which already have been
granted, will boost the Nation s
phone bill by another S100,o00,0o0
annually"
Evening star., 1947-07-21

mittee of the Federation of Citizens
Associa tions and also president OF
the Central Suffrage Conference,
and Kenneth P. Armstrong, an
official of both the federation and
the conference. joined in formal
statement to the Home Rule Sub
committee in answering several
questions as to details of proposed
home rule. Mr.. Armstrong also
testified in addition on his own
behalf as chairman of the fedora
tion's Committee on Fiscal Affairs
and Taxation, and as trustee of
the Central Suffrage Conference.
Eligibility to vote, said the Finch
Armstrong statement, should be
based upon one year of actual resi-
dence within the District of Colum-
bia dating from the filing of a
declaration of intention. a reason
able educational qualification with
three months residence in the
voting precinct Immediately pre-
ceding the date of election.
United States citizenship should
be required" continued the state
ment, but the right to vote in
State and national elections else
where should not prevent the right
of actual residents of the District
to vote in local municipal elections. y
Changes Suggested.
Woolsey w. Hall, president of
the Federation of Civic Associa-
tions, agreed thoroughly with the
Finch-Armstrong proposal for an
elected city council and appointed
city manager. But, on eligibility of
voters, he recommended:
IF there is local suffrage, those
convicted of crimes involving moral
turpitude should be barred from
voting" He also would bar all per-
sons of less than two years of actual,
continuous legal residence here.
If there is to be no local suffrage.
the Finch h-Armstrong recommended
ton was that no good reason ap-
peared ''for a separate municipal
corporation They proposed instead
administration of the District Gov
ernment by a Federal department
as more efficient than the present
commission form of government.
j U. S. Control Suggested.
Mr.. Finch suggested the War or
Interior Departments as possible ad-
ministrators of the District govern
ment. Mr.. Hall, on the other hand
recommended that if there should
be no local suffrage the three Dis
trict Commissioners should con-
rinue as head of the District gov
ernment.
At this point, Mr.. Hall said his
group favored election of the School
Board, on which he said there are
now three colored members. But he
complained to the committee that
the Commissioners had refused to
appoint a colored member to the
Public Library Board. He said they
refused one specific recommendation
years ago for the appointment of
Mrs. Mary A. McNeill. the wife of
prominent colored physician. DR.
William c. Mcneil.
Mr. Hall recommended, however
that the Commissioners should con-
Evening star., 1947-07-21
Girl Who Caused Arrest
Identifies Holdup Suspect

An alert 14-year-old girl, whose
fast action Saturday night led to the
arrest of suspect in an attempt to
hold up the proprietor of laundry
next door to her home. yesterday
identified the man police had ar
rested.
Thelma Klingman, 104 H street
NV, called police when she saw a
man go into the laundry owned by
Sam Goldberg. l02 H street NV.
Police arrested Leroy T. Nickelson.
%, of 723 Sixth street NV, a
printer. and said they found a .38
caliber revolver on him.
Evening star., 1947-07-21
Groves
Continued From First Page)

paper articles and columns have
mentioned Gen. Groves name in
connection with discussions of re-
ported leaks OF secret data on the
atomic bomb, including alleged
thefts of photographs from Govern
ment files.
There have been reports, which
neither commission members nor
War Department officials will con-
firm, that the Atomic Energy Com
mission made direct representa-
tions to Mr.. Patterson early last
week.
Gen. Groves statement today
said: Il feel that the War Depart
ment has co-operated whole
heartedly with the Atomic Energy
Commission since its appointment
and I, personally, as well as the
organizatio of which I am mem
ber (the armed forces special
weapons projecD, stand ready at
any time to lend assistance to
the members of the Atomic Energy
Commission, if such assistance is
desired by them
(Gen. Groves also is a member of
the Military Liaison Committee to
the Atomic Energy Commission,
an assignment given him when he
stepped out of the Manhattan
Project at the beginning of this
year. The committee is joint
Army Navy agency established to
advise the commission on matters
relating to military application of
atomic energyO
There was no explanation in the
statement of Gen. Groves reference
to standing ready personally to lend
assistance to the commission if
such assistance is requested.
However. friends of the general
said that so far as they know the
commission has not called upon
Gen. Groves since he left the Man
haitian Project.
Relinquished Job January l.
Gen. Groves concluded his state
ment with these words:
There is something I would like
to make clear. I was brought up in
the Army and since 1915 have been
a member of the Army.
In 1912 I was ordered by my
superiors to take over development
of the atomic bomb. The verdict
as to my performance can be left to
history. Regardless of any present
interpretations of that verdict,
am proud of the American lives we
saved by our accomplishment. After
VI day, did my best to maintain
an efficient organization to turn
over to the Atomic Eenergy Com
mission.
This turnover was made or
January l, 1947 Since that time
I can not qualify as an expert on
the operation of this project.
LAS to the future, I will always
be ready to serve the United States
as I have been in the past
Would Promote Social Use.
Every effort must be made tc
promote and protect this final
weapon upon which the security OF
the United States, in fact the whole
world, depends-and, in addition
we must promote and protect the
development of the social use of the
basic energy which will mean as
much to peace as is does to war
Two former Army sergeants are
awaiting grand jury action or
charges of unlawful removal of doc
umentS from the Los Alamos, N. M.
atomic hGrnh nlant
Evening star., 1947-07-21

nicians know where to move next.
The room nearest the operating
room is the testing room, responsive
to any possible hitch in operation.
Even the dialing of a false number
lights up 30 tiny lights in big
panel. Most of the time. the fore
man says. the mistake rights itself
somewhere in the machinery before
it's necessary for them to take
action. but they watch the board
nevertheless.
No Serious Hitches.
In the switchboard room dozen
operators are standing by to catch
subscribers trying to dial the old
telephone numbers. A long distance
call to Loss Angeles is one OF the
first to come in.
BY this time it appears that no
serious bitches have occurred, and
Evening star., 1947-07-21
$500 Telephones in Southeast Area Switched
Smoothly to New Victor and Twininq Exchanges
800 New installations
In Section Activuted
At Midnight Saturday

1t may not have bothered you
when you woke yesterday to find
yourself "TWining" after going to
bed the night before a "FRanklin"
but it was tense business with the
telephone company.
When $500 telephones in the
Southeast area were literally chop
ped out of connection with the
Atlantic, Lincoln, Franklin, Trim
idad, and Ludlow exchanges at mid
night Saturday and cut into the
new Victor -TWining exchanges, it
was an occasion for some breath
holding on the part of even harden
ed telephone men.
They not only did that without
trouble, but put life into 1,500 new
telephones at which Southeast sub
scribers had been gazing wistfully
for some days.
Key men in these "switchovers."
which have happened half dozen
times in the District in as many
years, are the three-man splicer
teams, standing by in mannoles
at various spots in the city.
Directed From Exchange.
The splicers are directed by half
a dozen men sitting around table
in the operating room of the new
exchange, in this case the telephone
company's new $3,000,000 building
at Twenty eighth and N streets
Sc. Each of them sits talking to
two manhole teams.
Nearby along the long rows of
metal honey-combs bearing the
working telephone wires stand
another two score men waiting to
put the new machinery into action
A little yellow plug is inserted in
the honey-combs for every tele-
phone. Each man holds strings at
tached to hundreds of telephones.
The "cut captain" walks around
the table, checking with each tele-
phoner to be sure the splicers are
ready.
At 11:55 he gives the order and
waits for the word the cuts are go
ing on.
Calls Start Going Through.
"Cut one!" Two thousand phones
from the Frankli nexchange are
chopped out.
Cut tWo!' Two thousand phones
from Trinidad are chopped out.
Two thousand more from Allan
tic. the same number from Lincoln
and 500 from Ludlow
He turns and gives the signal to
the plug -pullers, and each begins
tearing out his strings.
The huge room, silent minute
before, begins to echo the familiar
hum and click that means calls are
going through.
The score of officials and tech
Evening star., 1947-07-21
Home Rule
CONTINUED From First Page.)

Federal loans or local bond issues
would be possible under an elected
city government, but his Federation
still preferred a Federal loan.
Chairman Auchincloss took sharp
exception to this position. IF, for
instance, the United States loans
the District about $4,000 900, then
the United States should step in and
run the District.
But. on the other hand" con-
tinued Mr. Auchincloss, IF the Dis
trict should issue revenue bonds, tax
participation certificates. water
bonds or some other securities and
sell them to the people, then the
District would be autonomous and
have home rule That would be
home rule There is difference in
this procedure. The difference is
between right and wrong
Details Explained.
Mr.. Finch, now chairman of the
natoinal and local Suffrage Com
Evening star., 1947-07-21

ston little local eye troubles before they get
big. use soothing. pleasant Lavoptik, 30
years success. Prompt relief for sore in
damed. itching, burning eyes or money
refunded. Also soothes granulated eyelids.
praised by thousands. Get Lavoptik to-
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Evening star., 1947-07-21

Two telephone splicers E. Smith Oef R. L. Merritt,
prepare containing 1900 lines $500 telephones
four old exchanges into two at
midnight Saturday. cable leading into the Victor and
Twning exchange at and streets Sc di
the old This manhole at Minnesota avenue
sE of IL where cuts occurred smul-
taneouSy Star Stan Photo.
Evening star., 1947-07-21
Rescue

Continued From First PageJ
Evening star., 1947-12-12
|RitesSet 7 7odoyfor Alb. Gorges;
Pioneered Druq Store Fountains

reau, assistant director Of research
for the board and special assistant
to the chairman of the Shipping
Board investigating trade in Ameri-
can ships.
After the war he was transferred
to the United States Chamber Of
Commerce, where he planned and
directed q series Of conferences with
chambers of commerce throughout
the country to determine disposition
Of surplus cargo vessels. He later
planned and conducted a tour by
the commissioners of the Shipping
Board in a series of round table
meetings advocating retention of
Government control over surplus
shipping. He was retired in 1880.
A native Of Huron County, Ohio,
Mr.. Garges attended the University
Of Maryland and in 1893 was grad
uated from the Philadelphia College
of Pharmacy. He was an assistant
manager in Baltimore drugstore
before he came to Washington.
Survivors are his widow, Mrs.
Mary Hetzel Garges; two daughters,
Mrs. Fowler w. Barker, Bronxville,
N. Y, and Mrs. Thomas M. Nc
Graw. San Gabriel, Calf; a son,
William c. Garges, Binghamton, N.
Y, and seven grandchildren,
Evening star., 1947-12-12
Eastern Branch Of "
Reflects A. B. Curtis

Arthur B. Curtis has been re.
elected chairman Of the Board oi
Managers of the Eastern Branch
YMCA, F. j. Engelhardt, executive
secretary Of the branch, announced
yesterday.
Mr.. Curtis, a Curtis Brothers Fur
niture Co. executive and president
of the Chesapeake Broadcastine
Co., VISA also reelected to represent
the Eastern Branch on the Metro
politan Board of Directors.
Other officers reelected to the
Eastern Branch Board of Managers
were Joseph H. Deckman, vice
chairman; ]. Louis Goldman, re-
cording secretary; c. Bayne Mar
bury, treasurer, and Walter l.
Fowler, counsel.
Leslie L. Altman, president of the
w. M. & A. Motor Lines, Inc, and
A. G. Galloway, insurance company
Official here, were elected new men,
bers Of the board for three years.
Reelected board members are Mrs
Henry w. Austin, the Rev. John
Parker Coleman, DR.. Robert U,
Cooper, Miss Catherine E. Crook,
Hugh c. De Fabio, Francis A. Dony
Charles F. Fowler, Louis Guglielmo
John D. Koontz, William C. Pro-
haska, the Rev. and Mrs. John C.
Runkle, Arthur E. Simmons, Will
liam j. Smith and Carl C. Smuck.
William H. .,Benhoff, Mr.. Engel-
hardt and Mr.. Smuck were appoint
ed to serve as delegates to the Cen
trail Atlantic Area YMCA Council,
Evening star., 1947-12-12
Mrs. Clara Eastment,
Long III, Dies at 81

Mrs. Clara A. Eastment, 81, club
and church worker in the Washing
ton area for many years, died Wed
nesday night at her home at 9311
Old Bladensburg road, Silver Spring
after an illness of several months.
Born in Delmar, Iowa, Mrs. East
ment came to Washington 38 years
ago from Connecticut with her hus-
band, the late George w. Eastment
She had lived in Silver Spring for
18 years.
Mrs. Eastment was one of the or
ganizers OF the Women's City Club
and served as it's secretary treasurer
for some years. She was especially
interested in OAR activities and was
a member Of Our Flag Chapter, of
which she once was treasurer.
Active in church and welfare
work, Mrs. Eastment was member
Of the Ladies Aid OF All Souls
Memorial Church and also served
on the boards of Casualty Hospital
and of the Florence Crittenton
Home.
Surviving are three daughters,
Mrs. Elsie Oliff. who lived with her
mother; Mrs. B. j. Gratama, San
Francisco; Mrs. Charles Schultz,
1927 Twenty-ninth street NV, and
q son, George w. Eastment, 1919
Old Bladensburg road, Silver Spring
A sister, Mrs. Hugh L. Mason of
Connecticut and Louisiana, also
survives.
Funeral services will be held at 2
pm. tomorrow at AL Souls Memo
rial Church. Burial will be in Rock
Greek Cemetery.
Evening star., 1947-12-12
Miss Grace Willis Dies:
Long a Resident Here

Miss Grace Willis, 70, longtime
Washington resident, died yesterday
in Homeopathic Hospital, Second
and N streets NV, after a two
week illness. She lived at 1912 Ne
wark street NV.
Miss Willis was born in Tioga
County, Pa, the daughter of Al
bert and Caroline Dickinson Willis.
She came to Washington more than
40 years ago.
She was a member of st. Albans
Church and the Twentieth Century
Club.
Survivors are two nieces, Miss
Dorothy Robinson, with whom she
lived, and Miss Elizabeth Peet, Palo
Alto, Calf, and a nephew, Robert
B. Peet, Woodmont, Conn.
Funeral services will be held at l
pm. tomorrow in the S. H. Hines
Funeral Home, 2901 Fourteenth
street NV. Burial will be in Wells
boro, Pa.