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Evening star., 1947-08-06
Judge Nelson Urges
Police To Get Root
OF Numbers Evil

Municipal Court Judge George D
Nelson yesterday asked District
police why authorities do not gel
at the root of the numbers evil
here and in nearby Maryland.
Addressing Detective sergt. Paul
Clarke Of the anti-gambling squad
Judge Nelson asked: IF the num-
bers racket can't be broken by po-
lice activities in Washington alone
why doesn't the Police Department
seek the cooperation OF Maryland
authorities?"
The question arose during the ap-
pearance of man charged with
possession of numbers slips and de-
scribed by Sergt. Clarke as "the
biggest type of numbers operator we
can get our hands on in the Dis.
trict.' The defendant was Henry
Stuart Ellis, 48, colored. of the first
block of @ street NE. The detective
told the court Ellis is numbers
runner" who was arrested deliver
ing slips gathered here for head
quarters over the District line"
Ellis had pleaded guilty through
his attorney, Denny Hughes, but
when Assistant United States At
torney j. Warren Wilson recon-
mended maximum fine OF $500
Judge Nelson said he was "disin-
clined" to impose a fine alone.
Noting the man had been con-
victed on the same charge before
the Judge declared: II believe these
people should not be permitted te
get OF with simple payment of Q
fine. Apparently they have plenty ot
cash. I favor imposing q Jail term
along with any fine, especially ir
cases involving past offenders"
Mr.. Hughes then asked to with.
draw his clients guilt plea or
grounds he had misunderstood tn.
sentence might include q Jail tern
when he first entered the plea
Judge Nelson permitted the with.
drawal and granted Ellis q jury tria
September II. The man Is free under
$500 bond.
Evening star., 1947-08-06
Rent Control Office
Backs 8% Increase al
.&y|and Development

An 8 per cent increase in rents at
the Skyland Development, 223-unit
garden type apartment development
at Good Hope road and Twenty
fourth street Sc, has been recon-
mended by the District Rent Con-
troll Office.
The recommendation, made public
yesterday by Rent Examiner Robert
T. Smith. will 60 into effect within
10 days unless the tenants file an
appeal.
The, rent increase was asked on
the ground that operating costs and
expenses, including taxes, have risen
and the rent ceilings are lower than
those in comparable developments.
Raise Totals S10,S20.
The per cent increase, it is esti-
mated, will mean $10,920 additional
gross annual income for Skyland,
Inc, owner of the development.
The rent Office also announced
that tenants living in housing units
owned by Wire Properties, Inc, in
the 800 blocks of Twentieth and
Twenty first streets NE. and the
2100 block of I street NE, have
asked the Office to order lower rents.
Rents were raised in June from
$3.50 to $3.50 and from $3.50 to
$72.50. Built since rent ceilings
went into effect, the units were
rented at the lower figures before
a ceiling was set. The ceiling proved
to be higher than the actual rent
Unchanged Till Spring.
The rents went unchanged, how
ever. until last spring, when the
owners decided to take advantage
of the higher ceiling. The tenants
have asked that the rents be re-
stored to the lower figures.
Meanwhile, a 10 per cent increase
in rents has been recommended fol
the Westchester Apartments, Cathe-
dral avenue at Thirty-ninth street
NV, the home Of many prominent
Washingtonians.
Tenants In the 558-unit apart
ment building include Commissioner
Guy Mason, w. E. Reynolds, Public
Buildings Commissioner; Senators
Morse, Republican, of Oregon, and
Wiley, Republican, of Wisconsin;
Judges Bolon B. Turner and John A
Tyson of the United States Taz
Court, former Senator Wheeler o1
Montana, Undersecretary of interior
Chapman and many high-rankine
Army and Navy officers.
The Westchester rent increase is
effective August 16 unless tenants
file an appeal before then. :
Evening star., 1947-08-06
Lynn kagruder Campbell
Dies in horbeck al 78

Lynn Magruder Campbell, 70, of
Norbeck, Nd, last member Of an
old Maryland family, died last night.
A Spanish-A American war veteran,
Mr.. Campbell was employed by the
Pullman Co. for q number of years,
and during World War I worked
as Government accountant.
Born In Cumberland, Md, he was
the son of Ellen Magruder Camp
bell and John G. Campbell. He at
tended private schools and Andrew
Small Academy at Darnestown, Md.
and Fishbrne Military Academy In
Virginia.
I He is survived by his widow, Mrs
Laura Clark Campbell. Funeral
services will be held at 1890 am
Friday at the Highland, Md, Pro-
testant Episcopal Church. Burial
Will be In st. Marks Cemetery
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Evening star., 1947-08-06
Welfare Board
Seeks 10 Ease
ReIiefCut Blow
$500 Facing Heavy
Slash Next Month Du,
To Fund Reduction

The Welfare Board scheduled q
special meeting this afternoon to
seek means of cushioning the blow
next month of reduced relief grants
to, the Districts needy.
About $500 aged, blind and in
digent persons as well as depend
ent children, will be affected be-
cause of curtailment of appropria-
tions beginning next month.
Congress appropriated $2,199, ,155
for the public assistance program
for the present fiscal year. This is
about $1,000, 900 less than the board
requested as the minimum needs for
the city's poor.
An ofncial of the Welfare Depart
nnent said the money now given
needy in the District Is based on the
1912 cost of living and is scarcely
enough to keep them in good health.
The proposed cut will cause much
suffering and lower the relief re-
cipient's resistance against disease,
he said
Instead of the cut which now will
have to be made. the board had
planned, in its estimates to Con-
gress, to increase the aid given
needy by about 20 per cent in order
to provide better scale of living.
Welfare officials at the same time
warned persons on relief rolls
against a young man who has COL
lected IS from several needy per-
sons on the promise Of having their
relief checks guaranteed and de-
livered on time.
Mrs. Glenn Williams, welfare su-
pervisor. said the swindler had op-
Grated in the southwest section of
the city, where several persons on
relief told her they had given money
to have their welfare checks guar
anteed for 10 years" Others were
approached she was told.
Police Immediately sent out a
lookout for the man.
Evening star., 1947-08-06
Winchester Man, II, Dies
In Truck in Silver Sprinq

A man identified as Russell Wise.
carver, q, of Winchester, Va, died
of heart attack early today while
driving on Old Bladensburg road in
Silver Spring.
He was pronounced dead by DR..
De Witt E. De Lawter of Chevy
Chase, acting Montgomery County
deputy medical examiner, shortly
after county police at Silver Spring
found him slumped at the wheel Of
his truck about 2:45 am. In front
Of 11120 Old Bladensburg road.
DR.. De Lawter ruled death was
due to the heart attack and not as
result of the truck crashing into
concrete abutment, police report-
ed. The truck was carrying brick.
Evening star., 1947-08-06
Amvets' October parIey
To Weigh Peace Program

A three-point peace and pre-
paredness program, which includes
support Of the Marshall plan for
Europe, will be submitted to the
national convention of the Amer
ican Veterans Of World War II In
October, Ray Sawyer, national COM
mander, announced today.
The program was evolved during
conferences with top Army, Navy
and Government officials Monday
by a special committee of Amvets
Secretary of State Marshall and
Secretary of the Navy Forrestal
were among those interviewed.
The program includes condemna-
ton of "misues" of the veto power
in the United Nations, approval
Of the Marshall plan as q means of
strengthening the U. N. and OF
curbing the spread of Communism
and maintenance of the United
States military strength until the
U. N. becomes an effective instru-
ment OF peace.
The Amvets' convention will be
held October rs in Columbus. Ohio
Evening star., 1947-08-06
Nelson Will Leave Job
In Alexandra Auq. IS

The next city official of ,Alexan-
dria to resign, Assistant Electrical
Inspector Thomas o. Nelson, will
leave that position August IS.
But unlike other Alexandria Of.
ficeholders who resigned during the
past few weeks, Mr.. Nelson is not
quitting because of city difficulties.
His purpose, he said, is to accept a
better job with a private firm
Mr.. Nelson, who lives at II West
Walnut street, has been assistant
to City Electrical Inspector w. Ed
ward Dunn since the department.
was formed In September, 1899.
Evening star., 1947-08-06
Sufecruckers Take $50
From Church Office

About $50, still in collection en-
velopes, was taken from a safe in
the office of the Episcopal Church
of the Nativity and Resurrection,
1910 Massachusetts, avenue Sc. last
night. "a AZ.
Burglars broke into the church
through a side window, police said,
and ransacked the building before
breaking into the safe. The Rev.
Enoch M. Thompson is rector of
the church.
Evening star., 1947-08-06
Sacred Music Festival
To Be Held AUGUST "

Choirs from many sections oi
Virginia are preparing for the an.
nual Sacred Music Festival at Mas.
sanetta Springs, August II.
The concert, part of the Bible
conference there August 11-24, will
be performed in the newly con-
structed open-air concert shell.
DR.. John Finley Williamson
founder and director of the West.
minister College Choir, Princeton
N j., will be guest conductor.
Evening star., 1947-08-06
| |Autopsy'Hin
Penguin Didn't
Die From Grief

The Emperor penguin that died
at the Zoo last week was q female,
contrary to popular belief that 1t
was a male, William Brown. head
taxidermist at the Smithsonian
Institution, disclosed today after
an examination.
The refusal of the Emperor to eat
after female penguin died had led
to the assumption that the penguin
was grieving for its mate.
Mr.. Brown said the bird would
not be stuffed because Of the condi-
tion of the skin. The bones will be
kept for scientific study.
Evening star., 1947-08-06
a Buildings Destroyed
In Winchester'Fire:
Loss Is $4,000
BY the Associated Press

WINCHESTER, Va, Aug. 6.-Fire
which started in partly razed six
story frame building of the Robin
son Ice & Cold Storage Corp. yes
terday destroyed the plant and
three other structures in the vicin-
ity.
The Joss was estimated by owners
at $4,000, with considerable insur-
ance. The destroyed building was
the original unit of the corporation
built many years ago. 1t was be
ing razed to make way for a modern
structure.
Other losses included a two-story
frame building that. had been op.
Grated by Thomas Gather as an ap-
pie barrel and box manufacturing
establishment but which had not
been in use for that purpose for 9
year or two.
The third building destroyed was
frame structure, the sides and ROOT
Of which we're covered by corrugated
iron, and owned by Glaize & Bros
and leased by the Zeropak Co. II
was filled with materials used in
packing and shipping frozen fruits
Ammonia Line Bursts.
A fourth wooded structure, the
last to catch fire, was owned by the
Lupton Orchard Service. It also
was destroyed.
During the height of the fire, ar
ammonia pipeline In the old Robin.
son building burst. A two-story
frame building owned by the Win.
chester Cold Storage Co. and occu.
pied by the Virginia Fruit Co. ig.
nited and was slightly damaged.
The main plant of the Robinson
Co. escaped serious damage, being
separated from the old wooden
structure by a railroad track and q
fire wall. Five Winchester COM
panies and volunteer fire com.
panies from Front Royal, Berryville
Stephens City, Clear Brook and
from Martinsburg, w. Va, fought
the blaze for several hours.
-Four f1remen were taken to Me-
mortal Hospital for treatment of in
juries. They included Clyde Wise
of Stephens City, who was overcome
by smoke; Christian Duke, Front
Royal, who suffered a fractured
ankle; Donald Jones, Winchester
who received superficial burns, and
kSteve Spanos, Winchester, who suf-
fered burns. All were discharged
except Mr.. Duke.
Several Houses Damaged.
The Robinson Building had beer
sold to the Arrow Wrecking Co.
Washington, D. c. E. J. Rother
representing the contractors, sale
the fire probably started in the ele.
vator shaft. He said his men were
eating lunch when some one re.
ported smoke coming out of the
front of the building.
Several houses in the vicinity were
damaged by the fire.
The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
whose yards adjoin the Robinson
plant, removed a large number c1
cars to safer tracks.
A number of families living ir
the vicinity of the Robinson, Gather
and Glaize Buildings had theil
effects moved to places of safety but
later returned to their dwellings.
Chief Engineer j. r. Bernd oil
the Robinson company said the fire
did not reach the firms main plant
and food stored in lockers there was
undamaged
Evening star., 1947-08-06
7O3Legion Students AreGuests
Of Brewster at HUGHES Probe

But unless in your generation
you can prove that democracy can
work successfully in the old world
you may. live to see the eclipse of
some. of the freedoms and oppor-
tunities that have been the glory of
America for ITS years"
Mr.. McGinnis opened the sched-
uled part of the meeting with an
invocation by one Of the delegates,
and introduced the officers of the
Senate, from Charles L. Watkins,
parliamentarian of the Senate, to
four pages and several shorthand
reporters.
After their visit to the Hughes
hearing the boys returned to the
House ONCE Building to elect their
president pro tempore and present
their own resolutions for debate.
This afternoon the delegates were
to conduct a simulated Boys Forum
Supreme Court, assisted by George
T. Washington, assistant solicitor
general. Later on they are sched-
uled to 60 by bus to Annapolis for a
tour OF the Naval Academy.
Received by Marshall.
The boys completed their tour of
executive. departments yesterday
when they were received by Secre-
tary of State Marshall. Then they
returned TO their quarters at Amer
ican Univerity to form a mock cab
met.
Secretary Marshall urged them to
acquire some definite information
not so much definite opinions, but
definite information-about condi.
tions that affect our international
relations"
He reminded them they were en-.
joying rarely fortunate conditions
which could provoke avy and jeal-
ousy among ,ess favorably placed
peoples. They lid strive to ap-
preciate, therefore, that the points
of view of these people, living un-
der those conditions, are very diff
ferent from yours" he said.
Diplomacy requires "tenacity oi
purpose" and 1T grows more diff
cult as you encounter suspicion, and
suspicion Is very dif1cult thing
to avoid" he added.
"The world Is in very dubious OF
difficult state, and that Is our great
problem here in the State Depart
ment," Gen. Marshall told the
students.
Evening star., 1947-08-06
Ordered
On Silver Spring
Road Widening
Traffic Congestion
Feared Near Site Of
New Hecht Co. Store

Widening Of Fenton street and
Ellsworth drive at the site of the
Hecht Co. store, Silver Spring, is
in prospect.
The Montgomery County Com
missioners yesterday ordered County
Engineer Douglas Riggs to make a
survey Of the cost Of widening Fen
ton street from SO to 48 feet between
Colesville road and Pershing drive,
and Ellsworth drive from SO to II
feet between Georgia avenue and
Fenton street. ....
Mr.. Riggs also was told to deter
mine the feasibility of building a
41-foot pavement along the unpaved
portion of Ellsworth drive from Fen
ton street to Cedar street.
The action was taken in response
to request by Milton Shlesinger,
who will manage the store when It
is opened about November /.
Fears Traffic Congestion.
Mr.. Shlesinger warned that unless
the two streets are widened by the
time the store opens, "a trafflc con-
gestion will result that will create
dangerous hazard to all trafic In
the downtown area Of Silver
Spring"
At this point, r. Barnard Welsh,
attorney for the board, interjected:
'It looks like the Hecht Co. Is 60
ing to take over the county commits
sioners."
Mr.. Shlesinger replied, Il don't
think so. Why do you say that?"
Mr.. Welsh did not answer.
Brooke Johns, board chairman,
agreed, saying "It has to be done and
the sooner 1t is done, the better"
Parking Lot Offered.
Earlier, Mr.. Shlesinger presented
the board with deed to a 6,400
square-foot tract of land at Els
worth drive and Fenton street with
the provision 1t be used for public
parking. If the land, part of an
IS, 600 square-foot tract, is not used
for that purpose. Mr.. Shlesinger
said, the Hecht Co. wants it back"
This resulted in a sharp exchange
between Mr.. Shlesinger and Mr..
Welsh with the attorney charging
What the county is doing is paying
100000 for a parking lot for the
Hecht Co." ...-'
This was denied by MIR. Shlesinger,
who emphasized that the proposed
parking lot will serve not only Hecht
Co. customers but the entire busi-
ness district of Silver Spring.
Mr.. Shlesinger then took back the
deed, promising to insert in 1t pro-
vision that the company would pay
for any improvements to the land If
it reverts to the Hecht Co. He said
the deed also would quote the Hecht
Co. as not objecting If parking
meters are placed on the property.
. Bridge Proposal Studied.
The commissioners took under
adyisement a proposal by Charles
w. Prettyman, attorney for the
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. that the
county pay share of the cost of
building new bridge over the rail-
road tracks at Rockcrest.
Declaring the present bridge is
"substandard." Mr.. Prettyman said
the railroad is willing to contribute
one third Of the cost of a new
bridge. He estimated the total cost
at between 10000 and $4,000. The
City of Rockville, in which Rock
crest is located, and the county
would pay the remaining two thirds,
MIR. P~ettyman proposed.
Evening star., 1947-08-06
Little Shifting
OF TenantsS Seen
In Rent Boosts
Low Vacancy Rate in
D. c. Area Housing
Cited as Chief Factor
By Robert J. Lewis

Virtually no shifting around from
one apartment to another on the
part Of tenants was looked for by
either public or private managers
OF District area housing as q result
OF higher rentals now effective, or
due to take effect by the end Of
this year, check disclosed today.
This forecast was based chiefly on
the fact that the present low vacancy
rate would make large-scale shifting
impossible.
Where would they go?" asked o
real estate spokesman.
Private housing doesn't seem to
be available for high-income people
now in public housing" said a
spokesman for the National Capital
Housing Authority.
Seen as Able to Pay.
A representative of the real estate
industry made one other point in
connection with the possibility Of
tenants moving.
by and large" he said, tenants
can, and will pay the limited in
creases provided for under the Ma
tional Rent Act, or talked of in
connection with compensating own
ers for increased real estate and
water taxes"
The National Rent Act permits
private landlords to offer leases
embodying Is per cent rent boosts
and extending through December
81, 1948. This law covers the Nation
except for the District.
Within the District, where the
separate District Rent Control Act
governs rentals through March 81,
1948, Rent Administrator Robert F.
Cogswell, now Is considering whether
to permit landlords to be COM
pensated for increased real estate
and water taxes.
AS for public housing, NCHA has
taken two actions within the last
week which will have the effect Of
raising rents slightly for 1900 ten
ants, and sharply for an additional
$50 tenants who have family in
comes of more than the $4,000 allow
able to tenants of public housing.
The boosts will take effect Septem-
ber /.
Some 1907 Increases.
Rents for "over-income" tenants
In public housing have been raised
to make them comparable with rents
for similar privately owned accom-
modations. In 16 cases, these rent
boosts amount to 100 per cent. Ten
ants whose rents were doubled have
average incomes of $4,224, NCHA
said.
I'VE are hoping that these over
income people will find other places
to live so public housing units they
occupy can be freed for occupancy
by low-income people for whom they
were built an NCHA spokesman
said.
we are afraid. however, that we
viii still have them with us after the
increases take effect September /,
because they may not be able to find
other places to live.
"At any rate. this is too early to
know definitely, because conditions
they encounter between now and
September l will have a controlling
influence on their intention as of
today, wheth.- it be to move or to
Stlv.
The NCHA representative said
there had been only a few COM
plants from over-income tenants
against the rent boosts.
They know they are making more
money than they are entitled to
make and remain in public housing"
he said.
Evening star., 1947-08-06
Poroguoyon Batteries
Fiqht Rebel Gunboots
by the Asseciafsd Press

BUENOS AIRES. Aug. 6.-Para-
guayan government shore batteries
engaged the rebel gunboats Para
quay and Humaita in a half-hour
duel on the upper Parana River
yesterday. and one of the gunboats
apparently was damaged, Argentine
eyewitnesses said today.
The witnesses who watched the
battle from the Argentine shore said
one rebel was killed and five seri-
ously wounded insurgent sailors were
brought to . hospital In Corrientes,
Argentina. The extent Of Loyalist
losses could not be ascertained.
Evening star., 1947-08-06
Freedom Of Enterprise
Night Set at Play
BY the Assoeiofsd Press

+ WILLIAMSBURG, Va, Aug. O.
Presentation of The Common
Glory on August rs has been desig-
mated As Freedom of Enterprise
night and Wilfred A. Roper Of Rich
! nond, president Of the Virginia
State Chamber OF Commerce has
been named chairman Of q commit
tee 70 head arrangements for the
night.
Special guests will be Earl Shrede
president of the Chamber OF Com
nlerce Of the United States, and
executives Of the various State
chambers OF commerce throughout
Virginia and the Nation.
Evening star., 1947-08-06

, The 103 youthful delegates to the
American Legion Boys Forum Of
National Government attended to-
days session of the Senate's
investigation of Howard Hughes
plane contracts with uninhibited
glee as the special guests of Chair
man Brewster of the War Investi-
eating Committee.
Senator Brewster made a sched-
uled speech to the boys mock
Senate session In the caucus room
of the old House Office Building a
few minutes before the Hughes
hearing was to resume. He asked
them In reading about the hearings
to try to remember the seriousness
of the committees investigation
despite the kleig lights and the
occasional comedy of the hearings.
As soon as the Maine Republican
left the room, Senate Sergeant at
arms McGinnis announced that
Senator Brewster had seats re-
served for the boys for part of the
hearing today. The boys leaped to
their feet with wild applause and
cheers.
Opened With informal Talk.
F. Opening the boys meeting with
an informal talk on How One Be-
comes a Politician" Senator Brew
ster related his start in Maine poll
tics and how more than 20 years ago
he tangled with Samuel and Martin
insult in their attempt to inject the
influence of their millions into
Maine politics.
Nov I am tangling with another
of these 1O0-million-dollar beauties
he laughingly told the delegates
but I hope you will remember that
the serious purpose of these hear
ings is to find out why you and your
parents had to spend 40 million dol
lars five years ago without anything
to show for 1t yet. r,
Don't be misled by the movie
cameras and the comedy furnished
by Mr.. Meyer and other principals
in the hearings.
II hope that you can do a better
job in your generation than your
parents have done in theirs" Sen
ator Brewster said. I'VE can produce
four times as much as the average
Russian. and twice IS much as the
average Englishman, and we've done
pretty good job.
Evening star., 1947-08-06
Baltimore Leader
Leaves Five Houses
To His Tenants
By the Assee;e.ed Press

TOWSON, Md, Aug. g.
Thomas r. Brannan, Baltimore
County Democratic leader who
died a. week ago Sunday, left
five houses to his tenants,
Mr.. Brannan's will, filed for
probate yesterday, described the
recipients as his faithful ten
ants and friends"
Mr.. Brannan, who was 80, left
small legacies to a sister, three
nephews, q niece and in-laws.
His wife died three years ago
and they had no children.