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Evening star., 1947-02-23
Pork Price Expected
To Rise 8 or 9 Gents

The price of pork is expected to
increase aS<much as 8 or 9 cents a
pound this week in many Washing
ton stores, an official of large food
chain said last night.
Paul D. herman, president of the
District Grocery Stores, said the in
crease is a result of steady rise in
wholesale pork prices over the past
10 days. This is attributed to lower
hog marketings as a result of severe
weather in the West.
Mr.. Herman described the price
jump as temporary condition"
Citrus fruits also have risen in
price, a result of the recent freeze
in Florida. Mr.. herman estimated
oranges were up 80 to 40 per cent,
with grapefruit prices up 25 to 80
per cent.
The official pointed out, however,
that fresh citrus prices had been
unusually low for this time osyear,
until the damage to the Florid; ;Mcrop.
Other food prices were reported
unchanged.
Evening star., 1947-02-23
Report on Recorder S
Office 10 Be Sent
To House This Week

An investigation report on COM
plants of administrative laxlty,
costly office operations and person.
mel troubles in the Recorder of Deeds
office will go to the District sub
committee of the House Appropria-
tions Committee by the end Of this
week, it was learned yesterday.
Committee members refused to
discuss the extent of the pending
report. House sources indicated the
findings may be sufficient to war
rant committee recommendations
for legislations to make office pro-
cedures more efficient.
The recorders Office has been
under investigation from at least
three angles. Chief Investigator
Robert E. Lee of the House Appro-
|priations Committee is preparing
the report for the subcommittee
headed by Representative Horan
Republican, of Washington. The
Federal Bureau of Investigation
which looked into activities of the
recorders Office last fall at the di-
rection of the executive department,
reported still is assisting in Some
phases of the investigation.
The General Accounting Office, at
the request of First Deputy Recorder
A. Oliver Thornton, is examining
accounts in the auto lien division.
The auditors are understood to have
discovered that collections of ap-
proximately 500 fees at so cents
each were not recorded after stamps
were attached to auto liens.
This investigation, it was reported,
not only is concerned with $4,000
such liens handled during the last
year but may go back several years
Mr.. Thornton said last week he had
mo idea when the GAO audit will
be finished. He and other officials
have not commented on the effect
which unrecorded fees might have
on ownership titles to automobiles,
or whether the reported practice
caused any substantial shortage in
accounts.
House committee officials have in
dicated they do not expect evidence
of major financial Irregularities in
the Recorder of Deeds Office. They
are known to have received testi-
money of inefficient and expensive
operations.
DR.. Marshall Shepard, the Re
corder of Deeds, has been in Califor-
mia during the past week. He re-
portedly has not informed his Office
when he will return.
Evening star., 1947-02-23
Police Seek AssuiIont
After z Are Wounded

Two men were shot, one critically,
late yesterday in the basement of
house in the 1000 block of New
Jersey avenue NV. Police we're
still searching early today for the
5O-year -old colored man who is said
to have fired the shots.
Otis B. Young, 81, of the 4500
block Dix street NE, was in a crit
ical condition at Casualty Hospital
with wounds in the back and left
arm. John Lee Kearney, 81, of the
600 block Acker street NE, was
slightly wounded in the right arm,
treated at Sibley Hospital, and re-
leased. Both are colored.
Evening star., 1947-02-23
Unions Charge
Against Military
Will Be Probed
Congress Will Sift
Claims They Fill
Civilian Jobs
By Joseph Young

The House and Senate Civil
Service Committees will investi-
gate charges that the War and
Navy Departments are using
military personnel to- fill civilian
jobs, it was learned last night.
Chairman Rees of the House Civil =
Service Committee announced that
his group will delve into the situa-
ton, following charges made Friday
by the executive council of the AFL
American Federation of Govern
ment Employees that such practices
are taking place in War and Navy.
Chairman LANCER of the Senate
Civil Service Committee also an
nounced he will investigate the situ-
alton. He informed James B. Burns,
president of the AFGE, that com.
plete investigation" will be made.
Serious Concern Voiced.
The two other major Government
employees unions, the CLIO United
Public Workers of America and the
National Federation of Federal En-
ployes, also have charged that these
practices exist. -
All the Government employees
groups are seriously concerned over
the situation which they charge ex-
lists in the two largest Federal de-
partments. With thousands of War
and Navy employees already facing
dismissal in the current reduction
in-force program, union leaders say
the use of military personnel aggra-
Yates the situation that much more.
Every time a military man Is
used on civilian job, it means that
another civil service employe is
forced off the payroll" a union lead
er remarked.
Another. thing worrying union Of
ficials is the impending budget
slashes of Army and Navy appro-
priations. Lack of funds would
heighten the use of military person.
mel and cause the dismissals of mors
civil service employees than have
been anticipated, union leaders de-
clare. They contend that with
limited funds on hand, War and
Navy would decide that 1t was
cheaper to use military rather than
civilian personnel on the job wher-
ever possible.
This is strictly against the law
which forbids the use of military
personnel in civilian jobs in the
Government, they pointed out.
i Charges Called Serious.
Mr.. Rees declared: These charges
are exceedingly serious and will be
thoroughly looked into, If these
practices exist, they must be stopped
at once"
The Kansan said that top military
officials and civilian officials of both
the War and Navy Departments
would be called before the commit
tee. The Senate Civil Service Com
mittee is also expected to summon
these witnesses.
Evening star., 1947-02-23

which ran across
the sidewalk.
The truck driver
was h ar 6 e d
with drunken
and reck ! e S S
driving, police
said.
T h e boys,
Don aid NAL
colin, 13, of Ill
E ast Clifford
q v e n u e, anu
Patrick Corcor-
an, IL, of 3012
Manning street.
ere walking
along the 34M
Evening star., 1947-02-23
Silver Spring Boys Band
To Give Concert Friday

Marking the first anniversary Of
it's organization, the Boys Band OF
the Silver Spring Elks Club will give
a concert at pm. Friday at the
Silver Spring armory under the di-
rection of Joseph Dur'so, conductor.
The program is open to the pubAc
and no admission will be charged.
The boys will appear in their new
uniforms for the first time.
The Elks Club also announced 1t
is cooperating with the Tri-State
Commission of the Elks in sponsor
ing boys summer camp at Camp
RitchiP
Evening star., 1947-02-23
Hearing Set on Reroutine
Wesley Heights Buses

The Public Utilities Commission
yesterday ordered a public hearing
at 10 am. Friday on the rerouting
of Massachusetts avenue buses in
the Wesley Heights area and minor
schedule changes.
The hearing, to be held in the
District Building board room, will
cover a proposal to route Massachu-
sets avenue buses on Forty third
street NV. from Cathedral avenue
to Garfield street, on Garfield street
from Forty-third to Forty-f1fth
streets, and on Forty-flfth street
and Nebraska avenue from Garfield
street to Tunlaw road.
Evening star., 1947-02-23

right up at three months" said Mrs.
Wimbish. pretty 30-year-old mother
of five children.
Veronica Lynn, it appears, is kept
pretty busy performing for amazed
adults Who have heard about her
precociousness in the balancing
department.
People come In who've heard
about it and then we have to make
her stand up," Mrs. WimQsh said.
But she loves it. She lay rs right
Evening star., 1947-02-23

The breakfast food people should
hear about Veronica Lynn Wimblsh,
who at the ripe old age of six
months can balance herself upright
on her daddy's outstretched hand
for as long as three minutes.
Nny, that's nothing; she could
do that a month ago, her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin c. Wimbish OF
329 w street NE, said.
I'VE had an idea she was going
to be pretty strong when she sat
Evening star., 1947-02-23

sofa, is to hold an executive ses-
sion at 10 am. Thursday to chart
a course on a score of bills already
referred to it. Among these are
bills for three additional judges for
Municipal Court, the Hebert bills
for improving the penal and cor
rections system. control of business
rents, and penalties for attempts to
bribe sports participants.
Evening star., 1947-02-23

ton Board OF
Trade panel dis
cussion of pro-
posed District
taxes at a 1890
pm. luncheon
meeting Tues
day in t h e
Washington Ho-
tel.
The three Of
fcials are Bud
get Off1cer Wal
ter L. Fowler,
Assessor Ed
ward A. Dent
and Corporation
Evening star., 1947-02-23

Two Alexandria youths were in
jured seriously yesterday when they
were pinned against stone retain
ing wall by a light delivery truck
Evening star., 1947-02-23
Chevy Chase PTA to Meet

Mrs. Anna P. Rose. principal OF
Chevy Chase Elementary School,
and her staff will describe the
courses of study each pupil follows
at meeting of the Parent-Teacher
Association at pm. Tuesday.
Evening star., 1947-02-23
New York Tax Expert :
And 3City Officials 10
Discuss D. T.. Levies

DR.. Chester Pond, director of re-
search for the New York State Tax
Commission, will join three District
officials on Washing
Evening star., 1947-02-23

block of Mt. Vernon avenue IN Alex
andria when the truck left the
right side Of the strset. struck ice
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-06-08
JNnkHMHr

COMEBACK. We're told of an
Eastern watch manufacturer who is
extremely proud of his shops work
nanship. Recently he sent a small
box to Swiss competitor. and in the
box was an almost invisible wire. He
wrote that this wire was the fines
ever drawn by matchmaker.
The little box soon came back. but
there was no return letter. However,
there was a jewelers. lens in the box,
and the manufacturer examined the
wire with the lens. He soon found the
answer to his boast - a neat hole had
been drilled through the wire.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-06-08
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@~&es

ON THE WAGON. Nobody's had
much luck with Prohibition so far,
so it will be interesting to see if the
new anti-liquor law in India works
out. The Province of Bombay began
its program on April l, and to prove
it's in earnest, it won't even allow
liquor to be shown in a movie This is
a headache to Hollywood distributors;
reports have it that one poor devil
was driven to drink trying to cut "The
Lost Weekend" for Indian trade.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-06-08

Names and descriptions of all characters IN
6ction stories and semi-fction articles In this
maya zine are wholly imaginary. Any name
which happens to be the same as that OF any
person, living dead. Is entirely eoineiden'al.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-06-08
This Week Magazine
FOR A BETTER AM ERICA
WILLIAM l. NICHOLS. Editor

WILLIAM l. NICHOLS, Editor
THE coMlcAL CONQUEST or TAHITI. 4
BY Jomes R. Miller
ONCE UPON A HOLIDAY. .......... 7
by Dorothy Block
DON'T SWEAR Al THE PASSENGERS" .
by Don Eddy
TIPS FROM sTEicHeN. ................ 10
BY Jerry Moson
MeGARRY AND THE KiDNAPERs. 80. ~
BY Mott ToyIor
SO he WON'T TALK.
BY Louis Berg
THE ELECTRIC GIRL. Observation-Disclosures. 20
BY Robert fonfoine
LATEST MAN ON CAPE COD. ...... 20
BY Philip Hoskins
Cover BY L. kronqvisf
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-06-08

CORRECTION. Last week we print
ed a story about John Wendler who
makes meTy-go-rounds, in which we
stated that no private citizen had ever
ordered one of these $4,000 toys.
However, just the other day an order
did come in. The Executive Mansion
of Liberia is being re-decorated, and
the President asked for an estimate
on a suitable merry-go-round.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-09-08

the Alligators, the second named
! of the Nighthawks:
Harry Knight, Jimmy Mira VS.
Gilmore Park. Humbert Mira
Lloyd Watts, Kermit Loucks VS.
DR.. Jack Hayes, Norman D.
Artman.
Charlie Yates, Bob SPOTS
wood VS.. Alton Park, c h arli e
Smith.
Jim Jones. Curry Harris VS..
Glenn Price, Bill Curry.
Bob Knowles, Tony Demeritt
VS.. Paul Mesa. Jr., Bob billiard.
Leo Lopez, DR.. Bob Eckdahl VS..
Ken Toves, Hugh Moore.
+ Fred Mathews. Mel Hamel VS.
Ward Tyson, Fieldon Elbertson.
Willie Watkins, Hartley AL
bury VS.. Walter Vinson, DR.. VIM.
Kemp.
John Kirchenbaum, Pop Lon
deree VS.. Louis Pierce, Horace
.O'6ryant.
Charles SalaS, Moreno Wallace
VS.. Ed Gross, James Cooper.
j. 'McCardle. Ben Freer VS.
Robert Dopp, Paul Sher.
Bascom Grooms. George Carey
VS.. ]. McClosky, DR.. H. Moore.
Bob Saunders, Jeff Knight VS..
; Kermit Levin, Kovash.
Charles Levin, Ignatius Lester
VS.. Russell Hvman. Malcolm
SAWYER.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-09-08
Softball Standings
CITY LEAGUES

on the mound. Acevedo singled to
left, and Domenech scored. Rob-
erts hunted safely and Gabe Las
tres scored. HaSkins hit to first
and Hernandez was out at the
plate. Villareal walked, forcing
Acevedo home. F. Lastres flied
out to left to end the rally.
In the eighth Gabe Lastres
doubled for the third hit off Day.
In the field, Roberts was
credited with ID outs, Villareal
and Joe Mira also played we'll;
for the losers, Gwin, Gorton and
Croft were the best. At bat,
iAcevedo, Lastres and Roberts
each hit three safely; for the los
ers the four hits were produced
by Gwin. Ferns, Croft and Whit
man, two off each pitcher in the
first two frames.
Box scores:
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-09-08
KEY WEST GOLFERS
ADOPT DIFFERENT
'DINNER-PLAY TILL

Key West Golf Club members
will play their monthly dinner
matches under a different system
this time. The scoring will be
done under the nine point system.
Teams best ball counts three
points, and each Individual
match of the foursome counts
three points apiece.
Also this time, guests will be
by team play and not by indi-
vidual match play. The Alliga-
tors are being captained by Harry
Knight, while Gilmore Park is
heading the Nighthawks.
When the deadline for individ-
ual play stops Sunday, Septem-
Der 81, the winner will be an
nounced. The time and place of
the dinner match has not yet
been decided.
Yesterdays play saw the vet
eran Ole BY Sands score his all
time best round. The down-the-
center Sands scored a fine 40 on
the outgoing nine and bounced
back in AZ strokes for total of
80. Sands got three brides, two
on number one and one on num-
Der six. Sands putter was red
hot, he even used it in place of
a chip shot on number six to
score a well-earned birdie.
Individual dinner matches are
as follows:
The first named teams are OF
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-09-08
All Stars Score
Y Runs Against
Marathon Kings

Key West All Stars scored %
runs against the Marathon Silver
Kings Is to win the softball
game Saturday night. There were
total of 35 runs, 80 hits and IL
errors in the game. The visitors
hit only l6 safely for 80 bases
and the locals hit 16 for "a bases.
The leading hitters were Nc
Williams, with three doubles in
five times up; Williams hit o
triple and a homer, Carlton hit
two doubles. For the locals, Ca
sado hit four safely, Vidal and
Brost each hit three safely. In
the field, Vidal, Brost and Valdez
were the best for the locals, and
Stevens, McWilliams and Wright
shOne for the visitors.
Score by innings: r. H. E.
Marathon 900 2O1 073-13 IS IL
All Stars 3O4 626 10x-22 16 S
McWilliams, Carlton and Wright;
c. Valdez, R. Perez and Brost,
Alayon.
Home runs: Blanco. Stevens,
Williams; three.base hits: Will
liams, Cascade; tWo-base hits: Ca
sado, Griffen, Valdez, McWilliams
3, Carlton 2, Kupper: stolen bases:
Vidal 3, Alayon 2, Brost, Valdez
2, Perez; sacrifice hit: Toye: struck
out: by McWilliams 8, by Valdez
2, by Perez /; bases on balls: off
McWilliams 8, off Valdez 2, off
Perez 2; time of game: 200; UNI
pires: James Mira and c. Griffen;
scorer: Aguilar.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-09-08

Runs batted in: G.. Lastres 2,
Roberts 2, Acevedo, Vilareal, DOM
enech, Ferns, Croft. Whitman,
Henson; tWo-base hits: Croft, G..
Lastres 2, Haskins; earned runs:
Raiders 6, Flyers 4; struck out: by
Lastres IL, by Henson 3: bases on
balls: off Meador l, off LaStres l..
off Henson 3, off Day /; left on
bases: Raiders 7, Flyers 4; stolen
bases: Villareal, Dean 2, Myers,
Whitman; hits: off Meador 2 for
2 runs in 2/3 inning, off Henson
10 for 7 runs; winning pitcher:
Lastres; losing pitcher: Henson:
time of game: 200; umpires: Allen
and Chief Brown; scorer: Agui-
lar.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-09-08
Your HOROSCOPE

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER s.
l947-Today's is a feminine de-
gree and under its influences the
instincts will be tender and hu-
name, full of love, gentleness and
devotion. Seek only to cultivate
strength of character TO overcome
the timidity natural to the char
acter, lest you fail to receive the
due in life you richly deserve.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-09-08

Runs DATED IN: j. Mira, Has
kins; sacrifice hits: Mira, Lastres;
three-base hits: Roberts. German:
earned runs: Two; struck out: by
Meador 4, by Finkelstein 5; bases
on balls: off Meador 2, off Finkle-
stein 2: left on bases: Section Base
"a, Raiders 5; stolen bases: Dom
enech 2, Villareal; time of game:
1.30; umpire: Albury; field played
on: Wickers Field.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-09-08
Defeat
Cilmores; Blue
Sox Lose Game

The Pirates defeated the USS.
Gilmore team in the first game
Yesterday at Key West Army
Barracks. San Carlos, which now
has won three games, won from
the Blue Sox, Z to |. San Carlos
still leads the league.
Barcelo's homer in the seventh
inning won the game from the
Pirates.
The scores follow:
Box scores:
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-09-08
SECOND GAME
San Carlos

Summary-Earned runs: Blue
Sox 0, San Carlos 3; runs batted
in: A. Acevedo, J. Navarro l,
Diaz /, Vidal 2, Griffen /; stolen
bases: j. Navarro 2, ]. Alonzo, A.
Acevedo; balk: Diaz; bases on
balls: off Owens /; struck out: by
Diaz l, by Sweeting 8, by Owens
|, by Albury !; hit by pitcher: by
Diaz |; hits: off Diaz 3. off Sweet
ing 0. off Owens Z, off c. Albury
5; winning pitcher: Diaz; losing
pitcher: Owens.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-09-08
TODAY'S GAMES
Florida international League

Florida international League
West Palm Beach at Miami
Beach.
Miami at Fort Lauderdale.
Tampa at Havana.
Lakeland at st. Petersburg.
American League
Cleveland at New York, night
game-Lemon 60 VS.. Newsom
900.
Only games scheduled.
National League
New York at Pittsburgh-Har-
tung (8-6) VS.. Ostermueller az
81.
Only games scheduled.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-09-08
Party Held For Ray
Daniels Birthdd,

An enjoyable beach party was
held Friday afternoon by Miss
IGoodspeed's Kindergarten class in
honor of the fourth birthday OF
Raymond Edward Daniels, son
| of Mr.. and Mrs. Bob Daniels, 822
Fleming street.
Seventeen little classmates par
ticipated in the celebration. A
beautiful cake with four candles,
and ice cream added to the at
fractions of the party.
C,,bccriba m The Citizen
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-09-08
RED RAIDERS WIN TWO
AGAINST SERVICEMEN:
MEADOR GIVES 4 HITS
Mira Scores Roberts, Who
Had Tripled, With ''Red
Hot" Single to Left
field

Red Raiders won both games
: of a doubleheader at Wickers
. Field yesterday afternoon, beat
ing the Section Base team in the
first and the Boca Chica Night
filters in the second. The scores
were, respectively, Red Raiders
2, Section Base 0; Red Raiders
z. Boca Chica Nightfliers 4.
Bo Meador pitched the first
game, shutting out the Section
Base team, ALLOWING only four
hits. The first hit was produced in
the fourth with one out. German
tripled to right, but was thrown
out at the plate. Then Myers
singled, but it was wasted.
The other Section Base hits
were by Caldwell, who hunted
safely in the fifth with two, out,
and Finkelstein hunted safely.
In the seventh, with two outs,
Caldwell walked and Finkelstein
singled to center. but Dukes
famed to end the game.
In the second Roberts of the
Raiders walked. Mira sacrificed,
bunting him to second. Haskins
singled to center and Roberts
scored. In the sixth Roberts
tripled to deep center and scored
after Mira singled to left.
In the field, Acevedo. Roberts,
Domonech and Haskins starred
for the winners, while Moncrief,
Masters and Myers were out
outstanding for the losers. At bat
Finkelstein hit two safely in
tries for the losers, while Rob-
erts and Mira both hit one in two
attempts.
In the second game the pitch
ing of Lastres was the feature,
for after the second frame he
famed 10 batters and allowed no
hits, and but tow men reached
first base, on errors. Meador
started on the mound for the
Raiders and with two outs, walk
ed Myers, Croft doubled and
Whitman singled, scoring two
runs, and Meador went to the
showers. Gabe Lastres took over
and retired the side. {
In the Lastres walked
Dean and then, with two outs
Dean stole Second and third,
,Gwin singled to right and Ferns
to center, and two runs scored.
In the third, fourth and fifth,
LastresS SGT them down in one
two-three order. Croft got on by
an or,in the sixth, and Gorton
in the ninth by the same route.
The Raiders scored one in the
first. Mario Hernandez hit hot
one to third, Acevedo singled to
left, Roberts singled to left, and
Hernandez scored. In the second,
Villareal got on by an error, F.
Lastres walked, Domenech sin
gled to center and Villareal
scored. Lastres was out, center to
catcher to first to third. Gabe
Lastres was out, center to catch
er to first to third. Gabe Lastres
doubled, Domenech scored. Joe
Mira famed. In the seventh the
Raiders won the game when
Lastres singled to left, Domenech
walked. and Lastres singled
through third, F. Lastres scoring
Mira popped out to catcher Her,
nandez walked and the base:
were filled. Henson was sent tC
the showers, Day replacing hin