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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-08-23

Joseph Cirminello, father of quad
ruplets, Just couldn't have picked
worse time to bring his family to
Washington.
Robert F. Cogswell, District rent
control administrator, said the hous-
ing prospects for new residents is as
bad as it was during the war, and
80 far as I can see, there isn't any
chance for improvement"
Mr.. Cirminello is slated to move
back to Washington in December
when the Securities and Exchange
Commission re-establishes Offices
here. The quads' father is an analyst
with the commission, which moved
to Philadelphia in 1912.
Price of Homes $4,000 Up.
In response to pleas for a home
for his enlarged family, Mr.. Cir
minello has received offers of new
homes through his sister-in-law,
Mrs. Docia Hatcher, who lives at
the Park Lane Apartments. But
the prices, he said, are $4,000 and
up. What he would like to do is
swap his Philadelphia home with
some one here who will move to the
Quaker City.
And that, according to Mr. Cogs-
well, probably would be his best
chance of finding a home.
Along with the Cirminellos, the
influx of thousands of other Federal
employees planned in the next sew
eral months will make the Districts
housing problem tighter than ever,
the rent administrator said.
Strangely, Mr.. Cogsweu said, re-
cent Government layoffs haven't
helped bit. 1.-THE answer possibly
is that their apartments and homes
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-08-23
Woman Killed by Car
On Defense Highway

A Bladensburg woman was fatally
injured last night and her COM
panion critically hurt when they
were struck by an automobile as
they walked in the 5000 block of
Defense highway, Prince Georges
County police reported.
The woman was Creda Smith, So,
colored, 570O block Defense highway
She died at Ills am. in Casualty
Hospital, four hours after the acct
dent.
In critical condition at Casualty
Hospital was George Frost, So, COL
ored, 5000 block Defense highway
suffering fractured ribs and shock.
Police said the driver of the car
was Henry M. Bolts, %, of 224
Tenth street Sc. He was not
charged Immediately. The victims
were taken to the hospital by the
Bladensburg Rescue Squad.
A woman was killed and her hus-
band injured yesterday in an auto
mobile truck collision at routes 211
and 20, near Warrenton, Va, State
police reported.
The dead woman is Mrs. Helen
R. Wall, 40, Upper Darby, Pa. Her
husband, who was treated at Physi-
clans Hospital, Warrenton, is Rich
ard E. Wall, 3d. State police said
he was driving the car.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-08-23

are being snapped up as soon as
they become vacant by other Gov
eminent workers who have been
living in rooming houses.
Frankly" he continued, II don't
understand it. Rental people both
in Washington and Virginia ex-
pected the situation to taper of
by this time. But they all say it
hasn't at ALL"
Problem Of Eviction.
Mr.. Cogswell said a number OF
people now living in homes rented
from District residents who are out
of town possibly will face eviction
according to the number of inquiries
received by his Office from all parts
of the country. The inquiries, he
said, ask what has to be done to
get their homes back.
The procedure, by the way, is to
give a 30-day eviction notice. If the
renter refuses to vacate, the case
must be taken to Landlord and Ten
ant Court, Mr.. Cogswell said.
There is little hope for new rental
units through current construction,
he added.
There is one large building going
up near Dupont Circle, but it won't
be ready for 10 months" he said.
Others in the Southeast and South
west also are only partially COM
pleted. And there is very little at
all in the Northwest
The administrator added that
chances are not great that many
returning Government workers are
going to want to walk in and pay
$4,000 to $4,000 to buy new homes.
And at that. the homes would be
pretty far out from town"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-08-23
Mailman, Barber
Continue Trades
At Marine

A letter carrier and a barber are
performing their regular work while
in training with the 5th Marine Re-
serve Battalion at Camp Lejeune,
N. C.
This has resulted from person.
mel classification program instituted
by 1t. Col. John E. Fondahl, COM
handing officer of the Washington
reserve unit, according to dispatch
from Camp Lejeune.
Pfc. Bernard j. Mitchell, the bar
Der, is cutting the hair of his fellow
trainees, it stated, and S/Sergt Will
liam P. Thomas, the letter carrier,
is delivering battalion mail.
The classification program is be-
ing administered by S/Sergt. Blake
A. Weaver.
1t. Col. Fondahl was described as
about results to date in
uncovering specialists who could be
used in their particular fields while
performing usual military duties.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-08-23
'UPWAtoSeek
|Cost-of-Liviing
Pay Increase
$3.50 to $500 More
For Federal Workers
Adopted as Goal
By Joseph Young
Sfor Staff Correspondent

CHICAGO, Aug. 23-The Execu-
tive Board of the CLIO United Pub
lie Workers of America today placed
as It's No. l legislative goal next
year cost-of-living wage increases
for Government employees.
Entering the final day of its semi
annual meeting here today, the
board adopted a six-point program
which it hopes Congress will adopt.
Heading the list Is the pay raise
proposal, which is designed to af-
ford relief to Government employees
until prices come down. The union
did not specify the amount of the
pay boost it desired for Federal
workers, but spokesman said UPWA
would be more than satisfied with
a $3.50 to $500 year pay raise"
Others Press for Raise.
The various AFL postal unions, as
we'll as the AFL American Fedora
ton of Government Employees, also
have announced they will press for
temporary pay raise legislation next
year.
Other legislative goals voted by
UPWA's Executive Board are: I'm
employment compensation benefits
for Federal workers, true liberali-
atom of the Governments retire
ment system, Federal aid to increase
salaries of teachers, improvement in
conditions of postal workers and
Federal prison employees and "a uni
form and fair labor relations policy
for the Government, including i'm
partial adjudication of employe
grievances"
Denounce Labor Law.
In other actions, UPWA went on
record as denouncing the Taft
Hartley Labor Act, which it said
was enacted ito destroy hard-won
rights of labor"
The union sharply denounced
Congress record during this years
session and pledged to stand side
by side with it's brother unions in
an all-out fight for the outright re-
peal of all anti-labor legislation,
Federal and State"
UPWA officials also revealed the
union will spend $350,000 during the
coming year in an extensive mem
bership drive UPWA officials said
the membership now totals 10000
employees land is growing all the
time"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-08-23
ave Hits Board Of Trade
Proposal 10 Raise Rents

The Greater Washington Area
Council of the American Veterans
Committee today charged the WASH
ington Board of Trade with Joining
vested, selfish interests" as result
of its recent proposal for blanket
increase in rents here.
Maynard B. De Witt, an official OF
the group, said in a letter to Rent
Control Administrator Robert Cogs-
we'll that the boards proposal to in
crease rents without public hearings
indicates that it has allied itself with
Washington real estate interests"
Acknowledging that Increased
taxes have raised operating costs of
landlords, Mr.. De Witt contended,
however, that costs vary with diff
ferent owners. Blanket increases
therefore would work unfair hard
ship on tenants already overrbur-
dened, he said.
He predicted that universal rent
increases in the District would force
many student veterans to leave
school in order to make ends meet.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-08-23
Murphy Tells How Degenerotes
Ruin Lives of Many Youngsters

welfare of the community: Making
perverts out of children. To cope
with it, the police ought to be en-
powered to make arrests without
the necessity of securing warrants
in all cases where there is a clear
and well-founded suspicion that an
adult is practicing perversion on
a person under is years of age"
United States Attorney George
Morris Fay now Is working on a
proposed general perversion statute
with a maximum penalty of $4,000
or 10 years in prison as the punish
ment for offenders.
The proposed statute, which al
ready has won the support of some
of the parents of the young victims,
would fill a gap in the District
law. Unlike Al States, the District
has no statute on the books to
assure full prosecution of degen-
crates who modest children.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-08-23
Bethesda Church Plans
Course on Marriage

Looking Ahead to Marriage" is
the subject of a three-class course
for young people at the Bethesda
Presbyterian Church at 7 pm
tomorrow under sponsorship of the
Westminster Fellowship.
The Rev. Leonard S. Edmonds,
director of the social welfare de-
partment Of the Washington Fed
Grafton of Churches, will lead the
course. Topic of Sunday nights
class will be Finding the Right
Person"
Second class in the course will be
Tuesday at 7:30 pm, when the
topic will be when Can We
Marry?" On Thursday the topic
will be will 1t Work."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-08-23
Cleaning Plant 10 Replace
Strikers Unless They Return

Twenty-seven employees of a
wholesale cleaning plant, not work
ing because of disagreement over
application of the Taft-Hartley
labor law, will be replaced with out
side help" unless the union nego-
tiates a contract within the next
few days, the plant president de-
clared today.
Harry Kurtz, president of the
United Wholesale Cleaners and Tai
lors' Association, Inc. 619 Neal
place NV, said the employees
walked out yesterday.
Jack Kutner of the Amalgamated
Clothing Workers, Local 457 (CIO)
charged, however, that the workers
were locked out"
Mr.. Kurtz said his contract with
the union, which included a newly
outlawed closed-shop provision.
terminated in April.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-08-23
Supreme Court Writ Asked
In 1881 Staying Here

Thomas Jordon, 35, serving a life
sentence in the 1881 Garden T
Shoppe murder, has asked the Su-
preme Court for a writ of habeas
corpus.
Jordon, now confined in the Dis
trict Reformatory at Lorton, Va,
filed the petition through an at
torney with Chief Justice Vinson
yesterday.
He claimed he was "unlawfully
confined" and had exhausted his
rights under habeas corpus in the
lower courts"
Among charges made by Jordon in
his petition was one that Police
Supt. Robert j. Barrett, then a de-
tective sergeant, gave perjured tes-
timony in the case.
Jordon was convicted of killing
Mrs. Elizabeth Jaynes, 81, cashier
at the tea shop, during holdup.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-08-23
Social Security Taxes
Indicate Big Gain in
D. {. Private Payro|ls

An indication of the large increase
in non-Government payrolls in the
District is contained in a tabulation
by the Internal Revenue Bureau,
showing that Social Security taxes
collected in the District for the year
ended last June 30 were "a per cent
above those for the previous year.
Social Security taxes are not COL
lected for Government workers. The
tax is per cent of the first $4,000
paid employees, with / per cent being
paid by the employer and per
cent by the employee.
In the 1947 fiscal year, Social
Security taxes collected here
amounted to $3.50, 1862, as against
$6,201 ,944 for the preceding year.
More Taxes Withheld. >
Income tax payments by individ-
uals not covered by the withholding
tax and by those who paid more
than the withholding tax amounted
to $79,922.888 for the 1947 fiscal
year. In the year before, the figure
was $94,O28,858.
Withholding taxes for Govern
ment and non-Government workers
totaled 1902, AIT, 1892 in the latest
year, as against s277,648,824 for the
1916 year. The figure for the last
year includes $206, 1888, 421 attribut-
able to Government agencies hav-
ing central offices in the District
and covers employees here who live
outside the District and field
employees.
Corporation income tax payments
increased from $30,161 BAL for the
1916 year to 2,148,037 in the year
ending last June.
Other taxes showed taxable gifts
in the District increased threefold.
The gift taxes collected went from
$2o3,040 to $620,699.
Documentary stamp sales showed
District residents traded in more
securities and the safe deposit box
taxes showed. they rented more
boxes to put them in.
More Electricity Used.
Other taxes collected showed peo-
pie here were served by more oleo-
margarine dealers, used more cleo
trio energy, communicated more
with people at a distance but made
less use of the telephone locally.
Washingtonians had more bowling
alleys and pool tables available, to
them, but fewer pinbaH machines.
They paid less for public entertain
ment, admissions taxes dropping
from $3,374,331 to $3,057,015. But
apparently they turned to clubs in
stead, for taxes on dues and initia-
ton fees were up.
They also paid more for furs,
toilet preparations, luggage and
jewelry. The excise taxes on these
articles increased from S5,896, 249
to $6,241 ,022. Higher prices un-
doubtedly accounted for part of
t1,ic TOW
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-08-23
Man Found Dead in Hotel
Identified by Brother

w. C. Martin of Hagerstown, Md,
today identified the body of So
year-old man found dead in the
Continental Hotel yesterday as that
of his brother, Charles L. Martin of
Harrisburg, Pa.
The body was discovered in a
hotel room, with a scrawled note in
which Mr.. Martin said he was
standing in front of mirror
watching myself die"
No death certificate has been
issued by Deputy Coroner Christie
pher H. Murphy, pending reports
on a chemical analysis.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-08-23
Southeast Highway Project
Condemnation Suit Filed

The corporation counsels office
filed condemnation proceedings in
District Court yesterday to acquire
more than 10000 square feet of land,
most of it undeveloped, in the South
east section to extend the highway
system.
The development will include
widening and extension of Barnaby
road from Southern avenue to
Chesapeake street; widening and ex-
tension of Barnaby street from At
1antic street to Chesapeake street;
also Chesapeake street westerly from
Southern avenue. Southern avenue
would be extended in a southerly di-
rection from Chesapeake street.
Only a one-story house and about
a dozen sheds are on the property
1t was said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-08-23
Convict Who Escaped
From Truck Is Cuuoht

A convict who escaped last night
as he was being returned to Vir-
ginia Prison Camp 80 near Fairfax
after working on the road, was
captured at $50 am. today ir
Lynchburg, camp officials reported
today.
Lenwood Fitzgerald, IS, was serv-
ing 81 years for larceny Of an auto
mobile, camp officials said. His
home is in Lynchburg.
Fitzgerald, a trusty, jumped from
the truck on Lee highway, police
said. They believe someone was
following the truck and picked him
up. Camp guards said he was a
member of a gang that had stolen
"25 or 80 cars.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-08-23
HighCourttoGet
D. Covenant
Case in October
Petitions of z Groups
Accepted After Denial
By Lower Tribunals

The legal issue of private agree
ments to prevent persons because
of race or creed from buying and
occupying residences in the District
will come up for argument before
the Supreme Court at its October
term.
The court yesterday accepted a
consolidated petition filed in behalf
OF two groups of persons who bought
property il the 100 block of Bryant
street NV. District Court and the
Court of Appeals have ruled against
these petitioners in an injunction
suit brought by neighboring prop
erty owners who based their case
on claim that all tracts in ques-
ton were covered by a 1906 cove
nant stating that:
Subject also to the covenants,
that said lot shall never be rented,
leased, sold, transferred or con-
veyed unto any Negro or colored
person under a penalty of $4,000
which shall be lien against said
property"
Enforcement Decision Asked.
The petitioners in the Supreme
Court action are Raphael G. Ur-
colo, Robert H. and Isabelle j.
Rowe, Herbert B. and Georgia N
Savage and Pauline B. Stewart, and
James M. Hurd and Mary I. Hurd.
Mr.. Urcielo, who is white, sold
the residential land to Mr.. and Mrs.
Rowe, Mr.. and Mrs. Savage and
Pauline B. Stewart, who are colored.
Mr. Hurd, who, according to at
torneys, is Mohawk Indian, bought
property in the same neighborhood
from Mr.. and Mrs. Frank x. Ryan.
The Supreme Court was asked to
decide, in effect, whether courts
can enforce agreements restricting
the sale of land by willing seller
and the acquisition and occupancy
of land by willing buyer where
the restriction is based solely on
the race OF creed of the buyer"
Constitutional Violation Claimed.
The petitioners claim such en-
forcement violates the fifth amend
ment, which guarantees due process
of law in the protection of life.
liberty or property; and the Civil
Rights Act, which provides that 'all
citizens of the United States shall
have the same right in every State
and territory as is enjoyed by white
citizens thereof, to inherit, purchase,
lease, sell, hold and convey real and
personal property
The petitioners also contend that
such restrictive covenants violate
the Charter of the United Nations
to which the United States has ad-
hered, that they are contrary to
public policy, that they are espe- !
cially discriminatory under present
housing conditions, that they con-
stitute unreasonable restraints be-
cause they perpetually limit the
market for property sales, and be-
cause sit is anthropologically i'm
possible to determine who is acol-
ored person"
An attorney for the petitioners
said these are the first such District |
cases to go before the Supreme
Court. The court some time ago
accepted two similar cases, involv-
ing other States, for hearing at the
October term, he said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-08-23
Free Movies Dispute
with Theater Owners
Settled Wender Says

Chairman Harry S. Wender of
the District Recreation Board di-
vulged today that differences with
the motion picture theater owners
of Metropolitan Washington over
the boards policy of free movies
have been settled amicably.
The Ratchet having been buried,
it was indicated the District Com
missioners are expected to take no
further notice of earlier charges
preferred by the theater owners
against the alleged unfair competi-
ton" sponsored by playground
movies.
One Of the misunderstanding
arose at the recent conference with
the Commissioners at which A.
Julian Brylawski, president of the
theater owners group, took excep-
ton to a proposal made by John A.
Morrow on behalf of the Film
Center of 915 Twelfth street NV.
The center is the medium through
which the Recreation Board obtains
its films.
Sought Sponsors.
Mr.. Morrow had written on July
16, requesting the theater owners
to sponsor 80 free shows for the
summer program of the Recreation
Board. The cost at $3.50 each
would amount to $3,875.
1t had been planned to show one
film per week at each Of 81 recrea-
ton centers for eight weeks. The
letter explained sponsors had been
obtained for only 1876 shows.
In keeping with a previous agree
ment, it was explained, feature
films would not be used for any
outdoor free show under the pro-
gram. The theater owners were
asked to defray the expense of edu-
cational films which, it was said,
could be obtained from the Teaching
Film Custodians' Library in New
York City.
Full Report Promised.
Mr.. Brylawski was said to have
misunderstood the intention of the
letter in discussing it during the
meeting with the commissioners.
Later, when he refreshed his mem
ory, he said he no longer thought
it necessary to bring the matter
of free pictures up at special
meeting of the Recreation Board.
This might wait until the sub
ject comes up next spring and see
what we can all do together" he
wrote Chairman Wender.
In his reply, Mr.. Wender said
copies of the correspondence were
being furnished board members, but
he hoped they would agree with
him that it was unnecessary to call
a meeting to discuss the matter. A
full report, he said, will be made
at the regular board meeting on
8. Meanwhile, Mr.. Wen
der expressed the hope the theater
owners would cooperate in next
s1Irnnar'S nropram
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-08-23

A police officer who has watched
normal boys turn into sex offenders
because of the Understanding" in
fuence of an older person today
urged severe penalties for the de-
generates who ruin the lives Of
youngsters.
The officer, 1t. William T. Murphy
of the Juvenile Bureau, explained
he has been pleading for a strong
perversion statute for more than a
year because of what he has seen
in his work with boys.
He pictured boys growing up to
become perverts themselves because
of the influence of older persons.
AS an example of what can happen,
he cited the case of a 15-year-old
who met an older man at a soft
drink stand. The influence OF the
pervert on the boy became so pro-
nounced that the youths mother
noticed the change in the boy and
brought him to the Juvenile Bureau.
While the bureau was still trying
to help the lad, he hanged himself
victim of a tragedy that could
have been prevented if the District
had had a law strong enough to
put the pervert away.
Danger in Neighborhood.
Parents" he said, may think
their boys are safe from being mo-
Tested as long as they stay away
from certain parks and restaurants
where perverts are known to lolter.
But the real danger may be in a
boys own neighborhood."
In recommending a perverslon
statute, 1t. Murphy declared
1.-THE law has been slow to recog-
nize the seriousness OF this prac-
tice and of the injurious effect
it works on the life of the young
person who has been exposed to
its life-destroying influence.
GAS a people we are prone to re-
gard lightly this facilitating moral
rottenness as something far re-
moved from the bloodstreams OF
society; but the time is now here
when this condition should be faced
and treated as serious violation
of our law.
1.-THE cases examined by the Juve-
nile Bureau have determined that
this form of depravity is developed
by association of children with per-
verts, rather than being born with
the defect, as it is popularity sup
posed.
I'm practice, an adult will strike
up an acquaintance with a young
person whom he happens to meet
casually on the street, or in some
other public place. A show will be
taken in, a little money will be
spent. The pervert, in most cases,
presents the appearance Of social
success, and he manages to make
q good impression on the immature
mind of the child, who concludes
that since this new-found friend
possesses the outward effects Of sue
cess, he must also know the secret
Of getting along we'll in the world.
while under this influence, the
child is prepared to accept as
morally and socially right whatever
the pervert says and does. Unless
this association is cut short, the
child's character and personality
will be damaged beyond repair, the
hope of taking a rightful place in
society, the hope of self-respect and
the hope of becoming a parent will
be seriously endangered.
Starts Children on Way.
Repeated exposures to expert
ence Of this kind and the child
is on the way towards becoming
a sex pervert himself.
This Is q serious matter to the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-08-23
Carnival Will Close
With Auction Tonight

The annual summer carnival
sponsored by the Junior Board of
Commerce will close tonight after a
two-week run at Wisconsin and
Western avenues NV.
During the evening officials will
auction off house furnishings, groc-
cries, toys and other articles, includ-
ing all merchandise still on hand
and the lumber with which some of
the stands were constructed. Pro-
ceeds of the carnival will go to the
boards youth welfare projects.