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The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-03-08
Here's a 'Iobor leader Ball likes

WASHINGTON-(F P)-Pres Walter w. Cenerazzo the
American Watch Workers Union (unafiaed) crystal
clear Feb % why the AFL executive council his
appeal for q charter at its recent Miami meeting.
Testifyng before the Senate labor committee
called Congress ito regulate labor relations in the public in
teest" by ~ amending the Wagner prevent industry.
wide collective bargaining ) giving federal power
of subpoena labor and 3) specifying
constitutional provisions international
adopt.
Sem Joseph H. Ball compimented Cenerazzo "he
constructive statement have had union
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-03-08

h a S enjoyed
burying liberal
h o pes a n d
C a u S e S in
Washington to
a degree that
seems to VIC
late profession
al ethics.
At this time
his small bust.
ness committee
is launching a
probe into the
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-03-08
New York CIO demonstrates
against unti-lubor bills

NEW YORK (FP) Some representatives of CLIO
members in this city laid plans emergency conference here
last week for simultaneous cywde shop meetings
lion of protest against pending anilabor bills.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-03-08
Washington Wire:
wherry plans funeral
tor newsprinf probe
By TRAVIS X. HEDRICK

WASHINGTON (FP) - Signs plentiful spring pus
syows that the Senates morcn give newsprn
inquiry here one OF his best $65 funerals complete with
II implanted pine box.
Sank oranoth uhorrx-I ~
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-03-08
SUN, MARCH s
COMING

If you want good tin~ come to he'IWo
MoNARCHS LODGE 1911 Dance on Sat-
urday. March IS, $3.50 pm. Peoples Audi
torium PAST w. Chicago Avenue. Admis-
sion sl.00. Semi-formal.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-03-08
Fink in cIink

DOVER, Del.-tFP) - Richard
K. Franklin, professional antiia-
Dor fink, was sentenced TO 10
wears in San Quentin for robbery.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-03-08

cal, Radio, & Machine Workers
of America.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-03-08

Food, Fun Dancing galore at the We'd
ding Party for Tin CTopercer) & Bub
Marcus, Sat. March 18th, $3.50 p. m, ESQ
Wellington. Aus. 33rd Ward Club.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-03-08

Sen. Kenneth Wherry (R., Neb. J
is an undertaken by trade, and
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-03-08
Whats doing

RATES: &c per word, 6 words to
3 lines minimum. Deadline-Monds.
Evening star., 1947-10-10
Lincoln Recent
For Famed Bed
Discovered
BY the Asseeiatsd Press

Documents establishing that the
famed huge Lincoln bed" in the
White House is authentic-and cost
$375-have been fished out of Gov
ernment records, thus settling an
old controversy.
President Truman told his news
conference late yesterday that the
General Accounting ONCE has
turned up some old receipts dated
around 1864 signed by President
Lincoln and Mrs. Lincoln.
He said they proved that the rose.
wood Lincoln bed actually was
bought by the Civil War President,
along with two dressers, desk, some
cabinet chairs and dishes on dis
play in White House showrooms.
The receipt for the bed and other
bedroom items totalled $2,518, Mr..
Truman said.
The bed is an out-size job well
suited to the tall Civil War Presi-
dent. 1t is eight feet long and five
and a half feet wide and has an
ornately carved headboard nine feet
tall.
Evening star., 1947-10-10

Exhibition Of pictures entered
in The Evening Stars Second
Annual Student Calendar Art
Contest will be held in the lobby
of the Department of Commerce
Building starting May l, 1s4s.
Thousands of people last May
visited the display of well over
500 pictures submitted by young
art students in junior and senior
high schools in Washington and
the surrounding Metropolitan
area in The Stars first contest.
Announcement last Sunday of
the contest already has brought
some entrants. Entry blanks to
young students were mailed to
them today.
The 10 are j. Franklin Barrett,
500 Rittenhouse street NV;
Michael Carey, 243 Hawaii avenue
NE; Margaret Ann Briggs, 5218
Kansas avenue NV; Nancy Polk
Woolford, 1904 South Columbus
street, Arlington, Va; Don Chap
man, 1905 Stratford road, Be-
thesda, Md; H. Spiegel, 1852
South Buchanan street, Arling-
ton; Howard Baldere, 2805 Ler-
ron road Sc; Beverly Well
born, 3718 North Eighteenth
street, Arlington; Mariore Frank,
Evening star., 1947-10-10
500 Chest Workers
Sought in Montgomery

Mrs. Benjamin Powell, Bethesda
Chevy Chase chairman of the Mont
gomery County Community Chest
campaign. today appealed for 500
volunteers in the drive. Further in
formation may be obtained by call
ing county Chest headquarters at
Oliver 1922.
Assisting Mrs. Powell as vice
chairmen are Mrs. j. William Her
ron and Mrs. Harvey B. Bolton.
The following have been appointed
section chairmen:
Mrs. Arthur j. Phelan, Mrs. w. M
Kiplinger, Mrs. Preston c. Alexan-
der, Mrs. Robert Hunter, Mrs. G.
Dunbar Stone and the Rev. Elmer
T. Fisher.
Evening star., 1947-10-10
Lawyer 10 Demand
Bunch Case Records

John r. Fitzpatrick, attorney for
the family of John Forrest Bunch,
today made public letter notifying
Commissioner John Russell Young
of his intention to appear at the
ninth precinct police station at
pm. Monday and ask to see records
OF the Bunch case.
Mr.. Fitzpatrick. was retained by
relatives to make an independent
inVestigation Of Mr. Bunch's death.
The 64-year-oid carpenter died in
Gallinger Hospital August 4 of what
a coroner's jury decided was a skull
fracture suffered in fall after a
stroke. He had been taken to the
hospital July 20, from the precinct
station.
In his letter, Mr.. Fitzpatrick de-
clared he did not consider salts
factory Commissioner Youngs letter
of last Tuesday in whcih he stated
he could not authorize an independ-
ent investigation, because the Justice
Department and United States At
torney George Morris Fay were
studying the case.
Mr.. Fitzpatrick asserted the re-
fusal was "paradoxical, in view of
the assertion in your letter under
acknowledgment that the District
has nothing whatsoever to hide in
connection with the Bunch case
Evening star., 1947-10-10
Inventor Of FM Radio Asks
Channel Reassignment
By the Associated Press

Maj. Edwin H. Armstrong of Chi.
cago, inventor of frequency modu-
lation radio broadcasting, said yes
terday that if any of the present
television channels were reassigned
to other uses, they should go to FM
to speed its development
Maj. Armstrong stated his views
in brief filed with the Federal
Communications Commission in
connection with the forthcoming
hearing on television channels. The
commission last summer set up allo-
cations for FM channels through
out the country.
Both television and FM use high
frequencies in the broadcasting
spectrum. Television currently
shares space in the spectrum with
various nonentertainment special
services such as police, fire, transit
utility and other emergency broad
casting.
The commission said recently
that Objectionable interference had
resulted from this sharing and pro-
posed to take the 44-to-50-mega-
cycle broadcasting band away from
television entirely so that that band
could be used exclusively by the
emergency services.
Evening star., 1947-10-10
Stars Calendar Art Pictures
To Be Exhibited in May

Fort Belvoir, Va, and Albert H.
Twiss, Vienna, Va. :
Selection of the six winning
pictures, each of which will en-
title the artist to a $100 Victory
Bond, will be featured this year
by method for the public to
register its opinion. The picture
receiving the largest popular vote
will be awarded one of the bonds.
The other five will be selected
on the basis of their adaptability
to use in The Evening Stars 194S
calendar.
Any art student in Junior or
senior hight school, whether pub
lie, private, parochial or nearby
suburban, may enter. A request
to the Art Contest Editor of The
Evening Star, Room 724, Eve
ming Star Building, will bring a
registration card, book of rules
and entry blank to. be pasted on
the back of the picture. Students
may enter as many pictures as
they desire and may choose any
medium, so long as it is in color.
Because of the formal of the
calendar. pictures should be in
the proportion Of 20 inches wide
by is inches high.
The contest will close officially
on April l, with the exhibition to
open one month later.
Evening star., 1947-10-10
Yacht Basin No. | Lease
To CHANGE Hands Dec. |

Yacht Basin No. /, located at
Maine avenue between Twelfth and
Fourteenth streets S.W., will come
under new management December !.
The District Wharf Committee
announced yesterday that the ma
rine division of Arcade Pontiac Co.,
headed by Jack Blank, had made a
high bid of $39,750 for three-year
operation of the facility.
Lowest bid of five opened yester-
day was submitted by the present
lease holders, Nash Marine Supplies,
which has operated the basin for
eight years. Edward Weston, vice
president of the Nash firm, said the
company would continue in business
at an undisclosed site.
The Nash bid was $4,000. Others
were $37, 300, submitted by Frank P.
Greenman, Freeman G. Corkum
and Charles o. Cary of the Buzzard
Point Boat Yard; $32,616, James
Gregory and H. r. Robinson Of the
Gregory Boat Yard; $21 800, Raleigh
w. and L. Cornell Dawson of the
Marine Equipment Co.
Mr.. Blank was active in the last
Presidents Cup regatta, serving as
chairman of the associations Trophy
COMMITTEES
Evening star., 1947-10-10
Auto Training Held Up
By Lack of Instructors

Although eight automobiles have
been made available by car manu.
facturers for driver training of Dis
trlct high school pupils, they can
not be put to use because there are
no instructors, James S. Beattie,
president of the Junior Board of
Commerce, informed School Supt.
Hobart M. Corning yesterday.
In a letter to Mr. Corning, the
board president asked his cooper
alton in furthering the program by
giving notice to high school teach
ers of the availability of instructor
training. The American Automo-
bile Association has offered to give
courses for instructors, Mr.. Beattie
said.
The driver training program, rec
ommended by the Traffic Safety
Committee Of the board, received
unanimous approval Of the body.
Evening star., 1947-10-10
Sutton Switches Plea
In Shooting, Receives
Term in Other Cases

Raymond E. Sutton, %, today
withdrew an earlier guilty plea and
pleaded not guilty to charges of as
sault with intent to kill Policeman
Raymond D. Padgett, 81, No. 9 pre-
cinct. At the same time he was
sentenced on other charges to serve
a total of nine to "a years.
Sutton, who is colored, and whose
address was listed as the 1000 block
of Gales street NE, was sentenced
on charges of assault with danger
GUS weapon on a cab driver, house
breaking and larceny and for carry
ing deadly weapon.
The sentences were imposed by
Justice Edward M. Curran of Dis
trict Court.
The assault count was in the
shooting and wounding of the cab
driver, John r. GLADDEN., colored, at
the time Policeman Padgett was
shot. Withdrawal of the plea in the
shooting of the policeman leaves
Sutton open to trial on that count.
The shooting occurred last March
in the 1900 block of Benning road
NE. when Policeman Padgett sought
to question Sutton, police reported.
Sutton told the court today that
he had not sought to kill the officer.
Officer Padgett had lost the sight
of one eye and is disabled as the
result of the shooting.
In sentencing Sutton, Justice Cur
ran gave his three to nine years
in the wounding of the cab driver
and five to Is years for breaking
into an apartment, ordering the
sentences to run consecutively. He
also gave Sutton an additional year
for carrying pistol.
In another sentence Justice Cur
ran gave Livinour L. Livingstone,
80. >colored, 500 block of Morton
place NE, from three to nine years
for cutting and wounding a colored
woman.
Evening star., 1947-10-10
Bandits Get S292
n 7 Ho|dups Here

Two hands in pockets" robberies
yesterday netted total of 1854 for
holdup men here and police today
were looking for a pair of slender
white men In connection with one
and meat, polite" colored man in
the other.
Clarence j. Kern, 1920 Fuller
street NV, told police he and his
wife were leaving Kern's Liquor
Store, 1888 Eleventh street NV,
which he owns, at about 9.30
o'clock last night when two men
stopped them on the sidewalk and
took canvas bank bag containing
1896 in store receipts.
One of the men held hand in his
pocket in threatening manner, Mr..
Kern said. The other man also took
Mrs. Kern's pocketbook.
The men wore tan raincoats and
no hats and were in their early 20's,
police were told.
In another holdup earlier in the
day, $28 was taken from the Rose
Cleaning and Pressing establish
ment at 1881 Seventeenth street
NV. by thief who held hand in
his pocket to threaten Mrs. Loretta
L. Mitchell, manager, police said.
He was described as colored, about
26, wearing light tan raincoat and
brown pants.
Evening star., 1947-10-10
Mrs. BrauIt Asks Court
To Reverse Divorce Decree
By the Associated Press


ANNAPOLIS, Oct. 10.-Mrs. Mar
garet A. Brault of Chevy Chase
asked the Court of Appeals today
to reserse a Montgomery County
Court decree granting her husband,
Attorney Albert E. Brault, a partial
divorce.
Mr.. Brault is a former county
public utilities agent and former
trial magistrate.
Attorney John Sumner Wood,
counsel for Mrs. Brault, in q brief
submitted to the court contended
the decree was in error because it
was "based on conduct less than
cruelty"
In reply, F. Barnard Welsh and
Barnard T. Welsh, counsel for Mr..
Brault, argued that Mrs. Brault's
conduct constituted such cruelty
of treatment and excessively vicious
conduct" as entitled Mr.. Brault to a
divorce.
The lower court gave Mr.. Brault
CUSTODY of their three children,
Evening star., 1947-10-10
Truman Names 6 Members
Of SesquicentenniaI Group

President Truman today ap-
pointed six members of the National
Capital Sesquicentennial Commits
sion created by Congress.
The appointees are: Robert v.
Fleming, president of Riggs National
Bank; Joseph c. McGarraghy, for
mer president of the Board of
Trade; Commissioner John Russell
Young; Carter T. Barron, Eastern
division manager of Loew's; Robert
Woods Bliss, veteran diplomat, and
Mrs. Philip L. Graham, wife of the
publisher of the Washington Post.
The commission will plan for the
observance here in 1850 of the 150th
anniversary of the establishment of
the seat of the Federal Government
in the District.
The President is ex officio chair
man of the group, which also has
in its membership the President
pro tenn. of the Senate, Speaker of
the House and three members each
from Senate and House.
Evening star., 1947-10-10
Head Of Cab Company
In Bethesda Files Suit
Against Rival Group

Richard H. Phelps, operator of the
Suburban Cab Co. of Bethesda, has
filed an injunction suit in Mont
gomery County Circuit Court to re-
strain a group of taxicab drivers
from using his trade name in their
newly organized business.
This suit, another court action
charging two cab drivers with vio-
lating county ordinance and case
involving an assault and battery
complaint, are the outgrowth Of a
disagreement among personnel of
the Suburban company which Mr..
Phelps claims led to secession" by
a majority of the drivers formerly
associated with him.
The seeding group of 18 formed
their own company and applied to
the State for permission to use the
name Suburban. It is this request
that Mr.. Phelps would restrain by
injunction.
The disagreement came to a head,
attorneys said, when Mr.. Phelps
increased "lot" fees to cab drivers
from So to $40 a week. These fees
are charged for Suburban's service
of receiving telephone calls at a
stand adjacent to the Capital
Transit bus terminal in Bethesda,
and referring them to the cab
drivers.
Hearing on the restraining order
is set for November 7. Proceedings
brought by MIR. Phelps accusing
William B. Wrenn and Edward 10th
of violating the new county cab
ordinance will be aired October %.
In the latter case, the defendants
are charged with failing to obtain
official county permission to operate
as company. Both legal actions
are in circuit court.
The assault and battery charge
was filed by James A. Miller against
Clarence Rogers as the result of an
alleged fight over the disagreement.
It is docketed for hearing in Bethes-
da police court today.
Evening star., 1947-10-10
Barrett Checks
Police Timeon
Special Details
Orders Records Kept
On Mun-Hours Spent
On Functions, Sports

Supt. Robert j. Barrett has in
augurated the Metropolitan Police
Departments first comprehensive
survey of time spent by members
Of the force on duties other than
regular police work.
In particular, Maj. Barrett has
ordered a record kept of man-hours
consumed by special details for
Federal and District functions, serv-
ices for the diplomatic corps and
athletic events.
Each precinct has been instructed
to maintain a master tally sheet for
such assignments and report totals
regularly to headquarters.
Rough Estimates Possible.
In the past, Maj. Barrett ex-
planned, the department could only
make rough estimate of man
hours taken up by special details
outside the scope of routine police
protection.
From time to time, he pointed out,
Federal and District officials call on
the department for men to perform
guard duty at public events or to
honor dignitaries. In addition, he
said, social events of the diplo-
matte corps require special details.
Maj. Barrett mentioned, also, the
assignments to Griffith Stadium
for baseball and football games and
the men sent elsewhere in the city
for other sports events.
Special Situation Here.
He said it was obvious Washing
ton, as the Nations Capital, pro-
duces many activities demanding
special police details which would
not be found in other cities of COM
parable size.
Congressional committees study
ing police budget requests have
been interested in the time spent
by police on such work, Maj. Bar
rett said.
The current survey will provide
them with accurate information if
it is requested in the future and
will tend to show the need for the
205 additional policemen he has
asked to provide proper coverage
OF beats, Maj. Barrett explained.
Evening star., 1947-10-10
Tokomo Church Service Sunday
To Honor Pair Wed so Years

To the strains of Lohengrin's
wedding March," John Souder and
the former Celia Smith will walk
hand in hand down the aisle of
the Takoma Lutheran Church Sun
day.
The music and the service that
follows will symbolic not promises
given, but promises fulfilled. For
John Souder and the former Miss
Smith have been married for so
years.
AS faithful members of the con-
gregation since 1883, the Souders
will hear the II am. service dedi-
Gated to their half century to-
gether.
The Rev. j. Adrian Pfeiffer, pas
tor of the church, will open the
service with a prayer from the
marriage ceremony. Then he will
turn to Proverb 81, "The praise
and properties of good wife y
"She 1Dill do him good and not
euiI all the days of her he."
AS tAAc Wo1oo VI VIC PAoFCAU UC-
gin, the Souders will recall the
day back in 1895 when Mr.. Souder
attended confirmation exercises at
Phanuel Lutheran Church in Berg
ton, Va. That day, Mr.. Souder
saw Celia Smith standing across the
way and asked a friend who she
was.
They will recall how the chance
meeting developed into romance
when Mr.. Souder became a teacher
in the one-room schoolhouse of
Hardy County, w. Va. One of his
students was Celia Smith. He was
10 and she was IT, Two years later,
teacher married student.
"She seeketh Dool and fGr
Evening star., 1947-10-10
Fire Battalion Chiefs
Po||ed by Murphy on
Civil Service Plan

The question whether the fire de-
partment should require civil service
competitive examinations for bat
talon chiefs was put to the men
most commemorative battalion chiefs
themselves-by Fire Chief Clement
Murphy today.
Calling of the 16 battalion heads
into special meeting, Chief Murphy
compared the mechanics of the
present system with the civil service
plan and asked each man to write
him letter telling why he does or
does not favor a change.
Monday the other chiefs will hear
the same proposal and will be in
vited to write their opinions.
When all the letters are in, Chief
Murphy will study them with his
two deputies and decide on a rec
ommendation to be made to Com
missioner John Russell Young
Murphy Has "Open Mind"
II did not ask for opinions today"
Chief Murphy said. Il wanted the
men to have time to think it over
and perhaps talk to some of the cap
tains" AS for himself, ne has an
open mind" on the matter, the chief
added.
Inclusion of battalion chiefs on
the Civil Service rolls was recon-
mended this summer by the National
Board of Underwriters, following
study of the Fire Department. The
board also suggested that the posi-
tions Of chief and deputy chief lack
Civil Service protection.
II told men today that so far as
these three top positions went, I
thought they should be exposed and
not be protected by Civil Service"
Chief Murphy said.
'"They should be in such position
that they may be shot at or re-
moved If they do not measure up or
are not in sympathy with admins
tration policies"
Good and Bad Points Listed.
In outlining the plan which would
extend Civil Service beyond the rank
of captain for the first time, Chief
Murphy told the officers they must
weight the advantages against the
disadvantages.
He said a lot of old, faithful men,
who could not compete with younger
captains in written examinations,
would lose out, and therefore the
best men would not always be pro-
NOTED.
On the other hand, younger, more
alert captains would move up to bat
talon chiefs, though they would not
have SO much experience as they
would under the present system of
selective promotion, he said.
Chief Murphy was certain that
present battalion chiefs would not
be required to take the examination
should the civil service plan be
adopted.
In addition to the IA chiefs in
charge of the seven fire districts, the
executive officer and a drillmaster
also would fall under the civil serv-
ice provisions.
Evening star., 1947-10-10
NCWC to Collect Food
For European Children

A Thanksgiving food collection
for the children Of Europe will be
conducted during the week begin
ming November q by the War Re-
lief Services of the National Catho-
lie Welfare Conference.
Archbishop John T. McNicholas,
o. p, of Cincinnati said a similar
Nation wide campaign last year re-
suited in the shipment of more
than 100000 cans of food over
seas,
Evening star., 1947-10-10

and worketh ,Dillingly pith her
hands"
And that part of the proverb will
bring back the struggle Of the early
days. To supplement a teachers in
come of $25 month and keep
for five months out of the year, the
young couple farmed on land be-
longing to Mrs. Souder's parents
and Mrs. Souder carded, dyed, spun
and wove their clothing.
Her children riseth up and
call her blessed; her husband also,
and he praiseth her,"
The Souders will think then OF
their children-six sons and seven
daughters and 20 grandchildren.
AS they sit in their front-row pew
remembering, Mr.. Pfeiffer will read
the gospel lesson, telling of Jesus
attending the marriage feast at
Cana.
The congregation will join in
singing hymns on marriage and Mr..
Pfeiffer will take for his sermon
text God Bless Our Home" The
church quartet will sing Perfect
Love-"
Then will come the time of gift
giving. AS the church sings Blessed
Be the Tie That Binds" the Souders
will come forward to the chancel to
be greeted by Mr.. Pfeiffer and to re-
ceive the gifts of the Women's Guild
and the Mems Club of the church,
their family and friends.
After. the closing prayer and the
benediction, the congregation will
remain seated while Mr.. and Mrs.
Souder leave the church together
just as they did at the start of their
married life so years ago.