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Evening star., 1947-10-12
W Meeting 10 Discuss
Direct Loans for Homes

The Veterans of Foreign Wars
Housing Committee will decide to-
day whether to urge the Govern
ment to make direct home loans to
veterans under the CT Bill.
At present, veterans obtain their
housing loans through banks, and
the Government partially guaran-
tees the banks investment.
Wes Pearce, VFW housing direc-
tor. said he would propose direct
loans at the meeting today because
OF the apparent unwillingness" of
many lenders to make loans to
veterans. The committee will meet
at pm. at the VFW headquarters,
1925 Seventeenth street NV.
Another factor holding back the
program, Mr.. Pearce said, Is "the
practice of so many lenders of re-
quiring down payments from vet
Grams in addition to their Veterans
guarantee"
Mr.. Pearce said his proposal
would be that the Government sell
tax-exempt bonds to get funds for
an appropriation that would allow
the Veterans Administration to
make the loans to veterans at 4
per cent interest.
Earlier this week, the American
Veterans of World War II proposed
that the Government make the
direct loans at lower interest rate.
Evening star., 1947-10-12
Blind Job CounseIors
To Start 5-Week Course

Blind job placement counselors
from five States tomorrow will start
a five-week course here to learn how
to teach other blind persons how to
hold down jobs in private industry.
The industrial training classes,
covering rs different types of work,
are sponsored by the Office of voca-
tional Rehabilitation, unit of the
Federal Security Agency.
The placement specialists will re-
ceive in-the-plant instruction in the
operation of power and hand tools,
lathes and drill presses. They will
also learn safety techniques, and will
be trained to pass their information
along to those who come to them for
guidance.
Members Of the class, which will
continue through November Is, come
from State vocational rehabilitation
agencies in Alabama, Oklahoma,
Pennsylvania, Missouri and illinois.
Evening star., 1947-10-12
You and the Chest Conpuiqn

To tell you something about
the organization to 1Dhich you
UiI be asked to contribute 1Uhen
a Dolunteer solicitor for the
Community Chest Federation
campaign rings your doorbeH.
The Star today begins a series
OF pertinent questions and an
sWers. The questions haze been
selected from those most often
Heard concerning the Chest and
the agencies it finances. The
answers hare been compiled from
Information furnished at CAM
paign headquarters.
What is the Community Chest
Federation?
The seperate Community Chests
Of Washington, Alexandria and Arl-
lngton, Montgomery, Prince Georges
and Fairfax Counties voluntarily
have Joined together under the fed
Grafton TO carry on single, united,
simultaneous campaign for all six
Chests and the 125 local welfare
services they finance.
X X x X
What does the Community Chest
do?
Briefly. It is an association to
budget funds raised for the use OF
agencies engaged in social, welfare
or charitable work, and to promote
develop, maintain and coordinate
that work where necessary.
X X
why is $4,000, 900 being sought by
the Community Chest Federation
this year? .
Last year, the Federation raised
$3,719,500. 1t was not enough. People
in need of help were turned away.
Evening star., 1947-10-12
Truman Will Attend
Presbyterian Rite

President Truman will attend the
ceremonies next Sunday marking
the establishment of Covenant-First
Presbyterian Church as the national
church of the Presbyterian Church
in the United States, it was an
nounced yesterday.
Members of the Supreme Court,
cabinet officers, high Government
officials and Congress members are
also expected to attend the services,
which will start at 4::30 pm. at the
church at Connecticut avenue and
N street NV.
The principal address will be de-
livered by Wilbur La Roe, jr., of
Washington, moderator of the de-
nominations General Assembly,. 9th
ers taking part in the service will
be DR.. William Barrow Pugh of Phil
adelphia, stated clerk of the Gen.
eral Assembly. and DR.. John H.
Gardner, jr.. of Baltimore, vice mod.
orator of the General Assembly.
Evening star., 1947-10-12
Winter Suits 5. to 80 CostIier
Than q Year Ago, Survey Shows

Men planning to buy new winter
suits will find prices as much as 8
per cent higher than year ago, a
survey of downtown stores showed
yesterday.
And there is little reason for hold
ing off until spring on the idea that
prices will come down. Most mer-
chants agree that spring suits will be
even more six or seven months from
now.
Prices of gabardines, covert and
worsted suits have increased more
than soft goods" such as tweeds
and cheviots, the check showed.
Walter Nordlinger, chairman of
the Retail Mems Clothing Division
of the Merchants and Manufacturers
Association, estimated hard finish
suits were up S to per cent while
tweeds were about the same as a
year ago
indications are spring suits will
be SO to SIS higher at RETAIL" he
added. r..
Mr.. Nordlinger said the Govern
ment was still the biggest single
customer of the mills, presumably
buying for the military services.
Evening star., 1947-10-12
Home Accidents
Fatal to. Three
Here in Week

Burns from scalding coffee caused
the death of a year-old infant in
one of three home accident fatali-
ties here last week, the District Red
Cross Accident Prevention Service
reported yesterday. The two other
deaths were those of a 39-year-old
woman and a 50-year-old man who
fell down steps.
Children figured in many of the
70 nonfatal accident cases treated
at hospitals during the week. A g.
year-old boy swallowed a toy train
wheel which lodged in his throat, a
little girl swallowed nickel and a
7-year-old youngster a metal disk
off a balloon.
Two children drank paint and
paint remover and baby ate rat
poison spread on bread and scattered
throughout a house.
OF the 73 fatal and nonfatal home
accidents last week, 20 were from
falls. 10 from cuts, nine from burns,
three accidental poisonings and the
others from miscellaneous causes.
There have been 156 home acci-
dent fatalities to date in the District
this year, as compared with I'll last
year. Injury cases total 3,8i6 to
date, as compared with 4,120 during
the corresponding period in 1916.
Evening star., 1947-10-12
Prince Georges Firemen
Advisory Heads Named

Chairmen of 10 advisory board
committees of the Prince Georges
County Volunteer Firemen,s Asso-
citation have been announced by r.
Allen Penn. Clinton, Md, president,
They are: Auditing, Hugh NC
Kinney, Clinton; athletic, Gerald
Seaton, Glenn Dale: statistical.
Ralph v. Small, jr, Boulevard
Heights; publicity, c. w, Gohr. West
Lanham Hills; standards, William j.
Tierney, Hillside; resolutions and
visiting, John J. Fainter, Hyatts-
vile; legislative, John McBrown,
Seat Pleasant: fire coptrol board,
Frank Briguglio, Capitol Heights;
fire prevention and inspection board,
Clarence Selke, Mount Rainier. and
insurance, william r. Beattie, Bla-
densburg.
Evening star., 1947-10-12
75% Compliance Reported
For New Rules on Parking

Police estimated that between rs
and 80 per cent of District motorists
complied yesterday with the new
Saturday parking restrictions.
A total of 756 warning slips were
placed on cars of parking violators
downtown, according to the traffic
bureau officials. They said about
$500 slips had been printed.
The warnings, used for the first
time, were ordered by Police Super
intendent Robert j. Barrett, who
said he felt a grace period should
be allowed in enforcement of the
new restrictions.
The warnings call for the "vol-
untary cooperation" of the parking
violator, but remind the driver that
If the offense is repeated he may
receive traffic violation notice or
his car may be impounded.
Weekday regulations, with the
exception of some early morning
and late afternoon parking, are now
in effect on Saturday.
Evening star., 1947-10-12
Recreation Board Asks
Permanent Daylight
Time in Summer

Reporting that its 1874 II fiscal year
was the best on record; the District
Recreation Board yesterday urged
that Congress continue to allow the
District an extra hour of play each
day by making daylight saving time
permanent for Washington sum-
mers.
The board, in its annual report
to the Commissioners, said daylight
saving doubles the evening hours
available on sports facilities and
should be made permanent for the
District"
When the change from standard
time became effective May II, Board
Chairman Harry S. Wender pointed
out. participation increased in all
outdoor sports and 295 softball teams
Immediately took advantage of the
evening daylight. !
The board also attributed 16
per cent increase in organized play
partly to the peacetinle influence
of the armed forces emphasis on
recreation.
Attended by 11,E0,995.
In the fiscal year ended last
June 80, total of IL ,17C,995 attend
ed the boards recreation 155 units,
as against 9,628,2l2 in the previous
year, Mr.. Wender said. ,
There is an awakening on the
part of the community as whole
to the ever growing Importance of
the recreation program" he added.
The 14-page report recorded the
increased popularity of archery and
the fact that tennis participation
was at an all-time peak during
tournaments last year. 1t found "a
clubs, divided into three leagues,
participating in touch football. Bas-
ketball, with 125 teams for men and
56 for women, was the most popu-
lar indoor sport in the city-wide
division (white).
The board was active outside the
sports field, the report indicated,
citing splendid growth" in square
and folk dancing.
Co-sponsored Concerts.
I'm cooperation with The Eve
ming Star, the board co-sponsored
the neighborhood concerts to make
available to large audiences in seven
neighborhoods an opportunity to
hear the National Symphony Or
chestra," Mr.. Wender added.
The report indicated the board
still is completing its plans for use
of the Emery estate, Georgia ave-
nue. at Madison street NV, as a
combined public library and recre-
alton site, and predict d the COM
bined library recreation center at
the E. v. Brown School will be
ready by next spring.
Mr.. Wender said the board will
continue its efforts to get the In
terror Department to turn over to
the District six large swimming
pools now operated under contrac-
tual agreement with Government
Services, Inc. Corporation Counsel
Vernon e. West has ruled that
unless this is done, the pools can
not be operated by the Recreation
Board.
Evening star., 1947-10-12
Cogswe|| Urges
Control Of Rents
Through 1948
Sovings Of S426, 500
For Tenants Reported
In Decisions on Raises

Continuation of rent control in
the District at least until the end
OF 194S was advocated yesterday by
Rent Control Administrator Robert
F. Cogswell. He urged this in COM
menting on his annual report which
showed, he said that his Office saved
tenants several hundred thousand
dollars in the last fiscal year.
While the Office has granted nu.
merous rent increases to landlords,
he reported, it saved tenants ap-
proximately S426,500 in decisions on
cases involving requests for rent ad-
Justments on housing units where
rents had been frozen as of January
/, l941.
Mr.. Cogswell explained to report
ers that the s426,500 figure repre-
sented the difference between rent
increases requested by the land
lords and the increases allowed by
the rent control Office.
l23 Ceiling Gases Handled.
The rent administrator said his
Office had not tabulated the total of
increases allowed during the l947
fiscal year. The present wave Of
increases began in the late spring.
in the current l948) fiscal year, he
added.
Handling 1913 cases of rent ceiling
violations, Mr.. Cogswell said the Of
flce ordered actual cash refunds to
tenants amounting to s8,283. If
these cases had not been discovered,
he added, the cost to tenants on an
annual basis would have been
$30,610
The present rent control law IL
due to expire next March 81. Mr..
Cogswell indicated he thought the
housing shortage would force a large
increase in rents if controls were
lifted then.
Total Since Opening 1881.
In all, the rent control Office re-
ported it had disposed of 1912 for
NAL cases in the fiscal year ending
last June 30. This brings to 1881
the total Of cases handled since the
office opened for business in 1912.
During the same period, 81, ,665 cases
have been filed.
District citizens filed 1904 cases
with the office in fiscal 1947, an in
crease of more than so per cent over
the previous year.
Approximately $4,000 telephone
inquiries and complaints were ham
died in the Offices public relations
division, while more than $500 per-
sonal interviews were conducted, Mr..
Cogswell said
Evening star., 1947-10-12
Army TO Instruct Industry
On Plans for Mobilization
By the Assoeiated Press

ny me tsSoetofeo PFesx
Industrial leaders and reserve Of
ficers will be given information on
industrial mobilization in special
short courses next year.
Starting in January, instructors
from the Industrial College of the
Armed Forces will travel through
the Nation to present condensed
versions of the ICAF course to re-
serve officers of the Army, Navy
and Air Force, and to industrial
leaders and educators. Courses in
vital aspects Of industrial mobiliza-
ton willb be given in each of the six
Army areas.
Leaders in industry will be care-
fully chosen to include a cross sec
ton of personnel who might be ex-
pected to fill key positions In busi-
ness and industry within the next
decade or more," an announcement
yesterday said.
Evening star., 1947-10-12
More Judges Needed
AT Municipal Court,
Barse Says in Report

Chief Judge George P. Barse in
directly warned the District Com
missioners yesterday that the Mu-
nicipal Court, with its chronic short
age of judges, is in danger OF being
showed under by too many cases.
In his report on the courts opera
tions in the fiscal year 1947, Judge
Barse noted that 125,570 cases of
all kinds had been filed. This is
17,499 or Is per cent more cases
than were filed in 1916.
1T is obvious" he said, that a
number of judges, even by their best
efforts, cannot continue to dispose
of progressively increasing amount
of business"
The report recalls that the courts
new assignment commissioner sys-
tem'-sifnilar to that of the Dis
trict Court-went into operation
last Monday in the civil division.
1t is hoped that Inauguration of this
system will enable us to dispose of
the business of the civil division
more expeditiously and more eff
GENTLY" Judge Barse wrote.
He told a reporter he would make
no formal request for new judges
until the assignment system has
been given a trial. But, unless the
situation improves, he added, three
new judges will be needed. They
would bring the total number to 10.
Judge Barse pointed out in his
report that there have been no
new judges on the court since 1912
although the case load has increased
each year.
The increase In the courts burden
is not only numerical, the report
pointed out. There also has been
an increase In the percentage Of
'time-consuming cases. In 1943, the
report shows, there were 488 de-
mands for jury trials in civil cases
Last year there were 1,642.
OF new cases filed during the year
1860 were in the criminal division
and 1881 in the civil division, the
report showed.
Evening star., 1947-10-12

What does the everybody bene-
fits" part of the Community Chest
Federation campaign slogan, Every
body Benefits-Everybody Gives"
mean?
Everybody does benefit, directly or
indirectly, from the services made
possible by Community Chest
agencies.
Campaign Chairman Edward H.
Foley. jr., explains that if you run
into difficulties and need help with
a hospital bill, a lift from a family
agency or call by a visiting nurse,
low-pay care in a nursery school,
or if your child is a Scout, a Camp
Fire Girl, or goes to a settlement
house or boys club, you benefit
directly.
When epidemics are avoided,
when delinquency is controlled, when
crime is reduced, when social unrest
is Quilted, everybody benefits in
directly.
Evening star., 1947-10-12

The Government took 40 per cent
of the output of mills during the
war, Mr.. Nordlinger estimated, and
present buying accounts for 20 per
cent of production.
This coupled with higher material
and labor costs accounts for price
increases, merchants said.
One buyer said manufacturers
were showing spring suits now
without any price tags" because
of a conviction in the industry that
unions are going to ask for more
money"
The buyer said retail stores were
caught in a price squeeze, with
higher wholesale costs yet a reluct-
ance to mark up suits the same
amount for fear of losing customers
He estimated that worsted suits
were costing the stores Is per cent
more than last fall, but that the re-
tail markup had been only 8 per
cent. BY the same token, tweeds
had increased about 10 per cent
wholesale, but the markup was s
per cent.
One merchant predicted manu-
facturers would have to ration
WOrsted suits in the sprinp.
Evening star., 1947-10-12
Regulations Causing
Rardships in Relief
Cases 10 Be Studied

New regulations Of the Depart
ment of Public Welfare, providing
for inquiries into the financial status
of relatives of persons on relief rolls,
are to be studied by the Corporation
Counsel, it was learned yesterday.
Two months ago the Board of Pub
lie Welfare revised it's regulations
in order to keep within its appro-
|priation. One of the new rules called
for inquiries into the financial status
of relatives to see if they could help
persons on relief rolls. This order
compelled the recipient of grants
from the Government to supply full
information on employment and
earnings of relatives.
Checks Being Held Up.
Many relief checks have been held
up for the last two months because
the department has not received the
required information. In some cases
the person on relief has failed or
refused to furnish the information.
In others, known relatives have re-
fused to give it.
Persons on relief who refuse the
information usually give as the rea-
son that they were not on friendly
terms with their relatives, or that
they did not wish the relatives to
know they were receiving support
from the District.
When relatives refuse to furnish
the information, they often inform
the board it is none of it's business
where they work, how much money
they receive or whether they can
contribute to the support of the
relative.
Authority Is Questioned.
"We are not on relief. The board
has no authority to question where
we work or how much we receive" ("
is one of the replies to welfare Of
f1cials.
Ray L. Huff, director of the de-
partment, last week cited a case in
which the department was power
less to act under the new regula-
tions. An elderly woman was
dropped from the rolls temporarily
when her grandchildren refused to
furnish the information required by
the welfare officials. One, of the
relatives works in Federal agency,
but all attempts to locate her place
of employment have failed.
The case has been referred to the
corporation counsel to see if any
action can be taken legally against
the relative. However, no answer
has been received, probably, it was
said, because no action, can be taken
under existing statutes.
Woman Faces Eviction.
The womans mid September
check has not been sent her nor
has she received any assistance
since that time. She is too feeble
to do even odd jobs to get money
for food, and must depend on the
charity of neighbors. Her rent for
September and october is due and
she is about to be evicted.
Since this case is only one of
many now worrying the Welfare
Department, it has been suggested
that the Board of Public Welfare
rescind its new regulations to pre-
vent further hardship.
Evening star., 1947-10-12
PIoy Will Be Given
At Leland School

Love From Stranger" a play
adapted from a mystery novel by
Agatha Christie, will be presented by
members of the Montgomery Play
ers for students of the Leland Jun
ior High School at 8 am. Thursday
in the school.
The play will be performed for
the public at $3.50 pm. Saturday at
the school, Forty-fourth and Elm
streets, Chevy Chase, Md.
Evening star., 1947-10-12
Auto Accidents Kill
7 in Prince Georqes;
Dead Marines Named

Marine Corps headquarters last
night announced names of the five
Marines killed in an automobile
crash near Fredericksburg, Va, late
Friday, as the traffic toll in nearby
communities was increased by two
fatalities in Prince Georges County.
The Marines killed when their
automobile skidded into an on-com-
ing trailer truck on Route l. II
miles north of Fredericksburg were
identified as:
Weir L. Boyd, jr.. of Atlanta, Ca:
Pfc John J. Reeves. St. Alban's
N. Y; Pfc. Johnny P. Moore, New
York; Pfc. Charles H. Libonati,
Georgetown, Conn. and Pfc. San
ford N. Norman, Newark. N. J.
The first four were killed in
stantly; Pfc. Norman died about
three hours after the crash at Mary
Washington Hospital, Fredericks-
burg.
Carpenter Killed.
Two men we're injured in the same
crash. William Bass, %, of Robbins,
Va, reported as the truck driver. and
Forrest Hammett, Al. Charlotte, N. C.
Both suffered minor injuries The
accident occurred about 11:30 pm.
Friday.
James c. Adams, 50, carpenter,
of 1144 Forty-fourth place Sc, was
killed when he was struck by an
automobile in front of a tavern in
the 5000 block of Central avenue,
Seat Pleasant, at about $50 pm.
last night.
Prince Georges County police said
the man was pronounced dead on
arrival at the County General Hos
pital, Cheverly, after being taken
there by the District Heights Res
cue Squad ambulance.
Driver Held in $1,000 Bond.
Police said the driver of the car
was Francis p Garry of ZIG Over
look drive. Silver Spring He was
held under $1,000 bond and charged
with manslaughter and reckless
driving.
An accident near Upper Marlboro
which killed one man yesterday
resulted in injuries to two. In still
another Prince Georges County acci-
dent two persons were injured
Clarence Hebron, %, colored, of
Mitchellvnle, Md, died in Freed
mans Hospital of injuries received
when his car went of the Marlboro
pike, near Upper Marlboro, and
struck fence in front of the Mary
land State Roads Commission ga
rage.
Injured in the same crash and
treated at Freedman's Hospital were
william Davis, 26. colored. of Lo-
THAN, Md, who suffered head and
back injuries, and Felix Owens, 20,
Bristol, Md, who suffered cuts and
bruises and hand injury.
Car Hits Safety Island.
Grayson H. Withrow, jr., 20, of
Baltimore, and Patricia Snyder, 20,
Arbutus, Md, both suffered minor
cuts and bruises when Mr.. With
rows car struck traffic safety is
land at the University of Maryland
about lis am. yesterday. They
were treated at Leland Memorial
Hospital, Riverdale.
County police said the car struck
the north end of the new-con-
structed road divider in the middle
of the Washington Baltimore boule-
ward, after being unable to get back
into the southbound lane. Mr.. With
row, who was driving, was charged
with reckless driving and operating
at speed greater than reasonable
and proper" He was released under
a personal summons pending
hearing in Hyattsville Police Court
October 20.
Evening star., 1947-10-12
Legion Of Mory to Meet
In Richmond Tomorrow

Delegates from Washington,
Maryland, Virginia, Delaware and
West Virginia will attend the first
Baltimore Provincial Meeting of the
Legion Of Mary at pm. tomor-
row in the Jefferson Hotel, Rich
mond, Va.
The Most Rev. John J. Swint,
Bishop Of Wheeling, will preside.
The meetings objective is to
strengthen and extend the legion.
Evening star., 1947-10-12
Winter Ash Collections
To Resume October 20

The winter ash collection sched-
ule will 60 into effect a week from
tomorrow, the District Refuse Di-
vision announced last night. Sew
eral changes have been made since
last winter in the days when ashes
will be collected.
Between Is and 80 trucks will be
used in the collection. Persons who
have reconverted to coal during the
structed houses should notify the
summer or who live in newly con-
collection service by calling Ma
tional 5000, Branch $50.
Evening star., 1947-10-12
Montgomery Blair PTA
To Hold Fashion Show

A fashion show will be held by the
Montgomery Blair High School Par
nt-Teacher Association and a
Washington department store at
BIS pm. Wednesday in the Silver
Spring armory.
Nine girls from the school have
been selected to appear as models.
They are Sarah Pryor, Phyllis Har-
rison, Betty Lee Ward, Joan Dod-
son, Jane Gale, Gay De Nike, Chris
tine Coyle, Evelyn Rogers and Bette
Gill
George w. Pryor will be master
of ceremonies