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Evening star., 1947-02-18
Takoma Park Council Hears
Plea for MunicipaI BuiIdina

The Takoma Park Town Council
last night heard arguments in favor
of new municipal building and ad-
.ditional recreational facilities, but
deferred taking action.
Citizens suggested taking over the
volunteer fire house on Carroll ave-
nue. for recreation purposes and
also asked that a new building for
town offices be built instead of re-
modelling the frame structure at 8
Columbia avenue, already owned by
Takoma Park.
An extensive street program for
1947-48 was discussed but Mayor
Oliver w. Youngblood said the mat
ter would have to be studied more
thoroughly. Details, he said, would
be worked out at a special meeting
and will be presented later at a
public meeting.
Several citizens present indorsed
a report by Police 1t. c. E. Thomas
asking the Maryland State Roads
Commission to repaint all cross
walks and highway signs near the
j. Enos Ray School and requesting
the Prince Georges County commits
sioners to detail police to the vicinity
and place this section within the
town limits of Takoma Park.
The Gaizewood- d-Kentland Citizens
Association favored extending the
town limits in Prince George County
The association also urged paving of
two blocks of Larch avenue with
curb and gutter.
Grace Methodist Church petitioned
the council to widen and pave Kent
land avenue between New Hamp-
shire and Hopewel avenues.
Evening star., 1947-02-18
Alexandra Red Cross
Names Drive Leaders

Chairmen to head neighborhood
drives in AleXandria's 1947 Red
Gross fund campaign were an
nounced recently by Co-Chairmen
Armistead L. Boothe and James
S. Douglas, jr.
Those selected are:
. Mrs. Harry A. Councillor, ward /:
Mrs. H. B. Chandler, ward 2; Mrs
William L. G. Wheaton, ward Q
Parkfairfax; Mrs. George Whitton
ward 8; Mrs. A. L. Boothe, ward 4;
Mrs. Leon Eddington and Mrs. John
C. Borton, co-chairmen of Ward s.
and Mrs. w. B. Best, ward 6.
Raymond A. Gallagher, chairman
of the business campaign, named
the following assistants to canvas
the downtown area:
Joseph H. Saunders SEugene Olmi
jr.; James E. Moriarty, John Mon
roe, jr.; Charles H. Mason, William
A. Mashburn, Jay Lyles, Peyton
Luckett, Charles Leef, William Lee
Harry Harris, John Hooff, Marshall
Beverley, Jack Bachelor, Eugene
Barnwell, Franklin Backus, Jack K
Aitcheson, jr.; Stuart B. Abraham
and John G. Ferrara.
Also Donald Freeland, Vernon T
Dove. Ira r. Devonald, Vincent NJ
Curtis, Cecil j. Cross, Robert E.
Craddock, DR.. Stanley S. Fedder.
Jack G. Einbender, Jack Dienelt,
German Ridgley and Sidney H.
Cohen.
Evening star., 1947-02-18
Six Sewer Contracts
For Suburbs LET

Six contracts for water and sew
er extensions in Prince Georges
and Montgomery Counties, to cost
a total sof $72,290. have been award
ed by the Washington Suburban
Sanitary Commission, it was an
nounced today.
A contract for the construction of
sewers in Northwood Park, Mont
gomery County, has been awarded
to the Wilmoth Paving Co. OF
Washington for $16,714, and the
Nickles Bros. Co. of Hyattsville sub
mitted the low bid of $9,279 for
construction of water and sewer
mains on Forston and Barron
streets and Clayborn avenue in
Rolling Terrace.
The Leo Butler Co. of Silver
Spring entered the low bid of $751;
867 for construction of water and
sewer mains on Sixty-sixth avenue,
Riverdale road and Oliver street,
Eastpines, near East Riverdale.
Other Prince Georges County
contracts awarded are:
For water and sewer mains in
Gradbury Heights, the Intercounty
Construction Corp. of Hyattsville,
$3.50.
For water and sewer mains in
Daniels Park, Beltsville, Locust
Spring and Homeacres, the w. & w.
Construction CO. of Branchvile,
$3,257.
For water mains in Lakeland and
Berwyn Heights, Nickles Bros. Co.
of Hyattsville, $500.
Evening star., 1947-02-18
Council Considers Control
OF Pistol Sales Toniqht

The long-pending ordinance to
control sales of pistols and revolvers
in Alexandria again is scheduled for
consideration of the Alexandria
City Council at a meeting tonight.
The regular Council meeting last
week was recessed before action was
taken. 1t is the first item listed on
this weeks docket.
The Council also will take up zon-
ing requests originally set to be
heard last week, and additional
zoning changes requested since that
time.
Another matter scheduled for
Council consideration tonight is
letter from the State Education
Board, informing the city that SAL
ary increases for divisional super
intendents of schools had been au-
thorized at the last General AS
sembly session. The Alexandria
School Board has not yet taken any
action authorizing any change in
the superintendent's salary.
Evening star., 1947-02-18
81 in Alexandra Boys Club
Leave on 4-Day Tour

Fifty-one members of the Alex
andria Boys Club left today by
special train on four-day tour.
The boys left here shortly after
8 am. for Charlottesville, where
they were to be joined by groups
of boys from Norfolk and Roanoke
After an inspection of the University
of Virginia, the group will travel to
Detroit and Canada, returning to
Alexandria Saturday.
Robert r. Young, chairman of the
board of the Chesapeake & Ohio
Railroad made arrangements for the
train. Cost of the trip for each
boy was $12.42.
Oliver N. Maechtle, executive di-
rector of the Alexandria Boys Club
and Sergt. Henry Grimm of the
Alexandria police, who is director
of the Police Boys Camp, accom-
panied the group.
Evening star., 1947-02-18
School Reports
Disappearance OF
Its Name Plate

Missing today was the bronze
name plaque of George Washington
High School, Alexandria, which was
bolted into marble at the main en-
trance when the building was fin
ished in 1885.
E. G. Pruet, principal, told police
the 10-by- 20-inch metal plate dis
appeared during the school week
end-probably Friday night. 1t OBJ
viously had been pried from its fas-
Jennings, he said.
Yesterdays resumption of classes
also brought the discovery, he re-
ported, that intruders had broken
into the school cafeteria, taking
milk and foods valued at Sc. En-
trance apparently was gained by
forcing side door where an addi-
ton to the school building Is under
construction, the principal sid.
Evening star., 1947-02-18
| RiyerdoIe Man
Held in Beating
OF Grandson, 3

Wade Ivey, SO, a machinist of the
5000 block of Forty-seventh place,
Riverdale, Is under bond to appear
in Hyattsville Police Court March 80
to face charges of assault and bat
terry against his 8-year-old grandson.
The grandfather was arrested by
Prince Georges County police after
he allegedly beat Raymond Ivey, his
grandson, Sunday.
A passing motorist saw the
incident and reported 1t to police.
Patrolmen Charles Caldwell and
William Wisenian, who were sent to
investigate, said they verified the
report with neighbors. Later, the
boy was treated at Leland Memorial
Hospital, Riverdale, for welts and
bruises on his back, police said.
The Iveys live in the same block
within the Calvert Homes Federal
housing development in which a fire
last Friday took the lives Of two
small girls.
Evening star., 1947-02-18
Prince Georges Group
Plans Radio Programs

A public meeting sponsored by the
Prince Georges Independent Trade
Association last night voted to spon-
sor series of radio programs to be
called Prince Georges County on
the Air"
The association said 1t has no
desire to control a new committee
to sponsor the series, but prefers
that the new group be representative
of all organizations interested in
promoting the county's welfare.
More than $4,000 was pledged by
citizens last night to air the pro-
grams over local radio station.
Another meeting was set for $3.50
IN. March at the Board of County
Commissioners room at Upper Marl-
boro to organize a permanent spon-
soring committee.
The group last night also voted
to a proposed increase in
State gasoline taxes end proposed
State sales tax. .
Evening star., 1947-02-18
; Arlington Youths
Indicted in Theft Of
$1,000 in u. ). Bonds

Three Arlington youths accused of
being involved in the theft of $4,000
worth of Government bonds were
among those Indicted yesterday by
an Arlington Circuit Court grand
jury, which returned seven true bills
as the February term opened.
William L. Cross, jr., 18, of the
1000 block of North Utah street;
Robert Smith, II, of the 3100 block
of South Stafford street, and William
Rosenberg, 16, of the 5000 block of
South Buchanan street, were in
dicted jointly on charges of breaking
and entering a home in Arlington
on January %. Smith and Rosen-
berg also were indicted on a charge
of housebreaking on December 90
1916. Cases against two other youths
said to have been involved in the
bond theft, were disposed of in
Juvenile Court.
Cross Pleads Guilty.
A motion by Attorney Frank L.
Ball, sr., that Gross be granted a
severance from the joint indictment
was granted by Judge Walter T.
Mccarthy. Cross then pleaded guilty,
and the case was referred to the
probation officer and continued until
April IS.
Attorneys for Smith and Rosen-
berg today also obtained a severance
of the indictments for those two
also. Attorney Homer Thomas for
Rosenberg and Oren r. Lewis, for
Smith, also filed motions claiming
that the Circuit Court is without
jurisdiction because the Juvenile
Court now is studying the case.
Judge Mccarthy set March 7 for
arguments. The court also set bond
at $1,000 each for Rosenberg and
Smith.
Other indictments included the
following:
Ollie Dock Lee, %, and Willie j.
Parrish, Is, both of the 400 block of
l. street NV; James D. Pearson, 26,
1000 block of Fourth street NV,
and Marjorie ]. Estes, 10, 27OO block
of K street NV, all colored, for
assault and robbery of an Alexandria
cab driver January II. All pleaded
not guilty, and the case was set for
March 6.
Pleads in Housebreaking.
Harry D. Hogan, 20, of 500 block
North Jackson street, Arlington, two
indictments charging breaking and
entering of Arlington stores. He
pleaded guilty and the case was
referred to the probation officer and
set for March 81.
William Barnes, %, colored, of the
1900 block Dinwiddie street, Arling-
ton, housebreaking and larceny. He
pleaded not guilty and trial was set
for March S.
Merle E. Rudy, A. 6100 block
North Eighteenth street, Arlington,
on check charges. He pleaded not
guilty and trial was set for March s.
Evening star., 1947-02-18

Senate side to get more than the
men onNthe House side, or the other
way round" he said. Men are
leaving the job. It's hard to have
a full force all the time. Well
work it out so every man will have
his day off each week."
Uniforms must be neat, 1t. Bal
linger ordered. Blouses must be
buttoned. Hats must be on straight,
not cooked on one side.
"Some~of our men may have nice
marcels, T know" he joshed, "but
don't put your hat on the back OF
your head to show off"
Get UP on your feet to answer
questions" he advised. Don't slouch
down in your chair If you're at a
post where you can sit down.
"And don't lay your pistols
down,-anywhere." He hung his
up somewhere once, he recalled, and
it took him two hours to find it
just where he left 1t.
Locker Inspection Coming.
The pages blackboard was used
by 1t. Ballinger. He drew pic
ture of locker. With chalk marks
he showed exactly where coats, caps,
night sticks, other equipment must
be hung.
"The captain is going to inspect
lockers" he warned. mo one knows
when he is coming around. So look
out. Keep 'em orderly, and clean"
Courses will be given each night
this week for the first class. Other
classes will follow.
For young veterans who are going
to college in the evenings, special
instructions will be given in "blitz"
course over weekends. Men on night
work win take the course beginning
at am. -
Later, instructors from the Capitol
Police Metropolitan Police and the
FBI will get around to teaching how
to handle crackpots - firmly but
kindly.
Tonight the class will take up
the subject: Arrest of Women"
Evening star., 1947-02-18
RiverdaIe.to Continue
Probe Of Fire COSTING
Two Children sLives

Just what started the fire that
brought death to two little girls in
the Calvert Homes Development
Riverdale, Md, was still mystery
today, but officials said they in
tended to continue their investi-
cation.
Nolan D. Mitchell. senior ma
terials engineer of the Bureau of
Standards, spent an hour yesterday
poking at the burned timbers in the
dwelling at 6625 Forty-seventh place,
At the end of that time he said he
did not know what caused the fire
or exactly where in the house it had
started.
One thing he was sure of-the fire
did not start from an overheated
chimney. A roaring fire was built
in the heating stove, but the outside
bricks of the chimney, which goes
up through the roof in the center
of the house, remained COOL
Mass of Burned Timber.
The small dwelling was turned
into a roaring furnace last Thursday
when Sandra Kay, 4, and Jean
Louise, az, daughters of Staff Sergt.
and Mrs. Alva Hoffman, died in
the fire.
The interiors of the two bedrooms,
kitchen, living room and bath were
a mass of burned timbers, asphalt
tile peeied from the concrete floor
and cha1fed plumbing and electrical
fixtures. Ceiling timbers near the
point whare the living room Joined
the kitchs sn seemed the most badly
burned AID led to speculation that
the fire hight have started there.
Charles Harris and Herbert
Schmitt or the National Capital
Housing Authority, which operates
the Calvert Homes, and Fred Andre
of the Plblic Housing Authority,
built the fire in the heating stove
and asked for the Bureau of Stand
ards investigation.
They want to get that agency's
recommendations on how to prevent
similar tragedies, if preventive ac-
ton is possible. Mr.. Mitchell said
he would make a report to the
bureau later. So
Mr.. Harris thought it was signi-
ficant that the fire did not spread to
other living units. The burned unit
was on the end of a group of four.
He said it proved the fire-resistant
qualities of the asbestos cement with
which the outside walls are lined.
Ten Yards From Rail Track.
While he was talking Washing
ton-bound Baltimore & Ohio train
went by and all conversation had to
stop. The trains roar drowned all
other sound. The building vibrated.
The tracks are about 10 yards from
the door of the burned dwelling.
Officials confessed they did not
know where to look next for the
fires ca'gse. Earlier investigations
had lee to conclusions that the
electrical wiring was not responsible.
A metal stove pipe leading from
the stove to the chimney grew hot
as the experimental fire roared,
and officials pointed out there was
a possibility something easily ignited
could have come in contact with the
pipe, starting the blaze.
The children were alone in the
house. and presumably asleep, when
the fire started. The father, sep
arated from his wife, was on duty at
Boiling Field, and the mother away
from home. Two manslaughter
charges have been filed against
Mrs. Hoffman, who is free on bond.
Evening star., 1947-02-18
MARYLAND Assembly Routine

biturates. public Health and Welfare.)
H. B. 395 (by SyberO-To repeal the
secrecy section Of the Department of Pub
lie welfare Act. Judiciary
H B. 396 tby Richardson-To regulate
the licensing Of mechanical devices and
coin machines, and games OF bingo, keno,
fortune, etc, in worcester County. stDeie-
Il. b. 3s7 (by st. Marys County delega-
tion)-To provide for certain. personal
exemptions from income tax for World
War II veterans. ways and Means.)
H. B. 400 tby Geppert)-Relating to
parties entitled to sue for wrongful death
where such act has occurred in another
jurisdiction. Judiciary
n. B. 401 tby J. H. Reedl-To prohibit
employment Of persons with certain dis
eases In establishments handling food.
public Health and Welfare.)
H. B. 402 tby Bandiere)--To provide
that certain household equipment may be
included in MORTGAGES on real estate as
additional security for loans made by
homestead and building associations.
Banking. Insurance and Social Security
Resolutions Adopted.
BY Milanicz-Requesting members Of the
Motion Picture Theater Owners, Inc, to
permit the Maryland Workshop for the
Blind to establish candy stands in motion
By Barnes, Hahn and Smith--Expressing
sorrow upon the death Of Delegate Honor
D. Hartzier Of Carroll County.
Adjourned at 9:02 pm. in respect
to the memory of the late Delegate
Hartzler until l:3o pm. tosay.
Evening star., 1947-02-18
$1,000 for Symphony Fund
SOUGHT in Prince Georges

Prince Georges County has been
asked to raise $1,000 toward the
annual sustaining fund campaign
for the National Symphony Orches-
ira, now under way.
The orchestra will present free
concert at the University of Mary
land on March Is.
Contributions from the county
may be mailed to William Werber,
45I3 Amherst road, College Park.
Evening star., 1947-02-18
Harry MouI Will Head
College Park Boys

The recently organized College
Park Boys Club, composed of boys
from College Park, Berwyn. Green
belt and University Park, today
announced election of officers as
follows:
Harry Moul, president; Newt
Steeley, vice president; Jack Jen-
kins, secretary; Dick Charlton, as
sistant secretary; Walter Heeley,
sergeant at arms, and Walter Charl-
ton, assistant sergeant at arms.
Recreational facilities have been
loaned the new club by the Univer-
sity of Maryland.
Evening star., 1947-02-18
Courtesy Stressed in First
Class for Capitol Police
By Harold B. Rogers

"Say yes sir, no sir; yes nam
no am some of our wise cracks
don't fit. 80.
Remember the Joe Doakes, and
Mary and John, who come in to
ask questions, pay our wages. =.
"The main thing is courtesy, you
must be alert at all times. -"
This was 1t. William Ballinger
talking. He was instructing the
Capitol Police force last night in
the first school Of its kind ever held
here.
The scene was In the pages
schoolroom in the Capitol Building.
Someone had previously written in
a somewhat primary school hand
on the big blackboard in chalk:
Good morning, dear teacher!"
O Warned Against Drinking.
But it wasn't a soft-voiced fem
mime teacher talking. The lieuten-
ant is veteran of 10 years service
on the force. He was telling the
first class of about so members
how to behave, how to dress, how to
enforce regulations in the Capitol,
and the Senate and House Office
Buildings.
Capt. William J. Broderick, the
husky Army veteran, new head of
the force, opened the school with
some stern advice.
No drinking on the job" he
warned. Anyone coming on this job
with liquor on his breath will be
fired. Is that understood?"
"Why do police in the Capitol
Building and the Senate Office
Building get four days off duty each
month, and the men on duty in the
House Office Building get only one
day off every 18 days?" someone
wanted to know.
Promises Day OF Each Week.
A shortage of officers on the
House Office side was the answer,
1t. Olin Cavness said.
Capt. Boderick promised to look
into that.
IT don't want the men on the
Evening star., 1947-02-18
Suburbs Are Disgrace
ToD.C.,ReynoIds Says
In Plea for PLANNING

Washington's suburbs are a dis
grace to the District" Public Build
ings Commissioner w. E. Reynolds
told the Washington Real Estate
Board yesterday.
On the outskirts of the city, he
said, 1--WE are building the slums of
20 years hence"
Mr.. Reynolds was guest speaker
at the second of a series of six
monthly luncheons being held by
the board to keep abreast of the
times.
What is needed to prevent these
future slums is a metropolitan plan
ming body to decide how all the land
in Washington and its surrounding
areas should be used, he said.
Cites Federal City"
He referred to the plans of his
agency for a Federal City, in the
Suitland area as one way repetition
of past mistakes could be avoided.
1t is necessary to plan cities for
the motor age-to give the public
quick transportation facilities in the
form of six-lane depressed express
ways, he said. Separated by major
thoroughfares of this type, COM
munities of 5000 like those in the
plan for the Federal City" should
be created, he said They would
be insulated from the congestion
which now causes blight.
Downtown, he said, there should
be off-street parking facilities to
handle private vehicles.
Auto Brings Problems.
Before 1880, he said, cities were
laid out SO everything would be
within walking distance. BY 1910,
they were laid out according to
transit lines, and everything was
put as nearly as possible within a
smile radius.
At the same time, the automobile
started expanding the area a city
could occupy and created new prob
lens which could not be foreseen at
the time. AS traffic increased, he
said, blight caused by congestion
started. Residents moved further
out but duplicated the same type of
and extended the same
street system.
The effect has been that more
land became zoned for business than
was necessary. Blighted areas left
by this process average 20 per cent
of all city areas.
In this 20 per cent lives an average
of 33 per cent of the population.
Here Is found go per cent of the
crime, so per cent of the juvenile
delinquency. go per cent of the tu-
berculosis, SO per cent of disease
generally, IS per cent of the fires.
On this 20 per cent of the land,
cities spend an average of As per
cent of their tax revenues, while
the area contributes only 7 per cent
of the money raised by taxes.
Evening star., 1947-02-18

Governors message would name a
commission to act much along the
lines suggested by the conference.
The conference advocated expen-
diture of all present highway funds
before new program is set up and
the delegation issued a statement
implying opposition to proposed in
creases of the gasoline tax afd
truck registration fees.