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Evening star., 1947-09-22
Washington 10 Regain
Hour S Sleep Sunday
When Clocks Go Back

Return of standard time to the
District area at 2 am. next Sunday
will find public buildings officials
ready for the official tur1l-back of
clocks and also will mark a renewal
of the fight to have daylight time
for Washington again next summer
Washingtonians will get back the
hour of sleep they lost last April
when daylight time went into ef-
feet here following a congressional
controversy and hearings before the
Commissioners.
Senator McGrath, Democrat, of
Rhode Island announced today he
will ask Congress to make daylight
time regular affair in the District.
Will Offer New Bill.
He plans to introduce a bill as
soon as Congress reconvenes. He
sponsored the measure which, in
amended form, brought daylight
time here last April. That bill ap-
piled only to the peroid from April
~ to September 28, this year.
Public Buildings Administration
officials said they look for nothing
unusual in turning back the clocks
in the old Post Office tower at Elev-
enth street and Pennsylvania ave-
nue. NV. This probably will be
done early Saturday because it may
require more work than will be
necessary on similar clocks else
where.
RAILROAD. time tables will be
led justedf principally on intercity
and local trains, in areas where day
light time has been observed, the
Pennsylvania. Railroad announced.
Revised schedules will be issued later
this week, the company said.
Other Changes Planned.
The Pennsylvania also announced
several through-train schedule
changes beginning Sunday. The
Red Arrow from Detroit will arrive
in Washington at $50 am, 20 min
utes later than heretofore.
The return of standard time to the
District also will affect Prince
Georges and Montgomery Counties
which have been observing daylight
time since last April. Virginia has
continued on standard time ofdcially
but the Metropolitan area has been
conforming to Washington's sche-
dule.
Another move that may be made
when daylight time bows out next
Sunday is the probable removal of
a sign that Senator Overton, Demo-
crat, of Louisiana, hung in his office
last April. He opposed the Nc
Grath bill for daylight time here
and put up the sign: This office
operates on standard time only"
Evening star., 1947-09-22
S45,259 in School Projects
Authorized by Gov. Tuck
BY the Assoeiofsd Press

RICHMOND, Va. Sept. 22.-Gov
Tuck has authorized the State
Board Of Education to spend a total
of $45,259 to provide additional
dormitory space at Madison College,
Harrisonburg, and secondary school
education for youths from three
Virginia Indian reservations.
OF the total, $43 900 will be spent
by Madison College to purchase an
apartment for conversion to a dor
mitory. The transaction would be
financed by a college bond issue,
the bonds being sold to the State
literary fund. The bonds would be
redeemed from rents for dormitory
space.
The remaining $2,259 will be used
to cover deficit incurred in send
ing Is Indian pupils to Bacone,
Okla, for secondary schooling, Vir-
ginia having no secondary schools
for Indians.
Evening star., 1947-09-22
Devices Moved Out
Be eChalrI|lesC,lo| il C,lo||vullnlty in
Gaming Drive Starts
speeioI Dispoteh TO The Star

LA PLATA, Md, Sept. 22.-Gam.
bling devices remaining in Charles
County were scheduled to be the
object of a Cleanup" drive today
by Sheriff Elmer M. Quade, who
announced Saturday that an anti.
gambling campaign would start.
Owners of slot machines and
other gambling devices began haul
ing out their property on Saturday
but the exodus got under way in
earnest yesterday. A reporter who
toured the county saw the machines
loaded on trucks and piled high on
porches as owners rushed to get
them out before the deadline.
At the peak, there was estimated
to be $500 to 1900 slot machines In
the county, according to observers.
Sheriff Quade said the clean n-up'
drive would serve as warning to
operators of gambling establish
ments recently closed in surround
ing counties not to attempt to trans
fer their business" to Charles
County.
Police cracked down in Prince
Georges County last week. Earlier
an antigambling drive in Saint
Mary's County resulted in more than
20 gambling cases being brought be-
fore the Circuit Court there.
Evening star., 1947-09-22
Food Show Saturday
AT FuirIond School

A food show will be held at $50
pm. Saturday at the Fairland
School, Fairland, Md, Mrs. Eleanor
Henegar, PTA president, has an
nounced.
| Displays Of canned and fresh
foodstuffs, to be exhibited in II
booths will be donated to the school
cafeteria after the show. Enter
tainment viii be provided during
the evening by movies and floor
show.
Evening star., 1947-09-22
Ia Virginia Legislators
To See Dorden Inouqroi

RICHMOND. Va, Sept % (R.-
Fourteen members of the General
Assembly and the clerks Of its two
bFanchaswiH represent the legisls
tive body at the Inauguration Of
former CIV. Darden as president of
the University of Virginia, Speaker
Of the House G. Alvin Massenburg
said yesterday.
Mr.. Darden's Inauguration has
been set for October l. >.
Representing the House of Dele
gates will be the Speaker, House
Clerk E. Griffith Dodson. and the
following delegates: Roy B. Davis
of Halifax, E. Blackburn Moore of
Clarke, e. o. McCue of Charlottes-
vile, Robert F. Baldwin, jr., of Nor
folk, Charles K. Hutchens of New
port News, William H. Irvine of
Campbell, Vernon G. Smith of
Buchanan, G. Edmond Massie of
Richmond and c. F. Blackwell of
Lunenburg.
The Senate. delegation will in
clude 1t. Gov. L. Preston Collins,
Clerk E. r. Combs and Senators
Robert o. Norris. jr., of Lancaster,
Harry G. Stuart of Russell and S.
Floyd Landreth of Galax,
Evening star., 1947-09-22
Beauty Contest 10 Name
Silver Sprinq Fire Queen

A beauty contest will be held at
$3.50 pm. Thursday at the Silver
Spring fire house to choose Miss
Silver Spring" to represent the
Silver Spring Volunteer Fire De-
partment at the Montgomery
County Firemen's Association con-
vention Saturday at Kensington.
!. Judges win be Joby Reynolds,
radio singer: Don Bell, radio an
nouncer, and Byron Sedgwick,
columnist. Charles Kopeland viii be
master Of ceremonies.
The winner will receive COM
plete fall outfit from Silver Spring
merchants. She also will appear on
the Homemakers' Club hour Friday
morning over radio station WGAY.
Evening star., 1947-09-22

was part of the White House china
during Madison's term.
On another wall Is a photograph
Iof letter from Martha Washing
ton to Mr.. Stabler's grandfather
who, in 1892, established a drug
store in Alexandria, which was kept
in operation by his descendants
until it closed its doors in 1881.
The letters authenticity has been
confirmed by Library Of Congress
officials, Mr.. Stabler said.
1t is dated April 22, 1902, and
reads as follows:
MRS. Washington desires Mr..
Stabler will send by the bearer a
quart bottle of his best castor oil
and the bill for it,"
Owned Sandy Spring Store.
A native of Lynchburg, Mr.. Stab
Ter moved to Sandy Spring in Mont
gomery County, when he was IS to
live with his sister. He remained
there about 80 years, operating a
combination general merchandise
and drugstore.
While in Sandy Spring. Mr.. Stab
Ter said, he built the first telephone
line in the area in June, 1893.
-Four years ago, he dictated his
recollection of the event to his son.
In it, he recalled that zone evening,
I took down my telephone and
heard streetcars running on the troll
ley line from Washington to Rock
vile, about 10 miles away.
That was like radio. II had
been a little more thoughtful, had a
little more curiosity and the time
to indulge it, I might have discov-
cred it instead of Mr.. Marconi.
After leaving Sandy Spring, Mr..
Stabler married Miss Miriam
Shreve Cutler of Cambridge, Mass,
and moved to Alexandria, where
he was for many years associated
with the drug firm established by
his grandfather, now maintained as
the Stabler-Leadbeater Apothecary
Shop Museum.
Mrs. Stabler, who died in 1899,
was the founder and first president
Of the Alexandria Free Kinder
garten Association.
Their son, Kenneth, an only
child, formerly a newspaperman In
New York and Washington, is now
a staff writer and editor at National
Headquarters of the American Red
Cross.
Evening star., 1947-09-22
Car Believed Carrying Safe
EIudes Police After Chase

An automobile, reported to have
been carrying heavy weight in
the rear end, eluded Hyattsville city
police early today after 10-mile
chase from Hyattsville to Largo, Md.
The automobile was described as
a late model by Policemen Kenneth
Moreau and Elmer Thompson OF
Hyattsville. They said they believed
the car may have been carrying a
stolen safe.
Police broadcast a lookout for the
car, but were unsuccessful In their
efforts to locate it.
The chase took place about $50
a M
Evening star., 1947-09-22
Parents to Entertuin
Silver Spring Teacher

Miss Laura M. Mixner, new prin-
cipal at the North Four Corners
School, Old Bladensburg road, Sill
yer Spring, and her faculty will be
honored by the school Parent
Teacher Association at a reception
Thursday in the school at BIS pm.
School trustees and parents of new
pupils have been invited. Trustees
include Carl Brown, E. E. Teck, and
Rassell Adams. Donald E. FAR is
pTA president.
Evening star., 1947-09-22
Surplus Army Bridges
To Be Used in Flood Area
Nv The A..a.;1,.d p..,.

RICHMOND, Va, Sept. a.
Twenty Bailey bridges, the
demountable spans used by combat
engineers and recently declared sur
plus by the Army. will be used to
replace bridges destroyed or washed
out by recent floods of the Ohio and
Mississippi Rivers and their tribu-
taries under the War Assets Admin
istration's emergency relief policy.
The bridges are stored at the
Army's Richmond General Depot
and will be shipped within the next
few days to points in Nebraska,
Iowa. Kansas and Missouri.
Evening star., 1947-09-22
Juvenile Gambling Ring
Revealed Near Baltimore
BY the Asseeio.sd Press

TOWSON, Md, Sept. 22.-After q
three-year search, Baltimore County
police have caught up with a
Juvenile gambling center near Ran
dallstown, Probation Officer Richard
w. Wickes has announced.
Mr.. Wickes said complaints OF the
gambling had been coming into his
Office for three years. It wasn't
until police raided secluded spot
in woods that they found about
a dozen youths playing cards and
dice, the probation official reported.
He said the games were held at
night, light coming from torches
made Of rags stuffed in kerosene
jars.
The youths were released on pro-
baton by Juvenile Judge John B.
Centrum,
Evening star., 1947-09-22
Martin 2-O-2 AirIiner
Gets Type Certificate
By the Assoeiatsd Prsss

BALTIMORE. Sept. 22.-The Mar
tin 2-O-2 airliner has received its
oficial aircraft type certificate from
the Civil Aeronautics Board, the
Glenn L. Martin Co. announced.
The certificate says the 2-O-2,
which last month completed a
17,OO0-mile test flight. Is ''of proper
design. material specifications, con-
struction and performance for
operation."
Evening star., 1947-09-22
Darden toTake
Presidency Of
VirgiiniiaU. Oct. |
Sir Alfred Zimmern,
British Educator,
To Give Address
BY the Associated Press

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va, Sept.
22.-Colgate w. Darden, jr., will be
inaugurated president of the UNI
versity OF Virginia the morning of
October l. in a ceremony on the
historic Lawn of the institution
from which he was graduated in
1922 and of which he became the
chief administrative officer last
June.
The inaugural exercises will take
place on a removable stage loaned
by the Virginia Music Festival which
had it constructed for use during
It's first concert series in the early
summer. In event OF bad weather
the exercises will be held in Me-
mortal Gymnasium.
Philadelphia Orchestra to play.
The Philadelphia Orchestra, con-
Quoted by Eugene Ormandy, will
give a concert from the music shell
on the Lawn at $3.50 pm. as the
concluding feature of the inaugural
ceremonies.
Sir Alfred Zimmern. DISTINGUISHED
British educator and author and
Professor Emeritus of Oxford Uni
versity, will deliver the principal ad-
dress at the inauguration of President
Darden. Sir Alfred has been serving
as an adviser to the British Ministry
OF Education and has been active in
the affairs of the United Nations
Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization.
Mr.. Darden, following Sir Alfred
on the program, is expected to tell
of his plans for the development of
the University of Virginia.
Procession to Form.
The traditional and colorful
academic procession will form at
the Rotunda and will proceed down
the Lawn beginning at 10:3O am.
This will include delegates from
other colleges and universities, State
officials, administrative officers, and
members of the governing boards
and of the faculty.
Edward r. Stettinius, jr., will pre-
side as rector of the university, and
will officially induct President Dar-
den into office. Governor Tuck will
speak on behalf of the Common
wealth of Virginia. Bishop William
A. Brown will pronounce the invo-
cation.
The inauguration of President
Darden is taking the place on the
university calendar of the fall con-
vocation, which would ordinarily
open the session of 1947-4S,
Evening star., 1947-09-22
Drowning Victims Body
Recovered in MARYLAND

The body of Elizabeth Jeanne
Blanc, 4, daughter of Paul F. Blanc,
financial attache of the French En-
bassy here, which was washed ashore
Saturday at Point No Point, Md,
was sent to st. Paul, Mimi, yes
terday for burial
+ The child and her mother, who
tried to rescue her, were drowned
in Chesapeake Bay September IA.
Mr.. Blanc was with them at the
beach.
The child's body washed ashore
at a point about Is miles south of
where the drowning occurred. She
will be buried beside her mother
whose body was recovered earlier.
Evening star., 1947-09-22
Cummings, in Hospital,
Has Comfortable Niqht

Former Attorney General Homer
S. Cummings was reported as fairly
comfortable" today in Doctors Hos
pital where he underwent a gall
bladder operation Saturday. The
hospital reported the former Roose-
Velt cabinet member, who is r.
had a fairly good night"
MIR. Cummings was taken Ill with
pneumonia at his Washington law
office last Tuesday Further dag
nosis disclosed on acute gall bladder
condition.
Evening star., 1947-09-22
Soil Conservation Contest
Set for CoIored Farmers
BY the Asseeiatsd Press

BLACKSBURG, Va, Sept. a.
Colored agricultural extension serv-
ice workers and vocational agri-
culture teachers are planning to
organize Statewide conservation
contest for Negro farmers.
E. w. Mundie, soil conservat ZIONIST
for the Agricultural Extension Serv-
ice, said the contest would be. con-
Quoted in cooperation with the Vir-
ginia Association of Soil Conserya-
ton Districts.
It probably will run nine or 10
months next year, with cash prizes
for the farmers whose conservation
plans and practices are judged the
best, Mr.. Mundie said.
Evening star., 1947-09-22
Greater Arlington Group
Plans Section Meetino

The Greater Arlington Associa-
ton will hold a mass meeting at 8
pm. Wednesday at the fire hall,
South Twenty-third street, for res
idents of the Virginia Highlands
section, it was announced today by
Mrs. Ethel Klutey, secretary.
Candidates indorsed by the GAA
for county board and school board
will speak, Mrs. Klutey said.
Evening star., 1947-09-22
Refuse Agency
Submits Budget
Of f$4,196,980
$573,5o0 Is Sought
To Continue Work
On Construction Jobs

William xanten, superintendent
OF city refuse, has asked the Com
missioners to approve a s4,196, $50
budget for collection and disposal
OF garbage, trash and ashes and for
Keeping the city's streets clean In
the fiscal year starting next July l.
The request was made public by
Budget Oficer Walter L. Fowler as
he continued making public details
OF the record $144, 1876, ,908 budget
asked by District agencies for the
year l948-49. -
Mr.. xanten's estimates run $434,.
400 over the $3,762,5S appropriated
by Congress for the current year.
To the total will be added an esti-
mated $l00 900 from the city's high
way fund for snow removal.
Breakdown of Budget. 4
Highlights of the refuse de.
partment's request follow:
The sum Of $573,5O0 to continue
construction of the city's new ST.
100000 incinerator, the third to be
built here. as well as its new $706,-
600 refuse transfer station and
$731 900 refuse and garbage shops
building This year Mr.. Xanten has
s560,o00 to start work on these
projects.
The sum of $72,6oo to byy land
and plan for a new NorthweGt refuse
garage, $4,000 to plan two street.
cleaning toolhouses and $4,000 to
build an experimental fly ash con-
trol plant at the Georgetown incin-
orator.
Money to replace wornout trucks
and buy additional trucks for the
refuse force, including a wrecker.
-Four more permanent employees
and $130,347 more than provided
this year to hire street cleaners and
other laborers by the day.
$4,000 for Seawall.
The sum OF $4,000 to build a sea-
wall at the Districts garbage re.
rduction plant at Cherry Hill, Va,
where the river is threatening to
eat away ground under railway
SlQlnGS ana DullQngS.
Also. $4,000 is asked to repair the
city's incinerators.
A new $13, 400 item to finance the
work of the Commissioners Com
mittee on Cleanliness and Santa
ton, created last year to coordinate
Federal and District efforts to cut
down unsanitary conditions in the
Capital, especially where vermin
and weeds are concerned. Under
the request the committee would
have paid secretary and clerk as
well as spraying outfit and a crew
to run 1t.
In justifying his requests, Mr..
Xanten has-told the city heads that,
as the city grows, more refuse has
to be hauled farther and disposal
facilities must keep pace.
Evening star., 1947-09-22
First Foil Meeting Set
By BIodensburo Club

The Bladenshurg Women's Demo-
cratic Club will meet for the first
time this fall at $50 pm. tomorrow
at the home Of Miss Matilda Glenn
ents, 5000 Laurel avenue, Cheverly
Hills.
New officers announced are Mrs
Cora Ferrar, president; Mrs, Mary
White, first vice president; Mrs
Betty Tayman. second vice presi-
dent; Mrs. Pauline Parker, record
ing secretary; Mrs. Dorothy Zun-
del, corresponding secretary, and
Miss Clements, treasurer.
Evening star., 1947-09-22
Chapel Oaks Fire Donations

Donations to the fund for a new
Chapel Oaks (Md) fire department
building and equipment to replace
those destroyed by fire recently
should be sent to the Chapel Oaks
Volunteer Fire Department, 1902
Fifty-seventh avenue, Chapel Oaks,
it was announced today.
Evening star., 1947-09-22

Old age and blindness hold nc
terror for Edward R. Stabler, who
doesn't let his four score and 10
years and loss of sight keep him
from enjoying life at his Forest
Glen (Md.) home. =
In fact as the spry white haired
gentleman told a reporter how he
keeps busy around the house, where
he lives with his son, Kenneth, II
was hard to believe Mr.. Stabler hao
celebrated his Goth birthday week
ago.
His face is unlined and although
his hearing Is impaired, he man.
aged to keep up a running flow
of conversation with the reporter
recalling accurately events of So
and 60 years ago.
Last summer just to keep in trim
Mr.. Stabler dug a 65-foot ditch to
carry a new water pipe from his
home to the lily pond he built 16
years ago, four years after he began
losing his sight. -
During the past several months
he also has put a metal railing
along the front steps, built a wooden
mail box and mounted 1t in con-
crete, assembled lawn roller and
sundial post.
Hears News on Radio.
He keeps up with the news by
listening to the radio and having
his son read to him.
sMr. Stabler Is a great admirer
OF Clifford K. Bergman, Star car
toonist, and even though he can't
see Mr.. Berryman's cartoons he
chuckles when his son describes
them to him.
MY main job" Mr.. Stabler ex-
planned, 'fs thinking up things to
do so won't get bored"
His pet project is his museum"
of Indian relics, china and old ,docu-
ments. The Indian relics were left
to him by his late brother in law,
Jesse w. Fewkes, for many years
chief of the Bureau of Ethnology
at the Smithsonian Institution.
On the wall beside. the collection
Is the certificate in which the King
of Spain bestowed knighthood on
Mr.. Fewkes in 1893.
On one of the shelves Is a black
china tea set which once belonged
to George Washingtons sister, Mrs.
Fielding Lewis, and a platter which
Evening star., 1947-09-22
B'nui Birth Initiution Set

New members will be initiated at
a dinner meeting inaugurating the
fall program of Southern Maryland
Lodge 1425, Bnai Birth, at 7:30
pm. September 20. at the Prince
Georges Golf and Country Club,
Landover, Nd.
Evening star., 1947-08-05
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Evening star., 1947-08-05
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good cond.. furn. measer; avail. 18th;
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adults preferred. RA. S700 Box 359-V.
LARGE COUNTRY HOME. about IL mi.
from D.: C.; plenty Of space for horses or
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