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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-09-08
Apple Commission Expect!
Revenue 10 Fall Sharply
By the Associated Press

WINCHESTER, Va, Sept. 8.-The
Virginia State Police Commission,
which collects a bushel lax of one
and quarter cents on packed apples
in excess of the first 200 bushels for
advertising and sales promotional
purposes, expects to find its revenues
reduced sharply this season.
Leading growers reported the
frosts and freezes of early May
played havoc with the Virginia apple
crop as a whole and the 1947 out
put has been estimated at around
100000 bushels, as against the
normal yield of II to Is million
bushels. Processing plants of the
State bought about 40 per cent OF
the big 1916 crop-on which no tax
was paid-and by-products manu-
facturers already have begun to buy
heavily Of the short 1947 crop.
The Virginia commission had a
cash balance of $37,775 on hand as
of June 30, according to recent
report of the State auditor, after
contributions to the Appalachian
Apple Service, Inc, the four-State
sales promotional agency operated
by fruit growers of Virginia. West
Virginia, Pennsylvania and Mary
land.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-09-08
Maryland Meetings Set
On Opening Oyster Bars
By the Associated Press

ANNAPOLIS, Sept. 8.-John E
Clark, chairman of the Tidewater
Fisheries Commission, announced
yesterday a series of meetings would
be held by representatives of the
commission with Maryland oyster
men to discuss opening oyster bars
Mr.. Clark aid meetings would be
held in each county, with present
closed areas the chief subject of dis
cussion. Other problems of oyster
men will be considered also.
Bars which are now closed were
planted with seed oysters before
1947. Most of them were planted in
1916 and some earlier.
1T is the desire of the commits
sion that these bars be opened to
Clustering when the oysters are OF
good quality and at such times when
the industry can use them to best
advantage" Mr.. Clark said.
Organization of oystermen into
formal groups is progressing
throughout the State.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-09-08
5List Program
In Arlington
School Race
Slate of Candidates
For Board to Seek
Improved Conditions

A flve-point program was an
nounced today by the Arlington
School Board Nominating Conven-
tons f1ve-man slate for the county's
first popularity elected School Board
which will be named November 4.
The program, representing the
stand" of Mrs Edmund D. Camp
bell, Colin C. Macpherson, Barnard
Joy, o. Glenn Stahl and Curtis E.
Tuthill, calls for the following:
"A school board responsive to the
will of the people; continuous study
of educational needs as the basis for
specific improvements; improved
conditions for teaching and learn
ing in the schools; a sound long
term financial program for schools,
and improved personnel policies for
Arlington's able teachers"
Favor "Outstanding Program"
The five candidates declared in
statement that Arlington is "a
large urban community that should
establish an outstanding program of
public education"
"Citizens interested in the fur
Their development of the county
should not have to apologize for
the school SYSTEM" the group as
serted we have faith in the fu-
ture of Arlington. School improve
ment is a sound investment in that
future. 1t is also good business.
Good schools increase property
values and attract customers to our
stores and offices"
In addition to the five named by
the School Board Nominating Con-
vention, which was sponsored by
group Of county civic organizations,
there are eight other persons in the
race for the flve-man school board.
The eight include four members of
the present school board.
In developing the five points, the
nominees declared the school board
should make Its meetings and deci-
sions open to the public; report its
actions and facts regarding the
schools to the public regularly"
and hold announced public hear
ings before making decisions on i'm
portant matters"
More Adequate Buildings Asked.
More adequate school buildings,
recreation facilities, facilities for S,
6 and year olds, and provisions for
handicapped, retarded and excep-
tional children are called for in the
program.
For teachers, the program de-
clares the school board should es-
tablish a merit system of appoint
ments; provide job security; estab-
lish sick leave policy eliminating
the present penalties for temporary
absence due to illness; maintain
definite salary scale, establish demo-
cratic practices within the school
administration, and insure teachers
of their rights as citizens and pro-
fessional workers to express them
selves freely in matters relating to
their schools and their work
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-09-08
Statisticians Of World
Open Meeting Today
Some 600 statisticians from SIS ma

Some 600 statisticians from S. ma
tions prepared to open Today
conference today in the main ball
room of the Shoreham Hotel, aimed
at securing reliable and adequate
worldwide figures on a wide va
riety of subjects.
The International Statistical Con-
ferences will get under way at 2:30
pm, with United Nations Secre-
tary General Trygve Lie as the fea-
tured speaker. Assistant Secretary
of Stats Willard l.. Thorp, presi-
dent Of thea american StatBtical
Association, will preside. Secre-
tary Of Commerce Hartman will
welcome the delegates.
Mr.. Lie is expected to stress the
need for cooperation among sta
tisticians of all parts of the world
to meet postwar economic problems
He has just returend from South
America, where ne attended the
Rio conference
Sessions of the International Sta
tiStical Conferences will be held
at the Shoreham and Wardman
Park Hotels. Participating will
be representatives from the Inter-
national Statistical Institute, the
International Union for Scientific
Investigation of Population Prob
lens, the International Association
for Research in Income and
Wealth, the Inter-American Sta
tistical Institute, the Econometric
Society and the United Nations
World Statistical Congress.
The International Statistical In
stitute, scheduled to meet this
morning. was to be in the nature
of a continuation of the oath BIZ
ennial session, adjourned suddenly
at Prague, Czecnoslovakia, in Sep
TENDER 1888 due to impending war,
officials said. A report of the Of
1cers from 1886 to 1888 was sched-
uled to be made today, inasmuch
as no new officers were elected at
the Prague session.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-09-08
Maryland Bridge Traffic
Rises Sharply in August
BY the Associated Press

BALTIMORE, Sept. 8.-August
and Labor Day traffic over the
Potomac River and Susquehanna
River toll bridges and the Chesa-
peake Bay ferries showed a sub
stantial increase over last year, the
State Roads Commission reported
yesterday.
Auditor william A. Codd reported
that the Potomac span at Morgan
town led all the other State-con-
trolled systems in increased traffic,
carrying 1854 per cent more last
month and 234 per cent more over
the holiday than a year ago.
August traffic over the Susque-
hanna River Bridge totaled 409, 1926
vehicles, or a gain Of 8.5 per cent
over August, 1916, with a 81 per
cent increase on the holiday.
A total of 232.943 vehicles and
passengers used the Sandy Point
Matapeake ferries during the month
a gain of 1876, while the Labor Day
volume was up 21.8 per cent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-09-08
100 Attend Reunion
At Crawford Church

About 100 members of the Gram
ford-Plasket families attended re-
union yesterday at the Crawford
Memorial Methodist Church, near
Lorton. Va.
Four generations of the families
were present from Virginia, the
Dirstrict and Maryland. The Gran
fords have been in the Lorton area
since early in the 18th century and
the Plaskets since 1883
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-09-08
PIastics Firm Is Ordered
To Bargain With Union
By the Associated Press

BALTIMORE, Sept. 8.-The Ma
tional Labor Relations Board today
announced it had ordered the Ma
tional Plastics Co. of Odenton, Md,
to bargain collectively with the AFL
International Chemical Workers
Union.
Triel Examiner William F. Schar-
nikow of the fifth regional Office
here said the plastics firm had en-
gagged in unfair labor practices in
"coercing its employees
The plastics firm, employing about
300 workers, manufactures plastics
products worth more than 100000
each year, the NLRB statement
said.
The AFL union was listed as the
bargaining agent for the plants
production and maintenance work
ers.
Mr.. Scharnikow said the company
had questioned employees and appli-
cants for employment concerning
their union membership and activ-
tiles, had informed an applicant fol-
employment that union members
would not be hired and had been
responsible for other unfair labor
practices.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-09-08
HyatfsviI|e Schools Open
With Full Day Wednesday

Hyattsviile elementary schools will
open Wednesday, with students re-
porting at 8 am. for registration.
They will remain for a full day.
Students in the first to third
grades will report at the Gallatin
Street School and those in the
fourth to seventh grades at the
Forty third Avenue School, accord
ing to Mrs. Mary A. Petty, principal.
Lunch will be available in the school
cafeterias.
First-grade pupils should bring
birth, vaccination and diphtheria
immunization certificates, Mrs. Petty
said,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-09-08
Alexandra Jail Fugitive
Shot by Railroad Police

Ernest Jacobs, 20, who with two
other prisoners escaped from the
Alexandria City Jail July IS, was
in a serious condition today in a
Richmond hospital, after being shot
by arresting officers in Richmond
Saturday night.
Alexandria Detective Sergt. r. G.
Greenwalt said Jacobs was shot by
r. F. 81 P. Railroad police after
he had been discovered on a freight
train. He added that. warrant
has been forwarded to Richmond for
the prisoners return in the event
he RECEIVERS.
Jacobs and the other two, Henry
Williams, "a, and James Brown, "a,
were awaiting sentence on a tres
passing charge. The others are still
at large.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-09-08
Renovated School Due
To Open "Wednesday
In CheverIY-Tuxedo

A completely renovated school is
expected to be ready for the 300
elementary pupils of the Cheverly-
Tuxedo area when classes are re-
sumed Wednesday in Prince
Georges County. 1t will be the first
time in two years that a school has
been in operation in Cheverly.
The school has been in the process
of rebuilding since March, 1916,
when construction of a six-room
cafeteria and auditorium addition
to it's original 4-room Cheverly-
Tuxedo building was started.
Since that time pupils of the two
adjoining communities have been
attending schools in other sections
of the county.
Work On the $252,00 project has
been delayed several times because
of labor and material shortages and
by strikes, according to Paul C..
Cooper, supervisor of school con-
struction for the Prince Georges
County Board of Education.
While not yet complete, the school
is expected to be opened Wednesday.
If it is not ready, pupils scheduled
to attend classes there will be
granted extra vacation until the new
two-story structure is ready for &C.
cupancy, it was announced.
Only the classrooms will be ready
for the initial opening, with work
still to continue on the new cafe
terra and auditorium, Mr.. Cooper
said.
Constructed by the William M
Chappell Co. of Washington, the
school is the only new building to
open this year. Work is now under
way on a new elementary school at
Landover Hills and additions to the
Laurel High School and the Fair
Heights Elementary School
for colored pupils. Those three
schools may be complete by 1948
along with new senior high schools
at Oxon Hill and Upper Marlboro.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-09-08
Fleming Urges
New Controls on
Nitrate Cargoes
Warns Safeguards
Must Not Prevent
Use as Fertilizer

Federal Works Administrator
Philip B. Fleming, chairman of the
Presidents Conference on Fire Pre-
vention, today urged stricter safe
guards on ammonium nitrate car
goes but warned against "panicky''
controls that would hinder use of
the material as fertilizer
In statement for delivery at a
meeting of governmental and in
dustrial authorities at the Depart
mental Auditorium, Gen. Fleming
recommended a co-ordinated effort
to reduce f1rse hazards in the ship
ment of ammonium nitrate from
United States ports to needy
foreign countries.
Ammonium nitrate explosions
caused the Texas City disaster
several months ago and resulted in
recent fires at Brest, France.
Noting that almost two-f ifths of
the solid nitrogen produced in the
United States in 1947-48 will be in
the form of ammonium nitrate,
Gen. Fleming declared a thorough
study of the causes of ammonium
nitrate combustion is imperative.
But it would be a grave loss If
the material became so burdened
with prohibitions and restrictions
that it would not be available as
fertilizer" he added. 1T is i'm
portant that this matter be pre-
sented to the people of the country
in such a way that it will not
result in any panicky reaction on
the part of port communities"
Representatives of the War and
Agriculture Departments, munich
pal agencies and industrial and civil
organizations directly interested in
the problem attended today's con-
ference. The program called for
discussion of details of manufac-
ture, loading and transport of am
monium nitrate.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-09-08
BY the Associated Press

DANVILLE, Va, Sept. 8.-The
leisurely pace of recorded history
finally has overtaken THE Wreck
of The Old ST."
The State Conservation Commits
sion has erected an historical-site
sign on Danville's outskirts where
the Southern Railways fast mail
express train plunged from a trestle
into a ravine A years ago, killing
nine and injuring seven.
Reason given for the States delay
in marking the site of the famous
wreck of song and story is that
until recently the ravine was almost
inaccessible.
The Southern Railway changed
its main line roadbed here q number
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-09-08
Trinidad Boys Club Opens
Rally Week for Adults

This is rally week" in the Trini-
dad Boys Clubs adult membership
drive toward a $4,000 operating ex-
pense fund for the coming year.
A different program is planned
at Sherwood Playground, Tenth and
G streets NE, for each day with
father and son ball game as
today's feature.
A mothers rolling pin throwing
contest is scheduled for tomorrow,
track meet Wednesday, rally and
dance Thursday, a contest between
Trinidad and Sherwood club fathers
Friday and square dance Satur-
day. Any person wishing to be-
come an adult member may forward
dues of 81 to the club. 1119 Wylie
street NE. Fred E. Nalley, jr, is
executive director of the club.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-09-08
Building Owners Studying
Rejection Of Rent Increase

Executive Committee members OF
the Building Owners and Managers
Association today were studying
Rent Administrator Robert F. sCogs-
wells rejection of a general rent
increase before determining their
next move.
Were not stopping here" Rufus
S. Lusk. assertion secretary said.
He emphasized that the committee
members would need a few days to
digest" Mr.. Cogswell's seven-page
detailed letter refusing both a gen.
eral Is per cent rent increase here
and an alternate plan for "volun-
tary' increases. Mr.. Cogswells de-
cision was announced late Saturday.
Mr.. Lusk said he expected a COM
mittee meeting would be scheduled
for later in thas week
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-09-08
81 Gift by Arlington Church
Brinqs Quick Return Of $40

One of the 81 bills which the
pastor of an Arlington church began
giving away to his congregation yes
terday was returned 10 fold even
before the distribution was complete.
The Rev. A. G. Lynch Of Mount
Olivet Methodist Church, Sixteenth
street and North Glebe road, passed
out most of a $500 gift with instruc-
lions to the recipients to invest the
money proftably and report on
October S. Bills that were not dis
tributed at yesterdays services were
mailed to absent members.
The immediate return was from a
nonmember who took the 81 and
handed back a $40 bill as he left
church after the services.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-09-08
Man Who Watched Death
In Mirror Is Held Suicide

A man whose body was found
August % in a hotel room here,
with a note which began II am
standing in front of a mirror
watching myself die" was declared
suicide in a certificate issued to-
day by Coroner A. Magruder Mac
Donald
He was Charles L. Martin, so, of
Harrisburg, Pa. His body was
Unidentified by brother, w. C. Mar
tin of HagerstoWn, Md
The certificate of SUICIDE fol-
lowed a report from chemists that
he had died from an overdose OF
sleeping potion. Martin, police said
had registered in the Continental
Hotel August IL, giving the name
G.. L. Matherson,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-09-08
ChemicalUniion
HearsAttackon
Swollen Profits
Boom Bust Theory
Threatens Collapse
For World, Price Says

A "boom-and-bust' philosophy
adopted by big business" threatens
to lead to world economic collapse,
a convention of AFL chemical work.
ers was told today by Representa-
tive Price. Democrat, of Illinois.
The lawmaker denounced those
who favor high prices and "extor-
tionate" profits, in a speech pre-
pared for the opening session of the
International Chemical Union con.
ference at the Annapolis Hotel.
TOO many businessmen think
prosperity rests on planned scarcity
as means OF sustaining prices he
declared, rather than on expanded
demand caused by cutting prices
Says Profits Are Swollen.
Disciples of the Taft boom-and-
bust theory of economics are busy
making swollen profits during the
room period so they can ride out
the bust time they fear is coming"
Representative Price continued.
They want to build an economic
storm cellar at your expense" he
warned the union.
Blaming Republican lawmakers
for contributing to the threat Of
economic collapse by helping monop-
olistic interests to feather their own
bed while hamstringing labor's coll
lective bargaining rights, the Rep
resentative declared:
Since the day the Republicans
wrecked the price control program,
the cost Of living has gone up 40
per cent on an overall basis"
Attacks Rent Increases.
Food alone has gone up 81 per cent
since controls were lifted, the Illinois
legislator asserted. Clothing is 27
per cent higher, and rents outside
the District have risen Is per cent
in voluntary" increase-"if you
call acceding to a rent rise with a
pistol in the landlords hands and
at the tenants head voluntary"
The Republicans won't face the
,ABC's of basic economies" Repre-
sentative Price charged. They
won't see that if factory workers
spend all Of their income for food
and clothing-and don't have
enough of either-these factory
workers cannot buy the products
of other factories"
The reduced purchasing power of
the workers sets off a chain reac-
ton which, If unchecked, will end
with the country's prosperity
blown to bits in the biggest eco
nomic explosion this world has ever
seen," he declared.
Sees Hope in Investigations.
Accusing the Republican Party Of
having no interest in attacking the
price problem ION anything other
than a coverup partisan political
basis" designed to protect price
fixers in big business, he said the
only hope of effective action in this
field was Attorney General Clark's
antitrust Investigations.
This is action!" he declared. ut
is the only kind of action that price
hogs and gougers can understand"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-09-08
Police Probing Attack
On Glen Echo Man

Montgomery County police today
were investigating an attack on a
32-yea1 old Glen Echo man, now
in Georgetown Hospital suffering
from nip and wrist cuts inflicted by
two unknown assailants.
The victim is Newman P. Lynn,
6215 Walhonding street, who was
attacked as he walked toward his
home about 2 am. yesterday after
alighting from street car, police
reported.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-09-08
Baltimore Urged 10 Build
Zoo Instead Of Stadium
Bv the Associated Press

BALTIMORE, Sept. S.-Declaring
that more people 60 to the zoo in
a year than to any stadium" j. v.
Kelly, president of the Maryland
Geological Society. proposed yes
terday that money destined for Bal
timore's new municipal arena be
used to build $4,000, 900 ZOO instead.
Mr.. Kelly. who for 46 years was a
secretary of the park board, said
that IF we could fence the zoo in
and erect turnstiles, I'm sure the
ZOO would prove greater drawing
card than the stadium"
The new stadium is still in the
planning stages and city officials
are negotiating with the State for
a $2,500,000 loan to match munich
pal funds appropriated for the prof.
ect.
The Board of Recreation and
Parks has announced plans to en-
large the zoo at cost of $500 900.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-09-08
Six Boys Held in Assault
On Streetcur Operator

Six Washington teen-agers were
held by police today for Juvenile
Bureau action in connection with
an assault on a streetcar operator
September l.
The boys, all colored, were accused
of hitting John Bussler, "a, of Is
Seventh street NE, when he in
sisted that they pay their fares.
Mr.. Bussler told police the boys re-
fused to pay after boarding the
streetcar at Forty-fourth street
and Deane avenue NE.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-09-08
Orange Council Names
J. H. GiIIum Mayor
SpecioI Dispatch 10 The Sta

ORANGE, Va, Sept. 81. Hay
wood Gillum has been named Mayor
of Orange by the Town Council to
succeed Harry G. Lonergan, who
held the office for 10 years. Mr.
Lonergan remains as a member OF
the Council, to which he was elected
June 10.
Mr.. Gillum has been active in the
business life of Orange for 26 years
He is native of Madison Mills. He
is president and manager of a
grocery company in Orange and has
been member of the Council fol-
10 years.
Other councilmen are H. B. Tom
linson, r. v. Roberts and A. P
Beirne.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-09-08
Virginia Finally Erects Marker
At Site of Wreck of Old 81

of years ago and later tore down
the trestle. Last year the State
Highway Department built major
roadway, by-passing downtown traf-
fic, and the fill went across the
ravine. Hundreds of tourists began
passing the unmarked spot daily.
So when the Conservation COM
mission learned of the situation it
sent a representative to Danville
and Walker Clarke and Ed Seay,
veteran Southern yard conductors
who went to the scene of the wreck
that. September day in 1908, desig-
mated the exact location.
1t was one of Mr.. Clarke's last
acts in connection with the history
of the wreck of the 81. He died a
few weeks after pointing out the
spot. --.- -. +
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-09-08
Community Canning Facilities
Aid Fairfax, Loudoun Residents

surplus vegetables shipped from the
Norfolk area. The tomatoes are ex-
pected to come from the same
section.
The center, directed by Mrs. Jane
Davis, canning instructor, and Mrs
Adelaide Adamson, high school home
economics teacher, provides facilities
for canning fruits and vegetables
during the summer months and for
the processing of meats and lard
in the fall
Residents bring their vegetables to
the center, where they are prepared,
placed in tin cans and processed
under steam pressure. The cans are
provided at small cost by the center.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-09-08

Community canning is taking the
place of the old, hot kitchen method
for residents of upper Fairfax and
lower Loudoun Counties.
At community canning center at
the Herndon High School, residents
of the area are processing more than
1000 quarts of garden produce each
week. In addition, Fairfax County
volunteers recently processed more
than 5000 gallon cans of snapbeans
for the school cafeterias, and plan
on processing a half carload lot of
tomatoes within the next few weeks.
The snaps, which are to be used
in the school lunch program, were