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Evening star., 1947-12-02
D. {. Proposes Higher
Barber License Fees
To End Board Deficit

An increase in fees for licensing
Of BARRIERS in the District was pro-
posed yesterday by the District
Commissioners ais a means OF end
ing q deficit in the budget OF the
barber examining board.
Present law requires that ex-
penses of the board must not exceed
license and examining fee receipts.
Because of wage increases granted
Government workers, including, the
board staA, however, 1t has been
running q deficit. To cover this,
three inspectors of the board have
been taking payless furloughs.
speeifc Increases Asked. r.
Legislation proposed by the Com
missiouers to balance the boards
budget has been referred to the
House and Senate District Commit
tees. Bills will be introduced to
raise. the present s. examination
and license fee to the following
levels: .. ;,.->,
: For examination of an applicant
for registered BARRIERS certificate,
$50; for renewal of such a certificate,
$40; for restoration Of an expired
permit, SIS; for examination of an
applicant Tor an apprentice BARRIERS
certificate, $15, and for restoration
Of an apprentice permit, SO.
While continuing some of the IS
fees now provided, the bill also
would set up a new 81 fee for regis
tration of students in private barber
schools and for issuance OF dupli-
cate permits for registered BARRIERS
or apprentices, to replace lost $os
destroyed certificates.
Physician Bill Submitted.
In other communications, the
Commissioners submitted a bill that
would permit the licensing, without
examination by the District, OF
physicians who have diplomas from
a national listening board giving
examinations equivalent to those
prescribed by the District. Most OF
the States, Commissioner Guy
Mason said In a letter OF trans
initial. accept tests given by one OF
the several recognized, Independent
medical examining boards. -.
The city heads also registered with
Congress their objections to enact.
ment of the proposed OHara bill
to exempt District properties OF al,
veterans organizations chartered
by Congress from District taxation
they pointed. out they had vieweo
with concern the recent trend TO-
ward exemption of property from
local taxation, while District outlays
are increasing. .s.....,
The Commissioners also opposed
a bill to require .laundries to posi-
bonds to cover losses incurred o'
customers. .-u.
Evening star., 1947-12-02
Phone Rate Hearing
.TotResume in Week

The Public Utilities Commission
hearing on the request of the Chesa-
peake and Potomac Telephone Co.
for nhone rate increase will be re-
suned5 At 10 am. next Tuesday in
the District Building.
The hearing was adjourned on
October 20 by PUG Chairman James
H. Flanagan. after the company
laid its case before the commission.
The telephone company is asking
for rate increases calculated to pro-
duce additional annual gross .reve-
nue. of about 81 2,00o, 900 The commits
sion yesterday set the date for
resumption Of the hearing.
The seyen-week interval is being
used by the commission stan, as well
Is the Treasury Department Bureau
of Federal Supply, to make care
full study Of the case. Witnesses next
week will include v. A. McEfresh,
auditor for the PUG, and represen-
tatives Of the telephone company
who are expected to give additional
testimony. The Treasury Depart
ment intervened in the case for the
Government, which is one Of the
largest customers Of the telephone
company.
Evening star., 1947-12-02

Warm-water treatment Of muscles
long paralyzed by polio was inausu-
rated today for District adults who
have recovered from attacks Of the
disease. -.....,.. al
Although this "hydro-therapeutic'
treatment has long been in use
throughout the country, no facil-
tiles for underwater exercises were
available here until today's opening
Of the. Hotel Ambassador pool. to
totally handicapped patients. -
Despite the existence Of many
pools in the city, no other ones are
designed to permit the rolling OF
wheel chairs to the POOLS edge.
since warm water is preferred for
such treatment, the water Vas sew
Evening star., 1947-12-02
Safe December
Contest Draws
Over 100 JinqIes

More than 100 ..jingles have beer
turned in for the first OF the weekly
Safe December" contests sponsored
by the Commissioners Advisory
Board.
This weeks contest closes at mid
night Sunday.
Entries are two-line completions
Of this poser: q
Give the walker the right Of way
And the right to walk another day
A contest will be held each week
this month. Each prize will be q
radio. All entries should be sent tc
Tranic Safety Jingle Contest, Room
1908, Municipal Center, Third street
and Indiana avenue NV, 1nforma.
ton about the contest may be OBJ
tanned by calling National 5000, ex.
tension $50. -,-..-..,-, - ~-.-~,---,.
Evening star., 1947-12-02
Charles Houston Urged
As Mason Successor

The Executive Board of the Com
mittee for Racial Democracy in the
Nations Capital today indorsed
Charles Houston, colored attorney,
for District Commissioner to sue
ceed Commissioner Guy Mason,
whose termed expired Saturday.
Mr.. Mason still is serving, pend
ing the naming of a successor by
President Truman. There have
been reports the President would ask
Mr.. Mason to succeed himself.
Evening star., 1947-12-02
Maryland Man Sentenced.
In Sons Traffic Death

Robert g. Lueben, ST., 81, Of. Ed
monston, Nd, today was sentenced
in Municipal Court to, . $3.50 fine
and a suspended so-day jail sentence
on . negligent homicide charge In
the trafdc death last May I Of his
son, Robert, jr., 30. /. :
The sentence was imposed by
Judge Nathan r. Margold, who
placed Lueben on six months proba-
ton in lieu OF serving the jail term,
and set, January Is as the date by
which. he must pay the fine, for
which the alternative is 250 addi-
tional days In Jail.
The son was passenger in a
ear driven by his father when it
collided with q streetcar operated
BY Josiah Harrison, IS. of Rosslyn,
va, ut the intersection Of Kenil-
worth avenue and Quarles street
NE, 81
Both Lueben and Harrison were
convicted of negligent homicide In
q Joint trial in September. Judge
Adarsold sttll has under advisennent
q motion for . new trial by Har-
Yison, who contends consolidation
q ths Gases was improper.
Evening star., 1947-12-02
Probe Of Property SoIes.
In KeniIworth Urged

An investigation by the Real
Estate Licensing Board OF recent
property sales IN the Kenilworth
area was requested by the Kenil-
worth Citizens Association last
night.
The properties were sold to col
ored people in violation OF cove
nants, members said, and "irregu-
larities" in sales transactions were
questioned by the group.
sergt. John +. Ryan, Police De-
partment public relations onicer, ad-
dressed the association, pointing
out the need for citizens co-opera-
ton with the Police Department.
Charles Maize, president, con-
Quoted the meeting In the Kertl-
worth Recreation Center.
Evening star., 1947-12-02
Darnei||e Is Convicted
In Wife S Auto Death;
Faces 1-Year Term

Rodney G.. Darneille, SO, Of 2720
Ordway street NV today was
found guilty by q Municipal Court
Jury Of a charge Of negligent homi-
eide from the death Of his wife In
traffic accident last April 20.
Imposition of sentence was post
poned by Judge Nathan r. Margold
until January 6. Darneille Is liable
to possible sentence of one year or
a $1,000 fine or BOTH He is at lib
erty under $1,000 bond. -.
Immediately after announcement
Of the verdict, reached in As min
utes of deliberation after the one
day trial yesterday, Defense Attor-
ney Milton Kaplan announced he
would file a motion for q new trial
tomorrow '.,.- r.
y Verdict Satisfies Judge.
After hearing the verdict, which
was kept sealed overnight, Mr.. Kap-
Ian asked Judge Margold to ascer-
tain whether members OF the jury
might have been Influenced by news
paper accounts of the case which
he said were on the streets during
the noon lunch hour yesterday.
No jurors indicated that they had
seen the accounts Judge Margold
said he was satisfied they had not
Influenced the verdict.
Il don't see how you could have
reached any other verdict" Judge
Margold told the members of the
Jury. I'm my opinion, the defend
ants guilt was established beyond a
doubt"
Mr.. Kaplan had termed the news
paper accounts Of the trial carried
in certain papers yesterday as
"yicious and inaccurate" Outside
the courtroom he said he was not
referring to The Star.
Collided With Another Car.
In considering the sentence to be
imposed on Darneille, Judge Mar
gold indicated he would take into
account the circumstances, which,
he said, inspired sympathy"
toward the defendant.
Darneille admitted in testimony
Yesterday that he had turned his
head away from the road Just before
the head ON collision of his car with
one driven by Bryce Douglas Stone,
jr, of Fairfax, Va. Witnesses testi-
fied that Darneille, who with his
wife was en- route home from q card
party in Arlington, was driving on
the wrong side Of the road at the
time. ~
The defendant explained that, his
wife had fallen, asleep and slumped
against him and that he had turned
TO straighten her UP into . more
comfortable position" =,
Blood Test Evidence Ruled Out.
He testified he had had about
one and q half drinks" at the party
as we'll as . couple of cocktails"
earlier at the dinner, but he tnsisted
he felt competent to drive. e
A charge against him Of driving
while drunk was dropped after
Judge Ellen K. Ready ruled on Oc-
tober 20 that q blood test made after
the accident was not admissible as
evidence. Suppression Of the charge
was asked by Mr.. Kaplan on the
ground that the defendant was moi
| in police custody at the time Of the
test and was unconscious and un-
able to give consent. --~. .ii>
Darneille's wife, Mrs. Ruth OAR
nellie, SO, died four days after the
crash. ~ ~-
Evening star., 1947-12-02

Three-year-old Ernest Pearson
was reported in fair condition at
Children's Hospital today after a
three-story plunge to the street
yesterday from his mothers apart
ment at s35 Virginia avenue S.W.
The child, who tumbled from an
open window while trying to
catch" some playing cards heehad
tossed outside, landed on his hands
and knees near the spot where q
neighbor, Mrs. Betty Loder, was
playing with her child. He received
only a bump on the head, q cut lip
and sprains from his fall, according
to his mother, Mrs. May Pearson.
Hospital authorities. however,
Evening star., 1947-12-02
ST Pound Possible
AS Butter Price Rises;
Eqqs Also Climbing


day to be headed toward last Sep
TENDERS high with new peak OF
81 a pound a distinct possibility.
Wholesale prices yesterday went
up IL cents pound for the best
three grades in New York while
Chicago prices advanced to 2
cents. Today's opening prices IN
New York we're cent higher than
Mondays closing for the best grade.
Retail prices in Washington stores
usually follow the wholesale fluctu-
ations within a few days.
One major retail chain reported
this morning that current prices OF
80 cents for solid. pounds and 81
for pounds wrapped in quarters
would be raised later this week,
possibly tomorrow, If the whole
sale increases are maintained.
The September peak for the two
types of top-grade butter were S3
and "a cents, respectively.
One Dairy Getting "a Cents.
A leading home delivery dairy
reported butter today at 90 cents
a pound for top grade compared to
the 95-cent peak in September
Another dairy is getting "a cents
today compared to 98-cent peak
Both said that higher prices will
have to be passed on to the con-
sumer if the wholesale figures are
maintained or go higher.
One dairy spokesman said he
hoped 81 a pound butter would not
be reached because I'VE don't like
it and the people can't afford It,"
A leading Washington wholesaler
reported wholesale prices In the city
now only / cent under the Septem-
Der peak. He said top score butter
now selling for 81 cents wholesale
in New York costs an additional
3 or 1 cents to bring into Washing
ton before 1t is sold to retail dealers
December Low Supply Period.
He pointed out that December
is, usually a low. supply period fol-
butter. tending to keep prices high
He also said he felt the European
aid program has influenced prices
Egg prices also are on the up
swing. Prices are lower now than
are butter prices, though the outlook
is hardly promising for the house
wife, f.. =.
Wholesale prices went up yester-
day anywhere from 2 to 6 cents q
dozen, depending on quality & and
time. of delivery. December Is a
short t-supply month for fresh eggs
with large deliveries in city markets
not expected until January or early
February. .-... $: :.
One Washington chain reported
top-grade eggs now selling for u
cents q dozen compared to so II
September, the postwar peak. Twt
dairies are selling their best grades
for SO and 90 cents, from 6 to II
cents under the September highs
An egg wholesaler said prices II
Washington today are around u
cents for fresh eggs, with storag'
prices going up because OF the snor
supply of fresh eggs. -.
Evening star., 1947-12-02

said they would take several X-rays
today to determine If there are
other injuries.
Mrs. Pearson, mother of 10 chill
dren, said she left the room for a
few minutes while Ernest was play
ing quietly with some cards. When
she returned, some Of the cards
were strewn about the window sill
and Ernest had vanished. She
looked out the window and saw
him on the ground.
Mrs. Loder, who lives in a first
floor apartment in the same build
ing, said she heard a. thud and
looked around to see Ernest lying
near her.
Evening star., 1947-12-02
School Children Here
To Lose Part-Time
Eye Specialist Soon

District school children, without
the services of a full-time eye
specialist to check their vision for
the last year and a half, will lose
the Health Departments part-time
doctor this month.
Dr.. j. A. Murphy, director OF
school medical inspection services,
told the District Society for the
Prevention of Blindness yesterday
he doesn't know where to hnd a
replacement.
The difnculty in finding a man
qualified for the job, he explained
later, arises from the fact that
ophthaimologists can make far more
money in private practice: than the
Health Department can afford to
pay them. 49,,
Leaving for Further Study.
The present eye specialist, he
said, has been working half q day
for the District for the last three
months, but is leaving in a few
weeks tc take a postgraduate course.
No permanent ophthalmologis
has been available TO evaluate the
visual needs Of handicapped school
children, he asserted, for a year and
a half.
Another handicap to providing
proper eye care at Health Depart
ment clinics, he said, Is the short
age of nurses and clerical assistants
DR.. Murphy's remarks were MADE
I at the society's annual meeting, held
this year in the YWCA. Seventeenth
and K streets NV.
DR.. Franklin Foote, executive d.
rector of the national organization
With which the society is afiliated
described an exhaustive survey OF
eye defects about to be undertaken
among st. Louis school children.
He said the survey would try t1
determine the best tests to give
youngsters to detect defective vision
before it develops into serious loss
of sight. Conclusions are expected
| to be announced in IS months, he
reported.
Points to Economic Value.
Francis Hill, jr., an attorney anc
member Of the society, pointed out
that sight-saving activities are o.
great economic value, because they
enable people Of limited vision te
remain self-supporting.
DR.. James Greear, charter member
and past president, stressed the i'm
portance of detecting poor eyesight
early enough to save the individuals
remaining sight.
Mrs. Allen L.. Worries. president o1
the society and active In sigh
protection work here for many
years, conducted the meeting.
A nominating committee namet
the following members for re-elec'
tion to the board Of trustees: Mrs
Jean Louis caillouet. Miss Elizabeth
Dolan, Ray Everett, William L. Rob
inson and DR.. Inez z. Wtlber. VII
bur Gray and, Letter Magnufson- alse
were chosen. s 1~-@
Evening star., 1947-12-02
Bozoor to Aid Church

A. turkey dinner and bazaar will
be held at All Saints Episcopal
Church, Chevy Chase, from II am.
to 9 pm. tomorrow under the aus
pices of the Rector's Aid Society.
There will be luncheon from noon
to 2 pm. and the dinner will be
from $50 to 8 pm.
Evening star., 1947-12-02
No Food Poisoning Found
In Home School Turkey

The Health Department reported
today that it found no food poison
ing organisms of any kind in tur.
kew dinner served at the Industrial
Home School on Wisconsin avenue
Thanksgiving Day-a day on which
almost every one in the institution
became sick.
Laboratory technicians examined
the turkey, the dressing and mlnce
pie. They said they are able to
detect the source of food poisoning
in 8 ralt of 10 cases.
Evening star., 1947-12-02
Businessmen to Meet

The Board OF Directors Of the
Federation Of Businessmen's Asso-
Citations will meet ut Sis pm. TO-
morrow In the boardroom OF the
American Security q Trust Co.,
Fifteenth street and New York ave-
nue. NV ........-- -...-.,...-.--.
Evening star., 1947-12-02
ID. {. Officials Inspect
Results Of $4,000
Spent on Fairgrounds

Members OF the Board OF Recrea-
tion and other District officials made
tour of inspection of Washington's s
Fairgrounds today to see what s194,-
900 spent last year bought the city
in the way of improvements,
Among the new facilities inspected
at eight different Fairgrounds were
recently installed ard-surface areas
for weather use and landscaping
projects. Plans also were discussed
for future improvements.
The theory of new playground
design has been to place activities
according to age groups. Small
children may now play IN inclosed
areas en- special equipment without
interference from older children.
Included among the projects
planned for the future are the
lighting of playing fields for night
use and the flooding or spraying of
several hard-surface areas through
out the city on an experimental
basis for skating.
Included in the group making the
inspection today were Milo F.. Chris
tiansen, superintendent of Recrea-
ton; Harry S. Wender, chairman of
the Board Of Recreation; James E
Schwab, vice chairman; Walter l.
Fowler, representative of the Dis
trict Commissioners: Irving G. Root
superintendent of, the Office Of Ma
tional Capital Parks; and Thcma!
G. Jeffers, representing the Nationa
Capital Park and Planning Com,
mission. ......>.... ~
Fairgrounds Visited.
The Fairgrounds visited-three d
them for colored children-were:
Hamilton playground, Hamilton
street between Thirteenth and -Four.
teenth streets NV, where improve
ments consisted of hard surface
area for general year-round use
Next year there are plans for con-
struction OF a SMALL children's area
and q spray area.
Banneker recreation center slcol-
ored), Georgia avenue and Euclid
street NV, where a small chill
Fdren's area has been completed, a
planting program has been started
and plans are under way for the
lighting Of the football field foa
night use.
Watts Branch playground (col'
ored, Sixty-f1rst and Banks street.
Me-, on which work was started
only five months. ago. Plans TO-
next year include a baseball field, s
hard-surface area and a foot bridge
across Watts Branch.
Ridge playground, Ridge roat
and Burns street NV, where
| full-sized baseball and football fielt
have replaced forest.
Coal Dump Converted.
| Lincoln Playground (colore6
Sixth and K streets Sc, where
football field and hard-surface ares
occupy ground formerly used as
Navy coal dump.
Chevy Chase Playground, Forty
first and Livingston streets NV
which received a large appropria
ton for construction last year, In
Guiding spray area, a multiple-us
area and tennis courts. !
Happy Hollow Playground, Cham
plain street near Florida avenu
NV, where work recently has beei
started to grade the area and con
struct a multiple-use hard surface
Kalorama Playground, Kaloram'
and Columbia roads NV, where
new unit was constructed last veal
including draining, grading. con
struction of spray area, badmintol
courts and multiple-use area.
Evening star., 1947-12-02
Citizens Group to Elect

The Hampshire Suburban Citi-
zens' Association will elect ofacers at
8 p.m. tomorrow at the Ray School
in Takoma Park, Nd. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-10

NOTICE OF PUBLICATION
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA
COUNTY OF NEW HANOVER
CITY OF WILMINGTON, NORTH
CAROLINA, NEW HANOVER COUNTY,
AND c. R. MORSE, CITY-COUNTY TAX
COLLECTOR.
Rebecca J. johnson Patterson their OF
Mary c. Johnson, deceased) and her
husband, William E.. Patterson, and any
and all heirs and-or devisees of Mary
c. johnson, deceased, and any and all
persons, firms or corporations who
might in any contingency claim an in
terest in the property involved in this
action, known or unknown, sui juris or
non sui juris, including any not In esse,
who might by possibility hereafter set
up a claim.
The Detendant(s) William E. Patterson,
husband Of Rebecca J. johnson Patter-
son, and any and all heirs ;o,d-or de-
visees of Mary C. Johnson. deceased,
and any and all persons, firms or corpora
tons who might in any contingency
claim an interest in the property involv-
ed In this action, known or unknown,
sui juris or non sui juris, including any
not in esse who might by possibility
hereafter set up a claim, will take no.
tice that an action entitled as above
has been commenced in the Superior
Court of New Hanover County for the
purpose of foreclosing and selling GER
tain real property situate in City Of
Wilmington, N. c. known as part of Lot
No. 2, in Block 225, according to Of
fetal map of said city, in which said
Defendant(s) have or claim to have
an interest, for and on account of unpaid
taxes due and owing the City of Will
mington and-or the County of New
Hanover.
And the said Defendant(s) will further
take notice that they are required to
appear before the Clerk Of Superior
Court of New Hanover County at his
Wilmington, N. c., on OF before twenty
seven days after the 9th day of May,
1947. and answer or demur to the
Complaint of the Plaintiffs filed in this
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-10
1S0-Legal
NOTICE OF PUBLICATION
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA

STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA
COUNTY OF NEW HANOVER
CITY OF WILMINGTON, NORTH
CAROLINA NEW HANOVER COUNTY,
AND c. R. MORSE, CITY-COUNTY
TAX COLLECTOR.
VS.
Samuel English and wife, Ella English,
and their heirs and-or devisees, and any
and all persons, firms or corporations
interest in the property involved in this
action, known or unknown, sui juris
or non sui juris, including any not IN
esse who might by possibility hereafter
set up a claim.
The Defendant(s) Samuel English and
wife, Ella English, and their heirs and
or devisees, and any and all persons,
firms or corporations, who might In any
contingency claim an interest in the
property involved in this action, known
or unknown, sui juris or non sui juris,
including any not in esse who might by
possibility hereafter set up a claim,
will take notice that an action entitled
as above has been commenced in the
Superior Court of New Hanov County
for the purpose of foreclosing and sell
ing certain real property situate In City
of Wilmington, N. C. and being known
as Lot Nos. 4 and 5. in Block Z. ac-
cord1ng to map OF LIVE GHCVE. IN
which said Defendant(s) lave or claim
to have an interest, for and on account
of unpaid taxes due and owing the
| City of Wilmington and-or he County
of New Hanover.
And the said Defendant ts) will further
take notice that they are required tc
appear before the Clerk of Superio,
| Court of New Hanover County at his
| office in the Court House in the City Of
Wilmington, N. c., on or before twenty
seven days after the 9th day of May
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-10
FIELD INSTRUCTION

AElD
JACKSONVILLE, April 8. -
Three-month field instruction
for members of the Junior class
of N. c. State College will be
resumed in Onslow County
within the next week, the first
field class since the beginning
Of World War III, DR.. ]. v. Hof-
mann, head of the college For
estry Department, announced
here.
Sixteen members of the jun
ior class, together with DR.. Hof-
mann and instructors, will COM
pose the field class. The In
struction area is on Cowhorn
branch about five miles north
east of Richards.
Mr.. Hofmann said that next
year between 80 and 100 STU
dents would be in the class
which will make the three
month field trip.