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Evening star., 1947-05-14
|Stofage Tanks Seen
Jas Cause Of Seepage
|0f Gas in Arlington

Storage tanks OF the Washington
Virginia q Maryland Coach Co. are
.'the most likely source" of gasoline
seepage in the Wilson boulevard and
North Pollard street region Of Arl-
ington County, the Geological Sur
vey of the Interior Department an
nounced today.
A report submitted to A. T. Lund-
berg, county manager, said the
gasoline Is believed to have accu-
mulated "over a period of several
years" from the nearby property OF
the bus company, which is known
as the Arnold Lines.
"To date" the report said, more
than 10000 gallons have been re-
moved from the three most heavily
contaminated wells, one of which
is still producing about so gallons a
day, according to Arlington County
officials.
Continuous pumping in the area
Of greatest gasoline concentration
will gradually remove the gasoline
from the ground - ="
Since the seepage was FIRST dis
covered in January, the county has
spent more than S., 900 for pumping
Acting County Manager A. =. Lupd-
berg revealed.
Only recently two families returned
to their homes after leaving the area
several months ago when the county
manager issued warning Of possible
danger due to the seepage.
Pumping operations are continuing
at the well at $40 North Pollard
street, the one that has yielded the
bulk OF the supply.
The Interior report said there
appeared to be no possibility that
more than trace of gasoline had
seeped under the Buckingham apart
ments."
Evening star., 1947-05-14
injured Man Dies, Raising
Friday Crash Toll 10 )

Hubert Jordan, "a, Conway, s. c..
died last night in Casualty Hospital
as result of injuries suffered Fri
day when the car in which he was
riding failed to make turn into
the Marlboro pike from Military
highway near Andrews Field, Md,
and struck an electric light pole.
Two other persons were killed in
the crash. They we're Miss Cath
crime De Razier, 26, Of 1923 Trini-
dad avenue NE, and Paul L. Hall.
rs, Mount Airy, s. c., listed by
police as the driver.
A fourth, Miss Vivian Singleton,
28. OF 1866 Meigs place NE, still
lis in Casualty with fractured left
hand and leg injuries.
Evening star., 1947-05-14
Montgomery Citizens
To Hear BUDGET Tufks

Brooke Johns, president of the
Board of Montgomery County Com
nissioners; Irving G. McNayr
county supervisor, and Alex Han.
cock, county controller, will discuss
the county budget at a meeting ol
the North Woodside-M Montgomery
Hill Citizens Association at 8 pm
Friday at the Woodlin School
Charter Heslep, program chairman
will introduce the speakers.
Evening star., 1947-05-14
|SfafIer Official Forecasts
|2O% Drop in Food Prices

John L. Hennessey, chairman Of
the board OF the Statler Hotels Corp.
believes wholesale food prices will
drop by about 20 per cent" within
from six to nine months.
In press conference yesterday at
the Hotel Statler here. concluding a
conference OF the hotel chains
supervising chefs, Mr.. Hennessey
said he expected increased food sup
plies would drive prices down"
Mr.. Hennessey said his corpora
tion's studies Of the luncheon pref
erences Of men customers showed
they recently were leaning toward
salads. light lunches and snacks."
As . result. the hotels were EN-
pIoying more women In food prep
aration because women excel In
salad making. he said.
They have q light touch" he
explained.
Evening star., 1947-05-14
|B' nal B. 'rifh Demand!
Immediate Opening
'0f Palestine 10 Jews

B'nai Birth, nearing the end d
its triennial national convention to-
4 day at the Hotel Statler. today
adopted a resolution asking that tht
doors OF Palestine be opened imme-
diately to unrestricted immigration
OF Jews.
The organization urged abroga-
tion OF the British white paper re-
stricting such immigration and re-
moyal of limitations to purchase OF
land in Palestine. Copies were sent
to President Truman, Secretary Of
state Marshall and both houses OF
Congress.
National officers were to be elected
later this afternoon.
The new president to be chosen will
succeed the late Henry Monsky
Present officers of the organiza-
ton are Frank Goldman. of Lowell,
Mass; Harry K. WoIn Of San Fran
cisco and A. B. Freyer of Shreve-
port, La, vice presidents; and Sid
ney g. Kusworm, Dayton, Ohio,
treasurer. The three vice presidents
have taken turns in acting as
chairman OF the meetings.
Equipment Given Hospitals.
B'nai Birth has contributed more
than 1,400 pieces Of equipment to
E131 veterans and military hospitals
in the United States and Canada,
A. B. Kapplin, director of the Post
war Service-Americanism Depart
ment, reported.
There are more than 200, 900 men
members in 812 B'nai Birth lodges
in the United States and Canada,
according to Harry Brager of Wash
ington, national membership direc-
tor. Mrs. Arthur G. Laufman OF
Chicago, national director Of wom-
ems activities, reported the women S
membership totaled more than
81, 900 in 466 chapters.
DR.. A.. L. Sachar, national Hillel
director, reported there are now 167
Hillel units on the college campuses
in the United States and Canada
Sixty-six of these are full-time
Hillel Foundations and 101 are
counselorships.
Lodges in FL Countries.
Maurice Bisgyersof Washington
secretary of B'nai Birth, reported
that lodges have been organized
and reorganized in n countries
throughout the world. He outlined
the organizations activity In col.
lecting relief supplies for ship.
ment overseas through the join
Distribution Committee.
Every time a citation is giver
B'nai Birth, every time an Office
of our organization is given a pos
on an official commission, every
time B'nai Birth is called on Il
participate in national program
it is because q service is being rell.
dered by the great mass Of oul
membership. We can only set III
the program. Theirs is the doing,
Mr.. Bisgyer said.
Evening star., 1947-05-14
SOCIETY AND GENERAL NEWS
WASHINGTON, D. @.
Horon Backs Any Teacher Raise
That Will Improve Education
District PTA Group
Approves Increases
At Convention

The pay raises called for in this
teachers pay bill now before con-
gressional committees were approved
by the District of Columbia Congress
of Parents and Teachers, meeting
today at the Departmental Audito-
rum for their 34th annual con-
vention.
The resolution said additional
funds would have to be added tc
the District budget to provide fol
the raises.
I'VE are convinced that the edu-
cational welfare of our children is
so important that the additional
cost should be borne by the tax
payers" the resolution stated.
The congress also passed resolu-
tions asking that smaller classes be
organized In the schools, that part
time classes be discontinued, that
money cut from the school budget
for construction be restored and
that additional funds be appro-
priated for additional doctors,
nurses and technicians in public
schools.
Mrs. Hankins Installed.
Mrs. o. G. Hankins, nominated
for another term as president with
out opposition, was installed this
morning Other officers named
were: Mrs. Andrew g. Weaver, first
vice president; Mrs. Leo Raywit
third vice president; Mrs. Wallace
N. Streeter, fifth vice president;
Miss Margaret Moore, seventh vice
president, and Mrs. Walter s. Beck
corresponding secretary.
The two-day convention viii close
at Z o'clock tonight with the annual
fellowship dinner at the Mayf1ower
Hotel.
Last night, panel representing
students, parents and professional
educationahsts, outlined require
ments OF the school curriculum to
meet present-day needs.
I'VE need more vocational training
in high schools" said Miss Betty
Jean livery, high school graduate
now working as secretary. I'VE
must get rid of the conception that
manual work is menial work"
TN high school, we need more
political science" Robert King,
Maryland University freshman said.
Needs of Students Are Not Met.
Mrs. c. H. Bennett, president of
the Gage School PTA, said the cur
riculum is not meeting the needs of
the students. She said children are
not being taught good study habits,
good working habits, responsibility
and dependability.
Dr.. E. B. Norton, deputy commits
sioner, United States Office of Edu-
cation, outlined four needs of the
present school curriculum. He said
the schools need guidance and
counseling service to assist students
to find themselves; a program for
life adjustment for those who were
not going to college; at least two
years of specialized education be-
yond the high school education now
offered In the public schools, and
public relations to interpret the
aims Of the schools W
George Aldridge, senior at Wilson
High School, contended too little
Is being done for physically handi-
capped students.
Evening star., 1947-05-14
|Pb|A Promises
Move 10 Better
|G5I Cafeterias
Lock Of Cooperation
On Sonitory Motters
Denied at Herring

A Public Buildings Administration
of1cial told Civil Service subcom-
|mittee today that delay In correct-
Ing sanitary conditions IN some
cafeterias In Federal buildings hers
has not been because we have been
unwilling to cooperate"
The witness, Charles A. Peters.
deputy commissioner for building
management. said estimates are now
In preparation to correct faults
found by the District Health De-
partment inspectors. but added:
aWe wanted to get q complete pic
ttre Of what was needed"
His testimony was in connection
with the subcommittee investigation
|of GSI, the corporation which
operates the cafeterias involved.
Senator Johnston, Democrat, Of
South Carolina presided due to the
Illness Of Chairman Baldwin, Re-
publican, OF Connecticut. Sessions
viii be resumed next Wednesday.
d. G. Complaint Cited.
Referring specifically to District
complaint against soundproofing in
parts OF the Post ONCE Building
cafeteria, Mr.. Peters told the sub
committee there is serious differ
ence Of opinion as to whether this
constitutes the health menace the
District believes it u.s."
1--WE at Public Buildings Admins
tration don't believe that II is" he
added, but he indicated that II funds
are provided, changes requested will
be made.
s The District is withholding action
on the licenses Of 43 GSI cafeterias
to give authorities time to seek
money to make the changes.
GAO Change Cited.
At one point in today's hearing Q
General Accounting ONCE attorney
charged GSI with using different
profit figures In dealing with the
Government on separate occasions.
John Wood. the attorney, told the
subcommittee that in reporting its
profit on the East Potomac, Park
tuorist camp, the corporation
charged off depreciation in arriving
at the amount to be split with the
Government. When the Army ap-
preached the corporation on taking
over the camp for military use, how
ever, Mr.. Wood indicated, suggesting
an annual compensation of $2,400.
GSI off1cials used the full profit
figure in the discussions without
deducting depreciation.
This brought a sharp denial from
corporation officials who said the
record would show they had offered
the tourist camp to the Army for
nothing.
Evening star., 1947-05-14
Army Generals Wife, s., Busy With Career
Now Hopes to Conquer in Field Of Writing
Mrs. Fox Conner
Composes. Writes and
Does Own Housework
By Harriet Griffiths

| When one is nearly 10, has lived
ithe eventfuI life of an Army gem
erals wife and IS the grandmother
lof nine, she might excusably sit
back and enjoy life In retrospect.
But for Mrs. Fox Conner, looking
ahead Is what spells the difference
between age and youth. At SO, she
has too many interests in the pre-
sent and future to spend her time
Irefecting on the past.
Mrs. Conner studies the violin,
lcomposes music, writes and does her
own housework In the apartment
where she and Maj. Gen. Conner,
retired, live at 1916 New Hampshire
Iavenue NV. And it takes her own
frank admission that she will be
10 next December to belle her ap-
pearance of being much younger.
She "Knows How It Is
For her first interview in my
own right and not as my husbands
wife" Mrs. Conner had prepared
Eby typing out few facts about
herself $50 you won't have to take
Iso many notes." she told the re-
porter.
I've studied newspaper writing,
and know how it is, she explained
She began correspondence
school course in writing when she
was go. At 81, she sold story to
la magazine. She intends to sell
some more. Right now she is look
ing for. suitable publisher for q
children's story she has written and
had illustrated. She would like to
have it in book form. mainly for her
grandchildren.
It isn't that Mrs. Conner is fooling
herself about the physical limita-
tions that accompany advancing age.
She anticipates them. For instance,
she plans to study piano next winter
$50 that she can continue her COM
posing when my ear is no longer
accurate"
Began Violin at Nine.
She began the violin when she was
nine; now practices about two hours
q day, takes a lesson every week and
feels she plays better than ever
have" She says her technique is
limited, "but I'm bursting with
musical feeling" Her violin is
much -prized Nicholaus Amati.
She has never tried to publish her
music but has played some of it in
concerts. She has performed at
Symphony Hall in Boston, for
church services, for the Colonial
Danes, and recently for the Chris
tian Business Girls of Washington.
Once she played for the prisoners
At Sing Sing.
"The convicts,' she quipped,
couldn't walk out. They had to
stay.s
Mrs. Conner took up the study of
harmony when she was ~ and pass
ed an examination, but before she
could go on to composition and
counterpoint, her husbands orders
took them to Panama.
- Background for Writing.
"That was the way 1t was, being
In the Army" she said. AS soon
as I'd get started on anything, we'd
move" But living In Hawaii, Pafa-
ma, Cuba and Alaska has given her
q good background for her writing,
she feels.
She believes in planning and saw
ing for the future. She enjoyed
great deal of attention while Gen.
Conner was chief of operations for
Gen. John j. Pershing in France
and holding other high posts, but
even then she remembered that
some day wed be retired and down
from on top OF the world she said.
I'm thankful / look into the fu-
ture and don't worry about. the
past" she said smilingly.
Evening star., 1947-05-14
ISenote Gets Nomination

President Truman sent to the
Senate yesterday the nomination of
Frank A. Beachley to be postmaster
at Braddock Heights, Md.
Evening star., 1947-05-14
Burroughs School Leads
Section in Paper Collection

The Burroughs School Papertroop-
ers, with collection Of 2, 100 pounds
of old newspapers and magazines.
led schools in the second district OF
The Evening Star-PTA paper sal
wage campaign yesterday. The days
total was 13,840 pounds.
The other collections included
Brookland, sos pounds; woodbridge,
1878 pounds, Bunker Hill, $50
pounds: Noyes, 1,228 pounds; Lang
don. 1,532 pounds: Davis, 1,203
pounds; Thomas, $50 pounds; Cham
|berlain, 373 pounds; Morse, $50
pounds; Thomson, 1.01e pounds;
lexington, 1,24S pounds, and Gage,
740 pounds.
The schedule for collection in the
fourth district tomorrow together
with the leaders Is as follows:
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Evening star., 1947-11-07
Army Can Keep Bread
Fresh 6 Months, Make
Dried Eggs Pa|atabIe

Those dehydrated eggs which were
the bane of the CTS existence dur
ing the war may be much more
palatable in the future.
The Army's Quartermaster Corps
announced yesterday it had discov-
cred new egg -dehydrating process
to make hitherto unpalatable dried
eggs taste hen-fresh a year later,
as well as method of wrapping
bread that will keep it fresh at least
six months. The loaves are baked
by new formula and packaged in
aluminium fof1, plastic and paper
wrapper.
An exhibit of the new process
type eggs and bread marked the es-
tablishment Of the Associates of the
Food and Container Institute to fur
ther cooperation among industry,
schools and the Quartermaster
Corps in the development of emer-
gency rations.
Since hungry people follow the
hand that feeds them," food Is the
real atomic power in the theological
war of the moment" Clarence
Francis, chairman of the board of
General Foods Corp, told the more
than 400 persons attending the
meeting at the Hotel Statler.
Need for the continuous co-opera-
ton of government, educational in
stitutions and private industry in
the field Of food research to met
any crisis also was stressed by lead
ers of all the groups during the in
stitute's banquet.
Following his theme Mr.. Francis
pointed out that even the firmest
convictions collapse when a man
sees his wife and family starving
before him.
Institute Commended.
Franklyn B. Snyder, president of
Northwestern University. lauded the
establishment of the institute at this
time when the production and dis
tribution of food has become one of
the greatest of all world problems
The group is headed by Col.
Charles S. Lawrence, commanding
officer of the Food and ,Container
Institute of the Army Quartermaster
Corps in Chicago. Displays of man.
ufacturing groups showing Army
product development and research
recommendations were exhibited to
the public at the hotel during the
day.
Morris Sayre Is Toastmaster.
Morris Sayre, president of the
Corn Products Refining Co. of New
York, was POSTMASTER at the ban
quet. John L. Hennessy, chairman
Of the board of the Hotels Statler,
Co., Inc, was chairman of the
Dinner Committee.
Among others present were Harry
]. Williams, vice president of Wilson
& Co. and chairman of the board
of the institute; DR.. r. E. Buchanan,
director of the Agricultural Expert
ment Station, Iowa State College;
Thomas E. Wilson, chairman of the
board of Wilson & Co.; Maj. Gen.
T. 3. Larkin, the quartermaster gen.
eral; Arthur s. Barrows, Undersec-
retary for Air; DR.. c. G. King,
scientific director of the Nutrition
Foundation; Alexander F. Jones,
assistant to the publisher of the
Washington Post, and Brother John
OF st. Johns College. 8 p
Evening star., 1947-11-07
Drought in Wheat Belt
Kills Producers Hope
For Normal '& Crop
Bye. M. Harqer
North American Newspaper Alliones

Norm American newspaper AIltdnee
KANSAS CITY, Nov. with the
date of favorable wheat seeding
nearly two months past, the wheat
belt of Oklahoma, Western Kansas,
parts of the Panhandle and South
ern Nebraska has given up hope
of even a normal crop next year.
If miracle weather comes, if the
winter is favorable, If spring -sown
wheat matures-these are the ifs.
Since early July only scattered
showers have fallen, the fields are
windblown, most seed already plant
ed lies unsprouted. About 2,500,000
acres of virgin sod have been turned
over, thus increasing the dust-bowl
hazard. Federal reports say that
not more than half the land is plant
ed and that only 10 per cent has
sprouted. A by-product, grazing
for cattle, is affected. Few herds
will be wheat field fed this winter
over the entire wheat belt.
The bonanza crop this year, when
producers with high yields and the
highest prices since the '20's made
enough to pay for the land in one
season, is an old story now. The
gamble is now ended In the wheat
belt are stored about 100000 bu-
shells waiting for So bushel-may-
be more. Even 81 is visioned if for
eign shipments continue and the
country's surplus falls to low figures.
Farmer Takes a Chance.
So most producers, realizing the
high cost of seeding, both in labor
and seed, are mostly waiting and
have not yet planted their fields.
The already harvested crop is the
basis of speculation. Borrowing on
warehouse receipts, the farmer takes
a chance--he may make a killing
when wheat goes still higher. Per-
haps the Government will bid up
or it might compel sale. That is
a chance the producer must take.
Country banks, loaded with deposits,
are glad to handle the paper-es-
pecially as the rate Is higher than
they can obtain from commercial
loans or Government securities.
The wheat gamble is aided by
new projects developed by the in
yestment' of absentee landlords and
their huge acreages. This year has
come into action custom blowing
following custom harvesting, now
common. With a collection of plows
and tractors, the operators go from
field to field, turning over the soil
Of hundreds of acres a day. John
Kriss, the premier wheat farmer of
Western Kansas, with some approx
imately $4,000 acres and nearly
10000 bushels yield this year,
says custom tillage is growing.
Flowing Cost Is Up.
This system" he says, "is q
larger business than it was three
years ago. Combining ordinarily
costs SO an acre, though this year
it cost more-as much as 20 to IS
cents a bushel, because so much
wheat was down on account of
storms. Custom plowing costs 81
an acre, though some farmers have
paid $1.25. The advantage is that
the landowner does not have to
buy costly machinery. He can have
his land plowed and the crop har-
vested at a price. Scores Of large
operators have been moving across
the wheat belt from Oklahoma to
Nebraska tilling the fields. The pos
sibilities of speculation in wheat
are thus enhanced and become
merely guess on the weather"
| Merchants say that producers are
Evening star., 1947-11-07
St. EIizabeths Patient Found
Dead With Throat SIashed

A 68-year- -old st. Elizabeths Hos
pital patient died this morning
shortly after he had been found in
a hospital ward bed with his throat
slashed.
Police identified the man as Eli
phait Hopkins and said he had been
patient at st. Elizabeths since
1910. He was found by Robert
Daley, an attendant, at 6:45 am.
and pronounced dead 18 minutes
later by a hospital physician.
Police said Mr.. Hopkins throat
apparently was cut by a razor and
that there were no suspicious cir
cumstances. The body will be turned
over to a brother, John Hopkins Of
1920 Holbrook street NE A certif1-
cate of death has not yet been issued.
Evening star., 1947-11-07
Commodity Prices
Continue Upward, but
Hogs Edge Lower
BY the Associated Press

The upward price trend continued
in early trading today at many
major commodity markets, but hog
prices edged lower.
On the upgrade at Chicago were
all grains and most butter and egg
futures and in New York cotton
futures opened to 35 cents a bale
higher.
However, pork prices, which
slipped rs cents to 81 hundred
pounds at the Chicago stockyards
yesterday in response to heavy re-
ceipts, were steady to Is cents lower
at most markets today. The top
today was $2525 at Chicago, with
the bulk of sales $24.75 to $25.15.
Aided by early holiday shopping
and cooler weather, retails sales of
commodities were moderately higher
in the week ended Wednesday COM
pared with the previous week, Dun
& Bradstreet reported.
On the Chicago Board of Trade,
wheat for future delivery was az
to 3$ cents higher near the end of
the first hour, December quoted at
1926. Corn was y to ~ higher,
December, $2.31, and oats were 70 to
11s higher, December, $1.14h.
Senator Flanders, Republican, of
Vermont, who headed a Congress
sioflal subcommittee investigating
high costs In the East, said, mean
While, that meat rationing is the
only way he knows of checking high
prices. He said in a interview at
Springfield, VT, that meat was "the
keystone to the whole food struc-
ture" and expressed the belief meat
rationing could be effective without
price controls. Rationing. he said,
would keep demand in line
Wholesale butter and egg prices
were unchanged at Chicago, cattle
were steady to slightly lower and
sheep prices were unchanged.
Evening star., 1947-11-07

against it, but such action is pos
sible. It means q revolt on the part
of the producers who have built up
hopes OF a continuance of high
prices. AS the market goes through
a constant whirl Of values, the pro-
ducers listen to the radio and won
der If the top has been reached:
but generally they believe that bet
ter prices are yet to come.
They know that any price fixing
would be at distinctly lower figure
than they are now obtaining. They
look at Canada, where the govern
ment buys all the wheat at $l.55
a bushel, and shudder. The great
wheat gamble is in their blood, and
they propose to make 1t permanent.
1t is the most fascinating adven-
ture of the Western plains.