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Evening star., 1947-06-27
FSA ignored in Plea for Removal
OF Social Security Building Art

Another controversy over Govern
ment art has arisen in washington.
Murals in the Social Security Build
ing at Fourth street and Independ-
ence avenue are involved.
Little acrimony has developed,
however. And it appears disagree
ment over the pictures probably will
not reach the proportions of the
dispute over painting of the circus
fat lady and other pictures in the
collection the State Department as
sembled to exhibit in foreign coun-
tries.
Last month the Federal Security
Administration wrote the Public
Buildings Administration that there
had been a good deal Of criticism
of the murals by Ben Shahn in the
lobby of the Social Security Build
ing. The FSA asked that considera-
tion be given to changing the pic
lures to something more appropri-
ate. Leo l.. Miller, executive assist
ant to the administrator of FSA,
signed the letter.
The Public Buildings Administra-
ton made no formal reply but has
given FSA to understand 1t doesn't
plan to do anything.
Mr.. Miller indicated yesterday he
Evening star., 1947-06-27
Hundreds Attend Sale
OF 1O2 Head of Cattle
Al Gaithersburg

A total of 102 head of cattle,
valued at about $4,000, and ap-
proXimately $4,000 worth of dairy
equipment owned by the late Clay
Plummer, former Montgomery
County sheriff, and Marvin Bur-
dette, Browningsville (Md1 farmer
was sold yesterday in one of the
largest auctions ever held in the
county.
The sale was held on the 300-acre
G aith ers burg farm of County
Treasurer John B. Diamond, who
had rented the farm to Mr.. Plum
mer and Mr.. Burdette.
Several hundred farmers from
Frederick and Montgomery Counties
arriving by automobile, truck and
in one case by airplane, bought the
cattle and equipment in five hours
of bidding.
The airplane was used by B. D
Gladhill, owner of a 1,30O-acre dairy
farm at Browningsville, who landed
in nearby field. He was among
the crowd of which milled about
the large dairy barns during the
afternoon to inspect the 81 Guernsey
and Holstein COWS and five Holstein
bulls on sale.
Largest buyer was G. B. Stevens
owner of Frederick Farms, who
bought IA cows for more than $4,000
The auctioneer was John w. Null
56, of Frederick, who has been
auctioneering in the two counties
for 40 wears,
Evening star., 1947-06-27
New Yorker Is Fined
S180 in Drunk Cases

A proclaimed minister yester-
Day was fined $180 in Hyattsville
Police Court on charges resulting
from two arrests Tuesday night while
under the influence of liquor.
John T. McClennan, 54, colored.
Of New York City, visitor in the
Washington area, paid fines of $50
for driving while drunk, $25 for
reckless driving and $5 for being
drunk and disorderly.
He was arrested first by Takoma
Park police after colliding with an
other automobile, ariven by Lewis
E. Turner of 1908 Hammond avenue.
Takoma Park, who was attempting
to make a left turn from New
Hampshire avenue, near the East
West highway.
A short while later, while being
booked in the county police station
in Hyattsville, he allegedly became
abusive and claimed immunity be-
cause of his status as minister.
Hyattsville town police then brought
the drunk and disorderly charges.
In another case, Clyde w. Sharp,
81, of the 1900 block of Lawrence
street NE, was fined 500 for speed
ing in excess of 10 miles per hour
on the Muirkirk stretch of the
Washington Baltimore boulevard on
June 18.
Maryland State Trooper Alvin
Robbins told the court he followed
the speeding car from just south of
Laurel to Beltsville before making
the arrest.
Evening star., 1947-06-27
Two CoImar Manor
Men File for Election

Residents of Colmar Manor, Md,
will elect mayor and two council
men in balloting in the Prince
Georges County community July g.
Two candidates, both incumbents,
were the only ones to submit their
names for the three Offices before
the deadline at midnight last Sun
day.
Seeking reelection are Mayor
John N. Torvestad, who has been in
the same ottice for the past IL years
and was a councilman for four years
previously, and Andrew c. Tackitt,
for his fourth term as third ward
councilman. Both are unopposed.
Write-in votes will be necessary
to elect to the first ward council
seat, according to Mrs. Edith F.
Dare, chairman of election judges in
the town. The present Office holder,
Councilman Joseph Terenyi, failed
to file before the deadline.
Voting will take place from noon
until 9 pm. in the Colmar Manor
Town Hall. About $50 residents, in
cluding some Is who were added
during registrations last Thursday
and Friday, are eligible to cast
ballots.
Two other councilmen, Robert v.
Yost of the second ward, and Harry
w. Hill of the fourth ward, have
another year to serve. All positions
are for tWo-year terms,
Evening star., 1947-06-27
S1,776,OOO Arlington
Bond Sale Authorized

The Arlington County School
Board has authorized Superinten-
dent Fletcher Kemp to make
arrangements for the sale of $1,776,-
900 worth of bonds which were
voted in the May 81 referendum
The bonds, proceeds of which
must be used for elementary school
construction, were the only ones
authorized when a vote was taken
on a proposal for $6,000000 for
schools and s5,150,000 for public
works.
The school board also awarded
to the Lee T. Turner Co. contracts
for additions to the Stonewall
Jackson and Woodlawn Elementary
Schools, totaling S232 ,934.
The jobs, if awarded separately
would have cost $163,973 for the
Jackson School and s69,661 for the
Woodlawn School, or a total OF
S233, ,634.
Six classrooms. library. a multi
purpose room and new toilet facili-
ties will be constructed at Stonewall
Jackson. Three classrooms and q
multipurpose room will be built
at Woodlawn.
In addition, a new heating plant
will be installed in Stonewan Jack
son and the heating plant at Wood
lawn will be repaired.
Evening star., 1947-06-27
Loudoun5BiIIs West Virginia
County $500 for Pea Inquest

duty through a mutual agreement
with the coroner of the adjoining
county. The charge also covers
work done at Leesburg in identifying
the bodies, DR.. Frazer said.
RICHMOND, Va, June 81 Pl.-
The Jurisdiction of a coroner in
Virginia extends only to the limits
of the county or city for which he
is appointed, Attorney General A.
P. Staples ruled today.
In an opinion requested by DR..
Herbert S. Breyfogle, the States
chief medical examiner, the attor-
ney general gave answers as to
specific circumstances where a
coroner might be called, and said
that the determining factor as to
the jurisdiction of the coroner is
the place where the death occurs. :"
This" Mr.. Staples said, altered
the previous act under which, if it
appeared that an injury received in
some other county caused the death,
the coroner of such other county
would be called.
DR.. Breyfogle also inquired as to
what determines the source of a
coroner's fee after he takes charge
and makes an investigation. In
reply, the attorney general cited
a section of the code, which states
that for each investigation, includ-
ing making of required reports, a
coroner shall receive a fee of $40.
this to be paid by the county or city
for which he is appointed"
"As a coroner can only make such
investigation when the death occurs
in his city or county," MIR Staples
added. then the place of death
does, in effect. determine the source
of the fees"
Evening star., 1947-06-27

Get Rent Raises
In n6,644Cases
Tenants in Five States
Get No Opportunity
To Oppose Petitions
BY the Associated Press

NEW YORK, June 27.-The
regional Office of rent control said
today it had granted 6,644 rent
increases in the last four months in
five-State area, which includes
Maryland, without giving tenants
opportunity to oppose landlord petit
tions because "the income and ex-
pense figures submitted by the land
lord must be treated as confidential
by this Office"
An official said the average in
creases amounted to $4.40 a month.
All increases were for multiple
dwelling units, the. spokesman said.
Letters explaining why tenants
were not given an opportunity to
oppose landlord petitions accom-
panied notices of increases. The
spokesman said the tenant was still
protected" adding:
"If there has been any drastic
curtailment of service the tenant
may go to his area rent office and
certify to that"
The regional Office administers
the States of New York, New
Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland and
Delaware.
Evening star., 1947-06-27
Planes, Passengers Examined
For Hitch-Hikinq Jap Beetles

stopping only trucks to check ship
ments that might be infested.
On bright. sunny days, when the
beetles are most likely to be active,
the inspectors will check the clothing
and luggage of passengers and spray
the fuselage and baggage compart-
ments of departing airplanss, 1t was
said.
In some instances, the beetles have
been found as far west as Kansas
on planes from the East. The in
tested area extends roughly through
New England, as far south as Mary
land and Virginia and as far west
as Central Ohio.
The Agriculture Department this
year will repeat its campaign to
eradicate beetles from grassy areas
of National Airport by spraying DDT
from a special truck, 1t was said.
Evening star., 1947-06-27
Special oispotch TO The stor

CHARLES TOWN, w. Va, June
27.-The Loudoun County Va)
commissioners. have presented
claim to neighboring Jefferson
County in West Virginia for $500
to cover expenses of certifying the
deaths Of the so victims of Capt.
tai Airlines plane crash in the noun
tains in Jefferson County on
June 13.
The crash occurred just over the
border between the two counties
and which county it was in was
not determined until some hours
after location of the wreckage.
The claim was received yesterday
by commissioners of the West Vlr-
ginia county. They said that any
claim was without basis as the
crash occurred within the jurisdic-
ton Of West Virginia and not Vir-
ginia. The Jefferson County prose-
cutting attorney has advised against
payment of the claim, which is based
on a fee of $40 for each person
killed. The $40 fee is double that
permitted under West Virginia law
The jefferson County commits
sioners did approve payment Of
mileage for Dr. G. P. Morrison, jeff
erson coroner. to and from the scene
of the crash and his SIS charge for
one inquest.
The coroner Of Loudoun County,
DR.. w P. Frazer. explained he was
called to the scene of the crash to
certify the death of the passengers
before the bodies could be removed
to Leesburg. Va.
| DR.. Frazer said he made the climb
iup the mountain to perform this
Evening star., 1947-06-27

county for nine years, gained promi-
nence last year when he waged a
successful campaign with the County
Board, Federal authorities and bus
companies to have buses rerouted
off South Orrne street near the Navy
Annex building.
Served in Pacific
A Navy veteran, Mr.. Smith served
20 months as a communications Of
ficer aboard a small aircraft car
rier in the Pacific. He saw action
at Saipan, Guam, Tinian, Leyte
Gulf, Lingayen Gulf and Okinawa.
Mr.. Smith was born in Georgia
and received his elementary and
secondary education there. He was
graduated from Lincoln Memorial
University in Tennessee and studied
law at George Washington Uni
versity. He is a member of the Vir-
ginia bar and has been admitted
to practice before the Virginia Su-
preme Court of Appeals.
Mr.. Smith is president of the
Patrick Henry Parent Teacher As
sociation and the Columbia Pike
Citizens Association and is a dele
gate from the latter group to the
Arlington Civic Federation. He is
a member of Delta Theta Phi legal
fraternity, the Arlington Better
Government League and the Ameri-
can Legion.
Married and the father of g.
year-old daughter, Mr. Smith lives
at BIT South Orme street.
The county board race will be on
a nonpartisan basis since the Demo-
crates and Republicans have agreed
not to indorse candidates.
Evening star., 1947-06-27
Prince Georges Chest Head
Urqes Drives Be Merqed

A united campaign to support
county welfare and civic projects,
instead of several different drives,
was urged today by George G. Cook,
president of the Prince Georges
County Community Chest and Plan
ming Council.
Mr.. Cook declared the primary
purpose of the Community Chest is
"to provide the means of efficient
and economical raising of funds to
support properly conducted county
wide voluntary organizations in one
annual campaign"
It's goal, he continued, is ito elm
mate as many separate campaigns
as possible so that eventually our
citizens will be asked to give only
once each year and the energies of
voluntary workers will not be dissi-
pated in several fund-raising efforts.
I'VE believe this is good commu-
nifty planning and in the long run
benefits every one" he said.
Evening star., 1947-06-27
7Defeated Candidates
Cleared in Baltimore
On Expense Charges
BY the Associoted Press

BALTIMORE, June 27.-Seven
Democratic candidates
for the city council were acquitted
yesterday of charges that they vio-
lated the Corrupt Practices Act by
failing to file statement of con-
tributions and expenses in last
April's primary elections.
Judge Michael j. Manley returned
the verdict questioning Circuit Court
Clerk Henry Rippenberger.
Mr.. Rippenberger said there was
always difficulty" In getting candi-
dates to file their campaign state
ments on particularly defeat
ed candidates.
Asked if he ever before had
turned the names of the tardy over
to the States attorney, Mr.. Rippen-
berger said, NO
why pick on these?" asked Judge
Manley.
Mr.. Rippenberger hesitated.
You don't have to answer that
question" said the judge.
Il prefer not to-" said Mr.. Rip
penbergsr.
The defendants had a variety of
excuses. Albert B. Carozza said he
had an operation just after the
primary. Joseph Francis Lucke said
he had been ill and there was a
death in the family about election
time. Another said he had head
aches, eye trouble and had to go to
the hospital Still another pointed
out that he was only two days late
and had been overworked at the
time.
The Corrupt Practices Act has
been a part of Maryland election
law since 1908, but court attaches
said these were the first prosecu-
tions brought under it in Baltimore.
Judge Manley asked how many
candidates there were in last Aprils
primaries and was told 1873.
Seven out of 133," he said. 'fNot
a bad percentage. I bet that's bet
ter than in some other elections
we've had. The verdict is not guilty
in all cases."
Evening star., 1947-06-27

With the peak of the japanese
beetle season expected in the next
10 days, Agriculture Department in
spectors already have begun check
ing airplanes. passengers and lug
gage at National Airport to stop the
pests from 'hitch-hiking" to un-
infested areas.
The inspectors have been placed
at the busiest airports throughout
the Northeast, where the beetles are
now emerging from the ground. 1t
was pointed out that airplanes are
likely means of distribution because
they take off from airports whose
grassy areas are likely to be thickly
infested.
The usual highway inspection sta
tions have been placed locally this
year only on trunk highways leading
to the South, and the inspectors are
Evening star., 1947-06-27
ParoIee Sent 10 Jail
By Rockville Court
In Attack on Girl, 10
(From Yesterdov's Last Edition. J

From Yesterdays Last Edttton.)
Dennis B. Mcdaniel, 45, Avendel,
Md, was held for grand jury action
in Rockville Police Court today on
a charge Of rape. 'E
Trial Magistrate Alger Y. Barbee
ordered Mcdaniel to the Rockville
jail after rejecting a request that he
be released on bond.
Mcdaniel, who, Montgomery
County police said, has been on
parole after serving 10 years of a
15-year sentence in the Atlanta
Penitentiary for bank robbery, is
accused of criminally assaulting a
16-year-old girl May % near her
Kensington home. He did not tes-
tify at today's hearing.
The girl told Judge Barbee she
accepted McDaniel's offer to take
her home in his car after she left
work at a Silver Spring drugstore.
She said he drove about half a
mile past her home, parked the car
and attacked her. She said he
then drove within a few blocks of
her home and let her out.
Under cross-examination by De-
fense Attorney James H. Pugh, the
girl said she screamed when Nc
Daniel refused to stop at her home,
but admitted she had not resisted
because I was afraid he would hurt
me-"
In response to another question
by Mr.. Pugh the girl said Mcdaniel
had not threatened her
DR.. Harold Kelly of the Wash
ington Sanitariurn, Takoma Park,
testified he had examined the girl
and found no bruises on her body.
He said there was a small scratch
on her left leg.
Evening star., 1947-06-27
Trash Dumping in County
Brings $50 Maximum Fine

A District man was fined $50 and
costs in Hyattsville Police Court
yesterday on charges of dumping
trash Illegally in Prince Georges
County.
Imposing the maximum fine for
the offense, Trial Magistrate Arthur
P. Owens declared, TITS time we set
an example for persons trying to
dump trash where they re not sup
posed to-"
The decision, however, was ap-
pealed by the convicted man, James
r. Savage. "a, a radio repairman of
the $500 block of Seventeenth street
NE. AS a result, his collateral of
$3.50 was ordered continued until
a further hearing comes up before
the County Circuit Court.
County Police Pvt. Arnett w.
Cord testified Mr.. Savage was caught
dumping the trash from his panel
body truck off the Defense highway,
near Landover Hills, on June II.
Evening star., 1947-06-27
Arlington League Plans
Caucus on School Board

The Arlington Better Government
League has voted to participate in
a caucus of Arlington organizations
which will nominate candidates for
the County School Board. Date of
the caucus has not been set.
A list of general qualifications
for school board members also has
been approved by the league. The
organizations executive committee
was authorized to appoint delegates
to the caucus.
The following precinct committee
men have been elected by the league:
William Day, T. Oscar Smith, Mrs.
Emily Fine, Mrs. Sue Accardo, Lem
Banks. Earl Gilkey, Mrs. James E.
Rice, Charles L. Knight, Oliver
Brown, Grant Clark, H. H. Howe,
Julian Simpson, Mrs. Beatrice
Smythe, Frank Marshall, Thomas
McCabe, Malcolm D. Miller, Richard
w. White, Nathan Maccoby, Carl
Sorg, Albert A. Carretta, Victor
Meyers, Fred Campbell, Lester Con-
ley, Laurence Knappen.
Evening star., 1947-06-27
Mckee Is Appointed
Maryland Pollution
Board Secretary
BY the Associated Press

BALTIMORE, June 27.-Paul w.
Mckee Of Annapolis was named
executive secretary of the newly
formed Maryland Water Pollution
Control Commission at Its first
meeting yesterday.
Mr.. McKee's selection was an
nounced by Chairman Joseph H.
McLain. The new executive secre-
tary served in the same post on
the temporary committee on water
pollution.
Mr.. Mckee said the commission
plans to survey all bodies of water
in the State In an effort to estab-
lish standard minimum require
ments for purity.
The survey would be conducted
in cooperation with existing State
agencies, which have pledged their
cooperation in an all-out drive to
|decontaminate Maryland's polluted
streams.
Present at yesterdays session to
help outline the decentralization
program were DR.. v. L, Truitt, head
of the Department OF Research and
Education; DR.. Robert H. Riley, di-
rector of the State Department OF
Health, John E. Clark, chairman OF
the Board of Natural Resources;
George Hall, chief sanitary engineer
of the State Health Department;
Frank c. Wachter and Walter F.
Perkins.
Several measures to prevent pol
luton were planned by the COM
mission. These include:
L. Investigation of methods used
in neighboring States to cope with
the pollution problem.
| 2. Cooperation with industria,
concerns and municipalities in ef-
fecting sanitary disposal of waste
matter. I ~
3. Enlistment of aid from research
institutes which have been working
on the problem.
Evening star., 1947-06-27

would like to forget about the pic
lures.
A spokesman for the PBA said it
was "one of those things" and a
tempest in a teapot" Take any
picture" he said. Some people
like it, some don't. But we don't
want to get into fight with F'SA.'
At the same time, art circles in
New York are pursuing policy of
watchful waiting. They are up
holding Mr.. Shahn and the murals.
Mrs. Ruth Thorne, assistant to the
director of information of the FSA,
said that since the Social Security
Building now houses the Public
Health Service, the Office of Educa-
tion and the Food and Drug Admin
istration. the pictures are inappro-
pirate. The original intention was
that the building be occupied only by
the Social Security Board, she said.
The murals were designed to rep
resent the needy for whom the So
cial Security Act provides public
assistance, she said. She added
but specified this was her opinion
and not the official position of the
agency-that the people in the pic
lures "are in poor circumstances and
look quite pathetic"
Evening star., 1947-06-27
Thirty Petitions Granted
In Silver Spring Area

The Rent Control Administrator
Office at Silver Spring said that this
month approximately 80 petitions
of landlords for rent increases be-
cause OF hardship had been
handled in this area.
In each case the records Of the
landlord we're checked carefully by
accountants and no gdesswork was
done, the Office said. Not single
complaint from a tenant has been
received because of the increases"
spokesman for the Office COM
mented.
Tenants of a large apartment
house in Silver Spring, Spring
Knobs, Inc; were to receive notices
of increases today under such
petition, the spokesman said. AZ
fected will be Al units, most Of
them containing five rooms, with
all services furnished by the land
lord.
Both landlords and tenants re-
ceive notice of the increase at the
same time and there is no oppor-
tunity for the tenant to fight the
action before it is granted. Letters
explaining the method of arriving
at the increases and explaining why
tenants were not notified of the
landlords petition for increases ac-
company all final notices, the
spokesman said.
Evening star., 1947-06-27
Natural Resources Board
In Maryland 10 Meet
BY the Associated Press

ANNAPOLIS, June 27.-Mary-
lands fishing and hunting license
system and progress in the six
year conservation plan will be dis
cussed at a special meeting of the
Board of Natural Resources July
and 8.
The session will be held aboard
the State yacht Potomac and at the
Chesapeake Laboratory at Solomons.
John E. Clark, chairman of the
Tidewater Fisheries Commission,
will be in charge.
Officials of the other natural re-
sources departments have been in
vited to the meeting. These in
clude Tidewater fisheries. game and
inland fish, geology, mines and
water resources, research and edu-
cation and forests and parks.
The group will board the yacht
here at noon July 7, proceed to
Solomon's and leave there at noon
the following day.
Evening star., 1947-06-27
Motorists Warned of Work
On Baltimore Boulevard

Prince Georges County and Hy-
attsville police today advised motor
lists of the District area to avoid
temporarily the Washington-Balti-
more boulevard, when possible,
while sections of the road from the
District line to College Park are be-
ing resurfaced.
The biggest traffic jam, 1t is re-
ported, is caused within the town of
Hyattsville where Bladensburg road
and Rhode Island avenue traffic
merge.
Cars were lined up for several
miles yesterday, while police at
tempted to untangle the tie-up, par
ticularly at the Rhode Island avenue
approach to the Hyattsville viaduct
over the Baltimore & Ohio Rail
road.
Suggested by-passes for north
bound traffic are New Hampshire
avenue or Riggs road to the Uni
versity lane: Michigan avenue and
Queens Chapel road to the boule-
ward at College Heights, and De-
fense highway and Edmonston road
to either Riverdale road or Green
belt road.
The work, which has been under
way for the past few weeks, is sched-
uled to be completed soon.