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Evening star., 1947-01-13
D. {. Attorneys Pigeon
Wins Grand Champion

A pigeon owned by Elisha Han.
son, Washington attorney and gen.
eral counsel for the American News.
paper Publishers Association, yes.
terday won the grand championship
in the first national show sponsored
by the Baltimore Pigeon Fanciers
Association In Baltimore.
The bird, an oriental frill COCK
pigeon, was judged champion after
he had also won best-of -breed hon.
ors. Another Hanson entry, a pow
dered silver fantail, won In its di-
vision.
Mr.. Hanson lives at 9401 Old
GEORGETOWN road, Bethesda.
Evening star., 1947-01-13
Berkeley Springs Lions
Plan Washington Shrine
SpeeioI Dispatch 10 The S,cr

SpetIot UtsPdieh 70 ms SioT
BERKELEY SPRINGS, w. Va,
Jan. ia shrine in honor OF
George Washington, who frequently
visited the springs here in what was
then known as the Towne of Bath,
is planned by the Lions Club.
Present plans are to construct a
building similar to one built for
Washington by James Rumsey,
which is described in Washington's
diary. /.
Evening star., 1947-01-13
Maryland Artillery Unit
Being Mustered In Today
By the kssoeiated Press

WESTMINSTER, Md, Jan. 13.-
Battery C, 10th Field Artillery
Battalion, Maryland National Guard,
was to be mustered into the serv-
ice OF the State today at the West
minister Armory.
The unit will be inspected by q
staff officer from I'd Army head
quarters for Federal recognition.
Evening star., 1947-01-13
HuIIeck to Speak

BALTIMORE, Jan. 13 R. R.-Repre-
sentative HaIleck, Republican, OF In
diana, House majority leader, win
sneak at the nth annual Lincoln
Day dinner planned here February
II by the Alexander Hamilton Club
Of Maryland, President Leland Rock
well announced.
Evening star., 1947-01-13
Investigation Pushed
In DeraiIment Of
Train Near Fairfax

Officials of the Southern Railway
System, said today their investiga-
ton of the derailment of the
streamliner Tennesseean at Burke
Va, Saturday, which resulted in the
death of an 18-year-old girl, had
not been completed and that nc
report can be made as yet.
At the same time they said that
the wreckage, about 5 miles from
Fairfax, was cleared early yesterday
and the 600 feet of rail ripped up
repaired.
Funeral services for Miss Eliza
beth Breeden, will be held tomorrow
afternoon at Orange, Va. The
daughter OF P. r. Breeden, a South
ern Railway employe, and Mrs.
Breeden, she was waiting to board
a local train to visit her grand
mother, Mrs. Gilbert Breeden, in
Orange when struck by piece Of
the ripped rails.
Mr.. Breeder said his daughters s
body will be placed aboard the same
local train tomorrow morning for
which she was waiting Saturday
when killed. Services will be in the
Oak Chapel Church, Orange, and
burial in the family cemetery.
Doctors at the Alexandria Hos
pital, where five injured passengers
were taken, reported today that only
two remained in the hospital. They
are Eoy Campbell, 13, of Ford Town,
Tenn, and Mrs. Sam Crabtree of
Florence, Tenn. Condition Of both
Is reported as good.
Evening star., 1947-01-13

/ mathematics, Il tipping, Is short
hand and 13 advanced stenography.
When MIR. Clemmer planned his
social studies, he decided to teach
marriage and the family because
80 many prisoners difficulty with
the law stems from marital troubles.
lOf the Is men now taking his course,
II are married and the other con-
vinced the entrance committee he
was going to be married as soon
ais he got out. Required reading
| for the course, includes pertinent
! chapters from "Sex Relations and
Marriage" by Karl Pearson; MAR
riage for Moderns," by Harry A.
Bowman, and Marriage - Before
and After" by Paul Popenoe..
Course ON Child Training.
During the planning of the social
studies, e. J. Welch, superintendent
of the reformatory, suggested some
thing which had not occurred to Mr.
Clemmer. Many prisoners, Mr.
lWelch pointed out, are greatly con-
cerned about their children. They
get letters and visits from their
wives informing them that all is
not going well without paternal dis
cipline.
"And no prisoner" said Mr.
Welch to this reporter. wants to
see his boy go to prison"
Eighteen are taking the child
training course which, according to
the temporary catalogue, covers
problems of nail-biting, disobedi-
ence, temper tantrums, school fall
ures, stealing, lying, boasting, cruelty
and running away from home"
| The most popular course is one ir
Principles of Human Behavior giver
lby Homer Bishop, the prison psy.
lchologist. Twenty i've are taking 1t
iaPsychoiogy books Ike Menninger'.
'The Human Mind always take az
awful beating In prison libraries,
said Mr.. Garrison by way of expla.
nation.
Sex Course Not Popular.
The Committee on Admissions was
surprised when only seven prison
ers applied for the course on the
Physiology and Psychology of Sez
given by DR.. Frank r. Klune, the
prison physician. More popular was
Personal Budgeting Problems given
by Allen Green, the prisons business
manager. IT wouldn't be here now,
said one prisoner after the first lee
ture, "if had known what I've
Learned tonight"
The Theory and Practice of Lei
sure Times, course given by A. G.
Faison, assistant superintendent Of
the reformatory, attracted II stu
dents. Attention is given more to
hobbies, games reading, music, col
llecting, wild life, hunting, fishing
travel than to athletics and sports,
says the catalogue.
Men can take the social studies
only In the last year Of their prison
term. Glasses are at $50 pm. which
is after supper at the prison. Two
guards 60 from dormitory to dormi-
tory and call the students from the
groups playing cards or checkers
After classes the guards call at the
classrooms and take the students
back.
1--WE are just starting" said Mr.
Clemmer. 1--WE ought to learn as
much from the experiments rs ouI
pupils"
Evening star., 1947-01-13
Hume PTA to Meet

your Childs Health" will be the
subject of a talk by Dr.. Paul Bow
den, Arlington school physician. at
q meeting Of the Hume Elementary
School Parent Teacher Association
at s pm. tomorrow.
Evening star., 1947-01-13
DwineII Named 10 Head
Greenbrier Resort Hotel

Appointment of G. K. Dwinell as
general manager of the Greenbrier
Hotel at White Sulphur Springs, w.
Va, was announced today by Robert
Evening star., 1947-01-13

Indiana and has been connected
with several hotels in New York, in
cluding the New Yorker. He was in
charge of food operations at La
Guardia Airport when called into the
Army Air Service.
The hotel. just taken back from
the Government, will be reopened
in September.
Evening star., 1947-01-13

TEEN-AGERS OPEN CLUB IN MARYLAND PARK-More than
400 parents Prince County officials attended the
formal opening Saturday night Of the Teenage Club of the
MARYLAND Park High The club Is sponsored by the Seat
Pleasant District YCA Mrs Helen Brashears principal
watches as van Moreland Pleasant Mayor conratuates
Marvin Miles, student Canteen COMMITTEES chairman
STAR stan Photo.
Evening star., 1947-10-23
Ex-So|dier Confesses
Three Ho|dup Killings
BY ths Asseeio,sd Pres,

PIKEVILLE, KY, Oct. 23.-Paul
John Schneider, 24-year-old dis
honorably discharged soldier former
ly of San Francisco, admitted to
police yesterday the robbery Staying
of three filling station attendants
one in Denver and two in the Detroit
area-between September 81 ard
October 8. Chief Deputy Sheriff
Robert B. Doak reported.
Mr.. Doak, who headed lengthy
investigation in which two FBI
agents and Kentucky and Mich
igan State police participated, said
Schneider confessed to:
Robbing and shooting a filling
station attendant held up in Denver
September 81 and then proceeding
to Detroit.
Holding up a second filling station
Evening star., 1947-10-23
Woman S Party Slate Trial
will Be Resumed Monday

The District Court trial of the
suit in which two factions of the
National Woman's Party are con-
testing the legality of two states of
officers is to be resumed Monday
following three days of testimony
ending yesterday.
Plaintiffs in the suit seek to have
the court declare that a slate of
Evening star., 1947-10-23

attendant in suburban Detroit, beat
ing him to death with a tire tool.
Holding up and robbing a third
attendant near Detroit two hours
later and killing him.
Although Schneider did not identi-
fy any of the men slain by name,
Mr.. Doak said it was virtually GER
tain the Denver man was Frank j.
Ford. 46, who had been missing
since the September date.
Schneider was taken into custody
last FRIDAY.
Evening star., 1947-10-23

officers elected last January in the
Mayflower Hotel and headed by Mrs.
John L. Whitehurst of Baltimore
are the legal officers Of the party.
Defendants in the suit, on the
other hand. contend that a meeting
of the national council, which called
the convention here, was in itself
illegal and that the convention in
the Mayf1ower was Illegal. In turn,
they assert the group headed by
Miss Anita Pollitzer of New York
constitutes the legal officers of the
party.
The plaintiffs rested their case
yesterday. after Mrs. Harvey w.
Wiley, chairman of the nominations
committee at the Mayf1ower Hotel
convention, completed her testi-
mony as witness for the plain
tiffs.
The case is being heard by Justice
James M. Proctor.
When hank c1erks in Colornbo
Evening star., 1947-10-23

When bank clerks in Colombo,
Ceylon, went on strike recently,
bank executives carried on by doing
the work,
Evening star., 1947-01-24

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Evening star., 1947-01-24
Boys Warm Jackets
at Exceptional Savings

Water repeIIent jackets treated fobrc with lOO%
alpaca pile lining in handsome RAF blue.
Sizes 10 to TO- Were $l4.5o, now----------'ll
Sizes s 8ond 10 Were s14,5o, now--- s09'
Warm moekinows with bright plain Innings Toilored
we'll below the hips for warmth without eunnber-
some weight Blue or brown. Fully labeled for fabric
content Sizes 1e to D. Were $zz.e5, now 'l6'o
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Evening star., 1947-01-07
20 Are Reported Killed
In New Greek Clashes
By the Associated Press

ATHENS, Jan. 7.-Newspapers re-
ported today at least 20 persons had
been killed in continuing skirmishes
between Greek government forces
and insurgents.
Despite the strife, the government
announced that Crown Prince Paul
and Princess Fredrika would leave
by sea late today to visit Macedonia
for a week. It will be the first visit
of royalty to Northern Greece since
the return of King George II to the
throne in September. The announce
ment said the Prince and Princess
would come personally into contact
with the population Of Northern
Greece and the national armed
forces stationed there"
Press dispatches said eight in
surgents we're killed in the village
of Gonas on Mount Olympus and
that two gendarmes were wounded
Guerrilla cavalry attacked an un-
identified community near Domokos
midway between Lamia and Phar-
salos, and was driven off, leaving
two Of the irregulars dead Eighteen
horses were abandoned.
In Athens, more than $50 persons
were said to be under arrest in con-
nection with five weekend slayings
in a Communist Kite (extreme
riphtist) feud.
Evening star., 1947-01-07
Use of Brown School as Center
For Recreation Is Approved
Commissioners Order Space Provided
For Chevy Chase Brunch Of Libruy

and Library Boards will have to
seek supplemental appropriations
before renovations can be started.
Under the Commissioners deci-
sion, the Recreation Board will
administer the building with the
Library Board paying its share of
the renovation and maintenance
expenses, Mr.. Wender said.
Recreation and library officials
will meet shortly, he went on, to
work out the arrangements. He said
this arrangement probably would
follow the relationship of the Board
of Education to the Recreation
Board where the recreation depart
ment reimburses the School Board
for expenses incurred in keeping
schools open at night for recreation
purposes.
Mr.. Wender said that no funds
were set up in this years budget
{See E. v. BROWN, Page A-4.)
Evening star., 1947-01-07

The District Commissioners to-
day approved use of the old E. v.
Brown School as center under
the Recreation Board, and di-
rected the board to grant space
in the building for the Chevy
Chase branch of the Public Lii
brary.
The Commissioners decision-an-
nounced after q 90-minute meeting
with the Recreation Board and Rec
reation Department of1cials-cli-
NAKED a long campaign in The Star
reporting efforts of Chevy Chase
residents, the Board of Library
Trustees and the Recreation Board
to obtain use of the school.
Recreation Board Chairman Harry
s. Wender said the board would
take over the old building at Nc
Kinley street and Connecticut ave-
niue Immediately. He pointed out,
however, that both the Recreation
Evening star., 1947-01-07
Points at Issue
Union Coils Action
By Firm. Lockout

The following are the points at
ssue in the strike involving Gov
ernment Services, Inc, and the
United Restaurant and Cafeteria
Local All (CIO), as an
1ounced today by both sides:
Wages-Union originally sought 20,
cents-an-hour increase for ali en-
ployes, establishing minimum
take-home pay of $25.97 weekly
for about IS per cent of workers.
GSI countered with a 6-cent-an-
hour cost of living increase plus
clause providing for another 3
cents an hour for every S per
cent increase in cost of living.
This was raised TO cents an
hour, minus cost of living clause,
following recommendation Of Gov
ernment conciliators. Union rlego-
tiating group agreed to concilia-
tors proposal, but three days
later union membership rejected 1t.
Hours Union wants the 1o-cents-
an-hot1r extra pay for part-time
workers broadened to include
those working hours a day;
now embraces those working up
to 51z hours daily. GSI proposed
a 12-cent-an-hour premium for
part-time workers up to 51z hours
daily, but withdrew this on agree
ing to Government proposal OF
fat S-cents-an-hour Increase for
all workers. Union also seeks s.
hour work day for all other ern-
ployes. GSI maintains its opera
tions make this impossible and
II must continue, working ena-
CONTINUED on Page -, Column 80
Evening star., 1947-01-07
Big Argentine Loan
To Spain Reported
by the Associated Press

LONDON. Jan. THE Daily
Graphic said today a trade credit of
s15o,00o,ooo (s6oo, 900 .ooO from Ar
gentina to Spain would be an
nounced shortly, with one-third OF
the loan accredited to Spain from
Argentine funds in England.
The report, sent by the papers
Lisbon correspondent, apparently
referred to the recently announced
trade agreement negotiated in
BIenos Aires by Spanish mission
''Jubilant Franco supporters in
Madrid" the paper said, believe
that political effects of this loan
will be to postpone indefinitely any
prospects of the United Nations
bringing about a change in the
Spanish regime by any means other
than by armed force"
The paper, whose publisher, Lord
Kemsley, was recently an official
guest of the Argentine government,
said Spanish "optimists attribute
the success Of the Spanish-Argen-
tine cooperation in part to the hos
tiIity of the United States toward
President Peron." r.
Evening star., 1947-01-07

ABOARD U. S. S. MOUNT
OLYMPUS, Jan. THE central
group of the Byrd Antarctic Elk
pedition has made only S miles
progress southwark in crushing
through the Ross Ice Barrier in the
last four days.
In the first "a hours after leaving
IScott Island we made go miles. Then
we hit thick ribs of hummocked ice.
The Coast Guard icebreaker North
wind has travelled more than 500
miles in the same four days, cutting
other ships from the ice and on
exploratory dashes. Much of the
delay has been due to the difficulties
of the submarine Sennet with clos
ling ice.
More than $50 miles Of coastline
of wilkes Land, near where the
Antarctic Continent was first sight
ed by American Capt. Charles
Wilkes in 1840, were photographed
by planes from the eastern group
of the expedition. This is one OF
the most debatable areas on earth.
Existence Of this land was long
disputed. 1t was held that Capt.
Wilkes had seen mirage and the
region was not visited again until
Sir Douglas Mawsons expedition in
Evening star., 1947-01-07
Meteor Scars Out 10 Sea
off Coast Of California
BY the Associated Press

LOS ANGELES, Jan. IA fiery
ball, giving OF weird flashes Of light,
roared over Southern California last
night and out to sea. It was visible
from San Diego to Bakersfield
nearly 200 miles apart.
Although two separate searches
were made for crashed planes, 1t was
agreed today that the object was
meteor, and DR.. Clarence H. Clemin-
shaw of Grifiith Observatory said it
apparently was exceptionally
large" No missing planes were re-
ported.
on Oceanside, Coast Guard craft
out out to check a report that a
plane had plunged into the ocean.
Lifeguards at Santa Monica, rs
miles north, likewise sent out a
crash boat. Sherif1's deputies at
Malibu said they saw what ap-
peared to be three flares giving OF
q ghostly light after the ball passed.
and theorized it might have been
breaking up.
Transport pilots over Bakersfield
and Burbank reported the object
flashed by at tremendous speed.
Telephone switchboards In many
cities were jammed as watchers
called police and newspapers.
Evening star., 1947-01-07

Traffic was slowed almost to a
standstill in many parts Of the
city early today by sleet and
snow which coated the streets
with ice and by failure OF $50
downtown traffic lights.
The lights, which 60 on at am.
normally, did not work this morning
until 8 an, due to q breakdown IN
q master switch. Traffic officials
said the bad weather had nothing to
do with the mechanical failure.
The mornings sleet and snow win
turn into rain some time today, with
occasional rain tonight and tomor-
Evening star., 1947-01-07
Senator Wiley 10 Ask
Early Hearings on
D. {. Representations
Resolution Opening Woy
For Vote Here Again
introduced by Copper

Chairman Wiley of the Sen
ate Judiciary Committee today
promised to expedite committee
action on the joint resolution, on
national representation for the
District introduced late yester-
day by Senator Capper, Repub-
lican, of Kansas.
AS soon as the Judiciary Commit
tee is organized, Senator Wiley said,
the measure will be referred to a
subcommittee. Instructions will be
given the subcommittee, he ex-
planned, to expedite hearings, and
bring back a report in "as short a
time as feasible"
Silent on Merits.
Asked about his attitude per-
sonally toward the resolution, the
Wisconsin Senator said he is pro-
ceeding on the theory that, now he
is chairman, he Is not going to
voice any opinion on bills before
the committee.
II shall act more or less as a pre-
siding officer" he declared, "but
shall insist that all bills before the
committee be expedited for hearing
and determination"
Senator Capper, long time friend
of the District and champion Of
national representation, introduced
his joint resolution in the Senate
yesterday not long after that body
returned from the House Chamber,
where it had heard President Tru-
mans message.
His resolution, he told the SEN
ate, would make it possible for the
people of the District Of Columbia to
participate with their fellow Ameri-
cans in the Government of cur
country"
An enabling provision, the ereso-
luton provides for an amendment
to the Constitution giving Congress
authority to enfranchise the Dis
tricf. With the exception Of pre-
amble, the measure is the same as
was sponsored last year by Senator
Capper and Representative Sum-
ners, Democrat, of Texas, known as
the Sumners-C -Capper Resolution.
Does Not Ask statehood.
The preamble makes clear that the
resolution does not impose state
hood on the District. 1t defines the
District as permanently separate
1see CAPPER, Page A-4)
Evening star., 1947-01-07
Truman Encounters Opposition
To Proposal for Labor Study
copitoI 6 or. Fovors Curb Program on Whole
But Is Cool to Commission Idea

Congress and labor reacted
cautiously today to President
Truman's proposals for dealing
with industrial strife, and it was
evident that he would encounter
some opposition on his proposal
for a fact-f1nding body to make
an overall study Of labor -man-
agement relations to head off
strikes in key industries.
William Green. president of the
American Federation of Labor, said
the objectives outlined in Mr.. Tru-
man s. message to Congress should
be indorsed by all the American
people" He said the recommends
tions would be placed before the
AFL Executive Council in Miami on
January 20 for determination of the
organizations future policy.
Philip Murray, president Of the
CLIO, and John L. Lewis, United
Evening star., 1947-01-07
Traffic Light Failure Increases
Huzurds Of Snow and Sleet

row, the Weather Bureau predicted.
The temperature had climbed to 80
degrees at 8 am. today, from n at
12:45 am.
A number OF minor traffic acci-
dents were blamed by police on slip
perry streets and poor visibility.
About $50 am, Anna Luber, ST.
of 703 Sixth street NV, news
vendor at Seventh and E streets
NV. for the last 10 years. was taken
to Casually Hospital after being
struck at Sixth and @ streets NV
by car driven by james w. Ford
|38, colored. Of 1721 First street NV.
lSee WEATHER, Hege A-2J
Evening star., 1947-01-07
Ice in Antarctic Slows Ships
To 5 Miles in Four Days
By Thomas R. Henry
s,or sto4 Correspondent

1912. These are the only explora-.
tions in this part Of Antarctica.
The region photographed today In
cludes large part of the KING
George v coast, barely marked on
the latest maps. All the land be-
yond is completely unknown. This
coast hes roughly along the Ant
arctic Circle-a line of 100-foot high
ice cliffs which rise to the level OF
the plateau of the continent with
patches of bare rock visible in
isolated places.
The coast is fronted by glacier
tongues and an ice shelf which have
prevented survey by ships. Detailed
air photography is considered Of spe-
cial Importance to settle finally the
bitter Wilkes controversy over credit
for discovering the continent. Now
the planes are concentrating their
reconnaissance along the sea edge
for a few days without attempting
penetration Of the apparently noun
famous interior with high ice
capped cliffs in the distance.
Details await analysis OF photo
graphs to determine distances and
attitudes. If the weather holds,
long flights are planned in the next
few days over the interior of half
- TTV1yY3v9 49, g -
Evening star., 1947-01-07

Mine Workers chief, withheld COM
ment. \
Principal comment on Capitol ELL
came from Republicans, and while
the opposition leaders were inclined
to take favorable view OF the presi-
dental program as whole, the COM
mission idea got no support.
Chairman Taft of the Senate
Labor Committee said he was mot
too certain about the suggested
labor commission which the Pres
ident said should seek strike curb
in such industries as transportation,
coal, oil, steel or communications" !"
without endangering our general
democratic freedoms"
Senator Taft added: "The Pres
ident apparently indorses about half
of our labor bill and does not rule
out the other half, SO there appar-
emily is little difference between his
Evening star., 1947-01-07
Pressmen Ordered Back
On Miumi Newspapers
BY ihs Asseciuted Press

-
MIAMI, Fla, Jan. 7.-Pressmen
of the Miami Daily News and the
Miami Herald were ordered back to
work today by George Berry, presi-
dent of the International Printing
Pressmen and Assistants Union,
AFL.
Jake Berman, local president. said
the publishers of the two papers
would be asked to continue negotia-
tions.
Neither of the two newspapers has
printed since Saturday when the
union went into q special continuous
meeting to discuss what union MEM
bers said was q discrepancy in
working hours"
Evening star., 1947-01-07
Mother, 19, Saves
Bobies, Then Dies
In Burning Home
y tbs Assoeiofsd Press

PHILADELPHIA, Jan. IA
9-year-old mother burned to
death today after dropping her
two babies - 15-morth ; old
Johnny and 2-month-old Fran
cine-from q second-f1oor win
dow to safety in the arms of
neighbors.
The mother, Mrs. Ruth M.
Bracelen, then disappeared from
the window, apparently intent
on saving valuables. When fire
men reached her she was dead
of burns. The home was de-
stroyed.