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Evening star., 1947-10-30
Board Of Trade News
Wins Top P|aceAmong
t.. Of T.. Publications

The Board of Trade News, monthly
tabloid newspaper established a
year ago by the Washington Board
of Trade, has been adjudged the best
in its class among cities of 100000
population and over by the National
Association of Commercial Organi-
zation Secretaries.
In making the announcement yes
terday, John A. Reilly, president of
the trade group, said the contest was
arranged on q Nation wide basis to
select superior chamber of commerce
publications.
Los Angeles Second.
The certificate of merit awarding
first prize to the publication was
presented to William H. Press,
executive secretary of the Washing
ton Board of Trade, at the annual
dinner of the association in Colo
RADIO Springs, Colo. The Los An
geles Chamber of Commerce was
named second-place winner. The
award for the best magazine was
received by the Dallas Chamber OF
Commerce
Louis Lundborg of San Francisco,
chairman of the Publication Contest
Committee, said: THE Board of
Trade of Washington should be very
proud of this fine publication"
TT is a live, readable paper, done
in a thoroughly professional man
ner," he added. Particularly note
worthy is the fact that the Board
of Trade News has won this COM
petition during the first year of its
existence"
The Executive Committee of the
Board of Trade has adopted a reso-
luton commencing all who are en-
gagged in preparing the Board OF
Trade News.
Edwin Lewis Is Editor.
Special mention and commenda-
ton was accorded Edwin N. Lewis,
editor; Bruce Bryan, assistant
editor, and the members of the Pub
locations Committee which includes
William C. Shelton, business man
ager, the Washington Times-Her-
aid, chairman; C. j. Mack, man
ager, the Mayflower Hotel, and
Harry L. Merrick, vice president OF
Kal, Ehrlich g. Merrick, advertising
company.
Judges of the competition were
Frank Fogarty, vice president ano
general manager of Paxton & Gal
lagher, Omaha, Nebr.; Lawrence
Hurley, editor of Nations Business
published by the United States
Chamber of Commerce, and Frank
Pellegrin, director of broadcasting
advertising, National Association o1
Broadcasters.
Evening star., 1947-10-30
Bethesda Council Plans
g Halloween Parties

Nine Halloween parties, sponsored
by the Community Service Council,
will take place Friday night for
the Bethesda Chevy Chase area.
Programs for elementary school
children will begin after Z pm. at
the Bethesda, Chevy Chase, Somer-
set, Lynnbrook elementary schools
and the River road colored school.
Similar parties will be held at the
Civitan Playground in Woodmont
and the Bethesda Chevy Chase
Recreation Center. Leland Junior
High School will play host to
youngsters OF junior high at juke
box dance, while the Bethesda
Chevy Chase High School will give
a dance for young people of high
school age.
Evening star., 1947-10-30
Two Women Injured
In Traffic Accident

Mrs. Margaret M. Irwin, 40, and
Mrs. Katherine Melton, 30, were ad-
mitted to Arlington Hospital with
injuries received when their car
went out of control on Old Dominion
drive near Mclean, Va, last night.
Fairfax police said the car was
driven by Mrs. Irwin, who lives in
the 6100 block of Queens Chapel
road, Hyattsville. Mrs. Meltons ad-
dress was listed as 1904 North Taylor
street, Arlington. Mrs. Melton suf-
fered possible fractures of the ribs
and knee and Mrs. Irwin suffered
cuts and bruises, the hospital re-
p0rtn6
Evening star., 1947-10-30
Driver Fined 500 as Drunk
Has Two Artificial Leqs

A motorist with two artificial legs
pleaded guilty to drunken driving
charges today and was fined 500 by
Judge George D. Nelson in Munich
pal Court.
He was Arthur Cochrane, A, of the
1900 block of Newton street NE,
who police said was driving a car
which caromed off two parked cars
in the 100 block of Rhode Island
avenue NV. causing slight damage.
The defendant, who said he had suf-
fered infantile paralysis in childhood,
appeared in court on crutches.
Evening star., 1947-10-30
Society to Meet

The Prince Georges Montgomery
Engineers Society will meet at 3
pm. Monday at Prince Georges Golf
and Country Club. Dean s. s. Stein
berg of the College Of Engineesing,
University of Maryland, will speak
on Engineering Developments at
the University of Maryland"
Evening star., 1947-10-30
Baltimore Women Held
In Shooting of Girl, ID
By the Associoted Press

BALTIMORE, Oct. 30.-Bertha
Mitchell, SO, was charged today with
shooting a 14-year-old junior high
school girl as she and six other
teen-agers last night walked past
the house where the woman lives
with two sisters.
The victim, Joan Duga, was in a
hospital with a slug from an old
type "A revolver lodged against the
bone of her left calf.
Miss Mitchell was held in 81, ,00C
bail for further hearing after a
preliminary hearing before magis-
trate.
Evening star., 1947-10-30
Policemen Injured

Pvt. Charles S. Adams, 81, Of the
United States Park Police suffered
a cut lip today when his motor
cycle struck the rear of a car
which made a sudden stop near
Fifteenth street and New York ave.
nue. NV. Driver of the car was
Leonard Kater, 80, of Philadel-
phia.
Evening star., 1947-09-04
z 2P|ane Crashes
|At Falls Church
KILL 7, |njure 7
District Womun Hurt
After Earlier Miduir
Collision at Airpork

A Washington woman was serious
ly injured today when her plane
crashed near Annandale, Va, about
2 miles from the Falls Church Air
park, scene of a mid-air collision
last night in which two persons
were killed and a third critically
injured.
Hurt about 1890 am. today when
her light plane crashed into trees
after the engine cut out was Miss
Margaret Vaughan, 30, of 1925 Fiji
teenth street NV, an employe of
the Department of Commerce.
In last nights crash, Miss Agnes
Louise Brady, principal of the James
Madison Elementary School, Arling-
ton, and her pilot were killed when
their plane and another collided rs
feet above the runway of the airpark.
Operation Is Performed.
Arlington Hospital, where she was
taken by the Falls Church rescue
squad, reported Miss Vaughan
was conscious when admitted to
the hospital, but her injuries could
not Immediately be determined.
The hospital was told that Miss
Vaughan had taken off from the air.
park about five minutes prior to the
crash en- route to Harrisburg, Pa.
She was flying alone, the hospital
was told.
Ferdinand H. Kirchman, 48,
Merrifleld, Va, owner of the Hawk
Evening star., 1947-09-04

he said he had decided it would be
lin the public interest" to ask the
chief appeals judge to assign a
jurist to the case.
Jurist Pleaded Not Guilty.
Judge Ready, through her attor-
ney, pleaded not guilty to the
charges at the arrignment before
Judge Nadine Gallagher, the only
other woman jurist in Municipal
Court. The case had been scheduled
for Traffic Cortland presumably
before Judge Gallagher.
The charge against Judge Raedy
resulted from more than a week OF
investigation by Assistant Corpora
ton Counsel Clark King, who said
today that he had mo comment
on the assignment of Judge Clagett
Judge Raedy has denied that she
was the driver of her car the night
of August 10. She said she had
lent it to Edward Emerson of New
York. A witness to the accident
told Mr.. King that the jurist was
the driver.
Evening star., 1947-09-04
Raedy Trial SET
Next Thursday
BeforeC|agett
Appeals Court Judge
Borrowed to Hear,
Auto Case Charges

Municipal Judge Ellen K. Raedy
will be tried next Thursday in
Municipal Court before Associate
Judge Brice Clagett of the Municipal
Court of Appeals on charge of leav-
ing after colliding.
Chief Judge Nathan Cayton of the
Appeals Court issued a special orde,
late yesterday naming Judge Clagett
to preside in the case which grew
out of the collision of Judge Raedy's
automobile with parked car neal
the intersection of First and K
streets NV. the night of August 49,
Judge Clagett, when asked today
if he had any coment to make on
the assignment said naturally not
Order Prompted by Letter.
. The order was issued after receipt.
of letter from Chief Judge George
P. Barse of the Municipal Court
stating that there are obvious rea-
sons why the trial of an accused.
Judge should be held before some
judge who is not a member of the
same court.
'I have no doubt that Judge
Raedy would receive fair trial and
an impartial and unbiased decision
according to the law and evidence
by any judge of this court who
might be assigned to preside in the
case" Judge Barse wrote.
After consultation with judges OF
the court, exclusive of Judge Ready
Evening star., 1947-09-04
Maryland U. Receives
.S7,495 Cancer Grant

The University of Maryland has
been granted $7,495 for cancer re-
search by the Advisory Council OF
the National Cancer Institute, which
has been meeting in st. Louis in
conjunction with the international
Cancer Research Congress.
The grant to Maryland was one
of 20 authorized by the committee,
largest of which was to Yale Uni
versity for $26,892. All went to COL
lege or university medical schools
or medical Institutes, the Associated
Press reported.
The National Cancer Institute is
a part of the United States Public
Health Service and funds for the
grants will come from the $4,000
600 appropriation for cancer re-
search and control by the last Con-
gress.
A spokesman for the council said
that in addition to the 100000
granted yesterday, another 100000
in grants probably will be announced
later.
Evening star., 1947-09-04
Effective Temperature Map
Shows DC. Weather SIundered

the country. He ignored the highly
variable factor Of breeze. The effec-
tive temperatures for each point he
averaged over the 20-year period to
get normal mean maximum" for
July. This he put into the sketch.
The result was a map which, COM
piling and averaging the hottest part
of each July day over a 20-year
period, shows Washington a more
pleasant place to be than a great
deal Of the country in summer, in
Guiding some of the resort areas to
which Washingtonians flee.
If the thermometer goes up, a
person feels warmer. If the mer-
curry is up somewhat, then stands
still while the humidity goes up, the
heat gets more oppressive.
Temperature Not Hottest.
If you prefer looking at the Wash
ington heat question some other
way, the observers will offer you a
map of the highest temperatures
ever recorded" Washington's 1856
degrees top, recorded July 20, 1880,
looks sickly beside records from
other parts of the country which
range upward to 1874 degrees,
chalked up in Death Valley, Calf,
on July 10, 1913.
OF course, there are other factors
besides heat and humidity which
affect the way you feel. One, as in
dicated above, is breeze. Another is
the duration 1of hot spells. 81
If you're cooped up in an apart
ment with little or no ventilation,
you're going to feel hotter than
If you have a chance to come up
for air once in a while. But blame
that on the housing shortage, or
on Congressional blame it on the
weatherman.
AS for duration, the experts say
the longest hot spell per summer,
when the thermometer here con-
sistently climbs above 80 degrees
each day, averagse five to seven
days.
And in case you hadn't noticed.
we're on the downhill grade to-
ward cooler weather. The 55-year
record shows Washington tempera-
lures usually reach peak around
July 20 or 81 and begin to drop
off after that.
Evening star., 1947-09-04
DonneIIy Seeks to Head
Federation of Citizens

Ralph w. Donnelly. second vice
president of the Federation of
Citizens Associations, has an
nounced his candidacy for presi-
dent of the Federation in the COM
ing election.
Mr.. Donnelly, a delegate from the
Brentwood Terrace Citizens As
ISOLATION, will campaign on plat
form fully indorsing current Fed
Grafton policies. A native of Wash
ington. he was educated at Nc
Kinley High School, Wilson Teach
ers College and Catholic University
He is employed by the Continental
Life Insurance Co. He was one
of the organizers of the Brentwood
Terrace group and has represented
the association in the Federation
since 1943.
Clifford H. Newell, president of
the Federation, previously an
nounced he would not be a candi-
date for reelection.
Evening star., 1947-09-04

Models of the Arrny's proposed
aluminium Arctic shelters and the
Navy's precast concrete houses
planned for use in the tropics are
among the items on display at the
10th annual exhibition of the As
sociation of Federal Architects in
the National Museum, Tenth street
and Constitution avenue NV.
The showing represents work of
architects of the State Department
and the Agriculture Departments
Forest Service, as well as the Navy
Bureau of Yards and Docks and the
Army Corps of Engineers.
It opened yesterday, and will con-
tinue until September 16. Included
are oil paintings, water colors,
sketches, photographs and other
work of Federal employees.
Tests This Winter.
The model of an Arctic shelter
shows the type of all-aluminum
buildings being fabricated to be
shipped north this winter for test
ing by the Army. Their lightness
will facilitate air transportation,
and it is proposed to drop the Sec
tions from gliders.
One of the most impressive fea-
lures is the foundation, which must
go through a layer of ice from 2
to feet thick, that is soupy in
summer and solid in winter down
to the permafrost layer. The foun-
daticn must be well insulated so
that 1t does not transmit heat and
threaten the security of the build
ing.
The shelters are designed to with
stand below-70-degree temperature
and a 125-mile-an-hour wind and
are self contained as to heating,
lighting and plumbing.
The exhibit OF the Bureau of
Yards and Docks includes model
of the Navy Civil Engineer Corps
proposed new precast concrete
dwelling for married officers, sched-
uled for first erection on Guam.
In the Yards and Docks display
are sketches of the human centri-
fuge building to be built at Johns
Evening star., 1947-09-04
Woman Clerk Retires
After Al Years in GP0

After Al years with the Govern
ment Printing Office, Mrs. Bessie
Crone, 226A @ street NV. is enjoy
ing her first day of retirment.
Mrs. Crone, who retired yesterday,
came here from Chicago in 1906, and
served as a clerk under eight diff
ferent public printers at GPO. When
she heard yesterday that her fellow
workers would give her some money,
she turned it over to the paralytic
ward at Walter Reed Hospital.
Mrs. Crone helped the service men
at Walter Reed by organizing the
Teagle Club, in honor Of Donald J.
Teagle, a former employe of COP
who was killed In the war. The $50
members of the club. employed at
COP, contributed part of their pay
each month to buy toiled articles
and other necessities for patients
in the paralytic ward.
She said that Government en-
ployment has been ideal since the
Inauguration of the 40-hour week.
Evening star., 1947-09-04
Court Test Called OFF
On ABC Suspension

A District Court hearing to test
the authority of the Alcoholic Bev-
erage Control Board to suspend a
license because an intoxicated per-
son was allowed to remain in an
establishment where drinks are sold
was called off today.
A motion for a preliminary In
junction against the ABC Board to
keep 1t from putting into effect a
fve-day suspension order against a
New Western Lunch, Inc. restaurant,
was withdrawn. counsel for the corp
Grafton said, because the board late
Yesterday decided to hold the sus-
pension order in allegiance.
The board had charged the corp
grafton with permitting an intoxi-
Gated man to remain in its restau-
rant, 943-45 Ninth street NV. on
June T.
Evening star., 1947-09-04
Five Detectives Get
Official Rating as
Acting Lieutenants

The Commissioners today ap-
proved promotion of five police de-
tective sergeants to the rank of act
ing lieutenant. They will continue
to head the detective bureau squads
where they are now in charge.
Those promoted are Detective
Sergts. Jacob Wolf, of the automo-
bile squad: Dewey L. Guest, check
squad; Richard F. McCarty, sex
squad; Hialmar H. Carper, narcotics
and Richard j. Cox, pickpocket
squad.
The promotions, made on recon-
mendation of Inspector Floyd A.
Truscott, chief of detectives, carry
no increase In pay.
Inspector Truscott said the pro-
motions we're recommended to place
officers in charge of squads with a
rank higher than the squad men,
bers. All five policemen were in
charge of the squads as detective
sergeants.
Il find that squads function better
with lieutenant nm charge" In
spector Truscott said.
With the promotions, all ten
squads in the detective bureau now
are headed by officers with the rank
of lieutenant or above.
Evening star., 1947-09-04
By Richard l. Disney, Jr.

That "sas-&'O* Washington
Weather!
Can't 60 on the air with lot
of the remarks about the weather
here. Can't print them in family
newspaper.
Yet Weather Bureau experts, after
long years of listening to ISLANDERS,
vituperations, sneers and TRADES
about the Capital climate, mop their
brows and say it isn't so.
Washington weather is as good
as that of the rest of the country"
declared one Weather Bureau Off
cial emphatically. He should know,
after months of research that soon
will result in an agency book on the
subject.
Another expert, William P. Day
of 1909 Veazey street NV, a Dis
trict area forecaster at the Weather
Bureau forecast center at National
Airport, listened patiently for years
to cracks like: Give me good old
Texas weather" and "It was never
like this in Illinois"
Draws Up a Map.
Finally, he went home and took a
busman's holiday-spent his leisure
time pouring over weather statistics
and drew a map. When he was
done, he showed 1t to few CO.
workers and put it in his desk
drawer where it stayed until a re-
porter's inquiries brought it out.
Just hobby.
II guess I have leanings toward
general climate study" explained
the forecaster.
1t was the map accompanying this
article, showing the normal maxi
mum effective temperatures" for
July-the month in which Wash.
ington would show up the worst.
It doesn't-it shows pretty close
to average so far as the country
goes.
"But it isn't the heat, it's the hu-
midity." Washington gets slapped
with that bromide all summer.
Take note-Mr. Days map uses
effective temperature, figure
combining humidity and tempera-
ture statistics, and seeks to show
not what the thermometer actually
says, but how hot person actually
feels under varying conditions.
Control Room" Effect.
Experimenters number of years
ago, manipulating temperatures,
humidity and air movement in a
group of weather chambers, found
varieties of conditions which felt to
observers, walking from one of the
rooms to another, to be the same
temperature as control room
where humidity was kept at 100 per
cent.
These various conditions then were
said to produce effective tenn
peratures" equal to the thermometer
reading in the control room. The
experiments systematized our gen.
eral knowledge that, other conditions
the same, higher temperature makes
us feel warmer, and that, with a
fairly high temperature, increased
humidity makes heat more oppres
sive
Mr. Day, in preparing his map,
used the chart which resulted from
these experiments. He took the
maximum thermometer reading for
each July day, and another figure
involving humidity He put these
into the chart to determine a
maximum effective temperature each
day for scores of points throughout
Evening star., 1947-09-04
First Of 200 Buses
With No Gear Shift
Arrive Here Today

A bus that embodies the --latest
developments in motor coach desigr
will speed the Washington com.
muter to his daily task this fall.
The first of 200 new 44-passengel
streamliners ordered by the Capita
Transit Co. began to arrive here
today, and will go into public service
next week.
Tomorrow and Saturday, from {
am. to 10 pm, four of them will
be parked on F street between Four
teenth and Fifteenth streets NV
so that the public can have a pre-
view.
From the outside, the new buses
aren't much different in appear
ance from the model they will re-
place. They will be painted the
same silver color, with a green belt,
and will bear the familiar Capital
Transit sign in script letters.
Color Motif to Vary.
Inside, however, the public's pref
erences, as indicated by special polls
conducted by the transit company
have been carried out to present an
attractive appearance.
The seat cushions are covered
with blue leather, with seat backs
and frames in tile red. Ceilings are
light colored, with lower side walls
of soft tan and brown floors sepa-
rated by Chinese red stripe from
the usual black ribbed aisle section
Capital Transit authorities say
coaches to be delivered later will
be decorated in blue-gray, gray-red
and green, to vary the color motif
The greatest engineering advance
is the "hydro-torque" drive, which
eliminates gear shifting and auto.
matically adjusts itself to the proper
power at any given load and speed
reducing the jolting of the bus az
it makes its way through traffic.
Ventilation Improved.
Ventilation of the buses has been
greatly improved, authorities say
The air will be changed at the rate
of 1000 cubic feet per minute, more
than twice the rate on existing
models. In addition, "degassing
valves" will reduce the gaseous
vapors expelled by the bus when il
slows down.
Windows that reduce sun glare
improved seat springs and arm
cushions, larger destination signs
new safety features to guard the
passenger leaving the bus and di-
rectional signals to warn other We
hicleS the bus is about to stop OF
turn are other features of which
Capital Transit officials boast.
Costing $17,360 each, not counting
the price of tires, the 200 vehicles
represent an outlay of $500, 600
With 20 due to arrive today. delivery
will proceed at the rate of bus a
day until early November, when 100
are scheduled to be in service. The
second 100 coaches are slated to ar
rive some time after March, 1913.
The first of the new buses, Capital
Transit spokesmen say. will be as
signed to the western division. serv-
ing Northwest Washington. AS the
other buses are delivered, each sec
tion will get its share.
Evening star., 1947-09-04
Institutions 10 Benefit
By Mrs. Nuttinq Will

Local institutions. including the
Washington Cathedral, are to receive
substantial sums under the terms of
the will of Mrs. Lillian L. Nutting,
who died here July 26, leaving an
estate valued at $116,851, including
real estate.
A petition for probate of the will
was filed yesterday afternoon at
District Court.
Mrs. Nutting, who was 81, lived at
1851 Newton street NV, and for
merly was publications assistant for
the aAmerican Red Cross. She was
the widow of DR.. Hugh Nutting.
After some six cash bequests OF
$500 each and one of s., 500 to friends
and cousins and bequests of jewelry
and household items are taken care
of, the residuary estate is to be
divided into six parts to be shared
by the local institutions. Counsel
estimated the total residue will
amount to more than 100000.
After the division, the Washington
Cathedral is to receive one-third OF
LIlS TCSluut, LllC MdoOllAI ol1o IoSooC1 ~
Star Home, one-third; the Church
of the Nativity (EpiscopaD, one
sixth, and the Home for Incurables
one-siXth.
Among other bequests was dia-
mond dinner ring left to William P
Linkins, a cousin, of Silver Spring
Md, for his wife. The ring contains
46 diamonds, it was said. The will
named William Todd, living at the
Brighton Hotel, executor.
The petition for probate Of the
will, which was filed through Attor-
neys Ralph P. Barnard and Joseph
H. Bait, listed Mrs. Nutting's per-
sonal property at $105,119, including
securities, cash and other items. II
listed her real estate at an assessed
value of $11,732. The petition said
she left no heirs at law but listed q
number of cousins as her next of kin