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Evening star., 1947-11-02
Half Of Business Licenses
For 194S Already Issued

Half of the Districts 10000 busi-
ness licenses for 1948 were issued
before the deadline for applications
Yesterday, District License Clerk
Edward E. Bailey, jr, said last
night.
| He said the regulation passed by
i the Commissioners last summer per
mittipg licensing of apartment
houses, hotels. theaters, halls and
rooming houses after August Is mas
succeeded in causing IS per cent
of businesses in those categories to
obtain their licenses before the
deadline
All other applica tions received by
the licensing bureau will be issued
by December /, Mr.. Bailey said, in
comparison with past years when
as many as three months have
passed after the deadline before all
business had their licenses.
| A complete report on the 194a
! licenses will be made to the Com
missioners next week, Mr.. Bailey
added.
Sixty-f1ve Government building
cafeterias applied for licenses this
year, Mr.. Bailey said, compared to
SO last year. He pointed out however
that only 81 of the cafeterias were
able to pass the District Health De-
partment's examination. If all of the
IS passed the test this year, those
that operated through last yeaI
without a license would have to
pay the 1947 license tax as well as
the 1948 license tax. Mr.. Bailey re-
vealed.
Evening star., 1947-11-02

The very thought Of Martha Raye
frightens the people in the apart
ment houses at Sixteenth and g
streets NV. .r.~r--
It's the noise she makes.
They told Robert Knight, assist
ant corporation counsel, about 1t
Yesterday at an informal hearing in
the Municipal Court Building.
They were there to ask that the
Club Carlo in the Cairo Hotel at
that corner do something to sound
proof it's air vents.
Ted Lewis, who just finished an
agreement, was noisy enough, they
said. They got awfully tired OF
when My Baby Smiles at Me- AND
their insomnia was aggravated by
hearing every few minutes, lis
everybody happy?"
But Martha Raye!
Mrs. Herbert P. Leeman, 1900 Six
teenth street NV, said: But Mr.
Corporation Counsel, you don't un-
derstand the urgency of the .situa-
ton. Those ducts must be fixed right
away-Martha Rave is coming back. y
Yes said Mrs. Margaret Nc
Mahon, manager of the apartment
house in which the Leemans live
last year she came for two weeks
and stayed for eight"
And I had to leave my bedroom
every night between II and ano
spend that hour in my kitchen,
said Mrs. Georgiana E. Vandavel
of the same apartment house.
1.-TWO nights after a show starts
Evening star., 1947-11-02
Falls Church Druggist
Files Alienation Suit

Joseph T. Wallace, jr., Falls
Church druggist, filed suit yesterday
in Fairfax County Circuit Court
asking 100000 damages from w. w
Thomas, jr, also of Falls Church
charging that Mr.. Thomas alienated
the affections of Mrs. Wallace.
At the same time, it was disclosed
that Mr.. Wallace, who is 36, has
filed suit gaainst his 29-year-old
wife, Catherine Elizabeth Wallace
for divorce on grounds of adultery
Mr.. Wallace charges that Mr.
Thomas "alienated and destroyed
the affection Of Mrs. Wallace for
her husband. The suit also alleges
improper conduct in a Baltimore
hotel room in August. -...
Mr.. Wallace asks for custody of
their three children, who range in
age from 20 months to II years.
Mr.. Thomas-is married and has
two daughters, 5 and years of age.
He is 80 years of age and is Falls
Church excavation and hauling
contractor.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wallace have been
married since July 13, 1885.
Evening star., 1947-11-02

The second concert in the Neigh.
borhood Concert Series sponsored
by The Evening Star and given by
the National Symphony orchestrs
will be presented tomorrow evening
in Armstrong High School at -lst
and U streets, NV. with Howard
Mitchell conducting. -
For this concert, Mr.. Mitchell has
selected Haydn's Symphony No. 81
in B Flat Major, one OF the mos
popular of the Haydn works.
Invitations for the concert were
quickly exhausted, indicating a ca
pacity audience A second Arm.
strong concert will be held next
March 8 at which time distribution
of tickets will be made largely
through schools which were not in
cluded in the list for tomorroW's al
fair because of the limited capacity
of the auditorium at Armstrong.
All those invited are requested te
be in their seats by 8:45 pm. al
which time the doors will be open
Evening star., 1947-11-02
Virginia, D. {. Lift Ban
On Cabs Picking Up
Fares on Return TRIPS

A District I1taxicab taking pas
senger into. nearby Virginia, or a
cab from, nearby Virginia bringing
one to Washington, no longer will
be barred from picking up pas
sengers for the return trip.
| This is the principal result Of
changes in reciprocal automobile
arrangements announced yesterday
by District Traffic Director George
E. Keneipp. Negotiations on the new
reciprocity agreement have been in
progress since early last summer.
: During the war, the Office of
Defense Transportation ordered
that District taxis might bring pas
sengers from Arlington and Fairfax
counties or the city of Alexandria
back to Washington. after carrying
passenger from the District into
those areas. The same privilege
was accorded cabs from the nearby
counties and Alexandria bringing
passengers into Washington.
That permission was rescinded
after VJ-day. The new agreement
restores it.
Also affected in the change are
private passenger automobiles regis
tered in the name of the Federal or
District Governments, which are
used by employees for business in
Virginia. These now may be garaged
indefinitely in Virginia without be-
F. ing registered there.
Virginia was unwilling to accord
the same hospitality for cars owned
by Washington business establish
ments, Mr. Keneipp said. Such cars,
however, still will be allowed to stay
in Virginia six months without ap-
plying for Virginia registrations.
Under the agreement, a District
licensed vehicle may be used to haul
goods for profit within the two
counties and Alexandria,, provided
it is garaged in Washington at least
four nights week. The same is
true of cars from nearby Virginia
operating in Washington.
| This agreement does not apply In
either case. however, if the vehicle
is a common carrier or contract
carrier-operating across State lines
on regularly scheduled commercial
runs.
Evening star., 1947-11-02
Club Cairo Neighbors Worried,
Martha Ruye Is Coming Back

at the Cairo" said E. F. Florman
of 1904 @ street NV, I'VE know
every joke in the whole routine and
when people are going to laugh.
The police department was repre-
sented by Capt. George r. Wall
drodt and Corpl. John w. Groves.
Mr.. knight read the regulation to
representatives of the hotel and
the night club, Sam Schanker, pro-
prietor of the club; Charles Walker,
his attorney; T. F. Schneider,
owner of the hotel, and John Will
son, his attorney. It said use OF
any machine to amplifpy the hu-
man voice to the disturbance OF the
peace was a violation.
Mr.. Knight obtained an agree
ment that the club would see what
it could do to put bafie plates o.
sound tiles in the exhaust ducts Of
it's air conditioning system-from
which all the protestants agreed the
noise came.
THE agreement Is" said Mr..
Knight, that they will do their
best to remedy the condition in the
next two weeks-or before Martha
Rave comes back"
Evening star., 1947-11-02
I'D. Thomas Wins Star Trophy
With Hortz Mountain Canary

and Red Factor canar1eS were on
display. There are almost 800 birds
in the show
C. w. Mahoney, assistant man
ager, said: The Red Factor is the
new thing in canaries. They are
cross-bred with the siskin, a wild
finch"
He showed birds of the first cross
and subsequent crosses. ut gives
them color" he said.
"You see the red color in these
Yorkshires?" he asked. ITS done by
color feeding
What do they feed them for
color?" he was asked.
Mr.. Mahoney said, "paprika."
Fred Aspinall of worcester, Mass,
Judged the American singers.
The 8G0 birds, which includes few
parakeets, love birds and other types
OF wild birds" were entered by SO
exhibitors. The National Capital
Canary Club has Red Factor chap
ter which meets once a month to
discuss cross breeding at 1856 Sheri-
dan street NV.
Evening star., 1947-11-02
BookmobiIe in County
To Be Active This Week

This weeks schedule for the
Prince Georges County bookmobile
was announced today, as follows:
Monday: 10 a. M, Ardmore School;
II am, Columbia Park; 1890 pm.
Collington; l:30 pm, Fletchers-
vile; 2:30 pm, Bowie; $3.50 pm.
Joffe's Store at Bowie. and pm.
High Bridge. ~
Tuesday: Noon, Largo; 1 pm.
Mount Nebo; 2::30 pm, Mitchell
vile; $3.50 pm. intersection of Gen.
tral avenue and Grain highway
4:30 pm, Mulliken, and $50, New
ton Hill.
Wednesday: 9 am, Nottingham
10 a m, Holly Grove: Al am, Brook
ridge; 1890 pm, Croome; 1:3(
pm, Croome Station; 2:30 pm.
Rosaryville, and $3.50 pm, Chelten-
ham.
Friday: 10 am. to S pm, Upper
Marlboro.
Saturday: 10 am, Brentwood:
pm. Bladensburg. and 2:30 pm.
Landover.
Evening star., 1947-11-02

Whitley, an American canary
owned by James D. Thomas, 32l
Seventh street NE, yesterday won
The Evening Star trophy for being
Judged best in the Hartz Mountain
class at the 18th Grand National
Bird Show sponsored by the Ma
tional Capital Canary Club at the
Hamilton Hotel.
Lover, white canary with black
wings, won the Washington Fancy
class for owner Clarence Moore, 460
LeBaum street Sc. while Robert
Rowe's parrakeet was selected as
best among the parrakeet entries
Mr.. Rowe lives at 425 Tenth street
NE.
The grand champion canary will
be picked this afternoon ending the
three-day show.
Although judges we're busy as
signing blue, red and yellow ribbons
to winners yesterday, they were be-
hind schedule when daylight ended
and were forced to hold over some
Of the classes until today.
Norwich, Yorkshire, Border Fancy
Evening star., 1947-11-02
Second Neighborhood Concert
At Armstrong High Tomorrow

for those who may have failed to
obtain invitations. s.,
The concert will start promptly
at 8 o'clock and will be broadcast
over WMAL, The Evening Star sta
ltipn.
:. The complete program follows:
symphony No. 98 in B Flat
Major" Haydn-Adagio, allegro;
Adagio cantabile; Menuetto, allegro;
Finale: Presto, piu moderate.
Traume " Wagner
Francesca Da Rimini, Tschaikovsky
Invitations for the third Neigh
borhood Concert, which will be held
November II at Woodrow Wilson
High School, are now being dis
tributed at the information counter
in The Evening Star Building and
will be distributed to Wilson: Alice
Deal Junior; Eaton, Oyster, Murch,
Janney, Lafayette, Mann and Stod-
dert elementary schools and st.
Anne's. Blessed Sacrament, St.
Thomas and Holy Cross parochial
schools.
Evening star., 1947-11-02
Credit Controls End,
But D. {. Stores Shy
From Easier Terms

All remaining wartime controls
over ipstallment buying ended at
midnight last night, but Washing
ton stores planned to continue
present credit terms with only slight
modification.
A check by The Star yesterday
of major department stores and a
cross-section Of smaller retailers
disclosed merchants generally agreed
they hope to continue asking for at
least a 20 per cent down payment
on goods freed last night. This
goods include electrical appliances,
furniture, rugs, lamps and bedding.
Further, the merchants plan to
ask their customers to continue
practice of payment within IL
months.
Appliance Terms Modified.
The modification calls for 20
per cent down payment on electrical
appliances, instead of one-third re-
quired under the Government regu-
lation until yesterday.
Businessmen admit, however, that
much of the future will depend on
both consumers and their COM
petitors.
William Davies, president of the
Associated Retail Credit Men of
Washington, said he did not believe
customers will look for any, drastic
changes" He said there has been
no demand for longer terms,
Generally, he added, it will be
"just as though the regulation was
still in effect"
One store manager said that
dollar-down business was pretty
brutal and added he would have
no objection to re-imposition of
Federal Reserve Board regulation
w, the order which expired last
night
Revival May Be Sought.
The administration may ask for
return of the regulation when Con-
gress reconvenes, as an anti-infla-
ton measure.
The reserve board, in a statement
last week, said "the continuance OF
strong inf1ationary pressure has con-
firmed the belief of the board that
this is no time for relaxation OF
terms by banks. finance companies
and installment sellers"
A showdown in growth of INSTALL
ment credit showed up yesterday in
a board report. 1t noted that the
increase in September volume of
installment credit was much smaller
than the monthly average over the
last II months.
Sears, Roebuck & Co. and Mont
gomery Ward & Co. have announced
they will require a down payment of
only 10 per cent and 18 months to
pay on all merchandise sold on the
insta llnnert nlan
Evening star., 1947-11-02
Baby Strongied
ByCrib Harness.;
| Falls Kill Adults

An infant. who was strangled after
falling from its crib while in a
restraining harness-and two adults
who fell, to their death-brought the
years total of home fatalities here
to 1S1. according to the Red Gross
weekly home accident survey.
Falls accounted for an additional
Al casualties during the week.
A child swallowed a toy whistle
and was taken to Washington hos
pital. A baby dropped by her mot
much older brother" is under
observation for possible conclusion,
the report stated.
Evening star., 1947-11-02
Judge Scott Uncertain
On Results Of Stiff
Penalties for Drunks.
By John W. 'Stepp

| Municipal Court Judge Almond
w. Scott, who one month ago started
giving repeater" drunks severe fines
and Jail terms, yesterday confessed
his experiment has proved "incon-
elusive at best
| Judge Scott made the "regretful'
admission after the final drunk
court" session of his past two-month
term. He will take the bench OF
United States branch of the court
tomorrow under the routine plan of
rotating judges.
Old Offenders Warned.
I The jurist started melting out
penalties ranging up to the maxi
mum of $500 fine or 180 days in Jail
in default of fine on September %
after giving the city's chronic in
toxication defendants week S
warning.
Since then he has sent 275 re
peaters" to District Jail for terms
ranging from 80 days to 18O days
when the defendants failed to pay
fines of $100 up to the $500 maxi
mum specified by law for three
time offenders.
Customary sentences imposed by
other Municipal Court judges aver
age about a S25 fine or 80 days. For
first offenders and defendants whose
court appearances have been year
or more apart Judge Scott in the
past two months declined to impose
! penalties, while the "in-betweens'
got sentences approaching the $25
or 3O-day average.
surveying his month-long expert
ment Judge Scott said he believed
some good has been accomplished,
Had Two Purposes in Mind.
II had two purposes in mind
when decided to try out the heavy
penalties. the jurist declared. I
wanted first to put these people
where they would get decent food
and shelter. and a chance to have
the liquor dried out OF them
The record shows that most of
those who got the heavy sentences
are wanderers who don't have, or
take advantage of, decent homes
and food, and who rarely are sober
except for the time they spend in
Occcquan."
In the second respect, I wanted
to spur public interest in the prob
! lem Of chronic alcoholics who re-
turn again the way they always
have" the judge declared.
Il think the people I ordered
Jailed have benefited at least for
while" Judge Scott said. "As for
the public -interest-well. I'm dubi-
GUS because I'm afraid the rank and
file of society has hard time keep
ing up sufficient concern over this
problem.
Hoped To Help Them.
He said that lin any event, E1y
purpose was not to brutalize or
punish these repeaters but to help
save them from themselves until
such time as the city provides an
institution for their proper, full
f1edged care and rehabilitation
A breakdown of sentences the
Judge imposed upon chronic Offend
iers during the one-month period
shows-1l got the maximum of $500
fine or 18O days in Jail in default of
the fine: ten received $500 fines or
80 days; two, $3.50 or 80 days: eight,
5000 or 80 days: six. 5000 or so days;
eight, 500 or 180 days; 13, 500 or so
days.
The majority of $50 defendants
drew 500 fines with an alternative
80 days in Jail, while 66 others were
sentenced 80 days straight time plus
500 fine or an additional 80 days
| to serve in default of payment,
Evening star., 1947-11-02
CheverIy-T uxedo School
To Be Dedicated Today

The Cheverly- Tuxedo Elementary
School. which recently was rebuilt
with an addition. at the cost of
s272.0OO will be dedicated in cere-
n,onies at 8 pm. today at the school,
Cheverly and BeDeview avenues,
Chcverly.
Guests will include State Super
in cnocnt of Schools Thomas Pullen
and Assistant Superintendent John
j. Seidel. Mr.. Seidel will give the
dedicatory address.
Evening star., 1947-11-02
Election Returns on Air

Arlington County election returns
will be broadcast over Station
WEAM Tuesday night until 1:3O
am. Programs will include inter-
views at Democratic and Repub-
lican headquarters at 11:45 pm. and
i2.45 am.
Evening star., 1947-11-02
Girl Scouts to RuIIy

Girl Scouts of Fairfax County will
hold a county wide rally at $3.50 pm.
today at Camp Kistinowewi, at Nc
Lean, Va. The program will include
massing of colors and plays by
Brownie troop. two intermediate
troops and a senior troop.
Evening star., 1947-11-02

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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-03-28
WEALTHY NEW YORK

The wealth of the State Of
New York can be seen from
the fact that individuals and
corporations in the Empire
State in 1916 paid into the
Federal Treasury in income
taxs $7,730,000,00O.
This is more than was
paid by the six New England
States, plus ten States of the
South. 1t is more than paid
by any two States and great
er than the combination of
the industrial States of Mich
igah, Massachusetts,, n e w
Jersey, North Carolina, Mis-
souri, and Texas.
New York has the largest
number of people of any
State, has the worlds largest
and richest municipality.
has long been the financial
capital of this country and
now, with the advent of the
United Nations, is likely to
become the capital of the
world organization.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-03-28
AMERICAN CITIES
ARE OBSOLETE

"The average American
city is as obsolete as a 1910
automobile" declares Luth-
er Gulick. president of the
Institute of Public Admins
tration, who calls attention
to the fact that the automo-
bile, bus and truck have
done more to make the
physical plan of the Ameri-
can city inadequate and out
NODDED than anything else in
a thousand years.
There can be little doubt
of the correctness of the con-
clusion of this authority on
public administration. I'm
doubtedly, the pattern of
city streets and inter-city
highways was not construct
ed for motor vehicle trans
pOrtation and the layout of
American C t i e s occurred
long before anybody imagin-
ed the present-day conges-
ton of motor traffic.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-03-28
TIMELY WARNING

City Commissioners Louis
Carbonell and Hunter Hard
EN- may well feel assured
that the people of Key West
are behind them in the stand
they took on the city budget,
in their.endeavors to have the
taxes in Key West reduced,
and in their voting not to
have the name of the south
shore of the boulevard
changed from Roosevelt
Boulevard to Marti Boule-
ward.
They were right, too, and
have the plaudits of all
clear-thinking Key Westers,
in opposing the movement to
permit saloons in Key West
to be open on a 24-hour basis
du. ing Marti Week. Mayor
Demeritt is to be commend
ed on joining them to kill
that proposal.
Carbonell and Harden
arc too young to have
known Jose Marti, but May
or Demeritt knew him. And
the mayor knows that Mar
ii was not a liquor drinker,
and was temperate in all his
tastes. A great deal of the
inspiring poetry he wrote
rang with faith in mankind
to be master of his soul"
Were Marti alive, he
would be sorely distressed
were he told that liquor
houses in Key West were to
be opened ''round-the-elock"
in "honor" of him. And ev-
cry Cuban in Key West and
in Cuba who knew him
resentS the implication that
his name be linked with
liquor drinking.
In connection with that
proposal, which was sup
ported by two commissions
ers, Mayor Demeritt let fall
a sledge- hammer hint that
barrOom keepers in Key
West may we'll heed. He said
that if too many advantages
are sought by local liquor
dealers, the county may
wake up and find itself dry
some day" after a referen-
dunn on the liquor question.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-03-28
Today's Anniversaries
know America)

1674-William Byrd, famed Vir-
ginia planter, author, official, pa
tron of the arts, son of the famde
Virginia planter-merchant of the
same name, born at Westover
Va. Died Aug. &c, 1744
1887 - Theodore Freylinghuy-
sen, New Jersey US. senator
lawyer, Rutgers University presi-
dent, born Somerset Co., N. j
Died April IL, 1862.
1793-Henry r. Sehoolcraft
famed ethnologist, explorer and
writer on the Indians, born in AL
bany, N. Y. Died Dec. 10, 1864.
18l8-Wade Hampton, Confed-
crate general, cotton planter
South Carolina US. senator and
governor, born Columbia, S. c.
Died April IL, 1902.
l897-Frank Hawks, noted pio-
neer aviator, born in Marshall.
town, Iowa. Killed in air crash
Aug. %, 1898.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-03-28
N0TICE or INTENTION 70 APPLY
FOR PASSAGE or LEGAL ole
SPECIAL BILL NONROt.
GaI WY. FLORIDA

Notice is hereby given that. pur-
suaut to the requirement "t section
II Of Article Ill of the Constitution
of the State "f Florida, as amended
at the general election in lP%S, APP
plic;tiuu will he made by the UNI
dersigned to tho Legislature of the
state of Florida at III" regular
session of said Legislature 10 be
held during the year 1947 for the
passage Of local or special Dill
Fixing the Salary Sf the
county Solicitor Of the Criminal
Court Of Record for Monroe
County. State of Florida: Pro
Vidiug That Said Salary Shall
Ec Ia Lieu of All other Com
pensation: Providing That Same
Shall BE Paid BY Said county
out "f the General Fund Of said
County; and RepealiHg Laws in
Conflict Herewith.
Dated at Key West, Florida. this
- day of March, \. l.. 1917.
ALLAN p. (IEARE, JR.
mar 2S-l947 II
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-03-28
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR
tax DEED
H~nNe RiIl Ne, 1882

NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN, that
J"hn II. Payne. tie holder of the
following certificates has filed said
certificates for tax deed To he
issued thereon. The certificate mum =
hers and Years of issuance, the de-
scription of the property, and the
names i'm which ii was assessed are
az follows:
Certificate No. 2s4. Year of Is
suance 1896.
Description of Property: PALM
VILLA. BIG u \ T. X Il \.
Plat BooK !. PAGE so. I!DA
!, SEC. %, TWP. 80. L. %. Lot
, Sqr. 10. D3-355. As recorded in
Monroe County Records.
Name in which assessed, T. A.
Gray
All Of said property being in the
County Of Monroe. State of Florida.
Unless such certificate or ccrtifi-
Gates shall be redeemed according
to law the property described in
such certificate or certificates Will
be sold to the highest bidder at the
court house door ON the first Mon
day in the month of May, 1914.
which is the 9Th day of May, l941.
Dated this 2lst day of March,
l947.
tSFAL) ROSS & SAW Y FIR,
clerk of Circuit Court Of
Monroe County. Florida.
may 81 Is: apr Al /, l347