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The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-05-30
VOLUNTEERS SET | UP NEW STOVE AT
 SCOUT CAMP SITE

Twenty-six men in true Juneau spirit have made possible the trans portation and installation of the oil burning range which will be used this year at the Scout Camp at Eagle River, it was announced today by Mrs. c. c. Carter, Girl Scout camp committee chairman.
 On Sunday Cash Cole took the stove out by water to the camp site where a group of men were waiting to move the stove from the shore into the camp kitchen. The tide was not high upon arrival of the scow and as approximately six hours had to elapse before the tide was fav- orable. A number of the men were forced to return to Juneau. Those remaining were only able to get the stove because of it's tremendous weight to point slightly above high tide.
 : On Tuesday a second group went to camp, took the old stove down end moved the second stove into the building. On the following day the Juneau Heating and Plumbing Co., volunteer installed and connected the stove and the oil barrels.
 An expression of appreciation from the Girl Scout organization is ex- tended. through the courtesy of The Empire to the Lions Club and to the men who helped move and in- stall the stove and to the men who financed transportation of the stove from Juneau.
 These men include: Gil Eidie, Mil ton Daniel, Marshall Erwin, Ed Keithahn, Gene Erwin, Montey Watkins, Kenneth Grimes of Seat tie; Robert Boochever John Peter son, Cash Cole, William Feather stone. Ralph Rivers, Larry Parker Robert Treat, Del Hanks, Peter Wood. Lester Roberts, Buster Poole, J. Earl, Evan Wruck, Scott L. Mur- phy, C. C. Carter, Selwyn J. Howell Clayburn F. Palmer and James s. Drake.
 The North Transfer Go. too had volunteered to take the stove to Eagle River landing by truck.
 When you pay for QUALITY why not get the FINEST-Buy FLOR SHEIM SHOES at Graves.
Evening star., 1947-07-19

More than 100 volunteer workers
were busy today preparing Hybla
Valley Airport for the crowd of
10000 person expected at the Sec
ond National Capital model air
show tomorrow to see an estimated
1000 miniature planes perform aloft.
Carl Hopkins, national model
aviation chairman for the Veterans
of Foreign Wars, who will direct the
meet sponsored by The Star, Ma
tional Airport Club and VFW, an
nounced that more than 300 model
ers from east of the Mississippi have
entered.
Charles M. O'Malley, past VFW
department commander, said men,
bers from all posts will turn to" to
erect tents and prepare for specta-
tors.
Waldo Nichols, National Airport
Club president, said his group will
furnish so timers equipped with
stop watches to clock the gas-pow-
cred models. The tiny planes fly
in 70-foot circles at more than 100
miles an hour, as well as in free
flight.
Military Police to Guide Crowd.
Col. George c. Weber, command
ing officer of the military police
battalion, District National Guard
said a contingent from his force
would help guide the crowd.
Meet officials were gathering tents
and other equipment secured from
the Army, including several walkie-
talkies to be used in rapid trans
mission of results and in reporting
Evening star., 1947-07-19
Bill Carrying $4,000
For Courthouse Passes
House, Goes 10 Senate

The House has approved $370,OOO
for planning the new Federal Court
house here and has sent to the
Senate the supplemental appropria-
lions bill providing the funds.
BY voice vote, the House late
yesterday passed the measure, which
also carries an item of $181 900 to
bring the salaries of teachers at
Howard University in line with those
paid teachers in the public schools
here.
The courthouse project would be
transferred by the bill from the
Architect of the Capitol to the
Public Buildings Administration OF
the Federal Works Agency. The
$4,000 would be used for plans
and specifications only, but not for
construction.
Site of the new courthouse. au-
thorized by law, is on Constitution
avenue between Third street and
John Marshall place NV, now used
as a parking lot.
AS the bill went to the Senate, 1t
would eliminate completely a re-
quest by the Architect of the Capt.
tol for $4,000 to make studies OF
extra Office space for both the Sen
ate and House.
Also cut out was the request OF
the Public Buildings Administration
for 100000 to revise cafeterias in
public buildings to conform to
sanitary regulations of the District
Government. The cafeterias are
run by Government Services, Inc
Evening star., 1947-07-19
Tighter Law 10 Curb
Obscene Matter Asked

The Justice Department has asked
Congress to supplement laws against
the interstate transportation of OBJ
scene matter.
Douglas w. McGregor, assistant
to the Attorney General, in letter
to Speaker of the House Martin,
declared that new legislation is
needed to curb widespread evil
Already, he explained, the deposit
ing of obscene matter for mailing
or with a common carrier for inter-
state carriage is punishable by a
S. 900 fine and five years imprison-
ment. But, he added, there is no
law against interstate transporta-
ton of obscene matter by private
conveyance"
A proposed bill submitted by Mr..
McGregor would make transporta-
ton of any kind of obscene matter
punishable by fine of not more
than $1,000 or Imprisonment for not
more than five years or both.
Evening star., 1947-07-19
Residents Urged TO Aid
Harrington Paper Drive

Mrs. Vera A. Dean, in charge OF
the darlington (Va.) paper collec-
ton campaign, today urged residents
of the housing development to parti-
cirate more actively" in the drive.
She said the Goodyear blimp
Enterprise" will fly over the de-
velopment at 10 o'clock tonight to
advertise the campaign. If the
weather is bad, the flight will be
made on the first clear Saturday.
Approximately $500 has been COL
lected from the sale of paper since
the drive started May "a. Mrs. Dean
reported.
Of this, $118 was obtained as a
result of the last collection July IL,
she said, adding that she believed
this figure could be tripled if every
one co-operated more"
Collections are made the second
and fourth Saturdays of each month.
Mrs. Dean asked residents to keep
the paper in their apartments until
a collection day, when it should
be taken to the nearest heating
plant.
The drive Is sponsored by the Fair
lington Association, of which Everett
L. Butler is president.
Evening star., 1947-07-19
S50,000 Damage Suit Filed
In B.&0. Crossing Collision

Suit for $4,000 damages was filed
in District Court yesterday against
the Baltimore g. Ohio Railroad Co.,
and the Congressional Country Club
in connection with the bus-train
collision in May at the Dorset ave-
nue. crossing in Kenwood, Md.
The suit was brought by the ad-
ministratrix of the estate of Elsie
williams, 47, OF 1914 Twenty fifth
street NV, an employe of the club,
who was killed in the accident. She
was a passenger on the bus, owned
by the club.
The papers asked damages "for
death by wrongful act" for the bene-
fit of Mrs. williams surviving son
and mother.
Two other persons were killed and
five were injured in the accident
The bus was carrying 13 homeward-
bound employees of the club to the
Tenley Circle transit terminal in
Washington.
Evening star., 1947-07-19

runaway planes from down-wind
outposts.
Capt. Charles w. Holmes of the
VFW honor guard said his white
uniformed group is fully briefed to
help with parking problems and es-
corting of distinguished guests.
Army Air Forces general officers,
who have Endorsed model aviation
as one of the important factors in
creating an air-minded America and
developing aerodynamic experts and
future guided missile pilots, will be
interested spectators, meet officials
predicted. A number of air attaches
from foreign legations are expected
to attend, and special exhibits of
Army equipment will be made, Of
ficials said.
Show to Open at 9 AM.
Hybla Valley Airport is situated
about miles south of Alexandria
on the old Richmond road cutoff
from Route /. The show will open
at 9 am. and continue through
6 pm.
Meantime. the prize list has
grown to rs items as last-minute
donations poured in from hobby
shops, merchants, airlines executives
and individual VFW posts. Four
trips to the Detroit international
model air meet were offered by
Plymouth dealers, while trophies,
model plane gasoline motors, hand
some tool kits and other articles
for modelers were heaped high on
the counters of Corr's Hobby Shop
at 812 Ninth st. NV.
Evening star., 1947-07-19
Cosman Jewe|ry Loot
Fished From Sewer as
Are Held

Jewelry stolen in a recent rob-
berry in Bethesda, Md, was flsheo
out of District sewer late yes
terday as police prepared their case
against three men suspected in con-
nection with this case and charged
with another recent robbery In
Prince Georges County.
The jewelry, which was hauled
from the muddy slime of sewer on
Taylor street NE, near Hawaii ave-
nue., was a good part of that taken
from Mr.. and Mrs. Nathan Cosman
of Bethesda on June 20, police said
Detective Sergt. William Coffey
of the Metropolitan Police Depart
ment said the sewer loot was con-
tanned in a cigarette carton and that
it included several bracelets, rings,
pins, necklaces and earrings.
Other Jewelry Recovered.
The carton, it was said, had been
placed in one corner of the sewer
opening, apparently with the idea
that it could be hauled out again,
but it evidently slipped to the muddy
bottom. The police said they could
not disclose the source of the in
formation that led them to look in
the sewer.
Besides the Bethesda loot, police
said that on Thursday night, three
watches worth about $1,650 and a
.32-caliber automatic pistol had
been recovered. The watches, it was
said, are believed to be part Of
nearly $1,000 worth of jewelry stolen
in July from the nome of Mr.. and
Mrs. Spruce Baird in the 2700 block
of Arundel road, Mount Rainier, Md.
Hyattsville police have formally
charged three men with holdup and
robbery in connection with the Baird
case. The men are listed as John
A. Mullen, 80, of the 1000 block
D street NE; George c. Neal, 20,
of the 1400 block Harvard street
NV, and Robert E. Lee Brinn, 70,
of the same address. Each is un-
der $1,000 bond pending preliminary
hearing at 10 am. Monday before
Trial Magistrate Alan Bowie OF
Prince Georges County. Mullen
made his bond late yesterday. but
the others were still being held.
Fourth Man Freed.
A fourth man, Ernest Newton
White, IS, of the TOO block Fourth
street NV, was released yesterday
after Prince Georges County police
at Hyattsville said the three men
held had absolved White OF all
completely in connection with the
alleged robberies.
The police at Hyattsville said the
Montgomery County police have
asked that detainers be placed
against Mullen, Neal and Brinn In
connection with the Cosman case.
Besides Sergt. Coffey, other Of
ficers who investigated the two
cases included Metropolitan Police
Detective Sergts. Daniel B. Ken
aedy and william Sparshot, Precinct
Detectives Lloyd B. Furr and Ver-
non H. Culpepper. Prince Georges
County Detective Pearson and Capt
Ted Volton of the Montgomery
County police.
Evening star., 1947-07-19
Col. Peyser Chairman
Of Planning Council

Col. julius I. Peyser was named
board chairman and Edward Bur-
ling jr. was elected president Of the
Citizens Council for Community
Planning, Inc. 1t was announced
yesterday. Both are Washington
attorneys.
Other officers elected were Mrs.
William H. Wells, executive vice
president; Col. Campbell G. john
son, second vice president; Walter
NJ. Tobriner, third vice president;
Benjamin Thoron, treasurer and
James C. Turner, secretary.
Heads of standing COMMITTEES are
Paul Oppermann, city planning;
Harry Barrett, transportation; Mrs.
j. c. McClintock, housing; Morris
Miller, legislative; Walter Lochheim
jr., administrative, and Geraldine
Kinne, volunteers.
Evening star., 1947-07-19
Metropolitan Police
Praised by Horan for
Carrying Load Here

Praise for the good job" being done
by the Metropolitan Police Depart
ment under a variety of handicaps
came today from Chairman Horan
of the House Appropriations Sub
committee handling District f1nan-
ces.
Mr.. Horan cited as the principal
handicap the numerous police forces
acting independently here. In the
welter of conflicting authority and
responsibility, he said, the metro
politan force winds up by carrying
the load"
Mr.. Horan said he is anxious to
help the metropolitan force by re-
viewing the authority of eight or
more different police forces also
operating here.
Among them, he listed the Capitol,
White House, Park and National
Airport police, various special agents,
building guards, merchant police
and Treasury guards.
He said he had already had pre-
liminary investigation made of this
variety of police forces and that the
investigation would be continued.
While the ideal would be single
force, he said, he didn't think that
ideal would ever be reached. BY
analysing the various forces here,
however, I'VE can find out If any
thing can be done to help out the
Metropolitan Police, he added.
When the investigation is COM
pleted, he said, the report will be
submitted to all appropriations sub
committees handling the budgets
of agencies with separate police
forces.
II have nothing but the highest
regard for the Metropolitan Police"
he emphasized. They're my respon-
sibility and I think they're a good
force
Evening star., 1947-07-19
Policeman Fires at ProwIer
FIeeinq With S24 LOOT

A fourth precinct policeman took
one shot at a fleeing prowler early
today, but the man escaped with
loot valued at approximately $24,
police reported.
A scout car and a patrol wagon
were sent to the Southwest Sporting
Store, SOB Seventh street S.W., about
2:30 am. today following a report
that a cellar door was open and
that man was inside.
As Pvt. L. w. Kelly tried to enter
a rear side door, he saw a colored
man carrying a bright object in
his right hand emerge from a front
side door. police said. When the
man ignored an order to halt, Pvt
Kelly fired. The suspect escaped
east through the alley, Pvt. Kelly
reported.
Benjamin Dorsey, owner of the
store, later told police fishing equip
ment valued at $24 was missing.
Evening star., 1947-07-19
Written Statements
Are Studied for Clues
In Death Of Plank

Fairfax County officials trying to
solve the riddle of Norman Leroy
Plank's death began hearing the
stories today of persons who saw
him before he was fatally shot on
July 8.
BY studying their written state
ments, Commemorative Attorney
Hugh B. Marsh and detectives hoped
to find a clue that will lead them
to Plank's slayer, if the bullet hole
in his head was inflicted by another
person.
Still regarded as the No. I per-
former in the little drama which
unraveled in Fairfax County police
headquarters was Alvah B. Martin,
20, a guest at Plank's home just be-
fore the shooting.
Martins Stories Conflict.
Martin was arrested last week in
Kingston, N. Y, driving car be-
longing to Mrs Nell L. Burner,
Plank's sister, who lives at 4108
Forest lane, Chesterbrook Woods,
near Falls Church, where Plank was
killed,
Martin repeatedly has denied
shooting Plank, but his stories have
been conflicting. Mr.. Marsh hoped
to draw from him today statement
he will sign and stick to.
Mrs. Burner, who was away from
home the week end her brother was
shot, also was in line, for question
ing, as was her son, Donald, "a, who
found the body about 1890 am.
July 7. Mr.. Burner had spent the
Fourth of July week end at resort
near Annapolis.
Others Also Called.
At least one of the eight per-
sons who attended a holiday party
in the Burner home was another
whose story Mr.. Marsh wanted to
fill in gaps leading to the shooting.
A neighbor who saw Martin at the
home day before Plank died also
was called.
Sergt. Cecil L. Brown, first to
arrive when Mr.. Burner summoned
the police, completed the roster of
witnesses. Police Chief Carl Nc
Intosh and Detective Chief H. T.
Magarity assisted with the inter-
rogation. Mr.. Marsh said there
probably would be no statement OF
the findings unless something un-
expected was turned up.
Evening star., 1947-07-19
By the Associated Press

The Senate headed for vote
today on presidential reorganiza-
ton plan to group three existing
housing agencies under a single
administrator.
The plan has been rejected by
the House but, under the reorgani-
zation law, it will become effective
anyway unless the Senate also turns
it down.
Senator Flanders, Republican, OF
Vermont, member of the Senate
Banking Committee which recon-
mended approval OF sthe plan, said
he intended to call it up for vote
during the day. He predicted a
"close vote"
The plan calls for establishing
new housing and home finance
agency headed by an administrator
and a seven-man national housing
council.
The new agency would generally
supervise and dovetail the work OF
the present Home Loan Bank Board
Federal Housing Administration and
Public Housing Administration.
Evening star., 1947-07-19
Lone Witness Records Courtship
Of Emperor Penquins at Zoo

the bird Of his choice and bowed.
Thereafter he remained attentively
at her side as they waddled, like
comic strip characters, around the
pool or sat happily together atop a
heap of cracked ice.
In few days the male stepped
up the tempo of his affair by run
ming circles around his lady love,
clockwise for three or four rounds,
then counter -clockwise. Meanwhile,
he began to arch mis- neck, throw
his neck back and emit deep trum-
peting sound.
Now and then the famale, ap-
parently enchanted, would lower
her head and chime in on a shriller
note. Mr.. Davis, who learned about
penguins as a member of the Byrd
Antarctic expedition just before the
war, took to dropping in on the
couple at night.
Enthusiastic Embrace.
The birds were accustomed to the
darkness, and Mr.. Davis could hear
them stirring about before he
turned his tlashlight on them. After
several days of preliminaries, the
emperor rushed up to the female
and embraced her with his f1ippers
patting her on the back with great
enthusiasm. Then he resumed his
circular beat, still trumpeting.
Mr.. Davis, who has collected birds
all over the world for the Zoo
and is a graduate of George Wash
ington University, where he majored
in zoology, is writing up his obser-
vations for pathological journals
The sole surviving emperor has
lived more than six years in captiv-
ity, new record. Native to germ
less region of perpetual ice and
snow, the big penguins, like those
recently returned by the Navy's Ant
arctic expedition usually die soon OF
respiratory ailments.
The courtship observed here, Mr.
Davis feels, may very well remain
unique in scientific records.
Evening star., 1947-07-19
Stores in District
Ready to'Co||ect
Tax
Levy Will Be Token
Only on Goods They
Deliver Into State

Department stores in the Dis
trict, and other stores aff1nated with
the Merchants and Manufacturers
Association, were preparing today
to collect the Maryland use tax.
Edward B. Shaw. secretary of
the association, announced yester-
day that the department store
group had decided 'it would be ex-
pedient and necessary to charge
their Maryland customers the 2 per
cent use on all applicable merchan-
disc which they are required to de-
liver into Maryland 49,"
At the same time he added that
the furniture store group "and some
applicance stores of the association"
decided to follow the lead of the
department stores.
AS soon as he learned of the
decision, Walter E. Kennedy, chief
of the retail sales tax division of
the State Controllers Office, said
he was gratified that the merchants
"are cooperating with the Control
Ter of Maryland in his effort to
properly and equitably administer
the sales tax law" ~
The tax, however, will be COL
lected only on merchandise deliv-
cred in store trucks. On purchases
made in stores here by Maryland
customers and taken away by them,
or shipped by common carrier, the
responsibility for the paying the
tax will rest with the buyer. {
Mr.. Shaw said the collection of
the tax will begin "as soon as it
is practicable to set up the neces-
sary procedure within the stores
and to obtain the licenses required"
Over 200 applications for licenses
have been received from District
dealers, according to Mr.. Kennedy.
Evening star., 1947-07-19

Chest Federation
campaign.
Th e appoint
ment of Com
nnodore Ell er
who is director
of the Navy Di-
vision of Public
Information, was
a n n o u need by
Assistant Secre-
tary of the Navy
w. John Ken
ney, Government
u n i t chairman
of the 1948 Chest
campaign.
Evening star., 1947-07-19
Bethesda Church Plans
Ground-Breoking Rites

Groundbreak ceremonies for the
new st. Johns Episcopal Church
in Bethesda will be held at l2:l5
pm. tomorrow at the site beside the
present chapel, Wisconsin avenue
and Bradley lane.
The Rev. William r. Creighton,
pastor, will lead the ceremony after
II am. services.
Evening star., 1947-07-19
Ex-MoryIond OfficioI
Accused of Larceny
By the Associated Press

BALTIMORE, July ia former
claims examiner for the Maryland
Employment Security Board was un-
der presentment today on seven
charges of forgery and larceny.
The defendant, James H. William
son, 80, was presented by the grand
jury on charges of larceny of four
$40 checks ana Of forging six others
in the same amount. He was de-
scribed as former supervisor of the
department, which handles veterans
subsistence allowances.
Evening star., 1947-07-19
Lafayette Park Cleanup
Results in Al Arrests

What police termed routine
cleanup resulted in the arrest OF
Al men in Lafayette Park across
from the White House between 10
pm. yesterday and am. today.
1t. Roy Blick. head of the vice
squad, ordered the cleanup "just to
see who the men were who were
hanging out in the park" he said.
Each was booked on an open charge,
photographed, f1ngerprinted, ques-
toned and released.
Four patrol. wagons were used to
carry the men to headquarters.
Evening star., 1947-07-19
By w. H. Shippen, Jr.

The only man known to have OBJ
served the courtship of an emperor
penguin was writing up his notes
today in an effort to shed Scme light
on a mystery as deep as that sur
rounding the love life of the whale.
The courtship normally takes
place in subzero, winter-long dark
ness, upon some remote Antarctic
ice shelf totally devoid of other ami
NAL life. The big emperors never
leave this habitat voluntarily.
Thus when two of the only three
known survivors began to keep
steady company in their refrigerated
quarters at the Washington Zoo,
Assistant Headkeeper Malcolm Davis
recognized an pathological scoop
in the making.
1t was a dignified, full-dress affair
which lasted for almost week, day
and night, although the birds never
mated and, unfortunately, never
produced any eggs.
OF Mature Age.
This may or may not have been
due to the fact that the couple had
reached a mature age for emperor
penguins-an estimated IS or 40
years. Both females, the chosen as
well as the neglected. died a few
months later.
The only survivor known to be
in captivity anywhere in the worlo
is the male, now living out his de-
clining years practically knee-deer
in lesser penguins which the en-
peror quietly ignores.
In view of the courtship, Mr.. Da-
Wis is quite sure the survivor is a
male, although both sexes have 8
similar appearance and share the
duty of incubating single egg in
the intense cold of the Antartit
night.
Bow Opens Romance.
At any rate, the romance began
when the emperor Strode over tC
Evening star., 1947-07-19
First Girls State Opens
At Rudford Tomorrow
By the Assoeioted Pres,

RADFoRD, Va, July 19.-The
first Virginia Girls State, patterned
after Boys State experiments IN
learning government by actuS
practice, will open at Radford Coz.
lege tomorrow with lis outstanding
high school girls participating.
Sponsored by the Virginia De-
partment American Legion Auxlll.
ary, the inaugural Girls State VIII
be held concurrently with the fifth
Old Dominion Boys State az
Blacksburg. ~
Evening star., 1947-07-19

of the Board of
trustees yester-
day.
Mr.. Walker.
member of the
Academy class
of 1924, is vice
president Of the
Combustion En-
gineering Co.
Other newly
elected officers
of the associa-
tion ares
S. D. Foster,
Arnold, Md; A.
Arnold Brand,
jr Chicago. r.