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Building Permits
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manship of S. R. Harrison, deputy
engineer of streets.
Other members of the committee
are Joseph J. Ilgenfritz, deputy di-
rector for inspection; w. N. Handl-
Doe, assistant chief clerk of the
engineer department; E. A. Press
assistant to the director of sanitary
engineering: J. L. Bateman. plumb
ing contractor. Jack A. Stone cleo
trical contractor: L. L. Kemp. con-
struction firm official; c. j. Harnett
general contractor, and George T.
Santmyers, architect. The group has
been operating under the supervi-
sion of 1t. Col. Kenneth Madsen
Assistant Engineer Commissioner.
Bootleg" Alterations Made.
The Engineer Commissioner said
it was generally recognized that a
certain amount of. bootleg build
ing alteration has been going on in
the District. Considering the diff
culties involved in getting official
permission for proposed changes,
this was not surprising. he indicated
In commenting on the time now
required to get permit, Gen.
Young said that to get his permit
person has to run all over hell
today.
Another reason why builders are
! inclined to evade permit require
ments, under the present setup, is
that If they are caught making con-
struction changes without permis-
sion about all they have to do is to
stop work until they get a permit.
Space Is Problem.
( A considerable problem is involved
in finding space where the project
ed central bureau for the issuance
of building permits could be housed.
Gen. Young said it is possible that
the plan may prove too expensive
and that in any event "it will be
six weeks or two months before We
can get something definite on it,"
/ One possibility is to house the new
setup in an abandoned school or
some other outlying District prop
erty, rather than to try to squeeze
/ it into the District Building Or the
! Municipal Center Building. where
activities of the city government
now are centered. Gen. Young said
this might involve transferring the
whole building inspectors office out
Of the District Building.
While a system which encouraged
builders and owners to apply for
permits before making structural
changes would tend to prevent dis
asters such as the Empire Apart
ment collapse, Gen. Young said he
did not think it would be possible
to set up system whereby all
Washington buildings would be in
spected for structural safety as
matter of routine.
Unless there are gross signs of
impending failure, there is no way
we can tell whether a building is
safe without tearing out the plaster
to examine the skeleton of the
structure" he said.
Evening star., 1947-12-26
Services Tomorrow
For 6. N. Lightfoot,
Retired Professor

Funeral services for Prof George
NJ Lightfoot, 78, who for 48 years
taught at both the old Howard
Academy and later at Howard Uni
versity, will be held at l pm. to-
morrow at Berean Baptist Church
Eleventh and v streets NV.
Prof Lightfoot, who retired in
1889, died Wednesday at his home
1929 Missouri avenue NV Burial
will be in Lincoln Memorial
Cemetery.
A native of Culpeper. Va, he was
graduated from Williams College in
1891 and came to Howard Academy
where he taught until 1912.
In 1912, he was made a professor
of Latin at Howard University and
headed the Latin department ano
the summer school from 1925 to 1885
He received a masters degree from
Catholic University in 1922.
He wrote several books on the
classics and served as editor in chief
of the Howard University Record
from 1919 to 1924. In 1945 he gave
S. 900 for a scholarship in the COL
lege of liberal arts
During the administration of
President Theodore Roosevelt, Prof
Lightfoot was appointed to the Dis
trict Board of Charities. In 1880
he served as member of the Ma
tional Committee on the Brazilian
Celebration.
Prof, Lightfoot was a member OF
the American Classical League, the
Classical Association of the Atlantic
States and the Association of Uni
versity Professors. He organized the
Classical Club at Howard Univer-
sity.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs
Susie F. Lightfoot; a son, George
M. Lightfoot. jr., of Cambridge
Mass; a daughter, Mrs. Dolores Kir-
by of New York, and one grand
daughter.
Evening star., 1947-12-26
|ITU Asks Government
To Specify Papers in
Unfair Practices Suit
BY the Associotad Press

The AFL International Typograph-
ical Union today asked that Gov
ernment attorneys be required to
name the newspaper publishers
against whom the union Is accused
Of committing unfair labor prac-
tices.
Two union motions in the case,
which was brought to the National
Labor Relations Board by the
American Newspaper Publishers
Association, were distributed by mail
to all the parties.
They ask Arthur Left. an NLRB
trial examiner who is hearing the
case, to require the Office of NLRB
General Counsel Robert N. Denham
to make its official complaint more
definite as to language and specify
names, dates and places.
Hearings Set January 7.
Gerhard Van Arkel, union coun-
sci, told a reporter the motions
would not prevent the hearings from
reopening January in Chicago, as
scheduled.
One of today's motions, asking for
bill of particulars" demanded
that such facts as these be included
in the complaint:
THE times when, the places where
and the means by which" the union
allegedly has caused employers to
discriminate against nonunion en-
ployers and the names Of such en-
ployes.
Alternatives Scared.
The other motion relates to va
rious alternatives in the complaint.
For example, wherever the COM
plant says the union "caused or
attempted to cause" the employer
to do something, the union wants
the complaint to say whether the
union caused" or attempted to
cause"
Where the complaint says the
union is 'instructing, requiring or
directing" its local unions to do
something, the union wants to know
whether it was "instructing," re
quiring" or directing"
Mr.. Left has the power to rule on
the motions before the January 7
hearing If he desires.
Evening star., 1947-12-26
2.AIarm Fire Damages
House.; Blaze Destroys
Liquor Store Display

A tvo-story brick house at 1888
Farrasut street NV. was badly
damaged by a two-alarm fire shortly
before midnight and an adjoining
house was damaged by smoke.
Miss Emma A. F. Holzer and her
mother Mrs. Ida Holzer, were en-
yeloped by smoke when they opened
the front door of their home on re-
turning from a visit with relatives
in Alexandria last night.
Firemen responding to box alarm
turned in second alarm.
The basement and first floor of
the semidetached row house were
damaged by fire and the second
floor by smoke. The adjoining
house at 1925 Eighth street NV. oc-
cupied by Walter N. Hogan, suffered
smoke damage No one was home
at the time, it was reported.
New Tragedy for Family.
The fire was the second tragedy
within two weeks for the Holzer
family. Mrs. Holzer's husband,
James J. Holber, retired Govern
ment employe. died December Is.
A Christmas display Of liquors was
DESTROYED when fire which centered
in the show window of the Wash
incton Wine e. Liquor Co., 1911
PENNSYLVANIA avenue NV, popped
corks and exploded bottles early to-
dav. Wilbur Sherwood, manager,
said the fire also damaged some of
the stock near the front of the store
Near Jamestown. Md, fire be-
Iieved TO have started in faulty
chimney virtually destroyed two
story frame farmhouse. with dam
age estimated at $4,000.
Fireman Hospitalized.
. Mr.. and Mrs. Lionel E. Elwin
who were in the house at the time
of the fire. according to members
of the Gaithersburg Volunteer Fire
Department. we're left homeless
The Rockville Volunteer Fire De-
partment also responded to the
alarm and helped save much OF
the furniture. Montgomery County
police said. The house was on the
DarnestoWn-S Seneca road.
A fireman of No. 10 Engine Co
went to Emergency Hospital with
possible abdominal injury last night
when he was struck by the stream
from a fire hose in fighting fire
In a contractors shed at an apart
ment construction project at 460S
Bass place Sc.
Emergency Hospital authorities
said Pvt j. c. Reynolds, the in
iured man. had spent a comfort
able night and that his condition
was good
Evening star., 1947-12-26
Duchess of Windsor Regoins
Crown of Best-Dressed Woman

sisters are Mrs. Vincent Astor and
Mrs. John Hay Whitney.
Mrs. Paley is fond of black for
daytime, wears little or no jewelry
and is often seen without a hat.
Mrs. Harrison Williams, tall, will
lowy and with blue-gray hair, has
made the list of the 80 best
dressed" for many years. Most of
her clothes come from Paris.
Mrs. William Rhinelander Stewart
is the daughter of Fleming Newbold
of Washington.
Mrs. Byron Foy. the former
Thelma Chrysler. was one of the
first women in New York to adopt
the new look
Mrs. Wilson Is Human.
Mrs. John C. Wilson, wife of the
theatrical producer, was once mar
ried to Lucien LIE Long, the French
designer. She is Russian, born
Princes Natalie Paley, cousin of the
Grand Duchess Marie.
Millicent Rogers, daughter of the
late Henry HuddleSton Rogers, mas
look of fragility which she height
ems by clothes that drape and float
in the evening, simple tailored
clothes for daytime.
Mrs Howard Hawks, young blond
and beautiful, wife of the Hollywood
producer, has indorsed the new
look" because she says: Next to
a hamburger stand, womans knee
is the ugliest joint in the world
Mrs. Geoffrey Gates is the former
Louise Macy Hopkins. widow of
Harry Hopkins. A former fashion
writer, she knows how to dress ef-
fectively on small budget.
Mrs. William Wallace, better
known as Ina Claire, the actress.
likes crisp, tailored clothes and
stresses her belief that "a woman
never makes a mistake buying a
suit"
The visible surface of the planet
Jupiter has a temperature about 248
degrees below freezing.
Evening star., 1947-12-26
Columbia Institute
Veterans 10 Stage
Mass Meeting Today

Several hundred student veterans
at Columbia Technical Institute this
afternoon were expected to be
urged to return to classes after the
Christmas vacation, even If the
school ends its GI training program.
School officials, who have refused
to negotiate a new tuition contracs
with the Veterans Administration,
said they intend to stop the vet
erans' instruction tomorrow unless
VA will continue the present con-
tract without question.
The action would affect about
800 veterans.
Representative for the students
called a mass meeting for l PM
today at the school. 1889 Vermont
avenue NV, to seek last-ditch
means Of continuing their educa.
ton.
Term Ends Today.
L. M. Hoover, spokesman for the
Students Committee. said all tho
veterans will be urged to "at least
try to get into classes" when school
resumes January 5.
The present school term ends to-
day. Mr.. Hoover said he expected
only about $50 students to attend
the meeting because many had gone
out of town for Christmas.
There's one thing we want to
make clear to the school," he said
before the meeting That is that
we don't intend to drop out of this
school without a fight"
The difficulty stems from the
schools refusal to submit state
ment of operating costs which VA
says is required by law in drawing
up contracts, to make certain that
schools make no more than a 10 per
cent profit out of GI training.
Extension Of Contract Offered.
Chester F. Naumowicz, head of the
VA regional Office here, said his
agency could not meet the schools
demands.
Meanwhile, VA has offered to
extend the contract until a new
agreement is reached. However, H.
Gordon Malcolm, director OF the
school, said owners of the school
have refused this and that I'VE whl
stand by our first plans"
In hope of an early agreement,
VA has continued all 800 of the stu
dents on subsistence payment rolls
for period not to exceed go days.
VA representatives and Mr.. Mall
colin we're expected to attend the
session today.
Evening star., 1947-12-26
&C. Young, Ex-Governor
IOf California, Dies
BY the Associated Press

BERKELEY. Calf. Dec. 26.-Cle-
ment Calhoun Young, 70, former
governor of California, died last
night.
The States 26th governor, serving
from January 4, 1927, to January 6,
1881, Mr.. Young suffered a stroke
Thanksgiving Day but had rallied
and was returned home here after
hospital treatment week ago.
Before becoming governor he had
served two terms as lieutenant gov
ernor and 10 years as State as
semblyman.
Mr.. Young was a Republican and
had been active in the Lincoln pro-
gressive" group, which had sup
ported the political campaigns Of
Hiram w. johnson, late governor
and Senator.
Evening star., 1947-12-26
New England Politician
Dies of Heart Attack
BY the Associated Press

DEDHAM, Mass, Dec. 26.-Gas-
par G.. Bacon, 81, former Lieutenant
Governor of Massachusetts, and
prominent in New England Repub-
lican politics for a quarter of a Gen.
tury, died yesterday Of a heart at
tack.
A graduate of Harvard and Har-
ward Law School, he practiced law
before entering politics. Mr. Bacon
served four terms in the Massachu
setts Senate before his election as
Lieutenant Governor in 1882. He
was defeated for the governorship in
1884 by James M. Curley, Democrat,
now. mayor of Boston.
The widow and two sons survive
Evening star., 1947-12-26
Cincinnati Conservatory
Director Dead at 64
BY the Associoted Press

CINCINNATI. Dec. 26-Howaro
wentworth Hess. 81. music critic
for the Cincinnati Times-Star and
director of the Cincinnati Conserva-
tory Of Music, died today after a
short illness.
He was widely known as a pianist
and had written the notes for the
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra for
many years.
Mr.. Hess was former member
of the faculty and co-director of the
Conservatory of Music of Martha
Washington College, Abingdon. Va
He also was a director of the Con-
servatcry of music of Athens Col
iege. Athens. III.
Mr. Hess was born in Karza- III
Evening star., 1947-12-26

Twenty-three of the Is sub chasers
which have been declared surplus by
the United States Maritime Com
mission. are now located at Curtis
Bay, Md, the Government agency
announced today.
Because of the anticipated demand
for their purchase, plans have been
made for a public drawing at 2:3O
pm. January to determine the sue
cessful buyers the Maritime Com
mission reported.
Offers to purchase the sub chasers,
which have been listed to sell at a
fixed price of $500 each, will be
accepted up until Sis pm. January
5. at the Office of the Small Vessel
Sales Division, Room 4093, Com
merce Department Building, the
Evening star., 1947-12-26
jan. 5 Drawing Set for Buyers
'OfSub Chusers at Curtis Buy

agency said. Only one vessel will be
awarded to an individual purchaser,
it added.
The former war service craft are
described as "sturdily built twin
wooden vessels" Each has a dis
placement of IS tons. The craft
were built in accordance with Navy
specifications during 1912 and 1943.
The Curtis Bay installation is the
only base where the drawing meth
cd to determine purchasers will be
used.
At five other bases throughout the
country, the vessel will be sold on a
first come, first serve" basis. Other
sub chasers are located at New Or
leans, La; San Diego. Calf; Kenny
dale. Wash. and Kilisut Harbor,
ScoW Bav, Wash.
Evening star., 1947-12-26
-Womon, S., Recovering
After Fall Down Steps

A 55-year- -old woman was In fair
condition at Emergency Hospital to-
day after suffering head injuries
in fall yesterday.
Miss Jane Lannon, 1924 N street
NV. fell several steps at an
apartment house in the HOO block
of Twelfth street NV. An ambu-
lance was called by a cab driver who
saw the accident.
Evening star., 1947-12-26

gale and four seamen drowned.
Eleven others who took to lifeboats
were missing. The "a survivors
were being taken to Turku, Finland
Twenty-three of the Is crew men,
bers of the 1,950-ton Norwegian
steamship Skoghaud were reported
by the Dutch news agency, AMP, to
be missing after an explosion
wrecked the vessel off the Dutch
port of Schoorl, in the North Sea
One of the two survivors died of ex-
haustion.
In the South Atlantic, the 7,176-
ton American liberty ship John
Owen. carrying load of grain from
Buenos Aires to Antwerp, radioed
that she was in trouble and drifting
about 500 miles from the nearest
land-the Brazilian coast. Maritime
sources in Buenos Aires understood
the Owen had dropped her propeller
Evening star., 1947-12-26
Safe and S100 Stolen
From Little overn

Thieves broke into q Little Tav-
ern Shop at 1874 G street NV.
early yesterday and carried of a
heavy safe containing about 500,
police reported
The shops side window was bro-
ken. police said. and the thieves ap-
parently carried the safe to a car in
the adjacent alley.
Evening star., 1947-12-26
Los Angeles Has Hot YuIe

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 26 ,R).-Yes-
terday was the second hottest
Christmas Day in the history of the
Los Angeles Weather Bureau. The
maximum was "a degrees. exceeded
only by an s6-degree temperature
on Christmas Day in 1914.
Evening star., 1947-12-26
a From u. S. Ship Drown,
II Are Missing Off Finland
BY the Associated Pres.

Christmas accidents on the high
seas left at least five seamen dead
and twoscore missing Nine vessels
were involved, six of them in the
howling typhoon in the Pacific
The 7,607-ton American freighter
Park Victory was torn from her
mooring off Uto Island, at the
confluence of the Baltic Sea and
the Gulf of Finland, by a heavy
Evening star., 1947-12-26
Indian S Rage at Rebuke
Blamed for Fire Killing 10
BY the Assoeioted Press
GARDNERVILLE, New. De,

GARDNERVILLE, New, Dec. 26
"A drunken Indians raging re.
action to his fathers rebuke was
blamed today for the fiery deaths
of 10 Indians and the critical burn
ing of seven others-tragic ending te
a Christmas party.
Sheriff James Farrell said Greeley
Jim, enraged because his father
Willie Jim, rebuked him for in
toxication, kicked over a stove ano
tossed a gallon jug of gasoline
into it.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-08
HOUSE GETS BILL
TO AID VETERANS

Continued From Page One)
Columbus authorizing the North
Carolina Rural Rehabilitation cor
poratlon, a state agency set up in
1889, to use funds from a federal
grant for promoting rural industry
ana establishing hospitals.
Ihe House received two con-
servation bills - one by Req.
Meeklns of Dare to create a
state shellflSh commission. and an.
other by Rep. Whitfield of Pen
oer to provide for the tagging Of
deer killed in open season, and
TO provide a "reasonable'' fee
ior persons visiting state parks
and lakes.
Senator Gray of Forsyth head OF
the Senate Finance committee.
told the Senate that his commit
tee had voted unfavorable on the
Penny anti-liquoc bill, but that
tine Chaffin measure, also provid-
Ing for a statewide liquor ~referen-
dunn, had been withheld from
formal report. The Finance COM
mittee yesterday voted to report
both the Chaffin and Penny
measures unfavorably. Another
statewide liquor bill introduced
by Rep. Dan Tompkins of Jack
son is now pending before the
House committee on propositions
and grievances.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-08
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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-08
Along The Cape Fear

With interest in education run
ming high throughout Brunswick
county, many permanent citizens
Of the area made liberal sub
scriptions to the venture.
DR.. Frederick J. Hill OF. Orion
Plantation contributed $500. And
as DR.. Curtis explains it, ''the
other rich planters on the Cape
Fear contributed from fifty to two
hundred, dollars each.
"Mr. John C. Swain a d Mr..
McRacken, contributed literally,
a n d Mr.. Daniel L. Russell, ST..
contributed two hundred dollars.
"St. Johns Lodge No. ITO of
Free Masons, being about to lose
their rooms in the old court house,
by reason of that building being
torn down for the purpose of
erecting new court house, con-
tributed six hundred dollars, with
the condition, that the property
should be under their charge for
Lodge purposes and that a deed
should be made to them by the
town authorities for educational
and charitable purposes as provid-
ed by the charter OF the town.
"The building a accordingly
erected on Franklin Square. and
school Immediately began under
the personal direction of Mr.
Murphy and the Rev. ]. H.
Brent" DR.. Curtis tells Us.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-08
RESERVISTS
WILL SIGN ABOARD
SAN JUAN CRUISE

Orders for several members of
the local Naval Reserve unit to 60
on a two weeks training cruise
to San Juan, Puerto Rico, have
been sent to Sixth Naval District
Headquarters, 1t. Henry c. Bost,
local reserve recruiting officer,
said yesterday.
The two weeks training cruise
for Naval Reserve Of the Sixth Ma
val District will be taken aboard
the Nays light cruiser USS Hous-
ton. The vessel will depart to sea
on April z from Charleston, S. c.,
and her destination is San Juan,
Puerto Rico.
Participation in the cruise by
Naval R~eservists is on a voluntary
basis. Orders for several men from
the Organized Surface Division g.
20 have been requested, but have
not yet been received, 1t was stat
ed.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-08
OFFICER
DESCRIBES SCENE
Continued FROM Page One)

(COnt1nued from Rage One)
to expect. He continued TO play
the fla shlight over the car and
on the ground around it. He
flashed the light off through the
pine-studded woods. But there
was no sign of violence, MOI any
indication what he was about to
find.
Il walked around the front of
the car" he said, land when l
turned the beam Of the light up
the right side Of the car, it was
just like a stick Of dynamite had
exploded under my feet"
He said that Parish lay flat of
his back, with the .38 calibre pis-
tol under his right leg. One bull
let had entered the right side Of
his head. just above the ear, and
went straight through and out
the left, leaving a hole the size
Of a mans finger.
Powder burns We're evident on
the underside right briln Of his
hat. The bullet cut two holes
through the left brim side Of his
hat.
His glasses were found, broken,
at his right knee.
Officers said that when he left
home, he had left his watch and
ring, and other effects. This was
unusual, they said, because he
never left his ring or watch off.
Coroner Gordan Doran fixed the
time of death as "about 4:30 p.
m" He gave as his opinion ut
was the result of poor health"
Doran's official verdict was:
He died of a self-inflicted wound
from a .38 pistol bullet. The bull
let entered the right temple, and
he died instantly. There will be
no inquest. In my opinion, 1 think
the act was committed because of
Ill health. He had been missing
from home since $40 p. m. I
believe it happened about 4:3O
p. m. He was found by Jack
Moore and A. r. Parish"
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-08
SCOUTS TO STRESS
NEED FOR LEADERS
Emphasis To Be Placed On
Obtaining Adult Aid
During Week

When Girl Scouts of Wilmington
and New Hanover county cele.
brate National Girl Scout week,
March 1918, one of their objects
will not be to get more girls in.
terested in scouting, but to gel
more leaders for the long waiting
list of girls who want to become
scouts.
Mrs. J. M. Autry, troop organ
ization chairman of the Whining
ton Girl Scout Council, yesterday
revealed that over 1000 local girls
who want. to be Girl Scouts are
On the lookout for 100 leaders to
help them organize new girl
scout troops. Right now, She said,
these girls are having to sit on
the scout lidelines because there
is no room for them in Whining
tons SO troops. =
The minimum age for troop lead
ers is Il, but persons under that
age may become assistant lead.
ers, it was stated. Girl scout
ing can be a delightful and re-
warding experience for any
woman no matter what her in
terest," Mrs. Autry said, "as
work with scouts involves every
thing from homemaking to nature
study"
The Wilmington Council offers
training courses to familiarize the
new leader with Girl Scouting.
Anyone interested is asked to con.
tact Mrs. B. M. Jones, executive
secretary, at headquarters, Room
408, Tide Water building.