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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-12-16

To several members of the Ma
tional Symphony Orchestra it was
really, Hi, neighbour" as they
trouped into Eastern High School
to play the fifth in the current
series OF neighborhood concerts
sponsored by The Star.
Some musicians had to walk only
a few blocks to play their parts in
last nights musical treat, attended
by several hundred persons who ig-
nored the rain to hear the famous
symphony.
One musician dubbed the evening
Community Night" and that's
what it turned out to be.
The artists enjoyed the prospect
of entertaining the people they knew
personally.
Its like old times" said Charles
L. Viner, double bass player and a
resident for many years of TOT Ken
lucky avenue Sc, only eight blocks
from Eastern. His three sons, Carl.
Robert and Richard, were graduated
from there.
Others Within Few Blocks.
This neighborhood concert idea
is very nice and gives the children
chance to hear good music" COM
mented Wallace Mann, 1924 F street
NE, first futist. For three years
he has been living only five blocks
from the school.
Armand Sarro, first trombonist,
whose residence at 1900 D street
NE, is only four blocks away, was
especially pleased. His daughter
Joan, Is, attends Eastern.
Associate Conductor Howard
Mitchell opened the program with
Mozarts overture to 1.-THE Marriage
of Figaro
Then came "Sarabande," by En-
erson Meyers, contemporary Wash
ington composer. 1t received its
premier performance at one of
the Water Gate concerts last
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-12-16
4O96 Increase Urged
In Relief Paid 10
Blind in Virginia
BY the Associated Press

RICHMOND, Va, Dec. 16.-The
American Foundation for the
Blind, Inc, recommended today
that immediate steps should be
taken to give all recipients of
blind relief in Virginia a fiat in
crease of 40 per cent and also urged
that plan be worked out to give
blind children instruction in pub
lie day schools.
In a report released today by
Gov. Tuck, the foundation expressed
the opinion that Virginia could IN
crease its present payments by 40
per cent and allow, in addition, $40
per month per person for special
expenses and still receive from the
Federal Government SIS per cent
reimbursement under the Social
Security Act.
This relief is administered by
local departments of public well
fare and supervised by the Vlr-
ginia Commission for the Blind
and under present Virginia and
Federal law such grants in the
State are limited to a ceiling OF
S45 per month.
A spokesman for the welfare de-
partment also pointed out that
under State law a fiat increase OF
40 per cent could not be given be-
cause each case has to stand on It's
own merits.
There would seem to be little
justification for the State of VIr-
ginia to have an average grant of
S23 per month when the average
for the entire country is $38 a
month";" the report commented.
The foundation was requested to
make the survey after a three-man
governors committee which inves-
tigated conditions at the Virginia
Workshop for the Blind at Char
lottesville recommended last Janu-
airy that some outside agency be
retained ito make a study ana
recommend what changes, if any,
are needed to afford a fully ade-
|quate program for the blind"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-12-16
Man Fined for Assault
On FuirIinqton Striker

James Gray, 20, of Alexandria,
was fined $25 in Alexandria Civil
and Police Court yesterday on
charges Of assaulting a darlington
striker with a pickax handle.
Gray, who is colored, was arrested
on the complaint of James Smith
colored, Purcellville, Va, who charged
that Gray hit him during an argu-
ment last Thursday near Fairling-
ton, where strikers were awaiting
transportation home.
It was brought out during the trial
that Gray was hired after approx
mately ITO Harrington maintenance
and heating plant workers went on
strike December 8.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-12-16
YuIe Decoration Contest
Planned in Kensinaton

The Kensington Chamber of Com
merce will sponsor contest for the
most attractively decorated home
and grounds in the community dur
ing the Christmas season, Robert
B. Parke, president, announced
yesterday.
The homes will be judged the
week end after Christmas. A prize
of $40 will be awarded the winner.
Contestants should enter their
names with Malcolm Walter, 81
Prospect street, secretary of the
chamber,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-12-16

summer. Scored for full strings
woodwinds, two trumpets, bells and
harp, the opening theme was intro
duced by an English horn and the
entire middle section of the piece
was devoted to a harp cadenza OF
considerable difficulty, which Harpist
Sylvia Meyer played to the great
satisfaction of the neighborhood
audience.
Franck Symphony Played.
Another contemporary piece, Nc
Donalos Rhumba, was the third Sc
lection. Then for full 40 minutes
the audience was entranced by
Cesar Franck's Symphony in D
Minor. 1t was pointed out to the
audience that, when the work was
first played in 1889, few people
grasped it's greatness but that now
it is recognized as lasting monu-
ment to the genius of the composer
John Paul Collins, principal of
Eastern and intermission speaker,
expressed the thanks of the neigh
borhood to the orchestra and said
its coming was in the nature of a
pleasant Christmas gift to the COM
munity.
The entire program was broad
cast over WMAL, The Stars radio
station, with Bill Coyle, radio direc-
tor of the Newspaper, in charge of the
The sixth neighborhood concert
will be held January 5 in Washing
ton and Lee High School, in Airing
ton, Va. Tickets are being supplied
to schools and also may be obtained
in Room 724, The Evening Star
Building.
The concerts are sponsored by The
Star as public service to broaden
the appreciation of fine music and
to heighten interest in the out
standing contribution the National
Symphony Orchestra is making to
the cultural life of Washington.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-12-16
Citizens Elect Rankin
In Fort Myer HEIGHTS

Winfield Rankin has been elected
president of the Fort Myer Heights
Citizens Association, it was an
nounced today.
Other officers include Mrs. Beulah
~Goss. vice president; Mrs. Madeline
Tickle, secretary, and Willy Arnheim,
treasurer. The Executive Commit
tee includes Mrs. Rankin, Carl
Sanderhoff, DR.. Victor Meyers, w.
S. Tickle and Mrs. Arnheim.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-12-16
Woman Injured by Bus

Miss Eileen B. DAILY, so, of TOO
Dartmouth avenue, Silver Spring,
yesterday suffered foot injuries
caused by the wheel Of a bus from
which she had just alighted in front
of her home, according to Silver
Spring police. She was taken to
Providence Hospital, where doctors
removed three small bones from her
foot, police said
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-12-16
Housing Survey Opened
On County School Needs

A comprehensive survey of new
housing in Montgomery County, to
be used in estimating future school
needs, was launched yesterday by
principals and staff workers at
senior and Junior high schools Of
the county.
Approximately 40 educators met
in Rockville with e. M. Douglass,
assistant superintendent of schools,
for a briefing on the survey. A
similar study has already been
started for elementary schools.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-12-16
u zoning Petitions
Will Be Considered
In Prince Georges

The Prince Georges County Com
missioners will consider % applica-
lions for rezoning at 10 am. tomor-
row in the County Service Building,
Hyattsyille.
Included among the applications
will be four petitions seeking apart
ment coming, Is requesting COM
mercial classification and one for
industrial use. Permission to oper-
ate a motor court and gasoline
station and garage. also is sought.
Among petitions for apartment
coming is that of Alexander Hassen
for Redistribution OF nearly "A
acres near Cheverly. The property,
if rezoned, would provide for an
apartment community along Land
over road and Quincy street, oppo-
site the rear of the Cheverly The
alter. The property now is zoned
for residential A use.
Other Apartment Requests.
Other requests for rezoning from
residential A to residential G for
apartment use include the petitions
of Thomas v. Lake, contract owner,
for approximately three acres on
Edmonston road, opposite Gallatin
street, Edmonston; Ralph w. Pow
ers, attorney for the owner of prop
erty in the Chestnut Hills subdi-
vision, Beltsville, and the Radiant
Valley Development Corp, owners,
for a block in the Radiant Valley
subdivision, near Landover.
The Radiant Valley concern also
is seeking Redistribution from resi-
Dental A to commercial D of another
block in the same subdivision, sit
uated at Old Landover road, Coopers
lane and Miles way.
Mr.. Powers, in two additional ap-
plfcations, is requesting commercial
D coming for portion of the Chest
nut Hills subdivision on the Wash
ington- Baltimore boulevard, Belts
vile, and for the Middleton tract"
at the northeast corner of Baltimore
avenue and Old Branchville road,
College Park.
Other Commercial Petitions.
Other petitions seeking reclassifi-
cation from residential A to CONNER
cial D have been filed by the fol-
lowing:
Nellie Stewart, owner, for one. lot
in the 1900 block of Navahoe avenue.
Sam Lagana, owner, in
three separate applications, for acre
age in three different locations in
the vicinity of Marlboro pike and
Walker Mill road, near Oakland;
Lincoln L. and Johnnie c. Anderson,
owners, lot at Ills Fifty-seventh ave-
nue., Chapel Oaks; Freddie E. King,
two lots at Eastern avenue and Nye
street. Deanwood Park, and Robert
l.. Holland, property on Central ave-
nue., opposite Brightseat road, be-
tween Largo and Seat Pleasant.
Also G.. Albert Guide and Joseph
P. Abraham, contract owners, four
lots at the Washington Baltimore
boulevard and Pontiac street, Ber-
wyn; George E. Hill, owner, lot in
the 1000 block of Central avenue,
Sunnyside subdivision, Seat Pleas
ant; Alfred l.. Thomas, for ~ acres
on Southern avenue at Wheeler
road, Oxon Hill, and Anthony and
Katherine Campagna, one lot and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-12-16
Joint Hearings
Being Sought on
Home Rule Plan
AuchineIoss Hopes z
subcommittee Can
Stort Next Month
By Don S. Warren

An agreement on joint House.
Senate hearings on the home rule
charter plan for Washington is being
sought by the Auchincloss Subcom-
tee of the House
The group decided yesterday to
make no more pre-hearing revisions
of the tentative outline Of its city
manager-elected council plan and
directed legislative experts to finish
the first draft of the legislation.
Representative Auchincloss, Re-
publican, of New jersey, heading
the Home Rule Subcommittee of the
House District Committee, was seek
ing to arrange a meeting this week
with the companion Senate District
Subcommittee, to go over the pro-
posals.
Hopes for January Hearing.
He said he hopes hearings by the
two subcommittee can be started in
January, possibly even by the middle
of month.
Legislative drafting experts of the
House are well along with the task
of preparing an omnibus bill pro-
viding for an elected city govern
ment here and departmentaliza-
ton of the present city administra-
ton. The tentative measure is said
to run to about 200 pages.
The idea of joint hearings on the
local suffrage plan has received
sympathetic consideration by some
members of the Senate District
Committee. Both Chairman Buck
of the full committee and Senator
Ball, Republican, of Minnesota head
ing its Home Rule Subcommittee,
have said they believed joint con-
sideration of the bill would save
congressional time.
Proponents Expect Fight.
That there will be a fight over any
plan to let residents of the National
Capital have a vote, even in local
elections, is accepted by proponents
of the plan. At least one member
of the Senate District Committee
is on record promising to fllibuster,
if necessary, to kill District suffrage.
Sponsors of the plan. nevertheless,
are counting on a favorable report
from the full House District Com
mittee and a chance for decisive
House action.
Once the charter measure. has
been drafted identical bills prob
ably will be introduced in both the
House and Senate, paving the way
for the projected joint hearings.
Joint hearings, officials explain,
would leave both ends of the Cap
itol free to make their own deci-
sions on the plan, but would give
both sides the advantage of par
ticipating in one set of public de-
bates.
Details Open to Review.
Chairman Auchincloss explained
all details of the plan will be open
to review at the public hearings.
A prime objective of the elected
city government plan, spokesman for
the Auchincloss Subcommittee say,
is not only to extend a measure Of
suffrage to District residents, but to
relieve Congress of the task Of
trying to operate as a council for
a city of nearly 100000 persons.
They also emphasized that while
Congress would delegate many new
powers to elected city officials it
would retain all of it's exclusive leg
islative controls over the National
Capital by veto provisions.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-12-16
Views Of Chevy Chase
On Apartment Plan
To Be Heard Today

The Montgomery County COM
missioners were to hear divergent
views today on a petition to rezone
for apartment purposes a 30-acre
tract near Connecticut avenue and
the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad in
Chevy Chase.
The opposing views were to be
presented at hearing on a petition
by the Chevy Chase Land Co.,
scheduled to start at pm. in the
Bethesda County Building.
Heading the list of Endorsements
of the 338-unit apartment project
was one by the Maryland-National
Capital Parks and Planning Com
mission, which voted approval at
meeting in Silver Spring yesterday.
The commission described the pro-
jected development as excellent"
and said there are adequate road
and shopping facilities in the area.
Board Won't Intervene.
Arthur. w. Defenderfer, chairman
of the Board of Managers of the
Chevy Chase Village, Inc, an
nounced today that the board had
decided not to intervene in the mat
ter though it would not discourage
members. from appearing before the
commissioners individually.
A similar decision was reached
last night by the Citizens Commit
tee of North Chevy Chase. Mason
B. Leming, chairman Of the commit
tee, said, however, that the group
would have an observer at the hear
ing.
The Board of Governors Of the
Columbia Country Club, whose prop
erty fronts on the land company's
tract, previously decided not to in
tervene.
Clerk Reports Four Letters.
Ernest Hawkins, clerk to the COM
missioners, said he had received let
tiers from four persons, three oppos-
ing and one favoring the apartment
proposal.
S. T. Ansell, jr., an attorney, of
1904 East-West highway, Chevy
Chase, wrote the board that if the
application we're granted, residential
property values would be deprecated
and there would be an increase in
population without a compromising
increase in per capita wealth.
ANY such change will constitute
a beginning toward reducing this
pleasant community to the level of.
the relatively poor and unsightly
suburban communities with which
Washington has in recent years all
but become fringed.
Points to Other Suburbs.
Historically, Chevy Chase was
not intended as a center for popu-
lation or commerce. Actually, it
never has been, nor is it now, such
a center. Its standing as a high
grade residential area is based en-
tirely upon its development away
from such sophistic deceits as have
produced the suburbs of Arlington
and Prince Georges Counties"
A similar contention is contained
in a letter from Burr Tracy Ansell,
attorney, of LOT West Bradley lane.
Ralph B. Stewart, another attorney,
wrote that the proposed apartment
would aggravate parking conditions
which are already bad.
The application was Endorsed by
Mrs. Mason B. Leming, 1915 Mont
gomery avenue, Chevy Chase, with
the assertion that it would provide
Ia buffer" between commercial or
industrial property and one-family
residences. She also said it would
enhance the value of Chevy Chase
AXE
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-12-16
Lions to Have Porty Tonight

The annual father, sons and
daughters party Of the Silver Spring
Lions Club will be held tonight at
the Indian Springs Country Club. r.
w. Williams is in charge OF arrange
Iments.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-12-16
Stewart PTA to Meet

A Christmas program will be held
at a meeting of the Charles A..
Stewart Parent Teacher Association
at 8 o'clock tonight at the school in
Arlington.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-12-16
Universal Training Week

ANNAPOLIS, Dec. is (P.-Gov.
Lane today proclaimed January
to 10 Universal Military Training
Week In Maryland.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-12-16
Chimney House Sold

PORT TOBACCO, Md, Dec. Is
(Special0-"Chimney House." built
in 1853, has been sold to Mr.. and
Mrs. C. William Nalley of Bel Alton,
by Mrs. Alice L. Ferguson.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-12-16
School Bond to PIuy

The Takoma Park Junior High
School Band will give its first public
performance at 9:10 am. Friday at
the school.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-12-16


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Evening star., 1947-10-28
Private Groups Free Use
-
Of DC. Property Protested

Objection to free use of District
property by private persons or
organizations was registered last
night by the Georgetown Citizens
Association.
The action grew out of the oecu-
patton of the Curtis School building
by the Hebrew Association of Wash
ington. The group asked the Com
missioners not to enter into any
future transactions of this nature.
In resolution, the association
protested ANY such arrangements
in which the Commissioners grant
permission of occupancy to groups
or organizations not entirely open
to tine public" The citizens ex-
pressed their wish that the Hebrew
academy operated by the Jewish
Associa ton, remain In the school
until it's own building in con-
structed. The association, however,
asked that reasonable rate of rent
be charged in all future cases.
The association voted to donats
s25 to the Community Chest after
talk by William G. Gilks, manager
of the Government Unit of the
Community Chest Federation.
A resolution was passed urging
regular summer daylight saving
time for the District.
The meeting was held in the St.
Johns Parish Hall and was Ton.
Quoted by Stanton Kolb, president.
Evening star., 1947-10-28
Supreme Court Denie!
Pe||ey Case Review

The Supreme Court yesterday de-
MED William Dudley Pelley, former
leader of the Silver Shirts of Amer
ica, review of his conviction on
a sedition charge
Pelley was convicted in United
States District Court in Indianap-
oils in 1912. The conviction resulted
from publications by the Fellowship
Press, Inc. which he headed. He
is serving a 15-year sentence in the
Federal Penitentiary at Terre Haute,
Ind.
While in Washington as a defen-
dant in another sedition case dis
missed last July, Pelley filed habeas
corpus petition attacking the juris-
diction of the indianapolis District
Court.
In other actions, the Supreme
Court:
l. Agreed to review decision that
the Bob-Lo Excursion Co violated
Michigan's Civil Rights Act by re-
fusing to transport a colored woman
on one of it's vessels.
The colored woman, Sarah Ray,
was refused passage on vessel from
Detroit to Bob-Lo Island, Ontario,
and return. The company contended
the act could not apply to It's oper-
ations because it was engaged in
foreign commerce. The Michigan
Supreme Court ruled the law ap-
piled to foreign commerce as well
as to intrastate.
2. Denied the Watchtower Bible
and Tract Society, Inc, hearing on
protest against Los Angeles
County tax on printed literature
stored in a society owned building in
Lynwood. Calf.
Evening star., 1947-10-28
kid-City Group Opposes
Substitution OF Sales Tax

A proposal to recommend substi-
tuition of a sales tax for an income
tax was defeated oy members of
the Mid-City Citizens Association
last night.
Miss Edith L. GroSvenor. aSsocja-
ton vice president, introduced a mo-
tion because IAN income tax applies
to only some of the people who
should be sharing District expenses
John L. G. Sullivan opposed 1t be-
cause "a sales tax makes living costs
too high.
The association elected A. J. Dris-
coll to his 31st consecutive term as
president. Mr.. Driscoll has headed
the group since its founding in 1917.
Charles Scarrem of the Commun-
ity Chest staff defended the Chest
against criticisms by some of the
members. Soterios Nicholson, dele
gate to the Federatio of Citizens
Associations, said that "in support
ing the Chest as a whole, you have
to accept some bad; but that the
Chest should not try to justify its
defects"
All other Officers of the association
also were reelected. They are: M
E. Salisbury, secretary; Miss Gros-
venor, vice president; Mr.. Sullivan
financial secretary and treasurer
and Mr.. Nicholson and Mr.. Sullivan
delegates to the federation.
Evening star., 1947-10-28
Arbitrary Dismissa!s
In Federal Agencies
Attacked by FIemminq
By Joseph Young

Civil Service Commissioner
Arthur S. Flemming has dis
closed his "unalterable opposi-
ton" to the arbitrary firing pro-
cedures used by the State
Department, Central Intelli-
gence Agency and other Federal
units in cases where employees
are considered bad security
risks"
Speaking last night before the
Society for Personnel Administra-
ton, Mr.. Flemming said that regular
rules of procedure can be used in
dealing with these employees with
out endangering the welfare of the
country" -
Mr. Flemming feels that in cases
where loyalty is not the issue, the
summary dismissals of employees as
bad security risks unfairly pen
allies the employees and might ruin
their chances of ever again finding
suitable employment.
- Cites Cut of 1912.
Mr.. Flemming contends that In
these cases agencies should proceed
under the rules set up by the Lloyd
La Toilette Act of 1912 in dealing
with dismissals of employees.
Under the act, agency heads can
address a letter to the employe
in question, setting forth the rea-
sons why he considers the worker
a person of weak character" and
why he feels that the employe cam
not be trusted with the duties of
public Office
The employe is given reason
able time, normally from to 10
days, to reply to the charges. On
receipt of the reply. the head OF
the agency may discharge the en-
ploye
This procedure, Mr. Flemming be-
lieves. would not endanger national
security and at the same time would
remove from these employees the
stigma of disloyalty that the term
bad security risks" suggests.
Can Fire Summarily.
State and CIA both have congress
sional authority to fire employees
summarily for any reason. Both
agencies have used this authority
not only to get rid of employees
whose loyalty was in question. but
those who are considered bad Sc
curity risks. In this latter category
may be employees who drink to
excess, have questionable morals,
are heavily in debt, gossip too