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Evening star., 1947-03-28
Christ Child Society
Plans Annex Fund

Plans to raise money to build an
addition to Christ Child Farm for
Convalescent Children, Rockville
Md, are being considered by the
directors of Christ Child Society.
The society, Community Chest
agency, has received Chest approval
to procede with its building plans
financed by its own special funds.
Mrs. Audrey Clarke was named
chairman of the Fund Raising Com
mittee. The addition is expected
to almost double the capacity of the
farm to about so children. The new
building would contain all sleeping
quarters, it was said. with the old
one being used for the dining room
library, living room and for storage
purposes.
Officers elected at a meeting on
Tuesday at the home of Miss Mary
V. Merrick, East Melrose street
Chevy Chase. Md, were: Miss
Merrick, president; Mrs. Charles
Hill, first vice president: Mrs. AL.
bert Beattie, second vice president
Mrs. William Knoblock, third vice
president; Mrs. Arthur McConville
corresponding secretary; Mrs. Mar
shall johnson, recording secretary
Mrs. Dermot Nee. assistant secre.
tary; Mrs. Charles w. Semmes
treasurer, and Miss Mary Harlow
assistant treasurer.
| Mrs. Frederick Altemus was elect
| ed to fill vacancy on the board.
Evening star., 1947-03-28
Maryland Seen Facing Problem
Of Sales Tax Enforcement

Maryland's newly-enacted 2 per
cent sales tax law will present
authorities with a major enforce
ment problem because of the prox-
unity of tax-free Washington and
Virginia, and the use tax to cover
items bought outside Maryland will
be protected only by an honor
system" it appeared today.
In answer to predictions that
Marylanders will swarm into the
District to evade the tax by shop
ping here. observers pointed out that
a companion law calls for tax pay
ment by Maryland residents on
items they buy outside their own
jurisdiction.
The law provides that any Mary
lander who enters the District to
buy manufactured goods, building
materials or other items subject to
their State sales tax, must pay a
2 per cent use tax on the item in
Maryland. The law does not state
what agency is going to follow
Maryland shoppers back across the
District line every time they come
into Washington for tax-free pur-
chases.
Hope for Co o-operation.
A large number of Maryland resi-
dents, with no downtown-type de-
partment stores in their own juris-
dictions, have done their shopping
in Washington stores for ye1rs.
Under the new law, effective July /,
they will have to pay Maryland's S
2 per cent use tax for items they
purchase in Washington, even
though the District has no sales tax
now.
Violation of the sales tax law is a
misdemeanor and punishable by a
fine of $1,000 or year in JAIL or
both. Authorities, however. seem to
face an impossible enforcement
problem. They hope for the Co
operation" of taxpayers under the
honor system.
After studying the new law, Will
liam H. Press, executive secretary of
the Washington Board of Trade,
predicted a temporary increase of
sales by District stores to Maryland
residents.
Every one will be very conscious
Of the new tax at first" Mr.. Press
said, "but after a few months or a
year, Maryland residents will get
used to the sales tax and gradually
return to their ordinary dealers"
District stores are required, under
the new Maryland law, to get
licenses if they intend to deliver
tax-free goods into Maryland where
the use tax could be applied to the
item. District stores, under the
plan would be forced to file returns
Evening star., 1947-03-28
Is High School Newspapers
Flourish on News of Names

recalls well certain afternoon not
so long ago.
Type Scatters on Floor.
The Easterner is printed at the
school shop. On this particular
afternoon, the page forms were on
the presses ready to start printing.
A student printer made one last
turn with a wrench to tighten the
forms.
"He frightened just little too
much," Miss Ludke said. THE type
spurted out of the press like water
and flew all over the floor"
She said that three hours later
all of the type had been picked up
and unjumbled. Three of the stu
dent journalist had aching backs
from bending over, but the paper
came out on time the next day.
The student editors pride them
selves on the professional job they
turn out and the way they get up
to-date news in the papers, even
though working on the two-week
schedule.
Miss Joan Watts, editor of the
Courier at Coolidge High School,
pointed out that many times the
paper carried stories which occurred
only.a few hours before the paper
went on sale. Early this month, it
CARED complete story on a cham
pionship basket ball game with
Gonzaga High School the morning
after the game was played.
500 Help on Publications.
Whatever the paper, the student
journalists can be certain of COM
plete circulation in their particular
schools as each issue is snatched
up avidly by the students.
And making every effort to keep
this avid leadership avid are more
than 500 boys and girls who work
on the high school publications in
the city's public high schools. This
group includes the actual staffs of
the papers as we'll as members of
journalism classes who contribute
written material.
Their work can be seen in the
finished product. One paper, the
Tech Life at Mckinley High School,
edited by Miss Jane Chiles, even
.advertises in its masthead, "The
Most Individual Paper in the South" {"
Evening star., 1947-03-28
Bill Provides Removal
OF Hazardous Stone Pillars

A bill to direct removal of two
stone pillars on West Executive ave-
nue., between the White House and
the State Department, has been in
troduced in the House by Represen-
rtative Simpson. Republican of Illi-
nois.
The measure was requested by
the District Commissioners to re-
move what has been considered a
traffic hazard, dangerous to both
motorists and pedestrians.
West Executive avenue, which was
closed during the war, was reopened
last October after The Star waged
a campaign to get both East and
West Executive avenues open to
traffic. But the two stone pillars
remained in place, under an act Of
1927. which had ordered removal of
gates between the pillars
That act also provided that the
pillars should not be removed. New
legislation was considered necessary
to clear the street Of the obstruction.
Evening star., 1947-03-28
House Unit Backs Bill
Giving Police Powers
To Airport Guards

A bill to give National Airport
guards regular police powers on the
field was reported favorably today
by the House Committee on Inter
state and Foreign Commerce.
The measure, introduced Monday
by Representative Wolverton, Re
publican, of New Jersey, is designed
to alleviate "no-man's land" juris-
diction problem that has existed
for years along the disputed Dis
trict of Columbia Virginia bound
ary.
The committee deliberated about
two hours in a closed session before
reporting the measure without
change. It was said later most
discussion centered over q $500 fine
or a six-month sentence, or both,
provided as penalties for misde-
meanors at the airport.
No Police Power at Present.
At present the guards, who carry
firearms without statutory author
ity, have no police powers. In the
event OF disturbance the practice
has been to detain an offender until
the United States marshal at Alex
andria could make an arrest.
Under the bill, the civil aeronau-
tics administrator is authorized to
designate the guards as policemen
with authority to arrest by warrant,
or to arrest without warrant when
an offense is committed in their
presence. They are specifically au-
thorized to carry arms.
United States park police, who
now have no jurisdiction on the air.
port, could be assigned by the direc-
tor of the National Park Service to
patrol the airport if the Secretary of
the Interior directs.
Boundary Agreement Passed.
During the 1916 session, the Vir-
ginia General Assembly ratified an
act of Congress to establish def
mite District of Columbia Virginia
boundary. The agreement, how
ever, permitted State police to ar
rest by warrant only on the airport
ground.
The flying field, which was
dredged up from the Districts Po-
tomac River, as well as the George
Washington Memorial Parkway,
were placed in Virginia, with the
status of Federal reservation, un-
der terms of the agreement.
The Wolverton bill authorizes the
airport administrator to enter into
agreements with Virginia or Airing
ton County to furnish special serv-
ices such as the coroner or health
officer.
Evening star., 1947-03-28
GAO Building Design
Receives Approval
Of Fine Arts Board .

A preliminary design for the pro-
posed new General Accounting Of
flee Building to be built at Fifth
and G street NV. was approved
today by the Fine Arts Commission.
The commission also approved
preliminary designs for the west
building of the District Municipal
Center and the Veterans Admins
tration's 750-bed hospital to be
placed on the Nevius tract in Ar
lington County.
H. Paul Caemmerer, commission
secretary, said further study of all
three projects would be undertaken
before final designs are approved.
Church Not Affected.
He said the GAO structure would
hold $500 employees and would ex-
tend $50 feet along G street, 288
feet along Fourth street, 470 feet
along H street and ITO feet along
Fifth street. This means that his
toric St. Mary's Church is left stand
ing as far as present plans are
concerned.
Mr.. Caemmerer said building
would be of the block" type. In
other words, it would have no wings
or interior court. 1t would be 119
feet tall with a setback at the Ga
foot level.
w. E. Reynolds, Public Buildings
Commissioner. who submitted the
plan today, said he could not release
a picture at this time because sev-
eral minor changes are to be made.
Need Called Vital. .
He described it as the most
needed Federal building on his list.
He said the GAO is crowded into 20
different buildings.
Mr.. Caemmerer said the west
Municipal Center building design
was similar to that of the east
building, already built. He said the
VA hospital design chosen was
similar to the sketch already pub
lished except that it was in more
detail.
Members Of the commission this
afternoon were to advise the Freer
Art Gallery on prospective art pur-
chases, visit the biennial exhibition
Of the Corcoran Gallery of Art and
confer with the Architect of the
Capitol on the improvements and
redecoration in the Senate Cham
her
Evening star., 1947-03-28

16 brought a wave of public in
dignation against pistol carrying
on the streets, but this is the first
day the critically wounded police
man has been able to talk about it..
Pvt. Padgett, 54. was told today
that police, prosecutors, commission
ers and judges are hoping to get a
law through Congress enabling
police to arrest and search persons
they have reason to believe are
carrying weapons.
That's a good idea," said Pvt.
Padgett.
Couldn't Search Suspect.
Pvt. Padgett had reason to believe
the man who shot him was carrying
gun before he pulled it out.
Ironically the law as it stands now
didn't give Pvt. Padgett the right
to search the man.
AS the nurse stood by to see that
the wounded man didn't evertax
Evening star., 1947-03-28

to Maryland authorities on sales to
Maryland buyers. Some have ques-
toned, however, whether this out
of-State licensing is enforceable.
Maryland dealers, many of whom
have been talking about absorbing
the sales tax themselves by cutting
the original price of an article by
the amount of the sales tax on it In
order to protect themselves from
underselling in the District cannot
do this if they plan to advertise
their method. The law restrains
retailers from advertising this prac-
tice and makes it a misdemeanor.
They can, however, absorb the tax
themselves by lowering the purchase
price without fanfare and billing
price and tax separately.
He pointed to several develop
ments likely to happen in nearby
Maryland counties when the law
goes into effect.
Purchase of a refrigerator will
probably involve an itemized bill
separating the actual price of the
refrigerator r-taxable-from the la
Dor charge for installation-not tax
able. The same undoubtedly will
apply to the work of paper hangers,
plumbers, carpenters and other
craftsmen.
A washington builder going into
a Maryland county to build house
would have to pay Maryland sales
tax on the materials used. He could
naturally, pass the tax on to the
ultimate purchaser.
Maryland has the advantage of
landmark decisions of the Supreme
Court to buttress it's position. The
highest court has upheld the legality
OF both the sales tax and the use
tax. 1t has also approved a fixed
sum license tax for the privilege of
selling merchandise brought in for
sale.
The Supreme Court on January
20, 1910 sustained the New York
City tax on the sales of a Pennsyl-
vania firm, the Berwind- White Coal
Mining Co. The firm delivered coal
mined in Pennsylvania to the dock
side in New York for use by public
utilities and steamship companies.
The court said the New York sales
tax did not conflict with the inter-
state commerce clause of the Fed
eral Constitution. It said a State
imposing taxes for State purposes
only is not encroaching upon any
power the Constitution has given
Congress.
The high tribunal in the Sears,
Roebuck & Co. case, decided Feb
ruary II, 1941, sustained the Iowa
State Use Tax. This required out
of-state corporations to collect a 2
per cent tax on mail order sales
to Iowans.
Evening star., 1947-03-28
Tour 10 Show
Congress Need
OF Courthouse
Laws Invitation
For Tuesday Tells Of
Shocking Conditions

. A congressional delegation plans
to visit District Court Tuesday
morning to view conditions which
Chief Justice Bolitha J. Laws de-
scribes as Shocking" evidence of
the need for new Federal Court
house here.
Members of both the Senate and
House Public Works Committees
have been invited by the jurist to
take part in the tour. Bills are
pending in both committees to au-
thorize plans and specifications for
new building, but no construc-
tion now.
Justice Laws put up a strong ar
gument for the new courthouse in
letters he submitted late yesterday
TO chairmen of the two committees.
He characterized conditions varouslv
as shocking" inefficient" and
dangerous.
Dondero Impressed.
Chairman Dondero of the House
committee said he and members of
the Public Buildings Subcommittee
OF the House unit plan to meet the
Jurlst at 10 am. Tuesday for the
trip. He already is Impressed" he
SAID, with the need for a new build
Ing. but intends to get a first-hand
view OF it himself.
Chairman Revercomb of the Sem
ate committee already has sched-
uled regular meeting of his unit
10 consider the courthouse bill, of
winch he Is the author, at the same
time Tuesday morning. He said he
hopes the Senators on the Public
Buildings Subcommittee might
make a tour some time, but he was
uncertain whether they could 90
tuesday. Repeatedly he has de-
clared his strong support of the
project for a new building here.
Justice Laws presented to ths
cnalrmen OF the Public Works Com
mlttees comprehensive picture of
operations at District Court. In
ms slx-page letter, he outlined the
history OF the old courthouse and
the growth of court business, both
before and since the war. He de-
clared the need is imperative"
Court Scattered.
He pointed out the court had
expanded from six judges in one
building, put up in 1928 as a citv
nan, to IL judges and II agencies.
We now occupy the original
oui!ding and parts of eight other
buildings" he wrote. "It is an
parent that the mere physical diff
t1culties presented by this situation
interfere with the efficient Junction.
ing of this. the largest and most
important Federal District Court in
the United States"
Separation of the judges into diff
1erent buildings has resulted in
transportation of prisoners in crini-
nal cases through an open ward
acress a public street." handcuffed
TO deputies, the judge reported.
he quoted the marshal of the
court as advising him this was "an
extremely dangerous situation"
justice Laws also said that with
a great increase in litigation the
present 1nconveniences hamper ths
administration of Justice. Wit
nesses get into wrong buildings,
Jurors lose their way and Jury facil-
ltles are inadequate, he asserted.
Inc confusion, he said, is not In
keeping with the dignity of Federal
courts.
The new courthouse would be
Planned, under pending legislation
for a site on Constitution avenue
between Third street and John
Marshall place NV,
Evening star., 1947-03-28

r o a m / n G the
streets of Wash
ington.
From his Cas-
u a l y Hospital
bed, Policeman
r a y m on d, D.
Padgett told The
Star he believed
there should be
a stricter law
because I don't
W a n t this to
happen to any
other fellows.
The shooting
of Pv t. P a d.
gett on March
Evening star., 1947-03-28
Mon Fined in Assault

William P. Matthews, 80, of Bos-
ton was fined 500 in Hyattsville
Police Court yesterday on a charge
of assault on a 7-year -old Bowie
Md girl. Police accused Matthews,
"a discharged Army veteran, of
molesting the girl at the home of a
relative with whom he was staying.
Evening star., 1947-03-28
Play Set at Silver Sprino

A play, 1.-The Ivory Door," will be
presented at Montgomery Blair High
School, Silver Spring, at 8 pm. to-
day and tomorrow at the school.
The production is under the direc.
ton Of Miss Marian Schwartz. as.
sistant principal.
Evening star., 1947-03-28
City Needs New Law

The victim of a man carrying
concealed weapon spoke out today
on the need to give police the right
to arrest and search pistol carriers
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Medical College Of Ohio.

Medical College of Ohio.
They were tried and convicted
Johnson was hanged in the court
house yard but Ingalls, hanged him.
self with his blanket in Jail shortly
after his conviction. Dickson, the ex-
pressman, was not held.
At the trial DR.. John Cilley, dean
of the college, naively related that he
had bought the bodies for SIS apiece,
cut each into five pieces and sold
them to students at So a hunk. A
price, a newspaper reporter pointed
out, that was cheaper than pork
which that year had hit the then all
time high of $50 hundred pounds.
The Ohio Medical College closed in
1896 and the Miami College soon
after.
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Jewish population, was at that time
detached northern suburb. Its fire
department was bucket brigade.
Three Disappear
1t wasn't much Of a fire, just a
small frame shack on side street
in the BOTTOMS district" but after
the hut had burned to the ground and
the ashes were sifted, the occupants,
Beverly Taylor and his wife, Eliza
beth and their 11-year-old foster
daughter Emma Jane Lambert, new
er were seen again.
The Taylors were old and poor.
Beverly made a scant living for his
small family by cutting and selling
fre-wood to the neighbors. He had
no savings and no enemies.
Marshal Joseph Brown, Avondale,
believed the three had been murder
ed. Their bodies had not been in the
shack because it had been searched
by rescuers just before the walls fell
and nobody was there. If it was a
! triple murder the motive was neither
robbery nor revenge. Then what :?
With an apparent tripie-murder to
solve the Avondale marshal sought
help from the Cincinnati Police De-
partment and Detective James White
was detailed to work with Brown on
| the case. ..--. .
White thought of the body-snatch-
! ing angle and both officers went to
the Medical College of Ohio, still on
Sixth Street. where officials denied
any knowledge of the matter. No,
| they said, no such bodies had been
brought there. Brown was crestfal-
len but White did not believe the col
lege authorities. Jim White didn' t
! believe anything nor anybody,
Three Bodies Found
Next morning the college officials
had a better memory and told the
authorities that all three bodies had
been brought to the school and were
then in the body hole" in pickle. All
three, an autopsy showed, had
| crushed skulls and head wounds.
Brown and White rounded up four
Avondale suspects, two of which
proved alibis and were released. The
others, Allen Ingalls, and Ben John
son, made conflicting statements and
Ingalls, story was badly mixed. Con
fronted by Robert B. Dickson, an ex-
pressman, who related he had hauled
three "sacks" from the vicinity of the
crime the night it occurred and point
ing to ingalls, said "That is the man
who hired me" and to Johnson, "He
rode on the wagon with me-" ingalls,
confessed and implicated Johnson.
The men Lad wanted some bodies
to sell, they related, and believing it
easier 70 III he Tc.lors than to rob
some grave, had committed the
crimes and sold the cadayers to the
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Concluded from page ~
in the grave, nearly the whole town
mobbed the college, broke up the fur
niture, broke out the windows and
threw parts of cadavers through them
and 1847, just 100 years ago, the col
lege folded up.
Here's More
Then there was the famous Medi-
cal College of Ohio, Sixth Street,
Cincinnati. 1t was opened in 1918
and always had borne a stainless
reputation. 1t first fell under suspi-
cion when the body of John Scott
Harrison, father of one President and
son of another, was found by his son
hanging by a rope in the body chute
of the college on the night of May p,
1878-less than 20 hours after burial
in Congress Green Cemetery, North
Bend.
John Harrison and George Eaton
found the body when hunting for that
of Augustus Devin, whose grave had
been found robbed at the burial of
Harrison.
Clues in the grave-robberies also
pointed towards the Miami Medical
College, Twelfth Street, Cincinnati,
where no bodies were discovered but
whose janitor related many had been
brought there and then shipped away,
College authorities knew nothing
about it, the janitor declared, and he
had been forced to engage in the
work by a stranger who coerced him.
Most of the cadavers, the janitor told
detectives, were shipped to "Quimby
& Co., Ann Arbor, Michigan"
Body Found
At Ann Arbor, Cincinnati detect
ives and a Michigan sheriff were
shown 49 bobbing, squirming, naked
cadavers in the briny body watts of
the University of Ann Arbor. Poking
among them, a professor brought
them up one-by-one until the corpse
of Augustus Devin appeared and was
identified.
Identity of Quimby G. Co., accord
| ing to a warrant sworn out against
the ghoul, Charles o. Morton, Toledo,
alias DR.. Gordon Alias DR.. Christian
alias DR.. Gabriel. Morton, known to be
an arch-body snatcher, never was ap-
pretended. Several persons were ar
rested and tried in connection with
the grave-robberies but were released
for lack of evidence.
Only isolated cases of grave-rob-
bing occurred during the following
years and the epidemic was believed
to have died away. Then, the eve
ming of February Is, 1884 fire broke
out in Avondale.
Avondale, now one of Cincinnatrs
swankiest suburbs, filled with tower
ing apartment houses and mostly a
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power lines was granted for use In
Adams county. The loan of $320,00o
made by the Rural Electrificatlon
Administration to the Adams Rural
Electric Cooperative for the COM
pIetion of lines already under con-
struction and to extend lines another
10 miles to serve 395 rural consun-
ers. Loans are repaid from future
power sales.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-11-13
Cycling Popular

So popular has the bicycle be-
come that at Smith College for
women, in Northampton, Mass,
there are more than l,500 bicycles
on the campus. Today throughout
the United States there are more
than 100000 bikes. and 1000, 900
more are being added each year.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-11-13

Persons who have had an eye
lens removed can see objects clear
ly in ultraviolet light that are al
most invisible to those with good
eyes. In the normal individual, the
lens absorbs almost all Of the light
in the ultraviolet portion Of the spec
trum so that very little of it reaches
the retina.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-11-13
Cnnkfnn Sweet pntatoes

Cooking sweet potatoes in the oven
or kettle without peeling saves vita
Minis as well as time. Tests show
that, when baked or boiled without
peeling, sweet potatoes retain from
90 to 83 per cent of their vitamn
c. Many people add little sugar
to the boiling water to give the po-
tatoes a sweeter flavor.