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Smyrna times., 1947-01-02
Beltz : Francis

Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond E. Beltz
of Smyrna announce the engage
ment of their daughter, Mary Jane
to Private Robert E. Francis, son
of the late John Francis and the
late Mrs. Mary Francis MARYLAND
of Smyrna. Miss Beltz graduated
from the John Bassett Moore High
School last June and has been en-
pIoyed with the Wilson Cabinet
Company since that time. She
will attend Beacon College. Pri-
vate Francis enlisted in the Army
in October of this year following
his June graduation from the
Smyrna High School. He is now
stationed at Fort Dix, New Jersey.
No date has ben set for the wed
ding.
Smyrna times., 1947-01-02
ROTARY GOES MUSICAL
Albert NewcOmb, Sr., Featured in
Musical Program

Albert Newcomb, Sr., presented
a musical program last Thursday
night at the Smyrna Rotary Club.
Mr.. Newcomb, an operatic tenor,
was accompanied by Mrs. Don
Martin, Newark. DR.. c. j. Prick
EFT presided. Visitors from the
Dover Club were Walter Massey,
Walter H. Warrington, William
Richter, William Ritchter, Jr., and
Norman Ward. Other guests were
w. C. Wilson, Madison, NJ, Frank
Attix, Palmer Carter, William
George and Jack Dukts.
Smyrna times., 1947-01-02
PTA TO SHOW MOVIE
Members and Friends Invited to
Attend Open Meeting

Attend Open Meeting
Any interested persons are in
vited to attend an open meeting,
sponsored by the Clayton Parent
Teachers Association on January
s at s P. M. Miss Mary Daven-
port, State Nutritionist, will show
a movie and speak on the subject
Nutrition in 1947."
Evening star., 1947-11-23

LUXURIOUS LEATHER
HANDBAG-pIioble, mot
finish coIfskin twin-hondIe bog,
richly droped, fitted with new
large round mirror, Upper pocket
and coin purse. BIockSl7 5O
or brown ---- INV
Plus a0% Tas
Evening star., 1947-11-23

GOTHAM GOLDSTRIPE
FR|V-O-LACE NYLONS
The stocking on pedestal!
Gothom's beautiful Friv-O-Loce
NyIons rnged twice around
once for beauty and once for
weorl 3O-Denier sheer ond shin-
mering in Shadow, Dark S,<r
ling or Pro|ine. 'l.OO
Evening star., 1947-11-23

SET FOR THE HOLIDAY
BRIDE, American Maids young
trousseou tWosome Of slip and
pontle, both smooth royon Jersey
edged in net and sotin robbon
fogeotine. Teorose or Christmas
Brides White. Junior sized and
Junior-priced, too! Slip, SIzS
s.; Pontie, l.OO
Evening star., 1947-11-23

HANG THE TREE WITH
CANDY CANES! Candy
Cane striped Pojomos Christmas
crisp and tailored slick as q whis-
tie in fine cotton. Classic jacket
with lay back collar, elastic woist
banded pojomos. Peppermint Red
or blue stripes on SZOE
white. Sizes 81 to 40 O.0O
Evening star., 1947-11-23

A FUR SCARF - christmes
gift in the grand manner. Four
skin sob edged SO *
KoIinsky. |S./O
Piss SOS fas
Also ct JeIIefPs Bstkssda Shop
Evening star., 1947-11-23

WARM AND COMFIE,
The new bedjocket in fluffy
brushed royon with long sleeves,
Peter Pom collar and pretty Pom
Pom trim. Teorose, blue Sizes
VALUE! Z.0O
Evening star., 1947-05-10
Union Leader Staying
Probe Pushed After
Coroner 5 Verdict

Police today continued to investi-
gate the staying of James E. Har-
ris, 40, colored union leader, fol-
lowing the verdict Of d coroner's
jury yesterday that he died .at the
hands Of a person or persons rln-
known
Mr.. Harris was found hacked to
death in his home, 3120 Thirteenth
street NV, April 28. The cor
oner,s Office reported death came
from blows inflicted on the head
and neck with an ak, meat cleayer
Tor some similar instrument.
His body was found by his widow,
Mrs. Minnie Harris, 81, and a mail
carrier, whom she summoned.
Was Asleep, Says Wife.
Mrs. Harris spent over an hour
yesterday telling the coroner's jury
lof her movements on the morning
her husband was found dead. She
said every one had left the house
except her husband, who was asleep
in a front bedroom when she went
to clothes-cleaning establishment
with her granddaughter about
1910 am.
She returned, she said, about A
minutes later to find the front door
of the house open. Inspection also
showed a rear window, normally
locked, had been opened. Mrs. Har-
ris said she then called the pass
igg mailman, Thomas C. Sherwood,
Evening star., 1947-05-10

who found Harris dead on the bed
in the front bedroom.
Police Capt. Clarence Lutz said
his investigation showed neither the
front door, which contained an
automatic lock, nor the open wins
dow had been forced open Other
policemen said they found blood
stains on the basement steps and
on pieces Of paper near the furnace.
An ak, usually kept in the base
ment, could not be found.
Trucker Tells Of Offer.
Hubert Heard, colored truck
driver who lived in the basement
of the Harris house for seven
months last year. said Mrs. Har-
ris once told him she would @pay
$25 to some one to beat Harris up,
but he could not exactly" recall
when or where the conversation
took place. He said he quit living
at the Thirteenth street address
when Mr.. Harris told him to move.
MIR. Harris was business agent
for the United Cafeteria Workers,
Local All (CIO). He had left home
April n about 10 pm, his widow
testified, to walk in the picket
line before ODonnel's Restaurant,
against. which his union was on
strike.
He returned between 4 and 5
o'clock the next morning. Mrs.
Harris said she last saw him shortly
after 8 am, when she closed the
bedroom door SO his sleep would
not be disturbed. At that time he
Evening star., 1947-05-10
II Die, 7S leffisis Freed
In Greek Train Attack
BY The Assoeiotsd Press

ATHENS, May 10.-Press dis
pat6hes said today an armed band
of more than 100 attacked q passen-
ger train between Tripolis and Ka-
lanata and killed II persons and
freed 28 Leftist detainees being
taken to Kalamata for trial.
The newspapers Rizospastis and
Embros said the attack took place
at the village Of Irasi, while the
train was standing in the station.
Eight gendarmes, a railroadman,
a woman and a child were said to
have been killed during the attack.
Official military reports said SO
guerrillas were slain during an at
tack by Loyalist troops east of
Elasson on the slopes of Mount
Olympus. Another press dispatch
said a band of 100 attacked Veroia,
killing six persons and setting 10
houses on fire.
Evening star., 1947-05-10
Hearing Called June 9
On S4OO License Plan
For 4 Theaiers Here

Each of four Washington theaters
would have to pay $500 more an
nuaIly for District licenses under
proposals to be made the subject of
q Commissioners public hearing at
10 am. june 9 in the board room of
the District Building.
The four theaters-the National,
Capital, Gayety and Howard-now
pay a fee of $50. Because they use
movable scenery, they are differen-
tiated under District law from or
dinary motion picture houses.
The movies" now pay $50 each
for a license but would be assessed
$75 under the new proposals.
The theaters and moving picture
houses are among Is District activ-
titles which would be charged more
for annual licenses under a new
scale recommended to the Commis-
sioners by the District License Com
mittee.
The new scale would raise fees as
follows: Apothecaries, $12 to $25;
auctioneers, S. to $40; public baths,
81 to $12; commission merchants, IS
to 500; groceries, IS to SIS; public
halls, So to $50; wholesale marine
products dealers, $50 to SITS. Also
massage establishments, IS to $12;
restaurants, SIS to $25; shooting
galleries, $40 to $40; swimming pools,
SIS to $50; carnivals, $35 per day to
$50 per day, and circuses, from 50
per day for each motor or wagonload
of equipment up to a total of $3.50,
to Sc per day on the same basis, to a
total of $500.
ssThe License Committee has esti-
mated the new scale would yield the
District an additional 100000 an
nualy.
Evening star., 1947-05-10
Naples King Builds
Wealth on War SpoiIs

Most popular man in Naples is
Giuseppe Navarro, who made a
fortune dealing IN war materials
left behind by the Nazi and Al
lied armies, visitors report. He
calls himself the ''King of Poggio-
Evening star., 1947-05-10

reale"-that being the suburb
where he lives In a luxurious home
opposite the municipal abbattoir.
The reason for his popularity is
that he. Is as generous as he is
wealthy. Every Sunday morning
king" Giuseppe holds court, with
his queen" appearing on his bal
cony to respond to the cheers Of
a crowd-to whom he distributes
money.
Evening star., 1947-05-10

was snoring loudly. she said.
Mrs Harris said she and her hus-
band had had arguments over his
gambling. but indicated they were
not serious.
Evening star., 1947-05-10

TRIBUTE BLESSED VIRGINIA wreath Is placed the
Statue the Blessed Virgin Mary by Woberg IT, senior
at Sacred Heart Academy the high light OF the annual May
Day ceremonies the Immaculate Seminary Wisconsin and
Nebraska yesterday About $500 Catholic
participated Wolberg 1920 street NV
assisted the Rev. James McCarl. Star Staff Photo
Evening star., 1947-05-10

See them, too, In Junior Bazaar"
and other favorite yonng-Iook-in-
fashion magazines.
wAd-Jnior lnssss Apparel, Fourth Floor
Evening star., 1947-02-20
Union Station USO Lounge
Closes Feb. 28 After 5 Years

At midnight February %, the
lights will go out in suite OF
rooms off the east end of the con-
course in Union Station for the
first time in nearly five years.
The rooms are those of the USO
Lounge. the facilities of which were
used by 6,500,000 members of the
armed forces. The rooms will once
again become the reception suite of
the State Department, rented to the
Government by the Washington
Terminal Co. tor ST year.
The suite was formally opened
on May 10, 1912, by B. r. Tolson,
manager of the terminal company,
as a lounge for servicemen and
women with official participation
by the USO.
Round the Clock Operation.
Since that time, it has operated
"a hours a day, seven days week,
for the special benefits OF troops
in transit. Practically all of the
soldiers, sailors and Marines who
played, slept, read or smoked there
between trains have long since re-
turned to civilian pursuits.
A visit yesterday showed four visi-
tors in the lounge-three soldiers
and sailor. One soldier was asleep
on a couch, a big card on his chest
reading 800" Miss Florence Kelly
tof the National Travellers Aid As
sociation, said that meant he was
to be awakened at 6 pm. to catch
a train.
Another soldier listened to open
Evening star., 1947-02-20
Opinions on Departments
Asked by Charter Board

Should the new charter set up
specific provisions for the several
departments involved in county
government?"
This question is 14th in series
asked by the Charter Board of
Montgomery County, to aid it in
preparing proposed new form of
county government.
The 1914 charter provided in de-
tail for departments Of finance, pub
lie works, education, safety, health,
welfare, and the Office of county
attorney.
The set-up was criticized on the
grounds that too many department
heads would be required, thereby in
creasing the county budget.
County residents interested in ex-
pressing their views are asked to
contact any one of the following
board members: Norman B. Ames,
George Rust Candy, Howard P.
Bailey, William C. Hanson and
James j. Hayden.
Evening star., 1947-02-20

A suspect fleeing in an automobile
drove backward rapidly for three
blocks early today, ricocheting of
four cars and a truck before pur-
suing police overlook him.
The star performer of the singular
chase, listed as Arthur Ware, n,
colored, 1900 block of Riggs place
NV. was held on reckless driving
and no permit charges. He is
slated to appear in Municipal Court
today.
The arresting officers, Pvt. s. J.
Greco and P. M. ZaZanis of the 18th
precinct said Ware broke practical
" every traffic law in the book and
then doubled by doing everything
in reverse. in his efforts to elude
capture.
The patrolmep first spotted Ware,
they said, at Eleventh and S streets
NV. behind the wheel of carre-
ported stolen from Charles E. Burr,
jr., 3722 Van Ness street NV. They
gave chase and overlook the suspect
at Eighth and r streets NV. where
the policemen said they passed Ware
and blocked his forward passage
with the scout car.
Evening star., 1947-02-20

the Door Richard" on the record
player. The third read news
paper. The sailor walked around,
picked up book, set it down again
and finally settled at a writing
table-presumably to begin a letter
to the folks back home.
Miss Kelly shook her head, sad
over the lack of patrons, but said,
too, that millions of young American
men were no longer troops in
transit"
$4,000 in One Month.
In October, 1914, we had $4,000
register here" she said. They
played the radio, the phonograph /;
they slept, they sang, they wrote
letters. It was never as quiet as
this
WAVES, WACS and Women
Marines had a room to themselves
at the opposite end of the lounge.
Miss Kelly thought the most popu-
lar service offered by the lounge
was the free pocket editions" OF
books given the servicemen, but she
said the deck chairs for sleeping
ran a close second.
Before the war, the State De-
partment permitted the rooms to be
opened only for the President, am
bassadors and other visiting digni-
taries. There they could be well
coined and bade farewell beyond
the gaze of the curious.
The semiprivate character of the
suite will be restored when the State
Department resumes its lease, MIR.
Tolson said.
Evening star., 1947-02-20
Bankers Hit Sales Tax
Confined 10 Maryland

The Montgomery County Bankers
Association last night went on record
as opposing a proposed 2 per cent
sales tax for Maryland, unless q
similar tax is levied in adjoining
States and the District.
The meeting, held at the Farm
ers' Banking & Trust Co., Rock
vile, was called by the associations
president, Richard F. Green.
Speakers asserted that a State
sales tax would be ruinous to mer-
chants in all parts of the county
particularly in the sale of building
materials, radios, furniture, stoves
farm equipment, clothing, coal ano
heating oil.
Mr.. Green said action of the as
sociation will be brought to the at
tention of the Maryland Bankers
Association, Gov. Lane and men,
bers of the State Legislature.
Evening star., 1947-02-20
Stolen Car Speeds Backward
3 Blocks, Hitting 5 Vehicles

Ware Immediately went into re-
verse and stepped on the gas, police
said. Before he had gone a block,
according to the pursuers, the car
went out of control and ran up on
the sidewalk in front of 730 S street
NV. where it knocked down picket
fence. Ware got the car back into
the street after he had sideswiped
parked car, police said.
Still travelling backward at high
speed, Ware went around the cor
ner into R.street and sped east. In
rapid succession, Ware hit three
more cars and a truck, police said.
Bowling along behind Ware in a
wake of broken glass and smashed
tenders, the police car finally over
took him In front of TOO r street
NV. 1t was the truck which STOP
ped Ware.
Taking no chances, the policemen
saw that Wares car was halted
bumper-to-bumper with the truck
and quickly parked their car against
the other bumper Of the fugitive.
Damage to Mr.. Burr's car was
estimated at $1,000.
Evening star., 1947-02-20
Charles County Needs Help
To Ease PLIGHT of Its Schools
By Colt HendIey. Jr.
Sior Sfoff Correspondent

child and the city of Baltimore has
about $4,000 as an average.
The present tax rate runs about
80 cents per $10O. If the rate is
advanced to 81 as planned, the
county would have about $35 year
for schooling each child.
School officials estimate an ade-
quate school system will take from
$50 per year for each child in the
elementary grades to $145 year in
the high schools.
Teachers Start at S1,700.
The starting pay in Charles
County for teacher with college
degree is $1,700. The most one can
make a year is $2,400 AS low as
the salaries are, they run 5000 above
the minimum set by State law The
county makes up the difference.
A good example of the crowded
conditions can be found in the La
Plata School-which has all grades,
elementary through senior high, in
the building.
1.-THE school originally was built
for 100 students. 1t now houses
more than 300," Principal Milton
Somers explained.
A corridor, connecting two sections
of the building, has been turned
into q kitchen in order to serve
hot lunches to the pupils.
The library is in a small class
room converted by adding book
shelves. One janitor cares for the
building which is open an average
of four nights week in addition
to school days.
Despite these conditions, how
ever, all is not hopeless.
The Board of Education, headed
by J. r. Bowling, a farmer from
Wicomico; the school superintend-
ent, the school principals and the
parent-teacher associations are
working together on plans to relieve
the situation and give the county
some semblance of an educational
system they feel it should have.
If the 100000 bond issue goes
through, $3.50, 900 of the money will
be used to put an addition to the
La Plata High School. The school
then would be used for central
senior high school for the county's
white children. One hundred thous-
and dollars would go for an addition
to the colored high school at Bel
Alton. The rest of the money would
be used for improvements In two
other schools.
3 Schools Would Change Over.
The Bel Alton High School and
another at Pomonkey would remain
the senior high schools for colored
students. The three other high
schools, for white pupils, would be-
come junior high schools. They are
located at Hughesville, Glasva and
Nanjemoy.
| Mr.. Gwynn and the board pres
ident, Mr.. Bowling, both agree that
help from the State and Federal
governments is the only hope for
the county,s school system. Pro-
posals for State laws to assist in
giving teachers a raise and to assist
in school building programs are
being considered now at the State
Legislature in Annapolis.
When the State supervisor Of edu-
cational and vocational guidance
said the county's school buildings
were the worse in Maryland. he
added the school children are the
grandest,"
Evening star., 1947-02-20
Health Council Urges
Survey Of Cancer
Patients in District

A survey of the Districts cancer
patients, to be conducted by the
District Health Department with
the aid of the United States Public
Health Service. was recommended
yesterday by the National Capital
Area Health Council.
The council also urged member
hospitals to contribute to a fund
for employment of a paid, full-time
executive secretary with clerical as
sistance, as recommended last year
in the metropolitan health and
hospital survey.
Reelected as council president
was William R. Castle, president of
Garfield Hospital. Other council
officials for the coming year will be
Robert Whitton, superintendent of
Alexandria Hospital, vice president;
Mrs. Walter E. Perry, Bethesda
Suburban Hospital, treasurer, and
Sister Marie. Providence Hospital
secretary.
Chosen for three-year terms on
the executive committee of the hos
pital group were F. j. Eisenman,
administrator of Garfield Hospital;
Col. N. l.. McDiarmid, superintend-
ent of Columbia Hospital; DR.. Al
win R. Sweeney, superintendent OF
Gallinger Hospital, and DR.. Mont
gomery Blair, director of Children's
Hospital.
Elected for one year were Charles
E. Burbridge, Freedmen's Hospital;
S. T. Porter, Casualty Hospital, and
DR.. John Orem, Sibley Hospital.
Continuing as members Of the
committee are Henry P. Blair,
Episcopal Hospital; j. G. Capossela,
Emergency Hospital: Leo G. Sch
melzer, George Washington Univer-
sity Hospital; Arthur B. Scion, Sub
urban Hospital, and Karl H. York,
Arlington Hospital.
Evening star., 1947-02-20
Fire Death Hearing
For Mother DELAYED

A preliminary hearing for Mrs.
Mary Jean Hoffman, %, whose two
small daughters died in fire at
their Riverdale home last Friday
was postponed today until March 81
in Upper Marlboro Police Court.
Mrs. Hoffman is charged by Prince
Georges County police with two
counts of manslaughter as a result
of alleged negligence. She is under
81 900 bond in custody of her father,
Earl A. Law, 5014 Forty-seventh
avenue, Edmonston.
The children, Sandra Kay Hoff-
man, 4, and Jean Louise Hoffman,
21a, perished in the fire at their
home, 6625 Forty-seventh' place, in
the Calvert Homes Development at
Riyerdale,
Evening star., 1947-02-20
Art Calendar Contest
Entrants Total 127

Additional registrations from Ban
neker and Thomas Jefferson Junior
High Schools. together with the
first from Dolly Madison Junior
High School in Arlington, yesterday
brought the total number of students
entered in The Star Student Art
Calendar Contest to 127. The new
entrants are Patricia Kelley, Yvonne
Sheppard and Marcia G.. Williams
from Banneker; Lillian Cayton, Ann
Haggenmaker, Laura Drew and Bar
bara Jean Davis from Thomas JET
ferson. and Celeste Stewart from
Dolly Madison.
Competition is open to all Junior
and senior high school students in
public, parochial and private schools
in Washington and nearby Maryland
and Virginia.
Contestants may submit more
than one entry, but each picture
must have an entry blank attached
to the back.
All entries must be in color, but
IIlC WOA n llldy NC OOl1C LII "dOCl SolOl I,
pastels, oil, or any suitable medium.
Choice of the subject matter is also
left to the artist, but no posters or
cartoons may be entered.
The six pictures adjudged best will
appear in the 1948 Evening Star
calendar, and each winner will re-
ceive a 500 United States Savings
Bond.
To provide uniformity for use in
the calendar all work submitted
must have the length horizontal and
be approximately proportioned to Is
by 20 inches in size.
The contest closes April /, and all
entries must be received by The Star
by that date.
Requests for entry blanks or fur
ther information should be sent to
the Art Contest Editor, Room 724,
The Evening Star Building.
Evening star., 1947-02-20
; Counties Are Firm
Against Sales Tax,
DESPITE Lane's Stand
By q stoff Correspondent of The stor

ANNAPOLIS, Feb. 2O.-In the
face of Gov. Lanes recommendation
for a per cent sales tax, Legislative
delegations from Montg gom cry
Prince Georges and st. Marys Coun-
ties today reiterated their opposi-
ton to such a levy.
The Governor asked the Legisla-
ture yesterday for a sales tax and
an increase in State income tax
rates to bring in an extra $25, ,000, ,00C
annually.
"Our argument against sales
tax still stands" said R. Duncan
Clark, member of the all-Republi-
can Montgomery County delegation
1--WE still believe that such a tax,
regardless of whether the District of
Columbia puts one into effect, would
place a heavy burden on those least
able to afford it," Mr.. Clark asserted.
"In addition" he continued, "even
if Washington has such tax, goods
purchased there and delivered across
the line to Montgomery County,
would be tax exempt. AS result,
practically everyone in Montgomery
county would buy things in Wash
ington and have them delivered to
their homes.
'If the District of Columbia does
not enact a sales tax, then the resi-
dents of the county certainly would
buy in Washington, rather than
pay the tax in their own county"
Similar statements were made by
members of the Prince Georges and
st. Marys County delegations.
In a message read at the after
noon session of the Legislature, Gov.
Lane announced he was accepting
the recommendation of the Board
of Revenue estimates for sales
levy, but that he could not agree
on it's proposed rates on income
taxes.
The Board of Revenue Estimates
and it's advisory committee had sug-
gested the personal income tax be
raised from 2 per cent to 2.75 per
cent. and the rate on corporations
be increased from is per cent to 3.5
per cent.
Mr.. Lane said he could not SUBJ
scribe to such a large increase in the
personal rate, recommending instead
that the personal income tax figure
be 2.5 per cent and the corporation
levy a fiat per cent