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Evening star., 1947-01-10
Admiral Holloway
To Take Command
By the Assoeiofed Press

ANNAPOLIS, Md, Jan. 10.-Rear
Admiral James L. Holloway, jr., will
assume command of the Naval
Academy from Vice Admiral Aubrey
w. Fitch next Wednesday. in a Is
minute ceremony in Dahlgren Hall.
Admiral Fitch, who became super
Itntendent of the Academy on Au-
gust 16, 1945, next month will take
over active duty as special assistant
to Undersecretary OF the Navy John
l.. Sullivan.
The incoming admiral is an An
napolis graduate of the 1919 class
and is known for his Craftsmanship
of the Holloway Board which de-
vised method of education of
officers of the postwar Navy.
The system calls for vigorous
Naval Reserve officers training corps
in colleges in conjunction with
Naval Academy education and
graduate education.
Admiral Holloway has distin-
guished wartime record as COM
mander of Destroyer Squadron 10,
which took part in the North
African invasion and commanded
the Battleship Iowa in the Philip
pines battles with the Japanese and
in strikes against the Japanese
homeland.
Evening star., 1947-01-10
|Dirksen 10 Head
District Group,
Leaders Agree
Final Check Due
Today on Many
House Assignments
By Don S. Warren

Top notch House Republicans
have agreed on Representative Dirk
sen, Republican, of Illinois, as the
new chairman of the House District
Committee-presumably ending a
hot debate over the post.
A veteran Of the District group
who has been willing to stick for IL
years to the study of National Capt.
tai problems in addition to his work
on national affairs, Mr.. Dirksen has
played a persuasive role in many
important District issues.
The reported decision by sub
committee of the Republican Com
mittee on Committees was to be sub
ject to final check today of the
long list of majority party assign
ments proposed by this group of
"committee-makers." With no hitch
there, the list is to go to the full
committee and to the Republican
Conference for confirmation at. ses-
sions scheduled for Monday.
Rees Post Reported Decided.
At the same time, there were re-
ports that agreement had been
reached to give the craftsmanship of
the now-merged Post Office and
Civil Service Committee to Repre-
sentative Rees, Republican, of Kan
sas.
His assignment to this post
seemed largely based on reports that
Representative Mason, Republican,
Evening star., 1947-01-10

When striking cafeteria workers
picketing the Justice Department
Building grow weary of pavement
pounding, they can take heart from
the steady treads of Roger w. Ak
ford and Dick Suzuki.
AFFORD and Suzuki are the plac-
ara wearers who, since last fall
have been pacing before the build
ing, asking release of imprisoned
conscientious objectors. AFFORD, 26
of Chicago, took up his post in Sep
tember. Suzuki, 80, of Hawaii, Cali
fornia and Chicago, joined him a
month later.
They have been sleeping on the
steps of the buildings Tenth street
and Constitution avenue entrance
Asked how it felt to have other
pickets on the line, although spon-
soring different cause, AFFORD re-
piled:
"I feel very friendly toward them
They have very hard time"
Both of the conscientious OBJ
jectors try to keep pacing as much
as possible, they said, only taking
time out occasionally during the
day and for sleep at night. BY now
many Justice Department official.
have grown accustomed to exchang.
ing good morning" with the pair
they added.
I Frank Olmstead, field work direc
Etor of the War Resistors' League
who was visiting the pickets today
Evening star., 1947-01-10
War Directors Are There First,
Cafeteria Pickets Discover

told reporters he occasionally gave
them small amounts of money.
But they usually spend 1t on
telephone calls and other efforts for
the cause instead of on food and
clothes for themselves" he COM
planned.
Mr.. Olmstead added the group
was campaigning for "a blanket
amnesty now" with restoration of
all civil rights to conscientious OBJ
jectors, and was rather disap-
pointed" in President Truman'S
recent announcement of establish
ment of three-man board to study
cases.
He added, however, the group was
pleased with appointment of former
Supreme Court Justice Owen D.
Roberts as chairman.
| AFFORD and Suzuki, both Of whom
have studied for the ministry, said
they had no plans for the future
other than to continue their picket
ing. Their current signs read, Free
All War Directors" and Land OF
the Free?"
AFFORD wears striped prison-type
garb as much as possible, but didn't
have it on today.
"It gets dirty as we'll as every.
thing else," he explained.
He admitted sleeping on the step'
during recent snow and freezing
rain was not much fun, but com
lmented: .
/ "It's much harder on those fel
lows In prison" ~
Evening star., 1947-01-10
D. {. Taxpayers
Assured Hearing
|nSubconnn1ittee
Senator Dworshdk,
Appropriations Unit
Head, Reveals PIons
By Harold B. ROGERS

Taxpayers of the District will be
given ample opportunity to express
their views at open hearings of
the District subcommittee of the
Senate Appropriations Committee,
according to its new chairman, Sem
ator Dworshak, Republican, of
Idaho.
Appointed subcommittee head
yesterday, the freshman Senator has
a background of eight years pre-
vious service in the House. While
there, he devoted two years to the
i, District subcommittee of the House
Appropriations Committee. +
This experience on the House side,
he feels, has given him "fundamen-
tai knowledge of fiscal policies Of
the city"
Open Hearing Policy.
The Senator's selection to head
the subcommittee was announced
by Chairman Bridges of the Senate
Appropriations Committee, along
with IL other subcommittee chair
men. The general policy was
adopted Of holding open hearings,
Senator Bridges said, in line with
recommendations of the Re-organi-
zation Act. In the past, it has been
customary for the Senate District
hearings to be closed.
On the House side, there are some
indications the Craftsmanship of the
District appropriations subcommit-
tee, which will write the next mu-
nicipal supply bill, will go to Repre-
sentative Koran, Republican Of
Washington.
Representative Stefan of Nebraska,
ranking Republican member of this
Evening star., 1947-01-10

Sewell E. Simmons, jr., IA months,
feels fine now, but he's too young to
realize why laundryman is partly
responsible for his present good
health.
There was mishap in the SIM
mons home at 1919 Lily Ponds drive
NE. while ago. Little Sewell was
burned severely by scalding water
from vaporizer. His mother, alone
with him at the time, rushed into
the street to find a taxicab for q
trip to the hospital.
E. L. Wingo, a driver salesman for
the Old Colony Laundry Co., was
covering his route at the time and
noticed the mothers distress. He
offered to take Mrs. Simmons and
her son to the hospital.
Doctors found the youngster had
suffered serious burns and shock,
necessitating extended treatment.
He spent six weeks in Children's
Evening star., 1947-01-10
| 100 More Tickets
| Available for
Concert Monday

One hundred more invitations to
attend the fourth Of the neighbor-
Il hood concerts by the National SYM
phony Orchestra, which will be
held next Monday night at McKin-
LEY High School, will be made avail
able at the information counter In
the lobby of The Star Building to-
morrow morning. The Star is spon-
soring the concert series.
DR.. Hans Kinder will conduct
Mondays concert, at which the en-
tire orchestra of 100 musicians will
play.
The tickets, which are free. are
being distributed through McKin-
ley, Eastern and Anacostia High
Schools, the Recreation Department
and The Star.
The concert will start at o pm.
instead Of $50 pm, as was the
case with the first three concerts.
Station WMAL viii broadcast the
entire concert, which viii last one
hour.
Evening star., 1947-01-10
BIueberries Put
Under Arrest
Pendinq Suit

About $1,000 cans of blueberrieS
are under arrest" today in a local
warehouse while a Government suit
to condemn them on the ground
they are spoiled is pending in Dis
trict Court.
The suit Is against the berries
themselves. A libel action seeking
to condemn the berries, which was
filed by United States Attorney
George Morris Fay and Assistant
United States Attorney Helena D.
Reed, yesterday, says they consist
of 1920 cases more or less each
containing "a cans of berries. 1t
says the berries were shipped here
from Webster, N. Y.
The berries were officially
"seized" in the warehouse by deputy
United States marshals, but re-
manned in storage there, under
arrest" pending further action
Justice T. Alan Goldsborough, signed
an order giving whomever may own
the berries until January "a to
claim them.
Evening star., 1947-01-10
Chaplains Told Of Fight
On Rising Tide Of Crime

Religious values must be empha-
sized in training American youth If
the rising tide of crime is to- be
combated, the Army and Navy
Chaplains Association was told yes
terday by group of civilian and
service officials.
Louis B. Nichols, assistant director
of the Federal Bureau Of Investiga-
tion, told the group the national
debt could be liquidated If crime
could be eliminated. In the first
nine months of 1946, he said, crime
increased per cent in the United
States.
Other speakers were Clare Fagrie
OF the. Juvenile Court Probation de-
partment, Chaplain Monroe Drew.
U. S. n, and e. w. Weber, assistant
director Of the Veterans Administers
ton Chaplaincy Service.
The meeting was held at the Army
War College. The association COM
prises service, reserve and Veterans
Administration chaplainS.
Evening star., 1947-01-10
Rules Subcommittee
To Give Attention 10
|0'Conor Contest Sool

The contest over election of Sen
ator O'Conor, Democrat. of Mary
land, will receive early attention
from the new Senate Rules subcom-
mittee on elections, it's chairman
Senator Hickenlooper, Republican,
of Iowa, said today.
Former Gov. O'Conor and his con-
testant, D. John Markey, unsuccess-
full Republican candidate for the
Senate seat, or their representatives
may be asked to appear before the
subcommittee, Chairman Hicken-
looper indicated. The subcommittee
wants to see if these opponents can
help find some common ground"
on which the investigators can pro-
ceed.
Ballot Boxes Examined.
Representatives of the former
committee on campaign expendi-
lures headed by Senator Ellender,
Democrat, of Louisiana already have
examined some ballot boxes in
nearby Montgomery County and in
Baltimore, it was explained. The
new subcommittee, however, has
taken jurisdiction over the contest
and has asked for all data so far
collected. The life of the Ellender
committee expires January 81.
The subcommittee also will inves-
tigate the contests filed by Tom
Sweeney, Republican, against Sena-
tor Kilgore, Democrat, of West Vir-
ginia; and by Lester Parsons, Re-
publican, against Senator Byrd,
Democrat, of Virginia. In addition
to Senator Hickenlooper, other
members of the subcommittee on
elections are Senators Bricker, Re-
publican, of Ohio, and Myers, Demo-
crat, of Pennsylvania.
The controversy over Senator
Bilbo, Democrat, of Mississippi, is
not before the committee, but is on
the Senate table.
Subcommittee Named.
Chairman Brooks of the Senate
Rules Committe announced appoint
ment of these ubcornmittees:
Rules: Senators Wherry, and Ives,
New York, Republicans, and Hay
den. Democrat, Of Arizona.
Library: Senator Brooks, chair
man; Senators Jenner, Indiana, and
Ives, Republicans, and Senator
Green, Democrat, of Rhode Island.
Printing: Senator Brooks, chair
man; Senator Knowland, Republi-
can, California, and Senator Hay
den.
Smithsonian Institution: Senator
Lodge, Republican, of Massachu-
sets, and Senator Hayden.
A Navy veteran of World War II,
Albert L. Seidel, OF Chicago, who
holds campaign ribbons for Saipan,
Leyte, Guam, Two Jima, and Okin-
ava, was elected chief clerk of the
committee.
Evening star., 1947-01-10
County Civic Federation
To- Meet in Bethesda

The Montgomery County Civic
Federation will meet at pm. Mon
day in the Bethesda Elementary
School.
Recommendations are expected to
be made at the meeting by the
Legislative Program Committee to
the Montgomery County delegation
at the Maryland General Assembly
Among the chief topics of discussion
is expected to be the Lindsey bill
forbidding any county to adopt a
charter permitting non-partisan
elections.
The Public Finance Committee
will report on the personal property
tax, and the Public Utilities Conn
mittee will discuss the equalization
Of utility rates between the District
of Columbia and Maryland.
Evening star., 1947-01-10

Hospital Then he was taken home
and regained his former weight rap
idly.
The Simmonses, grateful for their
sons recovery, thought again of the
laundryman.
Mr.. Wingo had not considered 1t
necessary to report his good deed, so
his employers were unaware of it
until they received a letter from Mr..
Simmons, praising their driver
"No. f."
The father wrote he felt the
drivers prompt assistance may have
saved his sons life.
He added he realized the unsched-
uled side trip probably had disrupted
Mr.. Wingo'S routine and wanted the
firm to know of his kindness.
Dwight L: Smith, secretary treas
urer of the laundry, said Mr.. Wingo
had been an employe nearly 16 years
and long had been known as a con-
ScientiouS routeman.
Evening star., 1947-01-10
|Womun's Death Ruled
OF Nuturul Causes

Mrs. Barbara Newsham. 26, who
was found dead early yesterdy in
her apartment at 2524 Forty first
street NV, died from natural
causes an autopsy revealed yester-
day afternoon.
Coroner A. Magruded Macdonald
declined to elaborate on the cause
of death. .
Police said Mrs. Newsham, who
was reported to have been stricken
Wednesday afternoon, was found
dead by friend, whose name they
gave as May Hutson, 100 block OF
North Tenth street, Arlington, Va.
Evening star., 1947-01-10
Library Board Names
Committee 70 Prepare
Brown School Plans

Recreation and library officials to-
day were working on financial and
floor plans for the E. ". Brown
School In preparation for joint ac-
ton by the Recreation and Library
Boards on turning the school into
a Chevy Chase center.
The Board Of Library Trustees
yesterday appointed a committee to
work on the plans and the Recrea-
ton Board is expected to follow suit
at its meeting next Tuesday.
Recreation Supt. Milo Christian
sen said his group would work as
speedily as possible because "the
need is immediate" for combined
library branch and recreation CEN
ter in Chevy Chase.
OPA Moving Next Month.
He pointed out that as soon as
the District Office of Price Admin
istration moves out of the building
next month, the District will have to
begin paying custodial costs.
The Recreation Department is now
working up financial plans and
preparations for altering the build
ing and making it available for pub
lie use. This material will be turned
over to the committee appointed by
the Recreation Board, he explained
Albert w. Atwood, Library Boarc
chairman, appointed Nelson T
Harrison, Mrs. Philip Sidney Smith
and B. M. McKelway to meet with
a similar committee from the Recre-
alton Board. Mr.. Harrison will
serve as chairman of the library
representatives on the joint com.
mittee.
Librarian Making Plan.
Public Librarian Clara w. Her.
bert said she had been instructed by
her board to complete a plan fol
renovating the part of the building
required by the branch library ane
send it to the municipal architect'I
Office for an estimate of how much
time and money will be required tt
prepare the building at Connection
avenue and Mckinley street.
The Library Board, she said, alst
is anxious to move as soon as pos.
sible, as space will permit expansion
of the Chevy Chase branch.
Evening star., 1947-01-10
IOPA Branch to vocote
Brown School Monduy
Cites Improvement Lag.

The District Office of Price Ad.
ministration's sugar ration branch
will move to 174o Massachusetts
avenue NV. Monday, it was an
nounced today.
The stay there will be brief, how
ever. The District Office. which was
located in the old E. v. Brown
School, is closing and Baltimore Is
taking over the remaining functions
of District OPA.
After February /, wholesale and
retail users of sugar, rice and sirur
will have to take their rationing
problems to Baltimore. After Feb
ruary 10 the transfer will apply to
institutional users, and by Febru-
airy IS the entire Office win be out
OF Washington.
Evening star., 1947-01-10

group last year, has strongly urged
the selection of Mr.. Horan, A de-
cison is expected within a day or
two. Mr.. Stefan plans to stay as a
member of the District subcom-
mittee, but will not be its chairman
since he is slated to be chairman
of the subcommittee on State, Com
merce, Justice and Judiciary appro-
priations.
DC. Case Well Presented.
Senator Dworshak said that, while
voteless Washingtonians have no
official voice in Congress, he thinks
the District Commissioners and Dis
trict Budget Officer Walter L. Fowler
already have done an excellent job
in presenting the Districts case"
"There is no reason" he con-
tinued," why we shouldn't have full
representation before this subcom-
mittee to reflect the views OF the
taxpayers of the District"
Too frequently, he pointed out
members of Congress are presumed
to have no personal interest in the
people of washington.
But this National Capital" he
insisted, belongs to all Of the
Nation, and we are all just as proud
of it as those of you who live here
While members of Congress are not
actually domiciled here, they and
their families do consider it their
homes for the large part of each
year"
Asked about the proposal to set
up a new policy of fiscal relations
between the Federal and District
Governments, senator Dworshak
said he has not taken a definite
position in regard to the matter.
Newspaper Publisher.
Senator Dworshak, So. is native
of Duluth, Minnesota. He was edu-
Gated in the Duluth public schools
and learned the printing trade. He
entered newspaper work and be.
came editor and publisher of The
Burley, Gdaho) Bulletin, holding
that post from 1924 to 1914. He was
president of the Idaho Editorial AS
sociation in 1881.
A veteran of World War I, he
served in the American Expedition
ary forces as sergeant. He was
Idaho commander Of the American
Legion in 1882. He has been promi-
nent in the Rotary Cl'.a, and once
served as Governor Of the Idaho
Utah district of Rotary Interna-
tional. He is Scottish Rite Mason
a Shriner, and belongs to the Elks
and Odd Fellows lodges.
Evening star., 1947-01-10
Honeywell Foundation
BUYS Whitehall School

The Whitehall School in Bethesda
has been bought by the Honeywell
Foundation and will be combined
with the school which the founda-
ton already conducts at Sky
Meadows on Bradley boulevard.
The younger children, from kin
dergarten through the sixth grade,
will be taught at Whitehall, while
older boys and girls will work at Sky
Meadows. A shuttle bus service be-
tween the two schools will carry
pupils to Sky Meadows in the morn
ing, back to Whitehall for lunch and
out again for, the afternoon session.
The staff at Whitehall viii remain
the same.
Evening star., 1947-01-10
d. {. Hopes 10 Submit
'Six-Year Plan 10
Congress in 50 Days

City officials hope the extensive
six-year plan for District improve
ments will be ready for presenta-
ton to Congress within 80 to
60 days, Brig. Gen. Gordon R
Young, Engineer Commissioner, de-
clared last night.
Gen. Young described the overall
plan at a special meeting of the
District American Legion's Civic
Relations Committee, held at the
Legion clubhouse, 1887 Fifteenth
street NV.
He warned that operational costs
alone for the District in the fiscal
year 1946 will be several million
dollars in excess of revenue unless
taxes are increased or the Federal
payment to District costs is more
liberal.
Cites Improvement Lag.
Reviewing the District system of
capital improvements, Gen. Young
told the committee about 100000
600 was taken from local revenue
during the period from 1925 to 1910
to furnish facilities for an increased
population of 225,00O residents.
But 250000 more people came here
in the next four years, he said
"They are just as entitled to i'm
provements as those who came in
previous years, and we should have
spent $15o,0oO,0O0 to keep up with
the past rate. Instead, we spent
$47, ,000, ,0O0."
The Commissioner explained labor
land materials shortages were parity
responsible for the situation. But
he said the principal reason was a
lack of sufficient funds, which he
attributed to reduced revenue and
increased costs.
Standard of Need Urged.
"But I think we should all start
with what we must have rather than
with the amount of money we think
we should have or means of collect
ing 1t" he declared. He called on all
groups to forget immediate in
dividual needs and drive home to
Congress the general picture of our
needs"
This can best be done, he said
through unified support of the six
year improvement program. He told
the group civic leaders are putting
the plan into final shape.
Guy C. Nadeau, District depart
ment commander of the Legion, also
spoke at the meeting. Sylvan King,
chairman of the Civic Relations
Committee, presided.
Evening star., 1947-01-10
Maryland League Plans
Broadcast on New Bills

A program marking milestone in
the affairs OF Maryland women viii
60 on the air from WBAL, Balti-
more, at 2.45 pm. tomorrow, Mrs
Reuban Bogdanoff of the Maryland
League Of Women Voters, an
nounced.
It will be the first time, according
to Mrs. Bogdanof1. that a program
on legislative matters has been
broadcast especially for women un-
der sponsorship Of q women's or
ganization.
Evening star., 1947-01-10

of Illinois, his principle contender
for the committee leadership, had
been notified he would be given a
place on the House Ways and Means
Committee. Decision on this chair
manship controversy was tipped of
yesterday when members Of the
House, some Of whom had supported
Mr.. Mason, went to Mr.. Rees to con-
graduate him on winning the post
Nearly everyone, 1t seemed, rec
ognized the experience and ability
of Mr.. Dirksen; but move develop
ed recently to bar him from the Dis
trict chairmanship unless he were
willing to give up his place on the
House Appropriations Committee
where he was slated to be chairman
of it's Agriculture Subcommittee.
Exemption Claimed.
It was argued this was in keeping
with the "intent" of the Congress
sional Reorganization Act, which
limits House members to service on
only one committee. Friends of Mr.
Dirksen, however, argued the Dis
trict Committee, along with three
others, were specifically exempted
from the e-committee rule.
The argument became protracted
when others said the District chair
manship, as well as others, should
be subject to a Republican party
policy that any one named chair
man should not be permitted even
to serve as a member of another
House committee.
There was something of a re-
bellion against this idea, as men,
bers voiced fears it would mean a
sharp weakening of the strength of
the District Committee member
ship. Several District Committee
members said fatty they could not
afford to give up national commit
tee posts to serve on the District
group.
Active in Revenue Legislation.
A major item in the heavy new
District legislative program on its
way to Capitol Hill is an increased
revenue program, calling for $19,-
100000 in additional taxes. Mr.
Dirksen was active in the last Dis
trict revenue legislation adopted by
Congress. Last year he participated
in the drafting and adoption of the
$40, 100000 10-year slum re-develop-
ment program, and the authoriza-
ton of a $4,000, 900 nonprof1t hospi-
tai center.
Mr.. Dirksen last year also took a
lead in settlement of the contro-
versy between the House and Sen
ate over a proposed 100000 in
crease in the size of the Federal
payment towards National Capital
expenses, recommending the COM
promise 100000 boost, which was
adopted.