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Evening star., 1947-05-25
By Frank Acosto, Jr.

John M. Abramson Of Maine ave-
nue, Is not one Of those ex-service-
men who never wants to see any,
thing to remind him of the service
again.
In fact, he Is SO taken with the
Nays landing boats, with which
he got well acquainted as boat
swain's mate during the war, that
he is now living in one and plans
to make a good living with it.
Moreover he is only one of thou
sands of veterans all over the Ma
ton who have bought 1906 of the
wooden f1at-bottom boats to use In
their peacetime ventures.
Last September Mr.. Abramson
and his wife Dorothy, a native of
Montreal, bought their boat at the
Brooklyn Navy Yard annex for $750
1t was only a year old, had been
in the water only six months and
been used almost not at all.
Reconversion Cost $4,000.
First they named her Elsie W
after the military name of the craft
LCVP-or Landing Craft, vehicle
personnel to the uninitiated. Then
they brought her down the coast
to anchorage near Georgetown and
set about the job of reconversion.
Today the Job is just about done,
at cost of about $4,000 and Elsie v
has a new deck house, permanent
rounded seaworthy bow, good mo-
Evening star., 1947-05-25
7 Virginia Groups Favor
Reasonable Sales Tax
By the Associated Press

MARION, Va, May pa "rea-
sonable" sales tax as means OF
raising revenue to improve educa-
tional facilities in Virginia received
almost unanimous approval here to-
day at a public hearing held by two
legislative study groups.
Today's hearing was the second
in a series of five being held Jointly
oy the Moses Commission designated
by the Legislature to study school
problems and the subcommittee OF
the Virginia Advisory Legislative
Council.
Among other revenue raising plans
suggested was an increased tax or
corporations and other sources. I'm
position of a sales tax to provide
increased educational facilities also
was favored by a majority of those
appearing before the same two
groups earlier.
Evening star., 1947-05-25
Democrat Unit Urges
Appointment Of 2to
Montgomery Boards

The Democratic State Central
Committee for Montgomery County
has recommended William E. Carl
Chevy Chase, and Mrs. Lillian E
Wilson, Gaithersburg, for appoint
ment by Gov. Lane to the County
Liquor Control Board and Board OF
Education, respectively, Committee
Chairman Lacy Shaw announced
last night.
The recommendations were made
to fill vacancies caused by the resig-
nations of Frank T. Welsh from the
Liquor Board and Mrs. C. iona
than Hauck from the Board OF
Education.
Mr.. Carl is general manager OF
Call Carl, Inc, Bethesda. and is
active in county Democratic affairs
Mrs. Wilson is a vice president
of the County Council of Parent
Teacher Associations and a former
president of the Gaithersburg High
School Parent-Teacher Association
She has been active in educational
and civic activities in the county
The committee also Endorsed DR.
William B. Holton, Chevy Chase
for appointment by the Governor to
the State Pollution Control Commits
sion. Establishment of the commits
sion was authorized at the last ses-
sion of the General Assembly.
DR.. Holton is chairman of the
chemistry department at American
University. He also is chairman OF
the executive board of the Izaak
Walton League of America,
Evening star., 1947-05-25
Landing Boat Provides Home
And Business for Veteran

tor and a first-class future as q
home and q charter fishing boat in
Florida in the winter and New
Jersey in the summer.
Mr.. Abramson says she handles
well in open water and the 225-horse-
power Deisel motor burns fuel oil
at only IL cents q gallon.
Yesterday maritime commission
officials added they have anothe,
/ 400 of the boats available ano
now on sale at the Naval Amphib-
ious Training Center at Little Creek
Va, near Norfolk. Though all are
the same length and have either
Diesel or gas motors. they come ir
six slightly different types ano
range in price from $3.50 to $1,000.
Offered Now to Public.
The boats have been on sale tc
veterans only for some months
but last week they were opened tc
the general public.
The maritime commission also
reported a new use being made o1
the boats by six ex-GIs in Ohio
who opened a goldfish breeding
farm. They bought several land.
ing boats and fitted each with {
large metal tank At intervals
they string the boats together ano
float them down the Mississippi
to New Orleans, where the fish
sell for a cent each as much sought.
after live bait for fishing.
Evening star., 1947-05-25
Rockville to Beqin
Rozing Its Water
Tank Tomorrow

Razing of Rockville's 49-year-old
municipal water tank, long a, town
landmark, will begin tomorrow.
Mounted atop a 60-foot hollow
brick tower at Grandin and Maple
avenues, the SOC, 0,0o0-gallon steel
tank will be cut apart by workmen
of the Pittsburgh-Des Moines Steel
Co. Pittsburgh.
The brick tower will be torn down
by town employees and the bricks
will be preserved in the hope Of
using them in the construction Of
a. municipal building, according to
Mayor g. Lamar Kelly, jr.
A new 40O,0o0-gallon steel tank,
supported by six steel columns.
already has been erected adjacent
to the old brick tower and will be
put into use next week, Mayor Kelly
said.
The town now obtains its water
from IL wells and the two original
wells are still used In cases OF
emergency.
Evening star., 1947-05-25
Falls Church Election
Narrowed 10 One Contest

AS result Of the disqualification
of Thomas H. Woods, the Falls
Church Town Council election June
10 has been narrowed down to only
one contest, it was learned yester-
day.
Although Mr.. Woods was qualified
to vote in the county and State
elections, it was discovered he had
paid his poll taxes and registered
too late to qualify as a candidate
In the town election.
With his elimination as a candi-
date, the election of John c. Nc
Rae to the council Is assured. In the
only remaining contest, Council
man Sherman Wells is opposed by
Theodore H. Arrants, North Green
way Downs. Archie Munson, who
also seeks reelection, has no op-
position.
The town council has appointed
Councilmen Walter Follin and Sar-
gent White as judges for the elec-
! tiOn
Evening star., 1947-05-25
Hospital Executive
Urges Coordination
I0f Health Services
BY the Associated Press

SALISBURY, Md, May pa
definite plan of co-ordinating health
services must be formed to provide
good medical care for the American
people, Rufus C. Rorem, executive
director of the Philadelphia Hospital
council, said today.
This plan, looking toward more
extensive" utilization of the Nations
hospitals, must be satisfactory tc
the medical profession. the public
and the hospitals" he added.
Mr.. Rorem addressed the closing
session of the Maryland-District of
Columbia Hospital Association 6
spring. conference here.
Hospitals, he declared, would gair
by closer affiliation with private
physicians in the treatment OF Office
cases. Personnel and equipment
would be used to greater capacity
technical services maintained at 6
high professional level through
scrutiny by private physicians, ane
patients would become more in.
clined to use hospital facilities wher
in need of bed care.
THE benefits of the public's In
vestment in hospitals, where er'
rected from voluntary contribution!
or tax funds, should be made avail
able to the largest possible pro
portion of the community" MI
Rorem said.
There Is little possibility" NJ
went on, "that private office prac'
tice will shift to hospitals with such
rapidity as to embarrass lospita
superintendent. Development o
the hospital in the community a
medical center is the logical wa,
to coordinate the medical personne
and facilities of the community.
Evening star., 1947-05-25
Lists Close Tomorrow
For SpringdaIe Poll

Prince Georges County residents
who would vote in referendum
June to determine whether the
town of Springdale shall be incor-
porated will have their final chance
to register tomorrow.
Officials in charge Of the poll re-
port very few persons were enrolled
at their first opportunity to register
last Monday, and warn that failure
to appear tomorrow will result in
forfeiture of the voting right.
Involved in the referendum are
residents of Avondale, Michigan
Park Hills, Chillum, Green Meadows
and Brookside Manor. These COM
munities would be included in the
incorporated town of Springdale,
under the referendum proposal
Three registration centers have
been established. District No. /,
serving the Avondale section, Is at
1904 Avondale road; District No. 2,
Green, Meadows, at the Ager Road
School, and District No. 3. Chillum,
at the Masonic Hall, Riggs and
Chillum roads.
Evening star., 1947-05-25
Columbia Pike Citizens
Back ; Bond Issue Items

{. The Executive Committee OF
Columbia Pike Citizens Associa-
ton has gone on record in sup
port of the first three items of the
FOURTEEN. s6,000,o 900 school bond is
sue on which Arlington voters viii
cast their ballots Tuesday.
The group, at its May meeting also
adopted a resolution favoring g
change In the present method o1
selecting School Board members anc
one commencing the Arlington
Civic Federation and the Citizens
Committee for School Improvement
"for their efforts to obtain better
public education"
Evening star., 1947-05-25
Potomac Commission
To Seek Expert Help
Against Soil Erosion
By james BirchfieId
Stor SfoH Correspondent

CACAPON STATE PARK, w. Va,
May 24.-Recognizing the impor-
tance of soil erosion in river -pollu-
ton control, Federal and State ag-
riculture experts will be asked to
act as advisors to the Interstate
Commission on the Potomac River
Basin in its program for curbing
pollution in the Potomac area.
Ending Its two-day conference
here today, the commission voted
to request the Soil Conservation
Service and the Forestry Service of
the Agriculture Department. and
similar agencies in it's member
States, to send representatives to
future commission meetings. These
representatives will form a perma-
nent committee to advise the COM
mission on steps to guard the soil.
Raymond v. Long, chairman of
the Virginia Planning Board and
commission member from that State
suggested the formation of the Agri-
culture Committee following a dis
cussion of soil and nutrition by DR.
Daniel l.. Seckinger, assistant health
officer of the District of Columbia.
Calcium Deficiency Noted.
DIR. Seckinger said he had long
been interested in the relationship
between poor, eroded soil anc
health. He said that while few
facts are known at this time, it has
been fairly we'll demonstrated thai
| food grown on poor soil does no
provide necessities for full health.
In Georgia, DR.. Seckinger said. il
was discovered that people who live
in eroded areas have a deficiency Of
calcium in their blood.
I'VE health workers tell people
they should eat plenty of vegetables
milk and meat for proper nourish-
ment.
"A perfect diet including all OF
these, however. will not provide the
necessary healthful nutrients un-
less those nutrients can be taken
from the soil.'
A plea for stronger State co-opera-
ton in the commissions affairs
came from D. Norris Benedict, presi-
dent of the Frick Co., Waynesboro
Pa. Mr.. Benedict formerly served
on the commissions industrial com.
mittee.
Charges Neglect by States.
The Pennsylvania industrialis
said the States seem to have neg.
lected their responsibilities aftel
entering into the compact creating
the commission.
He pointed out that the commits.
sion's ability to continue its worl
in the Potomac Basin will largely
depend on the active participation
of It's member States. He urgec
that every effort be made to regair
the active cooperation of thest
States in the program.
The commission is composed Of
representatives Of Virginia, Mary.
land, Pennsylvania, West Virginia
the District and the Federal Gov.
ernment,
Evening star., 1947-05-25
Girl Faces Return to. Australia;
Slowed Awuy to Join SuiIor

Miss Hughes said she sent the
sailor two radiograms while she was
aboard the freighter but II never
received an answer. This will teach
him to hand girl line"
She said she met Photographer s
Mate Warrington in Sydney when
he was on his way home from the
Antarctic with Admiral Byrd's ex-
pedition.
His mother, Mrs. Helen G. War
rington, Baltimore, said naval off,
GERS told her son, ''Weu see that
she is sent back" when he showed
them telegram saying the girl
was on the way from Sydney in
tent on marrying him.
'I can't understand it myself" "
said Mrs. Warrington. He only
took her out two days"
She said her son Is now stationed
y, phifs i~t-t,i7
Evening star., 1947-05-25
Agreement Reported
BY kary|and's S Last
Striking Phone Union
BY the Asseeiefsd Press

BALTIMORE, May 24.-Return to
normal of telephone service In
Maryland was in prospect today
as the last Of six Maryland tele-
phone unions which went on strike
against Bell system aff1liates April
II was reported to have reached a
tentative agreement with the Wes-
tern Electric Co.
Company officials and leaders OF
the 5,400-member Telephone Equip
ment Workers Union at Western
Electric's suburban Point Breeze
plant refused to divulge details OF
the agreement.
Union spokesmen said, however
they would lay results of the long
negotiations before the member
ship at a mass meeting tomorrow
Ratification" Meetings Set.
At the same time, officers of the
Maryland Telephone Traffic Union
representing about 4,200 Maryland
switchboard operators. lined up q
series of ratification" meetings at
which members were to vote on con-
tract terms agreed upon Thursday
with the Chesapeake & Potomac
Telephone Co.
These terms also are being kept
secret.
A three-man arbitration board
today ended hearings and is to re-
turn a decision in 80 days on wage
and working conditions. issues In
dispute between the telephone COM
pany and the Maryland Federation
of Telephone Workers.
The MFTW's 2,100 craftsmen, who
install, repair and maintain tale
phone plant equipment, were among
the first to return after the walkout.
The switchboard operators did not
Join the strike, although their re-
fusal to cross picket lines set by
other unions was the main factor
in crippling telephone service
throughout the State for many days.
Virginia Returns Facilities.
Meanwhile, in Virginia, the State
Corporation Commission today re-
called its representative assigned to
the operation of facilities of the
Chesapeake 81 Potomac Telephone
Co. of Virginia in the Eastern Shore
counties of Accomack and North
hampton. ..
The order was issued after check
of telephone plants in the two coun-
ties revealed that the union workers
were about 100 per cent" on the
job. ....'
Gov. Tuck yesterday issued a di-
rective returning the properties to
the telephone company after brief
period of operation under State
control.
The Governor also thanked officers
and employees Of the company for
their cooperation with the COM
monwealth. The properties were
seized last Tuesday.
Evening star., 1947-05-25
EXCL Who Confessed
Murder Is Freed
by the Assoc;oted Press

WISE, Va, May 24.-A murder
charge was dismissed yesterday
against Bradley Casteel. %, who
officers said told and later denied
story of killing and burying a
woman near Appalacflia six years
ago.
The charge against the former
soldier was dismissed by Trial JUS
tice George L. Taylor at a prelim-
mary hearing late yesterday and
Casteel was Immediately released
from custody in the Wise Jail where
he had been held since May 7.
At the hearing Casteel again re-
pudiated his story told to Norfolk
police, who quoted him as saying
that he shot a Baltimore girl named
Anne Richardson with an Army
pistol after bringing her to Big
Stone Gap while he was AWOL
from Fort Meade. Md, in 1941.
Evening star., 1947-05-25
Reserve Officers Group
PIon Arlington Dinner

The Northern Virginia Chapter of
the Reserve Officers of the Naval
Services will hold a charter pre-
-sentation dinner at 7:30 pm. June
S at the Army-Navy Country
Club in Arlington.
H. Clifford Irion, of Alexandria
president of the Northern Virginia
Chapter, will accept charter for
his chapter from National Presi-
dent John Bracken, Philadelphia
Guest speaker at the dinner is to
be Rear Admiral NJ E. Curtis, OF
the Office of the Chief of Naval
Operations.
Miss Florence McLeon, Presiden-
tial Gardens Apartments. Alexan-
dria. is in charge of reservations
for the dinner.
Evening star., 1947-05-25
Ex-Sergeont Arrested
As Travelling Forger
Nv the Associo,ed Press

CUMBERLAND, Md. May "a
Federal Bureau of , Investigation
agents disclosed today the arrest
of former Army sergeant from
Brooklyn who they said admitted
financing an extensive tour OF visits
with buddies by chasing bogus
checks totalling nearly $4,000.
Fred Hallford, special F. B. I. agent
in Baltimore. identified the veteran
as Francis Xavier Grimes, Is, wht
was arrested in a Cumberland hote
Thursday. Grimes admitted passing
worthless checks in at least II cities
across the country, Mr.. Hallfore
said.
Evening star., 1947-05-25


sounding of assembly" by Principal
Musician Edward L. Masters of the
Marine Band and concludes at !
pm.
For the Goth year, Harlan Wood,
past department commander of the
American Legion and grandson of
Confederate captain wounded at
Gettysburg, will recite Lincolns
Gettysburg Address"
| After the invocation by the Rev.
Robert E. Lee, department chaplain,
Gordon Clifford, opera baritone, will
sing the National Anthem Mr.. Gift
ford will sing three other numbers
The Recessional," The Lords
Prayer" and There is No Death -
accompanied by the Marine Band.
Col. Lowry to Place Wreath.
Lee r. Pennington, past American
Legion department commander, will
introduce James G.. Yaden, presi-
dent of the sponsoring organization,
who will preside. Harold M. Dixon,
Disabled American Veterans depart
ment commander, will read Gen.
John A. Logan's order establishing
Memorial Day. The American S
Creed" will be read by Charles M.
O'Malley. Veterans of Foreign Wars
| department commander. Rabbi
Isadore Breslau. department chap
lain, Jewish War Veterans, will pro-
nounce the benediction.
In the wreath-laying ceremonies
Col Don E. Lowry, White House
aide, will lay the first wreath for
President Truman at IL am. Other
services will be held throughout the
cemetery. including the traditiona
pilgrimage by Spanish War Veter-
ans to the Main Mast"
Three hundred Boy Scouts repre-
senting the National Capital Ares
Council will decorated 10000 graves
at Arlington Cemetery. Harold P
GanSs, chairman of the council.
Civil Service Committee, has an
announced.
Mr.. Ganss said three members o1
the scouting organization in Wash
iington-a Cub Scout. a Boy Scou
and Senior Scout-will place 6
wreath at the tomb of the Unknown
Soldier during the day in behalf o.
the Boy Scouts of America.
4 Holy Rosary Mass.
The Lido Civic Club will place 6
wreath at the Unknown Soldier!
tomb after the annual solemn me.
mortal military mass in the Holy
Rosary Church. Third and F streets
NV, at 10 am. Friday.
I Another Friday service is sched'
uled for 2::30 pm. with the I'd Divi'
sion Association paying its annua
visit to the I'd Division Monument
at Seventeenth street and Constitu
ton avenue NV. Many service or
CARNATIONS will participate and th'
Army Air Force Band will play
Principal speaker will be Represent
ative Jackson, Republican of Cali
fornia.
I Rear Admiral o. S. Colclough
Navy judge advocate general, vii
address the Georgetown Universit,
School of Law at 10:3o am. Frida.
in the university library.
i Thirty students who died in Worlt
War I and is who died in the recen
war will be honored. Robert L
Heald, editor in chief of the George
town Law Journal, will preside. Th'
Rev. Frapcis E. Lucey, S. j.. regea
} of the school. will make the CLOSING
address a'n6 i've the invocation.
Evening star., 1947-05-25
gy the Assoe;cted Press

BALTIMORE, May 24.-Attorney
General Clark may be called on tc
decide whether 22-year-old sgd
ney (Australia) hotel cashier, who
slowed away on a freighter to be
with her American sweetheart here
will have to return to Australia.
Her intended husband is Navy
Photographers Mate &c William
Warrington, 10.
The girl. Norma Hughes, said she
and Wanda Sauderain. 10, and San
dra Lee, 20, arrived at New Orleans
Thursday aboard the freighter
Ephrim ,Brevard.
A spokesman for the Customs
Board there said an appeal by the
three stowaways from the boards
deportation order had been for
wsrded to the Attorney General for
Evening star., 1947-05-25
VANow Ready
To Condemn
Neyiius Tract
Bradley Gets Plons
To Obtain 23-Aere
Site for Hospital
By George Beverides

The Veterans Administration took
q deep breath last night and de-
clared arrangements finally are COM
plete for getting possession OF the
Nevius tract In Arlington, site Of
Washington's proposed veterans
hospital.
Ofncials said plans have been put
before Veterans Administrator Brad
ley. As soon as he approves them.
they said, the Attorney General will
be asked to file condemnation papers
against the property. That is ex-
pected to be this week.
The 25-acre property Is located
southwest of the intersection of Lee
boulevard and Arlington Ridge road
due west across the Potomac River
from the Lincoln Memorial.
Condemnation Delayed.
The condemnation proceedings
have been delayed for the last 10
weeks by 1-acre strip of land,
owned by Arlington County, that
cuts across the western part of the
tract.
The strip, according to A. T. Lund-
berg, chief of the county's Depart
ment of Public Service, will be used
for highway to connect Lee boule-
ward directly with Key Bridge. Vet
Grams administration. favorable to-
wards the idea of easy access to the
new hospital, was undecided about
whether it would need the county
property.
After numerous conferences with
county officials, the agency has de-
cided to take only about 23 acres
the area east of the county-owned
strip, said C. z. Bowie. chief of the
agency's real estate section.
Nevius to Keep One Acre.
This would leave A. M. Nevius,
retired vice president of Riggs Ma
tional Bank, principal owner of
the land, a narrow one-acre silver
along the west boundary of the
tract.
Veterans administration officials
decided to file condemnation pro-
:
ceedings early in March, after an
offer of 1851, ,436 for the land was
turned down by its owners. Harry
R. Thomas, attorney for the owners,
said condemnation would be con-
tested, requiring jury trial to de-
eide value of the property.
Meanwhile, the Army Engineers
said temporary plans and speci-
fications for the 750-bed hospital
have been completed and submitted
to the Veterans Administration for
approval.
The next step, the engineers said.
Is to start work on operational
drawings. They expect to be ready
to accept construction bids by No
vember. .....
Evening star., 1947-05-25
Rev. Wood Will Speak
| AT Confederate Service
Special pispateh 10 Ths stor


SHEPHERDSTOWN, w. Va, May
24.-The Rev. j. Raymond Wood.
pastor of Trinity Methodist Church.
Martinsburg, will speak at the an
Inual Confederate Memorial Day
Service to be held June 7, in Elm
wood Cemetery here where hundreds
of Southern dead are buried.
Jointly sponsored by the Sons Of
Confederate Veterans and the Unit
ed Daughters of the Confederacy
chapter, participants will gather on
the evening of June 5 at the ceme-
terry to place evergreens on all
graves in the soldier plot. Branches
of boxwood, following custom, are
brought by the UDC for this in
dividiial trihtite
Evening star., 1947-05-25
Gen. MorshoII Expected
To Attend VMI Meetings
By N. As,oe;oted Press


LEXINGTON. Va, May 24.-Sec-
retary of State Marshall, member
of the Virginia Military Institute
Board of Visitors, is expected here
to attend the meetings of the board
and of the General Alumni Associa-
ton to be held in connection with
the Institutes graduation exercises
June Gil, VMI officials announced
today.
Gen. Marshall, 1901 graduate Of
the institute, and Mrs. Marshall will
be guests of Supt. and Mrs. Richard
IJ. Marshall. .
Attorney General Clark, also an
alumnus, will deliver the commence
ment address June II.
Evening star., 1947-05-25
Zionists to Hear Levin

Carl Levin, Washington cores
pondent of the New York Herald
Tribune, will discuss Political AS
poets of the Palestine Problem" at
meeting of the Arlington District
of the Zionist Organization OF
America at $3.50 Wednesday at the
Arlington Jewish Center, Clarendon
Oficers for the 1947-48 season will
he elected