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Evening star., 1947-02-03
Concordia Church Holds
Mortgage qe-Burninq Service

Concordia Evangelical Lutheran
Church ended 15-year debt re-
moval campaign yesterday when the
$42, 900 mortgage was burned at a
service in the church, Twentieth and
G streets NV.
The papers were burned after the
candelight service by Daniel Halde-
man, president Of the congregation,
and Charles Woodward. representing
the young people. DR.. Charles En-
ders is pastor of the church.
Church officials participating In
the event included Paul Bergh,
chairman of the Board of Trustees:
Mrs. Harry Meiners, Ladies' Aid
Society president; Mrs. Charles
Rohland, Missionary Society head:
A. w. Schroeder, Sunday school su-
perintendent, and r. w. Dawber,
president of the ConcOrdians,
Evening star., 1947-02-03
Father Nugent 10 Head
MARYLAND Province

The Very Rev. David Nugent, S. j.,
was formally named provincial of
the Maryland Province of the So
ciety of Jesus today, succeeding the
Very Rev. Vincent L. Keelan, S. j.
The Maryland Province includes
Maryland, Pennsylvania, Delaware,
North Carolina, West Virginia, the
District of Columbia and the dio-
ceses of Camden and Trenton in
New Jersey.
A native OF Connecticut, Father
Nugent came to Washington rs a
boy and was graduated from Con-
zaga High School. He entered the
Jesuit Order in 1911 and was or
dained at woodstock College on
June 80, 1925.
Father Nugent Is q former presi-
dent Of Woodstock College and re-
Gently was a faculty member Of
Lo. Ella Colle-e, Baltimore.
Evening star., 1947-02-03
College Heads Parry
Comment on Criticism
In Maryland Al Report
~ the Assoeioted Pres.

BALTIMORE, Feb. 3.--Maryland
college presidents parried official
comment on criticism leveled at them
or their institutions by the Com
mission on Higher Education by
claiming they had not seen the re-
port.
The report, issued Saturday, rec
commended among other things that
the major burden of post-high
school education be assumed by the
State. It stressed the fact that
only three States had a lower pro-
portion of youths between the ages
of 18 and 20 in school than Mary
land.
It cited certain weaknesses of
in the University of
stating "the present
concentration of authority in the
president has, in our judgment, had
q definitely harmful effect on
morale ="
President H. C. Byrd, stating he
had not seen the report, today re-
piled, II would want to know what
caused them to make that criticism.
When you criticize authority you
must necessarily be criticizing mis-
use of authority. I would like to
know wherein they consider my au-
thority has been misused."
Recommending that the School OF
at Johns Hopkins Uni
versity be maintained as a State
agency, the commission complained
1t "has been unable to obtain from
the authorities financial in
formation comparable to that made
available by every other institution"
DR.. Isaiah Bowman, Johns Hop
kins president, declared the annual
report is considered a
model report by the Carnegie Insti-
tuition.
Queried about the commissions
that the State ter
inmate it's $4,000 yearly appropri-
alton to st. Johns College at An
DR.. John S. Kiefer, presi-
dent, said II don't care to comment
until see the report ITSELF"
Evening star., 1947-02-03

and says he doesn't know how the
plan will work out as a money
making scheme, but he does know
it is genuine attempt at starting
something to help disabled veter-
ans-that nobody is plotting to get
rich off them in this one.
Costs Exceed Income.
Right now, Mrs. Roth's promo
ton, packaging and mailing costs
would more than eat up the so cents
toy she gets as her side of the bar
gain. And she has promised that
if things ever build up to the point
where she is making money on the
club, she will turn it back to the
veterans side of the business.
Jimmie's eyes followed the pen
guin as it waddled down his work.
bench.
Hes all right" he said. "But
what I want to see Is hundreds OF
'em, swarming all over the joint.
Evening star., 1947-02-03
Maryland Assembly
To Speed Action on
Backlog Of Bills
By the Associated Press

ANNAPOLIS, Md, Feb. 3-Mary-
lands lawmakers start the second
month of their 1947 session tonight
with all signs pointing to speedier
action on the accumulation of meas
ures introduced during the first
month which was spent mostly in
organization work.
Both the Senate and House OF
Delegates are to convene at $3.50
pm.
The first 10 bills to pass both
branches of the Assembly were sent
to Gov. Lane for his signature Fri
day, prior to the weekend recess.
The stream of approved laws is ex-
pected to flow faster, starting to-
night.
OF prime interest at the moment
among the bills awaiting action is
a measure providing for the prose-
cution in Maryland of Virginia resi-
dents charged with violating oyster
laws relating to the Potimac River.
The bill was pushed through the
Senate last week but has remained
in the House, despite first reports
that it would be passed quickly.
The bill drew strong objections
from Virginia, official opposition be-
ing voiced by Gov. Tuck.
Another pending bill drew op-
position last night from the Bal
timore Board of Estimates and
the Commission on City Plan. In
q letter to Delegate Leroy Pum-
phrey, chairman Of the Ways and
Means Committee, the two groups
objected most emphatically" to
features of House Bill 54, creating
a Baltimore wholesale market au-
thority.
While favoring legislation to de-
velop marketing facilities, the Bal
timore groups objected to grant,
ing the authority broad powers
which would make it substantially
independent of the existing gov
ernmental agencies.
They contended that "the bill
as drawn would enable the proposed
authority to disregard the city
plan which is being constantly stud
led and evolved"
Several committee hearings and
meetings are scheduled this week on
pending bills. A bill to repeal Mary
lands Jim Grow laws will be up for
hearing Thursday.
Evening star., 1947-02-03

"If nothing turns up within couple
of weeks, I guess we'll have to give
up. I know 80 guys right here in
Washington I could lay my hands
on tomorrow and put them to work.
This would be profit-sharing
business, don't see how they could
lose. My designs for the first toys
are all ready and waiting. But
it's the same old story-you need
money to do anything"
There seem to be two ways in
which the necessary capital might
be acquired. Somebody could lend
it to him. Or enough people could
subscribe to the Toy-of- the Month
Club to make the thing good
risk for the banks. One banker told
Jimmie he thought about 5000 or
5000 people would be about what Is
needed. ...
A man from the Better Business
Bureau has looked into the project
Evening star., 1947-02-03
Underpass Rebuilding
On GEORGIA Ave. Due Soon

Work on the Georgia avenue un-
derpass in Silver Spring, is expected
to start next week following the
awarding of the $4,000 contract
to the J. D. Hedin Construction Co.
of Washington.
According to Mr.. Hedin, the COM
plete reconstruction job will take
about nine months. 1t is expected
that Georgia avenue will be blocked
Ito traffic shortly after the job Is
started, Mr.. Hedin said.
Plans call for the widening of
the underpass, which runs under
the Baltimore g. Ohio Railroad
tracks. Awarding of the contract
has been delayed for months
because of series Of legal diff
culties in procuring temporary
rights-of-way.
Evening star., 1947-02-03

Green Meadows, which also holds
Jimmie and his wife and daughter.
Before he can hire his veterans
and put them to work he needs,
first, a place to set up an expanded
shop. Secondly, he needs more
tools. He needs some material to
work with. For all these things, he
needs money to start on-some-
where around $4,000 or $a,0o0-and
he hasn't got any.
The banks, of course, cannot help
him. The venture looks to risky,
as things stand now. The Recon-
struction Finance Corporation has
regretfully come up with the same
decision. They're not allowed to
put up money for projects which
are still in the promotional stage,
they say.
I've tried every way I know to
get this going" Jimmie said today.
Evening star., 1947-02-03
Allen H. Williams Heads
Fuirfux Fire Department

Allen H. Williams has been elected
president of the Fairfax Volunteer
Fire Department.
Other officers are: John Hicks,
vice president; Wilmer Fox, fire Of
ficer; M. c. Pfalzgraf, chief; F. c.
Ritchie, assistant chief; Gordon
Dennis, second assistant chief; C. A.
Munday, third assistant chief; M. A.
Cupp, Richard Carter, Wilmer Fox
and James Nickel, engineers.
Evening star., 1947-02-03
WAA, StuckW 3 ,741 Planes,
Sets Prices as Low as $3.50
By A. A. HoehIing

The administration has 1,746 OF
these planes to get rid Of.
AS TO transports, WAA has 635
Gas Commands. Priced origin
ally at $22,50O apiece, 'WAA has
lowered the price to $4,000, and to
$4,000 on some ships not in first
class shape.
Ostensibly good bargains, there is
one hitch which is soaring a lot of
potential owners away from the big
transports-operators of small char
ter airlines, for example-and that
is the Civil Aernautics Administra-
ton will not license them without
considerable alterations.
These planes are distributed at
20 principal WAA fields throughout
the country, of which the largest Is
Bush Field, Augusta, Ga. Any per-
son, veteran or non-veteran can buy
as many planes as he wants and
without priority certificates.
Occasionally, however, if a small
group of particularly good aircraft
is received, WAA does have reserved
sales for veterans. A special sealed
bid sale will be held to dispose of 8
old-model Consultations just re-
ceived by the administration. Bids
will be opened March II.
Evening star., 1947-02-03
Junior College
ToGet Building
Temporary Quorters
Supplied by WAA
To Be Ready by Fall

Montgomery County,s Junior Col
lege will have a building Of its own
in the fall, Dean Hugh G. Price
announced today. Eventually, the
Junior college will be housed entirely
in structures assigned to it perman-
emily, he added.
1t now is using space In the Be-
thesda-C Chevy Chase High School.
DR.. Price predicted greater en-
rollment and a reduction In fees as
a result Of the Marbury School
Commission report, released Satur-
day. The report, a survey of edu-
cation in the State made for the
Governor, emphasized the need for
more State aid to junior colleges.
At present, DR.. Price said, Mont
gomery Junior College Is obtaining
$4,000 annually for State grants,
$4,000 from county funds. and
registration fees of $500 from county
students, and $3.50 from non-resi-
dent students.
Fees Believed Highest.
He emphasized that as far as he
knows these fees are the highest
charged by any junior college In
the country.
The new building will be supplied
by the Far Assets Administration
and constructed on the Bethesda
Chevy Chase grounds some time
during the summer, according to DR..
Price. 1t will be supplied as part
of the WAA program to aid educa-
tional institutions at which vet
Grams are enrolled.
The structure, to be moved from
some service camp or other tempo
rary activity, will house chemistry
and science laboratories and other
classrooms.
DR.. Price estimated that the coll
lege will have all of its buildings,
most of them permanent, within
five years.
zoo Register for New Term.
Meanwhile registration for the
new term is due to be completed to-
night. The college will have an en-
rollment of 200 students or 20 more
than in the first term, which was
completed Friday. -Four new part
time instructors have been added
to the faculty DR.. Price said, bring
ing the total to Is.
The new instructors are DR.. Ger
aid M. Francis Of the Commerce
Department, who will teach ac-
counting; Russell G. Cole, engineer
ing drawing; Walter G. Gentle Of
the State Department, history, and
DR.. G. w. Lowery, history.
Evening star., 1947-02-03
17q6 Of Home Owners
With Faulty Drainage
Correcting Condition

More than II per cent of the 478
Montgomery and Prince Georges
County home owners who were riotf-
fled about illegal storm water drains
a month ago already have taken
steps to correct the conditions,
the Washington Suburban Sanitary
Commission reported today.
The Sanitary Commission cam
paign against the improper drains
is designed to correct a condition
which is causing sewers to "back
up" into some cellars during heavy
rain storms.
The 478 homeownerS, who were
notified in December of the i'm
proper drains, represent about 10
per cent of the 4,066 homes checked
by the Sanitary Commission plumb
ing inspectors. The check was made
by placing a brilliant dye in the
roof cutters and downspouts and in
the driveway and garage drains. The
dye was then washed into the drain
with water and checks Jere made
to trace the flow into the sewers.
Rainwater Causes Overflow.
Sanitary Commission engineers
pointed out tht sanitary sewers are
adequate to handle the normal flow
of sewage, but are not designed to
accommodate the thousands of gal
Ions of rain water that is drained
into them from downspouts.
The 478 violations are located in
five of the worst areas for flooding
sewers in the sanitary district, Chevy
Chase, Riverdale, Woodmont, Hunt
ington Terrace section of Bethesda
and around Philadelphia avenue in
Takoma Park.
OF this group more than 100 took
advantage of the commissions offer
to give engineering advice about
making the corrections. More than
80 of those interviewed took immedi-
ate steps to make the corrections,
according to the commission, and
the others made plans for the cor
rections this spring.
Survey Is Continued.
The commission engineers are
continuing their survey in other
areas in the two counties.
A breakdown of figures tabulated
by the Sanitary Commission show
there are SO violations among the
548 homes of the Chevy Chase
Country Club area and 43 homes are
flooded with sewage during heavy
storms.
In Riverdale the 96 violations
among the $50 homes and apart
ments are flooding So homes; in
Huntington Terrace there are 81
homes flooded as result Of ITS vio-
lations among the 1886 homes; in
WoodYnont there are 472 homes. 40
violations and 81 homes flooded, and
in the Philadelphia avenue section
there are 460 homes, 68 violations
and four homes flooded with sew
age during heavy storms.
Evening star., 1947-02-03
Veteran Starts Toy-of-the- Month Plan to Aid GI

James w. Diven painted the left
eye on handsome and dignified
wooden penguin. Then he stood
back, cooked his head, and studied
the effect with justifiable pride.
kids would like to play with
these things and the fellows would
like to make them," he said. IF
only I could get started"
He gave the bird a little shove,
and it waddled of as though under
its own power.
Jimmie Diven, at %, does not look
like a disabled veteran. Physically
he is all right. He came off the
destroyer, on which he spent the
war, with a medical discharge for
a bad case of nerves. Today, he
Is well enough to get and hold a
job, but he would rather do some
thing on his own which would pro-
vide work for other veterans who
are really disabled. And he has a
plan.
Toy of the Month Plan Proposed.
He worked it out a couple of
months ago with an old friend and
neighbor, Mrs. o. Rae Roth of 6227
Sligo Parkway, Green Meadows, Md.
Knowing he had been a gifted anna
teur carpenter almost since he was
old enough to walk, Mrs. Roth sug-
gested that he set up toyshop
stated by crippled veterans. The
toys they made, Mrs. Roth pro-
posed, could be sold in a new and
different way.
you've heard of book of the
month clubs Jimmie" she said.
why not Toy of the Month
Club?' We could invite people to
subscribe, say, for six months for
Sc. Each month, they'd get a new
toy for their kids"
It sounded good to Jimmie. As
all his friends knew, he was some
thing of a prodigy in the art of de-
signing and making toys. 1t was
the kind of work a man with one
leg-or no legs at all-could easily
handle. ..
money IS frODlem.
So the plan was made. Mrs.
Roth would buy the toys from jim
mie and his boys for so cents a
toy. She would handle and pay
for the distribution side of the
project, plus its promotion, selling
the toys to club subscribers for ST.
And there for Jimmie, the plan
has rested. The stumbling block
is not unusual one: Money.
Mrs. Roth has enough money
of her own to take care of her side
of the bargain. She already has
more than 800 Toy-of- e-Month
Club subscribers lined up. But SC
far, she has had to buy toys
through the ordinary channels to
meet her orders, for the producing
half of the partnership has been
unable to get started,
Jimmie's workshop-and it is
good one as far as it goes-is now
jammed helterskelter into the little
bungalow at 20O9 Tuckerman street
Evening star., 1947-02-03
IA More Art Students
In Arlington County
Enter Star Contest

Fourteen more young art students
have registered for The Evening
Stars Calendar Art contest over the
weekend, all from Claude A. Swan
son Junior High School in Arling-
ton County.
The new entrants are Ronnie
Cutter, Keneth H. Downey, Ashton
Duffey, Barbara Buell., Norman
Beachley, Courtenay Kalbfleisch,
Leonore Hunter, Patricia Paine,
Claudia Smith, Harold A. Thomp-
son, Suzanne Hotel, Pat Pryor,
Carolyn Bair and Anne Page Grif-
fifth.
Last week, through typograph-
ical error, the name of one of the
earlier entrants, Miss Cynthia Ros-
ser was misspelled. Miss Rosser, of
Woodrow Wilson High School, was
the first high school student to reg
lister in the contest.
The Swanson Junior entrants
bring the total now registered to
54.
Montgomery Hills Junior High
School, which already has entered
Is students, announced at least six
more will be enrolled.
With the beginning of the new
semester it is anticipated that the
entry list will grow rapidly. All
entries are required to be in by
April l when the contest officially
closes.
The six 500 United States Saving
bonds to be awarded to the artists
whose work is considered best will
be presented publicly during the
downtown display Of the entries
which will open around May l in
q suitable auditorium to be selected
when the number of pictures is
known.
Completed pictures may be de-
livered to the Office of the Art Con-
test Editor, Room 724, Evening Star
Building, at any time before April /.
Early submission is suggested to pro-
vide greater ease in handling.
The contest is open to junior and
senior high school students in all
public, parochial and private schools
of the Washington metropolitan
area.
Evening star., 1947-02-03
Virginia Veterinarians
Open Meeting Today
By the Assoeioted Press

ROANOKE, Va, Feb. 3.-The
three-day midwinter meeting of the
Virginia. State Veterinary Medical
Association will open at the Patrick
Henry Hotel here today.
DR.. C. w. EmmonS of Bethesda
Md, principal mycologist of the
National Institute of Health, and
DR.. L. j. Poelma of College Park,
chief of laboratories of the Mary
land Livestock Sanitary Service, will
speak.
Evening star., 1947-02-03
Dredging Of Channel
In St. Murys Approved

Dredging of a channel 7 feet deep
and go feet wide in st. Patricks
Greek in st. Marys County has been
approved by Army engineers, ac-
cording to Representative Sasscer,
Democrat, of Maryland.
A public wharf also win be built
on the 2,450-foot-long channel, Mr..
Sasscer said.
Evening star., 1947-02-03
S16O,0O0Defici1
In Budget Seen
For Alexandria
Budwesky Expects
Receipts to be Less
Than Estimated

The Alexandria budget, amount
ing to approximately $2,500, 900, is
out of balance by about $160, 900, it
was revealed today.
City Manager Carl Budwesky,
answering a list of questions sub
mitted by reports pertaining to the
financial condition of the city. said
the miscellaneous revenues item in
the current budget was set by the
Council at approximately $50, 900, al
though 1916 receipts amounted only
to $8,710.77.
Stating he does not expect this
years miscellaneous revenues to ex-
ceed last years amount, he said
this accounts for about $45, 900 of
the prospective shortage. The re-
mainder, he said includes the coun-
cil's over-estimation of real estate
tax receipts by $4,000 and INSULT
cient appropriations in subsidiary
divisions of the Engineering De-
partment, as follows:
Street cleaning, $4,000; street
maintenance, $4,000, and SANTA
ton, $25,000.
Police Department Cut.
Finally, he said, the Police De-
partment budget was cut $4,000
and the Health Department alloca-
ton, $4,000, eliminating essential
funds.
The cuts In the Engineering De-
partment divisions, based on de-
partment head estimates, will have
to be restored If the 1916 personnel
and service program is to be main
tanned this year, the city manager
said.
The Police Department slash
banned the employment Of 10 new
policemen, deemed mandatory, while
the Health Department reduction
eliminated an expanded school
health program, widely supported by
civic groups and parent-teacher as
sociations, according to Mr.. Bud
wesky.
THE Council hopes to be able to
restore these appropriations out OF
revenue to be realized from an excess
over their original estimates, "Mr
Budwesky said.
Service May be Reduced.
"If it develops that actual receipts
do not exceed anticipated receipts,
which fact should be evident by the
end of the first quarter, then the city
will have to decide either to curtail
personnel and service or appropriate
the additional funds necessary to
carry on the usual operating activi-
ties of the city which would be
charged against such surplus as the
city general fund may have, or oper-
ate with deficit for 1947 which
would have to be provided for in the
1948 levy"
Records in the Office Of City
Auditor William M. Topping listed
\ city deficit as of December 81, 1916,
amounting to s13315.74. It was
pointed out, however, that transfer
If $339, ,77919 from the capital expen-
ditures account to the surplus ac-
count, had reduced the deficit by
that amount.
tMr. Topping said the Council has
use of the capital expen-
diture funds in 1947, which will re-
uuire their re-transfer to the
original account.
The final deficit, he added, will
not be definitely determined until
an audit is made in March or April,
when funds from a $630000 bond
fund account will reimburse the city
fund for several capital improve
ments made in 1916 and charged to
the city's general fund.
Evening star., 1947-02-03
WARL Seeks to Extend
Daily Broadcast Time

Radio Station WARL, Arlington
has asked the Federal Communica-
tions Commission to change, its
classification to permit longer
periods of operation each day, ac-
cording to an announcement by
station officials.
The station now is in daylight
only" classification, and seeks
limited time" status to permit full
use of time during which Station
WBBM, Chicago, is not operating
on the same frequency.
Evening star., 1947-02-03
Uncle Sam Says

BENJAMIN Franklin's devotion to
thrift is as we'll known to my nieces
and nephews as his love Of liberty.
The two go hand in hand because
with wise savings you can give your
self the freedom to achieve many
personal goals for yourself and fam
lily. We remember Franklin's advice
that penny saved Is a penny
earned. Were he alive today, he
would revise this advice to fit these
times by saying that a three dollars
saved In United States Savings
Bonds earn an extra dollar In 10
years.-United States Treasury De.
partment.
Evening star., 1947-02-03
PAC Man to Speak

Palmer Weber, research director
of the CIO Political Action Commit
tee, will speak at meeting of the
Alexandria Chapter of the Southern
Conference for Human Welfare at
|8 pm. tomorrow at Elks' Hall, 227
North Henry street, Alexandria.
Evening star., 1947-02-03
Fuirfux to Get Tex Aid

Internal revenue representatives
will be in the Office of the Fairfax
county commissioner Of revenue on
February IL. u and Is to aid resi-
dents In preparing Federal income
tax returns.
Evening star., 1947-02-03
Do You Know That

A man who was a patient at
Children's Hospital 60 years ago
recently sent a contribution to
the new building fund?
A summary of the progress
of the building fund campaign
follows:
Amount needed S1,30o, 900 90
Contributed to date - 1,166,626.5S
To be raised l33,313.42
Contributions should be sent
to the Children's Hospital New
Building Fund. Thirteenth and
v streets NV, Washington o,
D. G.
Evening star., 1947-02-03
Silver Spring PTA to Meet

A panel discussion on school
problems will feature a meeting Of
the Silver Spring intermediate
School Parent Teacher Association
at pm. tomorrow at the school.