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Evening star., 1947-10-30
Capital Transit Asks PUG
To Extend Rhode Island Run

The Capital Transit Co. has
asked the Public Utilities Commits
sion for authority to extend the
Rhode Island avenue NE. busline
route E-2. The purpose Is to provide
service for the residents of Haywood
Gardens and the area between
Bunker Hill road and Eastern ave-
nue., and for the shopping and the
ater center OH Eastern avenue. near
Varnum street NE.
The busline would be extended
along Twenty-second street NE. be-
tween Bunker Hill road and Varnum
street, west on Varnum between
Twenty second and Twenty-first
streets, south on Twenty-first be-
tween Varnum and Upshur streets
and east on Upshur between Twen-
ty-first and Twenty second streets.
If the change is authorized buses
will discontinue their present rout-
ing westbound along Bunker Hill
road between Twenty and
Twenty-f1rst streets, on Twenty first
street between Bunker Hill road and
Shepherd street NE, and on Shep-
ard street between Twenty first and
Twenty second streets
Evening star., 1947-10-30
Justice Department 10 File
Brief in Covenant Cases

A brief will be filed by the Justice
Department in the restricted land
covenant cases pending in the Su-
preme Court, Attorney General
Clark announced today.
There are number of cases pend
ing, from various sections of the
country, attacking the legality of
contracts which bar the sale of real
estate to colored persons.
The department plans to oppose
restrictions on the sale of property
to Negroes, in line with the Attor-
ney Generals views on civil rights.
However, he gave no indication of
contents of the brief.
Mr.. Clark said that oral argu-
ments before the Supreme Court
on these cases will be conducted at
the present term, which ended next
June
Evening star., 1947-10-30
z District Teachers Get
School Broadcast Award

Two Washington teachers received
citations from the Executive Com
mittee of the 10th Annual School
Broadcast Conference in Chicago
yesterday, the Associated Press re-
ported.
Miss Charlotte A. Wischhusen of
the Whittier School, and Mrs
Elizabeth L. Chase of Calvin
Coolidge High School were cited for
encouraging the use of educational
radio programs.
Miss Wischhusen held discussions
with her fourth-grade pupils of the
program ''World Neighbors:' Mrs
Chase encouraged her fellow teach
ers to make use Of educational
programs.
Evening star., 1947-10-30
DR.. Wright 10 Direct
Shakespeare Library

Dr. Louis Booker Wright, research
scholar at the Henry E. Huntington
Library and Art Gallery, San Marii1o,
Calf, since 1882, will succeed the
late DR.. Joseph Quincy Adams as
director of the F'olger Shakespeare
Library, taking Office July !, 1948, it
was learned today. v;3SsS v;s3SS
- An official announcement to this
effect was to be made during the
day by the trustees of Amherst Col
lege, Amherst, Mass, who administer
the Folger Foundation.
DR.. Wright was born March 1,
1899, in Greenwood County, S. C.
He was educated at Wofford College
and the University of North Carolina
and was an assistant professor of
English at the latter for several
years and also at Emory University
for one term. He has lectured at
the University Of Michigan and the
University of California at Los
Angeles. His publications include
studies of middle-class culture in
Elizabethan England, "Puritans IN
the South Seas" and THE First
Gentlemen of Virginia"
Under the new directors manage
ment, it is understood, greater
emphasis will be placed on practical
use of the Folger books and manu-
scripts than was considered feasible
during the early formative period
of the library's Development
DR.. James G. McManaway, acting
director during DR.. Adams illness
and since his death last November,
will continue his affiliation with the
institution, devoting part of his time
to revising DR.. Adams standard
biography of Shakespeare.
Evening star., 1947-10-30
Court Asked 10 Drop Writ
For Barber in Price Case

The District license superintend-
ent today faced the question of
whether he would have to reissue the
license of barber accused of charg-
ing exorbitant prices. The BARRIERS
present permit expires tomorrow
The barber, Pat. j. Fiordelise, who
operates a shop in the 1900 block of
New York avenue NV, has asked
District Court for an injunction to
prevent the Commissioners from re-
voking his license. A temporary
restraining order has been issued.
Assistant Corporation Counsel
Henry E. Wixon today asked District
Court Justice Henry A. Schwein-
haut to dismiss the injunction suit
brought by the barber. The in
junction argued that the Commis-
sioners' revocation order exceeded
their authority.
Mr.. Fiordelise was accused q
charging two Army sergeants $18.75
each for a shave, massage and other
barber services. He later "compro-
missed by accepting SO from each,
the soldiers testified.
Evening star., 1947-10-30
Cuban Official Found
Dyinq at Home Here

Miguel Renildo Cornide, So, Cuban
consular official here, died yestert
day, apparently of a heart attack.
He was found unconscious on the
floor of his living room at 1920
Fuller street NV. by Oscar Mola,
also of the Embassy, according to
police.
The coroner's Office was to per-
form an autopsy today to determine
the cause OF death.
Police said Mr.. Cornide had been
under treatment by DR.. Harold
Craft, 3109 Sixteenth street NV.
DR.. Craft was called to the scene
and pronounced Mr.. Cornide dead.
Mr.. Mola entered Mr.. Cornide's
apartment after he failed to appear
at the Embassy yesterday and did
not respond to telephone calls.
Embassy attaches said Mr.. Cornide
was member of prominent Cuban
family. He had been attached to
the Embassy here for 80 years, and
was Consul in charge of supply for
25 years. He received part of his
education at Villanova College.
In 1914 he received the highest
decoration of the Cuban govern
ment, the Order of Carlos Manuel
de Cespedes, for loyal service.
Mr.. Cornide was a bachelor and
has no relatives here.
Funeral services will be held at
8 pm. Saturday at the Hines funeral
home. Burial will be in st. Mary's
Cemetery.
Evening star., 1947-10-30
Church Merger Report
To Be Announced Today

The Joint Commission on Ap-
proaches to Unity of the Episcopal
Church will make public late today
its findings on the question of union
with the Presbyterian Church in
the United States of America.
The commission, appointed year
ago at the denominations general
convention to study possible union
with other churches, has been meet
ing since Tuesday at the College
of Preachers at Washington Cathe-
dral. The Right Rev. Robert E. L
Strider. Bishop of West Virginia, is
chairman of the commission.
A similar commission was ap-
pointed last summer by the Pres
byterian Church at its general as
sembly. The Episcopalian report
will be submitted to the 1948 Lam
beth Conference in London.
Evening star., 1947-10-30
Motorists Warned on Use
OF Anfi-Freeze Solutions

A warning to Motorists against
using anti-freeze solutions made of
a salt or petroleum base, has been
issued by Washington I. Cleveland,
manager of the District division of
the American Automobile Associa-
ton.
After being banned during the
war by the War Production Board,
these solutions are returning to the
market, says Mr.. Cleveland.
"Salt-base anti-freezes may cor
rode the engine block" he said.
"Petroleum-base liquids will attack
rubber radiator hoses, causing par
ticles to become loosened and clog
the smaller passages in the cooling
system and possibly cause leaks in
the hose"
Motorists should take a good look
at the label before allowing anti
freeze to be put In their radiators,
Mr.. Cleveland advised.
Evening star., 1947-10-30
Two Arrested in Bethesda
On Charge Of Gambling

Bethesda detectives yesterday ar
rested two men, one Of whom they
said is part owner of a taxicab COM
pany, on gambling charges.
Harrison Barnes, %, of the $500
block of Thirteenth street NV,
identified as police as part owner of
the Community Cab Association in
Bethesda, was charged with operat-
ing a lottery. He was released under
81 900 bond pending preliminary
hearing at $50 am. November II
in Bethesda Police Court.
The other man, William France,
24, of Rockville, a driver for the
taxicab company, was charged with
accepting bets and was released
under 5000 bond.
According to the detectives, France
was arrested after he accepted $40
in marked 81 bills and several horse
racing bets from Montgomery
County Policeman Carl Hawkins,
who was in plain clothes.
They added that they arrested
Barnes at a stand operated by the
Community Cab Association at Elm
street and Wisconsin avenue, Be-
theSda.
Evening star., 1947-10-30
Stores Offering Pork
At Prices Reduced as
Much as 10C Cents
Pork-hungry Washingtonians who

Pork-hungry Washingtonians who
have been playing waiting game
with high prices were rewarded
today with prospects of hams and
loins over the week end a. prices
as much as 10 cents pound
cheaper.
AS week end grocery advertise
ments blossomed out today with the
good news, meat buyers emphasized
that there was plenty o. pork on
hand to give everybody his fill.
Whether these prices would exist
for long was debatab:e pint, but
the consensus was that they would
hold through next week and pos
sibly drop off a bit more before
any increase begins.
Most Pork Cuts Down.
Practically all representative pork
cuts were down from 4 to 10 cents
under retail prices quoted last week
end. One chain quoted these fig
ures:
Pork loin, SIS cents, last week, 65
cents; center chops, 65 cents, last
week, rs cents; end chops, SIS cents,
last week, 65 cents; fresh hams, 49
cents. last week, 65 cents; smoked
hams, SO cents, last week, SO cents;
fresh picnic hams, 40 cents, last
week, 81 cents.
Bacon prices remained the same,
possibly because bacon is not as
plentiful as other meats and be-
cause it often lags behind other cuts
in a sharp market change. Beef
prices remained the same as last
week end.
Shoppers also found butter up a
cent or two over early week prices
Although some buyers gave the
meatless day plan and general con-
sumner resistance to higher prices as
among, the reasons for cheaper
pork, others saw it mostly as sea-
sonal decline.
Hog Run" in Full Swing.
The annual hog run" on the
slaughter houses began about three
weeks ago. The replacement cost
of pork in the West declined to
6 cents the past week, making
total of IL to 13 cents a pound the
last two weeks.
Then, too, the unseasonal warm
weather throughout the country
has discouraged much pork eating
and helped build up supplies.
Whether the lower prices con-
tinue for any period depends strict
ly on supply versus demand, with
the possibility that cold weather
in the production areas might help
shove the prices up, it was said.
Although no declines in beef,
lamb or poultry appeared imminent,
some merchandisers thought reduc-
tions possible if enough consumers
turn to pork for heavy buying.
Evening star., 1947-10-30
Plunge Off Memorial Bridge
Fatal 10 Fairfax Man

The coroner today was to rule on
the death of a man who plunged
into the Potomac River from Me-
mortal Bridge during the traffic
rush hour yesterday afternoon.
He was identified as Bernard w.
Davis, %, of R. F. D. 2, Fairfax, Va,
by his wife, Mrs. Katherine L. Davis.
Harbor police took the man from
the river about an hour after A. S.
Davis, bridge maintenance man, and
two pedestrians reported having
seen the plunge from the bridge
railing. Attempts at resuscitatlon
were unsuccessful.
Police said be carried an honor
able discharge certificate in his
pocket. The Davises were said to
have been separated for two weeks.
Mr.. Davis was employed in the
mechanical department of the Cap
ital Transit Co. and had returned to
his job last year after being in the
service about three years.
Evening star., 1947-10-30
Miner College Dean
To Retire Tomorrow

Mrs. Gertrude H. Woodland, dean
of students at Miner Teachers Col
lege, tomorrow will end a teaching
career of 26 years at that institution.
DR.. Hobart M. Corning, superin-
tendent of schools. was among the
large group of school officials, fac
ulty members, students and alumni
who gathered at the college last night
to pay tribute to Mrs. Woodard.
Mrs. Woodard is the wife of DR.
Dudley Woodard, who retired last
year from Howard University, where
he had been professor of mathe-
matics. The couple will take a va
cation of about six months in Mexi-
CO, then live in Chicago.
Evening star., 1947-10-30
Detective Shadowed
Wife, z|otnick Says

Sidney S. Zlotnick admitted under
cross-examination today in District
Court that he had hired a detective
to shadow his wife, Mrs. Helga S
zlotnick, both here and in New York
He was testifying in connection
with his wife's suit for a limited
divorce on grounds of cruelty.
The detectives role was brought
out in cross-eXamination by Mrs
zlotnick's attorney, Roger Robb
Mr.. zlotnick told the court, however
that he loved his wife when he had
her followed.
Mr.. zlotnick, prominent Washing.
ton furrier, read to the court a
letter he had written his wife telling
of deep affection for her.
A good part of today's trial was
spent introducing checks and &C.
counts dealing with Mr.. Zlotnick's s
financial status. Justice F. Dickin.
son Let's is hearing the case. The
trial is in its fourth day of trial.
Mr.. zlotnick yesterday re-enacted
for Mr.. Robb, a scene in which Mrs
Zlotnick allegedly held him by the
ear and kicked him.
The Zlotnicks were married ir
l943. Mr.. zlotnick, who is manager
of the zlotnick fur store, Twelfth
and G. streets NV, is represented
by Attorney Jean Boardman.
Evening star., 1947-10-30
Your! 1!l!|33!Al ear Chance

Artist Peter De Anna recalls
his own boyhood as he
watches these f1edglings at
the Boys Club of Washington.
He was a 12-year-old who
loved to draw when he first
found the club. There were
not only art materials and
equipment he didn't have at
home, but instruction by
James Triantafillos, who be-
came a friend as well as a
teacher.
Young Peter did his first oil
painting in the clubs art
room. He began to win prizes.
His first chance to go to camp
came when he won a club art
scholarship. Later, at Central
High School, he won a Cor
coran School of Art scholar
ship.
When he was 10, and still a
student, he received a Gov
ernment commission for a
post Office mural in Belmont,
N. c.; later he painted murals
for the Ellicott City MD
Post Office. He continued his
art overseas with the Army,
including chart and map work
on an official history of the
war.
Since returning home in
December, 1945, Peter De
Anna has been working inde-
pendently at his painting.
Last April he exhibited in the
Corcoran Biennial, a distin-
guished contemporary art
exhibition in this area.
Art was the field in which
Peter De Anna needed-and
got - encouragement at the
Boys Club. But the mural he
painted at the age of II in
the lobby of this Community
Chest agency symbolizes some
of the wider aims of the club:
craftsmanship, science and
outdoor life, as depicted by
Abraham Lincoln, Thomas
Edison and Daniel Boone.
Your Community Chest
Evening star., 1947-10-30
DR.. Arden Freer Named
To VA Medical Post

DR.. Arden Freer, retired Army
medical officer, has been named
deputy medical director Of the Vet
erans' administration, it was an
nounced today.
He succeeds DR.. Robert, G. Cook,
who was appointed manager Of the
veterans hospital at Fort Logan,
Colo. DR.. Freer has been with the
VA professional service since his
retirement from the Army last May.
He lives at 1911 Fern street NV.
Evening star., 1947-10-30

School health authorities were
warned today by the Health De-
partment to guard their pupils
against spread of an unusual, con-
tagious eye disease which has sent
SO persons to Episcopal Hospital
for treatment in the last few weeks.
The malady, which affected war
workers in some industries in 1912,
has not previously been reported
here, according to Health Officer
George G. Ruhland. He said it is
easily transmitted, and must have
been brought here recently by per-
sons who came in contact with the
disease elsewhere.
He said the ailment is popularity
known as "shipyard disease" al
though it is not specifically an in
dustrial disease. The name came
from the fact that it was first noted
among shipyard workers. The med
ical term is keratonjunctivitis.
Evening star., 1947-10-30
Alcoholic
Board
ToMeet Weekly
Group Plans to Push
Drafting of Report
To Commissioners

The Citizens Advisory Board un-
der the Hebert Act will meet weekly
until it is able to make a prelimi-
nary report to the Commissioners
on establishment of clinics for al
coholics in the District, according
to E. Goring Bliss, chairman.
Mr.. Bliss was chosen as chairman
by his fellow committee members
at the first meeting of the commit
tee yesterday in the board room ot
the District Building. He is vice
president and general manager oi
the Chesapeake & Potomac Tele-
phone Co.
Donald Clemmer was elected sec
retary. He is director of the De-
partnient of Corrections in the Dis
trict government.
Committee Sworn In.
The first meeting probably will
be on Wednesday in the Municipal
Center, where the Health Depart
ment has provided a room for the
boards use, Mr.. Bliss said. Subse-
quent meetings will be on Mondays
Time of the meetings will be 4 pm
The full committee of six was
sworn in yesterday. The other men,
bers are DR.. Winfred Overholser
superintendent of st. Elizabeths
Hospital; Municipal Court Judge
Walter j. Casey, Mrs. George C.
Thorpe and the Rev. DR.. Seth
Brooks, of the National Universal
ist Memorial Church.
Corporation Counsel Vernon West
gave the board a verbal legal opin-
ion that the Commissioners, under
the wording of the bill, could clas-
sify the clinics anywhere in the
District government-under one OF
the departments or as an independ-
ent agency.
There has been a contention that
the statute set up the clinics under
an independent agency, with the
director reporting to the Commits
sioners. Mr.. West further said that
before taking any action under the
statute, the Commissioners must
consider the advice of the commit
tee.
Reports on Facilities.
Reports on hospital and clinic ia.
cilities were given to the board BY
Health Officer George c. Rutland
Daniel L. Seckinger, his assistant
DR.. Joseph Gilbert, head of the
psychiatry department at Gallingel
Hospital, and DR.. Leopold Wexberg
head of the Health Department.
Bureau of Mental Hygiene.
DR.. Gilbert said Gallinger's psy.
chiatric wards could accept only 81,
alcoholic cases day. DR.. Wexbers
suggested that some of the money
to be available under the Hebert
Act be used to pay private hospi.
tails, such as the new George Wash.
ington Hospital, which Is to have
a large psychiatric ward to care fol
acute alcoholics.
The act increases the fees on liq.
uor stores by 10 per cent to finance
the clinics. About $4,000 will be
available February / when the Ii.
censes for the coming year are is
sued, Commissioner Mason told the
board.
Evening star., 1947-10-30
Commissioners Get
Fowler Proposal for
Budget Estimate Cuts

District Budget Officer Walter L.
Fowler today sent to the Commis-
sioners his recommendations about
how the $144, 100000 budget estimate
for the running the city in 1949
should be whitfield down to manage
able size. ~ q I,
Nj. Fowler reportA orally to the
city heads at their regular meeting
today, giving his opinion of how the
budget can be pared. He said he
will attempt to- justify his recon-
mendations at meeting with the
Commissioners early next week. He
expects that the final "markup'
will have been completed by We'd
fesday.
The revised figures then will be
presented to the Budget Bureau.
What those figures will be will re-
main a secret until the Presidents
sends them to Congress in his an
nual budget message. 1t is expected,
however, that the total District
budget for the 1949 fiscal year will
be about $1O00OO,0O0.
Evening star., 1947-10-30
Guilty Plea Brings Fine
Of SIS in Exposure Case

A Municipal Court jury trial for
Louis Poteat, SO, on charges Of in
decent exposure, scheduled to be
heard today. was dismissed after
Poteat pleaded guilty and wss aned
s25.
Poteat was arrested August % on
complaint of q woman ticket seller
at the Endy Bros. Carnival. then
at Oklahoma avenue and Senning
road N. E.
When the case came into court
Judge George D. Nelson called at
tention to the fact that the man
had been arrested without war
rant, and held him in court for 10
minutes while the arresting officer
swore out a warrant and re-arrested
Poteat as he left the court. Poteat
was fined by Judge Nathan Margold
after a hearing at which it was ex-
planned that he had no previous
record.
Evening star., 1947-10-30
School Health Officials Guard
Against Eye Disease Spread

DR.. Rutland said he had asked
DR.. Joseph A. Murphy, director Of
medical inspection in the schools,
to watch for any signs of an eye
epidemic among school children and
check it before it gains headway.
DR.. James G. Cumming, chief of
the Bureau of Preventible Diseases,
said the malady is first noted as a
burning in the eye, as if caused by
dirt or other foreign matter.
The eye becomes red, Dr. Cum
ming said. and the lymph gland in
front of the ear is swollen. Tears
are exuded and aversion to light
may develop. Later, he said, there
develops d "pinpoint cloudiness" of
the cornea.
The disease, spread by soiled
hands, towels, doornobs, stair rails
and streetcar straphangers, may last
for several weeks, depending upon
the promptness of diagnosis.
Evening star., 1947-10-30
S. B. Lyddone to Retire
As Tax Office Mail Clerk

Stephen B. Lyddane, 10, will retire
tomorrow as chief mail clerk of the
District tax collectors office.
Mr.. Lyddane went to work for the
tax collector in 1903, the year in
which the District government
moved to its present building.
A native of Rockville, Mr.. Lyddane
served four years as tax collector
for Montgomery County and worked
two years as a grocer in Rockville
before coming to Washington. He
lives at 2100 Connecticut avenue.
His son. Francis S. Lyddane. is
employed by the Washington Sub
urban Sanitary Commission, and he
has a daughter, Mrs. Sarah Emery,
in Hartford. Conn.
Evening star., 1947-10-30
DC. Labor Crew
ToBegin Armory
Maintenance
Control of Structure
Remains Unchanged,
Officials Declare.

The District government will
move a labor force into the Ma
tional Guard Armory at midnight
Saturday to take over maintenance
duties of the huge structure from
the Public Buildings Administra-
ton, The Star learned today. \
Both District building and Ma
tional Guard officials agreed the
move would have no bearing ON the
bitter controversy between the
Guard and the Commissioners over
financial control of the armory.
I'm fact, think the Guard will
welcome maintenance by the Dis
trict, no matter who finally controls
the armory," declared E. P, Brooke,
District buildings superintendent.
Control Unaffected.
Peyton G. hewitt, adjutant general
OF the Guard, said his Office had
been advised of the change and that
it means no change in control
whatsoever"
Mr.. Brooke explained that the
building was turned over to the
District for maintenance on July
l, but that the Civil Service Com
mission had not furnished lists of
enough eligible workers to put crews
to work Immediately.
PBA, he said, which had main
tanned the building for the Federal
Bureau of Investigation since 1943,
agreed to stay on until the District
could get enough personnel to take
over.
Funds Available.
Congress has appropriated $209,-
600 to the District to operate the
armory for this year. Mr.. Brooke
said the District will pay PBA out
of that fund for it's maintenance
since July l..
Howard o. Akers, assistant super
intendent of District buildings, who
will direct maintenance of the
armory, said force of so engineers,
f1remen, guards, electricians, char
women and laborers would go to
work at the armory this week end.
About IA more workers, mostly engi-
neers. still are needed to bring the
maintenance staff to full force, and
until they aret found, workers will
be borrowed from other District
buildings, Mr. Akers said.
The District also is in process of
rounding up about 1000 worth of
equipment and tools needed by the
workers.