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Evening star., 1947-11-09
sy the Associoted Press

NEWPORT NEWS, Va, Nov. g.
Police Chief j. M. Peach today
swore out charges of attempted muir
der and attempted suicide against
his younger sister. -.
Police had reported Thursday Mrs
H. w. Collins, "a, and her son. Her
bert, 8, narrowly escaped death
when taken from their apartment,
into which gas from kitchen
range had poured for about two
hours.
Mrs. Collins was in the city Jail
tonight, awaiting police court
hearing Monday on the charges.
The child Is staying with paternal
Evening star., 1947-11-09
District 10 Study
Pupi|Bi||ing
Officials to Determine
Number Affected
By Vests Ruling
By Colt HendIey, Jr.

District school officials will begin
study soon to determine how
many nonresident boys and girls
now In public schools here will have
to be billed for tuition under the
ruling which prohibits free school,
ing of on-residents.
The study had been waiting for
the answer to a new question raised
by School Supt. Hobart M. Corn
ing-Is child enrolled in a school
when he signs up before the term
begins and shows his intention of
attending the school?
Corporation Counsel Vernon E.
West ruled no last week.
Appropriations Act Cited.
A part of the District Appropria-
tions Act for the fiscal year ending
June 30, 1948. said that money ap-
propriated for the District could
not be used for education of nom
District residents. It provided, how
ever, that the ruling did not apply
to pupils" enrolled in the schools
on the date of the approval of
the act"
Before this. pupils from nearby
areas were allowed to go to District
schools free If their parents were
employed in the District or Fed
eral government, or were in the
armed services. Also If the par
ent paid a real estate tax in the
District, 1t was credited on the tut
tion.s
Previous Interpretation.
Previous interpretations of the
provision by Mr.. West held that the
intent of Congress was to avoid dis
turbing the tuition status of pupils
who actually we're pursuing educa-
ton in the Districts public schools
before July 25. but to limit the free
education to District residents from
then on.
Some 5000 students from nearby
areas were attending last year. most
of them tuition free under the old
law.
Mr.. Vests new ruling of when
student Is enrolled and when he is
not was the signal for school OFF,
cials to 60 ahead with the study so
they can bill parents before the term
Is over. Just how many students
this will affect is not known.
Reasoning Behind Ruling.
The reasoning behind this ruling
went this way:
Although the dictionary definition
of enrolled is ito enter in a roll or
register; record, as in a list or cata-
logue of names" the courts have
held in past cases that enrolled
children are those who. have ac-
tually been in attendance. at a par
ticular school during the previous
year."
To cinch it, the opinion pointed
out that the appropriations act used
the language pupils enrolled" and
the dictionary defines a pupil as "a
person of either sex or of any age
under the care of a teacher"
In other words, even If application
for admission to the schools had
been made before July Is, the ad-
was not complete unless the
child had attended either regular
school last year or summer school
before that date.
Evening star., 1947-11-09
Jackson PTAt to Hear Howard

DR.. Harry N. Howard OF the State
Departments division Of Turkish
and Iranian Affairs will discuss
THE United Nations and the Prob
lem of Greece" before the Stone
wall jackson Parent Teacher As
sociation at 8 pm. tomorrow in the
school. s55 North Edison street,
Arlington.
Evening star., 1947-11-09
Stith to Speak at Rockville

DR.. Chandler Stith, secretary of
the Columbia Federation of
Churches, will speak at union serv-
ices sponsored by the Rockville Lay
mems Association at the Episcopal
Church. Rockville, at 8 o'clock to-
night.
Evening star., 1947-11-09
Turkey Dinner at FuirIund

The Women's Guild OF st. Mark s
Episcopal Church, Fairland, Nd,
will hold turkey dinner from. to
8 pm. Tuesday at the church on
Columbia pike.
Evening star., 1947-11-09
Cedor Grove Supper Set

The Salem Methodist Church of
Cedar Grove, Nd, win sponsor b
turkey supper at the church Tues
day, beginning at pm.
Evening star., 1947-11-09


Visiting
specialists
private however impossible.
Community
each CALL
with contribution the
Evening star., 1947-11-09

bit of to their sick neghbo
Scott.
president the ladies auxiliary ST.
auxiliary parties excursions
calling home in her section to
the Chest board trustees
representing institutions
ahti that to her % gradually
Finally longer drive She had
walk moved without
pain.
friends
at
Evening star., 1947-11-09

queen" to Be Chosen.
The VFW will follow the custom
of selecting a queen to reign over
its annual ball at the Statler Hotel
Tuesday night. She will be crowned
and presented with a gold watch by
Brig. Gen. Albert l.. Cox. COM
maf1der of the District National
Guard.
Gen. Cox, Albert M. Armstrong
District VFW commander, and the
queen will lead a grand march In
which 100 combat veterans will take
part.
Maj. Gen. A. c. McAuliffe, former
commander of the 10lst Arborne
Division, will be the speaker at the
Second Division Associations OBJ.
servance at its monument, Seven
Evening star., 1947-08-16
U. 5. Charges Romanians
With Torturing Opponents
BY the Associoted Press

The State Department, in a new
denunciation of Communist strong
arm tactics in eastern Europe,
charged the Romanian government
Yesterday with subjecting OPPOSE
ton political leaders to third de-
gree" tortures.
The apparent purpose of the tor
tEre was said to be to extort con.
fesSions" for use in their forth
coming trials on charges they
plotted to overthrow Romania's
Communist-run regime.
A department statement said the
third degree methods had been
reported by Roy NJ Melbourne.
United States political representa-
tive at Bucharest. Oficials stressed
there is voluminous other infor-
nation to support the charge that
hundreds of Peasant Party and
other opposition leaders Jailed in a
roundup of Communist foes were
mistreated.
This development followed two
formal American protests against
suppression of civil liberties in Ro-
mania as tae violation of the new
peace treaties, and other protests
against Communist tactics in Bull
garia and Hungary.
| A fish in the water can move
forward or backward, straight up or
straight down, 49, ..
Evening star., 1947-08-16
Army Nurse Corps Dead|ine
On Applications Extended

The July 81 deadline established
by the War Department for submis.
sion of applications for appoint
fnents to the new Regular Army
Nurse Corps has been extended two
months to September 80 to assure
opportunity for all qualified nurses
to apply.1 - 1ntfGTo'r0fr = f"st
This was annQunced yesterday by
Col. Florence A. Blanchfield, chief
of the Army Nurse Corps.
All Army nurses now hold COM
missions (which entitle othem to all
the >benefits available to male officers
in the Regular Army or Reserve, and
every Army Nurse shares the ad-
vantages of the increased pay scales
authorized for all Army officers In
1916, 1t was said. Additional benefits
include provisions for advancement
in grade and for professional train
ing.
Col. Blanchfield said candidates
for commissions as Regular Army
Nurses are currently limited to off.
GERS between the ages of 81 and "a
inclusive, who have served satisfac.
torily in the Army Nurse Corps dur.
ing World War II. Women who are
married, or who have dependent
children under IA, will not be ap-
pointed to the Regular Army.
Evening star., 1947-08-16
Pennsy Limited Rams
Another in Station
BY the Associated Press

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Aug. 16-One
passenger was hospitalized today
after the Pennsylvania Railroad s
Cincinnati Limited rammed an
other train standing in Union Depot
last night, derailing two cars and
shaking up numerous other pas
SengerS.
George Fabrick, As, a Pittsburgh
policeman, suffered back injuries
when the eastbound limited plowed
into the rear of the Pennsylvania 3
American - ,"tst - 81 g i6iY
:Fieenuther persons were injured
slightly and treated at the scene.
Engineer Marcus Klug of Cincin-
natl attributed the crash to i'm
paired vision as the limited coasted
into the station. He said Che train
was travelling no, faster than, 5
miles an hour - when IT, struck the
coupling linked to the last two cars
of the American.
w. A. Mapp, superintendent of
the lines Columbus division, said
that if the limited had struck the
body of one of the cars instead of
the coupling, more serious damage
would have resulted.
Meals few off dining car tables
with the impact and Pullman pas
sengers were tossed from their
berths.
The Rev. R. E. Southard, st.
Louis, who said he was tipping in
the last car of the inbound limited,
reported his typewriter crashed to
the floor, but added:
I'VE took it pretty calmly"
Evening star., 1947-08-16
|0iI Industry Cited
by 0'ka'honeyin
Monopoly Charges
BY the Assoeiuted Press

Senator O'Mahoney, Democrat, of
Wyoming, said he told President
Truman yesterday that he thought
industrial monopoly" will be the
principal issue of the 1948 Presiden-
tial campaign.
Senator O'Mahoney told reporters
he urged the President to continue
his support of legislation sponsored
by Republican Kefauyer, Democrat,
of Tennessee, and himself to amend
the Clayton Antitrust Act to pre-
vent monopolistic mergers.
He said the Oil industry offered an
Illustration of how industrial con-
centration" is threatening indepen-
dent businesses all over the country.
He commented:
Because the major companies
have adopted a uniform policy of
selling petroleum products only to
contracted customers on the basis of
their purchases in 1916, the Govern
ment itself has been cut off, and is at
present unable to get definite COM
mitment for its future needs this
year"
He asserted that independent dis
tributors are finding it difficult TO
buy supplies from major retineries
and are being driven Ito the wall"
Independent ret1neries are being
forced to sell back the greater part
of their petroleum. products to the
major refineries from which they
secure their crude supply, he added.
Meanwhile, he said, the major
companies are rapidly acquiring
ownership of a larger and larger per-
centage of the crude production OF
the country"
Evening star., 1947-08-16

1t is known that several past and
present members of the ABC Boards
have been in favor of standur
drinking at bars, but the Commits
sioners would never agree to it.
The board during the past month
has been considering signs in win
dows of liquor stores and restau-
rants advertising the fact that they
are showing television in their store
and have come to the conclusion
that the mere mention of the fact
that television is being shown Is
permissible but that it may not be
tied in with other features. 1t has
been held that a sign in a window
advertising that television is to be
shown on the night of a prize fight
or a ball game, is not permitted. nor
is sign advertising, While watch
ing the television show tonight
drink - whisky"
Speaking on his Right Start for
the Day" broadcast over WWDC,
Evangelist Dale Crowley called the
Corporation Counsers ruling that
minors could drink liqour pur-
chased at bars by adults "a subtle
liquor propaganda of the rankest
kind"
Mr.. Crowley said the "preposter-
GUS proposition" would ten to lower
the moral trend and greatly increase
juvenile delinquency.
Evening star., 1947-08-16
Greek
Continued From First Page. }

from foreigners and their native
agents - ." the broadcast procla-
ton continued.
The guerrilla leader stated that
popular authority is accepting and
encouraging every work and assist
ance from foreign capitals or from
international organizations which
will contribute to the promotion OF
Greek economy and which will be
based on, a principle Of equality. 1t
viii not recognize and will suppress
every privilege or concession which
has been allocated to foreigners
individuals, companies or states not
compatible with the meaning of
national independence or popular
sovereignty, state contracts or
privileges which have been allocated
to foreigners and which are not
compatible with popular sovereignty
will not be recognized"
Evening star., 1947-08-16
ABC Board Asks West to Rule
On Patron Carrying His Drink

The old question as to whether a
person should be allowed to carry
his drink from one table to another
in a public place yesterday fell into
the lap of Corporation Counsel Ver-
non E. West for decision.
Mr.. West earlier this week startled
Washingtonians by ruling it is all
right for a minor to drink in a
cafe or restaurant under certain
conditions.
Yesterday the Alcoholic Beverage
Control Board asked him to rule
on a regulation which the board
has been enforcing since 1884, which
prohibits a patron of tavern, cafe
or restaurant from carrying his
drink from one table to another
Mr.. West said there was question
as to whether a person could move
his drink from one table to another.
He said the law says that patron
must be served while seated at a bar
or table, but as. to what happens
to the drink after that, the law and
regulations are silent. He said he
would await making a decision on
this problem until his opinion had
been asked by the Commissioners.
Waiter Must Carry Drink.
Unaer the present regulations, if
a patron is served a drink and
then wants to join friends at another
table, he is not permitted to carry
the drink himself, but must ask
the waiter to carry it for him.
The question came up yesterday
when District Building spokesman
told reporters that standup drink
ing of the old, saloon. type probably
never would be permitted here, but
that where toasts are made and
where an individual wants to join
friends at another table, he should
be allowed to carry his own bev-
erage.
The question was put up to the
corporation counsel by the report
ers, but he refused to comment,
saying that he could only give an
opinion If the ABC Board asked
for one.
Yesterday afternoon, Alan w.
Payne, chairman of the ABC Board
asked the Commissioners to obtain
an opinion from Mr.. West. He said
that, since 1884. the board has held
that the intent of the regulations
was that a patron could not law
fully remove his beverage from one
table to another but that no cita-
tion ever had been issued on q
licensee for infractions Of this regu-
lation, and no penalties had been
inflicted.
Evening star., 1947-08-16
BY the ASsoeiotsd Press

The Interior Department, pressed
by the Nations need for fuel, au-
thorized private industry yesterday
to drill for oil and gas on 1,OOO, 900
acres Of Wyoming land near the
jackson Hole National Monument
and Teton wilderness area.
Secretary Krug emphasized that
the leasing will be controlled so that
excess wells. hit-or-miss drilling.
unnecessary road construction and
other operations which destroy the
forest cover are avoided"
Conservation groups have fought
"encroachment" of oil interests in
the area, which the Geological Sur
vey says is within a petroleum. bear
ing sector.
Shortages Stressed.
Mr.. Krug, in announcing the Or
der, said:
1T is only because Of a serious
decline in new oil discoveries and
the possible loss of publicly owned
oil resources by drainage through
the development of intermingled
private holdings that controlled ex-
ploration has been authorized"
THE restriction on such leases, in
the opinion of the Department OF
the Interior, constitutes the best
possible compromise between the
Nations need for fuel and the de-
SirabilitV of nreServinp the patiopa
asset which lies in the Jackson Hole
! Wilderness"
Mr.. Krug said oil and gas leases
will be issued only where the geolo.
gical survey reports that structural
conditions indicate the presence
Of petroleum. The Secretary ruled
that no drilling will be permitted
except on lands within an approved
unit plan~
Evening star., 1947-08-16
Iturbi's Son-in-Law Held
In Theft Of His Children
By he Associoted Press

BEVERLY HILLS, Calf, Aug. l6.
-Violinist Stephan Hero, 33. was
booked at police headquarters today
on a warrant charging him with
stealing his two children from the
home of his former father law,
Jose Iturbi, pianist-conductor.
Mr.. Hero's arrest in nearby Red
lands, where he appeared for a con-
cert. marked another round in a
legal tussle over custody of his
daughters, Maria Teresa, 10, and
Maria Antonia, 9, whose mother
fatally shot herself in the Iturbi
home here last year in q period of
dependency.
The warrant. was issued after a
complaint signed recently by Mr..
Iturbi, who was in Paris when Mr.
Hero took the children from the
pianists home last June 10 and flew
them to New York.
At that time he said the children
had been unhappy in their grand
fathers home"
Mr.. Hero was held on SIS 900 bail
and arraignment was set for
Monday.
Evening star., 1947-08-16
Taylor Heading Back
To Vatican 10 Discuss
Problems Of Peace
. BY Joseph A. Fox

Myron c. Taylor headed back
to Rome today to renew his dis
cussions of world conditions
with Pope Plus XII as Ambassa-
dor and personal representative
Of President Truman.
A White House announcement
late Yesterday said Mr.. Taylor will
confer with the Pope ''on problems
relative. to the establishment of
peace under a moral order and to
the alienation of the human suf-
fering still continuing in many parts
Of the world"
1t added that the former head of
the United States Steel Corp. "has
also been asked to hold conversa-
tions with other leaders on similar
problems while he is in Europe"
While the Taylor assignment has
been protested by some Protestants,
President Truman has said that he
intends to continue this mission
until peace has been established.
Mr.. Taylor, who has been back in
this country eight months, departed
from La Guardia Field, New York.
yesterday afternoon. He would not
discuss his latest trip beyond the
White House announcement, Alling
reporters, Whatever I am doing is
for the President. If anything is to
be said about it, he will say it,"
The industrialist said he planned
to stay few days in London, then
go to Paris for an indefinite period.
All Of the trip is concerned with the
mission, he said.
Mr.. Taylor first went to Rome for
President Roosevelt in 1910. In N5ay
and November, 1916, he made SIM
liar visits at the request of Presi-
dent Truman.
The text of the White House an
nouncement on the present mission
follows:
AT my request, the Honorable
Myron C. Taylor is proceeding to
Rome as my personal representative
for further exchanges of views with
His Holiness Pope Plus XII, on prob
lens relative to the establishment
of peace under a normal world
order and to the alienation Of the
human suffering still continuing in
many parts of the world Mr.. Tay-
lor has also been asked to hold con-
versat1ons with other leaders on
similar problems while he is in
Europe.
The purpose Of these further con-
81;
Is to gather for my guidance and
assistance, various views and i'm
pressions concerning existing condi-
tions affecting peace and the relief
OF distress, and to obtain the ener-
getic cooperation of all men and
women of good with, whether in re-
Ilglon, in government, or in other
activities Of life. in the interest. of
progress towards solution of these
problems
L am seeking by this means a
greater clarification of the nature
OF the vital tasks that comfort each
OF the nations that have pledged
themselves to cooperate in the
establishment and maintenance of
international peace and security
and to promote economic and social
advancement. I wish to have the
benefit of the constructive views
and suggestions of leaders every
where, to the end that the thought
and, action of the United States as
to world affairs may contribute to
that moral world order of peace and
security and well-being for which
we and the other United Nations
struggled to victory in World
War IL
Evening star., 1947-08-16
Maryland Sales Tax
Returns Much More
Than First Expected
By the Assoeioted Press

BALTIMORE, Aug. 16.-Stats
Controller James J, Lacy. adding up
returns from one-third of Maryland
merchants in their first report on
the States retail sales tax, pre-
dicted today the. revenue would be
much more" than expected
The State had expected to get
81 900, 900 for the month of July.
When the deadline expired last mid
night for all but 100 merchants
granted extensions, the tax had
yielded $500,000 from 1000 of the
$4,000 licensed firms.
Mr.. Lacy concluded there is no
doubt" the monthly estimated would
be surpassed. He added it was
very likely" the return also would
be much more" than the s1S, ,4oO. 900
anticipated by the State for the flrst
year of the tax's operation.
Mr.. Lacy's upward revision Of
the the estimated return concurred
with previous predictions by retail
spokesman. who figured the years
return would exceed S25 100000.
The controller said he would not
complete figures on the July collec-
ton before September or 9 because
of 15-day extensions granted many
large concerns.
Meanwhile, Delegate Harry I.
Warren, Democrat, of Baltimore
County urged the Maryland Legisla-
tive Council to study proposed licens-
ing of off-track betting to determine
If it would be a good and proper
source" of State revenue.
The delegate from Ruxton made
his request in letter to DR.. Horace
Flack, the councils secretary.
The proposal to legalize bookmak-
ing was first made by Baltimore City
Councilman H. Warren Ruckler, ir..
as source of added revenue. Gov.
Lane plans to call a special session
of the General Assembly to raise
more money for Baltimore.
Evening star., 1947-08-16
~. S. to Allow Oil Dri|Iinq
On Land Near Jackson Hole

Such a system he said, will pre-
vent land owners from competing
for oil from the same pool, and
permit drilling of only such wells
as are necessary and proper to drain
the pool under conservation prac-
tees" eds
The Secretary said exemptions
will be made for unit operators who
have made every reasonable effort
to ''unitiZe" their area and have
uncommitted land insufficient in
amount or so located that orderly
development of the unit will not be
hindered.
Mr. Krug said all leases and all
unit plans must provide for In
terror Department control over the
rate of prospecting and develop
ment, and particularly over the
spacing of wells and other factors
effecting wild life of scenic values.
Mr.. Krug's order directs:
If any part of the geological
structure is located on Federal lands
within the Jackson Hole National
Monument, or the Teton wilderness
area. or which are otherwise un-
available for leasing. a unit plan for
the remaining available acreage on
the structure will. not be approved
unless the geological survey reports
that oil or gas development, limited
TO the available lands, is in the best
interests of the United States"
The order added that lands north
OF the area outlined-estimate to
include 100000 acres-shall "con-
tinue to be temporarily withheld
| from leasing unless the lands in T
As N, R. 113W, 6 PM, Wyoming
| outside the Jackson Hole National
Monument and outside the Teton
wilderness are are deemed neceS-
sary to establish of complete a
! logical unit area"