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Evening star., 1947-12-12
Vote Precinct Board
To Suggest Reyiisions
For Arlington Soon

recommendations for redefning
Arlington voting precincts will be
presented soon to Judge Walter T
Mccarthy, Charles r. Fenwick,
chairman of special redictricting
commission, said today.
Mr.. Fenwick, whose commission
made a series of recommendations
about a year ago and was recon-
vened by Judge Mccarthy because
of difficulties experienced in the
recent elections, said he hoped to
submit the new report before jan
uary l.
6 Precincts Urged for Arlington.
At a public hearing last night
in tn ecourthouse, it was suggested
that the Buckingham Apartment
development be made into a single
precinct rather than divided geo.
graphically among several, and that
the present Arlington precinct be
made into six.
In its earlier recommendations,
the commission proposed increas-
ing the number of voting places
from II to Is by making four pre-
cincts out of the Arlington precinct
and two out of the present Ballston
precinct. 1t also recommended a
redefnition of boundaries, with the
new lines following streets, streams
and railroads. Under the first
recommendations none of the pre-
cincts would have more than about
1000 voters. Harrington would be-
come a separate voting place under
those proposals.
Deferred Because of Elections.
Judge Mccarthy deferred action
on the recommendations because
of the large number of elections
scheduled in 1947. In view of diff
culties experienced November 4,
which resulted in election return
delays in some precincts until 30
hours after the polls closed, Judge
Mccarthy asked the commission to
reopen its study.
Among those at last nights meet
ing were Representatives of the Arl-
ington Better Government League
and the League of Women Voters.
In addition to Mr.. Fenwick, mem
bers of the commission are Ralph
M. Kimble and William G. Watt.
Evening star., 1947-12-12

The Alexandria Health Depart
ment has filed report with city
authorities that two of it's inspectors
found unsanitary conditions in the
wash rooms and cafeteria of George
Washington High School. -
The report was discussed at a
closed meeting of Alexandria school
authorities and members of the city
council Wednesday night, when
school budgetary matters were re-
viewed.
CLOSE inspection showed that
neither towels nor soap were pro-
vided in rest rooms the report
stated.
Ventilation Criticized.
The inspectors also declared that
the school cafeteria's trash and gar
bage removal was handled i'm
properly. that counter milk displays
were improperly refrigerated and
that water in dish washing ma
chimes was mot adequate" for
sterilization. They criticized the
cafeteria ventilation and the
refrigeration unit.
The inspectors, Keith Wade and
A. c. Slaymaker, visited the school
October 10 and November "a. They
reported conditions were similar on
both occasions.
They said the number of rest
rooms was adequate at George
Washington, which has approxi-
mately 1850 students and 80 faculty
members. Drinking fountains were
approved.
Not Terrible" Principal Says.
Edgar G. Pruet, principal of the
school, said the inspection was a
routine matter and said that while
conditions mentioned in the report
deserved attention, there was mo
terrible situation"
He did not regard the inspectors
findings as of major proportions, !"
he said, although the school author
tiles believe any unsatisfactory con-
ditions should be corrected.
Corrective steps have been taken,
the principal said. He explained
that some of the conditions regarded
as unsatisfactory were attributable
to contractors delays in Installing
equipment.
Evening star., 1947-12-12
District Man Nominated
For Rhodes Scholarship

Neil Carothers, %, 1920 Columbia
road NV, is one of three men
nominated Wednesday by the Rhodes
Scholarship Selection Committee Of
Maryland for the Rhodes scholar
ship district competition in Phila-
delphia tomorrow. Mr. Carothers. a
staff member of the Johns Hopkins
Applied Physics Laboratory, Silver
Spring, is a graduate of Princeton
University.
Fauntleroy Gee, jr, 81. colored, Of
Baltimore, senior at Coppin Teach
ers' College. and Stephen w. Terry,
Is, of Indianapolis, a senior at St.
Johns College, Annapolis, we're also
nominated by the committee.
The scholarships, founded by Cecil
Rhodes, South African statesman,
provide two years of study at oxford
University. England, and a third
year II requested.
Evening star., 1947-12-12
Germany Crux Of Dispute
With Reds, MetcaIfe Says

The widest disagreement between
the United States and Russia-and
the most important issue of the
day-is the problem of peace with
Germany, John c. Metcalfe, former
Washington diplomatic correspond
ent for Time magazine and the New
York Herald Tribune, declared last
night at Town Hall forum in the
Silver Spring Armory.
Speaking on THE New German
Challenge" Mr.. Metcalfe said the
whole struggle between east ano
west is centered in the German
problem.
"If the great powers can resolve
their difference In the German
problem, you can rest assured they
will soon resolve their differences on
all other problems, he asserted.
Whoever gains control of Ger
many, the speaker continued ulti-
mately will gain control of all Eu-
rope, since only in Germany is the
skilled labor necessary to operate
those industries.
Soviet Russia knows only too well
what it would mean for her to gair
control of Germany. If she achieved
this objective, you could soon write
off the whole continent of Europe
Nothing we could do could stop the
wave of Communism that woulc
sweep through one country afte,
another"
At the conclusion OF Mr.. Met
calfe's lecture, specially prepared
film, showing Germany at the
height of Hitler's domination and
Germany today, was presented. The
program marked the third in a series
OF Town Hall forums sponsored by
the Silver Spring Rotary Club for
its student loan fund.
Evening star., 1947-12-12
Mt. Rainier Children Get
Aid for French VILLAGE

Aid for an impoverished French
village. adopted" by the children
in the second and third grades of
Mount Rainier Elementary School,
is coming from all parts OF the
country, according to the Mount
ainier-Brentwood Parent Teach
er Association.
Bohars, fishing village about
five miles from Brest, was selected
by the children on the recommend
alton of the American Aid for
France Committee. 1t has pepu-
lation of 300.
Forty-o children, directed by
their teacher. Miss Vivian Marshall.
wrote letters to newspaper editors
throughout the country asking for
help. The PTA said many replies
have been received.
The Lions Club of Mount Rainier
contributed $25 to the flnd.
Evening star., 1947-12-12
Mount Alto Gifts Voted
BY Irish War Veterans

Members Of Post IT, Irish War
Veterans, and its Ladies Auxiliary
voted last night to purchase Christ
mas gifts for bedridden veterans at
Mount Alto Hospital and to present
them during a hospital visit Tues
day.
Miss Alice Schuler explained ths
plan at a meeting of members at
Strick's Restaurant, Branch avenus
and Naylor road, SilvertHill, Md.
Evening star., 1947-12-12
Chest Merger
Is Urged for
NearbyVirginia.
Single Welfare Setup
Asked for Arlington,
Alexandria, Foirfox

Consolidation of Fairfax, Arling.
ton and Alexandria Welfare Coun.
cils and Community Chests into one
organization was suggested last
night by Wallace S. Hughes, execu-
tive director of the Alexandria Chest
and Council.
Mr. Hughes told a meeting of the
Alexandria Community Welfare
Council that this move would
streamline Chest operations. His
plan called for one executive and
one headquarters operating for the
three communities as Community
Chest of Northern Virginia, which
would continue to participate in the
Community Chest Federation for
the Metropolitan Area.
Mr.. Hughes made his recommen-
dation after pointing out that the
federation campaign raised only
8l.38 per cent of it's goal in the
drive that closed last night. Other
recommendations he made to meet
a reduced budget were:
l. Consolidation of the Alexandria
Visiting Nurse Service with the
Community Health Center, includ-
ing transfer of supplies and per-
sonnel. Also that arrangements be
made, if possible, with the City
Health Department for temporary
Use of quarters by the Visiting Nurse
Service, unless quarters can be OBJ
tanned elsewhere at less cost.
2. Inclusion of the Community
Health Center and the Visiting
Nurse Service as a part of Alex
andria Hospital and that If the
change can be made between now
and the first of the year, a reason
able fund be appropriated for the
hospital for clinics. medical social
service and disqualification.
4. The Public Welfare Depart
ment be requested to assume re-
sponsibility for financing the
transient program, providing the
cost to the Salvation Army on the
oasis of payment for room and
beard of transients.
S. Facilities of the Hopkins House
and Bethune Branch, YWCA, be
consolidated under the board
policies and programs of the YWCA.
6. The Catholic Charities of
Northern Virginia and Family Serv-
ice Society confer as soon as pos
sible regarding combining programs
which would reduce operating costs.
The Welfare Council voted that
Mr.. Hughes recommendation be
discussed among representatives of
the agencies involved so that the
proposals could be put into effect
swiftly in lease the Alexandria
Chest suffers a sharp cut in its al
The council voted to seek inclu-
sion of $23,560 item in Alexan;
dria's 1948 budget to establish
dental health program in the
schools.
The dental health program as
outlined in a committee report re-
suited from the recent dental sur
vey of all Alexandria schoolchil-
dren, conducted with the aid of
students from Georgetown and How
ard Universities. Results of the
survey showed that of 6,356 white
and colored children examined in
public and parochial schols, 5,2O7
needed dental treatment. Of this
number, LAT were welfare cases.
Evening star., 1947-12-12
Alexandria Legion Posts S
Beer License Suspended
By the Associoted Press

RICHMOND. Va, Dec. 12.-The
Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control
Board has suspended the wine and
beer license of American Legion
Post "a at Alexandria until July /,
Hunter Miller, chairman of the
board, has announced.
The announcement was the re-
suit of hearing of the case by the
board on November 26.
Reports of trouble at the Legion
home first caused Hearing Officer
Howard Siple to recommend revok-
ing of the license. Legion officers
in appealing the case told the ABC
board they had taken steps to
remedy the situation and declared
marked improvement had been
shown,
Evening star., 1947-12-12
Alexandria Doctors Hear
ANA Representative

DR.. Joseph S. Lawrence, Wash
ington representative of the Amer
ican Medical Association, told the
Alexandria Medical Society last
night it is important for local
societies to take the lead in pro-
noting health, using all available
agencies, both public and private.
DR.. Lawrence declared that much
more could be accomplished by local
groups than in an "unwieldy" ma
tional program.
For benefit of the Alexandria
doctors who held their. December
meeting in the municipal Health
Center, DR.. Lawrence discussed ma
tional health legislation pending in
Congress.
Evening star., 1947-12-12
Crane Operator Burned
As Machine Takes Fire

o. r. Brooks, AZ, of 316 Eighth
street NE, suffered face burns to-
day when the crane he was operat-
ing in an Arlington junk yard
caught fire.
Mr.. Brooks said the fire started
when gasoline, which was being
poured into a tank, spilled onto
the manifold of the engine. He
was treated on the scene, at Will
son boulevard and Fort Myer drive.
He estimated the damage to the
crane at several thousand dollars.
The Cherrydale and Clarendon
fire companies extinguished the
blaze.
Evening star., 1947-12-12
JeIIeff's Seventh Store
Opened in ShirIinqton

Jelleff's, Inc, opened its seventh
store yesterday at Shirlington and
hundreds of shoppers crowded into
the air-conditioned, brightly Lighted
branch in Arlington
No formal ceremonies were held
but first-day visitors were enter
tanned with music and a fashion
show. Frank R. Jellef, president OF
the company, was present for the
opening.
The new store will sell all mer-
chandise handled in the downtown
store, except shoes, between $50 am
to pm. daily except Thursday
when hours will be from noon until
9pm,
Evening star., 1947-12-12
Dinner Nearly Cooked
But Police Seize Turkey
By the Associoted Press

WINCHESTER, Va, Dec. 12.-Tht
sheriff and a couple of State troop.
ers tipped up to the Mayhew homs
near Zeppe, Va, and broke up :
turkey dinner that was nearly ready
for the table.
They confiscated one partly
roasted gobbler.
Sheriff Robert Dehaven ordered
the somewhat cooked bird placed ir
storage as evidence against five po-
tentiaf diners who were charged
with turkey theft. Mr.. and Mrs
Perle Mayhem were not charged ir
the case and told the sheriff they
merely agreed to roast the turkey
for their guests-three men ano
two women.
Evening star., 1947-12-12

today by Den
man T. Rucker,
Arlington COM
monWealth's at
torney-elect.
M I. Brown
who was edu-
Gated in Arling-
ton schools and
took his law de-
gree from Wash
ington and Lee
University, has
been a practic-
ing a t t orn e y
since he was ad-
nnitted to the
Evening star., 1947-12-12
Work on Traffic Circle
In GordonsviIIe to Beoir
Special Dispoteh 10 The Stor

GORDONSVILLE, Va, Dec. H.
Construction will begin next week
on traffic circle at the intersection
of Routes Is. SO and 231 at the north
side of Gordonsville, State Highway
Department officials said today
The project, costing $17,050, will
entail the widening of roads, NOV
Ing service station and other build
ings, and the installation of five
safety Islands"
Evening star., 1947-12-12
Virginia to Give Test Results

RICHMOND, Dec. IL 0P,.-The
163 candidates who went through
a two-day series of tests this week
by the State Board of Law Exam
lners will know on January 10
whether their bids for Virginia
licenses to practice law kyere sue
cessful.
Evening star., 1947-12-12
Veterans to Hold SociuI

The Capt. Edward A. Duff Post
No. 1881, Catholic War Veterans of
America, will hold a pre-Christmas
social at 8 o'clock tonight in the
basement Of the Blessed Sacrament
Church, Braddock and Seminary
roads, Alexandria, Va.
Evening star., 1947-12-12
PauIBrownAppointed Health Inspectors Find
As Assistant Attorney Un5anitary Conditions
In |nAr|ingtonbyR AT Alexandra School

Appointment of Paul D. Brown,
28-year-old Arlington attorney, as
assistant commemorative attorney,
effective January l, was announced
Evening star., 1947-01-19

VoU wouldn't like my job. don't like it
l. myself. I'm an ambulance driver, the
guy who picks up the pieces yours or your
kids, or his girl friends
Brutal language? It's brutal job, and a
brutal situation, and it's time we did some
thing about it.
Wait second; that's the phone. Maybe
OK, partner. you're in. It's a smash-up
out on 1O3. Pile into the ambulance. Bills
got a headache, and you can go along in his
place.
Cozy up here in the drivers compartment,
isn't it? And doesn't she ride nice? She's
heavy, and long, and she's sprung for this
kind of work, but I'd rather drive anything
else that rolls on wheels
I've been driving ambulances for IL years
now, but never roll this thing down the
street that don't wonder who's out there
at the end of the line Twelve years of this,
and I'm still scared stiff every time l answer
a CALL You'd think I'd be used to it, hardened
to it? Well, I'm not, and don't know any
ambulance driver who is.
Sure, we joke about it, but that's just
whistling in the dark We all know that it
might be someone we love, and any man who
Evening star., 1947-01-19

on the football team, and gets good grades.
But Jim's like any kid: He loves to show off,
and he'll take chance that | wouldn't take
and that you wouldn't take. For dare, or
a medal, or wide-eyed look from a girl
he'll take an awful chance You know what
mean.
Liquor? That's small part of it.. But
even little drinking is too much to pile
on top of that reckless, show-off spirit
l was just talking about.
It's the older drivers who are really drunk
If the accident is close in and we get there
quickly, we very often see someone in the
party throwing away bottle or two, getting
it out of sight before the cops arrive. There's
a law in this state against having an opened
bottle of liquor in car.
1t must be quite srnack-up; see all those
cars up ahead? There1l be hundred cars or
so on each side of the road, and a mob around
Evening star., 1947-01-19

has driven an ambulance as long as l have
has had to pick up friend or two.
That's right, we're making better time
now. We're out in the country and we still
have ten miles to go.
Two cars, the guy said; the one who
phoned. All smashed to hell Four kids in
one of them - and I've got kids, chum Two
of them. The girl is sixteen and the boy is a
year older. You can't keep them in every
night; you can't forbid them to step into
car. Kids nowadays 60 everywhere in cars
When Kids Show Off
lHAT's right, I've got kids on my mind
Know why? Partly because have youngsters
of my own, sure, but partly because know
what every ambulance driver knows: that
kids cause more than their share of accidents.
You have one of your own, so you know
how kids are. Take my Jim. He's good boy,
Evening star., 1947-01-19

the injured people. doing all sorts of things
that shouldn't be done - moving them
around, washing wounds, even trying to
reduce fractures l remember car that ran
into concrete culvert guard One man had
a compound fracture of his left arm; must
have been broken in three or four places; it
was limp as rag. When got there yokel
had one foot in the mans armpit, and was
pulling on the bad arm He'd seen a doctor
set broken arm that way, he told me.
Don't Look Too Much
URN on that spotlight, and keep moving
it. Maybe we can push our way through this
mob without killing some more people guess
we beat the cops to the job at that.
Move on, mister; we've got to park here.
This is an ambulance, in case you haven't
noticed, and we're trying to get in where
we can help those people over there in the
cornfleld. =. Thanks. mister, you re a great
guy.
OK, pal. turn the light over there, and let
1t ride. We're going to need it, Around back
with me, and take the other end of the
stretcher ... that's it. Don't look any
more than you have to. Keep swallowing;
Evening star., 1947-01-19

''They send for me when there's death
on the highway. drive the ambulance,
and my next customer might be you.''
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-27
PIEDMONT TOBUY

Continued From Page One)
from what it necessarily would
have been.
Proving Runs
!. Davis said that the company's
manager was going to Atlanta
the first of the week to make
arrangements for proving runs.
This should be cleared up in a
few days he said.
Meantime, he added, a tenta-
tive schedule will be announced
within the next few days.
Piedmont Aviation already
has been approved by the Air
Traffic Conference, a group
made up of the nations major
airlines, for the interchange of
passenger tickets.
Earlier this month. Piedmont
was recertified by the CAB to
provide air service from Will
mington west with network of
feeder routes which would also
serve intermediate points from
Wilmington into Cincinnati and
from New Bern west connecting
with Piedmont North Carolina
towns.
The recertification of Pied
mont came after stiff fight in
the courts and through CAB with
State Air Lines of Charlotte, a
contender for the certificate
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-27
CAPE FEAR
Continued From Page One)

Kendall was about the last to
give up rice planting.
"As Mr.. Merritt says in his
letter, the business became un-
profitable on account of labor
conditions. Up to the War Be-
tween the States, rice had been
cultivated by slaves. After that
by cheap Negro labor but better
compensated occupations drove
the Negro into other channels
and part of the rice plantations
went to Louisiana but by far the
greater part went to Japan and
China with whose cheap cooley
labor our more intelligent 1ren
and those accustomed to a high.
er standard of living could not
compete.
''Thus passed from the South
gIamorous, picturesque, fasci-
mating phase of life. The planta-
ton owners were monarchs of
all they surveyed, typical of the
titled land owners of England.
gentlemen of birth and educa-
ton, living in ease and luxury.
liberal dispensers of hospitality.
intellectual and cultured leaders
of a refined society and mem
bers of a class long known as
the Cape Fear Aristocracy."
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-27
RICHMOND LIVESTOCK

RICHMOND, Va, Dec. 26. -
P)- Livestock: Hogs - Fridays S
market is IS higher on all
weights; top 27.O0 for good and
choice 18O-24O lb barroWs and
gifts; 90-1OO lbs. 1900; 100-12O
lbs. 1000; 12O-140 lbs. 24.00;
140-16O lbs. $500; 160-100 lbs.
$3.50; 24O-300 lbs. $500; 300 lbs.
and up 24.5O; good sows under
$50 lbs. 24.0O; 35O-500 lbs. 21.50;
over 500 bis. 1900; good stays un-
der $50 lbs. 21.00; over $50 lbs.
1900.
Cattle-The market is general
ly steady today, with trading at
standstill. Good beef COWS quot
able steady at 14.5O-17.00, med
ium to good cows 13.00-14.5O;
medium dairy type 11.00-13.0 90,
Gamers and cutters 9.00-11.00.
Good heavy sausage bulls quot
able steady at 14.50-16.00, med
ium 12.O0-15.OO; good beef bulls
17.OC-13.0O. Some demand for
vealers; the market quotable
steady, mostly $500, down, choice
quotable higher. Good and heavy
calves quotable 18.00-21.00, COM
mon and medium 13.0O-17.00.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-27
CHICAGO LIVESTOCK

CHICAGO, Dec. 26-IP|-(US-
DA)-Salable hogs 5000; total
1900; fairly active, weights un-
der 260 lbs. Is to so cents high
er; heavier weights uneven; but
generally strong to Is cents
higher; top 1880. Bulk good and
choice 170-250 lbs, 28.75-29.25;
100000 lbs, 2800-28.65. A few
loads weighing slightly above 300
lbs, 27.7~ to $500; a few 140- 100
lbs, 700-28.75. Sows around
2s cents higher; good and choice
3005O0 lbs, 24.OO-25.25; a few
$3.50.
Salable cattle 1000, total g.
200; salable calves 200, total 200:
all classes fully steady market
active; no high choice steers
here; low choice ght steers top
ped at $500; bulk medium to
good offerings 2400-33.O0; me-
dium to good heifers 23.0O-23.O 90;
cutter COWS 1900 down. Most
common and medium beet COWS
15.50-1800; good cows to 1900;
weighty sausage bulls 21.75
down; not enough vealers and
stock cattle here to make mar
ket; undertone fully steady.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-27
THOMAS B. JACKSON

Funeral services for Thomas
B. Jackson, rs, 1108 S. F nth
street, who died Tuesday at lis
a. m. in his home, will be con-
Quoted from tn Fourth St. Ad-
vent Christian h ur C h this
afternoon at 2:30 o'clock with
the Rev. H. j. Wilson and the
Rev. S. E. Thurlow officiating
Interment will follow in Belle
vue cemetery.
Survivor include: Mrs. Daisy
Jackson, wife; Mrs. E. c. Ruark
and Mrs. ]. Edward Powell,
daughters of ilmington; T. F.
Jackson, son, Washington, N. c.:
James Jackson, brother, Rich
mond; and Mrs. Melton Jones,
sister, Charlottesville, Va.
Pallbearers will be, active: j..
W. Reaves, R. M. Padrick, Jr.,
W. E. Cherry, J. P. Bradshaw,
W. K. Rhodes, Jr., and M. A.
Dukes. Honorary: H. S. King,
R. E. Galloway, DR.. W. c. Meb-
ane, J. F. Cellars, W. A. Simon,
Sr., w. M. Abram, R. P. Nc
Lammy, ]. Ludie Groom, w. D.
johnson, S. P. Sykes, W. H. Bat
son, Julius Parker, Henry Ter
ring, C. @. Justice, ]. w. Goley,
C. Rivenbark, aid H. A. McRae.
The remains will lie in State
at the church from 1:30 o'clock
until the funeral hour.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-27
VICKIE LYNN SHOLAR

Funeral services for Vickie
Lynn Sholar, IL m n t h S old
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Paul
Sholar, of Charlotte. who died At
5 a. m. Thursday morning will
be conducted at $3.50 pm. from
the Calvary Baptist church this
a f noon with the Rev.
E. W. Pate officiating. Inter-
ment will follow in Oakdale
cemetery. Survivors include: the
parents, a sister, ary Ann
and Mr.. and Mrs. M. I.
all of Charlotte. Active
pallbearers include: E. c. Dob
son, Clarence oore, Hulan Ben
ton, Gerald Taylor. Honorary
pallbearers: E. A. Anderson, D.
A. Lockfaw, Marchell Carney,
T. E. Applewhite, Kenneth Sher-
man, r. H. Walker and Chester
Moore.