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Evening star., 1947-02-05
Hospital Patient Dies
In Leap From Window

A washington beauty shop opera
tor plunged to his death early this
morning from second-floor win
dow at the Episcopal Eye, Ear and
Throat Hospital, where he was be-
ing treated for nasal hemorrhages.
The man, Otis Brady, Al, of 1929
Childress street NE, was found
lying on the street in front of the
hospital at 1147 Fifteenth street
NV. shortly after 6 am. by Roose-
velt Davis, hospital orderly.
MIR. Davis said he had been in
MIR. Brady's room on the second
floor few minutes before am.
When he returned, he said Mr..
Brady was missing and the screen
broken.
Mr.. Brady was admitted to the
hospital on February 8 for treat
ment, according to hospital records.
He was proprietor of the Otis
Michael Beauty Salon at 6O4 Elev-
|enth street NV. A native of Texas,
he had lived in Washington about
seven years.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs.
Alma Brady, and four children,
ranging from 8 months to 6 years
in age. The body was removed to
the District Morgue for an autopsy
after he was pronounced dead on
the scene.
Evening star., 1947-02-05
Rector, Wife
DieofMonoxide While
for Drive
Rev. W. P: Peyton Tried
To InsuIote Cur Against
Cold for Trip t o Church

The Rev. w. Preston Peyton
rector of two Episcopal churches
in Arlington, and his wife, Ethel,
were found dead of carbon mo-
noxide poisoning this morning in
their closed garage. They were
beside, an automobile which they
had been preparing for a cold
drive to attend services at Pohick
Church.
AS Investigators reconstructed the
tragedy, the accident occurred after
the couple started the motor on
their sedan last night, soon after a
cold wave swept the Washington
area. While it showed and sleeted
outside, Mr.. ePyton began to tie a
heavy sack over the radiator OF
his car in the garage at his home,
2101 North Fillmore street, Airing
ton.
Mr.. Peyton, who was rector OF
Epiphany Church, 2001 North Quin-
cy street, and Grace Church on
Lorcom lane, Arlington, APPARENTLY
had difficulty fixing string thruogh
the radiator grill, and his wife came
out to help.
Mrs. Peyton apparently donned a
light scarf and hurried out in her
house dress to assist her husband,
who was over go years old. The
string was only partly tied, and
the sack was draped across the
radiator front. Mrs. Peyton, it was
believed, had closed the garage door
against the cold wind, and her
ICee N1OMOYInE Pace A.4l
Evening star., 1947-02-05
New Cold Wave Grip.
Britain and Europe
BY the Associated Press

LONDON, Feb. 5.-A severe cold
wave gripped Great Britain and
Western Europe today further ag-
gravating the grave coal shortage
from recently socialized British
mines.
Factories employing $4,000 per-
sons have shut down in England
because Of the fuel shortage and
their owners appealed to the Labor
government for coal. Britain was
having her worst blizzard in so
years.
The sharp rise in coal consump-
ton, expected from the icy weather,
threatened further industrial shut
downs. Hundreds Of factories al
ready were idle or working part
time. Snow covered nearly all of
England, Scotland and Wales and
temperatures dropped sharply.
In Berlin, more than 800 enter
prises employing $4,000 persons
closed because Of the cold and lack
Of coal Another 100000 workers
reported themselves too i'll to report.
Two more persons died of exposure
In Berlin, raising deaths from the
cold since December to 103.
/ italy had snpwstorms which
stopped traffic in the northern
cities, Iandslides that blocked roads
along the Adriatic, gales and tor
rental rains.
Some factories were closed In
Northern France by the cold and
fuel shortage, affecting q few thou-
sand Workmen.
Evening star., 1947-02-05
BY the Assoeioted Press

Glenn L. Martin told Senators
today that air transports five
years from now probably will be
cruising at 500 miles an hour.
The veteran aircraft manufacturer
and designer added that 'air ter
minals and landing aids must be
improved at pace which will match
the airplane's progress"
MIR. Martin, who built and flew his
first plane in 1909, was a witness
before the Air Safety Subcommittee
of the Senate Commerce Commit
tee. 1t is seeking ways of making
air travel more safe.
Mr.. Martin offered these sugges-
tions for improving air safety and
what he termed severe financial
problems" of all airlines:
Material increase in airmail rates
and a modest rise" in passenger
rates.
A uniform system of Federal tax
alton on the aircraft industry. Ne
said some States now tax aviation
gasoline Z cents gallon without
using the funds for aviation.
Government control of airports
and landing fields with private op-
Evening star., 1947-02-05

An experimental jet plane
with extraordinary strength and
built-in safety devices to enable
the pilot to survive speeds here
tofore fatal was described today
by the Navy and the National
Advisory Committee for Aero
nautics.
The Navy's bid for trans-sonic
performance contains an entire nose
section forward of the stubby wing
which is jettisonable to save the
pilot in event the turbulence of the
sonic wall causes serious structural
failure.
So far as Is known on this side
+of the Atlantic, no pilot or plane
has yet survived this area of un-
charted shocks.
The first complete assembly of
the new D-558 Skystreak was re-
vealed today at the Douglas Aircraft
Co. plant In California to aviation
engineers, writer's and visitors. At
the same time the "trans-sonic test
tube" was described in q release by
the NACA, the Federal research
Evening star., 1947-02-05
Transports WiNFK 500M.P.H
In S Years, Glenn Martin Says
Designer Tells Senote Probers Air SofeH
Facilities Must Equal Planes Development

Grafton Of all terminal facilities SC
that profits from restaurants, con-
cessions and other by-products are
grouped.
Prompt development and install
lation of all possible air safety de-
vices by the Government.
The House Commerce Committee
was informed, meanwhile, that the
International Civil Aviation Organi-
zation has been asked to assist ir
"joint financing" of a worldwide
system Of air navigation aids to pro-
mote safe flying.
James nj. Landis, chairman of the
Civil Aeronautics Board. said the
Recommendation for the information.
al action was drafted by the Ail
Co-ordinating Committee on which
/ he serves with Undersecretary ol
State Clayton as co-chairman.
Representative Stefan, Republi-
can, of Nebraska asked the Civil
Aeronautics Administration to say
whether it believes commercial all
lines should pay for use Of the Fed
eral airways system and If so, how
Mr.. Stefan made the request a
his House Appropriations Subcom-
| !(See AVIATION. Page A-4.)
Evening star., 1947-02-05
| Search for Plane
Centers in Area
West of District

Navy and Army planes from
bases in the Washington area
today were securing the noun
famous triangle bounded by
Cumberland, Md; Staunton,
Va, and Martinsburg, w. Va, for
some trace of a Navy transport
plane which disappeared last
night with it's crew of four and
possibly two Marine passengers.
The plane, due at Norfolk at 6
pm. yesterday, circled Washington
in the afternoon and then made a
futile attempt to find the Anacostia
Naval Air Station here at 7 o'clock
last night for an emergency landing.
1t passed the city at $4,000 feet in
the grip of a 75-mile-an-hour wind,
the Navy reported. Half an hour
later, the Quantico, Va, radio station
said it heard the last weak message
from the plane as its pilot, borne
westward by the wind, desperately
tried to locate the Anacostia landing
strip.
A total of 26 planes began a search
Evening star., 1947-02-05
Jet Plane Device Enables Pilot
ToCutL utLooseinInclosedC Cockpit
Mechanism Of skystreok Unveiled BY Navy
Protects Flyers at Speeds Heretofore Fotol
By w. H. shippen, Jr.
Av;a,ion Editor Of The Star

agency which conducted high-speed
wind tunnel tests for the model.
The Skystreak is the first Of a
series built for the NACA under
Navy contract, and will be turned
over to the agency for exhaustive
fight research after acceptance
tests. It is the elimination of many
different supersonic designs studied
in the 8-foot high-speed tunnel at
NACAs laboratory at Langley Field,
Va.
The pilot-escape mechanism Of
the Skystreak may enable the model
to investigate deeper into the
mysteries of sonic speed with safety
than the Army Air Forces XS-1,
a rocket-powered plane built by
Bell Aircraft and now undergoing
power flight trials below the speed
of sound at the AAF test station in
the desert at Muroc, Calf.
In an emergency. the pilot can
break the nose section clear Of the
Skystreak, and tumble downward In
an inclosed cockpit until air resist
ance slows the section down enough
to enable him to escape by para
fsee sUPERsoNIC. Page A-50
Evening star., 1947-02-05
Aid Grants Cut
10 Per Cent by
Welfare Board
Rise in Applications
Forces Slash Until
Funds Are Voted
By Don E. OconneII

The District Board of Public
Welfare announced today it will
reduce all public assistance
grants by 20 per cent beginning
March /.
A sharp rise in the number of
applicants for assistance, which has
brought the daily total to nearly
twice that of last September, was
given by the board as the chief
reason for the reduction. The total
of assistance applicants is expected
to rise one half of one percent per
month, the board said.
Compliance with the anti-defici-
sncy at makes the present cut man.
datory until additional money be-
comes available, possibly through a
supplemental appropriation, the
board pointed out.
The District Commissioners have
forwarded deficiency request Of
$184, 200 which they received from
the board last week. This amount
is considered sufficient to restore the
cut for the remainder of this fiscal
year.
If the supplemental appropriation
is not received, further cuts may be
necessary, the board said.
The cut announced today had to
be made, the board explained, de-
spite the fact that reimbursements
from the Federal Security Admins
tration, which supplement local
funds for public assistance were
larger than expected this year. A
reserve fund of 100000 which had
been set up by the board against
later demands for additional grants
likewise has been utilized to meet
current needs.
The welfare board believes the rise
in assistance applicants Is caused
by steadily rising costs of living and
the loss of income by unemployment.
The amount of money the Board
asked in its supplemental request to
the Commissioners represents the
amount necessary to continue as
sistance payments at the present
level and to make up the scheduled
20 per cent cut.
The hardest hit by the cut will be
aged persons who receive assistance.
The Board now is carrying 2,288
persons on the old age assistance
lists. They receive an average Of
1912 each a month. There are also
200 blind persons receiving aid.
They average $4,000 a month. Single
persons on the public assistance list
numbered 805 and they receive an
average Of $41.18 month. The de-
lpendent children list contains 946
cases who receive an average Of
1888 month, while 80 families in
the District receive an average of
! $5o62 a month.
Evening star., 1947-02-05
|GM Head Tells Senate Hearing
|HeHNeyer Accept Closed Shop
Smith Warns House Group Of Cool Strike
Unless Congress R1shes Labor Legislation

Charles e. Wilson, president
Of General Motors, today told the
Senate Labor Committee he
never will sign" a closed shop
contract.
"I wouldn't sign a closed shop
agreement" the corporation head
declared. 81 never will sign one.
When 1t gets around to that they
can make farmer out Of me-"
The white-haired GIN executive
expressed his views under ques-
tioning by Senator Morse, Republic
can, of Oregon, who told Mr.. Wilson !:
"The thing you are overlooking
Is that we have to protect working
men from employers who want TO
destroy the right to organize for
economic benefit"
The Labor Committee is conduct
ing hearings on<a sheaf Of bills de-
Evening star., 1947-02-05

/ signed to iron out labor -manage-
ment troubles. One of the measures
would outlaw closed shop contracts,
which require a worker to join a
union to get job.
The House Labor Committee
launching its own hearings today,
heard Representative Smith, Demo-
!crat, Of Virginia warn that the Ma
ton may face another paralyzing
coal shutdown unless Congress acts
speedily on strike-control legislation.
Other developments today in
cluded:
Representative Lands. Republican,
Of Indiana blamed white House ad-
visers" for last years strike situa-
ton by inconsistent policies toward
labor. He was the first witness at
the opening of House hearings.
Representative Hoffman, Repub-
lican. of Michigan urged outright
Evening star., 1947-02-05
Gas Jets Opened by Dog
Cause Womun's Death
By the Associoted Press

STONEIAM, Mass, Feb. 5.-A
playful fox terrier was blamed today
for the asphyxiation of his mistress
Mrs. Mary M. Pignato, 80.
Medical Examiner Ira w. Rich
ardson said that the dog-ironically
named "Lucky"-tugged so hard on
a rope attached to a gas stove that
it entwined and opened two jets,
It had been a custom to tie Lucky
to the stove.
Mrs. Pignato's husband, summoned
by neighbors who smelled gas, found
her dead on the kitchen floor where
she collapsed after being partly
overcome while doing in bed
room.
Evening star., 1947-02-05
Wilson Sued for Divorce

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 5 P.-
Meredith Wilson, composer and ra-
dio performer, was charged with
cruelty In divorce suit filed yes
terday by his wife of 26 years, Eliza
beth Wilson Wilson. Under a
property settlement she will receive
their home, two cars, stock and in
surance and Is per cent of his fu-
ture gross income.
Evening star., 1947-02-05
; Germun Princesses
Linked to Black Mort

NEW YORK, Feb. S. (NANA).-
Three Former Hohenzollern prin-
cesses, Agatha, Elisabeth and Luise
Henriette, are implicated in a vast
black-market affair which has been
uncovered in the state of Hesse, the
Neue Zeitung of Berlin reports.
The Princesses are charged with
having turned over crown jewels to
Heinrich Kogler, ringleader OF a
black market gang, to buy" food
supplies from UNRRA stocks in
Munich.
Evening star., 1947-02-05
State Department Sets
March IS 10 April IS
As Moving Period
Headquarters to Go
From Old Home to
Virginia Avenue

The main part of the Stat.
Department will move between
March Is and April Is from i.'
traditional home beside tht
White House to a modernistit
building at Virginia avenue ane
Twenty-first street NV, orgi.
nally constructed for the Wal
Department.
In officially announcing plans fol
the move today, the State Depart
ment said the new building is the
first of a unit which, when COM
| pleted, will contain sufficient space
to house the entire department, now
scattered in more than 80 build
ings.
Approved by Marshall.
Secretary of State Marshall's s
agreement gave the go-ahead signal
for the moving plans which had
been blocked by former Secretary of
State Byrnes. While personally op-
posing the move, Mr.. Byrnes left
the way clear for a final decision by
Gen. Marshall.
The announcement today said the
Secretary, undersecretaries, counse-
lors, assistant secretaries, geographic
and political offices and administra-
tive units necessary to a central
operation will be involved In the
move.
The departments four economic
Offices and its library will remain In
the old State Building at Pennsyl.
vania avenue and Seventeenth street
NV. Remaining space in the ole
building will be taken over by the
Budget Bureau, which now has some
offices there, and officials directly
connected with White House execu-
tive Offices.
Other Buildings to Be Used.
Officials said some units are ex-
pected to begin moving this month
but that the main part of the trans
fer will take place between March
IS and April Is. Secretary Marshall
will be in Moscow for the Big Foul
Foreign Ministers Conference, open.
ing March 10, while his Office is be.
ing moved.
The announcement today said
other buildings in the area of Vir-
ginia avenue and Twenty-first street
NV. will house some important seq
ments of the State Department TO,
which there will not be space in
the central building. These include
the Office of Fol eign Service, Office
of Controls, Office of Special Politi-
cal Affairs and the intelligence
Offices.
The Passport Division will remain
in the Winder Building at Seven
teenth and F streets NV. Some
administrative divisions will remain
in the Walker johnson Building at
1734 New York avenue NV. The
Division of International Confer
ences and international Information
and Public Affairs Offices will be
housed at 1778 Pennsylvania avenue
NV.
Evening star., 1947-02-05
Six Teen-Age Girls Flee
National Training School

Six teen-aged inmates of the Ma
Jional Training School for Girls,
52O1 Loughboro road NV, escaped
from their dormitory shortly after
$3.50 o'clock last night, police re-
ported today.
The girls, all colored, had all been
committed for minor offenses. Po-
lice said they made their escape by
breaking through a boarded up rear
door. When they got away, authori-
ties said. the six were wearing their
blue institution uniforms.
Evening star., 1947-02-05

A cold wave that struck swift
ly yesterday sent the tempera-
ture down to 7 degrees at 6 am.
here today contributed to the
traffic death of Maryland
woman and endangered an
Alden place NE. family last
night when they were driven out
of their home by fire.
Freezing tie m p eratures that
dropped 23 degrees from 4 pm. yes
terday until after daylight, were be-
lieved responsible for cutting of
the water supply in Fairfax this
morning.
There were unofficial reports of a
low temperature of degrees above
zero. at Silver Spring, Md, this
morning, and temperatures as low as
5 degrees in Bethesda and Alexan-
dria. The Weather Bureau said
readings on official thermometers
showed the following low tempera-
lures for other suburbs: Rock Greek
Forest, Md, degrees; Greenway
Downs, Va, degrees; Bancroft, 5
degrees; Annandale, 3 degrees.
The 7 degrees recorded here at
Is and 7 am. was the lowest this
winter. Yesterday at am. it was AZ
degrees. The previous low was IL de-
grees January %, but the low record
for February 5 was two degrees be-
low zero in 1890. the Weather Bu-
reau reported.
Today's minimum temperature
was the lowest, however, since Feb
ruary IS, 1943, when the mercury
also dropped to z above zero.
Fair and continued cold Is in
prospect for today, with maximum
of % degrees expected this after
noon and a minimum of 10 degrees
tonight. The forecast for tomorrow
is 'fair but no so cold"
Official temperatures since mid
night were IL degrees at midnight,
10 degrees at l am, 8 degrees at 2
and 3 am, 8 degrees at 4 and 5
am, Z degrees at 6 and Z am, and
8 degrees at am.
Minor Accidents Here.
Despite snonw squalls and high
winds which at times reached a
35 mile an hour velocity and coated
streets with icy patches, only eight
minor accidents occurred in WASH
ington last night and early today.
Traffic was unusually light be-
cause of the cold.
The cold weather was as hard on
mechanical equipment as it was on
human beings.
Hundreds of automobiles were
stranded with frozen radiators.
Garage and filling station operators
1See WEATHER. Page A-4.)
Evening star., 1947-02-05
Six Major Generals,
.18 Brigadiers Named
To Permanent Rank
20 Other Nominations
For Temporary Grades
Are Sent to Senate

In changes involving IS gen.
eral officers of the Army, Presi-
dent Truman today nominated
six for the permanent rank OF
major general and 18 for the
permanent rank of brigadier
general. These "a now hold
equal or greater temporary rank.
The nominations, which went to
the Senate, also provided for the
elevation of five men to be tempo
rary major generals and Is to be
temporary brigadier generals. Other
nominations included changes in the
status of SO National Guard officers
and these assignments:
Brig. Gen. James Kirk to hold per-
manent rank for four years as as
sistant chief of ordnance; Brig. Gen.
William Herschel Middleswart to
hold permanent rank for four years
as assistant to the quartermaster
general, and Brig. Gen. Spencer Ball
Akin to rank as major general for
four years as chief signal officer.
These officers now have temporary
rank.
Those officers named to be per-
manent major generals are 1t. Gems.
John Clifford Hodges Lee, Oscar
Wolverton GriSWold, Leonard Town
send Gerow, Charles Philip Hall and
Maj. Gems. Clarence Self Ridley and
James Eugene Chaney.
Named for brigadier generals
were: Maj. Gems. George Fleming
Moore, William Henry Harrison
Morris, Walter Melville Robertson,
Archibald Vincent Arnold, Julius
Wallace Jones, Louis Aleck Craig,
Frank William Milburn, George
Jacob Richards, Charles Wolcott
Ryder, Stafford LIE Roy Irwin, John
William Leonard, Idwal Hubert Ed
wards, Grandson Gardner, Charles
Carl Chauncey, Edward Michael
Powers, Kenneth Bonner Wolfe, AL
fred Maximflian Gruenther and
Brig. Gen. Franklin Otis Carroll.
The five men named to be tenn
porary major generals are:
Brig. Gems. Orval Ray Cook, En-
NETT ODonnel, Malcolm Cum
mings Grow, Edwin William Rail-
ings and William Henry Draper.
| The Is named to be temporary
brigadier generals are:
Coils. Eugene Martin Foster,
George Warren .Mundy, Donald
Leander Putt, william Maurice
Morgan, Samuel Robert Brentnall,
Donald Horton Yates, George Craig
Stewart, Hubert Don Hoover, Ernest
Marion Brannon, Edwin Kennedy
Wright, Turner Ashby Sims, Eustace
Maduro Piexotto, Bryant LIE Marie
Boatner, James Mccormack, jr., and
Earle Levan johnson.
The President named 10 National
Guard major generals and "a brig
adler generals to be officers of the
line and four National Guard brig
adler generals for assignment in the
adjutant generals department.
Evening star., 1947-02-05
Moro Outlaws Bottle
Philippine Police
BY the Associoted Press

MANILA, Feb. 5.-Fighting be-
tween Philippine military police and
Moro outlaws broke out Sunday
about z miles west of Jolo Town
in the Sulu Archipelago, reports
reaching the Interior Department
said today.
These accounts said the Moros
were dispersed into the hills. An
estimated 5000 Moro outlaws rove
the So-called Jolo badlandS,
Evening star., 1947-02-05
Bates Considers Bill
For Joint Committee
On District Affairs
House Member Gets
Druft and Alternate
Proposal From West

Representative Bates, Repub-
lican, of Massachusetts, today
was considering introduction OF
a bill providing for the estab-
liShment of a joint House and
Senate Committee on District
Affairs.
He received the draft from Cor
poration Counsel Vernon E. West
whom he had asked to prepare such
a bill. If adopted, it. would merge
the House and Senate District Com
mittees into a single body which
would act on all District Legislation
and submit its reports to both the
House and the Senate.
Mr.. West also forwarded a sug-
gested alternative measure which
would leave the two committees as
separate entities, as at present, but
would direct them to consider
jointly, and hold joint hearings on
District measures.
The alternative, however, would
leave the House District committee
men and the Senate committeeman
free as at present to submit their
reports to their own houses.
Mr.. Bates, second ranking Repub-
lican on the House District Com
mittee, said he would study the re-
port and measures drafted by Mr.
West before deciding what he might
put before the House.
Mr.. Bates took leading part in
setting up the, current arrangement
with the Senate District Committee
for holding joint hearings on all
important District bills.
He is chairman of the fiscal sub
committee of the House group
which will hold joint hearings with
a similar Senate subcommittee on
the Districts big new tax bill, soon
to be forwarded to Congress.
Evening star., 1947-02-05
Churchill Kked
By Labor Tounts
| At His Cigars
By the Assoeioted Press

LONDON, Feb. 5. - Winston
Churchill took it as a personal ref
erence to his cigars yesterday when
the House of Commons engaged in
some sharp debate on Conservative
demands for reductions in the out
lay of dollar resources for Amer
lcat movies and tobacco.
II would indeed be great con-
venitace to the balancing of our
ACCOUNTS and to the rate of ex-
pendfure of the tAmerican loan if
large numbers Of the population did
not desire to consume tobacco" said
Hugh Dalton, Chancellor of the
ExeheQaer.
To this Mr.. Churchill rejoined,
II have the utmost contempt for
your taunts."