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Evening star., 1948-02-01
8 Passengers Shaken Up
As Coal Truck Hits Bus

Eight passengers suffered minor
injuries or we're shaken up last
night when a CAPITAL Transit Co.
bus and a coal truck collided at
Delaware avenue and Canal street
S.W.. police reported.
One of the passengers. Clarence
Mitchell, Is. sailor attached to the
Naval Reserve Training Station a.
Anacostia. was taken to the Naval
Hospital, Bethesda, after treatment
at Providence Hospital for knee
injury.
Three other persons were taken to
Providence in police scout car and
four went to Gallinger Hospital in
an ambulance. according to the re-
port. All we're released after treat
ment or observation.
The bus, driven by Charles A.
Bryant, 20, of 225 Mississippi avenue
Sc. was struck by the truck as it
pulled away from bus stop at the
intersection, police stated. The bus
jumped the curb and crashed
tIIfOuSii al iEOil IciICc IlltO LIE HUN
yard of a house.
The truck. owned by the Griffith
Consumers Co.. was operated by
RAYMOND b. Dent, ~, colored of the
100 block OF Sixth street Sc. ac-
cording to police. They charged
him with falling to give full time
and attention to driving and passing
at an uncontrolled intersection.
Evening star., 1948-02-01
6. ". Suspends ) Students
On Textbook Fraud Charqe

Three students-two of them wal
veterans attending classes under the
CT Bill-have been suspended from
George Washington University fol
attempts to defraud the school, ii
was learned last night.
President Cloyd Heck Marvin
ordered the three suspended until
September l. 1949, after they signed
full confessions Friday mig h t.
spokesmen said.
The school refused to reveal
names of the students. contendine
that it would hurt their chances
of entering other schools. DR.
Marvin. they said, ordered the sus-
pension instead Of expelling the
students because the latter action
would have barred them from ever
returning
The violations involved efforts OF
the two veterans to get free text
books for the nonveteran student.
Former servicemen are entitled to
free books. paid for by the Govern
ment,
Evening star., 1948-02-01
Boy Potroimon
| WHGet Medal
| At White House

Tomorrow will be a big day IN
the life of joseph Levi Fisher, IL
year-old Washington schoolboy pa
trolman, VINO last October saved the
life of a fellow student by pulling
him from the path of an automobile.
At 3 pm, in the Oval Room Of
the White House. Miss Margaret
Truman will present him with the
American Automobile Associations
life-saving medal
The medal winner. student at
Whittier School, is the son OF Mr..
and Mrs. M. D. Fisher, TOT Somer-
set place NV. Pvt. John Ehlman.
school safety patrol officer for the
Sixth Precinct, made the original
recommendation for the award to
Tro fic Ine~nctor Arthur f. Miller.
George Ray Hammond, director
of safety and education for the
District AAA. will accompany
Joseph TO the White House for the
presentation.
Evening star., 1948-02-01
Truman Letter Regrets
Groner Retirement

The White House made public
late yesterday an exchange of cor
respondence between President Tru-
man and Chief Justice D. Lawrence
Groner of the United States Court
of Appeals for the District, re-
garding the latter's forthcoming
retirement. a...
Earlier, 1t was announced that
the nomination of Associate JUS
tice Harold M. Stephens to sue
ceed Chief Justice Groner. will be
sent to the Senate tomorrow.
In his letter to the retiring Chief
Justice, President Truman ex-
pressed deep regret and declared
Your going is loss not only to
the bench of the District of Co.
lumbia, but to our whole Federal
court system. I know that
I speak for both your colleagues on
the bench and for the people OF
the District of Columbia in thank
ing you for your long and eminent
service to the law and to the
general welfare"
Chief Justice Groner had cited
reasons of health in informing the
President of his decision to retire
Noting his 26 years Of continuous
judicial service, he stated: my
health makes it impossible for me
any longer to bear my fair share
of the work of the court. and ]
am sure you will agree that under
the circumstances, retirement is the
proper course"
Evening star., 1948-02-01
IHome Accidents
ICouse Death of
Is Adults in Week

Lce-covered steps and yards yes
tkrday we're blamed for most of the
falls that brought death to foul
and injured more than 20 others
i'd home accidents last week.
The District Red Cross Accident
Fevention Service reported thai
FIVE adults died last week from home
accidents and 68 others were treat
ed for injuries, including 27 falls
aburns. 13 cuts, bruises. foreign
bodies in ear, eye, nose. throat ano
stomach and 9 unclaSSified injuries
ssAn elderly woman died from car
bpn monoxide poisoning in fire al
her home. Three adults fell ir
bathtubs and young woman suf.
fSred throat irritation from inhal.
ing ammonia and clothes bleach
fumes while washing clothes.
"A 5-year-old girl was critically
burned while playing with candle.
s11d matches and her father suffered
burns on his hands while beating
out the flames. Skiing and sled
ding accounted for most of the in.
juries suffered by school-age young
sters.
Evening star., 1948-02-01
Traffic Order Ruor Causes Jam at District Building

jr. administrative assistant to
Engineer Commissioner Gordon R.
Young. "
Mr.. Stofberg and Mr.. Timmons
paced their Offices in the deserted
District Building. putting in tele-
phone calls. Mr.. Timmons finally
reached Mr.. EStep:
What court order?" Mr.. Estep
asked. Il haven't been served any
order"
Mr.. Timmons hurried to Mr.. Stof-
berg. After consultation, they
called Mai. Barrett again.
The police superintendent said he
had gotten in touch with build
ing inspector in the meantime.
The court order report was all a
misunderstanding.
Trafic, he added. already was
moving at the intersection.
Evening star., 1948-02-01
BY the Associoted Press

TURKEY POINT, Md. Jan. 81
The last woman lighthouse keeper
on Chesapeake Bay formally gave
up her job today because her feet
are tired and she wants to Just
rest"
Mrs. Fannie Salter, believed to be
the only qualified beacon attendant
of her sex in the Nation, is retir-
ing from a job she has held for %
years but she will never leave the
water.
Mrs. Salter, tender of the light at
the head of the bay on a tip OF
peninsula formed between the
Northeast and Elk Rivers. has been
on sick leave since last September.
Climbing the tower has given me
fallen arches" she explained.
Il haven't quite decided what
will do, but MI stay near the water.
I'll rest and catch up on long de
layed visits with relatives"
Mrs. Salters. who said she is in
her sixties, took control of the
Turkey Point tower February IL,
1925, under appointment by Presi-
dent Coolidge. She succeeded her
husband, who had been the keeper
for three years before his death.
The couple came to Turkey Point
from Hog Island Light at Broad
water. Va. and Mrs. Salter assisted
her husband in operation of the
beacon.
She was the third woman light
housekeeper at Turkey Point in the
ia years the light has been in op-
Grafton.
Mrs. SaIter is the mother of two
daughters and a son.
Evening star., 1948-02-01
Alexandra Optimists
To Hear TuIk Friday

Harold Hammond, assistant man.
ager of the transportation and COM
munication division of the United
States Chamber of Commerce, will
discuss the problem of street con-
gestion in urban areas at a meet
ing Friday sponsored by the Alex
andria Optimist Club.
Alexandria city officials, civic
leaders and businessmen have beer
invited to attend the session. which
will be held at noon in the Alex
andrian Room, 1925 Prince street.
Evening star., 1948-02-01
.S165,O0O or Nothing
is National Symphony
Campaign Situation

The crisis facing the National
Symphony Orchestra, which is
launching its 18th annual sustain
ing fund campaign Tuesday with
a goal of s165,000, has not been
exaggerated, Edward Burling, jr.,
drive chairman, declared yesterday
The drive to raise what is con-
sidered the minimum amount nee
essary to sustain the symphony be-
yond the current season begins
Tuesday with a luncheon for COM
mittee chairmen and volunteer
workers at the Mayflower Hotel.
The campaign will continue through
February 20.
While public solicitation will not
begin until Tuesday. contributions
may be sent now to campaign head
quarters, 1927 K street NV.
Future up to Residents.
Mr.. Burling asserted the future
of the orchestra now depends on
the decision of the Washington
people as to whether they are will
ing to assume their share, accord
ing to their means, In the response
bility of sustaining resident or
chestra here.
There is widespread feeling that
the National Symphony's Campaign
Committee Is kidding when it says
the orchestra will not continue un-
less the full drive goal of $165 900
is reached" Mr.. Burling said.
This, in spite of the fact that the
orchestras board of directors has
voted and publicly stated that If this
minimum. goal is not reached, all
contributions will be returned to the
donors and all pledge cards de-
stroyed," he said 1T must be
obvious that it would not be pos
sible to continue the orchestra
under such circumstances"
Campaign of Facts.
Mr.. Burling said while no scare
campaign to frighten the public
into contributing is planned, a
campaign of facts" is to be con-
Quoted.
After II years of growth and of
contributing to our community life,
the National Symphony finds itself
today in a more critical position
than it has known since its earliest
seasons" he said.
No symphony orchestra can pay
for itself at the box Office, MI.
Burling explained. However, the Ma
tional Symphony finds itself in a
peculiarly precarious position be-
cause, almost alone among the
leading symphonies, it is virtually
without endowment, without any
financial aid from the District or
National Government, without in
come from any source except from
ticket sales and from public con-
tributions TO the sustaining fund
He added that rising prices have
added to the operating expenses and
at the same time cut down on
tickot SaioS
Evening star., 1948-02-01
Silver Spring Boord
OF Trade to Meet

Brooke Johns, president Of tn,
Board of Montgomery County Com.
missioners; Oliver w. Youngblood
commissioner for the eastern sub
urban area and County Supervisor
Irving G. McNayr will be guests o
the Silver Spring Board of TRADE
at a dinner meeting at tbs pm
Wednesday.
Blair Lee III, trade board presi.
dent. will name committee chair
men and announce the appointment
of an executive secretary. TIL,
board will open an Office at 951
Ellsworth drive tomorrow.
Evening star., 1948-02-01
F.A Gray, Jr., Named Woman, lighikeeper
Assistant Farm Agent At Turkey Point Quits

Appointment of Francis A. Gray
jr., of Groom, Md, as Prince
Georges Countys first. assistant
county agent, was announced yes
terday by the University of Mary
land Extension Service.
Mr.. Gray, a graduate of the
university's college of agriculture
in 1943, will begin his duties to-
morrow as assistant to County
Agent P. E. Clark. Supervision OF
the All Club work in the county
will be his principal junction.
The new assistant comes to the
county after serving Is months in
a similar capacity in Hartford
County, Md. Mr.. NGray's father is
a minister in Accokeek, Md.
After his graduation from the
university, Mr.. Gray served in the
Army's armored forces in Europe
and was discharged as a captain In
June, 1916.
Much of his new work will be
spent in connection with tobacco
farming and the raising of live
stock by All Club members, ac-
cording to Mr.. Clark, who has been
county agent for 20 years.
Evening star., 1948-02-01
Italian Assembly Quits
After 19 Months of Life
By the Assee;atad Press

ROME, Jan. 81. - The Italian
Constituent Assembly adjourned to-
night after an existence of ls
months.
The assembly will not sit again
unless summoned for grave emer-
gency.
The deputies adopted an emblem
of peace and strength to replace
the emblem of the House of Savoy
closed up their desks and began
preparations for the national elec-
tions in April.
The new national emblem dis
plays wreath of oak and olive
representing strength and peace
and wheel in the background sig
nifying industry. In the center
there is a five-pointed star.
Evening star., 1948-02-01
End Of School Strike
Likely This Week
Under New Plan
The nearly 200 students who have

The nearly 200 students who have
remained out of classes m the dis
pute over the use of Blow and Webb
schools as annexes to Browne Junior
High may go back to school this
week as result of a new plan
worked out by the Board of Educa-
ton to give each pupil full-time
instruction in single building, it
was learned last night.
The Board of Education and
Supt Hobart M. Corning have ap-
proved the plan. All junior high
pupils in the affected area are as
sured of the new schedule as soon
as the new Richardson school is
ready for occupancy, possibly this
week.
While parents have not formally
indicated they will send their chill
dren back to school, Attorney
Charles H. Houston, who is acting
as their spokesman, said last night
that if the board action, as re-
ported to him, is carried out, he will
advise the parents to send the chill
dren back. "a
II Still Oppose Segregation. sa
He emphasized that the group was
not relenting in it's drive against
the segregated school system. but
said he would advise the step Ito
minimize the harm to the schildren's S
education" "'
The Browne Junior High School
Parent Teacher Association yester-
day announced it was against fur
ther penalizing" the children by
keeping them out of school as a
protest against the boards action in
making Blow and Webb schools
annexes TO Browne.
Mrs. Henry Grattan Doyle. presi-
dent of the Board of Education, said
that under the new plan II classes
of elementary school pupils will be
transferred from the Merritt ele-
mentary school, most of them to the
Richardson school. The rooms va
Gated will house 800 of the pupils
now in Browne.
Will Be Self Contained.
Blow and Webb schools will be
annexes to Browne
except for occasional assemblies at
Browne. A portion of the Thomas
elementary scholl will be continued
as a ,self-contained Junior high
school unit.
Thus. pupils of Browne Junior
High will be located in the Browne,
Blow, Webb, Merritt and Thomas
school buildings.
The squabble over the schools be-
gan December 3. Many parents have
been keeping their children out since
that time.
Evening star., 1948-02-01
By Hermon Schoden

Take it from the weather fore
caster (and he'll gladly give 1t to
YOU January had it's talking point
wherever cold conversation sput-
tered around hot fireside.
But those of you who classified
the last days of the late unlamented
month as the coldeSt series within
memory must confess either to
stunted memories or brief Washing
ton tenure.
It's true that the temperature
rose above 80 degrees only once the
last nine days of January. But does
anybody here remember, January
and February of 1939-40?
Maybe you just wanted to forget
it. For from December 26 to Janu-
ary 11-16 days-the mercury did
not stick its head above the freezing
zone. Then after four days of feeble
comeback, it lapsed into another
sub-freezing coma until February 4
"a run of 19 days.
If those aren't the longest streaks
VA GIiCy II lldNC W uO
until the Weather Bureau complies
more statistics.
Nine Colder Januarys.
But that doesn't dismiss January
l948,. as a comparative breath OF
spring. Matter of fact, it ranks No
10 among the coolest Janparys since
the bureau began collecting Janu-
arys in 1871.
The coldest of them all? Janu-
ary, 1918, when the average mean
was 23.7 degrees. That frigid spell
in 1910 registered a mean of 24.s
for the month. - f..
For month that bowed in with
above normal temperatures for the
first 13 days, January, 1948, has
nothing to be ashamed of. Finish
ing fast, it recorded snippy 299
mean average on the weather bu-
reau airport thermometer. And to
outdoor lovers, 299 can be plenty
mean.
The bottom nearly dropped out on
January 26 IS degrees) and again
yesterday (6 degrees. But on jan
uary l, 1881, a shivering observer
recorded IA below, one degree above
the all-time record set February IL,
1899.
Evening star., 1948-02-01

other necessary cleanup work done
within "a hours.
Unfortunately no instructions
were given the Police Department.
Becomes Slightly Garbled.
Meanwhile. however, word of Mr..
Davis request to Mr.. Papanicolas
travelled around. 1t reached Police
Supt. Robert J. Barrett. but In
slightly garbled form.
Maj. Barrett was disturbed. He
put in an urgent telephone cali to
Charles Stofberg, administrative
assistant to Commissioner John
Russell Young.
He told Mr.. Stofberg that a
representative of the Building In
spector's once had been served
with Municipal Court order direct
Evening star., 1948-02-01

him to show cause why the streets
had not been opened.
The order was issued. Maj. Bar
rett explained. at the request OF a
group of Ninth street merchants
who were complaining that partially
closing the streets was interfering
with business.
The court order was directed, he
said, to Oscar A. Estep, an assistant
building inspector.
Mr.. Stofberg also was disturbed.
He got in touch with Mr. Young.
Mr.. Young thought 1t best to
open the streets. but first it shall
be cleared through the Building
Inspectors Once.
Hasty Contact Made.
Mr.. Stofberg established hasty
contact with Francis l.. Timmons,
Evening star., 1948-02-01

Traffic is running in straight lines
again around the Empire Apartment
Building, but the District Govern
ment still is going around in circles.
Early yesterday afternoon the 900
block of Ninth street NV. and the
900 block of New York avenue NV,
were opened to two-way traffic for
the first time since collapse of the
apartment house last December Is.
Opening the streets to traffic
sounds simple enough. But 1t
wasn't.
Late Friday. Building Inspector
Robert Davis decided it was time
to open the streets. He asked Nick
Papanicolas, owner of the Empire
Building. to see to 1t that derbis was
removed from the sidewalks and
Evening star., 1948-02-01
Calls on Area Home!
For Income Survey
Start Tomorrow

The Census Bureau will start call
ing on Washington area families
tomorrow to gather facts for the
District and several Government
agencies on family incomes last
year.
In order to carry out the Rede-
velopment Act of 1945, the Com
missioners must determine the num-
ber of families at each income level
in the city.
In this connection, the House
Appropriations Committee Friday
eliminate funds that would have
enabled the District Land Rede-
velopment Agency to acquire land
for slum clearance.
Data to Show Limit.
The act limits public housing to
families whose income falls within
the lowest 20 per cent of income OF
all families, but the point separating
this group can only be arrived at
by obtaining data on all incomes,
the bureau explained.
The bureau, with the, approval
of the Commissioners, has taken in
the Metropolitan Area at the re-
quest of the Bureau of Labor Sta
tistics and the Housing and Home
Finance Agency.
The labor statistics bureau will
use the. informatio in connection
with a survey of family expenditures
which 1t also is conducting. The
housing agency will use the figures
to establish relationship between
family income and housing.
Placed On Confidential Basis.
Census takers will ask information
on amount of wages received from
private employers, Government SAL
aries, military pay and other
sources; also whether free meals
and rent-free quarters we're fur
nished as part of pay in 1947
The bureau promised that in
formation supplied will be used for
statistical purposes only and cannot
be used for taxation, regulation or
investigation.
Actually, only cross section of
families will be covered by the
survey. A number of families have
been scientifically selected to rep
resent all families in the area, the
bureau said
Evening star., 1948-02-01
Gen. Eisenhower 10 Speak
AT Press Club Luncheon

Gen. Eisenhower, retiring Army
Chief of Staff, will deliver his first
public address since taking himself
out Of the field for the Republican
presidential nomination when he
speaks at a National Press Club
luncheon at 1890 pm. Thursday.
1t will be the second of two ap-
pearances for the general during
the week. At pm. Wednesday. he
will be host to military attaches
and chiefs of foreign military mis-
Stons of recognized governments at
q reception at the officers mess at
Fort Lesley j. McNair.
@Gen. Bradley, who will succeed
Gen. Eisenhower as Chief of Staff
later this month, will attend both
events.
Evening star., 1948-02-01
Missing Georgia Student
Located in San DIEGO
Nv the kssncinfad Praxs

KANSAS CITY, Kas.. Jan. 81
Richard c. Atchley, 24-year- -old
honor student, who has been miss
ing from his classes at Georgia Tech
since last Sunday, called his parents
from San Diego tonight, his father
Eugene Atchley, reported.
The father said young Atchley,
object of a nation wide search, an
nounced he would 60 back to
Georgia Tech not later than Tues
day.
His son did not reveal why he
left Atlanta without telling his
plans, Mr.. Atchley said.
Evening star., 1948-02-01

woman, who was
burned January
2 4, die d / n
Emergency Hos
pital.
The dead, all
of whom were
believed to have
fallen f asleep
W h lie smoking
cigarettes, were:
Mrs. Mary M.
C or k e a n 40
Veteran Admin
| S t r a t / on en-
ploye of 2514
P a | m er street
S E. Mrs ElnriS
Evening star., 1948-02-01
Mothers
And Teachers to Meet

The Mothers and Teachers Club
of the Hyattsville elementary
schools will meet at 8 pm. Tuesday
at the Forty third Avenue School
Hyattsville. The program will in
clude an athletic demonstration by
seventh grade pupils.
A square dance will be given at 8
o m. Friday in the auditorium, with
proceeds to 90 to the school.
Evening star., 1948-02-01


Arabelle Dickerson, about 30, OF
2001 North Taft street, Arlington
and Mrs. Laura Stone, 80, of 124(
Eleventh street NV.
Mrs. Corkean was found burned
to death in her bedroom yesterday
afternoon after her daughter, Mis-.
Elizabeth Corkean, %, a registered
nurse, called flremen. Miss Cor.
kean said she had been asleep in &
rear room and was awakened by
smoke.
Saved by Cat at Door.
She ran from her bedroom t.
living room, she said, where sht
fell to the floor half-conscious.
Miss Corkean was saved from
death. firemen said, when the fam.
lily cat mewed at the door
Although she was nearly overcome
by smoke, the young woman sale
she crawled to the door and wa!
revived by the cold air.
Mrs. Corkean's husband, William
H. Corkean, a real estate man anc
storm window salesman, was absen
at the time He said later that HI
thought the fire must have startec
from a cigarette.
Mrs. Dickerson was discovered ir
the living room of her home yes.
terday morning to S/Sergt. Johr
Robinson. 80, who has a basement
apartment in the house
DR.. W. C.. Welburn, Arlington
County coroner, who issued a certif
icate of accidental death caused by
body burns and suffocation, ex-
pressed belief that Mrs. Dickerson
fell asleep in chair and set it aflre
with cigarette She had been
dead several hours when found
Funeral In Indiana.
Mrs. Dickerson, a divorce, was
identified by papers as the daughter
of Mrs. M. Davis, Evansville, Ind.
Her former husband was said to be
living in Roanoke, Va. Funeral
services for Mrs. Dickerson will be
held in Evansville.
Mrs. Stone was admitted to
Emergency Hospital in a critical
condition January "a after an &C
cident similar to the one in Airing
ton. Her husband, Charles Stone
told police that he was awakened
by the smell of smoke to find his
wife asleep in chair in the room
with her clothing aflre.
The three children, 9year-old
Maybelle Allen, 5-year-old Michel
McFerren and 3-year -old Marcella
Dawson. we're all injured in stove
accidents
Maybelle, who is colored, wa!
burned when her clothes caugh
fire as she walked too close to the
stove in her home, 1880 Walker Mil
road, District Heights. Md. Mem.
bers of the District Heights com
pany applied first aid. She wa!
taken to Gallinger Hospital.
Reaching Over Burner.
Michel McFerren of AIS Brandy.
wine street Sc. was burned wher
she reached over a lighted ga!
burner for a cracker box. Hel
father, Richard McFerren, beat ou
the flames which caught onto the
child's nightgown and burned hel
lower body severely. She was taker
to Children's Hospital.
Marcella Dawson suffered serious
burns when a gas stove f1ared out
as her father, Charles Dawson, 1885,
A street NE. attempted to light
1t, police reported She was taken
to Casualty Hospital