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The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-05-10

Empires fer the games were Red Shaw, Bill Forsythe and c. Lowe.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-05-10
FROM HOoNAH

Albert Schwandt of Hoonah i at the Hotel Juneau.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-05-10
Ap SPORTS
 ROUNDUP

By HUGH FULLERTON, JR.
Evening star., 1948-07-28
DR.. Clair Christman
Gets Arlington Post

The Arlington County School
Board last night voted to hire DR..
Clair A. Christman, assistant Mont
gomery County Md health officer,
as director Of the Arlington School
Health Department.
DR.. ChriStman, who will assume
her duties next week, will receive
$500 a year, plus $500 for travel ex-
penses. She succeeds DR.. Paul w.
Bowden, who resigned recently to
60 with the Richmond (Va.) Health
Department.
The School Board, meeting at the
James Monroe School, had to move
to the home OF Chairman Barnard
Joy. who was absent because OF q
throat ailment, to break a % vote
on the proposal to employ DR..
Christman. The final vote was 81,
with Curtis Tuthill, who first had
voted nay. abstaining. Colin C.
MACPHERSON cast the negative vote.
A contract for furnishing lockers
at the Dolly Madison Junior High
School was awarded to the Flowers
School Equipment Co., Richmond,
which had submitted a low bid of
s8,735. Certified Builders, WASH
ington, was awarded a contract for
sl,7S7 to refinish the small audito-
rum at Washington-Lee High
School and the Acme Iron Works.
Silver Spring, was given the job of
installing two fire escapes at the
Robert E. Lee Elementary School
for BATS.
Evening star., 1948-07-28
Alexandra Mayor Is Denied
Authority to Shoot SturIinqs

Alexandria City Manager Mich
olas Colsssnto is open to sugges-
tions on the startling problem. The
City Council gave him absolutely no
help last night when he sought per-
mission to shoot them
The Council left the matter of
violating the firearms ordinance up
to Mr.. Colasanto.
The only help came from City
Attorney Joseph Pancoast. who sug-
gested employing a few owls to
scare away the starlings. That
wouldn't do, replied Mr.. Colasanto
because he already has received
complaints regarding screeching
owls not employed by the city.
Mr.. ColaSanto said some one had
suggested firing rice and dried peas
at the Starlings and he may be
forced to try even that-presumabl
Nwith a slingshot He pointed out
that some residents had flung apples
at the birds but that apples turned
out to be one of their favorite
fruits and they're waiting around
for more.
Any one having suggestions on
how the city manager can attack
Evening star., 1948-07-28
Baby Dies in Fall Into Pail
|. Of GARBAGE Used for Hoqs

Ambrose Howard Lewis, 13.
month-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Am.
brose Lewis, was killed yesterday
when he fell into a pal, of garbage
for hogs on his parents farm neal
Upper Marlboro, Md.
DR.. James I. Boyd. deputy medical
examiner for Prince Georges
County, issued a certificate of acci.
dental death from suffocation.
The child was playing on the
back porch of his home on the
Largo road. two miles from Upper
Marlboro, when he fell into the pail
c.. Earle Wyvill of the Upper
Marlboro volunteer fire department
said the child was brought to the
firehouse by his grandmother, Mrs.
Ada Sweeney, who had hailed a
passing automobile after several had
passed her by. Firemen used a re-
suscitator for. about As minutes be-
fore DR.. James G. Sasscer of Upper
Marlboro pronounced him dead.
Besides his parents and grand
mother. the baby is survived by a
half brother. Richard Binger. 4,
and a half-sister, Bessie May Bin
ger. 3.
Funeral services are scheduled
for tomorrow at the Lewis home
Burial will take place in the Trim
ity Episcopal Church Cemetery, Up
per Marlboro.
Evening star., 1948-07-28
Chevy Chase Library
Soon 10 Start Shift
To f. Y. Brown School

The Chevy Chase Branch of the
District Public Library. will close
its doors at 1915 Livingston street
NV. at the end of this week and re-
open August 16 in its new location
at the E. V. Brown School Building.
The branch ends its service at
the Livingston street address at
noon Saturday. 1t will be open in
the school building. Connecticut
avenue and Mckinley street, begin
ming August 16 from 9 am. to 9
pm. Mondays through Fridays, and
from am. to l pm. Saturdays.
Operation of the library will be
the first activity to get under way
at the old school in its new use as
combined library branch and
recreation center-the Chevy Chase
Community Center.
Chevy Chase residents have been
working for two years to get COM
munity center for their neighbor-
hood.
Sam Wigger, chairman of the
Chevy Chase Community Council
which is leading a Embarrassing
campaign to help equip the new.
center, reported today that 80 per
cent of the4 $4,000 goal had been
attained.
Mr.. Wigger said about two-thirds
of the money already had been ear
marked for various items needed
at the center. When finished and
equipped, the building promises to
be a spacious and attractive meet
ing place for community activities,
he said.
Formal dedication ceremonies are
contemplated in the fall.
Evening star., 1948-07-28
Maryland Dean 10 Make
Latin American Tour

A good will tour of Latin America
will be made at the invitation OF
the State Department by Dean S. S
Steinberg of the College of En-
gineering, University of Maryland
starting August 8. He will return
to the university about October IS.
Dean Steinberg will survey en-
gineering education. arrange for ex.
change instructors and seek a wider
interchange OF engineering anc
technical publications.
The dean will visit Guatemala
Honduras; Ell Salvador, Nicaragua
Bolivia, Paraguay: the Dominican
Republic and Haiti He visited Il
Latin American nations in 1945 or
similar mission.
Dean Steinberg is president of the
Engineering College Administrative
Council of the American Society fol
Engineering Education and will rep
resent that group, as well as other
national engineering societies on his
trip
Evening star., 1948-07-28
Coroner Opens Probe in Death
.OfBoy1 A. Crushed by TurnstiIe

Funeral services were being ar
ranged today for John Caruso. jr.,
4, as the coroner's Office began an
investigation into the accident
which caused the child's death at
the Anacostia swimming pool yes
terday.
The boy, taken to the pool in
Falrlawn Park by his mother, died
at Providence Hospital soon after a
250-pound turnstile at the pool top
pied over and crushed his chest. He
was the son of Mr.. and Mrs. John
Caruso, 1924 Twenty-second street
Sc.
Police said the boy was playing
around the unused turnstile while
his mother, Mrs. Marie Caruso, was
buying swimming tickets. Her back
was turned, they said, and her first
warning was when her son
screamed.
Kermit Stewart, manager of the
pool and football coach at Ana
costa High School. said he was told
the boy dropped his shoes behind
the turnstile. John apparently at
tempted to climb over the turnstile
to retrieve them, when it toppled
forward on him.
Mr.. Stewart said he was told
Evening star., 1948-07-28
ey the Assoeiofed Press

CHINCOTEAGUE. Va, July 28.-
The wild ponies that roam the salt
marshes of Assateague Island were
rounded UP at daylight today pre-
paratory to their swim to this little
island for tomorrow's annual pony
penning day.
The stunted little critters. some
only several weeks old, will swim the
1000 yards of water separating the
two islands later today. Arriving on
Chincoteague, they will be herded
into corrals and the carnival grounds
of the Chincoteague Volunteer Fire
Department, where they will be
sold tomorrow.
other ponies living on the lower
end of Chincoteague will be rounded
I'D early tomorrow and will be
penned with those from Assateasue.
Stations and brood mares will be
returned later to their marshes to
perpetuate the breed.
Eda L. Jones, chief OF the fire
department and chairman Of the
carnival, estimated that more than
10000 persons will be here tomor-
row.. He said between 400 and 3oo
Evening star., 1948-07-28
Silver Spring Youth Held
For Grand Jury in I Thefts

A 15-year-old Silver Spring youth
waived preliminary hearing yester-
day in Silver Spring Police Court
on housebreaking and larceny
charges and was ordered held for
the grand jury under $1,000 bond.
The youth. identified by police as
Charles Hughes. is accused of break
ing into Silver Spring bakery July
Is and taking $40 and quantity of
buns and cakes
He also was charged with steal
ing an automobile the same day
from a Takoma Park resident.
Police said the youth escaped July
IL from the Maryland Tarining
School for Boys in Loeb Raven. He
was picked up in the stolen car
July 10 near Fredericksburg, Va.
Juvenile Court authorities said
they had waived jurisdiction over
/ the case,
Evening star., 1948-07-28
Three Judges 10 Hear
Capital Transit Suit
On Joint Bus Fares

District Court Justice Alexander
Holtzoff has called on two other
jurists to sit with him at 10 am
Monday as a three Judge court to
hear the Capital Transit Co s suit
fighting joint bus fares for COM
muters between Washington and
Virginia
:. On petition of the transit COM
pany, Justice Holtzoff yesterday
asked Justice Wilbur X. Miller OF
the United States Court of Appeals
and Justice Edward A. Tamm OF
District Court to sit with him in
the case
The case will be the first in which
Justice Tamm sits as a District
Court judge. He is on the bench
by recess appointment Of President
Truman.
The transit company seeks to have
the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion's order for joint fares declared
void. 1t asks that, meanwhile, the
order be stayed temporarily.
The company finds itself caught
between the ICC order and one last
week by the Public Utilities Commis.
sion ordering it to cease honorint
the joint fare tickets.
Justice Holtzoff on Monday re.
fused to issue an order against th'
ICC as the result of an earlier sui
but said he would issue one agains
the PUG, if the transit compan,
asked for it. The company decide,
not to ask this and filed a nev
petition.
The transit concern would b
liable to penalties for failure to ODE,
either the ICC or the PUG unde
/ the two orders.
Evening star., 1948-07-28
I24-Cent Fare Boost
Granted A.B.&W.L Line
For Six-Month Trial

Fare increases averaging 21z cents
on interstate routes of the Alexan-
dria, Bancroft g. Washington Transit
Co. were approved yesterday on a
six-months' trial basis starting Au-
gust 16.
Approval was given by Interstate
Commerce Commission Examiner
Henry Lawton. who conducted hear
ings into the proposed fare increases
last spring. Mr.. Lawton suggested
the new fares be permitted for a
trial period to determine their rela-
ton to income from intrastate fares,
which the company also is seeking
to increase. Hearings on the intra-
state fares begin today before the
Virginia State Corporation Com
mission in Richmond.
The new interstate fares will be-
come effective unless exceptions are
filed either by A.. B. & w. or by any
one who originally opposed the in
creases.
The increases do not affect fares
bCtWCCi washington anu llCdl Wy
Virginia Government installations
including the Pentagon. the Navy
Annex and the Nationail Airport
A contest over the fare on these
routes is to be aired before a three
judge tribunal.
The increases approved by Mr.
Lawton yesterday will change the
present 10 cent interstate fare to
a IS cent cash fare or 1872 cent
token fare. The sale of 1917 cent
tokens in the present IS cent cash
fare zones will be abolished ano
the cash fare only used. An in
crease also is provided on the
Annandale route.
Most opponents of the fare in.
creases who appeared at the hear.
ings were residents Of the Park.
fairfax darlington area. The Ar.
lington Public Utilities Commis.
sion also opposed the increases.
The bus company produced flnan.
cial records at the hearing to show
it was operating in the red. 1t wa.
emphasized that the fare increase
was the first sought by the company
IN nearly decade, while most othel
Gus companies in the Washington
Area had asked increases in recent
years due to rising costs of opera.
ton and higher salaries
Evening star., 1948-07-28
Annual Wild Pony Roundup Due
At Chincoteuque tomorrow

ponies would be herded to Chinco-
league and about 100 Of these would
be sold. There will be no auction
Sales will be private. And Mr.
Jones estimated prices would run
from $40 to 5000. depending on size,
color and age OF the animals.
Most persistent of the legends OF
the ponies origin is the one that
their ancestors swan ashore from
wrecked Spanish galleon. Mrs.
Victoria Pruitt, whose family has
lived on Chincoteague since early
In the 18th century, says there have
been pony roundups here for more
than 200 years.
In addition to the sale Of the
ponies, tomorrows events. which will
climax the annual firemen's car
nival. will include pony races. wild
pony rides with prizes to the riders
staying on longest, fire-fighting
demonstration by the volunteers,
and an aerial show by squadron
of planes from the nearby Chin
colleague Naval Air Station.
Most Of the ponies are owned by
the fire department. The other
large owner Is Clarence Beebe.
Evening star., 1948-07-28

the problem should call his Office
at Alexandria 0l54.
In more serious vein the Council
denied a request of Mr.. Colasanto
that the city be permitted to make
purchases from any person, even a
City Council member Councilman
Paul L. Delaney declared that city
purchases from a member of Council
would violate State and city codes
Mr Colasanto said he was able tc
purchase cement from one firm &c
cents cheaper per bag than from
any other. When asked after the
meeting where the city purchases
cement, he named the w. A. Smoot
Co. Albert A. Smoot, head of that
firm, takes Office as a city council
man in September.
The Council deferred acting on g
request to rezons five acres of LAND
on Cameron Mills road near Ten
nessee avenue until special COM
mittee studying rezoning procedure
makes report.
The rezoning. which is sought BY
the Alexandria Housing Corp.
would permit apartments. The
planning commission recommended
that the request be denied.
Evening star., 1948-07-28
Montgomery Board
To Be Defendant in
Charter Court Test

The Board of Montgomery
County Commissioners has agreed
to become a defendant in suit
which challenges the legality Of a
proposed charter form of county
government which voters will &C
cept or reject in November.
After a commissioners meeting
Yesterday, Board President Brooke
Johns said the move was decided
on so that if any revlSionS are
necessary before the referendum in
November, the altered charter may
be legally advertised in sufficient
time
About three weeks ago Judges
Stedman Prescott and Charles w.
Woodward, in ruling on demurrer
to a suit, held one feature of the
proposed charter violates the State
constitution. The court said appro-
priation of funds constitutes legis-
lative action and must be made in
May instead of in executive ses-
SION in June as proposed.
Should Be Put to Vote.
They did not pass final Judge
ment, however, on the suit of Hubert
A. Schneider, Bethesda and Wash
ineton attorney, which seeks an in
junction to prevent a referendum
on the charter. The judges indi-
Gated, in ruling on the demurrer,
that voters should have an oppor-
tunity to act if the offending pro-
vision is removed.
Mr.. Johns said the board had
been told the judges wished to issue
certain instructions to the county
government in the final decree and
that the commissioners would volun-
tarily become defendants in the
suit so that the court could take
Jurisdiction over them in the case
May Re-advertize.
Mr.. Johns said he felt the in
structions might be of such nature
that the board would be required
to re-advertize the charter in a
modified form-probably covering
the objections raised in the de-
murrer ruling-before November.
F. Barnard Welsh. attorney to the
board. said he planned to file neces-
sary papers within few days. De-
PENDANTS in the injunction suit are
the Charter Committee and Charter
Board leaders of efforts to replace
the present flve-member Board of
County Commissioners with a seven
member county council. and the
County Board of Election Super
visors, which has jurisdiction of the
ha llOtS
Evening star., 1948-07-28
Test Case Due
On Montgomery
zoning Rules !.
Tokomu Park Man
To Be Sued Following
PIeo by Residents

The Montgomery County Com.
missioners yesterday authorized
their attorney. F, Barnard Welsh, to
file suit against Takoma Park
resident for allegedly violating
zoning regulations.
The action was the first of its kind
taken by the county heads after a
conference with Maryland National
Capital Park and Planning Com
mission officials two weeks ago to
Cevise methods Of enforcing zoning
regulations.
1t followed receipt of letter from
a group of Takoma Park residents
charging William D. Taylor. 900
Greenwood avenue, with building
several apartments in his house,
which they said is located in q
residential A zone.
The residents said Mr.. Taylors
petition to rezone his property from
residential A to B, which permits
tWo-family use. was denied by the
commissioners several months ago.
Denies Charge.
Mr.. Taylor today denied the
charge that he had converted his
home into apartments. He said he
is renting several rooms in his
house.
In other business, the board Is
sued a new permit to Blake D.
MerSon to operate dump near
Rockville without the necessity of
having sanitary fill there.
Earlier, the commissioners re-
ceived letter from John r. Reeves
stating that his law firm had been
retained by Mr.. and Mrs. Anders
r. Lofstand and A. Guide Sons Co.
to seek court action to prohibit Mr..
Merson from operating the dump.
Mr. Reeves said he was writing
the letter to give the county heads
an opportunity to revoke Mr.. Mer-
sons permit because of his failure
to operate sanitary fill at the
dump, as required in the permit.
After hearing on a petition to
improve Dahlonega road from the
end of the existing pavement to
WiScasSet road, Glen Echo Heights,
the commissioners ordered extension
of the proposed resurfacing to Wal
honding road. The project, which
will include concrete curbs and gut
ters, will cost about $4,000, accord
ing to County Engineer Blanton 8.
Barnett.
Sewage Bonds Denied.
A delegation representing the
Lincoln Park Citizens Association
was told the commissioners have
decided not to issue any bonds this
year for extension of sewage facil-
tiles to the colored community To-
Gated just outside Rockville.
County Supervisor Irving G. Nc
Nayr said the board plans to issue
S3,000.000 in bonds for school con-
struction next month and could not
sell any more bonds without special
legislation
f. N. E. Pennington. chief sanitary
inspector of the County Health De-
partment, reported on a complaint
by Mrs. Eleanor Howe of Olney that
sewage overf1owing from the septic
tank of the Montgomery County
General Hospital empties into a
stream which passes her property
and contaminates her wells.
Mr.. Pennington said he had
tested the stream and that in his
opinion it did not contaminate Mrs.
HoWe's water supply.
Evening star., 1948-07-28
Bar Liquor
To Virginia Beach Clubs
By the Associoted Press

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. July 28.-
Temporary injunctions have been
entered against six of the eight Vir-
ginia Beach and Princess Anne
County clubs which figured in spec
tacular liquor and gambling raids
last June II by State enforcement
officers.
The punitive action, which re-
strains the ablishments from
dealing in ardent spirits in any form,
was brought by Commonwealth
Attorney Paul w. Ackiss, jr., on the
complaint of c. w. Saunders, jr., of
Richmond, director Of the State ABC
Boards Enforcement Division.
Judge Floyd E. Kellam of the
Princess Anne County Circuit Court,
who ordered the injunctions to be
entered several days ago, made them
effective until October 4, unless
sooner enlarged or dissolved.
Evening star., 1948-07-28
SturMovies

Community movies. sponsored by
The Star in cooperation with the
Recreation Department and The
Film Center, are scheduled for 9
pm. today Programs of comedy.
sports, cartoons and travel shorts
will be shown at the following play
grounds and recreation centers.
lakewood, Third and Eysrts streets NE.
LfFingstGn, Third and Livingston streets
Palisades Dana and Sherrier places NV,
Sherwood. Tenth and @ streets NE.
aakona, Fourth and Van Buren streets
NV.
virginia Avenue, Ninth street and vir.
zinia avenue Sc.
Bundy. Fourth and o streets NV
NJ. 'H' A"0'' anu A''oA" '"'s'
Lincoln. Sixth and L streets Sc
Rese Park. Twenty-seyenth and o
streets n w.
Evening star., 1948-07-28

afterWard by a pool employe the
turnstile had been loose from its
moorings for about a week but he
was not aware of it until after the
tragedy. The pool is operated BY
Government Services, Inc.
Louis Groot. 10, of 1890 Burns
street Sc. former Anacostia High
School football player and a locker
boy at the pool, lifted the heavy
turnStile from the boys chest.
The injured child was taken tc
the hospital by Park Police Pvt
P. M. Kimbsll.
Mr.. Caruso, the boys father, was
a patient at the hospital, recover
ing from an operation. He was dis
charged after the tragedy.
Dr.. A. Magruder Macdonald was
to perform an autopsy today He
said he was undecided as to whether
an inquest would be held
Funeral services will be held Fri
day at st. Francis Xavier's Catholic
Church. Twenty-eighth street and
Pennsylvania avenue Sc. Further
arrangements have not been COM
pleted
Surviving in addition to his par
ents are brother. Vincent. l3, and
his paternal grandparents. Mr.. and
Mrs. Vincent Caruso. New York City
Evening star., 1948-07-28
Newsmen Preview Farm
500 Will Build in Doy
By the Associated Pres.

FREDERICK, Md, July 28.-Ap-
proximately so newspaparmen are
wandering over Mrs. Nellie Trash
er's farm near Jefferson. Md, to-
day getting preview of what will
happen when 500 workers turn loose
one day next month to accomplish
what would take the owner four to
five years.
The event will feature Maryland
Conservation Field day August Is.
The work includes erection of a
barn. strip-cropping rs acres. treat
ing Is acres Of pastureland and re-
fencing the 175-acre farm.
Evening star., 1948-07-28
Maryland Sales Tax
Crosses S23,692,016
BY the Associuted Press

BALTIMORE, July 28-Maryland
crossed $23,692,016 from the 2 pei
cent retail sales tax during its first
II months of operation.
That means that each Marylandel
Paid an average of $1157 in sales
during the period ended May 81. q
report from the office of the State
controller showed today.
Included in the total was $50, 6,773
representing 81 license fees from
the merchants of the State, who are
responsible for collecting the levy
and turning in receipts.
Department store sales accounted
for S3.217,376-or 1856 per cent OF
the total.
Liquors. taverns and night clubs
accounted for S2.009,67l or $50 pei
cent of the grand total.
Following, in order, were restau-
rants and lunchrooms, $3.50, ,566
7l5 per cent; lumber ard building
materials sales, 81 ,37O.9Oa, and light
and power companies, $l,340 495.
Carnivals, fairs and exhibitors
turned in the smallest amount
S78096, Or less than .O1 per cent OF
the total.
Baltimore City produced 5667 pei
cent of the receipts, or $l4,098, ,l67
This averaged $l515 for each resi-
dent, the highest in the State. The
average per capita in the % counties
was $796.
Use taxes accounted for ,$3387I
and out-of- State sales taxes col
lected amounted to $646,961.
A breakdown by counties by sales
taxes collected, license, fees anG
amount of tax collected per capita
includes:
Montgomery. S928,e42; S1,744;
S814
Prince Georges, 1862 1926; s1808;
$3.50