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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-09-22
New UCS Director Prepares
For Vigorous 40 Chest Drive
Details of Merger
To Be Set by Oct. |,
Arthur Kruse Says
By Harriet Griffiths

1t would be hard to find a buster
spot than that in which the newly
arrived executive director of Wash
ington's United Community Services
finds himself.
Arthur Kruse, however, was COM
pletely the unruff1ed executive when
interviewed between Interruptions at
his desk yesterday.
The 38-year-old teacher and well
fare worker from Akron, Ohio, is
getting acquainted with a new job,
completing the organization of UCS
and lending active support to the
Community Chest Federation fund
campaign for 1949
UCS is the central welfare organ
ization replacing the Community
Chest of Washington and the Coun-
Gil of Social Agencies 1t is the
Washington member of the Com
munity Chest Federation of this
area.
Now in Operation.
1.-THE stats of the Community
Chest and the Council already have
been turned over to actually
We are now under operation" Mr..
Kruse said. Most of the organiza-
tional details will be worked out by
October l.
The UCS will work closely with
the Chest Federation in the raising
of funds and in seeing that the
funds are properly used"
In UCS, Mr.. Kruse pointed out.
Washington adopted a broader base
of representation of community or
CARNATIONS engaged in health and
welfare work than any other COM
of comparable size.
1t includes hest-supported agen-
cies, voluntary agencies financed by
funds, and public, tax
agencies.
The point is" he said. that
health and welfare problems of the
community can be approached ef-
fectively on a total community basis.
Constant Study Needed.
The work of the public agencies
affects the work of the Chest agen-
cies and vice versa. We need to con-
slider the expenditure of funds for
one group of agencies in the light of
the work being done by all the
others in the same field of activity
For another thing, he went on,
"the basis of developing an adequate
and efficient health and welfare
program is constant study of COM
munity needs and agency services
to determine how we can more eff
GENTLY deal with the problems of
human welfare
Mr.. Kruse pointed out that UCS
will include six major sections, each
with staff personnel to do the job
of coordination and study for joint
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-09-22
II Autos Patronize
7 Fringe Parking Lots

Seventy-seven automobiles we're
parked yesterday on the two fringe
parking lots which were opened
Monday to serve the downtown area.
The District Motor Vehicle Park
ing Agency said 81 cars were parked
at the Municipal Center lot and Is
at the lot at Twenty-SiXth and E
streets NV. At the latter lot, how
ever, about 26 cars were parked in
adjacent areas where motorists may
park free.
The cars parked on the Municipal
Center lot carried more than 100
persons. About three-fourthS of them
took the shuttle bus downtown while
the rest walked. No count was made
of the passengers of the cars at the
other lot.
It is expected that patronage at
the lots will build up as people be-
come acquainted with their con-
venience.
The parking fee is minimum OF
Is cents for five hours. Five cents is
charged for each additional hour.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-09-22
Maryland U. Announces
Extension Glasses Here

The University of Maryland's De-
partment of Nursery School Educa-
ton has announced two extension
classes to be given here Wednes-
day and Thursday evenings.
A two-credit course, Play and
Play Materials" will be conducted
from 7::3O to $50 pm. every We'd
nesday, beginning tonight. The class
will be taught at the day care center,
314 D street Sc, by Miss Rosemary
Flannery.
On Thursday evening from 8 to
10 pm, beginning tomorrow, Be
havior Problems of Childhood and
Adolescence will be taught at 1925
H street NV. by DR.. Hanna Colin
of the Washington School of Psy-
chiatry.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-09-22
Cadets Lose Interest in Drilling
Because Western Always Wins

whats the use, Western High
School always wins is the general
answer of high school boys when
asked about the postwar drop in
enrollments in the cadet corps here,
Western has won first place each
year for the last seven years.
This falling off in enrolment has
brought a warning from the Army
that its support would be with
drawn from six schools. They are
Eastern, Coolidge. Roosevelt, Nc
Kinley, Bell and Chamberlain. All
are white schools. Enrolment in
the cadet corps of the colored high
schools has been constantly in
creasing.
At Coolidge High School it is
doubtful whether the Is boys nee
essary for the cadre of a corps will
be enrolled this year.
Carl Werntz, $40 Nicholson ave-
nue. NV. who has served two
years with the Coolidge Cadets,
said:
I'VE don't know if we're going to
have a corps this year. All the
kids I know are quitting and 1
don't know whether ! want to go
through it again"
Coolidge had so boys out for foot
ball yesterday, blocking and tackling
in the rain and mud in a scrimmage
game with Dewitt Prep. One of the
athletic instructors said:
I'VE thought this was going to
happen. OF course, if schools drop
out it will kill competitive drilling
in the schools that have full corps.
They will have no one to compete
with"
Norman CORN, 900 Madison street
NV, a Coolidge student, said
Who wants to stay two or three
hours after school two or three days
a week with some stripe happy kid
giving you orders"
Charles Aaronson, 7118 Ninth
street NV, another Coolidge stu
dent, said: =
Its a postwar DEVELOPMENT. The
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-09-22
Droftees' and Veterans Guide
BY Maj. Thomas M. Mol

tivities. Deferment for both ia
and C are for one year, at which
time deferred registrants will be re-
classified. It's perfectly possible that
they will be reclassified right back
into ia and c If their status
hasn't changed.
Glass III-A-Registrants deferred
because of dependents. A dependent,
say the regulations, is any of the
following: Wife, divorced wife, child,
parent, grandparent, brother or sis
ter whose support the registrant
has assumed in good faith
1t can also be any other person
under 10 years of age or any person,
no matter how old, who is "physic-
ally or mentally handicapped" and
who likewise is supported by the
registrant.
Not all these people have to be
dependents. The thing is that they
can be dependents if they are in
fact supported by the registrant.
Glass IV-A-All veterans who
rate exemption on account of their
war or nonwar service.
Also in this classification are all
sole surviving sons of families who
lost one Tor more) boys in the
armed forces of the United States
in line of duty. The law spe-
officially does not say during World
War IL" So if your only brother
died as a result of line-of duty dis
ease or injury in the Army back
in 1898 you'd be exempt from the
draft.
Glass Iv-B-Omcials deferred by
law.
Glass IV-C-Aliens who ask to
be relieved from service or who
are not acceptable to the armed
forces.
Glass IV-D-Ministers of religion
and men preparing for the ministry.
Glass IV-EConscientious OBJ
jectors not willing to go into the
service.
Class IV-F-Those who are
physically, mentally or morally I'M
at for service"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-09-22
Woman Found Hanged
Is Listed as Suicide

Coroner A. Magruder Macdonald
has issued suicide certificate in
the case of Mrs. Hazel Spencer. so.
who was found yesterday hanged
in her sisters home at 4347 Harri-
son street NV.
Mrs. Spencer, who is from Bel
laire, Ohio, was visiting her sister.
Mrs. Edna Pelkey She was found
by Mrs. Pelkey in the bathroom,
suspended from a door hinge by
the belt of her housecoat.
Police said Mrs. Spencer had been
undergoing treatment for nervous
disorder for some time.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-09-22
.87,549 Ex-Seryicemen
used Veterans Center
Here During 1947-48

The number of former servicemen
and women calling at the District
Veterans Service Center, 1400 Penn
sylvania avenue NV. totaled 87,549
during the year ended June 30, &C
cording to the annual report made
public today by Col. Waldron E.
Leonard, director of the center.
The center has a staff of 20 and
operated the last fiscal year on an
appropriation of $12l 400. It's budget
request this year is for Sl2l,500.
The center has legal, educational
and vocational consultants. Dur
ing the year, 20,633 veterans con-
ferred with the educational con-
sultant. The legal consultant has
1867 veterans on problems
ranging from family troubles to aid
in getting back money invested in
questionable business transactions,
particularly deposits on homes
where construction was delayed by
speculative builders.
One of the most frequently used
services is the photostat machine
in the center. Frequently more
than 200 papers a day are repro
duced by the machine. giving the
veterans a while-you-wait service,
according to Col. Leonard.
Whenever a former serviceman
applies for veterans benefit
whether it be a State bonus mine
States have passed bonus legisla-
tom, educational allowances, civil
service preferment. disqualification
ETC., copies of his service records
are called for.
The report says that 36058 vet
Grams applied for assistance in OBJ
tanning housing and that quarters
we're found for 8,458
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-09-22
| Pound Overrun;;
| Homes Sought
|For us Dogs

District Poundmaster Frank
Marks, overrun with more than 125
homeless dogs he either must sell or
destroy, today asked Washington
residents to help him find homes for
the canine waits.
Under the law, Mr.. Marks may
keep a dog 40 hours before Destroy
ing it.
But we stretch 1t a little when
We can" he added.
He could account for the great
number of dogs only by supposing
that either money is getting tigh.
or that anti-dog rules in Washing
ton apartments are forcing people
to get rid of their pets. u
A pound dog-and all of them are
friendly types, Mr.. Marks says
costs only 81, and a license Is an
additional 49, The pound, at South
Capitol and I streets. is open daily
from 8 am. to $3.50 pm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-09-22

planning. They include: Family and
child welfare, corrections, health
and hospitals, recreation group work,
neighborhood councils and miscel-
laneous.
One thing he feels isn't generally
understood is that the Chest agencies
are engaged principally in rehabili-
tation, since public agencies have
taken over more and more OF the
basic responsibility for economic
needs.
They are engaged in helping
people remain and become proouc-
tive-to accept responsibilities more
adequately" he said. Whether they
are working with handicapped per-
sons or parents who aren't properly
raising their children or training
youth, they're helping people to use
their capacities to the fullest.
Teamwork Necessary.
That's good business. to my point
of view. It's new to most people,
again. ~
Our basic program should be
increasingly pointed to preventing
the breakdown of individual and
family life, and where breakdown
occurs, to rehabilitating people"
He feels strongly that the over
all health and welfare program
Of the community is "the citizens
business"
In the last analysis" he pointed
out, you only have a program to
the extent to which the community
is willing to finance it.
The professional worker and the
citizen are a team in developing
an adequate community health and
welfare program. Each has his
place.
The professional should contrib
ute his technical knowledge to the
citizen. The citizen is like the stock
holder in a business. He may not
be an expert on the technical
aspects. but it's up to him to deter
mine whether the business is oper-
atinp SllcceSSfllllV
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-09-22

What's your draft classification
going to be? One of the following:
Glass Unavailable for military
service. That's where you'll be put
If you are not eligible for defer
ment. If you are without depen-
dents, not in school or college, not
in essential employment, not vet
eran. not a sole surviving son, not
an elected State or Federal official,
not a minister of religion, etc, etc,
you'll be IA.
And if you are IA and your
status does not change you can be
pretty sure of getting drafted.
Here's what Secretary of the Army
Kenneth Royal said about this.
IF a young man in this classif1-
cation 1-A) does not volunteer,
there is a strong chance that he
will pe drafted before next June"
Glass 1-A-O-Conscientious OBJ
jector available for noncombatant
military service. Into this class go
registrants who would be la ex-
cept for their opposition, by reason
of their religious training and be-
lief, ''to combatant training and
service in the armed forces"
Glass 1-C-Members of the armed
forces, and that includes the Coast
Guard, the Coast and Geodetic Sur
vey and the Public Health Service.
1t also includes members of re-
serve units on active duty exclusive
of training periods.
Glass 1-D-This is complicated.
Putting 1t oversimply, all men who
were in reserve units on June "a,
1913, and men taking military train
ing tROTC) go into I'D.
The Guide will carry full ex-
PLANTATION of this classification in a
future column.
Glass II-A-Registrants deferred
on account Of their jobs or on &C
count of their activity in specialized
studies and research medical.
scientific, etc.. Farmers are not
included here.
Glass II-C-Registrants deferred
on account Of their agricultural &C.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-09-22

fellows came back and said what a
lousy life the Army was. War has
led to a repugnance- against the
military life"
A group of boys at Roosevelt High
School, which had 70 in the Cadet
Corps last year, said their military
instructor, 1t. Paul Snearline, who
served in the Office of Strategic
Services during the war and is now
a Reserve officer and a teacher al
the school, is building the corps
and this year it may reach the loo
minimum demanded by the Army
for the use of its rifles.
But, the boys were all of the
opinion that competitive drill is
archaic
Charles Armentrout, 1912 Gallatin
street NV, said:
Its obsolete. They teach you to
stand with your feet forming a V
angle of 30 degrees. That's not i'm
portant. They ought to modenize 1t. y
Mickey Dom, 1900 Eighth street
NV, broke in with:
They ought to give us some
modern equipment, like those Link
trainers they use to teach pilots
Eddie Colbert, 5404 First place
NV, said:
1T doesn't hold any interest for
me, and I'm going in for a military
career. I expect to go to Annapolis,
but I'm not going in for this drill
stuff"
Frank Bailey, 438 Randolph street
NV, said:
i've been in the corps two years
and I've seen Western take the three
first places in two competitions,
What's the use?
Besides it doesn't get you any
thing. You have to go in the Army
anyway. GA great many of the boys
said that A friend of mine who
came back from boot camp recently
said the drill doesn't help you at all.
The real Army is an altogether
different training"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-09-22
New Cross1oWn Line
Authorized by PUG
Starting October "a

Another crosstown busline has
been authorized by the Public
Utilities Commission for North
Washington, beginning October
"a, when the Capital Transit Co.
will extend it's present Military
road crosstoWn line eastward
through Brookland to Ivy City.
The present Military road line
running from Wisconsin and West
ern avenues NV. eastward to the
Fourteenth street and Colorado ave-
nue. NV. termlnal-will be eX-
tended by way of Kennedy street,
Missouri avenue, North Capitol
street and Hawaii avenue into the
northeast section and then south
ward through Woodbridge to Six
teenth street NE, near West Vir-
ginia avenue.
Advantages Listed.
In ordering the extension yester-
day, the PUG said the new route
intersects all lines now serving the
northeast section north and west OF
Bladensburg road NE: establishes
communication between Woodbridge
and Ivy City, and will give service
from the areas served by the Mill
tary road line and the Bladensburg
road line by one transfer at Eigh-
teenth and Franklin streets NE.
Extension of the line long has been
advocated by the Hampshire Heights
and Manor Park Citizens Associa-
lions and the Keene-Rudolph Par
ent-Teacher Association. The Trini-
dad Citizens Association, similarly.
has sought extension of the Glover
Park Trinidad line from its Ivy City
terminal along Eighteenth street to
Rhode Island avenue NE.
To comply with both requests, the
PUG ordered set down the future
routing of the Military road cross
town husline as follows:
Eastbound - From the terminal
near Wisconsin and Western ave-
nues NV, east over Western ave-
nue. and Mckinley street to Thir-
tieth place, south on Thirtieth place
to Military road, east over Military
road and Missouri avenue to Four
teenth street, south on Fourteenth
street to the Colorado avenue ter
minal and the new extension to
proceed north on Fourteenth street,
east on Kennedy street and Missou-
ri avenue to North Capitol street,
south on North Capitol street and
Hawaii avenue to Taylor street
NE, east on Taylor street to
South Dakota avenue, south on
South Dakota avenue to Eighteenth
street NE, south on Eighteenth
street to Montana avenue to New
York avenue, southwest on New
York avenue to Sixteenth street,
south on Sixteenth street to the
terminal north of West Virginia
avenue.
Returns by Same Route.
After making loop from
terminal stand to be established on
the west side of Sixteenth street
near West Virginia avenue NE. the
Military road line extension will re-
tu1n to Wisconsin avenue by the
same route.
The only other major crosstown
bus line now runs from Tenley
Circle at Wisconsin avenue and
Westmoreland Circle NV. east to
Bladensburg road NE. by way of
Porter street, Irving street NV,
Michigan avenue, Quincy street and
Fourteenth street NE. The new
route approximately parallels the
present one, but to the north.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-09-22
Union Station BootIegger's Life
Is Voqroncy, Court Decides

The Judge noted principally the
testimony of nine witnesses, who
told of seeing Davenport roaming
around" the station at all hours OF
the night and, said the testimony.
usually selling liquor without
license, sometimes drinking liquor In
public. and twice making improper
advances to teen age girls"
Judge Clagett waved aside the 81
year-old defendants claim OF in
suficient evidence as well as his
claim of double jeopardy. Davenport
charged that much of the evidence
in the vagrancy case was the same
as that used in numerous other
cases which have brought him into
court nearly l25 times in the last
10 months.
Davenport gives an address in the
140o block og Rhode Island avenue
NV.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-09-22

The Municipal Court Of Appeals
today agreed with Judge Thomas
D. quinn of the lower court that
David Douglas Davenport, self-ad-
mitted Union Station bootiegger,
has been leading an immoral and
prof1igate" life in the station.
The upper court affirmed a 90
day yagrancy sentence imposed by
Judge quinn last March Daven-
ports lawyer, Saul Lichtenberg, said
he will take the case to the United
States Court of Appeals.
APPELLATE Judge Brice Clagett de-
voted much of his seven-page opin-
ion to defining the two key words.
Immoral and profiigate' in the va
erancy law. He concluded that
Davenport's activities in the termi-
nal up to last March were anything
but decent, upright, good and
right"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-09-22
City toCance|
Special Police
Commissions
Action Due Dec. 81;
New Regulations
Will Be Stricter

The Commissioners have ordered
all special police commissions can
ce.ed. effective December 81, it was
learned today. for renewal under
new. stricter regulations for private
policemen as adopted by the city
heads yesterday.
The new regulations, based on rec
concentrations by Police Supt. Rob-
ert Barrett and the corporation
counsels Office. are an outgrowth Of
a shooting atfray involving a WASH
ington special policeman in nearby
Maryland last June. An Army pilot
stationed at Boiling Air Force Base
was shot in the leg in fight that
ensued when. he said. man &C
costed him and an Army nurse IN
a parked car.
Police reported later that Special
Policeman James o. Davis suffered
severe head injuries in a fight in the
same vicinity that night. They said
1t was Davis pistol that fired the
shot that wounded the pilot
New Regulations Described.
The new regulations, authorized by
Assistant Corporation Counsel Mil
ton Norman on the basis OF Mai.
Barrett'S suggestions, will:
Require special policemen to bs
81 years old or more.
Prohibit a special officer from dis
CT ~ \,
except on the premises he is as
signed to protect.
Permit special officers to carry
pistols only when on duty and re-
quire them to leave their weapons
on the premises they protect when
going off duty. They may, however,
exercise their authority in fresh
pursuit of felon or miSdemeanant
from or near the property under
protection
Call for revocation of a special Of
ficers commission If the officer Is
arrested and forfeits collateral or Is
convicted of any violation of the law
except traffic violation.
$40 Application Fee Set.
Specify that any Metropolitan po-
liceman over the rank of private
may suspend the authority of a spe-
cial policeman for the same causes
that would justify such action in
the case of a Metropolitan police
man.
Require special officers to turn In
their badges within "a hours of ter
mination of their commission or face
a fine of $500.
Set a $40 application fee for .
special officers commission to cover
the cost of investigation, plus a 50
badge deposit.
Limit the life of commission is
sued by the city heads to special
policeman to one year or,1ess.
Require all special policemen to
wear distinctive uniforms on duty.
In the Davis case, the special po-
liceman told Maryland police he was
driving home from his guard post
at the Southwest Market at II pm.
when two hitchhikers assaulted him
and took his revolver Maj. Barrett,
in requesting the Commissioners to
revise the lax regulations governing
special officers few days after the
shooting, said 1t was a serious sit
uation demanding prompt atten-
ton"