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Evening star., 1948-01-05
Joseph N. Hanson Retires
From Manassas Park Post
kx fha Associated Press

Joseph Mills Hanson, 71-year-old
poet and historian, has retired as
custodian of the Manassas National
Battlefield Park, Newton B. Drury
National Park Service director, said
yesterday. -
Mr.. Drury, describing Mr.. Hanson
as lone of the foremost authorities
on the campaigns of the Civil War,
said he has offered to lend the Ma
tional Park Service his historical
library of 400 volumes, the books to
become Federal Government prop
erty on the owners death.
Mr.. Hanson, native of Yankton
s. OAK, served with the South
Dakota National Guard on the Mex
ican border in 1916 and with the
AEF in France in World War I, and
was one of the founders of the
American Legion.
He plans to remain at Manassas,
where his wife is editor of the
weekly Manassas Messenger, and to
devote his time to historical writing,
Mr.. Drury said.
Evening star., 1948-01-05
Retired ReoI Estute Mon
Killed in Florida Plunge
bv the A,soejoted Prsss

PALM BEACH, Fla, Jan. So
Robert Appleton, 75. prominent
winter resident, plunged to his
death from a hotel here yesterday.
States Attorney Phil O'Connell
said Mr.. Appleton was visiting
friends on the sixth floor of the
hotel. The body was found In g.
gravel driveway below.
Mr.. Appleton, a retired real es-i
tate man, maintained homes att
East Hampton. Long Island, and
the Hotel Plaza, New York City,
He was a member of the Bath ands
Tennis Club here. the Devon Yacht,
Club at East Hampton and theS
Regency Club In New York.
His widow. Mrs. Katherine
sempls Jordan Appleton. survives.
ss - r s s
Evening star., 1948-01-05
Dirksen 10 Continue
As Head Of House DC.
Group for a Time

Despite failing eyesight, Repre-
sentative Dirksen, Republican, Of
Illinois, will retain the chairman
ship of the House District Commit
tee "for a time" he said today.
Also, for tentative period, he
plans to continue as chairman of
the Agriculture Subcommittee of the
House Appropriations Committee.
After consulting with number of
medical specialists, Mr.. Dirksen an
nounced Saturday he would not be
a candidate in the Illinois April
primaries for reelection to Congress.
He said he had reached this de-
cision because Of compelling per-
sonal reasons"
Warned of Breakdown.
Friends said he had lost the sight
of one eye and that physicians had
advised him he might suffer a COM
plete physical breakdown If he die
not give up the work load he had
been carrying.
Mr.. Dirksen is expected to remain
as a member of Congress through
the remainder of this Congress
although he will be compelled to
give up most of his reading and
work. For many years, he has
made a practice of carrying papers
home for night work.
When he returned to Washington
today, he was asked If he would
have to give up the District chair
manship and he said:
IT will stay on for a while-there
are so many things to be done early
in this session"
To Do Little Reading.
He added that, of course, he would
do very little reading and otherwise
reduce his work.
When his service on the District
Committee ends, the Craftsmanship
is scheduled to fall to Representa-
tive Bates, Republican of Massa-
chusetts, next ranking majority
member, who heads the fiscal sub
committee.
Evening star., 1948-01-05
D. {. Living Cost
Inquiry Begun
By Grand Jury
Government Opens
Cuse With Evidence
On Doiry Situation

The Justice Department began
today its long-heralded grand Jury
investigation into the high cost Of
living in Washington and possible
criminal conspiracies to fix food
prices.
-Four attorneys from the Antitrust
Division went before the special
grand jury to make an initial pres
entation Of the Governments case,
according to John Ford Baecher,
first assistant in the division.
Other Government attorneys in
the case are George B. Haddock,
Robert H. Winn and John A. Skiles,
Ofiicials of leading Washington
diaries and of the Maryland and
Virginia Milk Producers Association
are expected to appear as witnesses,
probably next week. They have
been subpoenaed to bring records
for the last seven years.
Mr.. Baecher would not indicate
the scope of his presentation other
than to say he will begin with the
milk situation. He emphasized,
however. that the jury is authorized
to investigate all food items which
play a part in the high cost of liv.
ing.
The question before the Jury will
be to determine whether those en-
gagged in distributing milk and
manufacturing and distributing
other food products have violated
the antitrust laws.
One problem expected to arise il
whether the milk producers asso-
citation, q cooperative Of farmers,
can be prosecuted under the Clay
ton Act which exempts agricultural
organizations instituted for mu-
tual help" The producers group
has always contended that it has
no connection with the diaries ex-
cept that its members sell them
milk.
Retail milk prices throughout the
metropolitan area last October ad-
vanced IL cents quart for homo
delivered milk, shortly after the
association raised its price to the
dairies. The Virginia Milk Com
mission granted the price increase
to the associations members in that
State and the price also was raised
in the District and Maryland al
though there Is no similar commits
sion in either Jurisdiction.
Evening star., 1948-01-05
McCarran Hits
Ruling Against
D.C.CourtRights
.Soys Remedy Should
BE Found to Protect
sCupituI's Residents
By Harold B. Roqers

Senator McCarran, Democrat, of
Nevada said today some remedy"
should be found to protect the right
Of District residents to sue and be
sued in Federal courts outside
Washington-a right denied by a
recent appellate court decision.
The former chairman and now
ranking Democratic member Of the
Senate Judiciary Committee, said
the appeals court ruling at Rich
mond, Va, presented serious
threat" to Washington residents and
corporations.
The ruling by 2-to-1 vote of the
jurists held unconstitutional 1910
act which opened all Federal courts
to residents of this city and of the
Territories of Alaska and Hawaii.
: To Appeal Decision.
The 1910 law was enacted to over
come a decision by the Supreme
Court long ago holding the District
was not a State and therefore its
residents did not have the right of
litigants in Federal courts outside
this city.
The Richmond ruling will be ap-
pealed to the Supreme Court by
a Washington insurance Arm which
lost case in both the Federal Court
at Baltimore and the Circuit Court
Of Appeals at Richmond.
Chairman Wiley of the Senate
Judiciary Committee has announced
his intention to introduce legisla-
tions for a constitutional amend
ment to protect the court rights of
citizens here as litigants in case
the 'Supreme Court sustains the
lower tribunal.
Senator Wiley, Republican, of
Wisconsin, emphasizes, however,
that his comments should not be
construed in any way as instruc-
tions or advice to the Supreme
Court in the event that it decides
to review the Richmond ruling.
Courts Right absolute"
"On the contrary, as. my reco1d
will bear out" he explained, II
have consistently sought to main
tain separate and independent the
three co-equal branches of our
Government, each of which is
sovereign in its own sphere. The
Supreme Court has absolute right
to make whatever decision it deems
appropriate If it reviews this case"
The case was brought by the
National Mutual Insurance Co. of
the District Of Columbia against the
Tidewater Transfer Co. of Virginia
The insurance firm is preparing its
request for writ of certiorari ask
ing the high court to review the
case.
Senator McCarran, who Is familiar
with local problems because of his
long service as chairman of the
Senate District Committee, COM
mented that constitutional amend
ment undoubtedly would accomplish
q remedy in case Of Supreme Court
verdict against Washington citizens
and businesses,
But the subject is one which
should be given careful study" he
declared. There may be some
shorter route to a remedy than
a constitutional amendment. We
should look carefully into the pos
sibilities. I shall give 1t my earnest
attention"
Evening star., 1948-01-05
.TronsIotors' Society
To Elect Tomorrow

The Society of Federal Translators
will meet at 8 pm. tomorrow in the
conference room of the National
Archives Building to elect officers
for the coming year.
The society, which meets monthly,
was founded In 1880 as a profess
sional association of translators and
interpreters employed by the Gov
ernment.
Evening star., 1948-01-05
Virginia Society 10 Stage
Stars and Bars Ball FRIDAY

The annual Stars and Bars Ball
Of the District Society of Virginia,
honoring Gems. Lee and jackson
and Commodore Matthew Fontaine
Maury. will be held from $50 pm.
Friday at the Shoreham Hotel.
Guests Of honor will be present,
and past division presidents of the
United Daughters Of the Confed-
eracy; all chapter presidents Of the
organization, Fred P. Myers, past
commander in chief of the Sons of
Conferedate Veterans, and COM
manders of all local posts Of that
organization.
A program Of Southern songs
will be given by Mrs David Kinch-
eloe and her daughter, Mrs. Jean
Davis,
Evening star., 1948-01-05
Dc Treatment Plant Draws
in Nine Years

dredS OF collars worth OF non-sal-
vageable .spectacles and dentures
[eyesy year. .ss
E INA now gritless sewage pa$ses
{(8hrbos Ii q Ventura meter, where It's
flow is measured and tabulated.
Air is blown into the liquid to speed
grease separation Because Wash
ington is not an industrial city, Mr..
Fuhrman's problems are less COM
plicated than most. Compared to
Chicago, with its packing plant
refuse, Washington is a sanitary
engineers dream.
Sedimentation Tanks Next.
The sewage then flows into sedi-
mentation tanks where solids settle
to the bottom and grease rises to
the top. Blue Plains has II sedi-
mentation tanks and plans to con-
struct four more. They are needed
now, Mr.. Thurman says.
Sludge from the sedimentation
tanks Is pumped into 84-foot diam
eter digestion tanks and the liquid
is piped out into the Potomac for
discharge. Eight digestion tanks
are In operation at Blue Plains and
four more are scheduled for con-
struction.
Last year the Districts treatment
plant recovered 286 ,313 900 cubic feet
of sludge gas which has most of the
qualities of natural gas but produces
fewer thermal units per volume.
During the war, sludge gas went to
heat the adjacent Navy-operated
Bellevue housing project.
sludge gas to the Naval Research
Laboratory next door. Most Of the
gas, however, goes to operate 1,200-
horsepower sludge gas engine that
generates power for the treatment
plant. Last year Blue Plains pro-
duced 86.7 per cent of the electric
power required to operate the plant.
Sludge gas also provides fuel for the
plants central heating system.
i Through Vacuum Filters.
Sludge from the digestion tanks is
washed and mixed with Potomac
River water, passed through vacuum
filters, conditioned with ferric
chloride and pressed into cake
about 80 per cent solid.
This sludge cake, end product of
the Blue Plains plant, Is loaded onto
railway cars and shipped to the
District penal institution, Lorton,
Va, where it is used as fertilizer.
Blue Plains ships IS cars Of sludge
a week. In this sludge cage, Mr..
Thurman sees great possibilities OF
another profitable product that, If
adequately dehydrated, could be sold
commercially.
Before 1898 the District discharged
all its sewage, untreated, into the
Potomac. BY 1882, the United States
Public Health Service, acting under
a Senate resolution, surveyed the
situation and recommended con-.
struction Of q treatment plant.
Apparently the District has been
sewage conscious for years, Mr..
Thurman says. Back in 1889 the
then superintendent of sewers, D. E.
McComb wrote: "It would seem
safe. to assume that the Potomac
River may be depended upon to
purify the crude sewage Of the Dis
trict until the soc, 600 limit Of popu-
lation is reached, which will prob
ably be between the years 1880 and
1940."
The Census Bureau couldn't have
done better.
Evening star., 1948-01-05
c. & O. Planning Tours
For Educational Groups

The Chesapeake & Ohio Railway
has begun arranging special educa-
tional tours for school groups in
communities on its routes, accord
ing to announcement by Robert ].
Bowman, president.
The first group to use the new
service will consist Of civics classes
OF the Covington (Va.) High School
which will arrive here Thursday to
see Congress In session and visit the
white House and other public build
ings. Mr.. Bowman stated
Evening star., 1948-01-05
6a||inger Acquires
Physician s Months
After Job S Approval

Gallinger Hospitals UNDERMINED
psychopathic division today &C
quired a resident physician-six
months after Congress authorized
the job.
The resident, DR.. Eugene F. Tips
OF Seguin, Tex, came to work to-
day. He was recently released from
the Army Medical Corps.
Congress appropriated funds for
two resident physicians last July,
but Gallinger Hospitals superin-
tendent, A. r. Sweeney, said he had
been unable to find any one for the
job.
DR.. Sweeney reported today that
another resident physician has
agreed to come to the hospital in
July.
Two additional posts for resident
physicians have been approved by
the Commissioners In the 1949
budget, which goes to Congress next
week.
In addition to DR.. Tips, the psy-
7chopathic division now has five
Ipsychiatrists. vaEancies exist Ton
EtEosmQre psychiatsists. -
E Tn Rpsychopathic division has
been approved by the American
Medical Association and the Ameri.
can Board of Neurology and Psy.
chiatry for one years training fol
residents, as compared to three
years at st. Elizabeths.
The shortness of the approved
training has been one reason wh,
Gallinger has had difficulty at
tracting residents for the psyche
pathic division, but DR.. Sweeney
said he hoped the period could be
extended.
DR.. Tips studied medicine at the
Southwestern Medical Foundation
Dallas. and interned at Mt. Vernon
Hospital, Mt. Vernon, N. Y, and
Murray Hill Hospital in New York
City. He is 28 years old.
Evening star., 1948-01-05
Child Care Center Opening
Al Stuart School DELAYED

The reopening Of the Carbery
child day-care center In the Stuart
Junior High School Annex, Fifth
and D streets NE, has been post
poned until arrangements by the
school staff to care for the children
can be completed, the Board of Pub
lie Welfare announced today.
Raymond r. Clapp, acting welfare
director, said the opening of the new
center. originally scheduled for to-
day, would take place "as soon as
possible" but refused to set a
definite day. He said equipment
has not yet been transferred to the
Stuart School from the Grant Gem
ter. closed on ChristmA eve.
Evening star., 1948-01-05
Girl Is First Donor
As Red Gross Opens
New Blood Service
SOykass = -. u &

p
Bonn. 5safssK Kemper, d, Covers
ment worker with type AB blood
rarest of the four classiflcations IT'D.
day gave the first pint OF blood Sir
the new civilian blood program o1
the American Red Cross.
The District chapter thus launch.
ed the national relief organiza.
tiony greatest peacetime under
taking-an attempt to set up 6
network of blood centers through.
out the country which will supply
blood and blood derivatives freely
to every American citizen in peace
or war.
At the dedication ceremony early
this afternoon, Joseph c. Grew
former Ambassador to Japan, called
the program "one of the great
humanitarian projects moulded
from the fiery crucible Of the
Second World War"
Future Planning Urged.
Asserting that the agency's war
time blood service saved countless
lives in the armed forces, he said
"The lessons learned since the drop
ping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima
and Nagasaki should enter into ou1
planning for future emergencies and
disasters, whether military or ci-
villain"
Miss Kemper's name was chosen
by lot from 10 volunteers from the
Identification Division of the Fed
eral Bureau of Investigation, who
were given the honor of making the
first donations today at the clinic
at 1730 E street NV.
A copy reader at the Federal
agency, Miss Kemper came to the
District 31a years ago from Mime
apolis, Mimi, and lives at 3511 Min
nesota avenue Sc. She has made
three previous donations to the Red
Cross. Red Cross wo- kers said her
blood was type ABB, which is found
in only one person out of 20.
Veteran Donors ip Group.
There were seven men and two
other young women in the FBI
group. Some were veteran donors,
like Tom Bowen, who had 16 pre-
vious contributions to his credit;
Miss Gloria Schmidberger, IA, and
Harry j. Jaquiss, TO-
Probably the best reason for ap-
pearing at the clinic today was that
advanced by slender Elmer N. Cris-
well.
The 26-year-old FBI worker lives
at 4723 Homer avenue Sc. with his
young wife and their sons, Danny
AZ, and Elmer, jr., 10 months.
Danny, related Mr.. Criswell, was
"our gift-of-God baby"-a young
ster whose life was saved only by a
miracle of medical skill.
Both Nearly Lost Lives.
He was born in Wheeling, w. Va.
after his father had gone overseas
with a signal intelligence service
unit in the Pacific. 1t was a Cae-
sarian operation, that nearly cost
the lives Of both mother and baby
Doctors despaired of their chance
of survival, but after two blood
transfusions, Mrs. Criswell pulled
through. So did little Danny.
When the young father came
back to the United States, he be-
gan making regular visits to blood
donor clinics. In the short time
since February, 1916, he has now
given his blood seven times.
II go whenever I can," he said
quietly today. It didn't seem nee
essary to ask him WHY.
Evening star., 1948-01-05
Suicide Ruled in Death
OF Kenwood Woman

A certificate of suicide was issued
yesterday by Montgomery County
Coroner r. j. Broschart in the death
of Mrs. Frances B. Netherland, 906
Dorset avenue, Kenwood
Mrs. Netherland, widow Of q
dentist, was found saturday lying in
the bedroom of her home, bullet
wound in her temple and a pistol
at her feet, DR.. Broschart said. She
had been dead for several hours
when found by a sister and neigh
Dor.
Mrs. Netherland had been in Ill
health, DR.. Broschart said. She Is
survived by 12-year-old son.
Evening star., 1948-01-05
Real Estute Office Burns

Fire today destroyed furnishings
in the real estate Office of Myrtleo
Bell, 1923 Ninth street NV. Fire
men extinguished the blaze before
the living quarters above in the two
story building were damaged sefi-
ously.
Evening star., 1948-01-05

I " SS y " -
Club Sc ks to
raise $125,00,
John A. Remon.
president Of the
clubs Board Of
Dir e c tors, an
nounced today.
The ann u q ]
drive opens next
Monday.
Mr.. Simmons,
vice president Of
Johns Manvlle
8 ales Corp,
headed the drive
last year which
Evening star., 1948-01-05
MARYLAND Bur to Meet

BALTIMORE, Jan. S up. The
Maryland State Bar Association will
meet here January 81, according to
Frederick w. Bruno, president.
Evening star., 1948-01-05
R. {. Simmons Heads
BOYS Club Fund Drive

Robert c. Simmons, Ill George
Mason drive, Arlington, has been
named general chairman of a CAM
paign by which the Metropolitan.
Evening star., 1948-01-05
Sisters Meet for First Time,

Two sisters, 81 and 46, who had
never seen each other, met when
Mrs. Lillian Flanagan, who had
been taken to Canada by an aunt
before her sister was born, visited
that sister, Mrs. g. Blanshard, Of
Hendon. England.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-04-01
PREPARE FOR WAR
BY OLIVER HOYEN

We must for War with Russia! We dream
1t be that determined preparation prevent
But that is only hope must plan for the worst
That the Of and
President Trunans
try thinking The Republican Congress united behind
Senator Taft, oatonist for
Plans already industry for
Management protect the profit system
enterprise the face Of will
its conutan That is what
good business"
What labor doing about getting ready for If AFI,
CIO and independent could unit they
emergency would
freedoms and their enterprise system
must the worst and for it, Somehow labor
contrlve reach inevitable
which being discussed industry and labor
circles. For example
Price controls material ALLEGATIONS, priorites come
Labor will No
roba Of likely brakes will
and will be raised gradually.
Wage controls will operate through another labor
but the TafHaey Act will set restrictions Labor will
workers,
legislative minimum
-WorkhoUr controls will shift much
Rent controls certain with little higher gov
ernment will build low-cost housing units
Communists will be moved control unions,
termed This will things officials
will also less leftwng influence agencies
production will be stimulated by
dusy councils This will opportunity for responsible labor lead
ehp TO establish better relations with and the public
These
the labor pattern Of the days
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-04-01
Green Pldns ALL. Exhibit
For Union Industries Show

President William Green Of the
American Federation Of Labor took
personal charge Of the A. F. Of L. s
exhibit at the Union-Industrie
Show, May 1916, in Milwaukee.
He has directed a leading concern,
which designs displays for the mo-
vies and other large industries, TO
construct the exhibit for a large
hall within the Milwaukee Auditor
ium. There will be over 2,CC0
square feet Of space devoted to the
chief functions Of the A. F. of L.
The plan will graphically focus the
public's attention to major activi-
ties, which are organization, legis-
lation, social security. education,
research ard public relations. It
will be ultra modern and one cannot
describe it. You've got to see it!
"The chief objective of all ex-
hibits as well as that Of the A. F.
Of L." said /. NJ. Ornburn, will
be to visualize Union Label pro-
ducts and Union services to our Wis
itors in a simple, true and forceful
manner.
"At the union-Industries Show,
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-04-01
Part Time Guards
Can Be Unionists

Washington (LPA)-The NLRB
last week ruled that workers who
spend only a portion of their work
ing time as guards may belong to
regular union.
Judging a case presented by the
Int'l Brotherhood of Electrical
Workers-AFL which has organized
the Victor Division of RCA, the
board held that employees who spend
three weeks out of the month as
janitors, and only one as guards,
are not "employed as guards"
Therefore they may belong to the
same union as other workers in the
plant.
"Section 8 b (of the Taft-Hartley
law does not in our opinion un-
equivocally require that we consid-
er to be employed as a guard
every employee who spends any
of his working time, however in
in performing the du-
ties described in that section. 1t
seems to us equally, if not more,
reasonable to consider an individual
to be employed as guard only
if his guard duties constitute a
dominant aspect, not merely an in
cidental feature, of his total work
pattern" the board said.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-04-01
GARMENT UNION ON AIR

Chattanooga, Tenn. (ILNS) -
Station WVUN, Chattanooga's
newese frequency modulation out
let, took to the air March 16. The
broadcast originates from the sta
tion's Signal Mountain transmit
ter until the studios in the Dome
building are completed. The sta
ton is owned and operated by the
international Ladies' Garment
Workers Union and is one Of 5
such stations owned by the union
in various parts Of the country.