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Evening star., 1948-02-29

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away and leave
you alone. It
would be unkind
to come out with
such a blunt or
der. In this
case, don't de-
liberately avoid
her, but keep
your friendship
to an occasional
Hi, nice wealth
er we're having, "
type of thing.
w ith nothing
more than that
fo 1ooL fory1yord
Evening star., 1948-02-29

Mrs. David Sackett and Miss
Glorya Sackett are enroute to San
Juan, Puerto Rico, where they will
visit with Capt. Lee M. Sackett, who
is serving In the Dental Corps of the
United States Army,
Evening star., 1948-02-29

One of the hits of the "Teen
Show" held yesterday at the
Mayfo,Der Hotel 1oas this pink
topper 1Dith a broWn pussy
cat" boU. Jeanne Squire OF
Alice Deal Junior High 1Dears
the coat Which is a perfect
addition to any girls Ward-
robe for spring. This pretty
pink coat is available locally.
Evening star., 1948-02-29

If you have a problem at school
or at home, write Miss Mottram
for her help.
Evening star., 1948-12-24

Joseph Walker. jr., and three sis.
ters, Mrs. Edward L. Coster, Mrs
John McHenry and Mrs. Charles l.
Al. Heiser.
Evening star., 1948-12-24

or more service and upon reaching
go years of age, or to retire at any
age after 80 years service.
7. Give enlisted men retirement
! rights, except that it would become
operative at so years of age, with
20 years service.
8. Require 30 per cent disability
under Veterans Administration
standards, for retirement on this
basis.
| 9. Retention of the present in
come tax exemptions, scheduled to
expire December 81, until Congress
raises the pay rates.
Re-enlistment Bonuses.
10. Establishment of a re-enlist-
ment bonus ranging from $50 for
six-year bitches to $40 for two-year
enlistments. The payments would
be limited to four bonuses.
II. improvement of housing con-
ditions.
IL. Appointment of personnel
board. under the Defense Secretary
to continue the wage study so pay
could be kept currently in balance
Other members of the commits
sion were the Rev. John j. Cava-
naugh, president of Notre Dame
University: Keith S. McHugh of
New York, vice president of Amer
can Telephone and Telegraph Co,
and Lawrence H. Whiting of Chi
cago, president of Whiting g. Co
and of the American Furniture
Mart Building Co.
Nearly 10000 low-co houses have
been built in Venezuela since 1945
Evening star., 1948-12-24
Marine Corps Band
Would Lose Bonus for
White House Concerts

The unusual arrangement
whereby members of the Ma
rine Corps Band get 81 ad-
ditional pay for eacn month in
which they perform on the
Capitol or White House Grounds
will be abolished if the Hook
Commission on service pay has
its way.
The special pay for the
bandsmen has been justified as
reimbursement for costs Of
maintaining uniforms and for
incidental expenses, the COM
mission said.
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commission found that the bill for
it's program the first year would add
l4.3 per cent, or $45l ,624, 4,439, to the
$3.150.434, ,529 being spent annually
for pay and allowances. After five
years, 1t estimated the increase
would drop to 8.9 per cent.
The pay and supplementing COM
pensations should be comparable
with that in similar civil jobs, the
commission said. However, it added
that it had not carried this idea into
the higher brackets. because it rec
ognizes the danger to the Nation of
attracting to the service those men
whose prime motivation in life is
personal gain rather than public
service.
There are dangers in developing a
favored military class" fC added.
The military pay structure has
not been changed to any appreciable
extent since 1908, the commission
said. 1t advocated the continuation
of allowances for subsistence and
quarters because of the current
economic conditions, until the gen.
eral situation permits the inclusion
of such payments in basic pay rates.
In addition to the Army, Navy,
Air Force and Marine Corps, the
recommendation would be applied
to uniformed personnel of the Coast
Guard, Public Health Service and
Coast and Geodetic Survey.
Other major points In the report ::
l. Sharp downward revisions of
the so-called hazard pay" for Off
GERS, including the often-debated
fight pay for generals. This COM
mission took issue with the idea
that high-ranking officers must fly
to retain the respect of those under
their commands. Mr.. Forrestal said
he agrees with this proposal.
Special Pay Glasses Slashed.
2. OF the approximately so current
types Of special pay, only three were
recommended for retention. They
are hazardous duty, sea and foreign
duty for enlisted men only and 500
a month inducement pay for physi-
clans, surgeons and dentists.
3. A fiat rate basis, rather than a
persentage system, for hazardous
duty pay. "A percentage system
permits pyramiding at ranks and
salary levels far beyond the induce
ment required and the needs of the
services in terms Of encouraging Of
ficers and men to accept hazardous
duty" the commission commented.
4. The three types of duty recon-
mended for hazard-incentive duty
pay are: % glider, parachute, sub
marine rescue, experimental diving,
handling of lepers, demolition OF
explosives, observation required fly
ing; (2) deep-sea diving, and 80
flying of military aircraft when pre-
scribed requirements are met and
assignment to submarines as a men,
ber OF a crew.
5. A free death benefit up to $10,-
600 for all personnel on the active
Or retired rolls, instead of the pres
ent gratuity of six months pay and
national service life insurance
Policies now in force would be con-
! tinued.
6. A change in the present retire.
ment system which makes an officer
eligible for retirement after 20 years.
The commission would give him the
right to retire, If he has 20 years
Evening star., 1948-12-24
Districts Traffic School
To Continue for Year

The Commissioners have ordered
the Districts traffic school con.
tinued for one year from Januar,
9.
The voluntary classes for traffic
regulation violators and persons who
fail in their driver permit exami-
nations have been conducted since
last January.
The school is supervised by Police
Inspector Arthur E. Miller, in charge
of traffic, who urged its continu-
ance as a safety aid.
Students are referred to the school,
by the judges sitting in the traffic
branch of Municipal Court, the
Board of Revocation and Restora
ton of Operators Permits and per-
NIT examiners of the Department
of Vehicles and Traffic.
Defendants are not compelled tc
attend the school, but judges often
postpone sentences when a defend
ant agrees to participate in classes
Evening star., 1948-12-24
FOUND.

BLUE PERSIAN CAT, vicinity of 10th and
Newton NV; first seen~fast spring. Phone
AD. s633. "a
PACKAGE, containing lady's robe tnewl.
In North Arlington on Wed, Dec. -
Owner can have same by identifying, call
CW. 77l1, MR.. CANNON.
Evening star., 1948-12-24
Service Pay
Continued From First Page. J

interested to listen" to the pro-
posals and Senator Wherry, Repub-
lican. of Nebraska, Appropriations
Committee member, termed the re-
port very helpful" He added that
the report would be compared with
O similar study by Congress.
The proposals came after year S
study of both service and industrial
pay scales and systems by a civilian
commission, headed by Charles r.
Hook, Middleton (Ohio1 steel
executive.
The Hook Commission said pro-
motion and responsibility should be
made the paramount feature of any
pay raises 1t recommended higher
relative increases for executive and
leadership positions among both
officer and enlisted personnel
The suggestions showed a wide
range in both base pay and allow
ances for rental and subsistence, but
the commission justified this on the
ground that long-standing inequities
in the pay scale should be scor-
rected.
Thus, a brigsdier general or a
commodore. now receiving $3.50 a
month base pay, would be given a
boost of 5818 per cent; a ma jor gen.
eral or rear admiral, receiving $733L33
would get 3705 per cent raise; an
Army captain or Navy lieutenant,
now earning $264.50, would get 47.45
per cent more, and second lieuten-
ant or ensign, currently paid $3.50,
would get an increase of Is per cent.
For enlisted men. the proposed in
creases range from boost of 3611
per cent for sergeants, first class,
now getting $132.25, to no boost for
Q recruit or draftee, who is paid SIS.
The commission presented tables
10 show how some grades had re-
celved only minor increases in the
last 40 years, compared with big pay
boosts for others. 1t showed that
brigadier generals had received only
fraction of the pay increases, per-
centage-wise, granted second lieu
tenants since 1908; that the in
creases for sergeants in that time
averaged little over 100 per cent.
while that for inductees jumped 400
per cent.
Based on the actual strength of
the armed services on March 81, the
Evening star., 1948-12-24
FOUGHT SHARKS 40 HOURS

FOUGHT SHARKS 40 HOURS
Russell A. LaTona of Sacra-
mento, Calf. 13-year-old cabin
boy who fought sharks for
nearly two days in Cuban
waters, is recovering today in a
United States naval hospital
at Guantanamo Bay. He told
authorities he leaped over
board 10 miles offshore in an
effort to save Bent Jeppsen, IA,
a fellow cabin boy aboard the
Danish ship Great MaerSk.
Sharks killed Jeppsen. Il
tried to save Bent" Russell
said, but the sharks got after
him, and the spot where we
were was soon red with blood
and the sharks got after me,
too" Doctors said the boy was
in remarkably good condition
and attributed his escape to
his foresight in pitching a
life belt into the sea before he
jumped. -AP Wirephoto.
Evening star., 1948-12-24
Information Center
On Influenza Set Up
In Bethesda Institute

An influenza information CEN
Ger has been established at the
National Institute of Health in Be
thesda to serve as the nerve center
of a new Nation wide attack on the
malady, 1t was announced today.
The new project, joint enter
prise of the Army, Navy, Air Force
and Public Health Service, is part
of an international program ap-
proved last year by the World Health
Organization.
Set up to prevent the type of epi-
demic that ran rampant in 1918, the
project has these two main OBJ
jectives:
|. To identify new strains of the
virus that causes influenza, as soon
as they appear.
2. To see whether they can be
used in vaccines to prevent the
disease.
Success Of the program depends
on prompt reporting by doctors OF
all suspected cases of influenza be-
cause of the explosive character of
most influenza epidemics," offlcials
declared.
In the past" they pointed out,
"many cases of influenza have not
been reported to health depart
menx until outbreaks has already
attained serious proportions
This is the way the new program
will work:
AS soon as a significant out
break of suspected influenza is re-
ported. the Bethesda center will
alert laboratories in the region to
test patients for resistance to the
influenza virus. Other laboratory
workers will attempt to isolate the
particular virus.
Every new strain OF virus iso-
lated will be sent Immediately to a
special unit at the Long Island Col
lege of Medicine in New York.
There. the strain will be studied
for possible inclusion in COM
mercial vaccine.
Laboratories participating in the
plan, officials said, include the Army
Medical Department Research and
Graduate School here; I'd Army
Medical Laboratory, Fort Meade,
Md: Laboratory of Infectious Dis
eases, Institutes Of Health, Bethes-
da; Maryland Health Department,
Baltimore; Virginia Health Depart
ment, Richmond: District Health
Department, and Johns Hopkins
University. Baltimore.
Evening star., 1948-12-24
wv. PIunkett Stewart,
Daring Hunt Rider
And MFH, Dies at 10
BY the Associated Press


KNOXVILLE, Pa, Dec. 24.-W.
Plunkett Stewart, 10, owner of the
Cheshire Fox Hounds and former
executive with the Bank of Balti-
more founded by his grandfather,
died at his Chester County estate
Wednesday night. He was a native
of Baltimore.
Mr.. Stewards wife, Mrs. Carol
Hartman Stewart, sister OF W..
Averell Hartman, Ambassador at
large for the Economic Cooperation
Administration in Europe. died last
November. They were married IN
1880 and Mrs. Stewart, like her hus-
band, was widely known in hunting
and racing circles.
Mr.. Stewarts grandfather, David
Stewart, founded the Bank OF Bal
timore, and his father was Charles
Morton Stewart.
He was a graduate of Johns Hop
kins University with the class OF
1898. A first marriage to Elsie F..
Cassatt ended in divorce.
AS a young man Mr.. Stewart
maintained a pack of hounds which
became one of the most famous In
New York State. His ambition was
to hunt what he considered an ideal
country, and he found this in Ches-
ter County, where he bought a large
estate.
The hunts he staged there were
said to be comparable with the best
fox hunting in England. Mr.
Stewart, a daring rider, was injured
several times while following his
hunds. He was former president
of the Masters of Fox Hounds Asso-
citation of America.
Surviving are three daughters,
Mrs. w. Potter Wear. Mrs. Thomas
F. Simmons and Viscountess Eric de
Spoelberch; two stepdaughters, Mrs.
John B. Hannum III and Mrs.
Evening star., 1948-12-24
LOS r.

ALLIGATOR BAG, ladys, brown, vic. Broad
Branch rd. and Stephenson pl NV,
Thursday. Finder entitled to all money,
i bas and contents are returned. OR
BICYCLE. boys, red with white trim
basket, Arl: license l44s7, Shelby Supreme
reward. GL. 576l "a
BIILFOLD, striped silk, on r ST., between
1lth and 18th. Reward. AT. 5265.
CAT: large, white, answers to name OF
NV, Dec. fs or 10. If found, please call
TR. 4O43. Reward.
COCKER SPANIEL. about 3 mos old black,
white scar on chest: vic: Allison and Crit
tenden. Reward. GE 1856. "a
COCKER SPANIEL, reddish sEown, male
ton Forest Va; lie. No. 1737". OW. a15s.
COLLIE. thoroughbred. mos. old. answers
to the name OF Princess" color white and
sable 18th and, and Michigan ave. ne. Re
Please call VI. 1899 after pm. Sunday.
GLASSES. lucite frames; lost in cab en-
route 18th and swami to 18th and z
Hobart $500. Ext. 410.
GOLD WATCH, lady's, with gold band and
out Of cab. 18TH and H Columbia @ I'd. to o. 9th tn
and Pa. ave. Reward. EX. ZOO. Ext
PL.TINA FOX JACKET. Dec. 30. 1a4s
sts. NV. Reward. Call DU 6sia.
PoCKETBOOk, lady's, black leather, CON
tanning valuable papers cash. checks, bank
book, glasses, keys. etc: Thursday eve.
Dec; %, Liberal reward. Cali DE. 476e
RING, mans 3 diamonds 12 rubies, nc
initials, vicinity Clarendon, N Highland
St: reward. Gil. 026S "a
RING. Turquoise, Wed. 10th and G NV
I value D'oiiS. only. Reward. d % Di 7s47. a!'meh'A
left on washstand in ladies' room. in Silver
Spring Hot shoppe. Reward. ia. 9516
sPECTACLEs. tortoise shell; Conn ave
near S. or in taxi en- route to Calitprnis
st. Reward. NO. a31O.
TRAVELLING BAG, left On sidewalk. 18th
st. near r NV. Reward. Phone Annapolis
a571 after 8. p:m:: reverse charges: OF
write j. DE KOvEN. Edsewater. Md.
WALLET. black, money, ioent cards. De.
MsySF su2D snUDDng x. center Cards Fnss SpkE Eel
H. POLANpER. AK. 6121: -
2 and pm, downtown; containing iden
tifcation papers. drivers license ant
money. Liberal reward. NO. 1873.
WATCH, lady's, Longine Wittnauer, vel
low gold, vicinity Of Sears on Wis. Wed
afternoon. Reward. Call EN- 1907.
WATCH. mans, Hamilton, wrist, tai
4ssthE sraD tran, lost on Mt Pieasant N6
sss4. ssl o. a00u' 0,-O p-n.' "a
s2b REWARD-Lost liver and white point
er dog, young male, weighs about 30 lbs.
esTayed from 1906 36th st. NV. answer
70 name Ben; owners name on collar
Evening star., 1948-12-24
Service Pay Raise Examples
BY the Associoted Press

examples for the Army would
work
years typical the various ades)
MONTH
Evening star., 1948-02-20
Red Regime in Korea
Seen Aimed al u. n.
by the Assoeioted Press

SEOUL, Korea, Feb. 20.-A high
American military authority said
today the Russians are openly
forming a Communist government
in North Korea aimed directly at
the United Nations"
This throws down the gantlet to
the United Nations and indicates
the Soviets are prepared to declare
a government in North Korea before
the United Nations can complete
any action here" said the official,
who didn't wish to be named.
He was interviewed about a state
ment by Chairman K. P. S. Menon
of the U. NJ commission on Korea.
Mr.. Menon said at Lake success a
news story about Russian puppet
government in North Korea ZAP
pears to have caused misunder-
standing" Mr.. Menon added that
the regime was established before
the U. N. commission was thought
Of and it could not have been set
up to render the U. N. impotent."
However, the American military
source called attention today to the
February broadcast from Pyong-
yang, Russian occupation headquar-
tiers. The radio described establish
ment of a peoples army, promulga-
ton OF a constitution and creation
of q flag with a red star, hammers
and sickles.
The Pyongyang radio broadcast
"put the Soviets so far out on limb
they can't get back" the officer
added
Evening star., 1948-02-20

floor. The Paynee were assigned
two servants.
The first floor was rather plainly
furnished, Mrs. Payne said, but
Miss Braun's taste ran to blue
satin FOR the second-fioor bedrooms.
In Eva;s bedroom was telephone
which Mrs. Payne said she was
told was connected directly with
Hitler's quarters in the Chancel-
lory in Berlin.
1t was in the bunker of the
Chanceilory as the fury of the Rus
slams closed in that Eva and Hit
Ter finally were married.
Eva's medicine cabinet, still in
tact when the Paynes moved in,
contained a large number of re-
ducing pills.
There was list Of the medi-
cines on the cabinet door," Mrs.
Payne said. "The list included
opium"
Hitler kept his association with
Miss Braun from the German peo-
pie, but Mrs. Payne said 1t was no
secret from Miss Braun's neigh
bors. There was pill box at the
house where guard was stationed.
When Hitler would come for a
visit, the street would be roped
of.
Mrs. Payne said that, when she
joined her husband in Germany
last September, their home in the
500 block of Buchanan street NV.
was sold. Now she is staying with
her mother, Mrs. Lula Woolard, at
1478 Chaplin street NV, while she
tries to find another home.
Her son, who attended Powell
Junior High School here, went to
Evening star., 1948-02-20
Observance Sunday Opens
Brotherhood Week Here

The Districts observance of
American Brotherhood Week will
open with an address by Attorney
General Clark and messages from
Washington religious leaders at
2:30 pm. Sunday in the Interior
Department Auditorium.
Watson B. Miller, commissioner
Of the immigration and Naturali-
zation Service and general chair
man of Brotherhood Week drive
here, will preside.
Quota for the campaign here is
$4,000 in the Washington area to
carry on research in national diff
ferences" and similar topics and to
help schools, churches and other
groups use this knowledge to pro-
mote practical American Brother
hood"
Religious leaders speaking at the
Sunday program will be Msgr. John
K. Cartwright, representing Arch
bishop O'Boyle; Rabbi Norman Ger
stenfeld of the Washington Hebrew
Congregation, and DIR. Edward r.
Elson, pastor of the National Pres
byterian Church.
Evening star., 1948-02-20

A Washington woman is back in
the Capital after living several
months In Eva Braun's home in
Munich, and now she is wondering
where she is going to find a place
to live here.
She is Mrs. Iva E. Payne, the wife
Of Allen Payne, an engineer in
charge Of the Munich utilities for
the military government. She re-
turned to Washington Monday night
with her 16-year-old son by a pre-
vious marriage. Ted Roberts. Mr..
Payne is planning to return later.
Mrs. Payne found the house which
Hitler provided for his mistress
comfortable. But the great draw
back was the number of the curious
who rang the bell and asked to be
shown through.
The Stars and Stripes, Army
newspaper, carried a story about the
Evening star., 1948-02-20
Market TethnoIogist
Injured Critically in
Streetcar-Auto Crash

Dr.. Whitney B. Stout, 4s, of 4704
Langdrum lane, Chevy Chase, Md,
was in critical condition today at
Georgetown Hospital after a street.
car-auto collision yesterday at Wis
consin and Idaho avenues NV.
DR.. Stout, marketing tech
nologist and administrator in the
Office Of Experiment Stations Of
Agriculture Departments Agricul-
tural Research Administration, suf-
fered a fractured skull and back,
jaw and arm fractures when his
car was wrecked as he went to
his office yesterday.
DR.. Abner K. Kuttler, 81, of 4721
Forty seventh street NV, also in
the car, was reported in q "satis-
factory" condition today at Emer-
gency Hospital. DR.. Kuttler, head
Of the tuberculosis and Brucellosis
Division Of Agriculture's Bureau of
Animal Industry, suffered six frac-
tured ribs, cuts and bruises in the
crash Of the southbound auto and
a stretcar which was turning into
a streetcar turnaround.
Man Hurt by Bus.
In another accident yesterday,
William K. Bennett. IT, of 802
South Overlook drive, Alexandria,
Va, was struck at Sixteenth and
I streets NV. by a bus operated
by Odell Watkins, %, Of 444 New
Jersey avenue Sc, police said, and
was reported in fair condition to-
day at Emergency Hospital. He
suffered cuts to the scalp and right
hand.
A car operated by Corpl. Theo-
dore E. Nancy, "a, of No. Z precinct,
struck Mrs. Ruth Thomas, 81, Of
1925 Kennedy street NV. yesterday,
police said, as she crossed the street
at Georgia avenue and Kennedy
street NV.
She was reported in undetermined
condition at Walter Reed Hospital
with head, hip and elbow injuries.
Corpl. Nancy, who lives at 1902
Flower avenue, Takoma Park, Md,
formerly was assigned to the Aci-
dent Investigation Unit.
Evening star., 1948-02-20

Paynes' quarters, and the next day
some souvenir hunter made of with
the bronze name plate, Braun,
which was on the door.
Eva Braun's house, which was
assigned to the Paynes by the
American authorities, had fouI
rooms in the afraid shelter in
the basement, six rooms on the
first and second floors, and three
rooms for servants on the third
Evening star., 1948-02-20
Bill Coils for Yearly
Architect Certificates

Architects here would have to re-
new their certificates of registra-
,tion each year under a bill intro
duced in the House by Represent
ative Muhlenberg, Republican, of
Pennsylvania, himself an architect.
Referred to the House District
Committee, the measure would re-
quire renewal each May with the
District Board of Examiners and
Registrars. Applicants would be
required to pay SIS on filing his
application. $12 when the certifi-
cate was issued and SIS for re-
newal each year.
Evening star., 1948-02-20
8 Million Quarts Of Food
Canned in Virginia
By the Assoeioted Press

BLACKSBURG, Va, Feb. 90
Nearly 100000 quarts of food were
canned in the State last year under
the guidance of home demonstra-
ton agents, Miss Maude E. Wallace,
assistant director of Virginia Agri-
cultural Extension Service, reported.
Miss Wallace said in another
phase of the conservation program
wider use of lockers made possible
the freezing of 100000 pounds of
food.
Evening star., 1948-02-20
Peru Frees Money Market

LIMA, Peru, Feb. 20 P.-Ihe
government established free mar
ket in dollar trading yesterday. It
continued the official dollar ex-
change rate, however, at 8 soles
50 centavos.
Evening star., 1948-02-20
Alabama Reception Set

The annual congressional re-
ception of the Alabama State So
ciety will be held at $50 o'clock to-
night in the Wardman Park Hotel.
Evening star., 1948-02-20

school In Munich. He will 60 back
to school in Washington when Mrs.
Payne gets settled