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Evening star., 1948-03-03

hitter"
a youngster
majors after disappointing trials 1916 and 19
49, admits Gil II early There
much didn't know Then off bad start due
to those infected feet had in spring training"
Joe EneeI Had the Solution
year, though continued cit matter OF
bad luck again side training.
batting stroke bit to relieve the strain side and
going looked horrible in training and naturally
Gfnh sending to Chattanooga needed
work in the minors
fact I at Chattanooga
quite get batting stride had lost
stroke feel comfortable plate nothing did seemed
Finally Engel Chattanooga pres-
Engel whipped don't know what's hap
pened Tell what to do
guess he had waited until
right You're chopping
a don't you
in a row..
Finished GoriousIy With Mats
that did it, Not right
struck three Soon, though felt
meeting well hits
I.ddnt really until the last six weeks the
think they'll let alone down here I'll be right I'm
going training.
regular around believe I'll hits
1873 now-about than should but it
long to lose weight in this weather"
lifted his Chattanooga batting to $40 with his be-
Washington he had
perfection for Gil batted
fossy games the plate
he smashed 6 singles doubles and 2 triples.
year little pressure in his bid for out
Kuhel with Spence Buddy Lewis George
has regular outhelders There's job
open Gil chesty enough to feel he'll grab it.
, 1948-06-02

World War / figures, when in
1920 and 1921 prices were only
one and a half times above
1914.
In great Britain, where price
controls are still in effect, a
20 per cent increace nj living
costs occurred between 1899
and July 1947, compared to a
l55 per cent increase between
1914 and 1920.
Sweden, Denmark and Nor
way have seen increases of 81
81 and So percent respectively,
while after the first war prices
went up as much as 136, 1877
and 300 per cent in theat order.
The survey indicates that
in Paris, France, last March
prices were nearly IA times
as high as in 1899. This COM
pares with an increase by 1921
of little less than three times
over costs at the start of
World War /.
, 1948-06-02
NOTICE

Any person descended of
SARAH JANE MARKoE. de-
ceased, formerly of Estates
Pearl and Annals Hope, St.
.Croix, v. l., is requested to
communicate with the under-
signed.
Dated, May 20, 1s48.
GEORGE H. T. DUDLEY
Office and P, o. Address. /.
P. Q. Box III St. Thomas, v. !.
, 1948-06-02
NEWS

A steamer is scheduled to
sail from New Orleans June
18th, 1948, Mobile, June 22nd,
Tampa, June 10Th, and will
call at Frederiksted on or
about July 18th, provided suf-
ficient cargo offers.
STEAMSHIP 20. Inc,
Rob't I. Merwin & Co. Inc.
Agents
, 1948-06-02
Cost qf Lioing Surveyed
By 10 In n Countries

Prices throughout most of
the world rose more gradually
after the start of World War
II than after the start of the
First World War, an analysis
made by the international La
Dor office (ILO reveals. Using
1939-- the start of World War
Has one base year, and 1914
1.-The start of World War LAS
the other base year, the ITO
survey shows the comparative
price situation approximately
three years after the end of
each war.
In fifteen of the twenty-one
countries studied, the index of
food, clothing and other basic
household expenses rose more
SHARPLY from 1914 to 1921 than.
between the years 1889 and 10
I48. Only in France, India, Bra
I'll, Chile, Peru and Spain did
the cost of living climb more
rapidly during the latter per-
liod, the report says.
For a resident of the United
States, the cost of living at the
end of February 1913, was SO
per cent above the 1899 index.
In 1920, a 100 per cent rise had
been registered over 1914.
This figure, however, dropped
to 70 per cent during the re-
(cession of 1921.
At the end of March 1913,
Canadian prices were 40 per
cent above those in 1899. But
in 1920, the cost of living was
$50 per cent higher than at the
start of the First World War.
In Peru, on the other hand,
prices at the end of February
l948 were more than three
times what they were in 1889,
whereas in 1920 and 1921 they
were about double those at the
start Of the war.
Chileans--the survey shows
were paying almost four
times as much for basic COM
modities at the end of January
1948 than nine years before.
This differs considerably from
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EDITORIAL
Halt II The Public Works Program


AFTER a belated start, the public works program got I'M
der way, but not for long. Before the first actual step in the
program was made there had to be the almost endless plan
ming and red tape typical of such projects. Then came the
dawn, or what seemed to us the dawn. But alas, no such dream
came true.
ALL over the place streets have been dug up, bitches
opened, and left gaping, not only defacing the landscape, but
creating hazards both to motorists and pedestrians alike.
When rain falls these trenches catch water, and for days after
they add to the disadvantage which mud brings. On hot dry
days the dirt which is thrown up on the banks of these trench
es turns to dust and covers everything for hundreds of yards
around. 1t is distressing, and creates much discomfort to say
the least.
BUT there is something symbolic about these cutters,
bitches, trenches, or what have you. They seem to represent
the spirit of the program, which at its inception was to provide
employment for hundreds, to help create a mild form of pros
perity, and eventually help to raise the standard of living to
at least one place closer to the accepted American standard.
At first there was the question of priority, for the war was still
at its height, and certain essential materials Just could not be
had However, the war has ended, 10, these three years, and
conditions everywhere have returned to normal Yet our pub
lie works program is still moving along at its snairs pace, and
from all appearances getting nowhere.
H original program was to have included hospitals,
schools, sewage disposal system, and other Improvements,
such as haTd-surfacing Of certain roads. As is normal and
natural %blueprints had to be drawn and other plans made pre-
lminary to the actual undertaking of the job on the spot. But
this should have been done, and as everyone expected, GER
tain projects would certainly have been underway, providing
employment for many, and at the same time giving encourage
ment of bigger and better things to come. There ought to be
some word or statement as to the program, and its future.
, 1948-06-02

This is the time we need the
program, its employment, and
the moral lift which it would
give to our people in these
times when the ebb is so low.
Evening star., 1948-04-28
Junior High at Page
Protested in ARLINGTON

Possible conversion of the Thomas
Nelson Page Elementary School in
Arlington to junior high school use
was protested last night before the
Arlington County School Board.
The move is being considered by
the board to relieve overcrowdin9
at Washington-Lee High School.
which, school officials say, is in dan
ger OF losing its accredited standing
due to crowded conditions.
Sheldon F.. Dean of Thomas Nell
son Page School Parent Teacher As
sociation, told the school board his
group had voted, ia to IS, to pro-
test the move.
Frech Bach, president of the Ball
ston Citizens Association, which is
In the area served by the school, said
his group also opposed the proposal.
The board, which met last night
at James Monroe School, decided to
hold a spring inspection tour of the
81 Arlington schools in May A
similar tour was conducted by the
present school board members when
they were candidates for the board
last summer.
The board set June 81 as the
opening date for summer school and
agreed to pay the tuition of "a col.
ored students from Arlington who
attend schools in Washington.
Evening star., 1948-04-28
Probation Officer Bright
Gets 2-Way Police Radio

Installation of a two-way police
radio communications system in the
automobile OF State Parole and
Probation Officer Roy D. Bright
was authorized yesterday by the
Prince Georges County commits
sioners.
The move will eliminate unneces-
sary OBTAINING of juvenile offenders
at eeither the county Jail in Upper
Marlboro or County Service Build
ing, Hyattsville the commissioners
reported.
Mr.. Bright is assigned to the
Southern Maryland district, but his
principal mission is in Prince
Georges County. When juvenile
offenders are first arrested, they are
held by police until Mr.. Bright can
take custody. Use of the new-way
radio system will hasten the pro-
cedure in notifying Mr.. Bright. who
does not always remain in his office
in Upper Marlboro.
The radio system was recon-
mended by Commissioner Norman
H. Collins. who also is chairman OF
the county police commissioners.
In other business during their un.
usually light session at Upper Marl-
ooro yesterday, the commissioners
agreed to attend a meeting of the
County Commissioners Association
OF the Western Shore of Maryland
at 10 am. May II In the Hotel Alex
ander, Haeerstown.
Evening star., 1948-04-28

Silver Spring detectives today
planned to show pictures of suspects
in their files to employees of Lenders,
Inc, 1904 Georgia avenue, in an at
tempt to identify the bandit who
held up the cashier yesterday and
escaped with approximately $700.
After the holdup, the assistant
manager of the loan office, Hal
Hendry, Is, of Kensington, chased
the bandit nearly 100 yards to a
waiting taxicab.
There, he and the bandit circled
the cab several times while Mr..
Hendry vainly attempted to fire his
gun, which had jammed, and the
bandit kept his revolver trained on
Mr.. Hendry.
Finally, the man ran across
Georgia avenue to Jesup Blair
Park and escaped.
The cashier, Mrs. Marjorie O.
Wells, "A. Manassas. Va, said she
was alone in the front Office when
the bandit walked in shortly before
l pm.
She said he pulled revolver from
his coat pocket and told her: Give
me the money and keep quiet"
After giving him the contents of
Evening star., 1948-04-28
Court Reverses Stand
On Worthington Estate

The Montgomery County Orphans
Court ruled Yesterday that Mrs.
Naomi Worthington, second wife of
Otis A. Worthington. Silver Spring
real estate man. who died April 18.
is his legal widow.
Accordingly. the court appointed
her administrative of the estate and
revoked its action of last week in
granting letters of administration
TO Mr.. Worthington first wife
Mabel, and to Clitus o. Bour-
deauX, jr.
No estimate of the estate could be
determined pending an inventory
1t was explained Much of the
estate was jointly owned by Mr.
Worthington and Naomi Worthing-
ton, 1t was said.
The court took its action after il
upheld legality of divorce which
Mr.. Worthington obtained from his
first wife in 1896 in Carson CITY
New. He was married to his second
wife Immediately afterward in the
same city, according to the court.
In her petition last week. Mrs
Mabel Worthington claimed Mr.
Worthington did not execute a will
and left her and her two children
, Lane A. Worthington. 16. and Ma
tllda. l3, as his heirs.
The court explained that under
the law. the two children will receiv.
half the estate not owned jointl,
by Mr.. Worthington and his seconc
wife.
Evening star., 1948-04-28
Man Fined in Death
OF 0xon Hill Girl, 10

A $500 fine in lieu of an 1S-month
jail sentence was imposed against
Waldorf Md man in Prince
Georges County Circuit Court yes
terday, in connection with the traffic
death of 10-yesr- -old Oxon Hill
school girl April S.
He was Clemmer Basil Mills, 81
a sawmin operator and lumber
dealer, whose conviction in Upper
Marlboro Police Court on a man.
slaughter charge was upheld yes
terday in the Circuit Court.
Mills was the driver of a truck
which instantly killed Rose MARY
Thorne of slsl Livingston road
Silesia, as she crossed the road ir
front Of her home to board an Oxor
Hill school bus.
He was found guilty of three
counts in the lower court April Is
by Trial Magistrate Alan Bowie
At that time. he paid a $50 fine
for having inadequate brakes on hi.
truck and $25 for failing to come
to full stop within 10 feet from 9
school bus as required by Maryland
law. He appealed the manslaughtel
conviction, however, when Judge
Bowie ordered him sentenced tc
lS months in the Maryland House
, Of Correction.
Evening star., 1948-04-28
County Aid Opposed
For Mental Hyqiene

Six of seven speakers at the an
nual membership meeting of the
Montgomery County Mental Hy-
giene Society last night agreed
that private agencies have an i'm
portant function in mental hygiene
work.
They rejected proposal by the
seventh speaker, Mrs. Edith M
Stern of the State Board of. Men,
tai Hygiene, that the mental hy-
giene program be supported by
public tax funds because, she said
1T is part of public health work. -
approximately $50 persons at
tended the meeting in the Mont
gomery County Circuit Courtroom
Rockville.
DR.. George H. Preston, State COM
missioner of mental hygiene, said
private agences can pioneer to build
public opinion in favor of accept
ing mental hygiene projects.
He was supported by Juvenile
Court Judge Alfred D. Noyes.
Another speaker, Trial Magistrate
Warren Browning of Bethesda
Police Court, suggested ablish-
ment Of a domestic relations coun-
sci for the county.
Other speakers included T. H.
Owen Knight, supervisor of pupil
personnel for Montgomery County
schools; Mrs. Linden S. Dodson,
County Welfare Board, and DR.. Will
liam w. Welsh, County Medical So
ciety.
Evening star., 1948-04-28
Hyattsvi||e Urged TO Hire
Planners 10 Chart Growth

A proposal that a firm of CITY
planners be retained to chart the
expansion of the town was discussed
last night by the Hyattsville Plan
ming Committee.
The meeting, held at the County
Service Building. was told such a
survey would cost about SIT 900. The
City Council is to discuss the project
at their Monday meeting.
Hiram L. Lawrence, chairman of
the Planning Committee and a
member OF the city council, declared
such a study would be OF great help
to the community in discussing a
proposed bond plan for municipal
improvements.
In other actions. Mr.. Lawrence
appointed a legislative subcommit-
tee headed by George J. O'Hare.
former councilman; named Daniel
j. Burke to head a special subcom-
mittee to study proposed business
tax for Hyattsville. and appointed
DR.. Victor r. Boswell to head a sub
committee to plan a city-wide
flower contest.
Evening star., 1948-04-28
Micro-FiIm Records Help Bring
$22, 500 Award for.Leq Loss

A man who lost leg as the re-
suit of an automobile accident yes
terday was awarded $22,500 dam
ages by an Arlington Circuit Court
jury.
The two-day suit, over which the
jury deliberated an hour and five
minutes, also saw these develop
ments:
Use of micro-f1lmed hospital rec
ords for the first time in the court.
Photographs introduced in evi-
dence without identifying testimony
from former policeman who took
the pictures.
Testimony that the force of the
collision left an imprint of the
cloth of the injured mans trousers
in car bumper.
Thomas N. Woods of Durham.
N. c.. brought the suit through At
torney John Paul Jones of Airing
ton. Defendants were Mr.. and Mrs.
Donald M Karban, formerly of
Arlington, who now live in West
Landover Hills. Md.
Testimony showed Mr.. Woods was
a passenger in a car operated by
George Graves, also of Durham,
which ran out of gasoline about $50
am. March Is. 1912. They got out
to push the machine from the rear
when the car. operated by Mr.. Kar-
Evening star., 1948-04-28

Subsequently Mr.. Glen affiliated
with the Republican Party and ir
l946 he offered for the House. HI
was unopposed for the nomination
and no primary was necessary. He
was defeated by Representative
Sasscer in the general election two
years ago but Mr.. Glenn says he
polled the largest Republican vote
in the districts history.
Taxi Union Ex-President.
Mr.. Glenn was in the news in 1941
when, as president of the United
Taxicab Drivers, Inc, he called a
vacation" strike of Washington
taxicab drivers which preceded the
change in zone rates.
He is native of Pittsburgh. He
was educated in the public schools
there and later studied accounting
and law courses. For a year and a
half he was a reporter on the Pitts
burgh Dispatch and then joined the
Pennsylvania Railroad. which hs
served as clerk, locomotive fireman
and engineer.
Heads Civic Association.
He came to Prince Georges County
in 1899 and has been engaged in the
taxicab business in the Washington
area most of the time since then
His home is at 220 Woodland roac
Sc, Morningside Village, Suitland
a hae hnnr 1f
ingside Village Civic Association
has been active in work amons
teen-agers and in other community
affairs.
Mr.. Glenn's wife is the former
Miss Margaret w. Hartley of Ell.
rama, Pa. They have three children
A fourth, an Army flight engineer
was lost in combat over the Bay o.
Venice in World War II.
Evening star., 1948-04-28
Adventists Urge America
To Recapfure Spirituality

All Christian forces in Americs
were called on to "recapture the
deep spirituality of former days" ir
a speech by Elder L. X. Dickson
vice president of the Seventh day
Adventist General Conference be.
fore the church's annual spring
conference in Takoma Park today.
Yesterday, the Executive Com
mittee made plans to strengthen the
overseas organization by sending
hundreds of South Sea Island ma
tives as Christian teachers into re-
mote sections of New Guinea.
Plans to develop more teachers
for the academies in the Philippine
Islands also were drafted.
In other action yesterday. author
ization was given for two new West
ern headquarters buildings, S1l5,-
1877 structure In Glendale, Calf, and
second to cost $4,000, in Reno,
New.
Evening star., 1948-04-28

ban. then an employe of the Gov.
ernment Printing Office, collidec
with it from the rear on Route /
near South Eighteenth street, Arl.
ington.
Mr.. Woods legs were crushed be.
tween the bumpers Of the two cars
and the imprint of the weave or
his suit was impressed into the
metal Of the bumper on the Graves
machine. The injured man spen,
about 7 months in Emergency Hos.
pital, Washington, and the micro
filmed records of that institution
were permitted to be projected ir
the courtroom.
Judge Walter T. Mccarthy also
sustained Mr.. Jones in permitting
photographs of the accident to be
introduced even though the person
who took them, M. ]. Ward, a
former identification officer on the
Arlington police force, did not tes-
tify. Mr.. Jones argued the pictures
were admissible if they showed a
true and fair" representation OF
conditions testified to by witnesses.
Attorney T. Brooke Howard OF
Alexandria. representing the Kar-
bans, moved to set aside the verdict
and both sides will file briefs. Mr..
Woods had asked for $4,000 dam
ages.
Evening star., 1948-04-28
BeoH Keeps Silent on Report
He Is Slated as Party Chief

AS Maryland Republicans pre-
pared to name new State chair
man at their convention May 20 in
Baltimore, Representative Beall OF
the 9Th District had no comment
today on reports that he will be
named to the post which is to be
vacated by Galen L. TAFT of Chevy
Chase.
Nobody has asked me to be
chairman" Mr.. Beall said. I've
only read something in the papers
and consequently have no comment
to make"
Mr.. TAFT will relinquish the chair
manship which he has held for 25
years.
Another 9Th District prospect
the Associated Press reported. is
Russell E. Mccain of Frederick. He
is minority member of the State
Roads Commission. Some quarters
have felt he would not be interested
in leaving his $5,0O0-a-year job
which he holds at the pleasure OF
Gov. Lane. Democrat.
Mr.. Beall would not be in a similar
position because he was elected
Some leaders. however. have talked
over the possibility of paying the
committee chairman $4,000 a year
although 1t carries no salary at
present.
Evening star., 1948-04-28

tory of Music before studying law
at Columbus University, Washing
ton, from which he was graduated
Two-City Law Practice.
He began praoticing law in 1896
and now maintains Offices both in
Annapolis and Washington. His
practice was interrupted two years
during the war while he was serving
in the Army.
He is past master of the Masonic
Blue Lodge, officer in the Royal
Arch Chapter Of Masons, a member
Of the Council of Royal and Select
Masters, Commandery, knights
Templar, Tall Cedars of Lebanon
the Knights of Pythias, the Ameri-
can Legion, Annapolis Lodge, 622, B
P. o. Elks. and Sigma Delta Kappa
Legal Fraternity.
Mr.. Weidemeyer was on Army
duty when he ran for Congress in
1914. In 1916 he was general cam
paign manager for the Republican
Party in Anne Arundel County
when the party made its best show
ing in more than 10 years.
He is now chairman of the Re-
publican State Central Committee
of Anne Arundel County, six of
whose members formally indorsed
his present candidacy. He also has
been Endorsed by the Republican
State Central Committee of Prince
Georges County.
Evening star., 1948-04-28

two cash drawers, the man started
to walk out and Mrs. Wells begar
screaming. she said.
Mr.. Hendry. who was in a real
ofice, ran out In time to see the
bandit 60 through the door.
Detectives said the cab driver
Weldon c. Fincham, 1914 Seconc
avenue, Silver Spring, told them hi
picked up the man at Georgia ave.
nue. and Colesville road and drove
him to the Hot Shoppe, about 10t
yards from the lending ONCE, where
the man told him to wait.
Mr.. Fincham told detectives that
when the man returned from the
holdup, he told him to drive to a
restaurant on Colesville road. Be-
fore he could start his cab, however
Mr.. Hendry came running up and
his passenger jumped out.
The cab driver told detectives he
rolled out of the other door and lay
on the sidewalk while the two men
chased each other around the cab
Mrs. Wells described the holdup
man as about 80 years old, 6 feet
tall, with jet black" hair and
weighing about 155 pounds. She
said he wore a brown suit,
Evening star., 1948-04-28
Montgomery PTA Council
10 Discuss School BUILDING

A discussion Of the Montgomery
County School construction pro-
gram will feature a meeting of the
County Council of Parent Teacher
Association at pm. tomorrow at
Galthersburg High School.
Nathan R. Gilbert, council presi-
dent, maintained today that the
county commissioners recent de-
cision to delay issuance of s3,OO0,-
600 in bonds for new schools may
delay the program.
In their resolution, the commits.
sioners said they would defer issu.
ance Of the bonds until the Board
OF Education uses approximately
$780, 900 remaining from a $4,000 OO(
bond issue sold last fall.
Mr.. Gilbert argued to pay TO,
construction already under way.
He said that under Maryland laws
the Board of Education is permitted
to incur obligations only after fund.
have been appropriated.