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Evening star., 1948-12-15
Phoebus Quits as Aide
To Building Inspector;
Son Also Resigns Job

Assistant Building Inspector Will
liam. M. Phoebus, found guilty two
months ago Of submitting false re-
ports, resigned today.
Mr.. Phoebus, a 56-year-old veteran
of World War I, said only that he
didn't want to work here any more
when asked why he had resigned
His son, William S. Phoebus. Is, also
submitted his resignation from the
District government, where he had
been fire escape inspector in the
building inspection Office. He could
not be reached for comment, but his
father said he had found a better
job.
Engineer Commissioner Gordon r.
Young, who found the father guilty
Of the false report charge, said the
designations were submitted without
explanation and declined to discuss
them. They were accepted.
Accused of Disobedience.
The elder Phoebus last August l3
was charged with stating he had in
spected certain buildings after he
had failed to do 50. He also was ac-
cused of disobediehce of direct orders
from superiors and of being absent
from duty without authority.
The offenses took place on July
8, 8, II, IA and %. Building officials
said Mr.. Phoebus had gone to the
movies when he should have been
inspecting buildings.
Later. at closed hearings before
Gen. Young, the attorney for Mr..
Phoebus, John B. Diamond III, de-
clared Mr.. Phoebus was i'll and had
gone to the movies to rest.
Elder Phoebus Found Guilty.
After several hearings before Gen.
Young. the inspector was found
guilty on October %, officially repri-
manded and suspended without pay
for 60 days beginning October 81.
The elder Phoebus, who lives at 13
Maryland avenue, Gaithersburg,
Md, had been a District employe
since 1926. His salary was $3,773 a
year. His son, who lives in Balti-
more, earned S2,770 a year. He had
been a District employe only one
year.
Evening star., 1948-12-15
Conference Slated Here
By College Of Surgeons

The American College of Surgeons
will meet on March Is and 16 in the
Hotel Statler to discuss latest de-
velopments in medical and hospital
fields.
The two-day conference will be
one of six throughout the Nation
during the next several months.
Separate sessions for the hospital
and medical groups, as well as joint
meetings, will be scheduled.
Evening star., 1948-12-15
Manhunt in D. T.. Area
Called Off as Girls, Z,
Confess Attack Hoax

A hoax perpetrated yesterday BY
1.-TWO 12-year-old girls touched off 9
l5-hour manhunt in Prince Georges
County-the biggest in years-for q
nonexiStent rapist.
The search and attendant investi-
CATION, in which FBI agents Joined
Maryland State troopers, detectives
and uniformed policemen of the
county and its towns, ended abrupt
ly when the girls confessed from
hospital beds that all they had re-
ported was fabrication.
Authorities estimated that at least
IS policemen, many in cruising cars
we're engaged directly in the hunt
for the mythical criminal. Un-
counted officers in the District
neighboring counties and States also
were alerted to watch for a man
described in detail as the girls at
| tacker.
II Suspects Questioned.
Seventeen suspects were appre-
hended and subjected to close ques-
tioning at Hyattsville police head
quarters. Teletype wires hummed
with messages concerning the fake
assault. Streams of orders were
broadcast by overworked dispatchers
who manned a police radio system
All the while, the two girls
received painstaking care at Leland
Memorial Hospital, Riverdale, un-
dergoing examinations and treat
ment for hysteria.
They admitted, at last, that nc
one had touched them and that
they ripped their own clothing to
indicate maltreatment.
Detective Richard A. Pearson an
nounced that the girls told the har-
rowing story of assault to cover up
their absence, without permission
from a Northeast Washington
church home for children.
Found Lying in Mud.
About 1880 am, Richard Cliff
1906 Longfellow street, Hyattsville
was driving along Old Colesville
road, near Queens Chapel road, In
the College Heights Estates area
He noticed the two girls lying in a
mud bank beside the road. They
were crying. When he stopped to
see what was wrong, the girls sobbed
out part Of their story about being
attacked by colored man.
Police said later the girls thought
they would get a ride back to Their
home; instead, Mr.. Cliff rushed
them to the hospital and notified
the police.
Evening star., 1948-12-15

last June, In preliminary move
in the divorce action now pending
a District Court Judge found that
Mrs. Keleher's maintenance was
amply provided for by her taking
considerably in excess" of $33, ,00O
of her husbands money from safe
deposit boxes.
The appellate court declared
moreover, that if Municipal Court
had had jurisdiction over the main
tenance action, and had accepted
Keleher's testimony. the trial Judge
could have found that the wife de-
serted the husband without good
cause, taking with her $4,000 of his
money"
From such finding the trial court
could conclude, as the District Court
did, that the husband had supplied
the wife with ample funds for her
support, even though he did it invol-
UNFAIRLY"
Evening star., 1948-12-15
RoyoII Reaches Athens
To Study Greek Warfare
BY the Assoeiotsd Press

ATHENS, Dec. 15.-Army Secre-
tary Royal arrived here today In
quest of first-hand information on
Greece's warfare with Communist
guerrillas.
He conferred with high American
and Greek officials. With prospects
that the Greek military campaign
against the guerrillas will have to
continue next year, the Greek press
and some officials have been seek
ing additional American aid.
Evening star., 1948-12-15
FoxhaI| Village Serene
AS Police Await 'Bombinq

All was quiet in Foxhall Village
last night as police cars prowlec
throughout the area. If plans hac
been made to toss a third bomb
into the community, police haltet
them.
According to Precinct Capt. Bev.
erly c. Beach residents Of the area
are much concerned over the
mysterious bombs" which exploded
in the neighborhood at 7:55 pm
Saturday and at the same hour
Monday.
They are believed to have been
thrown by pranksters.
Evening star., 1948-12-15
Suicide Ruled in Death
Of Marine Sergeant

Coroner A. Magruder Macdonald
today issued a certificate of suicide
in the death of Marine Sergt. Albert
z. Robertson, 27, who was found
dead December l in his apartment
ut 236 Massachusetts, avenue NV
DR.. Macdonald said Sergt, Robert
son, who once served as a guard on
the Freedom Train, died from an
overdose of sleeping tablets. The
certificate had been withheld pend
Ing the result of a chemical analysis
Evening star., 1948-12-15
State Societies
ToFete Visitors
To|nauguration
Groups to Entertain
Thousands Unable
To Attend Ball

The State societies in Washington
will take up the problem of pro-
viding entertainment for the thou
sands Of out-of-town visitors who
won't be able to squeeze into the
Armory for the inaugural gala and
the inaugural ball
This was indicated today after a
meeting of representatives of 27 of
the Al State societies-there is no
society for Maryland. The group
met yesterday with Chairman Mel
win D. Hildreth and other officials
of the Inaugural Committee at the
Tariff Building headquarters.
Dennis E. McQueary, chairman Of
the States Participation Commit
tee, told the meeting the committee
would appreciate their giving func-
tions to provide "as much as possible
for visiting delegates to attend" He
said mot every one will be able to
attend the gala or inaugural ball"
Armory Crowd Limited.
The gala is scheduled for the
night before Inauguration day and
the ball for inaugural night, jan
uary 20. Fire regulations limit
crowds at the Armory to approx
mately 5000. The ball is an invita-
tion affair for distinguished inaugu-
raj guests at $40 per person.
Meanwhile, John F. Morrissey,
chairman of the Ticket Committee,
reported his Office has taken in
more than $4,000, of which about
$4,000 has come from seat reserva-
tions made by Government en-
ployes. At present only the So and
81 seats are being sold. he said.
Information may be obtained by
phoning Sterling 1855.
Details of an inaugural airlift"
also were released yesterday.
Stephen H. Harrington and Linus
G. Glotzbach of the Transportation
Committee said the plan is to have
airlines fly visitors here daily from
such cities as Philadelphia, Rich
mond, New York and Pittsburgh,
where hotel rooms are available. At
present the plan calls for a shuttle
service between here and Phila-
delphia by the lines flying that
route. it was stated.
1,200 Rooms Reserved.
philadelphia was selected as the
first city for air shuttle service as
it affords excellent train service In
the event weather should prohibit
flying" according to j. w. Hutchin-
son, executive officer of the COM
mittee. Some / 200 hotel rooms have
been reserved in Philadelphia in
connection with the "airlift," it was
added.
The District Recreation Board ap-
proved a request of the Inaugural
Housing Committee that the Ban
neker Recreation Center be used for
housing colored guests during four
days of inaugural week. The build
ing provided sleeping quarters for
servicemen during the war. 1t will
hold about 1000 cots set up in
dormitory style. Only the south end
of the building will be used, it was
announced.
Evening star., 1948-12-15
Winter Parking Ban Here
In Effect Until March IS

The winter ban on automobile
parking on SO miles of the principal
streets of the city went into effect
last midnight and will continue
until midnight March IS. The regu-
latlon is designed to permit the
removal Of heavy overnight snow
without interference.
The regulation prohibits parking
on major traffic arteries between
and 7 am. and automobiles found
parked in these areas probably will
be removed by the police. The
streets on which parking is pro-
hibited have been marked with signs
during the last week.
Evening star., 1948-12-15
Board Again Seeks
Old Dennison School
As Playground Site

The Recreation Board has re-
opened its attempts to get the old
Dennison School property on S
street between Thirteenth and
Fourteenth streets NV. turned over
to it for playground.
The board, meeting yesterday
asked the Commissioners to ''re-
open the possibility" of assigning
the property for playground in
light of a recent report of the
Health Departments Bureau OF
Sanitary Engineering. This report
condemned as insanitary seven
houses fronting the school property
on S street and recommended. they
be demolished.
1t was the fact that the property
had inadequate frontage on S
street and would have been an
ALLEY playground" that prevented
its being turned over earlier this
year.
Report Awaits Action.
The Health Department report has
not been approved by the Commits
sioners.
The board got into a debate on
the control of three proposed SWIM
ming pools at Randall, Taft and
Deal Junior High Schools. The
pools are to be located on school
property, adjacent to the school
buildings, but will be built with
Recreation Board money.
C. Melvin Sharpe, Board of Edu-
cation representative on the Recrea-
ton Board, said the school board
wants assurance" that students will
be allowed to use the pools during
schools hours. Recreation Board
members were unwilling to commit
themselves on definite hours, but
said everything will be worked out
satisfactorily.
Planning Money Available.
"We don't want to mislead the
Board of Education into thinking
they will have exclusive use of the
pools" James E. Schwab COM
mented.
Money to plan the pools has been
appropriated, Harry S. Wender, Rec
reation Board president, said. The
pools will be in a separate building
with removable sides for the sum-
mer, and will have separate diving
pools.
The board voted to study the
segregation report, issued last week
condemning Washington's segre-
gated setup. The board plans to
defend itself against several mis-
statements" which, it said, were in
the report.
Repeats Charges.
Mr.. Wender repeated his earlier
charges made after the segregation
report was published that it con-
tanned untrue and half true
statements. Mr.. Schwab Joined in
saying the report took upon itself
to state the opinions of members of
the board without ever consulting
them"
Mr.. Wender said he believed one
incident mentioned in the report
the bodily removal of colored girl
from the Park View Playground
never occurred. If it had, he de-
clared, the recreation department
employe involved would have been
brought before the board because
such action constituted assault.
Milo F. Christensen, recreation
superintendent, told the board that
no employe of the department was
interviewed about the recreation by
the persons making the report.
Evening star., 1948-12-15
$4,000 Donation Opens
Food for israeli Drive

/. The District Zionist Organization
last night opened a three-month
Food for Israeli drive when a
check for $4,000 was donated by
T1fereth Israel Synagogue congre-
cation.
Rabbi Harry Silverstone of the
synagogue presented the check to
"A. S. Kay, chairman of the CAM
paign, at a meeting of the Louis d.
Brandeis district of the Zionist Or
ganization at the Jewish Commu-
nifty Center. Rabbi Silverstone said
another $1,000 had been pledged by
members OF the congregation.
Evening star., 1948-12-15
Street Vendor, II, Injured
Critically by Streetcar

A 72-year-old man was struck and
critically injured early today by a
streetcar at Seventh and G streets
NV.
The injured man, Abraham Wink
ler, 525 Sixth street NV, was taken
to Emergency Hospital Friends said
Mr.. Winkler sells trinkets and novel;
ties on the street.
He suffered head injuries when
he was struck while crossing Sew
enth street diagonally, police said.
Operator of the streetcar was listed
as Daniel H. Berry, go, of the 900
block of I street S.W.
Evening star., 1948-12-15
District Man Accused
OF Connecticut Fraud
from Yesterdays Last Edition. }

by rh0 ASSOciofeo FfeSt
NEW HAVEN, Conn.,, Dec. a.
The manager of corpora ton
formed to build houses in develop
ment in Trumbull was presented in
Superior Court today on q charge
of embezzlement by agent.
Judge Howard w. Alcorn set $25,-
600 as the bail for Richard H. Clark,
81, whose home address was listed
as in the 2200 block of @ street
NV, Washington.
The case was continued at the
request of Clark's lawyer, and no
plea was entered.
Clark, arrested last Friday, is
charged with having appropriated
for his own use funds he obtained,
ostensibly for the corporation he
managed, from the Manufacturers
and Merchants Securities Corp. of
New Haven.
The amount involved, Arthur T.
German, assistant States attorney,
said, was at least $4,000.
Evening star., 1948-12-15
ILunsbureh's S to Give
$4,000 in Bonuses

Employees of the Lansburgh &
Bro. department store will receive
Friday Christmas bonuses totaline
about $4,000, Ralph L. Goldsmith,
vice president and general manager,
announced today.
Amount received will vary accord
ing to length Of service, Mr.. Gold.
smith said.
Evening star., 1948-12-15
Police Link Investigated
In Norfolk Combine
BY the Assoeiotsd Press

NORFOLK, Va. Dec. 15.-Norfolk
officials want to know If there is any
significance in the fact that recent
raids on numbers writing establish
ments resulted in the capture of
papers "purporting to contain
names Of some members of the
Division of Police.
Police Chief Claude M. Lindsey
and Capt. Claude j. Staylor are in
possession of the papers. taken in
raids in which 248 persons were
arrested.
Evening star., 1948-04-30
Conference Backs
District Home Rule

Enactment of home rule for the
District, coupled with a compre-
hensive civil rights law designed to
make the Capital "a symbol OF
democracy is urged in the final
report Of the Citizens Conference
on Civil Liberties, held here April IA.
recommendations Of three COM
missions participating in the con-
ference, as made public today, in
clude:
Abolition of the House Un-Amer-
lean Activities Committee, revision
of the Presidents Federal employe
loyalty program, including limita-
ton of the power of dismissal, and
adoption of code of fair practice"
for congressional inquiries.
Also, abolition of segregation In
the armed forces and forbidding Of
discrimination in the Federal Gov
ernment, both by executive order;
enactment of antipoll tax and anti
lynch laws, and the creation of a
Evening star., 1948-04-30
Store Pieketing 10 Halt
Trade With Renoyator
Declared Illegal
BY the Associoied Press

Picketing one employers plant to
make him stop doing business with
another employer was held illegal
today by a National Labor Relations
Board examiner.
The decision by Sidney Lindner is
the first IN NLRB history holding
that any form of peaceful picketing
by unions is barred by law.
Mr.. Linder said picketing ordina-
rily is regarded as a form of free
speech-a method of telling the
public that labor dispute exists
But he said union action to COM
pei one employer to stop doing busi-
ness with another is a secondary
boecott-banned by the Taft-Hart-
ley Labor Act; hence any picketing
to enforce such boycott is illegal
too.
Mr.. Lindner's ruling closely fol-
lowed another by NLRB Examiner
Martin S. Bennett yesterday dealing
with picket line violence.
Mr.. Bennett held that a union
which authorizes picketing must
take legal responsibility for any
violence that may occur on the
picket line.
Both examiners reports become
final and subject to Federal court
enforcement-through contempt &C
tions-unlesS reviews by the five
man National Labor Relations Board
itself are asked by either side within
20 days.
The Linder decision grew out of
a dispute between Local 1896 of the
AFL Carpenters Union and the
Montgomery Fair Co., which op-
crates a department store at Mont
gomery, Ala.
The examiner found that the
stores carpenters went on strike and
began picketing in an effort to force
the store to stop dealing with Bear
Bros, Inc, a building contractor
employing nonunion carpenters on
q job of renovating the store.
The picketing continued until
stopped by a Federal court order
last February IA.
In reaching his conclusion Mr..
Lindner quoted from a Supreme
Court opinion Of Justice Jackson
saying that where violence or other
law violation occurs in picketing
the constitutional remedy would be
to stop the evil, but permit the
speech, if the two are separable; and
only rarely and when they are in
separable to stop or punish the
speech or publication"
Mr.. Lindner said it is his view
that the picketing at the Montgom-
cry store was an integral part of
the strike. in support thereof. and
not separable from the strike"
Evening star., 1948-04-30
6. ". U. 10 Crown Queen
OF May Festiva! tonight

The queen of George Washington
University's May Day festival will
be crowned at 8:l5 o'clock tonight
in the Lisner Auditorium, Twenty
first and H streets NV.
The queen, whose identity has not
yet been announced, was chosen
from Is student candidates by con-
valescent veterans at Walter Reed
Hospital Monday night. The two
students who received the next
Evening star., 1948-04-30

highest number of votes will serve
as the queens honor attendants
and the other II candidates will
form her court.
The students with the highest
number of votes are Jean Hanson,
81, of APO Warren street NV; Vir-
ginia Teeter, 10, of 1900 F street
NV, and jeanne Turney, 10, of
1919 North Hartford street, Airing
ton.
The ceremonies which begin at
4 pm. will include a conducted tour
OF the university, a buffet supper
and dancing. Seniors from high
schools in the Washington area
have been invited.
Evening star., 1948-04-30

permanent Fair Employment Prac-
tice Commission.
The conference also outlined a set
OF principles regarding academic
freedom for teachers. The three
commissions were headed by Robert
K. Carr and Mrs. J. @. Miller, on the
Presidents civil rights recommen-
dations; Alan Barth, on government
tai invasion of civil liberties, and
DR.. Alonzo Meyers and DR.. Richard
B. Kennan on strengthening aca-
demic freedom.
Evening star., 1948-04-30

The Manx Church, on the Isle of
Man, recently celebrated what it
called its 1,500th anniversary.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1948-10-01
CONTINUED from Page 117)

Continued from Page I'D
choose between Leah, the lovely
daughter of the rabbi whom his
family wishes him to marry, and
Peony to whom his heart inclined.
To circumvent the barrier, and
with connivance of Peony, David
marries a Chinese girl of his own
class rather than the rabbits
daughter and installs the woman
he really wants as his housekeep-
er, position she holds until they
both find the arrangement morally
disquieting and she departs for a
nunnery. Powerful and moving
as the story is, it is not a very
stirring love story, but quite in
tereSting for several secondary
reasons, such as the implication
that David, the Jew who has lost
touch with his cultural origins,
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1948-10-01

Robert Morrison, noted midwest
athlete and faculty member Of
Western Reserve University, has
been appointed by the National
Jewish Welfare Board (JWB) to
the newly created post of direc-
tor of its Health and Physical Ed
ucation Department.
The position entails gathering
of information on all aspects Of
health and physical education pro-
grams for Jewish Community
Centers and YM-YWHAs through
out the country affiliated with the
JWB. Mr.. Morrison's work will
also include counsel on and evalu
alton of health programs of local
Centers and VS. advice on the
setting up of such enterprises as
well as medical advisory commit
tees, and, in general, extending
health programs to Center men,
bership and the Jewish population
everywhere.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1948-10-01
Mobile, Alabama
Novels on InterInarriage

represents the strain of Judaism
that has absorbed into the main
stream of Chinese culture. It is
unfortunate that Miss Buck saw
fit to inject into her novel some
of the prevalent anti-Semitic no
tons of aspects Of Jewish life and
belief born largely of a distorted
view of, Jews and Judaism. And
that's a novel for which it is
claimed that deals with one of to-
days chief themes, tolerance.
The South of today is the set
ting for "Straw Fire." novel by
Kathleen Crawford IN. Y, Nor
row, 40. It presents the story
of a young impulsively impetuous
Virginia girl, who clashes with her
family when she falls in love with
a Jew.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1948-03-11
David E. Belts, Attorney,
Rockville, Md.
ORDER OF
PUBLICATION

Cynthia Leck Fondren, an infant
under the age of 81 years, 8211
Custer Road, Bethesda, Mary
land, by Arthur J. Leck, her
father and next friend,
Plaintiff,
VS..
Walter Lee Fondren, also known
as Russell Fondron, Defendant.
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR
MONTGOMERY COUNTY
Sitting AS A Court in Equity.
Equity No. 1887.
The object of this suit is to pro-
cure a decree Of divorce vinculo
matrimonli and custody of minor
child.
The Bill states that the Plaintiff
is a resident of Montgomery Coun-
ty having resided therein contin-
uously for more than one year and
that the Defendant is a non-resi-
dent residing in Fredericksburg,
Virginia;
That the parties were lawfully
married on the, 10th day of Sep
TENDER, 1914 in, New York City by
minister of the gospel.
That one child has been born of
said marriage.
That on or about the 10Th day of
July, 1916 the Defendant deserted
and abandoned the Plaintiff with
out just cause or reason and such
abandonment has continued unin-
terruptedly until such time and
that the separation of the parties
is beyond any reasonable expecta-
ton of reconciliation.
The Bill prays for a divorce a
vinculo matrimonii and care,~cus-
tody and guardianship of the said
minor child.
1t is thereupon this 18th day
of February, 1948, by the Circuit
Court for Montgomery County, sit
ting as a Court of Equity, ordered
that the Plaintiff, by causing a
copy of this order to be inserted
in some newspaper published in
said Montgomery County once in
each of four successive weeks be-
fore the 18th day of March, 1948,
give notice to the said absent de-
PENDANT of the object and sub
stance Of this bill, warning him to
be and appear in this Court in
person or by solicitor, on or before
the 2nd day of April next, to show
cause, il any he may have, why a
decree ought not to be passed as
prayed.
CLAYTON X. WATKINS,
Clerk of the Circuit Court
for Montgomery County.
True Copy-Test:
CLAYTON X. WATKINS,
so Clerk.