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The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1948-03-06
EDITORIALS:
Don't Forget to Give to NWM Fund

Don't Forget to Give to NWM Fund
The solicitors in the Nisei War Memorial Com
nittee drive to raise $1,000 i'll Seattle and it's vic
nifty will begin their doOr-to-door trek on Tuesday,
March 9. The drive will end March 16.
The funds will be used to pay for the expenses
involved in the holding of memorial services for
World War II Nisci Gil dead and i'll the building of
a permanent monument honoring them
$50, when you are contacted by the represen
tative assigned to your S t i t.. give
generously
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1948-03-06

"snafu"-,and, properly translated,
it certainly sums up the local sit
uation. Like the CT, we can't do
anything about the situation, ell
ther, except to make comments and
hope for the best.
HERE AND THERE
It always has to be a vet, but any
how, a news report from New York
has 1t that some unidentified vet
Gran tore up the joint after hear
ing the juke box play "Bongo-Bon-
go" for the umpteenth time In a
row.. His aim was bad, however;
he got the bartender instead Of
the Jerk who fed all the nickels
| into the juke box. We hope he has
better luck next time, If there Is
a next time. Mr.. Nisei Bowler
NISBO TAKAHASHI had himself a
large night last Tuesday, with a
618 series topped by a huge 262
single. The Puget Sound Baseb'l II
League will open on April 18th, so
any day now, local baseball fans can
expect NVC's diamond coach JOE
KESAMARU to sound the call for
the first turnout. AS before, the
! league will be divided into two
sections, due to the large number
of teams participating. Last year,
the NVC nine won the title in its
section, but lost the playoff to the
Italian Club, which won honors in
| the other section.
Evening star., 1948-03-07
Hotel Greeters Hear
Harrisburg Minister

American hotels are traditional
part of the country and have figured
in many great events in our history,
the Rev. Aurance F. Shank OF
Harrisburg. Pa, told the Middle
Atlantic Hotel Greeters Association
here yesterday.
The minister spoke at the greeters'
luncheon at the Wardman Park.
The three-day conference will close
today with brunch at the
Raleigh.
In urging that the American hotel
system be preserved, Mr.. Shank
told the greeters that their princi-
pal competitors were tourists houses
and trailer camps. The hotel men
already had devoted session to
defense strategy against the in
roads of the tourist homes and
"motels."
Courteous service is the answer,
Mr.. Shank advised.
After the luncheon, the greeters
adjourned for sightseeing followed
by dinner at the Shoreham. Other
hosts of the greeters were the Stat
Ter, Mayf1ower, Wardman Park and
Raleigh
H. Lee Merriman of Harrisburg,
president of the Pennsylvania greet
ers, was elected president OF the
Middle Atlantic Association. sue
! ceeding John J. Cost Of the Statler.
Evening star., 1948-03-07

Revisions of traffic AID parking
regulations in the Northwest area,
connected with a scheduled change
to bus service on the eastern half of
the Capital Transit Co.'S Rosslyn-
Benning streetcar line, were an
nounced yesterday by the Commits
sioners.
The changes are to become effec-
tive when the company makes its
switchover March %, or as soon
thereafter as possible
Eye street will be opened to two
way traffic between Eleventh and
Thirteenth streets In those blocks
however, there will be no parking at
any time on the south side of the
street, while standing will be pro-
hibted on the north side between
7 and $50 am. and between and
$50 pm. Parking for one hour is
to be permitted on the north side
between $50 am. and pm.
In the rush hours. parking will
not be allowed on the north side
of @ street between Florida ano
Rhode Island avenues, and on the
south side of r street between
Florida avenue and Seventh street.
Stop signs will be placed on Eighth
street at @ and r streets.
The changes are designed to pre-
vent congestion along the route
of "spur" lines to be operated b.
the Transit Company in connec
ton with the new bus service.
Evening star., 1948-03-07
Denial Of Dispensation
To Mihai Confirmed
BY the Associofed Press

Vatican City, Mar. 6.-Eugene
Cardinal Tisserant confirmed to-
night that Pope Plus XII has re-
fused to issue the special dispensa-
ton that would permit Mihai of
Romania and Princess Anne to
marry in the Catholic Church.
The permission will be granted
only if the former king pledges to
the Catholic religion any children
born of the marriage, Cardinal Tis-
serant said.
Princess Anne is Catholic: Mihai
belongs to the Orthodox Church.
official in Romania. The special
dispensation was requested last
month by their mothers.
Cardinal Tisserant is secretary of
the Oriental Church congregation.
In Paris today Princess Anne was
mot at home" to reporters. Mihai's
secretary, speaking from the Queen
Elizabeth en- route to New York. said
the former king had no comment
Cardinal Tisserant told a reporter
the Romanian constitution provides
that the king and his male de-
scendants must keep to the Greek
Orthodox faith. Mihai abdicated
the throne December 30, but this
week repudiated his action, saying
it had been forced on him by the
Russian backed government.
Evening star., 1948-03-07

Homeless babies under two years
old are coming to the Receiving
Home for Children in such num-
bers that the institution will have to
double the number of cribs for its
smallest residents.
The increase in babies brought
to the home is part of what Ray
mond F. Clapp, acting director OF
public welfare, described yesterday
as a grave problem.
A total of 1872 children were at
the receiving home yesterday-as
compared with daily average of
81 children last July.
AS for the babies, IA Of the chill
dren at the home yesterday were
under two years old. Earlier last
week, the number reached Is, a
record.
The youngest is year old. The
home will not take babies under six
months old. The infants are sent
to Gallinger, which repeatedly is
not anxious to have them because
hospital authorities contend hos
pital is no place for healthy child
Despite their extreme youth, half
the youngest children are sleeping
on cots for lack Of cribs. DR.. Will
liam H. Stavsky, home superintend-
ent, said the records of the home
Evening star., 1948-03-07
Head Of District Bar
To Testify al Hearing
On Tamm Wednesday

Several more witnesses are sched-
uled to testify on the contested
nomination of Edward A. Tamm,
FBI official, to be a District Court
Justice when a Senate Judiciary
subcommittee resumes hearings at
7 pm. Wednesday.
Senator Donnell, Republican, Of
Missouri, subcommittee chairman,
announced the witnesses will include
George Mcneil, president of the
District Bar Association, which op-
poses the nomination; Roger Robb,
Ernest Henry, Earl H. Davis, A. K.
Shipe and Ira Chase Koehne.
1t will be the fourth session of the
subcommittee on the Tamm nomina-
ton and the third night meeting.
Mr.. Tamm has been Endorsed by
three Senators, Attorney General
Clark, FBI Director j. Edgar Hoover
and others. He is opposed by the
American Bar Association and the
District Bar Association.
Two other hearings on District
matters are scheduled for this week.
The Senate District Committee
will hold a hearing at 10 am. to-
morrow on a House approved bill
to regulate casualty insurance in
the city.
A House District Subcommittee at
10 am. Wednesday, will consider
bill for admission of war veterans
to the District bar without taking
the bar examination.
Evening star., 1948-03-07
X-Ray Check 10 Enter
New Phase by April

Chest examination of Federal
employees in the major Government
agencies will be substantially COM
pleted by the end of this month, x
ray authorities stated last night.
When 100000 Federal workers
have had their chance to be checked
for tuberculosis, the survey will en-
ter a new phase, concentrating on
residential areas and employees of
private firms.
The surveys scheduling commit
tee, which assigned majority of
the portable X-ray units to the
big Office buildings for the first few
months of the survey, has nearly
completed assignment of machines
for the remainder of the six-month
study. The survey began January
IL.
With more than a third of the
expected total of 100000 adults from
the Washington area already ex-
amined, public health experts have
begun statistical analysis of the
results to date.
When their work is finished, they
will have the exact percentage Of
negative findings, newly discovered
active cases and other important
data. The Washington study, first
to be undertaken in an area of
more than 100000 population, will
serve as model for surveys
throughout the country.
Evening star., 1948-03-07
Receiving Home Short of Cribs
After Record Influx of Babies

showed the two cribs which the in
stitution had a year ago had been
sufficient to meet all requirements
for years.
Now the institution has seven
cribs and expects to get more shortly.
DIR. Stavsky blamed the influx
on babies on broken homes and lack
of housing. The children In one
family were sent to the receiving
home after policewoman discover
ed the entire family had been Sleep
ing for two nights in Union Station.
Mr.. Clapp said he believed the
increase in wards of the welfare
board also was due to the removal
from the relief rolls of many families
with dependent children, the re-
moval of provisions for special diets
and the inability of partly employ
able breadwinners to find jobs.
He pointed to the doubled popu-
lation of the receiving home, the
increased enrolment in the day
care centers and the fact that the
number of children boarded by
public welfare in homes or private
institutions jumped from 997 last
July to LOTS in January.
Whatever the reasons may be. y
he said, there is serious situation
confronting the community"
Evening star., 1948-03-07
Prince Georges Groups
To Ask Budget Hearing

A delegation representing civic,
parent teacher and women's groups
of Prince Georges County will ap-
pear before the County Commission
ers at Upper Marlboro Tuesday to
request public hearings on the l948-
40 county budget.
The delegation, seeking tentative
figures on the budget before it is
adopted, will include members Of
the County League of Women Vot-
ers, the County Civic Federation,
County Council of Parent-Teacher
Associations and the American As
sociation of University Women.
Mrs. Irma Bogdanoff, president of
the League of Women Voters, will
lead the group. Other representa-
tives of the women voters will be
Mrs. Simon Epstein and Mrs. Alex
Weinstein, cochairman of the Or
ganization's Education Committee.
DR.. Eric Durand of the Temple
Hills Citizens Association and Wal
lace L. Hall of the Northwest Citi-
zens Association will represent the
civic federation. Mrs. Charles Saylor
will represent the College Park
branch of the AA.U.W. A delega-
ton from the P.-TA. Council will
be headed by its president, Mrs.
Wells Harrington.
Evening star., 1948-03-07
Policemen Cited
In January Help
Save Trapped Cat

Pvts. Thomas B. Basnight and
Lenard G.. Gragh of the third pre-
cinct, chosen as the Policemen of
the Month for January, popped into
the news again last night.
They helped rescue a gray cat of
lineage from an areaway
at the Jewish Community Center,
Sixteenth and @ streets NV. Police
were told the cat was trapped in
the areaway, below the street level,
since Thursday.
The fire rescue squad was called
and PvtS Basnight and Kragh in
their scout car, also responded. Pvt.
Basnight went to door that opened
onto the areaway, found key on
his keychain that fitted the lock,
and opened the way for the firemen
to get the cat.
Pvts. Basnight and Kragh were
named Policemen of the Month for
rescuing an aged woman from q fire.
Evening star., 1948-03-07

A new radio program giving help
full hints on gardening and designed
for children will be piped into class
rooms of the public schools here
each week beginning at 2:l5 pm.
Tuesday, from Station WMAL.
The programs will be sponsored
by the public schools elementary
radio committee and The Star. w.
H. Youngman, garden editor of The
Star, will be the guest speaker on
each broadcast.
The opening program Tuesday
will feature six students from the
Hearst School and Mrs. Edna K.
Dodge, their teacher. The pupils
will be Anne Brooks, Ruth Muir
ray, Brooks Goldman, Adam Briggs,
David Radue and Mary Frances
Havlik. They will discuss reasons
for having a home garden.
School Supt. Hobart M. Corning
has approved the series, pointing out
the programs could be vital part
of the food conservation program" :"
Evening star., 1948-03-07
0hioan Drafts Bill 10 Give
D. T.. Veterans a Bonus

Representative Brehm, Repub-
lican, of Ohio said last night that
bill to give a Federal bonus to Dis
trict veterans of World War II will
be introduced in the House this
week.
Mr.. Brehm said he would ask
member of the House District Com
mittee to introduce a measure he
has drawn up. If the bill is not
introduced by the end OF the week,
Mr.. Brehm said, he will do 1t him.
self
The measure. patterned after a
bonus granted Ohio veterans, would
give veterans $40 for every month
of domestic service and SIS for
every month overseas The maxi
mum would be $400 Twelve States.
including Ohio, have gran tie d
bonuses.
District Post No. 13 American
Veterans of World War II, last
night announced support of Mr..
Brehm's proposal The post asked
other units of the organization to
Join the drive.
Evening star., 1948-03-07
Magistrate TO Help Drive
OF Silver Spring Red Cross

Trial Magistrate William B.
Wheeler has been appointed chair
man of the Red Cross fund drive
for the Silver Spring business sec
ton by Mrs. Ben C. Shaw, fund
chairman for the area.
Chairmen named for the apart
ment area are: Mrs. John c. Keele,
Montgomery Arms; Mrs. K. j. Al
fanasiev, Falkland Apartments; Mrs.
Darwin brewer, Piney Branch; Louis
S. Hackeman, Spring Garden Apart
ments, and Mrs. Marvin Bacon, st.
Charles Apartments.
Mrs. George w. Eastment will be
in charge of collections at the Bank
of Silver Spring and Mrs. George
Butler heads the committee in
charge of collections at Suburban
National Bank.
Silver Springs quota is ss,75o.
Evening star., 1948-03-07
2O2 Germun-Owned Art Works
Go on Display Here MarchH

More than 200 German-owned
works of art brought to this coun-
try by the Army in 1945 for safe
keeping will go on exhibition March
II at the National Gallery of Art
for several weeks, before they are
returned to Germany, it was an
nounced yesterday.
The paintings, including works
by Rembrandt, Titan, Raphael
and Botticelli, will be returned ''in
the near future" to the United
States Occupation Zone of Ger
many, Secretary of the Army Royal
disclosed. They will be held there
in custody pending final peace set
Elements.
David E. Finley, director of the
gallery, said the priceless collection
would be on exhibition at the re-
quest of the Army through April 49,
Rembrandt Works.
There are Is paintings by Rem
brandt, including his self portrait,
five by Rubens, five by Botticelli,
two by Peter Breughel the Elder,
two by Vermeer, three by Raphael,
five by Titan, three by Watteau,
and five by Jan van Eyck, the latter
said to be a unique group.
Others among the world famous
works are by Fra Angelica, Giovanni
Bellini, Correggio, Lucas Cranach,
Durer, Giorgione, Frans Halls, Hol-
bein, Fra Filippo Lippi, Poussin,
Tintoretto, Lucas van Leyden, and
VelazqueZ.
The 2O2 paintings have been
stored at the gallery in a special
air. conditioned room and inspected
daily by members of the staff. They
have been shown only to gallery
officers and qualified museum
officials.
In "Vulnerable" Condition.
John Walker, chief curator OF
the gallery, said the works were
highly saturated with water and in
Vulnerable" condition after their
removal from a salt mine at Merk-
ers, where they were found in April
1945. Since then, they have been
protected carefully from conditions
which might cause blistering or
taking.
The Army said the paintings are
the prewar property of the German
government and are established
positively as not having been among
the art objects looted by the Nazis
from their rightful owners.
All but two or three of the works
came from the Kaiser Friedrich
Gallery in Berlin, which was re-
duced to rubble during the last
months of the Nazi resistance.
Suitable Places Found.
The Army said the art objects
were brought to this country after
Evening star., 1948-03-07
Red Cross Volunteers
Asked 10 Speed Up
Fund Solicitation

Red Cross volunteers in all divi-
sions of the 81 100000 fund cam
paign in the Washington area have
been asked to accelerate their solici-
tation efferts as the drive enters its
second week, the Red Cross an
nounced yesterday.
At the last report meeting Friday
14.2 per cent of the goal had been
achieved, The third report lunch
con Tuesday will be designated
National Defense Day" with ma
tional defense officials reporting the
response of their divisions.
Maj. Gen. Luther D. Miller, chief
of chaplains, will report for the
Army Department.; Assistant Secre-
tary Marke E. Andrews for the
Navy: Secretary Symington for the
Air Force; Rear Admiral Glenn B
Davis, commandant, for the Po-
tomac River Naval Command, and
Admiral Joseph F. Farley, COM
mandant, for the Coast Guard.
Snyder to Speak.
Speaker at the luncheon, at 1890
pm. in the United States Chamber
of Commerce Building. is to be
Secretary of the Treasury Snyder
chairman of the Government Divi-
sion OF, the campaign.
H. Randolph Maddox. vice chair
man of the campaign and chairman
of the General Business Division
said keymen in all large business
concerns would be expected to bring
in substantial returns in time for
General Business Day" on Friday
In the City Division, the Civitan
Club, sponsor of the area between
Constitution avenue and L street
and Eleventh and Sixth streets, has
reported it's soliciting organization
ready. Henry Dudley and T. S. Ent-
whistle, co-chairman, will be as
sisted in the solicitation by Bradley
Edelblut, Paul Kean. Rudy Jose. C
A. Pendleton, Leslie Rucker, Fred A
Genau, Eugene Elgin and Howard
Seitz.
Alexandria to Report.
Alexandria plans to make its first
report at the fourth luncheon re-
port meeting Friday. Members Of
the campaign organization for Alex.
andria will attend their first loca
report luncheon Wednesday in thai
city.
Meetings next week to include Rec
Cross speakers and films include
those of groups at the National In.
stitute of Health, Bethesda, from
11:15 am. to pm. Tuesday, ane
the Federal Security Agency from
l to pm, when the film, Rec
Cross in Action" will be shown.
The Women's Overseas League will
hear Miss Louisa Farrand of the
National American Red Cross at 6
dinner at $50 pm. Tuesday at the
Highlands Apartments Cafe. 1911
Connecticut avenue NV. Miss Far
rand's mother was the first presiden
of the league.
Evening star., 1948-03-07

the United states Military Govern
ment had surveyed the American
zone without finding an adequate
storage place. Recently, however,
Gen. Lucius D. Clay, American COM
mander in Germany, reported sew
eral suitable places had been made
available in the United States zone
and it was decided to return them.
1t has not been decided definitely
which of several possible storage
places will be used, the announce
ment said.
The transfer of the works to the
gallery here brought a resolution to
President Truman in May, 1946,
from SO leading art authorities" de-
manding their immediate return to
Berlin. The resolution contended
that: TT is apparent that disinter-
ested and intelligent people believe
that this action cannot be justified
on technical, political or moral
grounds"
Every School of Art.
Nearly every school of European
art is represented in the collection,
some of it identified as having been
painted as early as the thirteenth
century.
Mr.. Walker said the collection as
a whole is amazingly strong" in
early Flemish painting. The flve
Van Eycks, he said, comprise the
outstanding group of works by that
artist. They include the Madonna
and Child in a Church"
There also are two outstanding
pictures by the Flemish artist, Petrus
Christus, Saint Barbara Presents
a Carthusian Monk to the Madonna
and Lady Talbot" and seven o1
Rogier Van Der Weydens works.
There are five pictures by the Ger
man artist, Albrecht Durer, including
the portrait, "Hieronymus Holzs-
churer." his Portrait of q Young
Woman" and the Madonna with the
Siskin." The three works OF Hans
Holbein. the younger, include the
popular "Geore Gisze."
Two BY Vermeer.
The Dutch painter, Vermeer, is
represented by The Pearl Necklace
and THE Taste of Wine"
Botticelli's Saint Sebastian" and
"Giuliano De Medici," Titian's self
portrait, Fra Angelico's THE Last
Judgment" Giorgione's Portrait OF
a Young Man." and Rubens "Andro-
media" are among the famous paint
ings.
Mr.. Walker said he considered the
collection of works in the gallery by
Rembrandt and Raphael superior to
that in the German group, but that
the Rubens and possibly the Titians
in the German collection were better
than those in the museum.
Evening star., 1948-03-07

principal Of the
H e g d e haugen
Gymnasium in
Oslo, there may
be a reason why
his S u d e n t S
seem more seri-
Gus.
Their first year
studies at the
gymnasium in
cludes Norwe-
gian, English,
German, biology,
m a t h e matics,
physics, some
handicraft and
physical educa-
Evening star., 1948-03-07
Auto Rules TO Change Symphony Luncheon
In Switch 10 Buses on Tomorrow 10 Reveal
Ross|yn.Benning Line Winners OF Contest

Miss Margaret Truman is sched-
uled to be the guest of honor at
the final report luncheon of the
National Symphony's fund cam
paign at 1915 pm. tomorrow at the
Mayf1ower Hotel.
Feature of the luncheon will be
the announcement of the 10 winners
in the $4,000 Voice of the SYM
phony" contest which concluded a
week ago.
Also to be announced is the status
of the five-week- $165 900 fund
drive. Symphony officials have not
disclosed what action will be taken
if the goal is not reached by to-
morrow, but they announced last
week that a special meeting of the
,376-member symphony association
has been summoned for Friday
night.
At the start of the campaign, the
orchestra's board of directors saiC
it would be unable to continue the
orchestra next winter if the drive
fell short of the $165 900 total. Las
official total in the drive, nearly
two weeks ago, was $92,712.
"Voice of the Symphony con-
testants who correctly identified tn,
voice and wrote the best 50-wort
statements on why Washington
should support the symphony vii
receive prizes topped by 1948 Mer
curry sedan and Phileo televisiol
receiver.
Only clue offered in more THAI
TOO radio broadcasts Of the voice
was that it was "the famous daugh
ter of a famous man."
Final judges in the contest arr
the music critics of the four Wash
ington newspapers.
Evening star., 1948-03-07
Three Women Named
To Board of WCA

Mrs. Howard G. Nichols, presi-
dent of the Young Women's Chris
tian Association, last night an
nounced the election of three mem
bers to fill vacancies on its board
of directors. They are Mrs. Angus
Dun, wife of the Episcopal Bishop
of Washington; Mrs. Edward A..
Bacon, 1903 Thirty fifth street NV,
and Mrs. Ridsdale Somers, 2l16
Kaiorama road NV.
The groups regular elections will
be held in April.
Evening star., 1948-03-07
Empire Building Report
Ready Soon, Says Bea|I

The special five-man committee
investigating causes of the Empire
Building failure should have it's
long-delayed report ready for the
Commissioners sometime this week,
Stewart Beall, chairman of the
group, said yesterday.
During two and a half months of
investigation, the committee has
established beyond question" the
cause of the December 16 disaster,
Mr.. Beall said. The. report, he
added, will recommend action"
He would not say whether it will
fix responsibility on any particular
person.
Four persons were killed and IL
injured in the partial collapse of
the apartment house at Ninth street
and New York avenue NV.