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Evening star., 1948-02-09
Order 10 Bar Expulsion
|0f Nonresident
Pupils Continued

Justice r. Dickinson Let's today
continued the temporary District
Court restraining order which pre-
vents School Supt. Hobart M. Corn
ing from dismissing 38 resident
students attending Wilson High
School here tuition free until he has
time to reach a final decision in the
case.
Attorneys for parents Of the stu
dents and for school officials argued
their cases before Justice Let's to-
day. He said he would give his de-
cision probably within a week. The
hearing was on motion to dismiss
the petition for preliminary injunc-
ton brought by the parents.
Payment of tuition is required of
nonresident students by the 1948
District Appropriations Act. These
pupils, and about 140 more who al
ready have been expelled, had not
attended District schools before last
July rs, the effective date of the act
Hinges on Definition.
The whole case hinges on defini-
ton of the word enroll" The par
ents contend that by the physical
act of registering or signing ur
their children before July Is, the
children had been enrolled. Schoo
officials contend that to be enrolled
pupils must have been in attend
ance the previous school year. This
contention is based on a ruling made
last October by Corporation Coun-
sci Vernon E. West.
Assistant Corporation Counse
Milton D. Norman, representing
school officials, said that nearby
residents who send children into
the District to attend public schools
have been sponging on the District
for years." He said there was ne
question of throwing the student.
out of school but that If the par.
ents who do not live in the District
desire to send their children to Dis
trict schools, "let them pay for it"
Cites Hearing Testimony.
Mr.. Norman said the intention
of Congress clearly was to allow
only District residents to send theil
children to District schools tuition
free. He cited sections from various
hearings in which this point was
brought out by various members
of Congress.
| The attorney for the parents
Michael J. Keane. argued that the
parents had fulfilled the require.
ments of the word enroll"
Evening star., 1948-02-09
Retired Federal Worker Quits
Florida to Aid Symphony Fund
Miss Gertrude Hill
Tells of Benefit From
Orchestro's Work

Turning her back on the sunshine
of st. Petersburg, Fla, retired
Government worker has become an
inspiration to the National Sym
phony Orchestra Fund campaign.
The door quest for $165, 900
to keep the orchestra operating an
other season became the concern
of Miss Gertrude E. Hill as soon
as she read about it in The Star.
Il didn't have s165, ,000," Miss Hill
said, "but I bought a train ticket
back to Washington, registered at a
hotel and headed for the Sym
phony's K street Office"
That's where she's been for eight
hours day ever since, doing my
bit" to see that the orchestra does
not go out of business through
failure of the sustaining fund drive.
Shuns Talk About Herself.
Miss Hill did not want to talk
much about herself, her Is years
in Government service and subse-
quent migration to Florida.
Her interest was focused on the
orchestra, which she first learned
to appreciate after her retirement
10 years ago.
She gave the National Symphony
credit for creating her taste for
cultural music. 1t all began at a
series of summer concerts, she said
and after that she never missed
a concert.
Thus it was that her first night
back in Washington she heard DR.
Hans Kinder lead the orchestra in a
number of her favorite compost
tions.
Wants to Aid Children.
Regretting the years of music
appreciation she missed, Miss Hill
said one reason she was voluntarily
working for the orchestra was her
desire for children to hear good
music.
"If the symphony goes down.
60 down with it," she said. But
she didn't sound as If she thought
| it would.
AS the fund drive neared the end
of its first week today the District
Commissioners called on residents to
support the drive with the gener-
Evening star., 1948-02-09
Tavern Keeper
Kills Intruder,
Wounds Self
Body Found Outside
Of H Street Bar
After Struggle

A tavern keeper shot and
killed a housebreaker and
wounded himself during a silent
struggle in a darkened barroom
at ITO H street NV. early to-
day, police reported.
Shelburn o. Midjette, SO, Navy
veteran, told police two shots were
fired during his fight with an in
truder at the Sail Inn. He said the
housebreaker fled after the shooting.
A colored man, identified by finger
prints in police files as John Edward
Austin, 26, was found dead by police
on the corner of First and H streets
NV, with a bullet wound in his
neck. A trail of blood led from the
Sail Inn.
Mr.. Midjette said he did not know,
until informed by police, that the
shots had been fatal.
Thumb Pierced.
Reconstructing the struggle, po-
lice believed Mr. Midjette was hold
ing the man off with his thumb at
the mans throat. When the fatal
shot was fired, according to police,
the bullet pierced Mr.. Midjette's
thumb and lodged in Austin's neck
Mr.. Midjette said he had closed
the Sail Inn and was working on
some plumbing fixtures in an ad-
joining room about 2:30 am. when
he heard crash. He left his part
time assistant, William Grady, in
the neighboring room to prevent
possible intruder's flight, emerged
from another H street entrance to
investigate.
Mr.. Midjette explained that he
armed himself with a .32-caliber
automatic because his establishment
had been robbed three times since
he bought it two and a half years
ago.
Found Door Panel Broken.
He said he found the door panel
broken at the main entrance to the
Sail Inn and entered to find a
"shadowy figure" near the cash
register.
The tavern keeper slugged the in
truder, who turned to grapple with
him, he said. Neither man spoke
from the time Mr.. Midjette entered
the restaurant until the other man
fed, the tavern keeper said.
There was only small change in
the cash register, Mr.. Midjette re-
ported.
Mr.. Midjette lives with his wife
and three children at 406 Kennedy
street NV. Police said Austin has
wife living In the 1900 block of
H street NE, but she told police
her husband had not lived with
her for months.
The coroner's inquest was post
poned until Mr.. Midjette is released
from the hospital.
Evening star., 1948-02-09
Boys Club Contributions
Reach Total Of $4,000

Contributions to the Metropoli-
tan Police Boys Club campaign
have reached $4,000. Robert c.
Simmons, general chairman of the
drive, announced today and oftl-
cials expressed confidence that the
$125 900 goal would be reached by
March l.
John A. Remon, president of the
Police Boys Club, and Police Supt.
Robert j. Barrett were to make
whirlwind tour of six of the club
organizations between 4 and pm.
today as part of the campaign, in
specting operations and speaking
to members at Clubs No. 2, 4, S, 10,
II and IL.
The new report is so per cent
above the last drive announcement,
Campaign Director Royce Powell
told Mr.. Simmons. Police of l3
precincts have obtained $4,000 adult
memberships and have collected
$80,758, he said.
The precinct race for first place
in campaign results found No. l
precinct headed by Capt. Robert
Pearce leading In close competi-
ton. No. 7, headed by Capt. Bev-
erly Beach, and No. 8, under Capt.
George Wallrodt, were next, and
No. 10, commanded by Capt. Wal
| ter Storm. was a close runnerup.
Evening star., 1948-02-09
DR.. Davies LEAVING
By Plane for Poland

DR.. A. Powell Davies, minister of
All Souls Unitarian Church, will
represent the Unitarian Service
Committee at the formal opening
of it's Kosciuszko Hospital in Poland
February %. DR.. Davies was to
leave by plane for Poland today.
The 350-bed hospital is named for
Gen. Thaddeus Kosciuszko, Polish
patriot who fought in the American
Revolution. 1t is situated at Pie
kary Slaskie in the heart of the i'm
portant industrial district OF Upper
Silesia. The hospital has been built
since the war and is joint project
of the Unitarian Service Committee
and the National Social Insurance
Institute of Poland, a Polish gov
ernment organization. The Unita-
rian committee has been engaged In
foreign relief and welfare work fol
more than a decade. Recently ii
has been active in medicine abroad
Scheduled to arrive in Frankfurt
Germany, tomorrow, DR.. Davies
will visit displaced persons camps
in the area and will 60 to Berlin
for consultation with American oc-
cupation authorities.
i DR.. Davies will also stop at Prague
February "a to confer with the Rt
Rev. Frantisek Kovar, bishop patri-
arch of the Czechoslovak church
The patriarch was the guest of All
Souls Church in Washington last
June. DR.. Davies trip will also in
clude stops and conferences at War
saw and Paris and will end with a
conference in London with British
Unitarian leaders He will leave
for Washington March 8.
Evening star., 1948-02-09
Former Hospital Orderly,
Injured by Auto, Dies

Charles w. King, II, former
orderly at st. Elizabeths Hospital,
who was injured in traffic acci-
dent November 27, died last night
at his home, 2s13 Seventh street sE
According to the police report Mr.
King was struck by car operated
by Clark Smith, jr., %, of the zoe
block of Mississippi avenue Sc. a:
he crossed the street in the 290(
block of Nichols avenue Sc.
Mr.. King was taken to Casualty
Hospital with fracture of the left
leg. He was released and placed
under the care Of his private physi.
clan, DR.. Edward Palank, police
said. Two days later he entered
Providence Hospital, where HI
stayed until December 8.
Deputy Coroner Christopher j
Murphy said an autopsy would b.
performed today to determine thu
cause of Mr. Kings death.
A native of Prince Georges Coun'
ty, Mr.. King had lived in the Dis.
trict about As years. He was EN-
ployed as an attendant at st
Elizabeth's for 80 years until hi
retirement in 1912. Surviving art
his widow, Mrs. Isabel King; son
Charles F., and three grandchildren
He was a member of the Holy Mann
Society of Assumption parish.
Evening star., 1948-02-09
Library 10 Mark 215th Year
Since Founding Of Georgia

The Library of Congress Saturday
will open an exhibition marking the
215th anniversary of the founding
of Savannah and the Colony OF
Georgia.
Senator George, Democrat, OF
Georgia will speak at the formal
opening ceremonies, at $50 pm. in
the Coolidge auditorium of the LII
brary.
The display, sixth in a series the
Library has conducted on various
States, is the first to honor one OF
the original colonies.
Part of the exhibit will be more
than 100, photographs depicting the
States industries, agriculture, seem
cry, old homes, and it's people. These
will be shown in the west ground
floor gallery of the main Library
Building.
The exhibit will continue until
about May Il, when the photo
graphic section will go to Georgia
as a travelling display.
Evening star., 1948-02-09
Former Bank Emp|oye
Indicted on Charges
OF Embezz|ing 1894

Robert Daniel Matthews, %, to-
day was indicted on charges of
embezzling s2,994, while he was an
employe of the Industrial Bank of
Washington. The indictment also
accused him of forging the sig
nature of the president Of an in
vestment concern, which is a
customer of the bank. for $1,000
and of misapplying that sum.
Several other counts in the in
dictment accuse Matthews of issuing
deposit certificates with intent to
defraud and deceive the bank.
Matthews, who is colored, was
said to have left the bank at the
end of last February, presumably
to go to school. Shortages were
found after he had gone. Matthews
home address is given as Des Moines,
Iowa.
81 Indictments Returned.
The indictment was among 81 re-
turned today by the grand jury be-
fore Justice Richmond B. Keech OF
District Court.
Eddie Lee Davis, 81, colored, 300
block of Third street NV, was in
dicted on a charge of manslaughter,
which accuses him of killing Charles
w. Brown, 80, colored, of the 1900
block of Sixth street NV. on JAM
uary IL, with a sharp instrument. u
Two youths were indicted on
charges of breaking into the jew
elry store of Cramer, Inc, 2100 block
of Wisconsin avenue NV, on Janu-
ary and taking numerous items OF
jewelry valued at $3.50. The two
youths named are Lloyd G Stewart
10, colored, of the 100 block of 18th
street Sc. and Lawrence G. Howard
18, colored, of the 1000 block of 26tt
street NV.
Named in Sex Offenses.
Several persons were named or
sex offenses in today's indictments
Among these was Remania Powell
rs, colored Of MAYORS court NV.
who is charged with the rape of 8
25-year-old colored woman, in the
rear of a school at Third and x
streets NV. Police quoted the
woman as stating that two other
unidentified colored men also hac
attacked her at that time.
Leroy Jones, 20, colored, Of the
300 block of 81 street NE. was
charged with carnal knowledge in.
volving a Is year old colored girl
Wallace M. Hayden, 10. colored
of the 1000 block of Portner place
NV. was charged with carna
knowledge involving an 11-year-ole
colored girl.
Arts S. Washington, %, colored
400 block of Smithsons court S.W.
was charged with assault with in.
tent to commit carnal knowledge in.
volving a 13-year old colored girl.
Evening star., 1948-02-09
Alumni Of Georgetown
Open Gym Campaign
with -S800,0O0 Goal

Georgetown University alumni in
the Washington metropolitan area
and in 80 other cities today
launched a campaign to raise a
minimum of 100000 for a new
gymnasium on the Hilltop campus.
A total of $1O9,546 in Fadvance
gifts was reported at a dinner Sat
urday of drive officials in Mcguire
Hall.
The proposed gym will replace
the entirely inadequate Ryan Gym
nasium built 42 years ago when the
resident student body on the cam
pus consisted of only a few hundred
students. .
The Pittsburgh architectural firm
of Kaiser, Neal and Reid, designers
of the new Georgetown University
Hospital, prepared plans for the
gym which will honor the memory
of the late Rev. Vincent S. Nc
Donough, SJ., faculty director OF
athletics at the Hilltop for IS years.
1t will have a seating capacity of
about 5000. For many years the
smallness of the old gymnasium has
compelled Georgetown basket ball
teams to play on rented courts off
the campus.
The old campus will be remodeled
in connection with the new project
and used for gymnastics, boxing
wrestling, fencing and other activi-
ties, it was said The new gym will
ioin the old, and it's main floor, loo
by 200 feet, will provide space for a
varsity basket ball court lengthWise
and space for three intramural
courts crosswise. Intramural basket
ball is now necessarily limited tc
48O students because of current in
adequate space.
i A regulation AAU swimming pool
30 by rs feet, the first indoor poo
in Georgetown's history, will be
provided by the new building. Ir
addition to the usual lockers ano
showers, special facilities will be
provided for alumni who wish tc
keep in physical trim. There also
will be three squash courts with a
gallery for this popular indoor
game.
The campaign is being conducted
under auspices of the Georgetown
Alumni Association with Charles j
Milton, Glass of 1885, Jersey City
as national chairman. Rear Ad-
miral William Brent Young, U. S
N, retired, is in charge of the cam
paign among the 5000 alumni ir
the Greater Washington area.
Evening star., 1948-02-09
$4,000 in Heavy Safe
Stolen From Food Fair

A safe containing an estimated
$1,000 and weighing half a ton was
stolen over the week end from the
Food Fair, 1923 East Capitol street
Samuel Steffel, manager, reported
to police today.
The safe presumably had beer
dragged out the back door after en-
trance had been gained by forcing
transom over the front door. police
reported. Apparently nothing else
was taken,
Evening star., 1948-02-09
Jovits to Be Speaker
AT Memorial for Jews

Representative Javits, Republican
of New York will address a mass
youth meeting at $3.50 o'clock to-
night at Beth Sholom Synagogue
Eighth and Shepherd streets NV.
to commemorate the death of Jews
killed In Palestine.
IF. Stone, correspondent for the
newspaper PM, also will speak al
the meeting, which has been calleo
by the Young Zionist Actions Com
mittee of Washington, an organiza-
tion representing all Zionist youth
groups here.
Harold Hurwitz, chairman of the
Young Zionist Actions Committee
said an action program to help II
the defense of Palestine will be
formulated at the meeting.
Evening star., 1948-02-09
Restaurant Cards Aid
Safer Winter Driving

The washington Restaurant Asso-
citation and the Hotel Association OF
Washington are sponsoring jointly
the second month of the Districts
safety education program, 1t was an
nounced today, with safe winter
driving as the central theme.
Table cards measuring by 81
inches will be placed on restaurant
and hotel dining room tables, carry
ing set of five driving rules select
ed from recent findings Of the Com
mittee on Winter Driving Hazards
in recent experiments. These rules
have been tested and approved as
the safest possible steps to follow in
winter driving. They are:
Use tire chains on ice and snow;
keep your windshield wipers in good
working order; drive slowly and
carefully on slippery streets and
use power gently going around
curves; to slow or stop, keep your
clutch engaged as long as possible
and pump the brakes gently-don't
jam them on, and don't follow other
cars too closely-signal your inten-
tions Of stopping or turning well in
advance.
1--WE can all see good sense in
traffic safety" said Frank E. Weak
LEY, president of the hotel associa-
tion. I'VE want to make the public
conscious of the Importance Of safe
winter driving. We can't legislate
safety into being but we can edu-
cate ourselves in being better, more
careful drivers"
August H. Dressell, president OF
the restaurant association said, III
we can prevent but one accident
through the display of these winter
hints, our efforts will have been vel
justified
The safety education program il
being conducted by the Commission
ers' Traffic Advisory Board and the
Dopo rim, ont 0f UehirIas and Traffic
Evening star., 1948-02-09
"a. w. Medical Society
Ito Hear Anderson Talk

Secretary of Agriculture Ander-
son will be the guest speaker at
George Washington University Med
ical Society's annual banquet, Feb.
ruary 28 at the Mayfiower Hotel.
The alumni reunion Is the 22d te
be held by the medical society. A
reception In honor of Mr., Anderson
and other guests will take place al
7 pm, followed by a banquet in the
main ballroom at 7:30.
Evening star., 1948-02-09
Fraternity Alumni PIon
Founders Day Program

The Phi Kappa Psi District
Alumni Association has completed
plans for the fraternity's annual
Founders Day banquet, to be held at
7:30 pm. February 19 at the National
Press Club.
Brig. Gen. George E. Armstrong
deputy surgeon general of the Army
will be one of the principal speakers,
and former Senator Watson, Re-
publican, of Indiana, also is expected
to attend. Judge Edgar J. Goodrich
Washington attorney and former
member of the United States Board
of Tax Appeals, will be master OF
ceremonies,
Evening star., 1948-02-09
School to Heur DR.. St. Clair

DR.. Sadie D. st. Clair, history
professor of Miner Teachers Col
lege. will address students of Fran
els Junior High School at 10 am
Wednesday in an assembly observ-
ing Negro History Week. Other OBJ
servances during the week will be
held by students of the Howard
University School of Music tomor-
row and a play will be presented by
students of Francis Junior High
Friday.
Evening star., 1948-02-09
Tobey Demands
Slash
On Tax Refunds
Rebates Reach Totul
OF $780,, ,000, 900
For Last Fiscal Year
RY fhe Asseciafad Press

Fresh demands arose in Congress
today that the Government cut tn.
interest it allows people and cor.
porations who overpay their income
taxes.
Such overpayments resulted in re-
funds totaling $2,897 10000 during
the fiscal year which ended last
June 80.
Edwin w. Pauley was on the list
for $3.50. Eddie Cantor got $50 1856
Charles Chaplin, $13,402, and the
United States Steel Corp. got back
$63 $50, 1903.
In submitting It's annual report to
Congress of those given refund OF
credit amount to $500 or more, the
Treasury did not specify how much
represented interest.
Tobey Notes 6 Per Cent Interest.
But Chairman Tobey of the Senate
Banking Committee noted to re-
porters that the Government allows
6 per cent interest on tax refunds
against an average of only about 2
per cent on its bonds. He said he
thinks Congress should cut the in
terest rate to the lower figure.
Chairman Hoffman of the House
Expenditures Committee, which re-
ceived the Treasury list, refused
comment. He said the interest rate
is a problem for other committees
Mr.. Hoffman's name was one OF
the tens of thousands shown in the
tabulation. He was listed for re-
fund of $1,455 on income taxes.
Others in public life included Sen
ator Johnston, Democrat, of South
Carolina, 1898; Represen a tlv
Cooley, Democrat, of North Caro-
lima, $1,610; Representative Clark
Democrat, of North Carolina, 5000;
Henry Morgenthau, jr., former Sec
retary of the Treasury, $3.50; Sec
retary of Defense Forrestal ano
Josephine Forrestal, $776: Air Force
Secretary Symington, $1O,276, ano
Gov. Millard Caldwell of Florida
$2,2S5.
Entertainers on List.
The screen, stage and radio fur
nished these names:
Fred MacMurray and Lillian
MacMurray, $S6,686; Joan Craw-
ford, $18,246; George Raft, 1929;
Charles Boyer and Pat Patterson
Boyer, $12,508; Bud Abbott, $16,-
1893; Brian Aherne, 1914; Kenny
Baker, 1874; Hoagy Carmichael
81 1926; Jerry Colonna and Florence
Colonna, $4,791; Marsha Hunt, 3d.
219; Irene L. Rich, 1854; Jane
Withers, 1929; Tallulah Bankhead
S1,618; George Jessel, $2,083; Gloria
Swanson, $1,244; Sonia Henie. $27,'
98e; Irving Berlin, $1,347.
Margaret Mitchell Marsh, author
of Gone With the Wind" was
listed for a refund of s12,325. Other
writer's included Maxwell Anderson
s4,0lS; Ring Lardner, jr, $l,310
Robert Riskin, $3.50; Emmett G
Lavery and Genevive D. Lavery
$4,790; Noel Coward, $2,724. ."
Other names included Doris Duke
2,767, and Anna M, Godfrey B
and William A. Rockefeller, $3,O40.
Thomas A. Yawkey, owner Of the
Boston Red Sox, $36,132.
Among corporations, most Of the
overpayments were in excess profits
taxes for last year and preceding
years. The list included: Southern
Pacific Railroad, $29,524,674; Gen
eral Motors Corp, s30,216,862, in ad'
dition to $36, ,293, ,611 to General Mo-
tors subsidiaries; Ford Motor Co.
s16,58s, ,756; Chrysler Corp, $685.
1877; New York Central Railroad
Co., s41, ,9e5,e25; General Electric
Co., $25, 5,Os7 ,526; Westinghouse Elec'
trio Corp. $59095, ,9O6, and Pennsyl'
vania Railroad, $l7,295,968.
Evening star., 1948-02-09
LAUGHTER to Be Topic

"The Psychology of Laughter" will
be the topic of a talk tomorrow by
Walter w. Belson, director of public
relations for the American Trucking
Associations, Inc, before the Wash
ington Chapter of the Association OF
Interstate Commerce Commission
Practitioners. He will speak at a
luncheon meeting at 1890 pm. In
the Ambassador Hotel.
Evening star., 1948-02-09
Illinois Society to Dine

The Illinois State Society will hold
a st. Valentines Day dinner and
dance at 7 pm. Saturday IN the
Wardman Park Hotel. Representa-
tive Owens, Republican, OF Illinois,
will be master of ceremonies, and
the entertainment program will be
provided by other members OF the
Illinois congressional delegation.
Evening star., 1948-02-09
6. ". Engineering School
To Hear Dr.. Frank JeweH

DR.. Frank B. Jewett, chairman OF
Bell Laboratories, Inc, will address
members of the George Washing
ton University School of Engineer
ing at 8:15 pm. Wednesday at the
Lisner Auditorium.
The lecture will be the third OF a
series established in 1916 through
a tund set up by Frank A. Howard.
an alumnus of the school.
DR.. Jewett, past president Of the
National Academy of Sciences, will
speak on Industrial Research: The
Present Challenge to Science and
Engineering"
Evening star., 1948-02-09
Library Group to Meet

David D. Lloyd, national legis-
lative and research director o1
Americans for Democratic Action
will speak on Economic Aspects o1
World Peace" at $50 pm. Thurs.
day at a meeting Of the Social Sci.
ence Group, Washington Chapter
Special Libraries Association, in The
Highlands, Connecticut avenue anc
California street N. w. Mrs. Will
liam Van Royen, chairman, will pre-
side. Reservations may be made
with Miss Adele Smith, Agriculture
Department Library.