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Evening star., 1948-07-18
Sale! 5-pc. Metal
Dinette Set
WORTH A GOOD DEAL MORE THAN THIS Low PRICE!
.49.99

HE table alone would be good buy at this price!
It's good-sze one, 25x4O, with attached refec-
tory leaves that scoot underneath. Shining top is
stoin-resstont white porcelain enamel on heavy
gauge steel. And the chrome legs are doub|y ot-
toched to keep it steady. In addition, you get 4
comfortable S-type chors all chrome plated frame,
with padded seots and backs :. . and upholstered
in eosy-to-keep-cIeon simulated leather. Talk
about value . this set has it! Remember, one
low price gives you all five pieces
nntte ondH Washington
SAuer
Evening star., 1948-07-18

5o.Pieee Luncheon Glassware, low priced.
Set includes 8 each Of dinner plates, in
dividuoI soIod bowls, eod-ond-butters,
cups, soueers, dessert bowls, plus sugar and
creomer
Evening star., 1948-07-18

Utility Base Cabinet. all metal with stain
resistont porcelain enamel top, chrome
handles. Has z cutlery drawers, bread
drawer, and 2-door storage compartment.
Specially Priced
Evening star., 1948-02-27
Man, 80, Convicted
On Charge Of Girl, 13

Jesse B. James, 80, who was found
guilty by a District Court jury last
night on one charge of carnal knowl-
edge involving 13-year-old girl and
acquitted of another, was in Jail
today awaiting sentence.
James, drug counter concession
aire, also known as James B. Long,
faces a sentence of from 10 to 80
years, since the jury rejected the
death penalty recommendation
sought by Assistant United States
Attorney Sylvan Schwartz.
The jury of eight women and four
men, which began its deliberations
at 10:45 am, brought in its verdict
at 8:25 pm. At 4 pm. the jury noti-
fed Justice Richmond B. Keech it
had reached decision on one count,
but not on the other.
Justice Keech then delivered the
Allen charge, in which jurors who
differ with the majority are asked
to re-examine their conscience to
determine whether they can agree
to unanimous decision.
The charge on which James was
convicted involved an incident on
November 3 near Thirty-fourth and
Blaine streets NE. He was freed of
another count alleging improper re-
lations with the girl on October Is
near Florida and Trinidad avenues
NE.
James Is married and a father
and lives in the 100 block of South
Carolina avenue Sc, according to
| the prosecution.
Evening star., 1948-02-27
Eye Specialist Is Named
For D. {. School Pupils

District school children with vi
sion defects, who have had no regu-
lar Health Department eye special
ist to examine them for the greater
part of two years, will have a doctor
assigned to them beginning Monday.
The ophthalmologist is DR.. Robert
L. Norment. He will conduct an
eye clinic for school personnel five
days a week, from $3.50 am. to
1890 pm, at 16 D street NV.
During the afternoon, he will attend
TO his private pratcice in Arlington.
Health Department officials have
been looking for a qualified eye
specialist to serve the school system
since the resignation of DR.. Inez
Wilber in 1916.
The vacancy was filled for three
months, on a part-time basis, by
DR.. Robert Mitchell, but DR.. Mitchell
left last December to take a post
graduate course.
The District Society for the Pre-
vention of Blindness has been active
in seeking replacement for DR..
WILDER, and DR.. Norment was &C
cepted after Mrs. Allen Worries, past
wssident and co-founder of the So
clety, urged his selection.
Evening star., 1948-02-27
40 High School Pupils
Arrive for Contest

Thirty-two boy and eight girl
high school students, finalists in
the Westinghouse annual scholar
ship contest in science, arrived at
Union Station today from 16 States.
These young people, to whom
Planck's quantum theory and Elm
stems atomic energy equation are
no mysteries, were mostly concerned
on arrival with getting their bag
gage released. Some of them had
several hundred pounds.
The baggage contained their
prize winning scientific projects
which win be on exhibit in the
Hotel Statler tomorrow night after
dinner at which they will be
guests of honor.
Once the baggage was straight
ened out they were taken on tour
of Washington under the direction
of w. Drew Chick, jr., naturalist of
the National Capital Parks.
This afternoon Mrs. Truman was
to greet them at the White House
President Truman is Key West
Fla.
The awards will be announced at
a dinner at the Hotel Statler Tues
day night. Two contestants will be
given four-year scholarships valued
at $2.400 each. Eight will win four
year scholarships valued at $4oC
each. And there will be $1,000 in
additional scholarships to be award
ed at the discretion of the judges.
Evening star., 1948-02-27
Early Applicants Promised
New Auto Taos Next Week

Motorists who have returned their
auto tag applications to the Depart
ment of Vehicles and Traffic this
week will have their new tags the
first part Of next week, Traffic Di-
rector George E. Keneipp said today
Mr.. Keneipp said about 10000
applications have been mailed. He
reiterated his previous suggestion to
motorists to register their cars by
mail rather than apply in person at
the Municipal Center.
1t will be permissible to display
the new tags beginning Monday. The
new tags are smaller than the 1947
plates and have from one to five
numerals, or one letter and four
numerals. The numerals are yellow
on a black background.
The traffic director said that ap-
plications should be accompanied
by the current registration card, to-
gether with a check or money order
for the proper amount made payable
to the Collector of Taxes, D. c., but
mailed to the ofI1ce Of the Director
of Vehicles and Trafiic.
Evening star., 1948-02-27
6. u. Alumni Raise
.$176,O19 for Gym

The Georgetown University Alum
nj Association today reported sub
scriptions totaling $176,019 in its
Nationwide campaign to raise $780,
900 for erection of the proposed Nc
Donough Memorial Gymnasium on
the Hilltop campus.
At the first report meeting held
last night in Detroit, Chairman
Charles j. Milton of Jersey City an
nounced receipt of $66,473 in addi-
ton to the $109,546 collected in ad-
vance gifts.
Thirty-one out of 81 areas repre-
sented in the campaign, which
opened here on February 7, reported
at the Detroit meeting. The next
report meeting will be held March
in Boston.
The Rev. Lawrence C. German,
S. j., president of Georgetown, and
Thomas A. Dean of Chicago, ma
tional alumni president, spoke at last
nights rally in Detroit. Father
Gorman said the university had
reached the "saturation point" In
its enrolment under present condi-
tions and must build additional IA
cilities.
The campaign is the first fund
raising effort sponsored solely by the
Alumni Association, Mr.. Dean point
ed out. The proposed new hospital
to honor the memory of the late
Rev. Vincent S. McDonough, S. j.,
one time director of athletics, would
replace gymnasium erected more
than 40 years ago.
Evening star., 1948-02-27
Fuel Oil Situation 10 Get
Worse Aqain, DC. Advised

The fuel oil situation is expected
to become worse again in Washing
ton next month, j. Thomas Ken
nedy, District fuel Oil co-ordinator
said today.
The recent warm spell and suf-
ficient supplies on hand have tended
to relieve the situation that pre-
vailed earlier this month, he said; /;
but after March l, the situation lis
not rosy" he said.
For the past week the number of
hardship cases has been falling off
and for the last two days hardship
appeals have stopped altogether, he
said.
While Mr.. Kennedy does not have
to deal with the gasoline problem,
It was learned from other sources
there will be shortage of gasolins
this spring and next summer This
is partially due, it was said, to the
fact that every effort has been made
for several months to get fuel oil
to dealers and there has not been
enough oil to refine for gasoline
Evening star., 1948-02-27
Painting Police, Calling Off Hunt
For Footpud, Find Him Present

A manhunt for a urse-snatcher
in Northeast Washington early to-
day ended a mile from the scene of
the crime when searching police
met at street corner to call of
the whole thing-and discovered
the suspect hiding under an auto
mobile near them.
Five police cars took part in the
hour long search, which started
shortly after midnight. At one
point the suspect was cornered in a
streetcar but went out the back
door as the police came in the front.
Charged with robbery was San
dino A. Manili, "a, who told police
he had been living in trucks near
Sixth and I streets NV.
Manili appeared before Municipal
Court Judge George D. Nelson to-
day and was held for the grand jury
under $4,000 bond. He admitted in
court that he was guilty.
The chase began after a purse
containing $61 was snatched from
Mrs. Lura Leonberger, A, of 3506
Twenty fourth street NE. near her
home. She is a supervisor at q
Western Union Office.
Mrs. Leonberger screamed and
ran into her home to call police
Three scout cars rushed to the
neighborhood and began a search
Evening star., 1948-02-27
Tickets Ready for Final
Neiahborhood Concerts

Invitations for the last two
neighborhood concerts by the
National Symphony Orchestra
under the sponsorship Of The
Evening Star now are being
distributed.
The ninth concert will be
held in Armstrong High School
at 9 pm, March 8. Invitations
may be obtained from the Rec
reation Department at Six
teenth and Lamont streets
NV, and from Armstrong,
Dunbar and Cardozo High
Schools, Terrell Junior High
School and at the business
counter in the lobby OF The
Star Building.
The tenth and final concert
will be held in Mckinley High
School on March %. The tick
cts for this concert may be OBJ
tanned from the Recreation
Department, Mckinley High
School, Stuart and Hine Junior
High Schools, Buchanan, Eek
ington, Hilton Peabody, Lud-
low, Edmonds, Blair, Langdon,
Woodbridge, Wheatley, Emery
and Bryan Elementary Schools
an It The Stars business
Evening star., 1948-02-27
Broadcast by Truman
To Start National Drive
OF Red Cross Sunday

President Truman will launch the
national 1948 fund drive Of the
American Red Cross with a s.
minute Nation wide broadcast at 10
pm. Sunday.
The President, speaking from Key
West, will be introduced by Basil
O'Connor, American Red Cross
head, from Constitution Hall, where
the Washington Metropolitan Area
campaign will initiate its drive with
a rally of campaign workers and
officials at S:l5 pm.
Area Red Cross officials said today
they had received more than 10000
requests by telephone and mail for
tickets to the rally, which will in
clude addresses by Secretary of
State Marshall and Secretary of Des
fense Forrestal, and appearance of
stage and screen stars in a Thea
ter Guild on the Air" presentation of
THE Barretts of Wimpole Street"
Madeline Carroll, a wartime over
seas Red Cross worker; Brian
'Aherne and Frank Allenby will ap-
pear in the radio play at $50 pm.
over WMAL and the ABC network.
The Presidents talk, to be heard
on major networks, will precede the
second act of the play.
Campaign officials, besieged by
requests far outnumbering the seat
ing capacity Of the hall, said tickets
were being pro-rated as far as they
would go to Area campaign officials
and workers. There will be an es-
timated 10000 workerssin the Metro
politan Area Campaign which seeks
to raise $1,080, 600 quota.
Churches and synagogues through
out the country were expected to
recognize the Red Cross drive at
services tomorrow and Sunday, and
officials said in some places Red
Cross volunteer workers would at
tend services in uniformed groups.
Evening star., 1948-02-27
Mrs. Truman 10 Receive
1ri-Diocesan DELEGATES

Mrs. Truman will receive delegates
to the Tri-Diocesan Conference now
holding q three-day conference here,
at noon tomorrow at the White
House They will be taken on a
tour of the Executive Mansion.
The delegates represent colleges in
the District, Maryland and Virginia.
The sessions are being held at the
College of Preachers at Washington
Cathedral.
God and the Common Life" is
the subject for discussion to be led
by the Rev. Jesse M. Trotter of the
Virginia Theological Seminary at
8:15 o'clock tonight. Bishop Nobel
C. Powell of Maryland will speak
at 2::30 pm. tomorrow, Mr.. Trotter
tomorrow night and Miss Hazel
King at $50 am. Sunday. James
Cook, student at Johns Hopkins Uni
versity, is president of the con-
ference
Evening star., 1948-02-27

Two others took part In the hunt
for a time.
One of the cars chased a street.
car which was heading into Wash
ington and finally overlook it at
Montana and Rhode Island ave-
nues N. E. As the two policemen
went in the front door, the suspect
jumped out the rear door and ran
into the Brentwood Village develop
ment.
The search centered there un-
successfully for another half hour.
Then, the police all met in the
1400 block of Saratoga avenue NE
Mrs. Leonberger was riding with
Detective Sergt. William L. Spar
shott. AS they came up to join the
group, the car lights flashed on a
man under a car next to the spot
where the police were standing.
Sergt. Sparshott and his partner,
Detective Sergt. Thomas Hardy,
hauled the man out.
Sergt. Hardy said the man gave
them the $61 and then took them
to Twentieth and Lawrence streets
NE, where he climbed down a sewer
and recovered the purse for the po-
lice. He also took them to a garage
in the 3400 block of South Dakota
avenue NE, where personal papers
from the purse were found, Sergt.
Hardy said.
Evening star., 1948-02-27
Army TO Sell Buildings
AT Fort Hunt on Bid Basis

The Army yesterday announced
its intention to sell on a bid basis,
buildings at Fort Hunt, Va. miles
south of Alexandria.
Bids must be delivered to the
Corps of Engineers, Twenty-fourth
street and Maryland avenue, Bal
timore, before 1870 pm, March is.
The buildings at Fort Hunt, which
include both wood and cinder block
construction, together with some
heating equipment, plumbing and
laundry facilities, may be viewed
between 10 am. and 4 pm, until
March IL.
Buildings must be dismantled and
removed from the property by the
purchasers, the Army announce
ment stated.
Evening star., 1948-02-27
Senate Unit Approves
S54, 500 for Ga||inger
Psychiatric Unit !

The Senate Appropriations Com
mittee has approved $54, 800 for i'm
provements to the psychiatric unit
at Gallinger sMunicipal Hospital.
This item is part of $8o5, ,043 for a
variety Of District government items,
reported to the. Senate last night in
the urgent deficiency bill.
The Senate committee acted
quickly on the money measure,
which had passed the House Tues
day. It may come up before the
Senate for action today or early
next week.
No changes were made by the
Senate committee in the District
items approved by the House. They
included $4,000 additional for the
penny milk program for school chill
dren. The Commissioners would be
authorized to enter into contracts
for construction of a refuse transfer
station with limit of cost of
$918, 700.
Other ID. C. Items.
Other District sums in the bill:
District government employees COM
pensation fund, $45,000; for the
recorder of deeds supplies, $33, 1892;
United States courts, $227,311;
Health Department to license under
takers, S., 400, and medical charities
at three hospitals covering costs in
fiscal years 1s46 and 1s47, the sum
of $140,282.
Meanwhile, the Senate Appropria-
tions Committee decided to open
hearings at 10 am. Tuesday on the
independent Offices appropriations
bill, from which the House Appro-
priations Committee had cut SO, AGO.
600 for the Districts slum clearance
program.
An attempt will be made by Off
cials of the District Redevelopment
Land Agency to get this item re-
stored to the measure. 1t had been
recommended to Congress in Presi-
dent Truman's budget. officials of
the National Capital Park and Plan
ming Commission also are to go be-
toration of SCI 500 for planning the
slum clearance program. This had
been cut by the House Appropria-
tions Committee.
$500,000 for Hospital Center.
The independent Offices bill car
ries $500,000 for the new hospital
center to be built on the Naval OBJ
servatory site, with authority for the
Public Buildings Administration to
raise the limit of its contract on the
job from $4,000, 900 to $19,50o,000.
The Potomac River Basin Com
mission is given $4,000 in the bill.
Meanwhile, the House yesterday
passed the appropriations bill for
civil functions of the Army, includ-
ing authority to spend from the trust
account of the Soldiers Home here
$2,435, 900, of which $446,579 is for
modernization of facilities.
Evening star., 1948-02-27
Storm 10 Take Office
Monday as Director:
OF School for Police

Inspector Walter T. Storm, whose
promotion from the rank of captain
was approved by the District Com
missioners yesterday, will assume
his new command Monday as head
of the police training school.
A successor to Capt. Storm has
not been announced, Maj. Robert
j. Barrett, police superintendent,
said last night. Maj. Barrett said
he was pleased" with Capt. Storm S
promotion and praised him as a
"very capable officer"
Inspector John H Fowler, who
will be retired from the force Mon
day, has been the Metropolitan po-
lice ballistics expert and head of
the departments training division.
He was founder of the Washington
Police Academy.
Inspector Storm, At. is native of
Underwood, Iowa, and entered the
police department here on being
discharged from the Marine Corps
in 1924. He was one of 80 Marines
selected to bring to Washington the
body of the Unknown Soldier from
Europe after World War I.
Holder of numerous commenda-
tions, he assisted in the capture
of holdup suspect in the holdup
and robbery of the Greyhound Bus
Station on December 81, 1916. Then
captain of No. IL Precinct, he stood
on the running board of speeding
automobile and ran down the
bandit, arresting him at gun point.
He served as director of the rookie
school here from July 10, 1887 to
March 1. 1910. He has been COM
manding officer of No. 10 Precinct
since last December /.
A Washington policeman since
1919, Inspector Fowler was pro-
noted to the rank of precinct de-
tective the second year he was on
the force and was appointed a de-
tective sergeant a year later.
Evening star., 1948-02-27
Junk Yord Explosion
Costs Mechanics Life

A 37-year-old junk yard mechanic
died in Casualty Hospital yesterday
afternoon after being injured in the
explosion of a gas tank which he
was attempting to cut with torch.
He was oscar Porter, colored, 1000
block OF South Capitol street. He
was burning apart the 2,000-gallon
tank at an iron and steel scrap yard
in the $500 block of Benning road
NE, police reported.
Evening star., 1948-02-27
Commitment Of Those
Inclined 10 Sex Crime
Now Urged in Bill

The sex offender bill will be
broadened to provide for the COM
mitment of persons who have not
committed crime but are "likely"
to attack others because Of their
mental illness.
The decision to broaden the
measure came at long executive
session yesterday of Chairman Mil
ler's House District Subcommittee
on Health, Recreation and Educa-
tion.
At the same time the subcommit-
tee agreed that the other sections of
the bill providing heavy penalties
for persons who molest children
could stand without change.
Commitment Proposed.
A proposal to commit mentally
i'll offenders to st. Elizabeth's Hos
pital was in the original Miller bill.
Representative MacKinnon, Repub-
lican. of Minnesota proposed the
broader definition of "sex psyche
paths," which Dr. Miller said takes
the criminal aspects out of it."
Under the revised measure, sex
psychopaths are defined as any per-
son, not insane, who 'by a repeated
course of misconduct in sexual mat
ters has evidenced an utter lack
of power to control his sexual i'm
pulses and who as a result is dan
gerous to other persons because he
is likely to attack or otherwise in
flict injury, loss, pain or other evil
on the objects of his uncontrolled
or ncantrollable desires.
Upheld by Supreme Gcalrt.
Dr. Miller said this provtSion had
been Upheld In the EuprenlS Court.
He added that ne was certain the
bill offered enough legal protection
to prevent the "railroading" of in
nocent persons. E
Action under this provision would
be taken against persons where a
complaint had reached the United
States attorneys Office or where the
individual himself requested yolun-
tary commitment. Criminal Offend
ers also would be subject to commit
ment to st. Elizabeths Hospital If
they were considered mentally i'll,
DR.. Miller explained.
DR.. Miller said he hoped to have
the revised bill ready for presenta-
tion to the House District Commit
tee by the end of next month. Be-
fore the full committee gets it, how
ever, the measure will be sent to
prosecutors, psychiatrists and prison
authorities for comment.
Evening star., 1948-02-27
Sworthmore Alumni to Meet

Alumni of Swarthmore College will
hold their first dinner meeting here
in two years at $50 pm. tomorrow
at Sidwell Friends School, 1901 Wis
consin avenue NV. Speakers will
include Everett Hunt, dean of men,
and Arnold Dresden, professor OF
mathematics.
Evening star., 1948-02-27
Mcclure Gets 5 10 IS Years
In Death Of Woman

Nixon Mcclure, SO, was SEN
fenced today by Justice Edward
M. Curran of District Court to serve
from to is years on a man
slaughter charge in the killing last
September of Mrs. Theodore Rowell,
35, in an apartment which they
shared at 1919 I street NV.
MCGUIRE, a former express hand
Ter, was found guilty February IL
on a manslaughter charge of kill
ing Mrs. Rowell, hotel telephone
operator, with his hands and fists.
Evening star., 1948-02-27
Health Office to Move

Beginning Monday, the admins
tration office Of the Montgomery
county Health Department will be
in the viett Building on Montgom-
erv avenue. Rockville. 1t is now IN
the Watkins Building. Rockville.
Evening star., 1948-02-27
French Counselor to Speak

Pierre Siraud. Counselor of the
French Embassy, will address the
Delta Sigma Pi Fraternity of
Georgetown University at 8 o'clock
tonight on Economic Conditions in
France Today" The meeting will
be in the chapter house, 3042 Cam
bridge place NV.
Evening star., 1948-02-27
17Cuses of Whisky Stolen

Thieves stole II cases of whisky,
valued at 1888, early today from a
grill at 2517 Pennsylvania avenue
NV, police reported. Entry was
gained by removing the glass from q
rear door.
Evening star., 1948-02-27
Reception for Archbishop Set

The Most Rev. Patrick A. O'Boyle.
newly installed Archbishop of Wash
ington, will meet alumnae, friends
and parents of Dumbarton College
of the Holy Cross at a reception at
the school from to $50 pm. Sun
day
The Seward polaris & Kenai Peninsula-Aleutian chain news., 1948-07-24

The pecularist man l eyer seed, was one who tried to live up to
 creed. He had hisself good daily sheet that was three quarters ads and
 hardly no meat. Got so busy that he hired one
 day guy who shipped in from out
 States way, This bird, no card did he have to
 his name but this 'ployer hired him just
 the same. And when the men caught on in
 the shop The guy, to the union, was an
 awful flop. He wouldn't sign this, nor would
 he sign that. So the Union crew. on with coat
 and with hat. So the guy with the daily sheet
 looked around for a union printer, there Warn't t
 none to be found. Uncle Sam. with the statutes in
 books to the editor said. If you can this non union guy
 might as well be dead. You cant fire so You cant hire. You cant hire if you cant fire And no union man will work. in a shop with that kind of a quirk.
The Seward polaris & Kenai Peninsula-Aleutian chain news., 1948-07-24
SEVENTEENTH NAVAL DIS. WINS PISTOL SHOOT

The Seventeenth Naval District pistol team, with a score of 939, won team honOrs in the Navy Pistol eliminaticns held at the Naval Air Station. Alameda, Cal ifornia. last week between teams representing the Eleventh TWelf- tn, Thirteenth, and Seventeenth Naval Districts.
 Set. Wal L. Wcstcott, U. s. Ma rne Corps of Kodiak was the se- cond place Individual Winner with 260, and Captain Theodore