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Evening star., 1948-01-17
Fund Must Be Raised
Or National Symphony
Says II Will Disband

Unless the National Symphony
Orchestra reaches its S165,000 sus-
tanning fund goal, gifts will be re-
turned to those who contribute and
the orchestra will be wiped out, Ed
ward Burling, jr., campaign chair
man, said today. tF H.
Mr.. Burling said campaign work.
ers have been instructed to tell con-
tributors that if the goal is not
reached, their pledge cards will be
destroyed or their gifts returned.
The pledge cards themselves, he
said, were printed too far in advance
to put that information on them.
I'VE are not crying wolf this
time" Mr.. Burling said. 'We have
already given instructions to cam
paign solicitors. It's the whole goal
or else"
| The campaign chairman said the
orchestra could not go on with
"back-breaking deficits" which res
quire second campaigns in the fall
! Last years goal was s175,000, OF
which S144,000 was raised in the
spring campaign. In the fall. Mr.
Burling said, members of the or
chestra association board cam
paigned to raise enough money to
fill the gap.
| He said no such second effort
would be made this year.
Mr.. Burling explained that the
orchestra's contracts are such that
lit cannot function on less than its
minimum goal
eve may be able to hold mu-
sicians' salaries at the same point,
he explained, "but we can't reduce
their salaries We can't trim our
contracts"
The symphony campaign opens
on February 3 and will run to Feb
ruary 20.
| Mr.. Burling, who also headed the
campaign last year. declared that
| the decision to reach the goal in
this campaign or close down tine
orchestra is the announced policy
! of the orchestra association.
Evening star., 1948-01-17
Lane Reports
Green Light on
BayCrossing
Progress in Getting
U. S. Approval Seen
After Call on Trumun
BY the Associotsd Press

Gov. Lane of Maryland today
could report favorable progress on
his attempt to obtain Federal ap-
proval Of the Chesapeake Bay cross
ing and funds to help build high
ways in the Washington Metropoli-
tan Area.
The Governor conferred yester-
day with President Truman and
officials Of the Federal Works Ad-
ministration on the two proposals.
He said later that he got the
green light" on the bay crossing,
which would be located between
Sandy Point near Annapolis and
Kent Island.
II can say now that We are in a
position to start construction of the
Chesapeake bridge next spring"
Gov. Lane said. 1--WE are assured of
adequate private financing"
Bridge Bill in Senate.
A bill authorizing the bridge is
pending in the Senate Commerce
Committee. Thomas H. Macdonald,
commissioner of the Public Roads
Administration, said his department
and the Army engineers will report
favorably on it.
Federal approval is necessary be-
cause the bridge would cross naviga-
BILE waters.
As for Maryland's request that
the Federal Government appropri-
ate $50, 900 900 to help finance roads
in the Capital area, Mr. Macdonald
said revision Of the 1914 Federal
Highways Act probably will be
sought.
He explained that the Metropoli-
tan Area Of Washington probably
would be extended from S to Is
miles from the center of the city,"
thus embracing suburban areas not
covered In the act and permitting
Federal aid for roads.
Indian Head Road Heads List.
Besides the outright appropriation
of $50, 1000, 900, Gov. Lane asked for
an annual appropriation of $3,00O,-
900, which Maryland would match.
The entire program now is simply
in THE discussion stage" Mr.. Mac
Donald said.
He added that if Congress passes
legislation authorizing Federal par
ticipation with Maryland in the
proposed plan, completion of the
Indian Head road would be No.
on the list, with second priority to-
be given to construction of the pro-
posed Washington Baltimore park
way.
1--WE already have acquired II
miles of right of way extending from
the District line" he said. THE
route of the, parkway would run
from the northeast corner of Wash
ington along the west side of Camp
Meade and thence into West Balti-
more"
Gov. Lane outlined his proposal to
President Truman and Gen. Flem-
ing last week. He estimated at
that time that IA per cent of the
Nations citizens use Maryland roads
driving to or from Washington.
"It is only fair that special funds
be made available TO us to defray
the cost Of providing the necessary
highway facilities" he said.
Evening star., 1948-01-17
William Donovan, Retired
Gas Company Timer, Dies

William H. Donovan, 81, retired
sheet metal worker who was with
the Washington Gas Light Co. Tor
33 years, died yesterday at Gailinger
Hospital after an illness of four
months. He lived at 818 I street NE
A native of Washington, Mr.. DON
ovan attended public schools here.
He then joined the gas company as
a timer. He retired in 1943.
He was a member of the Quarter
Century Club of the gas company
Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Re-
becca Robey Donovan; three sons,
Richard J. Donovan, William H.
Donovan and Joseph P. Donovan,
all of the I street address, and a
daughter, Mrs. Ella Marie Wallace,
Riverdale, Md.
Requiem mass will be said at 9
am. Tuesday at Holy Name Church.
Eleventh and K streets NE. Burial
will be in Fort Lincoln Cemetery.
Evening star., 1948-01-17

of races in schools, transportation
and so forth, has no bearing in the
covenant cases.
That the Supreme Court should
hold that judicial enforcement OF
covenants "is plainly incompatible
with reasons why the United States
fought in the war, and that ma
tional and international policy
against racism," as well as public
policy in general in the United
States, demands that covenants
based on racial prejudice should
be abolished.
Circumvention Attempt Denied.
Mr.. Gilligan and Mr.. Crooks de-
MED that the District covenants
were an attempt to circumvellt the
1917 Supreme Court decision. The
covenants in these cases were eatab-
lished in 1906, they noted But,
whatever the date of a covenant,
it is a private contract and not a
Legislative act, they declared.
"No individual or group of indi-
viduals can legislate unless they are
regularly elected representatives in
the Government" Mr.. Crooks con-
tinued And, might point ont that
in the District the people cannot
even elect representatives in Con-
gress or a municipal council"
Turning to the public policy issue,
Mr.. Crooks declared that the opera
ton of racial restrictive covenants
in the District is thoroughly in line
with District Court and Court OF
Appeals decisions here for many
years and that is supported by pre-
vailing public opinion. Court de-
cisions here have made covenants
"a matter of property law in the
District"
He cited separate schools and a
dual system of recreation in the
District. He called attention to the
eongressionally enacted Alley Dwell
ing Act of 1884, which, he said, was
administered on a segregated basis" +"
IF Congress had Seen fit to wipe
out segregation, it could have simply
amended the Alley Dwelling Act or
refused to appropriate money to
that agency" he said.
Evening star., 1948-01-17
Brood Street Contract
Shifted in Falls Church

Falls Church officials were in
formed yesterday by the Virginia
State Department of Highways that
the State has taken the contract for
the widening Of West Broad street
away from the present contracting
firm, the B. w. Jackson CO. of Rich
mond.
AS a result of this action, it was
learned that the Seaboard Surety
Co. of New York, which held the
performance bond, has been askee
to complete the project, under wa!
for the last eight months.
Evening star., 1948-01-17
Bill Seeks 10 Review
Use Of Public Lands
Within fhe District

A review of all public land in the
District, to determine whether it
should be put to better use or re-
turned to the tax rolls of the city
would be made by Committee on
Capital Clearance, under bill in
troduced in the House by Repre-
sentative Klein, Democrat, Of New
York.
The measure, recommended by the
District Commissioners, has been
referred to the House District Ju-
dietary Subcommittee, of which
Representative OHara, Republican,
of Minnesota is chairman. This
committee meets Tuesday for a
hearing on bills concerning the Dis
trict Armory, but might consider
the Klein bill informally.
The Committee on Capital Clear
ance would consist of the president
of the District Board of Conlmis-
sioners, the Federal works admin
istrator, the chairman of the Ma
tional Capital Park and Planning
Commission and two residents of
the District, appointed by the
President.
Federal Expansion Cited.
The committee would be directed
to make a report with recommended
tions to Congress within 180 days
after enactment of the legislation.
Need for such a committee prof.
ect was outlined in the bill as based
on several reasons. including con-
tinued expansion of the Federal
Government and growth of the Dis
trict Government.
Such expansion, the measure
points out, has been accompanied
by "the transfer into public owner
ship of stead Oily increasing pro-
portion OF the land area of the
District until about 45 per cent
of that arsa exclusive of streets
and alleys is devoted to public
use"
Calls for Efficiency.
Such extensive public holdings of
land, the bill asserts, has resulted
in deplorable congestion in private
housing, acute and increasing traf-
f1c and parking problems, and the
exemption of so much land as to
dislocate the municipal tax struc-
ture"
While acknowledging that public
purposes must be adequately served,
the measure declares that "it Is
that public land holdings
which do not efficiently serve these
purposes under modern conditions
be converted to other uses in accord
with intelligent city planning"
In it's report the newly established
committee would be DIRECTED to rec
omend to Congress changes in the
c. ship o. i7Cc {, 80 : 90. -
cluding the transfer of such land to
private ownership either with or
without restrictive covenants on its
llse"
Evening star., 1948-01-17
ChupIuin Cussody to Preach

Navy Chaplain S. w. Cassidy will
preach at the II am. service to-
morrow of the Arlington Evangelical
United Brethren Church in the alb
sence of the pastor, the Rev. George
Riley. Services are being held at
242l North Glebe road, Arlington,
until the chapel is completed.
Evening star., 1948-01-17

airline following his discharge as a
lieutenant colonel.
Mr.. Urquhart was assistant gen.
eral traffic and sales manager prior
to his present appointment. In his
new Job, he plans to increase the
airline's charter flights in the
transportation of football, baseball,
basket ball and hockey teams.
Evening star., 1948-01-17

for Capital Ar
lines and will
be in charge OF
charter opera
tions and group
movements or
the company.
Mr.. Urquhart,
who joined Cap
i t al in 1885,
served in Africa,
Italy, the Mid
Gle East ana In
dia with the Air
Transports Com
mand duri n 6
the war. He re-
tilrpod IN the
Evening star., 1948-01-17
District Address Listed
'By Man Killed in Plunge
BY the A.soeioted Pies.

NEW YORK, Jan. ia man reg
istered at the Sloane House YMCA
as William Wilson of 1861 Crescent
place, Washington, was killed early
today when he fell or jumped from
the window of his eight-floor room,
police reported.
The. resident manager at the
apartment house at 1861 Crescent
place NV, said no one by the name
of William Wilson had been reg
istered at that address during the
last eight years.
Evening star., 1948-01-17
Urquharf Named Manager
OF AirIine's Special Events

j. o. (BilD Urquhart, 370l Oliver
street NV, airline executive and
veteran of the last war, has been
appointed manager of special events
Evening star., 1948-01-17

MOTHERLESS police continue to search
the mother who abandoned her two days after Christmas
gaining weight the rate of two day in
nursing Whereabouts of the nursing home is closely
guarded secret the of Public Welfare wants be
undue influence" brought to bear the babys
wouldbe adopter In this exclusive photograph
demonstrates why the call her
precious thing in the world Star Staff Photo
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-01-13
JUNEAU HAS WEATHER
 A-PLENTY, SUFFICIENT

Rain, wind, snow and what have you, was dished out in Juneau be- ginning during yesterday afternoon nd driving through the night with some letup this afternoon.
 It showed, then it rained, then it blew, then it rained some more and early last evening if one made the trip down town, it was dollars to the nole of a doughnut, one got their feet wet and howe
 Streets were running rivers. One would look for a place to land on the snow at street crossing, then ever shoe tops into water. It was slushy and with the slush it was slippery, too.
 There were several inches of rain fall during the past 24 hours and there was gusts of wind that were going some.
 Rainwater was hurled under win dows into living rooms, basements were flooded to depth of from one to several inches.
 No matter what one wore, one got soaked through, the wind just pushed the rain through anything.
 But the snow and slush is gradu- ally disappearing.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-01-13
NOTICE OF SPECIAL ELECTION

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to the qualified voters of the City at Juneau, Alaska: That pursuant o the provisions of law and ordi- nances Of the City of Juneau a special election will be held in con- formisy herewith on the 20th day of January, 1948, between the hours of g A. M. and T P. M at the Coun- cil Chambers in the City Hall Build ing at the corner of West Fourth and Main Streets, at Juneau, AL aska, for the purpose of ratifying or rejecting Ordinance No. 313 of the City of Juneau. passed and approved by the City Council on the 18th day of December, 1947, to wit:
 AN ORDINANCE providing for special election and conditionally authorizing the Mayor and City Clerk to execute, on behalf of the City of Juneau, to L. A. Sturm, a city of the United States residing at Juneau, a year lease, with his option of renewal for an additional 1 5 years subject to termination by the City, during the renewal period, on 50 days notice, of the basement floor of the City's A. B. Hall Build ing situated on Lot 3, Block of the Juneau, Alaska, townsite, at the rate of $225.00 monthly in advance, for the conduct thereon of public food locker storage and allied lines of business, which said ordinance and lease are on file in the City Clerks office at the City Hall, and also posted for public inspection on the bulletin board at the City Hall, and reference thereto is hereby made for more particular and detailed terms and conditions of said ordi- nance and lease.
 The said ordinance will become eff fective and such lease granted if said ordinance is ratified by majority of the qualified voters vot- ing at such special election. All duly qualified voters residing within the boundaries of the City of Juneau are entitled to vote at such special election. The ballot which will be used at such election will contain thereon the following prop ositions to be voted upon:
 n FOR - ratifying said Ordi- nance and granting such lease. n AGAINST-ratifying said Or diance granting such lease. Dated: Juneau, Alaska, December IS, 1947.
 c. L. POPEJOY, City Clerk, City of Juneau. First publication, Dec. 16, 1947.
 Last publication, Jan. l3, 1948.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-01-13
NOTICE

The members of Juntau Post No The American Legion. Depart ment of Alaska, at it's regular meet ing on January 26, 1948, will vote on a proposal to authorize the Le- ion Building Association to grant T easement over portion of Lot
 ]. in Block No. i, approximately three feet by one hundred feet in
 mension.
 irs' publication. Dec. i2 l947.
 st publication, Jan. IS. l948
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-01-13
VIVIAN IS REELECTED
 DsFU BUSINESS AGENT

Milton Nyman, eX-serviceman and halibut fisherman, was reelected Business Agent of the Juneau branch of the Deep Sea Fishermens Union at the meeting last Tuesday at the Fishermen's Hall.
 Nyman has been a member of the crew of the halibut boat Defiance but intends to join on the Explorer during the coming season.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-01-13
RADIO LOG KINY - JUNEAU Alaska Broadcasting CO
 c. B. S.

TUESDAY EVENING 5:00-Downbeat. 5:15-G. I. live. 5:30-Totem Talk-Forecasts 5:45-Sportsreel. 6:00-Pan Am News. 6:l5-At Ease. 6:30-Bob Burns 7:00-Red Cross. l5-Standard News-Forecasts 7:30-Eddie Cantor. 8:00-EINY Bandbox. 8:30-Music Hall. 9:00-Suspense. 9:30-Supper Club 9:45-Between the Lines 10:00-Words with Music. 10 15- Forecasts. All programs are subject to change
 without notice. Daytime forecasts on weekdays Il 800, 9:S0 A. M, and 12 Noc
Evening star., 1948-10-05
Truth About Past
Helps Suspect
|Goin Freedom

Charles Browns honesty about
his past became = factor in gaining
his present freedom from an as
sault charge he faced yesterday in
Municipal Court.
Dorothy Tapley, a, colored, told
Judge Almond w. Scott that
Brown, her former boy friend, had
"smacked" her in the eye last Sat-
urday, as she was walking down the
street near her home in the 900
block of o street NV.
Brown, 26, colored, of the 900
block of Fourth street NV, denied
the assault and countered that re-
Gently the witness had tried to set
fire to his home.
To test his veracity, Prosecutor
Harold Bacon asked him If he
wasn't the same Charles Brown
who served 80 days for assault
earlier this year.
Ninety days?" pondered Brown
"Noosir, that wasn't me-"
Are you sure you weren't con-
victed for that assault pursued
Mr.. Bacon.
"Oh, sure. I was convicted. But
that was 100 days I got" said
Brown.
The judge ordered dismissal, with
comment on the defendants
"truth-telling propensities" and the
conflict between the opposing
stories in the case.
Evening star., 1948-10-05
Australia Reported Seeking
Return Of Girls From j. 5.

The Australian government re-
portedly has asked that Australian
girls, who formerly worked for Amer
lean armed forces in Manila and
then came to the United States
to seek work, be ordered to return
home.
An Australian Embassy official
said the report was published re-
Gently in Australian newspapers,
but immigration authorities at Cam
berra refused to comment. He added
he could make no further comment.
The report was contained in an As
sociated Press dispatch from Can
berra.
A State Department spokesman
said he had heard unofncially that
the Embassy had asked depart
ment cooperation in having the
United States Government order
the girls home.
Evening star., 1948-10-24

English firms specifications suddenly
keeled over and turned bottom-side up.
All of which must have left the japanese
admiralty wondering about the inscrutability
of Western minds.
1t must be admitted that the Machine Age
has raised civilization almost to perfection in
many ways, but when machinery goes wrong.
as it not infrequently does, it can produce
finer blunderbusts than man could ever
achieve with his bare hands.
One Of the best examples is what happened
to a certain Long Island. N. Y, gentleman
whom we shall call Mr.. x. because his real
name has been lost in the shuttle. MIR. x.
was, and possibly still is, subscriber to
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Evening star., 1948-10-24


cessfully defended time-honored principle
of American history: no taxation without
representation.
Hanover got off easily, if one considers
the blunderbusts other communities have
actually perpetrated Philadelphia has its
two famous subways that don't 60 anywhere.
One of them runs under a downtown main
street but has no tracks. Another is of no use
because it comes to sudden stop just short
of the Schuylkill River.
In general, the field of transportation is
a rich mine of super-boners. The Royal
Gorge Bridge in Colorado is the highest auto
mobile suspension bridge in the world. 1t
was built in 1929 to span the Arkansas River.
and Coloradms are still trying to figure out
Evening star., 1948-10-24

First off. they proposed and passed
resolution to build sidewalk eight miles
through the woods to the town of Lebanon,
the nearest place where students could get
glass of beer. They wanted to be able to get
there quickly on roller skates
Furthermore, they threatened that at the
next meeting they would vote to erect new
town hall rs feet high and two feet square, an
Evening star., 1948-10-24

why. A fine parkway leads to one end of the
bridge. Motorists pay toll to get across,
but at the other end there is just plain,
unimproved dirt road. Nice place for picmcs,
though.
The great Hoosac Tunnel in Massachu-
setts. built to facilitate freight traffic, was Is
years in construction. But by slight over
sight, it was built with too little clearance,
so that many Western-style freight cars
couldn't pass through without having their
tops sheared off,.
The inscrutable japanese mind is re-
sponsible fer one Of the most colorful
blunderbusts of all time. In the early
1905, the Jap Navy invited firm of British
shpbulders to submit designs for new
heavy torpedo boat. The British firm had
dealt with the Japs before and had reason to
suspect that they often rejected blueprints
as unsatisfactory, but only after copying
them and building the ships on the sly, to
Evening star., 1948-10-24

save the lee.
This time the firm submitted
a ship design of a very special
nature, which could be. car
ried out only under supervision
of their own engineers. The
plans bounced back with the
usual comment: $50 sorry, not
satisfactory" or words to
that effect.
Ke0led Over
In 1893, the Tossodzuyu was
launched with great flag-wav-
ing and setting-off of firecrack-
ers. But on its trial run. hon.
orable ship - built to the
Evening star., 1948-10-24

GONE weeks ago the citizens of certain
- Michigan town rubbed their eyes and
wondered whether World War III had sud-
denly begun. A man appeared in the streets
equipped with a mine detector, and went
about testing the pavements as carefully
as if he were the advance scout for division
of tanks
No tanks appeared, however. The explana-
ton was that the town government had just
res,ufaced the streets and done the job so
thoroughly the manhole covers were all sealed
over with several inches of asphalt.
Presumably the mine detector located the
manhole covers and the town did lot of
quick digging But at any rate, the whole
affair rates as a suPer-boner, a boner
among boners, and worthy of the elegant
term ssblunderbust.'
Bmers happen every day. Blmderbusts
are fewer and farther between. The Leaning
Tower of Pisa is one of the most colorful
examples in history (though some scholars
believe that the original architects puuposely
designed it to lean). But in the blumderbust
line, Pisa almost lost its dubious lanels to
the town of Hanover, N. H., some years ago.
Hanover came within an ace of building
tower that would have made the Pisa campa-
nile look stodgily normal.
e.. College Capex
HANOVER il the seat of Dartmouth College.
Near the turn of the century. the town fathers
hatched the bright idea of raising revenue by
levying a two-dollar poll tax on all Dart
mouth students eligible to vote. The students,
who had exhibited no interest in local politics
up to that time, were up in arms. At the first
town meeting after fall term had begun, they
showed up in body. 1t turned out that they
outnumbered the assembled townspeople. a
situation of which they took swift advantage.
Evening star., 1948-10-24

ediflce that would have been
close quarters for a chimney
sweep, let alone Hanover's
portly town officers.
The townspeople were out
ragged but baff1ed. The town
clerk advised them that it was
hopelessly legal. He said that
the sidewalk through the woods
would have to be built, and the
picturesque town hall. too, un-
less the Dartmouth boys could
be persuaded to take their two
dollars back and relinquish
their vote.
The boys eventually did take
Evening star., 1948-10-24

You've heard of boners? Well, blunderbust
is a super-boner such upside-down
warship, eight-mile. sidewalk through the
woods and a subway that doesn't 60 anywhere
by Charles D. Rice
Drascinss Ralph