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Evening star., 1948-02-01
PROGRAMS and Even1ts of the Concert Week

BALLET Russo DE MONTE CARLO,
NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHEs-
IRA, Constitution Hall, $50 pm.
TODD DUNCAN, baritone. song recital,
Metropolitan A. M. E, Church, $50
pm.
KATHERINE BACON, piano recital
Howard University, $50 pm; Scar
lattfs "Sonatas, E Major, G Major,
Gluck-S ambati "Melodie," Gluck-
Saint-Saens' Caprice on Airs From
"Alceste," Memberships .Variations
Serieuses,' Chopin's Sonata, B
Minor; Lists Sonnet E Major; !;
Rachmaninoff's "Prsludes, G Major,
Op. 80, No 5; G Sharp Minor. Op.
80. No. 12; E Flat Major. Op. 23,
No. 6; B Flat Major, Op. %, No. 2.
Evening star., 1948-02-01
Notes Become Dollar Signs When Score
IS Taken on Cost of Runninq Symphony
By Miriom Gutenberg

The stagehands roll the grand piano into place.
musicians solo the
Constitution Hall the applause subsidies the National SYM
phony begins to make music
Evening star., 1948-02-01
THURSDAY.
sornIERs, HOME sYMPHoNETTE

SOLDIERS HOME sYMPHoNETTE,
Franklin 3. Charles, conductor;
Young America overture, Adams
The Brewer. Of Preston; Haydn 1I,dn
ner's 'Iohengrin,'' Romance" from
Wieniawskis Concerto No. q"
Henri Sokoov, violinist; WaldteuieFs
Woodland Dreams" Won Blon's The
Banner"
BALLET Russo DE MONTE CARLO.
NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHEs-
IRA, Constitution Hall, $50 pm.
AIR FORCE BAND, cwo John F:
Yesulaitis, conductor: Department OF
Interior, 9 pm. overture, Wolf,
Ferraris "The Secret of Suzanne
Delius "a Walk Through Paradise
Gardens" Non .piu andrai;" from
M/Sergt. Abrasha Robofsky. bari,
tone; second movement, Brahms
Symphony No. l." Tschaikowskys S
None But the Lonely Heart" Sergt;
Rohofsky; Dukas' The soreeIsss
Apprentice Grainger's "Loneon-
derry Air"
Evening star., 1948-02-01
FRIDAY.

FRIDAY MORNING MUSIC CLUB.
Gertrude Smallwood Mockbee, Ma.
bel Linton Williams. Alice Ingersoll
Nagle, Arthur Nasle. pianists; Char
lotte Ridley Watkins, soprano; Bar
ker Hall YWCA, 11:3o am. Mo-.
zart-Busoni "Duettino Concertante.
Faure's Ballad, Op. 49,; Mac
Dowells witches Dance" Mrs. Will
Iiams, Mrs. Mockbee Brahms
''Sehnsucht." "Reeenlied, "Das
Maedchen Spricht," FranZ's Marie"
Schumanns "Er lists" Mrs. Watkins;
MacDowelrs Concerto, G MlHor.
Op. 23," Mrs. and Mr.. Nasle.
WALDEN STRING QUARTET, John
Kirkpatrick. pianist assisting: L.
braTY Of CONGRESS-, $40 pm. Hay
du's quartet. D Major, Op. 90. No:
A.: Robert Palmer's Piano Quartet
Beethoven's quartet, E Flat Major
m,
Evening star., 1948-02-01
SATURDAY.

SOLDIERS HOME sYMPHoNETTE,
Franklin B Charles, conductor:
berg's italian Rihemen," overture,
Moniuszko's "Halka," Gruenwald's
arabian Nights" selection from
Lehar's Alone at Last, Saint
Saens' "Tarantelle, Mr. Prezioso
flute; Mr.. villatico, clarinet: Wsld,,
teufel's Sweet Remembrance,
Lensberg's An American Ideal
WADE N. STEPHENS. organ recital.
LIDS Chapel, pm.
Evening star., 1948-02-01
Finishing Was Delayed

In 1904 a long range Of one-story
structures was erected on either
side of the main building. These
wings contained meathouse, cellar
for liquors, coal and wood and
privies. At the end of the eastern
range, we are told, also was stable
Evening star., 1948-09-02
Broodcosts to Play Bigger Role
In Districts Schools This Year

Radio is going to play a major
role in the education of thousands
of public school children in the Dis
trict when school opens this month.
More radio broadcasts are to be
used to supplement classroom study,
according to Dr. Clyde Huber, chair
man of the Radio Committee of the
District Schools.
Parents this year may not legiti-
mately be able to say, Johnny,
turn off that radio, you're supposed
to be studying" The reason is,
Johnny will be able to answer,
But this is my homework.
Many educational programs are
broadcast after school hours" DR.
Huber said, so we intend to assign
them as homework to guarantee
that students will listen"
DR.. Huber said only about 1C
per cent of the 153 District public
schools are without radios. 1--WE
will try to get more" he said, "by
making people see the need of ra-
dios as part of a students educa-
ton"
The Radio Workshop, sponsored
by the public schools, station WTOF
and the Columbia Broadcastine
System, which is now being con-
Quoted at Wilson Teachers College
is one method of getting the pub-
lie to realize this need. IF the
Evening star., 1948-09-02
Rebuying Of Property
From Negroes Planned

A fund-raising plan to buy back
property now owned by Negroes in
former white neighborhoods and to
resell it to white persons was out
lined today to the Federation of
Citizens Associations by stockholders
of the Columbian improvement AS
sociation, Inc.
About Is stockholders of the asso-
citation, formed three years ago, met
last night at 2722 Thirteenth street
NV, and discussed the plan to
obtain funds for that purpose in the
Columbia Heights section by selling
stock in the incorporated associa-
tion, Mrs. Margaret H. Worrell, the
president said.
The group, Mrs. Worrell said, de-
cided to explain the plan to the fed
Grafton, so that affiliated neighbor-
hood groups could consider the ad-
visibility of using 1t in their Sec
tions. In a letter to the federation,
Mrs. Worrell wrote that the Supreme
Court decision last May on restric-
tive property covenants held only
that such agreements could not be
enforced by courts.
The decision, she stated, did not
declare covenants or similar agree
ments illegal In themselves. 1t did
not prevent covenant holders from
suing for damages If they suffer
losses as a result of one Of the sign
ers breaking a covenant, she added.
Evening star., 1948-09-02
Big Boy Milton
Slain by Police
In Store Ambush
Officers Lie in Wait
As Tri-Stote Gongster
Breaks Into Pharmacy

Henry L. (Big Boy Milton,
one-time member of the no.
torious tri : State gang and
blamed for 80 narcotics thefts
in the last two years, died in a
blaze of police gunfire last night.
Unarmed, Milton was felled by
two narcotics squad detectives as he
entered a jimmied window of the
Hail & Sothoron Drugstore in the
Kedrick Medical Building, 1901 K
street NV, and walked into
police trap.
Police surveillance of his activities
had been so close that milk shake
he purchased in the drugstore yes
terday afternoon tipped them off.
Three Officers Lie in Wait.
Detective Sergts. Murray Kutner
and Joseph Gabrys and narcotics
squad chief, 1t. H. H. Carper, had
lain in wait for the anticipated
robbery since 7:45 pm. Milton
climbed a small fence, entered an
areaway alongside the store, re-
uloFcu SCIctIl dIlQ JlIlllllleQ open
the window, 1t. Carper said.
AS he moved toward the drug de-
partment of the store, 1t. Carper
continued, Sergts. Kutner and
Gabrys opened fire. Milton fell
with two bullet holes in his chest.
One slug apparently pierced his
body and tore into mirror over
the soda fountain.
The policemen shot Milton because
"he came toward them in a semi
crouched position" after they ordered
him to put up his hands, 1t Carper
declared. The first shot was fired at
that moment and the second imme-
diately thereafter when Milton gave
a lurch and fell Backward 1t. Car
per declared.
1t. Carper, who heads the mar
cotics squad. described Milton as a
vicious killer" He said he was
informed that Milton once shot
policeman and that on another oc-
casion was captured by two Prince
Evening star., 1948-09-02
Wave, Last Of Chesapeake Bay PUNCHES,
Stirs Ancient Memories at D. C.. Waterfront
86-Yeor-OId Boot
Is Home for Couple
And Daughter, Az
By ChorIes J. Yorbrouqh

There's a white, fat and happy
ghost of clipper ship days riding
sturdily at anchor in Maine ave-
nue's Mayflower marine basin Here.
1t is the 86-year-old Wave, last
of the Chesapeake Bay pungies,
which nostalgia experts described as
the only true type descendant of the
Baltimore clippers. It's bowsprit
juts out of the long, graceful head
like a finger probing the era when
the sharply raked masts of the
pungy feet made slanting forest
of Baltimore harbor.
Old-timers strolling along the
Washington channel waterfront
stare with unbelieving and misty
eyed recognition as they spot its hull
lines, long light masts and heavy
log transom. Then they begin to
backtrack ship history and ask
questions.
Ignominious Rival.
Nearest rival as the last surviving
pungy is the converted Amanda F.
Lewis, % years its Junior, now
doing ignominious cargo hauling in
Baltimore and Curtis Bay waters.
Its masts have been unstepped and
a wheelhouse built. Only the hull
identifies it as the ship it once was.
The Wave, still seaworthy and
impatient to go, has happier fate.
Aboard and at home are 33-year-
old Eric j. and Freda Schmidt and
their Az -year-old daughter Karen,
whose adventures can match those
of the aged and able ship, even
though they spot it almost half
century.
Mr.. and Mrs. Schmidt were in
China, where he had gone in the
advertising business, when they
prepared to haul their yawl aboard
a Philippine-bound liner as deck
cargo. Within two days of sailing
time, they answered an urgent call
for teachers at Suchow University.
Both held college degrees, and they
delayed their sailing while he
taught English: she history. The
delay was too long.
Interned at Chapel.
On December 8, 1941, the Jap
anese borrowed" their yawl and
threw them into internment at
Chapel. Karen was born there.
They remained in the Orient after
the war, Mr.. Schmidt as public re-
lations officer for the State De-
partment's foreign liquidation COM
mission. They returned to the
United States a year ago, and three
months ago purchased the Wave
from the late Ralph Couch, 54O4
Forty-second avenue, Hyattsville,
Md.
Until Mr. Couch bought it num-
ber of years ago for a proposed trip
to the West Indies, the Wave was
still doing the chores for which it
was built-flshing, oystering and
lumber carrying. At one time it was
on the West Indian pineapple run.
1t has no canvas, but the Schmidts
hope to have it full rigged "in a year
or So" Prime barrier to putting the
necessary 1000 feet of canvas on it's
sail rings is q cracked foren1as t-and
the difficulty of finding one.
"A good piling probably would do
It," Mr.. Schmidt said. 1--WE even
Evening star., 1948-09-02

public gets interested" DR.. Huber
said, I'VE will get funds. With
enough money we can have our
own professional radio productions. {"
George Jennings, director of the
Chicago Radio Council for Chicago
public schools, Who spoke to the
workshop session today, explained
the Chicago schools radio educa-
ton set-up. The schools there
have their own radio stations and
produce their own programs. ITO
do that in the District, you need one
man who will plan, write, and pro-
duce such programs" Mr.. Jen-
nings said.
DR.. Huber said that such a pro-
posal would be impossible here since
we haven't a penny. Well just
have to hope commercial stations
give us good educational subjects
We're also going to use lots of re-
corings and transcriptions from the
United States Office of Education.
Mr.. Jennings predicted every
school in the country will have g
television set in the not too distant
future. This would not include the
District, DR.. Huber said, because OF
lack of funds. Mr.. Jennings said
his prediction would come true when
television sets cost the same as
radios. maybe within the next Is
years"
Evening star., 1948-09-02

American Bar Association and
speaker of the International Bar
Associat tion's House of Delegates.
Other trustees are Armistead
Rood, Washington attorney and sec
retary of the organization; Elwood
N. Seal of Broad Run, Va, former
District corporation counsel and
president of the Washington-Lee
Alumni Society, acting as attorney
in the proceedings; John w. Rixey
Smith of Fairfax County, president
of the Virginia State Society and
former secretary to Senator Carter
Glass; Alvin v. Baird of Delaplane,
Va; Miss Genevieve Hendricks,
Washington interior decorator and
member of the Executive Commit
tee Of the American Interior Deco
rators' Association, and Roy G. ALL
man, Washington attorney, trustees.
Evening star., 1948-09-02
Welfare Cases 10 GET
Assistance Based on,
1916 Food Prices

The Districts Welfare Depart
ment today is starting to give as.
sistance to people on its rolls based
on 1916 food prices rather than or
the "outmoded" 1912 coast level.
But it is still far from sufi-
cient," John w. Tramburg, Welfare
Department director, said, pointing
to the steep increase in food prices
since 1916. Also payments at the
new scale will provide only 80 pc,
cent of the food budget at 1916
prices, Mr.. Tramberg said.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics
cost of living index indicates that
from 1912 to 1916 there was a &c
per cent increase in food prices
From 1946 up to July of this year
prices have increased approximately
another % per cent.
Three Groups to Get Increase.
Funds for making these increases
became available yesterday through
increased Federal participation, Mr.
Tramburg explained. He said he
hoped the department would be able
to spread the increases to cover all
persons involved.
Only three groups receiving as
sistance will get the increase, he
said. They are the blind, families
receiving aid for dependent chill
dren and persons getting old-age
assistance.
Checks will not be increased auto
matically, the welfare director ex-
planned. AS case comes up for re-
view-something which is done at
regular intervals by the department
the new scale will be instituted
Thus, it will take several months
for the increases to reach all the
recipients.
Blind to Get S45 q Month.
Aid to blind persons will be
raised from about $40 a month to
about $45. while aid to dependent
children will Jump in some cases al
much as 20 per cent or from about
$76 month to s92. Old-age assist.
ance checks will 60 from about 81
month to $45.
The welfare department at pres.
ent has 1885 persons on its roll.
getting old-age assistance, 1855
families with total of 4,103 chill.
dren who are receiving aid ane
2l9 blind persons.
Evening star., 1948-09-02
Husband Faces
Further Queries
In Wife
Prince Georges Man
Admits Drinking and
Tells Of Struggle

Prince Georges County police to-
day planned further questioning of
Anson Merrick Sloan, 80, a tele-
phone repairman Of 403 Belford
place, Hampshire Knolls, who is
charged with the murder of his wife,
Florence NJ, AZ.
Mrs. Sloan's body was found Tues
day night in the bedroom of her
home. Detective Earl C. Huber
said there were bruises resembling
finger marks on her throat, her
right eye was blackened and both
lips were cut.
Sloan was arrested early yester-
day at the home and was placed in
the Hyattsyille Jail without bond
pending hearing September 16 in
Hyattsville Police Court.
Died Of Hemorrhage.
DR.. John T. Maloney, deputy med
ical examiner for the northern dis
trict of the county, said Mrs. Sloan
died of hemorrhage within her
skull. He said she could have been
strangled, but withheld issuance of
a death certificate until tonight.
The body has been taken to the
Gasch funeral home, Hyattsville.
Detective Huber said Sloan had
been drinking and that he gave the
following account:
He had returned Monday from
a weeks vacation with his family in
South Carolina. When he arrived
home, he questioned his wife about
reports she had been drinking dur
ing his absence and an argument
ensued.
The following morning they ar
gued again when she refused to
prepare breakfast for their 6-year-
old daughter Felicia and a small
boy who was visiting them. He
then went to Union Station to pick
up his luggage.
Struggle Described.
When he returned that afternoon,
the children had had nothing to eat
and his wife was In bed. He pulled
her off the bed and pulled and
Evening star., 1948-09-02
Steps Taken 10 Issue
Temporary License 10
Dumbarton Theater

First steps to issue q temporary
license for the Dumbarton theater,
1349 Wisconsin avenue NV, were
taken today after a hearing before
Clark King, chief assistant corpora
ton counsel for Municipal Court.
In the meantime, it was decided
the theater may remain open until
November l, pending its sale to new
owners and the repair of certain
building defects.
Among those present at the hear
ing were representatives of the po-
lice, the District Department of
Building Inspection and the owners
of the building. They were told that
the theater had been operating with
out license since February l. when
issuance of a new license was dis
approved because of two wooden
partitions which the inspecting Off
GERS said constituted a fire hazard.
Procedure Explained.
Mr.. King explained that it is
customary to give owners of thea
tiers already in operation time to
a closingAorder is issued. An act
of Congress requires movie thea
ters to pay a $50 anual licence fee
and the penalty for violations is
$500 fine or 80 days in Jail for each
day of operation without license.
In the case of the Dumbarton
Theater. the owners informed the
police that the building was in the
process of being sold and that the
repairs would be made after the
transaction was completed The
theater is part of an estate and is
leased by the Peoples Amusement
Corp.
According. to Washington Attorney
Martin F. Donoghue, trustee for
the sale, an s82 900 sales contract
| is still awaiting approval by the
District court here.
Two Visited Theater
Mr.. King and Building Inspector
Charles O'Connell said they visited
the theater last night, where sex
education film called Nom and
Dad" is the current attraction. Mr..
King said he found the theater
we'll operated and no conditions
that would constitute IAN immedi-
ate danger to the public"
He said he felt the Building In
spector's Office, the License Office
and the police had been remiss In
not bringing the matter to his at
tention earlier. He said he would
recommand to District Inspections
Director Robert H. Davis that q
temporary license be issued.
c. T. Nottingham, District super
intendent Of licenses has already
indicated his approval Of the move.
Evening star., 1948-09-02

If there is cash discount for
savoir faire, Virgil Villatico got a
bargain at the post office auction
of dead parcels yesterday.
A fast man with bid, he offered
S26 for an electric toaster and got
Is women's nightgowns instead, but
he shrugged off the incident with
all the aplomb of man caught do
ing his duty.
"I just bid on No. 1876 in the
catalog instead of 128," he grinned
little ruefully.
What's more, while he was try
ing to figure out what to do with
Is nightgowns, the electric toaster
went for $40 to David Fockler, of
Takoma Park, Md.
What's still more, the same toast
er can be purchased almost any,
where for S21.e5.
Overflow Crow in Corridors.
Music Teacher Villatico. of a430
North Capitol street, was among
600 persons who got into the big
auction room of the main post
Office to see and bid on those gifts
you haven't received. The post Office
had tried for eight months to To-
cate senders and addresses; finally
1t put them under the hammer.
For every one of the 600 persons
in the auction room, there were
two who failed to get in, jan1med
the corridors, and they tried to relay
bids through friends.
1t was a five-hour buying fest
that tired four auctioneers and sold
an estimated S5,8O1 worth of goods,
ranging from silver candleSticks and
clothing to sleds, skis, jewelry and
stovepipe.
Mr.. Villatico lugged his night
gowns home after the auction and
caught the dickens" from his wife.
Don't you even know my size?"
she wanted to know
Evening star., 1948-09-02

-Four of them will fit her." he said
said.
From the standpoint Of atten-
dance, it was a near-record turn
out for the auctions the post Office
holds when unbelievable merchan-
disc overflows storage. Receipts go
to the departments general fund
Everett Estes. post Office employe
and one of the auctioneers, ratified
off tricycles for a top of $40, six
dozen toy dump trucks for SO and
30 dozen pairs of mems hose for
81 a dozen to start the sale.
SIS for S Bibles.
Mrs. Edwin Bowling, 2026 Law
renee street NE, paid SIS for five
new Bibles. One 10-volume en-
cyclopedia set went for $40 and an
other for $15.
Top sale of the day was the $40
paid for one pair of sterling candle
sticks by woman who refused to
give her name.
-Four matched golf clubs brought
$29; eight canoe paddles went to
o. F. Davis of 1118 F street NE. for
So. Two umbrellas sold for $40 and
a guitar brought $25.
1t must have been the competitive
spirit. Al pair of isaen'sa shoes
brought So; two mems white shirts
and a sport shirt went for SO. Ny
lons-more, than 400 pairs--were
easy at So for a half dozen pair.
A man who wanted 80 harmonicas
got them for SIS, and three dozen
golf balls brought $19.
A mouton lamb coat sold for $5a
--brand-new.
There was a 50-piece set of Rogers
plated ware-$25.
There also were Christmas tree
lights, an ak, pick and shovel set
and two gross of plastic whistles
just in case you're sorry you weren't
there.
Evening star., 1948-09-02
Mission Group Ready
To Forgo It's Right 10
Purchase WoodIawn

The Immaculate Heart of Mary
Mission Society. Inc, expressed will
lingness today to forego the right of
buying Woodlawn, the 126-acre es-
tate near Mount Vernon, once
owned by George Washington's
family, so newly formed founda-
ton can maintain it as a public
shrine.
The mission, a Belgian order, had
been authorized by the Fairfax
County Circuit Court to purchase
the property for $165, 900 from guar
dians for Mrs. Oscar w. Underwood,
widow of the late Alabama Senator.
John A. K. Donovan, attorney for
the mission, announced today that
the Catholic order was not only
willing, but was very pleased and
interested to have Woodlawn oper-
ated as public shrine" by the
Woodlawn Public Foundation, Inc,
which has just been formed or by
any other group.
To Appear Before Judge Today.
The foundation, through it's pres
ident, George M. Morris, disclosed
yesterday that it would petition
Judge Paul Brown to stay the
Woodlawn proceedings long enough
for its pleas to be heard. Under
Virginia law DEGREES such as that
in the Woodlawn transaction do not
become final for IS days after they
are entered.
The decree, authorizing the mis-
sion society to make the purchase
would become final after today.
Foundation spokesmen said they
were prepared to appear before
Judge Brown today to ask permis-
sion to intercede.
Mr.. Donovan said the mission was
willing to wait a reasonable length
of time for the matter to be cleared
up. II the estate is not purchased
by the foundation or some other
group planning to maintain it as
shrine, as approved by the court, he
said, the mission will preserve the
antiquity and historic value of
Woodlawn and at the same time
operate it for its own purposes"
Would Pay S165,000.
The Immaculate Heart commu-
nifty planned to use the property
as a house of study for its mis-
sionaries passing through the United
States for foreign missions. It pro-
posed to use its present house of
study, Misconduct, 4651 North
Twenty-fifth street, Arlington, as
quarters for the procurator and his
staff and the public relations de-
partment. The present procurator
is the Rev. Ernest Dieltiens, I. H. M.
Spokesman for the foundation
said that the intervening group
would be in position to offer more
than $165,000 for the property and
that it would be operated similar
to and in collaboration with" Mount
Vernon.
Woodlawn was built by DR.. Will
liam Thornton, designer of the Cap
itol and the Octagon House here.
and was given by George Washing
ton on his birthday, February %,
1899, to his adopted daughter, Nellie
Custis Washington, and her BRIDE
groom, Lawrence Lewis. Its archi-
lecture is Georgian. Senator Under
wood bought the place in 1925.
Mr.. Morris, president Of the foun-
dation, is past president Of the
Evening star., 1948-09-02
Star Movies

Community movies, sponsored by
The Star in cooperation with the
Recreation Department and The
Film Center, are scheduled for 8
o'clock tonight. Programs Of comedy,
sports, cartoons and travel shorts
will be shown at the following play
grounds and recreation centers.
Bellevue, 213 Boyer street BE.
Buchanan, Thirteenth and d streets II.
road Sc.
Georgetown, Thirty-fourth street and
Volta place NV.
sscwyeil sixteenth and Lamont streets
RAYMOND. Tenth and Quebec streets NV.