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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-02-02
Agreement Due
In a FewDays
On ArmoryUse
Four-Mon Committee
To Offer Compromise
AS Bill for Congress

An agreement to settle the long
dispute over control of the District
Armory is expected within the next
few days.
This prediction came today from
Joseph C. McGarraghy, chairman oil
the Board of Trades Greater Ma
tional Capital Committee and a
member of the special committee
named last Monday at conference
of congressional and District leaders
to work out a solution.
Mr.. McGarraghy disclosed the
formation of the four-man commit
tee today and said it is working out
a compromise between the Commits
sioners and the National Guard over
operation of the Armory at the end
of East Capitol street.
Language to Be Worked Out.
The special committee includes, In
addition to Mfr. McGarraghy, Com
missioner John Russell Young, Brig
Gen. Albert L. Cox, commander OF
the District Guard, and Harry S.
Wender, chairman of the District
Recreation Board
This special committee plans to
meet in the next day or so,' Mr..
McGarraghy said, to work out Ian
guage of a compromise bill for con-
sideration by Congress.
This committee will report to an
other session of the same congress
sional-District conference at the
Mayflower Hotel Wednesday night
behind closed doors.
ION the basis of discussions last
Monday night" said Mr.. McGar-
raghy, there is no reason why we
cannot get together"
Refusing to divulge any details
of the conference. Mr.. McGarraghy
said that as he understood it, the
informal get-together last Monday
night had paved the way for IRON
ing out all major issues in dispute.
Hopes for Bill Wednesday.
Chairman O'Hara of the House
District Judiciary Subcommittee
who arranged last Mondays confer
ence, said he hoped the four-man
committee would have a specific
proposal in the form of bill by
Wednesday night. Mr.. O'Hara pre-
viously had said a settlement was
in sight. but the work of the four
man committee was kept quiet
until today.
Expected at the session Wednes-
day night, Mr.. O'Hara said, are the
District Commissioners, Gen. Cox
and representatives of the Board OF
Trade, the Office of National Capital
Parks of the Interior Department
and the District Recreation Board.
The informal movement to settle
the dispute is an outgrowth of Mr..
O'Hara's suggestion after public
heaxings by his committee on three
pending Armory bills had succeeded
only in sharpening the differences
between the Commissioners and the
National Guard.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-02-02
Rector of St. Johns
Has Hospital Checkup

The Rev. G. Leslie Glenn, rector
of st. Johns Protestant Episcopal
Church. Sixteenth and H streets
N. W., is in Emergency Hospital fol-
check-up, it was learned today
He did not preach yesterday.
A persistent cold caused Mr.
Glenn's physician to send him tt
the hospital Saturday for examina.
ton, according to the rector's sec.
rotary.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-02-02
Trinidad Boys Club Band
Makes Debut tomorrow

The Trinidad Boys Club 37-piece
band will make its first public ap-
pearance when it plays at a rally
for the Washington Seascouts and
their parents at pm. tomorrow at
the Stuart Junior High School
Fourth and E streets NE.
Speakers at the annual rally will
include Inspector Dick Mansfield
cartoonist for The Star; 1t. William
T. Murphy. director of the Police
Juvenile Bureau; special Federal
Bureau of Investigation agents E.
C. Kemper and Arthur Breuer, and
Comdr. w. D. Thompson, U. S. N. r
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-02-02
Convention Dute Set

The 18th annual convention OF the
National Rivers and Harbors Con-
gress will be held here March 10 and
20. william H. Webb. executive vice
president, announced today.
Evening star., 1948-10-14
Maryland U. 10 Hold
Homecoming Day

The University Of Maryland will
hold its 25th annual homecoming
day Saturday, with thousands of
graduates expected to return for
the yearly reunions.
A high light Of the day will be a
football game between Maryland
and Duke Universities at Griffith
Stadium at 2 pm.
Alumni registrations will start at
10 am. Saturday at headquarters
set up in the historic Rossborougi1
Building, oldest structure on the
campus. Carlisle Humelsine of COL
lege Park is chairman of the
Alumni Homecoming Committee.
The traditional judging of sorority
and fraternity house decorations
and the presentation of a cup to
the winner Of each group also will
be held in the morning.
Other events scheduled are q
luncheon in the Coliseum at 1880
am. and supper in the university
dining hall from $50 to $3.50 pm
A Homecoming ball will be held
in the new armory from pm. to
midnight.
Evening star., 1948-10-14
A. B. & W. 10 Chance
Fare Check System

A new method of collecting fares
on buses of the Alexandria, Bancroft
& Washington Transit Co. will be
inaugurated Saturday coincident
with increases in fares. the firm an
nounced today.
Following recommendations of the
Interstate Commerce Commission,
each patron will be required to tell
the bus operator his destination be-
fore he drops his fare in the box.
Should the patron forget, the
company said, the operator will ask
the destination before the rider
leaves the fare box.
B.. G. May, AB&W general man
ager, said the new method will be
far superior" to q zone check sys-
tenn which would require the issu-
ar,ce of receipts to boarding passen-
gers. and the collection Of. receipts
when they leave. ~
Evening star., 1948-10-14
New Court Action Set on Suit
Over Arlington Incinerafor

A motion to set aside a Judgment
in favor of Arlington County in the
incinerator suit which ended yester-
day will be argued Tuesday before
Circuit Judge Walter T. Mccarthy.
Court action to force the County
Board to award a. contract for con-
struction of county incinerator to
the low bidder was brought by the
Morse-Boulger Destructor Corp,
New York, and six Arlington tax
payers.
The Morse-Boulger firm submitted
a bid of $628,843 but the County
Board accepted the s646,757 bid Of
the Nichols Engineering & Research
Corp, also of New York.
The board acted after a firm Of
consulting engineers employed by
the county "evaluated" all bids and
recommended acceptance of the
Nichols proposal. Although the ini-
tial cost would be higher, the county
would save on operational charges
over period Of years, the board was
told.
The case was heard by Judge
Mccarthy in county circuit court.
Commemorative Attorney Denman
T. Rucker represented the. County
Board, and former Commonwealth
Attorney Lawrence w. Douglas ap-
peared for the Nichols company.
Attorneys for the petitioners were
Oren r. Lewis and Andrew w.
Clarke
Evening star., 1948-10-14
Gambling Dog Catcher
Wins Reduced Penalty

A former Alexandria dog-catcher
who, police said. collected numbers
bets as he went about the city pick
ing up stray CANNES, yesterday won
a reduction Of his sentence for
gambling.
Riley Beam, 4s, colored, SIT South
Royal street, Alexandria, has been
fined $500 and sentenced to 80 days
in jail in Police Court on q charge
Of operating numbers game. He
appealed to the Corporation Court,
contending that he was not operat-
ing a numbers game, but was merely
placing bets for himself. A five-man
jury yesterday reduced his sentence
to a $25 fine and 30-day Jail SEN
tence. The jail sentence y was sus-
pended.
Evening star., 1948-10-14
Parkfairfax School
Action Due in Week

After voting temporary measures
to relieve overcrowding at the Park
fairfax School, the Alexandria School
Board last night agreed to meet at
8 pm. next Thursday to act on plans
for a new school building to replace
the temporary structure now in use.
AS one step, the board decided to
place one third-grade group in the
parish hall of the Episcopal Church
of St. Clement on Seminary road
and employ an additional teacher
for the class.
The second step will be to trans
port seventh-grade pupils at school
board expense to the Jefferson
School in downtown Alexandra.
A new Parkfairfax school has been
planned for some time and funds
are to be made available. from a
5000. 900 bond issue sold recently by
the city. The school board has re-
ceived one set of plans but has not
acted on them.
Supt. T. c. Williams said last night
that latest estimates for construction
to be financed by bond issue proceeds
showed the cost would exceed the
school departments share of the
bonds bys$105,350.
The plans call for two new elemen-
tary schools, a new colored high
school and additions to five other
buildings. The school share of the
bond issue is $2,S87, 500, while< the
construction estimate is $780,, $50,
Mr.. williams said.
Evening star., 1948-10-14
Jesse J. Warren Rites
Held in North Carolina

Funeral services were held yes
terday in Warren's . Methodist
Chapel. Blounts Greek, N. c., for
the man who founded it-Jesse j.
Warren. 81, father of two we'll
known Laurel (Md0 physicians.
Mr.. Warren died Monday in the
Laurel hospital owned and operated
by his sons, DR.. Brian p. Warren
and DR.. John M. Warren.
A farmer who was active In the
religious and civic affairs of his
native Beaufort County, N. c., Mr..
Warren came to Laurel 16 years
ago to live with his sons. He also
spent some time with a daughter
Mrs. Grace Diamond, Washington,
N. G..
He leaves six other children, 20
grandchildren and eight great
grandchildren.
Evening star., 1948-10-14
Virginia Methodist Meeting
Will Get Reports Today
BY the kssoeiotsd Press

NORFOLK, Va, Oct. 1A-The IA
district superintendents of the Vir-
ginia Methodist Conference were to
make their reports to conference
delegates today.
The reports will show the num-
ber of new members, the increase
in Sunday school membership and
the progress of building programs.
The new four-year program Of
the Methodist Church, Advance for
Christ and His Church." will be out
lined during the annual sessions of
the conference, which opened here
last night.
The opening meeting. presided
over by Bishop w. w. Peele of Rich
mond dealt with reelection Of sec
retaries, nomination of committees
and general organization.
Bishop Peele told the pastors, lay
delegates and guests that In the
proposed, new four-year program,
any long-lived ministry will be i'm
possible without "a genuine love
of Jesus"
Evening star., 1948-10-14
Sitter Penalty
Won inAppeoIing
Guilty. Verdict
By the Asseeiatsd Press

ANNAPOLIS, Oct. 14.-Maryland
Attorney General Hall Hammond
contends that, although a person
may already be under sentence for
an offense, the State still has the
right to seek a sitter penalty.
Consequently, Mr. Hammond told
the Circuit Court of Appeals yester-
day the State has the right to ap-
peal from sentences imposed by trial
magistrates.
Mr.. Hammond gave his opinion in
connection with a case involving
Junior johnson, who was fined $50
and costs in a Carolina County trial
magistrates court on a charge Of
assault and battery.
The county States attorney ap-
pealed to the county Circuit Court
and johnson was sentenced to four
months in the House OF Correction.
His lawyers said the State has no
right to appeal when the verdict y
guilty. I.
Evening star., 1948-10-14
Two More Taverns Accused
OF Beer Sales 10 Minors

Two more Prince Georges County
taverns have been charged with SELL
ing beer to minors, bringing the
total cited in the past 10 days to
four. according to County Parole and
Probation Officer Roy D. Bright.
Warrants were served this week
to personnel in Smiths Tavern on
Bladensburg road, Colmar Manor,
and the Old Brick Inn, Upper Marl-
boro. Previously, the Club Hillbilly,
on Central avenue, Seat Pleasant,
was cited twice, and the Campus on
Marlboro pike, Hillside, was charged
once.
James B. Foushee of Edmonston,
a bartender at the Colmar Manor
establishment, was charged Tuesday
with serving beer to an 18-year-old
boy, when Mr.. Bright and q county
policeman, Pvt. Donald Forsht,
made an inspection Of the place on
October. 4. Ralph A. D. Camp, OF
the 1900 block of North Queen
street, Arlington, Va, president OF
the corporation owning it, was
charged with permitting the sale
to a minor. Both were released un-
der $500 bond, pending a hearing In
Hyattsyille Police Court October 81
Ellis Silverstone of Washington
manager Of the Upper Marlboro
tavern, was charged with sellins
beer to q 17-year-old boy Monday
might while the two county officials
visited the place. Also freed unde,
bond, this defendant was ordered
to appear in Upper Marlboro Police
Court tomorrow. "a
Five persons arrested in the two
other taverns are awaiting trial be.
fore the Circuit Court on simiIa,
charges, following a request by
States Attorney "A. Gwynn Bowie
that the cases be heard before 4
jury.
Evening star., 1948-10-14
Jewe|ry Burglar Gets
|10-Year Prison Term
For Bethesda Breaks

Jack Travis Reagan, 80, Of the
900 block of c street NE, was SEN
fenced in Montgomery County Cir
cult Court yesterday to 10 years
in the Maryland penitentiary for
burglary.
Reagan praded guilty before
Judge Steadman Prescott to break
ing into four homes in the Be-
thesda- Chevy Chase area last July
and taking about $4,000 worth of
jewelry and clothing.
After refusing counsel, Reagan
asked Judge Prescott for 1eniency
explaining that he got in with the
wrong crowd"
In rejecting the plea, however,
Judge Prescott told the defendant:
"Your record clearly shows you have
have no right to any special con-
sideration."
According to police, Regan is
wanted for housebreaking in New
York, Arizona, Ohio and the Dis
trict. In addition, police said, Flor
ida authorities are expected to de-
mand Regan's return to serve II
years of a 15-year term for house,
breaking.
Reagan was paroled in Florida
two years ago after serving four
years but violated his parole by
leaving the State, Police said.
In another case, Judge Prescott
sentenced Avada Snow, colored, 80,
of the 100 block of F street S.W., to
serve five years in the Maryland
House of Correction for auto lar
ceny.
Snow was accused of stealing the
car of David r. Wallace June 6
from the Indian Spring Country
Club, Silver Spring, where Mr.. Wal
lace Is q member
Mary Elizabeth Chapman, n, of
the 1900 block of B street Sc, re-
ceived six months sentence In the
State Reformatory' for Women on
the charge of false pretences. Police
said she obtained a $50 loan from
a Silver Spring loan company Aug
ust 26 by using a friends name.
Evening star., 1948-10-14
Kennel Allowed Until Oct. rs.
To Quiet Dogs That Annoy Rice

Mr.. and Mrs. Claude p. Williams,
operators of the Ashton (Md) Ken
nels. have been given until October
rs to curb noise from dogs under
their care which have bothered Sam
Rice, former Washington baseball
star, VINO lives next door.
A decree to that effect, signed by
Judge Stedman Prescott, has been
entered in Montgomery County Cir
cult Court, Rockville. The court
previously had ruled in favor of Mr..
Rice's bill of complaint against the
kennel operators.
Whether Mr.. and Mrs. Williams
will appeal the ruling has not yet
been decided, their attorney, Joseph
B. Simpson, jr., of Rockville, said
today.
The decree, drawn by States At
torney Walter Dawson as attorney
for Mr., Rice, prohibits Mr.. and Mrs.
Evening star., 1948-10-14

Williams from keeping such a great
number Of dogs that the noise made
by the same shall deprive the
plaintiff (Mr. Rice) from the rea-
sonable use and comfortable enjoy
ment of the plaintiffs property and
dwelling house mentioned in the bill
of complaint"
The Rice home on Colesville road
is approximately ITS feet from the
kennels, where Mr.. and Mrs. Will
liams care for pedigreed dogs of
many prominent persons. Among
the kennels clients mentioned dur
ing hearings several months ago
were Winston Churchill. Marlene
Dietrich and Henry A. Wallace.
Judge Prescott ruled that the an
cestry of the dogs and the distinc-
ton of their owners was not suf-
f1cient reason to permit their bark
ing to disturb neighbors.
Evening star., 1948-10-14
Potomac Commission
Names Executive Body
BY the Assoeiotsd Press


The Interstate Commission on the
Potomac River Basin yesterday an
nounced the following appointments
to its Executive Committee:
Harold A. Kemp, vice chairman
and District sanitary engineer;
George F. Hazelwood Of 'Cunber-
land. Md; Raymond v. Long, Rich
mond, Va; Harry G. Knox, Harris
burg; Pa, and George H. Williams,
Romney, w. Va.
c.. C. Burger of Washington
is Federal representative; Oliver
Gasch, assistant District corpora
ton counsel, general counsel, and
DR.. Daniel L. Seckinger, assistant
District health officer, treasurer.
Evening star., 1948-10-14
IA District Area
Face
AidCuts
Failure of 1947 Drive
Reflected in $37, 900
Slash in Rest Of '48
By George, Beyeridqe

Due mainly to failure of the Com.
munity Chest fund campaign last
year, Il Washington area hospitals
will get about $4,000 less than they
expected for the rest Of 194S for
treating patients who can't meet
their hospital bills. it was learned
today. H.
Officials of the Hospital Service
Agency, which administers chest
money paid to hospitals, estimated
that its disqualification fund is about
$37 900 short of the claims expected
to be made on it for the rest of this
year.
Edward ]. Keyes, executive direc-
tor of the Community Chest Fed
Grafton. said the deficit resulted
from two factors. The first Is that
more patients have been handled
than were estimated last year.
Goal Failure More Important.
More important, he said, is the
failure Of last years Chest drive to
reach its goal. Had the goal been
reached, about $493,O0O would have
been available for hospital payment.
The campaign failure, he said, per-
mitted only $432,0 to be placed in
the fund.
When hospitals learned about the
fund deficit, they met last week with
Chest officials to discuss the best
means Of payment Hospital off,
cials strongly urged that their claims
be paid at the full rates agreed on
for as long as the money held out
probably in November. The agree
ment provides that hospitals get
$3.50 for every day of adult care
certified by the Hospital Service
Agency, 81 for each day of infant
care and 81 for each clinic visit.
The Federation Budget Commit.
tee, however, vetoed the suggestion,
Mr.. Keyes said, and instructed the
HSA to divide the funds still left
into five parts-one for each of the
last five months of the year-and to
stay within each months allotment.
The effect will be reduced rate pay.
ments for the rest of the year.
August Rate S6.62.
Payments for ugust, for example,
are at the rate of $6.62, officials said.
The Chest money in the fund is
supplemented by collections made
from patients who can pay part of
their hospital bills, but need some
aid.
During the first half of this year
about $150,000 was collected from
such patients and added to the fund.
Another $125,000 still is due, officials
said.
From the current Read Feather
Campaign, meanwhile, Chest off,
cials hope to allocate $850,0O0 for aid
next year to patients they term
medically idigent." The 194s pay
ments, however, will be raised from
$3.50 to $11 for adult days of care
to recognition of increased operat-
ing costs of hospitals.
Chest officials estimated the ay.
erage cost Of giving care for oons
day averaged $13.4s last year In
the hospitals concerned,
Evening star., 1948-10-14
Silver Spring Hospital
Seeks Authority for
Bond Issue

In an effort to acquire initial
funds for a 200-bed hospital, the
Construction Board of Trustees OF
the Silver Spring Memorial Hos
pital Association, Inc. last night
adopted q resolution proposing that
a bill be presented at the 1949 ses-
sion of the State Legislature author
izing bond issue up to $1,000, 900
Under the proposal, the issue
would be amortized by tax not
to exceed 10 cents on 800 assessed
valuation Of property in the 18th
election district Of Montgomery
County, excluding the Incorporated
towns Of Takona Park and
Kensington.
The resolution said the action Is
not to be construed as being un-
favorable to q merger with the
Suburban Hospital Association" In
case of merger. it added, the tax
should be extended to the 7th cleo
ton district and the town OF
Kensington.
u. s. Grant to Be Asked.
Ralph D. Boyd, newly elected
president Of the association, said
that if funds are authorized, i'm
mediate application will be made
for a Federal grant through the
Hill Burton Act. The act will pro-
vide, under certain qualifications,
lone-third of the cost of construc-
ton of a hospital or addition, up
to $400, 900 or any one project. This
is a grant and does not have to
be repaid.
In addition, Mr.. Boyd said, the
annual report of the association
shows that 5000, 900 has been pledged
toward the hospital building fund,
The board voted to wage a vigor-
GUS campaign to obtain favorable
action on the legislation. A speak
ers' bureau will be established in
this connection.
Mr.. Boyd reported that efforts to
effect merger with the Suburban
Hospital group may be successful
1t is still hoped, he said, that an
agreement can be reached. The
merger has been advocated by the
Hospital Survey Committee of the
Montgomery County Medical So
ciety as a means of improving hos
pital facilities for the county.
Silver Spring Hospital Association
owns 27-acre tract of land on
Forest Glen road and Sligo Greek
parkway.
Plans for erecting the hospital
were started during World War II.
Funds raised through voluntary SUBJ
scription have been inadequate to
finance construction of the institu-
ton, which it is estimated will cost
more than 20 600 600
Evening star., 1948-10-14
Doctor at st. EIizobeths Glasses
Honkers in 3 Psychiotric Groups

If you are one of those persons who
blows his horn at the car in front
as soon as the traffic light turns
green, it does not necessarily mean
that you are mentally unbalanced.
This comforting word to WASH
ton tootlers came today from DR..
Addison M. Duval, a noted psychia-
trist, who heads the clinical division
at st. Elizabeths Hospital.
Psychiatrically speaking, accord
ing to DR.. Duval, chronic horn blow
ers fall into three groups. Two Of
the groups are composed Of persons
with mental alterations familiar to
the medical world. The third group
of tootlers, however; is perhaps the
largest. --
1t is made up, said DR.. Duval, Of
"so-called perfectly normal persons,
acting in immediate response to
some frustrating or otherwise dis
turbing experience"
"The man who toots and beeps
his way through trafnc may, for
instance, be reacting to a hectic
session with his mother-in-law," the
mental expert explained. "Or he
may have that morning latter feel
ing. So he takes it out on the horn -
Others More Serious.
DR.. Duval said that, as a pSychi-
artist, he is not much worried about
this group. Most people fall into
it occasionally and manage to find
their way back into the ranks of
civilized motorists without the help
of the medical profession. The
other two classes of offenders, he
indicated. present a more serious
problem for the Metropolitan police
in their current effort to eliminate
unnecessary honking in the Capital.
The first of these, DR.. Duval said,
is made up of persons plagued by a
sense of their own inferiority.
They tend" he said, Ito over
compensate for this unpleasant
feeling in an aggressive manner.
With many of them, the process is
unconscious. The typical case Is
that of a basic Casper Milquetoast
type, to whom the act Of blowing his
horn at somebody seems to be some
thing daring and exciting-a way Of
showing authority. Authority is
what he Graves to show. so there
you have it. Bla, bla, bla, bla goes
the horn"
The other abnormal type of
horn blower, DR.. Duval said, is
Evening star., 1948-10-14
Joe and His Boys Have Place to Box

high school freshman. He is
on the school football team.
Last summer he was a coun-
selor at Camp Cedars, Barney's
summer camp. His younger
brother, Phil, likes athletics,
too, but his big interests are
art and. drama.
Joe expresses his apprecia-
ton for the role Barney has
played in his life by spending
time there almost every eve
ming helping to direct recrea-
ton activities.
Because you gave to the
Community Chest Federation,
Joe had Barney Neighborhood
House to turn to for The, type
of help he needed He, in turn,
is performing a real community
service for other boys.
; Help make sure Barney
Neighborhood House can keep
up the good work. Give as
much as you can to your Com
munity Chest Federation.