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Evening star., 1948-07-03
Broadcasts Announced
By Arlington Churches

Two Arlington churches will
broadcast their II a m. services Sun
day, the Arlington Church of the
Air announced today.
Grace Evangelical United .Breth-
rem Church, with the Rev. George
B. Riley officiating, will broadcast
over WARL, and Our Saviour
Lutheran Church, with the Rev
Paul M. Kavascn in charge, will
broadcast over WEAM.
The Rev. Vernon w. Littrell, pas
tor of the Arlington Church of the
Nazarene, will broadcast daily devo-
tions at 8;45 am. Monday through
Friday over WARL and the Rev
Willard Pierce, pastor of Mount
Vernon Baptist Church, will broad
cast at 1915 am. over WEAM on
the same days.
Evening star., 1948-07-03
.16 Honored as Navy
Marks Anniversary Of
Research Laboratory

The Naval Research Laboratory
celebrated its 25th anniversary yes
terday and honored 16 employees who
have been with the organization
since its founding.
More than 1000 laboratory en-
ployes, former employees and their
families attended the colorful out
door anniversary ceremonies. They
heard Assistant Secretary of Navy
for Air John Nicholas Brown, Ad-
miral Louis E. Denfeld, chief OF
naval operations. and DR.. William
v. Houston, president of Rice In
stitute. Capt. H. A. Schade, labora-
tory director, conducted the cere-
monies.
The laboratory. at Fourth street
and Overlook drive SW., was first
proposed in 1915 by Secretary of the
Navy Josephus Daniels and by
Thomas A. Edison and his colleagues
of the Naval Consulting Board.
World War 1 delayed its opening
until July 2, 1923, however. Starting
with four buildings and about 100
employees, it has grown into one OF
the largest research establishments
in the world. with SO buildings and
more than 5000 employees. There
is also an annex on Chesapeake Bay.
The laboratory Is stated largely
by civilians and is devoted to scien-
tiic experimentation and develop
ment specifically for the Navy. 1t
now has 10 divisions: Three radio
and one each of sound, optics, me-
chanics, metallurgy. chemistry, elec-
tricity and nucleonics.
It was at the laboratory that
some of the first work on radar was
performed, with DR.. Albert Hoyt
Taylor, chief Navy physicist and
superintendent of the laboratorys
radio division, as the central figure.
The laboratory also helped develop
self-sealing gasoline tanks, poison
gas protection equipment. smoke
screens. better armor plate. signal
ing devices and synthetic lubricants
It also has CARRIED out important
studios of isotope separation and
upper atmosphere research through
the use of rockets.
The 16 employees awarded certifi-
Gates for their Is years of service
are: Ernest E. Brock, 1927 Mime
sofa avenue Sc; Warren B.
Burgess, 1900 Twenty-sixth street
NE; Oscar C. Dresser, 1924 South
Thirteenth street, Arlington; Wal
ter H. Dyer. 1925 R street Sc;
Louis A. Gebhard, 2142 Branch
avenue Sc; Aaron L. Harris, 1907
Seventh street NV; George E.
jacobson. 4441 South Dakota ave-
nue. NE.
Also James w. Johnson, 1918 B
street Sc; John J. MacGregor,
2316 Thirty-second street Sc;
Albert E. Meininger, 1401 West Vir-
ginia avenue NE; Raymond B.
Meyer. 47O2 BrandyWine street
NV; Carlos B. Mirick, 1912 Ma
comb street NV; David H. Ness,
314 Twelfth street NE: Francis w.
Struthers. 215O Pennsylvania ave-
nue. NV; DR.. Taylor, 2910 Penn
sylvania avenue Sc, and Leo c..
Young, 6401 Back road SE.'
Evening star., 1948-07-03
Final Approval
Given Hospital
On Neviius Tract
VA Bill Providing
Funds for l5-Million
Institution Signed

President Truman has given the
Veterans Administration the long
awaited approval to proceed with
construction Of Washington's 750-
bed veterans hospital on the Nevius
tract In Arlington.
Approval for use Of the 25-acre
tract of land across the Potomac
from Lincoln Memorial was con-
tanned in the VA 1949 appropriation
measure signed at the White House.
VA ofiicials said they will instruct
Architects Louis Justement Of Wash
ington and York g. Sawyer Of New
York to begin drawing up working
plans Immediately for the modern
type, SIS, 600, 900 general medical and
surgical institution.
Spring Construction Start Seen.
The working drawings are ex-
pected to be ready by the end Of the
year, officials said. Construction
bids then will be asked, and actual
construction should start no later
than next spring, they predicted.
Preliminary plans, completed at a
cost of more than 81 500. 900, already
had been approved for the carefully
designed hospital early last summer,
when the House forbade the VA to
use the land.
Representative Smith, Democrat,
of Virginia had objected that the
land was too expensive. Soon after
the VA obtained title through con-
demnation to the property, however,
the Arlington County Board with
drew its previous objection to the
proposed hospital site. Mr.. Smith,
in turn, Withdrew his objection and
two weeks ago Congress eliminated
it's ban in the appropriation meas
ure.
Price Remains in Doubt.
The provision allows Veterans Ad-
ministrator Gray to choose "a site
in Arlington" While medical on
cials have been casting around fol
alternative sites, the Nevius prop
erty will be the one used, spokesmen
said.
Although the VA now holds title
to the land, the Government still is
uncertain about how much it finally
will have to pay the former owners
of the tract, who are headed by
Avon M. Nevius, retired vice presi-
dent of the Riggs National Bank.
The VA deposited 1851 900 toward
purchase of the land when it ac-
quired title, but in March Federal
court placed the purchase price at
81 100000.
Justice Department Attorney
Ralph Luttrell said today the de-
partment now is preparing an ap-
peal from the decision and that 1t
soon will be filed in an appellate
court. An earlier Government mo-
tion for new trial several weeks
ago was refused by District Court
justice.
Evening star., 1948-07-03
Police Seek Housewife, 40,
Missinq Since Wednesday

Police today were seeking to locate
Mrs. Thelma Louise Martin. 40, OF
1872 C street NE, who has been
missing from her home since We'd
nesday.
Police said Robert Martin, nus
band of the missing woman, told
them she has been hospitalized a
number OF times. y
She was described as being feet
6 inches tall, weighs l30 pounds. has
blue eyes and dark hair and walks
with limp. When she left home,
Mr.. Martin said, she was dressed IN
a dark blue suit, white waist, brown
and white shoes and was wearing a
white scarf on her head.
Evening star., 1948-07-03
Transit Lines Plan
Adequate Service for
Wafer Gate Concerts

Water Gate concert fans won't
have to worry about transportation
problems this year, according to
transit lines.
Capital Transit Co. officials have
promised adequate" bus and street.
car service to and from Potomac
Park for the IL concerts, starting
with the opening program at 8:15
pm. tomorrow. And the A., B. & w.
and Arnold lines expect to take
care of Virginia fans with their
normal service past the Water Gate.
Capital Transit plans no "spe-
cials" operating from distant points,
because in past summers the public
just hasn't taken advantage of
them, according to E. Cleveland
Giddings, vice president.
Shuttle Buses Promised.
But ample shuttle-bus service on
the R-4-Potomac Park line, start
ing at Sixteenth and K streets NV.
will connect with other lines to
bring patrons to the Water Gate,
Mr.. Giddings promised. These buses
operate down street and back via
Eighteenth and K streets. Extra
service will start at 6:45 pm.
The buses also will be lined up
at the Water Gate to take patrons
back when the concert is over, Mr..
Giddings added.
In addition, Potomac Park
Route 82-streetcars will provide a
connecting link with all the city's
downtown bus and streetcar lines.
These cars operate to Nineteenth
street near Constitution avenue
NV, by way of Pennsylvania ave-
nue. and G street, connecting with
the Friendship Heights, Mount
Pleasant, North Capitol, Fourteenth
street and Connecticut avenue lines,
as well as others.
Service to Virginia.
Three regular Virginia lines of
the A. B. & w. Transit Co, have
regular stops near the Water Gate.
These are the darlington line,
every 20 minutes: Arna Valley and
Eighteenth and quincy lines, every
80 minutes.
Arnold Lines operate Columbia
pike 1O-D) and Walker Chapel
(8-C) buses past the Water Gate
every Is minutes. Extra service
may be provided if needed, accord
ing to company officials. The Vir-
ginia lines are not permitted to
carry passengers TO the Water Gate
from within the District.
For concert-going motorists, park
ing will be permitted on all roads
in the Potomac Park area, except
the Water Gate area itself.
Tickets for the concerts are on
sale today at Kits, 1880 G street
NV, until $50 pm, and will go
on sale at / pm. tomorrow at the
Water Gate. Starting time for all
concerts this year is 8:15 pm.
Evening star., 1948-07-03
1880 TeIevision Sets
Reported in Use Here

There are now 1880 television
sets installed and operating in the
Washington area, the Washington
Television Circulation Committee
announced today.
Monthly estimates are made by
the committee Of the number of
television sets here. The commit
tee members are Sam Cook Digges,
WMAL-TV; Gordon Williamson,
WTTG, and James Seller. WNBW.
Evening star., 1948-07-03
Johnson Tokes Oath
AS Patent Court JUDGE

Former Representative Noble j.
johnson of Indiana was sworn in
yesterday as a judge of the Court of
Customs and Patent Appeals.
The oath was administered by
Presiding Judge Finis j. Garrett in
ceremonies at the Internal Revenue
Building. Judge Johnson's appoint
menk Is for life.
Evening star., 1948-07-03
Criminal Cases Ready
For District Court
Trial Drop 10 %

Only SO criminal cases were listed
as available for trial in District
Court as of Thursday, 1t was re-
vealed yesterday in statistics COM
piled by John Henry Sullivan, as
signment commissioner. The figure
is the lowest in many years.
A total of only 1913 criminal cases
was listed on the active calendar
as of July l. as the court went
into it's reduced summer schedule.
OF this number, IS were not avail
able for trial for several reasons.
These include Is cases scheduled to
be dismissed and others awaiting
arraignment of defendants, Court
of Appeals decisions or other action.
The number on the active cal
endar compares with 246 listed as
of July l, 1947. Records list 1857
cases disposed of during the year
that ended Wednesday. OF these
414 were disposed of by jury trial,
GIG by pleas and 3l8 through dis
missal.
Many of the dismissals occurred
because defendants had been named
in several indictments and had
either pleaded guilty or been con-
victed in some of them, resulting
in sentences considered adequate.
Some 2O9 cases were disposed of
by being taken off the active trial
calendar because the defendants
were fugitives, in the Army oE
insane.
The reduced summer schedule
calls for two judges to preside in
trial of criminal cases through the
first half of this month and one
judge to hear motions. During the
second half one judge is scheduled
to try criminal cases and one to
hear motions.
In August only one judge is sched-
uled to be on duty for emergency
matters.
During the first half of Septem-
ber, one judge is scheduled to try
criminal cases and one to hear
motions and be available for emer-
gency matters. During the last half
of September two judges are
scheduled to preside in criminal
trials and a third judge is to hear
motions and emergency matters.
The fall term, with the full quota
of IL judges, begins in October.
Mr.. Sullivan said statistics on
civil cases awaiting trial have not
vet been completed.
Evening star., 1948-07-03
Autopsy Finds Bob,
.Suffocoted in Crib

The death of 5-week-old Russell
Graves, colored, was attributed to
accidental asphyxiation yesterday by
Coroner A. Magruder Macdonald,
following an autopsy.
The baby's mother. Mrs. Wilma
Graves, 732 New Jersey avenue NV,
said she found him apparently suf-
focated in his crib.
Evening star., 1948-07-03
$50 Druftees a Month
Predicted for MARYLAND
BY the Ass ocioied Press

BALTIMORE, July 3.-A State
draft official predicts that about $50
Marylanders will be drafted each
month. once selective service ma
chinery is in full operation and that
most of those called at first will be
in the younger age group.
Henry c. Stanwood. head of the
Maryland Office of Selective Service
Records, said he based his 450-a-
month figure on World War II ex-
perience. He said during the war
Maryland filled is per cent of the
United States draft quota and said
he felt the ratio would remain the
same.
Evening star., 1948-07-03
Bay Ferry Strips Gear,
Tying Up Shore Traffic
BY the A,soeiotsd Pres,

MATAPEAKE, Md, July 3.-The
Chesapeake Bay ferry Gov. Nice
stripped gear coming in for q land
ing here yesterday and crashed into
the terminal pier. No one was re-
ported injured.
The accident caused vacation.
bound traffic to back up more than
3 miles at the Sandy Point terminal
near Annapolis.
State roads officials closed down
service between Claiborne and Ro-
mancoke, an alternate route on the
Eastern Shore side, and dispatched
the servicing ferry there TO fill in
for the Gov. Nice until repairs could
be completed, possibly today.
Evening star., 1948-07-03
Maryland Man Accused
OF VIRGINIA Garage Break

A man accused of breaking into
an automobile repair shop to get his
own car yesterday was held for
action of the grand jury by Alexan-
dria Civil and Police Court Judge
James r. Duncan.
Police said William Raymond
Brinson, Is, of Fishing Greek, Md,
had about $500 repair work done on
his car at Bendalps Garage in Alex
)andria. The night Of June u. po-
lice said, he broke into the garage,
found his keys and drove his car
away without paying the repair bill.
Police said they discovered there
also was $500 attachment against
the auto.
BrinSon uleaded not guilty.
Evening star., 1948-07-03
Boy, Is, Seriously Hurt
In Bicycte-Truck Crosh

A 13-year-old boy, thrown TO the
street when his bicycle was in col.
lision with a truck, was in serious
condition at Casualty Hospital today
with head and chest injuries.
Police said the boy, John L. VIII
kinson, 208 Adams street NE, was
injured yesterday afternoon when
the collision occurred at the inter.
section of Bryant and Third streets
NE. The truck driver was icentifsed
by police as Dewey e. Bowman, -,
OF Weyers Gave. Va.
Evening star., 1948-07-03
z Mission Chiefs Named
For Scandinavia by ECA

Charles A. Marshall, New York at
torney, was named yesterday to
head the Economic Cooperation
Administrations mission to Den
mark.
John H. F. Haskell, New York
financier, was appointed to head the
ECA mission to Sweden.
Mr.. Marshall, IS. a native OF Bal
timore, is a graduate of Johns Hop
kins University and the University
of Maryland, Mr.. Haskell, A, was
wounded in action as an infantry
colonel in the war.
Evening star., 1948-07-03
Postmun Sentenced
For Bethesda Thefts

Frank Eugene Menter, 81, a post
man Of the 1900 block K street
NE, wa sentenced yesterday in
Bethesd ,lice Court to serve three
days in j for the theft of small
articles from stores on his mail
route in Bethesda.
Montgomery County detectives said
thev worked five weeks to break
the case. They said Menter who had
carried mail for two years, is mar
ried and the father of 5-month-
old girl. He was sentenced by Magi'
strate Warren Browning.
Evening star., 1948-07-03
Important Notice
phone number for THE STAR is now STERLING

The telephone number for THE STAR Is now STERLING
500o
Telephone traffic at THE STAR increased to point
which demanded additional trunk lines to provide prompt
and efficient service to customers These trunk lines were
available Immediately on the new Sterling exchange.
So, to call THE STAR for any reason-remember,
STERLING 5000.
Evening star., 1948-07-03
Court Collects $1l,896

Collections in the Alexandria
Civil and Police Court during June
totaled $l1.896.22. it was, announced
today by Douglas w. Stanton, jr,
clerk.
Evening star., 1948-07-03

Brinson pleaded not guilty.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1948-11-10
The Joy Of Being an Editor

Getting out this paper is no
picnic.
II we print jokes people say we
are silly.
If we don't they say we are too
serious.
If we stick close to the office
all day,
We ought to be around hunting
material.
If we go out and try to hustle,
We ought to be on the job in
the office.
If we don't print contributions,
We don't appreciate genius;
And If we do print them, the
paper is filled with junk!
If we edit the other fellows
write-up we're too critical;
II we don't, we're asleep.
If we clip things from other
papers,
We are too lazy to write them
ourselves.
If we don't we are stuck on oul
own stuff.
Now, like as not, some guy will
say
We swiped this from some
magazine.
We did,
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1948-11-10
CLASSIC

A forgotten classic of advertis-
ing concerns, the manager of the
Hotel X, says Orville E. Reed il
his IMP. The hotel boss told a
newspaperman he'd like to use his
paper but couldn't afford more
than an inch ad, and nobody
would see that"
The newspaperman said, oh,
yes, people would even see a
singleline ad. To prove it, he
continued, he'd be willing to run
this single liner free:
"Hotel X, Famous for Bedbugs."
The hotel man was Mortified,
but the newspaperman said it
would be such a little ad, nobody
would see it.
P.S.-He got an order.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1948-11-10
E PIuribus IJnum'

eve Are Many-But Are We
'One'?" Second of a series on
Christian Youth and Interracial
Understanding.
America has often been referred
to as the worlds melting pot. In
the strict sense, it is fortunately
not true, and no one would want
it to be true. Such a figure of
speech implies that Poles. Dutch,
Armenians, Chinese and Russians
were funeled into a vast pot un-
der which the fires of democracy
are burning and that, when the
pot is tilted up after a reasonable
time for cooking, there pours
forth a stream of people who have
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1948-11-10

only % per cent Tor Truman.
This trend changed drastically
in July after Hubert H. Hum
phrey's fight for a strong civil
rights plank at the Democratic
convention and the subsequent
formation of the Dixiecrats party.
A poll made in August revealed
that the Negro voters had left
the Wallace camp with 6s per-
cent of those questioned fayoring
Truman.
Three of the five Negro papers
in Minnesota campaigned for the
Republicans. They supported Sen.
Joseph H. Ball who openly said
he was against FEPC because
1T wouldn't work"
The other two papers, the In
dependent Spokesman of Mime
apolis and the Recorder of st.
Paul, members of the Associated
Negro Press, both supported Tru-
man, Humphrey. Democrats, and
the Republican governor. Luther
Youngdahl, who led an unsuccess-
full fight to have the 1916 state
legislature enact a state FEPC.
st. Paul Negroes helped elect
80 years old Eugene Mccarthy,
young liberal of the Humphrey
type, to congress. Minneapolis Ne
groes of the third district Joined
in electing Roy Wier, a labor
leader, to congress. MacKinnon.
his opponent, had held himself
alooft from the Negro voters.
Harold Knutson Of the Mime
sofa sixth district, who voted
consistently with the southern
Democrats on civil rights, was
beaten for congress after serving
SO years. There are very few
Negroes in his district.
Minnesota Negroes are part
icularly jubilant over the election
of 81 year old Humphrey in
whom they see presidential pos
sibilities. He has believed In full
equality for Negroes as well as
all other citizens from the days
of the WPA.
Despite the small Negro popula-
ton of Minneapolis when Hum
phrey was elected mayor he i'm
mediately formed Mayors Coun-
Gil on Human Relations, engineer
ed city FEPC through the city
council and has fought racial and
religious bigotry wherever he
found it.
The Republican governor Luther
Youngdahl who was reelected has
tried in vain to get the federal
sanction for admission of Negroes
on an unsegregated basis. He
could have embarrassed President
Truman in the recent campaign
on this matter but he chose not
to do SO. 1t is his theory that
civil and human rights should
not be used as political foot
ball.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1948-11-10
SPOKANE NEWS
LAST RITES HELD
FOR DR.. THOMPSON

Funeral services for DIR. John
H. Thompson, who died Monday
at his home, s 4OO1 Sheridan,
Spokane, Wash, were planned for
this afternoon at St. Thomas Epis-
copal church, the Rev. Ernest J.
Mason officiating. Cremation fol
lowed.
A charter member of st. Tho
mas church and present senior
warden, DIR. Thompson had been
a resident of Spokane for "A
years. He was also a charter
member of the local branch OF
the National Association for the
Advancement Of Colored People
and past President of the Colored
Republican club. He served as a
member of the Republican club
central committee and was a mem
Der of the Council on Racial
helatiOuS.
He was a candidate for city
commissioner in 1886.
Born in xenia, Ohio, May ~,
1871, DR.. Thompson was a gradu-
ate of Kahler School of Chiro-
pody.
Survivors here for the services
are a son, DIR. John p. Thompson,
Marine hospital, Seattle; broth
err, william Thompson, Chicago,
two nieces, Mrs. Estella Griffin
and Corinne Coleman, both OF
Chicago, and cousin, John Ford,
also of Chicago,
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1948-11-10
COLORED PHYSICIAN
ELECTED CORONER
OF WAYNE COUNTY

RIVER ROUGE-(ANP)- An
other page on the democracy-side
was added to the history of
Wayne county Tuesday, last week,
when voters of both races elected
DR.. Amuel B. Milton coroner of
this county. 1t marks the first
time in history that a colored
physician has been elected to the
coroner's office by the votes of
the people of Wayne county.
The coroner's position carries
salary of $4,000 per year, plus al
lowances for expenses.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1948-11-10
FUNERAL HELD FOR
MRS. S. FIELDS

The funeral services of Mrs. s.
Fields, who passed away October
81. were held Monday, November
LIST, from the chapel of Miller
and Tracy. Mrs. Fields, mother of
Mrs. Lena Dennis. was member
of First A. M. q. Zion Church.
Rev. ]. F. Smith and Rev. c. N.
Austin, Jr, officiated. Mrs. Ma
thanel Brown. close friend of
the deceased, sang "Well Done"
very much in keeping with
Mother" Fields life. Flora.
pieces were numerous. Many
came from her home town, Mobile,
Ala; also Chicago, Ill, Spokane,
and Seattle, Wash.