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Evening star., 1948-05-30
Alexandra Health Official
Asks 100000 in Traffic Suit

Keith Wade, Alexandria health
inspector, has filed suit for 100000
damages in Federal District Court
at Alexandria against three per-
sons as result Of a collision be-
tween a truck and his car on Routs
l in Fairfax County July 81. 1947.
Named as defendants are Bern
ice F.. Gautier, Clinton, N c., whom
the suit lists as lessee of the truck:
Mrs. J. F. Owen, Angler, N. c..
listed as owner of the truck, and
Linwood Lee James, also OF Clin-
ton, who the suit charges was driver
of the truck. The health inspector
says that as result of the accident
he was unable to work for four
months because of serious injuries.
He also claims he has incurred a
permanent deformity in his left
arm because of the accident. The
suit asks $4,000 damages from each
defendant.
Evening star., 1948-05-30
Army Nurses Exhibit
Portraits Of Chiefs
AT Medical Center

Officials of the Army Medical
Center and guests yesterday in
spected the first of collection of
portraits of women who have head
ed the Army Nurse Corps at tea
given by members of the Corps.
The exhibition was timed to CO.
incide with the birth anniversary of
Florence Nightingale, pioneer nurse,
this month.
The portraits on display included
those of the late DR.. Anita New
comb MCGEE. organizer of the
Armys first nursing staff in 1898,
and the late Miss Isabelle McIsaac,
third in the list of Corps directors.
Three Paintings by Gholson.
Others were of Col. Julia o.
Flikke, retired, superintendent at
the beginning of World War II:
Capt. Dora E. Thompson, retired.
superintendent during World War
1; Col. Florence A. Blanchfield, re-
tired. superintendent at the close
of World War II and the early
postwar days, and Maj. Julia Slim
son, who was superintendent when
relative military rank was granted
TO the Corps.
The portraits of Capt. Thomp-
son. Miss McIsaac and Col. Flikke
were painted by Samuel Greed
Gholson. He painted Miss McIsaac's
picture from photograph and used
members of the corps as models
for coloring, they said.
The picture of Col. Blanchfield
was done by John JohanSen, painter
of the Versailles treaty signing.
To complete the collection the
corps must obtain portraits of Mrs.
Dita Kinney, first nurse to head the
Corps; Miss Jane Delano, for whom
the quarters in Delano Hall were
named and who founded the Amer
ican Red Cross Nursing Activities,
and Col. Mary G. Phillips, present
chief.
Gen. Beach Halls Portrait.
The portraits are being hung in
the main lounge of Delano Hall
Maj. Gen. George C. Beach, com
manding Army Medical Center
commended the project, asserting
the portraits depicted very promi-
nent nurses in the Army who have
done most marvellous job
( Among the guests received by 1t
Col. Ida w. Danielson, chief nurse
at Walter Reed, was Col. Flikke
who retired in 1943 and lives in
/ Takoma Park.
Evening star., 1948-05-30
AcademyAppointment
Bill for D. T.. Blocked

The Districts long standing peti-
ton for an increase in the number
of its candidates for the United
States Naval and Military Acade-
mics once again has been pigeon
holed on Capitol Hill.
Senate-passed bills for an in
crease from to Is in the number
of middies at Annapolis and from
6 to II in the number of cadets at
West Point, have been blocked in
the House Armed Services Commit
tee.
Officials reported yesterday the
committee, at the request of Repre-
sentative Vinson, Democrat, of
Georgia, has decided to defer the
proposals to the next Congress. II
action is not completed at this ses-
sion, the bills will die and have to
be introduced as new legislation at
the next Congress.
|. The Commissioners have argued
that on the basis of population the
District is entitled to the greater
numbers but that numerous States
with smaller populations outrank
the District in Appointments.
Evening star., 1948-05-30
Home Accidents
At Highest Peak
Since September

More home accidents were re-
ported last week than in any week
since September, according to the
District Red Gross home accident
survey. Three elderly persons were
killed by falls and one infant
strangled in his crib.
One woman suffered second de-
gree burns when a gasoline stove
exploded. A 6-year- old boy found a
frecracker and was burned when it
exploded. A 2-year-old boy caught
the end of his finger in a door. A
16-year-old girl cut off the tip of
her finger in a faucet in her yard.
A youngster of II hit a bottle
and pieces of glass flew into his
eye. Another boy of IA seriously
injured his eye while chopping
wood.
The years traffic deaths to date
are 33. Home accident deaths are
119
Evening star., 1948-05-30
Bids TotaIing $4,000
Include Improvements
To ) District Schools

Bids for improvements to five
schools are among bids totaling
more than $136,OO0 now being con-
sidered by the District Commis-
sioners for contract awards.
The bids were opened last week
at the District Building. School
projects included were:
Dunbar High School, locker room
alterations and installation OF purl-
fication equipment in swimming
pool, lowest bidder, Lee T. Turner.
36l8 Fourteenth street NV, $40 ,699;
Monroe Elementary School, boiler
Replacement, lowest bidder. Charles
B. Broome. GA F. street NE, $l5,-
92O.
Stuart Junior High School, hot
water heater requirements, lowest
bidder, Robert E. Anderson Co., 809
Maryland avenue NE, 1891;
Western High School, pump installa-
ton, lowest bidder. Charles B.
Broome, SLOTS, and Noyes Elemen-
Cdl oSIlOol. oSotSii AiloeoiAeh-
tions, lowest bidder, Robert E. An
derson Co., $6,479.
Other projects included:
Service sewer and water main ex-
tension near Branch avenue and Q
street Sc, lowest bidder, Leo Butler
Co., 8416 Georgia avenue, Silver
Spring, S26,906; storm sewer neal
Mathewson drive and Argyle terrace
NV, lowest bidder, Leo Butler Co.
S11,015; storm sewer near Portland
street and Nichols avenue Sc, low.
est bidder, M. Cain Co., 1915 Eighth
street NE, $34,786.
Sidewalk construction in a mum.
ber of locations, lowest bidder, E. B
Donaldson Brothers, Twelfth street
and Brentwood road NE, $14,881:
heating plant conversion at Centra
Public Library, lowest bidder, Robert
E., Anderson Co., $4,093, and pedes-
trian barricade fence installations
in various locations, only bidder
all-Jasper Fence Co., l201
Brentwood road NE, S225l.
Evening star., 1948-05-30
Retired Pastor, 81,
To Attend Goth
Methodist PorIey

An 82-year-old retired Methodist
minister from Kensington, Md, will
attend his Goth Methodist Confer
ence Tuesday at American Univer-
sity.
The conference will be the l64th
Baltimore Annual Conference of the
Methodist Church, which is to be
attended by Methodists from the
District and Maryland. 1t will open
ut 2 pm. Tuesday in the Metro
politan Memorial Methodist Church.
Nearly blind. the Rev. Ulysses S.
A. Heavener has not missed a Meth
odlst State conference since he first
attended one go years ago. The con-
ferences he has attended include
some in both Virginia and Mary
land, where he served as pastor
The retired minister received his
masters degree at American Uni
versity at the age of so and shortly
thereafter received his doctor OF
divinity degree from the Lincoln
Memorial University in Tennessee
Although he retired number OF
years ago. during the war he was
called to preach in Glen Echo.
Evening star., 1948-05-30
1000 10 Attend Field Mass
Honorinq Father Rakowski.

More than 1000 parishioners and
clergmen of the Washington and
Baltimore archdioceses are expected
to attend solemn high field mass
at noon today at the Mount CAL
vary Catholic Church, Forestville.
The occasion is the 25th ami
versary of the ordination of the
Rev. Peter P. Rakowski, the church 5
pastor. Father Rakowski. who will
be celebrant of the mass, also will
be honored at 5 pm. at a recep-
ton at ODonnell's Farm, Forest
Vile.
Two boyhood chums of Father
Rakowski in Baltimore will be
among the four priests partici-
patlng in the mass. They are the
Rev. Thaddeus Skrzynski, pastor of
st. Charles Borromeo, Catholic
Church, Pikesville, Md. who will
be deacon, and the Rev. Joseph
Weber, pastor of st. Mary's Star
of-the-Sea parish. Indian Head,
who will deliver the sermon. The
Rev. Edward Luckett of Holy Com
forter Church, Washington, will be
subdeacon and the Rev. Charles
Nelson, of st. Peters Church, Wash
ington, viii be master of ceremonies.
About so other priests also will
attend.
Evening star., 1948-05-30
Tick Fever Symposium
Set at Arlington Hospital

The medical staff of Arlington
Hospital will conduct symposium
on Rocky Mountain spotted fever in
the County Health Department
auditorium at 8 pm. Wednesday.
Guest speakers will include Drs.
Charles Armstrong, chief of the di-
vision of infectious diseases, Ma
tional Institute of Health, Harold
Jeghers, professor of medicine.
Georgetown University Medical
School; w. A. Browne, chief OF
communicable diseases, Virginia
State Department of Health, and
1t. Col Robert H. Holmes, path
ologist, Army Institute of Pathology.
Evening star., 1948-05-30

to take the post. Inc American
consulate in the Korean capital
Seoul, yesterday told him that was
the case, the Associated Press re-
ported.
His wife and 10-year-old daugh-
ter. Ruth Ellen, an Edmonds School
pupil, will join him as soon as they
can obtain passage, Mrs. Young said
yesterday.
Neither has been in Korea, but
both have been learning the langu-
age. Mr.. Young, born in Korea
came to this country in 1928. He
met his wife while studying In In
diana.
Mr.. Young went back to Korea
with DR.. Syngman Rhee, for whom
he once worked on the Korean Com
mission here.
Evening star., 1948-05-30
Phyllis Hoy|and 10 Sing
Al Democratic Convention

Miss Phyllis Joan Hoyland of
1877 Brentwood road NE has been
selected to sing THE Star
Spangled Banner" at the Demo-
cratic National Convention at Phil
adelphia, it was learned last night.
Miss Hoyland. who now is studying
music in New York, is the daughter
of Mrs. Frances Burns Hoyland.
secretary to Representative Fallon,
Democrat, of Maryland.
Miss Hoyland has sung at special
functions here for Mrs. Truman and
Miss Margaret Truman.
Evening star., 1948-05-30
9th DistrictG.O.P. Group
To Meet in CuIpeper

The Republican Committee for
the 9th Virginia District will meet
at 7 m. Saturday at the Lord Gull
peper Hotel. Culpeper, Va, Carl A.
Marshall, of Mclean. district chair
man. announced yesterday.
The committee will elect a vice
chairman and vice chairwoman, dis
cuss campaign fund raising, and
consider an organization plan SUBJ
mitted by the State committee. Mr.
Marshall said Charles o. Pratt OF
Arlington. and Tyrrell Krum OF
Fairfax. candidates for the COP
congressional nomination in the 9th
District primary August 3, will at
tend.
Evening star., 1948-05-30
Son Sues for S100, 900
In Port Deposit Crash

The son of a woman who was
killed in the crash of an Eastern
Air Lines plane at Port Deposit,
Md, a year ago filed a 100000 dam
age suit yesterday in Federal Dis
trict Court at Alexandria.
Sanborn Chrysler, of Quantico,
Va. names Eastern Airlines. the
Glenn L. Martin Co. and Douglas
Aircraft Co.. Inc, as defendants in
the suit. The suit says his mother,
Mrs. Gurney Chrysler, was one of
SO persons who lost thar lives in
the crash.
Evening star., 1948-05-30
Tomorrow's Capital
is Theme Of Exhibit
AT Armory This Week

Parents, teachers and the public
were invited yesterday to attend
the Junior Community Improvement
Project Exhibition at the National
Guard Armory Thursday, Friday
and Saturday.
The exhibition, approved by the
Board of Eduction, includes more
than $50 items from l54 public and
parochial schools, including models
charts, maps and photographs, pre-
pared by pupils as part of their
class work in recent weeks.
No tickets are required. The gen.
eral theme of the exhibition is
Washington of Tomorrow. 1t is
being arranged in cooperation with
the City Planning Committee Of the
Washington Board of Trade.
Opens Thursday at $3.50 PM.
Special presentations will be sub
mitted by the National Capital
Parks and Planning Commission,
Public Buildings Administration of
the Federal Works Agency, United
States Engineers of the Washington
District, Alexandria Planning Com
mission and the District Water,
Police and Fire Departments.
The exhibition will open officially
at $50 pm. Thursday. 1t will open
at 2 pm. Friday and Saturday
and close at 9 pm. each day unless
attendance requires a later hour
Speakers at the opening exercises
will include Commissioner John
Russell Young: Mrs. Henry Grattan
Doyle, president of the Board OF
Education the Rev. John S. Spence
of st. Matthews Cathedral. ano
School Supt. Hobart M. Corning.
Fischer S. Black chairman of the
Board of Trades City Planning
Committee. will present to the
State Department exhibits chosen
to be sent abroad to show how
youth. in this country helps plar
for better 'neighborhoods. They viii
be accepted by Assistant Secretary
of State for Public Affairs George
v. Allen.
Cadet Band to Play.
William E. Coyle, radio directo
of The Star. will be master of cere
monies for the program, and musi,
will be furnished by the Roosevelt
High School Cadet Band
Membersof Congress and thei
families have been invited to tht
Armory on Thursday evening. Th,
Central High School Chorus viii
sing, and Chairman Dirksen of tn,
speak.
Friday evening will be observed
as Civic Night" with special en-
phasis on civic. business and neigh
borhood organizations Parent
Night" on Saturday, will be observed
with the cooperation of the Dis
trict Congress Of Parents ane
Teachers.
Leon Chatelain. jr, president o
the Board of Trade said the projec
represented "a tremendous amoun
of work on the part of the cit,
planning committee, public ant
parochial school leaders and hun
dreds of students who have par
ticipated'
An information booth will oper
Wednesday, with the telephon,
number Franklin 6742.
Evening star., 1948-05-30
Customers Flee
Without Pants in
Valet Shop Fire

A fire, which broke out shortly
before noon yesterday in the second
floor of the Golden Star while-you-
wait cleaning and pressing establish
ment at 1882 New York avenue NV.
sent 20 men scurrying from the third
floor booths into the street-some
of them minus their trousers.
An attendant handed them robes
before they emerged while customers
of the shoe repair service on the
first floor ran out in their stocking
feet
The fire did little damage to the
building and none to customers
clothes. All finally. we're able to
depart fully dressed with freshly
pressed trousers and their shoes.
Evening star., 1948-05-30
Arlington Girl Injured
In MARYLAND Wreck

-Four persons were injured last
night in a collision of two cars on
Route 240, near Clarksburg, Md.
One of the four, Miss Anne r.
Crouch, II, Arlington, who suffered
possible conclusion, was admitted
to Suburban Hospital. Bethesda.
The remaining three, who were
treated for minor injuries and re-
leased, are:
= Charles D. Walter. %, Mt, Airy
Md, who, police said, was driving
the car in which Miss Crouch was
injured: Archie o. Hood. %. Clarks-
burg. identified by police as the
driver OF the other car, and his wife
Mrs. Helen M. Hood, %.
Police said no charges were placed
against either driver.
Evening star., 1948-05-30

ARMY SCI VICE W
become a mem
Der of the new
5 ou h Korea
National A S
sembly.
Mr.. Young. 40,
won the legisla-
tive post in the
May 10 election
over five rival
candidates but
he did not know
for. certain un-
til yes S terday
that he would
have to give up
his citizenship
Evening star., 1948-05-30
Attack Victim S
Condition Fair;
G|FacesHeariinq
Soldier Held Without
Bond in Assault
On School Girl, IS

Charged with assaulting a Is
year-old Mckinley High School girl.
a 19-year-old soldier from Fort Nc
Nair here was ordered held in Dis
trict Jail yesterday for Municipal
Court hearing June 18 while CAL
linger Hospital doctors sought to
determine the girls injuries.
Pvt. John Joseph Cook of Bel
court, N. D., who had been stationed
as military policeman at Fort
McNair, is being held without bond
on a charge of carnal knowledge.
He appeared briefly. in Municipal
Court after being arrested about 2
am. on the high school grounds.
Judge Walter Casey continued the
case to June Is because of the girls
condition.
Hospital officials reported last
night the girl was in fairly good
condition with fractured jaw and
cuts and bruises. She is
no longer hysterical doctors said.
They added that they do not expect
to determine until today whether
she had been raped.
Admits Striking Girl.
Police said Cook made a state
ment at headquarters admitting he
struck the girl with his fists when
she resisted his advances as they
walked through the school grounds
at Second and T streets NE, a
short distance from her home in the
300 block of S street NE.
Police quoted Cook as saying he
thought he attempted to assault
her criminally and as relating: Il
don't know how many times I hit
her. She started to cry and every
thing" He told them, police said,
he had several drinks earlier in the
night.
Cook had visited the girl at the
apartment where she lives with her
parents. The girl, police said,
walked with Cook when he left to
take streetcar to his barracks.
A call on the police radio that
some one is screaming in the school
grounds" brought Pvts. o. N Nelson
and H. B. Gilbert in a scout car.
They reported they found the girl
lying oh the ground "mumbling in
and with her clothing
bloody and disarranged Cook was
standing nearby, they said.
Said He Summoned Police.
The soldier, according to police,
later asserted he had asked a cab
driver to summon them to the
scene The police switchboard re-
ported the call came from other
sources.
The girls father told reporter
that so far as he knew the youths
previous conduct had been "all
right" Cook said he had known
the girl about four months, police
said.
Cook seemed daZed when first
taken to police headquarters, 1t.
Richard McCarty, head of the sex
squad, said, During the Municipal
Court proceedings he seemed calm.
Short and stocky, with dark hair
and dark complexion. he still wore
his Army uniform and stood at at
tention as Assistant United States
Attorney Sylvan Schwartz presented
the case.
On military police duty with the
Third Infantry Division, Cooks most
recent assignment was guard duty
at the gates to Fort McNair. the
former Army War College. He is
unmarried, according to Army rec
ords. He joined the Army March IA,
1947. and came to Fort McNair last
June 18 after taking basic training
at Fort Knox, Ky.
Evening star., 1948-05-30
Singers on Baptist Hour

The Rev. R. T. McFarlane will
lead the service on the National
Baptist Radio Hour at 9 am. today
and every Sunday over Station
WPIK. A group of singers from
the Nanjemoy Md Baptist Church
will be on tqday's program.
Evening star., 1948-05-30
IA Graduate Tomorrow
Al Madeira School

The Madeira School. Greenway
Va. will hold commencement eXer-
cises at 5 pm. tomorrow for A stu
dents. DR.. Mabel Newcomer. pro-
fessor of economics at Vassar Col
lege, will deliver the address.
A graduation tea was scheduled
for 80 o'clock this afternoon fol-
lowed by senior vesper service at
the school at $50. The Rev. Peter
Marshall. of the New York Avenue
Presbyterian Church, will conduct
the service
The Al students who are eXnecteO
Evening star., 1948-05-30
Korean Legislator
To Drop U. 5. Status

Chang Kee Young, former
Washington resident. will give LIP
the American citizenship he won
through three-and- half years
Evening star., 1948-05-30

On a historical theme, the year.
book contains pictures of early
buildings here accompanied by his
torical sketches.
Editor in chief was Miss Mary
Olga Longley, a member OF the
Junior class, whose home is in Pasa-
dena, Calf.
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1948-06-23
The TheOCrat

of fine sample furnishings -
enough to buy another dis
tinctive piece for your home!
Mr.. Henry King, the Depart
ment Manager, says every
one of these 1913 winter and
spring floor display samples
must go to make way for new
stock, so come in today and
see the complete selection of
outstanding values in parlor
sets, sectional sofas, bedroom
suites, dinette sets, and many
other wonderful home furnish
ings!"
Whether your choice is mod
ern or traditional, you'll find
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1948-06-23
CARD OF THANKS

We wish to express our sim
cere thanks to all our friends
and neighbors for their kind
expression of sympathy shown
us during our recent bereave-
ment. Especially do we appre-
ciate the services rendered by
the Rev. Paul Bicket, Rev. Ev-
erett Phillips, the Mems Quar-
tette, the organist, the ushers
and all the pallbearers.
The Family of the Late
Frank A. Snyder
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1948-06-23
COME TO SEE A NEW WAY
IN PICTURE TAKING

Mr.. Stanley Young was UNI
avoidably detained from COM
ing to Zion Saturday as an
nounced so he will be here on
Saturday the 18th instead. Mr..
Young will be prepared to take
color pictures also. You are
invited to bring the children.
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1948-06-23

for their efforts, are trying to
serve you to the best of their
abilities. They ask your care
full consideration of the need
at this time and support of
both bond issues to be voted
upon next Saturday, urging
that you vote yes on both pro-
POSITIONS"
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1948-06-23
OFFNER FAMILY
GRADUATING NEWS

( David Offner, son of Mr..
and Mrs. Henry Offner of 1904
Eshcol Avenue, after serving
two years with the Armed
Forces, returned to the Uni
versity of Illinois at Cham
paign, Illinois, to continue his
studies and during his compile
ton of studies he has been
part-time instructor for year
and a half.
At the graduation exercises
on June 10Th, at Urbana, Da-
vid received the degree of Mas
ter of Science in Mechanical
Engineering.
He plans to return to the
University of Illinois this fall
as full time instructor.
Clark Offner enrolled at the
University of Dubuque after
graduating from Zion-Benton
Township Highwood in 1915.
He received a Bachelor of Arts
degree on June 18th. His ma
jor field was Bible. He plans
to enroll in the Biblical Semin-
airy in New York City this fall
to continue his preparations
for the foreign mission field.
Robert Storm, husband of
the former Carol Offner, re-
ceived the degree of Doctor of
Philosophy in the field of
zoology at the June convoca-
ton Of Oregon State College
at Corvallis on June 7th. He
graduated from the Northern
ern Illinois State Teachers Col
lege in 1889 and went to Ore
gon that year. He received his
Master of Science degree in
1910. His education was inter-
rupted for nearly four years
during which time he served
in the armed forces.
At Oregon College he has
held a fellowship during the
entire period of his graduate
work. This entailed teaching
in the college more than half
the time.
Mr.. Storm has been asked
to remain at Oregon State as
regular member Of the faculty.
He is the son of Mr.. and Mrs.
w. r. Storm of West Lincoln
Highway, DeKalb, Illinois.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Storm
and Bobby, Junior, who was
born in December, 1916, are
planning to visit relatives in
Zion and DeKalb during the
month of July.