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The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1948-02-25

SeattleS Veterans Memorial Fund.
l4-LoiuS Semenkai 10 sponsor
4 talent show and full-length
English movie.
37--Basaar in japanese Congre-
gational church.
APRIL
S-Young peoples fellowship
group Of st. Peters church TO spon-
sor a couples dance.
MAY
Use to give Spring Informal
dance.
JUNE
Annual jos picnic.
Evening star., 1948-10-27
Silver Spring Group Studies
Londscuping and Traffic Plans

Proposals for Identification of the
community and for more adequate
traffic control were being studied to-
day by committee of the Allied
Civic Group OF Silver Spring.
One of the initial projects will be
an effort to have suitable planning
for the center island in the business
section of Georgia avenue. Present
plans of the State Roads Commits
sion call for "black top" on con-
crete instead Of landscaping.
Consideration also will be given to
proposed landscape plan for the Sill
yer Spring area under the supervi-
sion OF the civic group. Donald
Hanley, OF the Silver Spring Garden
Club, offered cooperation Of his
club at meeting of the civic group
Tuesday night.
Mr.. Hanley recommended the
planting of low evergreens and
Georgia avenue.
Evening star., 1948-10-27
$1,000, Bond Issue
For New Water Line
Sold by Falls Church

The Falls Church City Council
last night sold a 100000 bond
issue to expand its water system to
Scott, Horner g. Mason of Lynch
burg. Va, for their bid of 2.7e per
cent interest.
CITY officials, who had used a
i pure A3 per4centAin J6lr cost
e timate were, pleased with The bid.
Three other firms sought the issue.
The bond, which will be retired
serially over a 35-year period, will
be used to finance installation of
a water line from Chain Bridge to
Falls Church. The present water
supply is obtained from Arlington
County and two wells within the
city.
City Manager Roy r. Dunn said
last night that completion of the
new line will reduce the cost OF
water to the city and probably will
permit the sale of water to sur.
rounding territory.
Capacity of the new system, &C.
cording to Mr.. Dunn, will be 10000.
600 gallons a day. At present the
city Is receiving approximately 49,.
00o ,0o0 gallons month from Arling-
ton.
Bids on materials for the project
will be open November 4 and con-
struction bids, Mr.. Dunn said, will
be received December Is.
Evening star., 1948-10-27

younger registrants can look for q
longer grace period.
When I dropped in on that Army
recruiting station I chatted with a
few of the chosen few. Their faces
weren't unusually long, as I had
thought. they might be.
One 25-year-old I talked to said
the draft was okay by him, that
he hated the thought of leaving his
new business, but that he had no
kick coming, because he'd never been
in the war.
He said that registration had gone
pretty smoothly in his district and
that the preinduction physical was
being handled much better than last
time.
"The Army seems lot more con-
siderate this time" he said. "They
seem to take more of an interest in
you. notice a big change"
OF course, there is big change
W care not fighting a war today,
and the Army can afford to take a
little more time and go slower.
Also, as you will read in future
Guide" columns, there's been a big
change in top-level Army thinking.
A great emphasis is being put on
the dignity of the individual" You
can laugh at that one If you want
to, but the Army is going ahead
briskly with plans to put that think
ing into action, and think you will
notice 1t when you get into uniform.
Incidentally, in case you haven't
heard, the Army draft call for De-
cember is 5000 men, 5000 more
than for November And it's q safe
bet that all those $1,000 will be in
Army camps before Christmas time.
From AP Newsteatures.l
Evening star., 1948-10-27
Harrington Kiwanis Club
To Hold Banquet FRIDAY

Thomas L. Husselton Of Atlantic
City, N. j., and an International XII
wants trustee, will be guest speaker
at the Kiwanis Club of Fairling-
tons first annual Charter Night an
niversary at banquet Friday eve
ming at the George Mason Hotel,
Alexandria.
Guests will be Albie Barksdale of
Charlottesville, Kiwanis district
governor; Edgar Parrish of Manas-
sas, lieutenant governor, and Irv-
ing Diener of Alexandria, former
governor, who will act as toastmas-
ter.
All Of the Washington Divisions s
nine Kiwanis Clubs will be repre-
sented. They are Washington, Be-
thesda. Alexandria, Woodbridge,
Manassas, Shadyside. Arlington,
Silver Spring and Annapolis.
Evening star., 1948-10-27
Registration Declines
.13,4O5 in Maryland
Below 1914 Figure
ev ~. A..n,.;nt.,, p,...:.... -.

" by the AsscEintsd PfaS4%
" Z ANNAPOLIS, CT. n. -2Tfere Afs
1906 fewer Marylapders eligible to
xutexiExt TuesdaS hana there were
for thsl944 presidential election.
Complete registration figures for
1948 show 1858, ,951 on the books COM
pared with 877, 1856 four years ago.
The Democrats increased. their
paper margin" over the Republi-
cans. There are 593 1877 registered
this time. against 248,047 Republi-
cans-a margin of 345, $50.
Four years ago, there we're 594 1854
registered Democrats and 265, ,103 Re-
publicans, difference of 329,761.
Adherents of minor parties and
independent registrants number
% ,507, an increase of 5,118 over 1914.
Supervisors OF elections say the
drop in total registration is due prin-
cipally to the removal of dead
wood" from the books in most coun-
ties.
Most of the counties had COM
plete re-registrations. others went
through the books'and removed from
the lists Of eligibles those who had
not cast vote>in primary or gen.
eral election in the last five years.
Republicans outnumber Demo-
Gratis in just three counties-Alle-
gany, Garrett ands Charles. The
most Republican" county is Garrett
with SAT- registered to 2,874 Demo-
Gratis.
Baltimore County is the most
heavily Democratic, with 63,255
members of that party compared
with 1905 Republicans.
Charles County seems to be the
most evenly matched, with 1925
Democrats and 3,409 Republicans.
Figures for other counties include
Evening star., 1948-10-27

Charles N. Graham. chairman of
the Traffic Control Committee OF
Silver Spring Board of Trade, re-
ported that a traffic survey COM
mittee of the State Highway Com
mission has recommended installa-
tion of trafiic lights at Sligo and
Georgia avenues. Wayne and Geor-
gia avenues; Burlington drive and
Georgia avenue, and Fenton street
and Colesville road.
Present plans, he said do not call
for traffic control lights at Dale
drive and Colesville road or at
Georgia avenue and Seminary road,
both of which have been recon-
mended by civic groups.
Ralph D. Boyd, president of the
Silver Spring Hospital Association,
urged that civic associations in the
area withhold action on the pro-
posed 100000 bond issue for con-
of a hospital, until the
legislative bill is drafted.
Evening star., 1948-10-27
Droftees' and Veterans Guide
-Rx Mai Ihnmas Al N;.i
-by Mai. Thomas IA. Nj,

It may be a little too early to say
but it begins to look as though
more "a and Is years old will be
drafted than the Army expected to
get.
During the first few days of pre-
induction physicals at one recruiting
station 1 visited the rate of accept
ances was almost so per cent. In
other words, almost half those ex-
amined were found okay physically
and mentally.
OF all those rejected only 20 per
cent failed to pass the mental test,
on which a score of 10 is necessary.
How come so many older-age
bracket registrants are found draft
able today but weren't drafted in
the last draft, which didn't end until
March, 1947? They all had to reg
lister for that draft, of course, but
they were not drafted. If they had
been they probably wouldn't be liable
for the new draft.
The answer, a lot of people
thought, was that they weren't able
to pass physical exams-that they
were AIS.
Maybe so, but If that's the case q
lot of disabilities must have cleared
up in the last two years.
This is important, because ii
probably means the Army won't get
around to taking the younger regis
$ro nfc oc S0Ov3 oc ryoS fho,roht r.
also would mean that the younger
registrants may very well get started
in another year OF college before
receiving an order to report for
induction. And If they start another
year they can finish 1t, under the
law, without getting drafted.
So If the present trend continues,
Evening star., 1948-10-27
Spirit of St. Louis Is Shifted
ToMuke Room for Wrioht Plane

The Spirit of st. Louis Is in
action again today, but this time
Charles A. Lindberg's trans-Atlan-
tice airplane is moving only about
40 feet at the Smithsonian Institu-
ton to make room for the even
more famous Wright brothers
Kitty Hawk.
Soon the Kitty Hawk will return
to this country from England and
the Smithsonian is preparing to
give it pre-eminence in its collec-
tion of aircraft.
Col. Lindberg's plane in which he
made the first Atlantic solo flight
81 years ago, has had that spot
since 1t was acquired in May, 1928.
Now it is being moved back from
the entrance. and that vantage
point will be assumed by the Wright
brothers craft.
Named the Kitty Hawk after the
town in North Carolina near which
the first flight was made, the Wright
brothers machine is returning after
Evening star., 1948-10-27
'16-Year-0 Old Soldier Held
In Gas Station HoIdup

A youth who contends he's only
16, although he's been in the Army
for Is months, was turned over to
Prince Georges County police by
Boiling Air Force Base authorities
yesterday in connection with the
armed holdup of a gasoline filling
station near Upper Marlboro on the
night of October IL.
Detective Wilson j. Purdy of the
county police force reported the
youth, whose home is in Dayton,
Ohio, returned to the air base yes
terday after being AWOL since
October IS.
Two other teen-age soldiers sta
toned at the same post pleaded
guilty to armed robbery charges
during arraignment proceedings In
the county's Circuit Court last Fri
day and are awaiting sentencing
Both had been indicted by the
county grand jury. They were
picked up October IS by Air Force
authorities. Police identified them
as William Wachter and Truman
w. Clarke, both 10.
About $40 was taken from the
service station, located on the Marl-
boro pike.
Evening star., 1948-10-27

20 years in London. Orville Wright,
first man to fly, sent it there because
Of dispute with the Smithsonian
over credit for discovering and prov
ing the principle of heavier than
air fight.
The final barrier to returning the
plane here was removed last jan
uary when 1t was discovered after
Orville's death that he had request
ed return of the famous airplane. 4
Ceremonies giving the Kitty Hawk
the place of honor will be held at
the Smithsonian the morning of
December II. This is the 45th
anniversary of the historic takeoff
near Kill Devil Hill.
1t will be transported from New
York to Washington by truck after
arriving from England in crates.
Workmen will require a couple of
days to rehang the Spirit of St.
Louis, Ryan monoplane powered
with a 225-horsepower Wright Cy-
clone, and weighing just over 2,210
pounds.
Evening star., 1948-10-27
Sales Tax for Schools
In Virginia Imperative.
Educators Are Told
. ~ the A..assn.sd Pres.

RICHMOND, va, Get. 27.-A &4es
tax In Virginia for educational pnr-
poses Is imperatiysH Horace He'd
wards, former Richmond Mayor and
candidate for the Democratic nom
ination for GovernoYhas told school
superintendent attending the an
nual meeting OF the Virginia Edu-
cation Association.
Mr.. Edwards, who addressed the
association last night on the same
program with G. Tyler Miller, State
superintendent of public instruction,
said the plight of State schools was
such that it-could not wait until the
next regular session of the General
Assembly.
The General Assembly should be
called in special session with reason
able dispatch and all the facts
placed before 1t for action,"- Mr..
Edwards said.
When sales tax is imposed. how
ever, the former Richmond Mayor
recommended a wholesale revision
of the States tax system with a
view to equalization Of the burden. u
Mr.. Edwards favored possible in
crease in the exemptions for income
tax payers in lower brackets and
relief for the merchant who must
act as a tax collector under a State
sales tax law.
Informed of Mr.. Edwards stand,
Gov. Tuck refused to comment on
what is growing into a major politi-
cal issue in the State except to
say:
II don't think I'll call the session
this morning"
Mr.. Miller told the group schools
should impress on students that
their future success and happiness
are closely related to the type Of
Government under which they live.
Three members of the Executive
Committee, whose terms expire
December 81, were reelected for
another year. They are Ray E.
Reed superintendent of schools in
Nottoway and Amelia; Claude M.
Richmond, Arlington, and Edwin E.
Will, Rockingham County.
Evening star., 1948-10-27
BeIvoir Soldier Gets YeaI
For Striking Policeman /

An Army private, whose arrest
last July "a in Alexandria touched
off a near-riot, yesterday was sem
fenced to yeaS in prison for strik-
ing an Alexandria policeman.
The soldier, Pvt. Eugene Butts, "a.
colored. of Fort Belvoir, was shot by
Police Pvt. Wilmer Gator when he
attempted to escape arrest. Polics
said Butts struck Pvt. Charles Babef
before making a break from the
police car.
Evening star., 1948-10-27
RiverduIe Dinner Marks
Stort in Storm Sewer

Ofhcials of the Washington Sub
urban Sanitary Commission and
Commissioner John H. Beall were
guests of a group of East Riverdale
residents at a dinner last night in
the Lutheran Church there.
The dinner celebrated the start
of a $4,000 storm water drainage
construction program which will re-
lieve flood conditions in area of Riv-
erdale and Edmonston roads.
Commission Chairman Dwight B.
Gait spoke and Edward Duncan,
Montgomery County district en-
gineer for the State Roads Commits
sion, was POSTMASTER. The affair
was arranged by Mrs. r. D. Mat
tingly, a leader in obtaining the
storm drainage project.
Evening star., 1948-10-27
Veteruns-for-Frisbie
Committee Formed

Formation of the Veterans-for-
Frisbie Committee was announced
today by Maxwell Caskie, temporary
chairman. The committee Is COM
posed of Kenneth Laird, Elwood
Clements, William Nemeth, Harrison
Mann, Neil Foss and Maxwell
Caskie. Plans are being made to
contact all veterans organizations
in behalf of Mr.. Frisbie.
I'VE want the veterans to know
that Frisbie is the only candidate
for the Arlington County Board who
is veteran" Mr.. Caskie said. Mr..
Frisbie served as a sergeant with
the 7th Infantry Division on Oki-
naWa.
Evening star., 1948-10-27
Montgomery TO Seek
Clarification Of Cab
Regulation Powers

Legislation to clarity the question
whether Montgomery County Off
cials can regulate operation of taxi
cabs will be sought at the 1949 ses-
sion of the General Assembly.
The decision was reached at a
meeting of the county commits
sioners yesterday with Albert E.
Conradis, public utilities agent.
The board authorized Mr.. Con-
radis to ask the Legislative Council,
which meets today, to indorse a
proposed amendment to the State
wide Motor Vehicles Act.
Mr.. Conradis said the legislation
was needed to meet Circuit Court
objections to the taxicab ordinance
adopted by the commissioners last
summer. The proposed amendment,
he said, provides that the Motor
Vehicles Act would not prohibit
enactment of local laws dealing with
the regulation of taxicabs.
Final Decision Due.
In its opinion, the court ruled
that the Motor Vehicles Act pro-
hibits any county or municipality
from adopting local legislation set
ting up licensing requirements for
motor vehicles. A final decision in
the suit. brought by Attorneys
James H. Pugh, James r. Miller
and Lee Miller on behalf Of EofeTt
III. Swisher, owner of the Piney
,lHEanch Cab Co., has not yet been
Minded down. ss
Mr.. Conradis quoted DR.. Horace
E. Flack. director OF the State De-
partment of Legislative Reference,
as saying that If the proposed
amendment were approved by the
General Assembly, there was fair
chance that the Circuit Court rul-
ing could be reversed.
In other business the commits
Sioners agreed to hold their regular
meeting next week on Thursday
because Tuesday is election day,
and approved the following parking
regulations in Silver Spring.:
! No parking at any time on the
south side of Bonifant street from
Georgia avenue to Cedar street and
on the north side of Manchester
I road, between Piney Branch road
and Wayne avenue.
One-hour Parking.
Also, one-hour parking from 9
am. to 6 pm. on both sides of
Thayer avenue, except where park
ing meters are installed, and on
the south side of Philadelphia ave-
nue., from Selim road to Burlington
avenue.
A petition was received from res
idents Of Fidler lane, Silver Spring,
urging that the street be widened
from 16 to 40 feet, with 10-foot
sidewalks on both sides.
The board voted to 90 ahead with
the project provided the necessary
rights-of-way can be obtained from
all property owners affected.
Favorable action was taken on
petitions for concrete curb and gut
ter and street resurfacing on Lorain
avenue, Silver Spring, and Bethesda
avenue, Bethesda.
The resignation of Mrs. Ruth
Terry as assistant probation officer
in the County Juvenile Court was
accepted
Evening star., 1948-10-27
Porkside School Pupils
LWiII Tour Zoo Toduy

About so second and third grade
pupils of the Parkside Elementary
School, Silver Spring. today will be
given q personally conducted tour
of the ZOO by Malcolm Davis, an
assistant head keeper.
Members of the schools parent
teacher association will provide
transportation to the Zoo. The
tour will begin at 2 pm. at the
bird house.
Evening star., 1948-10-27
Pair GET 3-Year Terms
In Beating Of Two Men
BY the Assosiotsd Press

ANNAPOLIS, Oct. 27.-Two mer
convicted Of beating a Frederick
banker and Hagerstown businessman
were sentenced to three years in the
house of correction yesterday.
Judge James e. Boylan imposed
the terms after Anne Arundel
County court juries found Asbury
LoWman, 32-year-old cabbie, and
Walter j. Robbins, 22-year-old truck
driver, guilty of assault and battery.
They had been accused of attack
ing w. Bartgis Storm, Sc, cashier
of the Citizens National Bank in
Frederick, and Rufus B. Edwards,
Al, Hagerstown manager Of a bowl
ing alley firm, on the old Annapolis
road near Fort Meade last July IS.
Evening star., 1948-10-27

thinks Joe will be there of and
on until he's about H..
When he gets into his teens"
she said, "he should be ready to
take his place with other children
back home"
At the handcraft shop the other
day, making decorations in prep
aration for Halloween, Joe was
talking about what he wants to
do when he grows up.
He likes horses and cowboy suits
and has quite a hankerin' for the
open spaces.
But I like milk, too," he added.
Maybe I'll be a milkman. They
make a lot more money than cow
boys"
Evening star., 1948-10-27
Alexandria Acts
10 Reorganize
.zoniing Setup
City Council Orders
Amendments Drafted
To Plan Voted Nav L

The Alexandria City Council last
night moved to iron out legal
wrinkles in the city's controversial
zoning procedure which was adopted
last May l.
The council instructed City Attor-
ney Joseph Pancoast to prepare
amendments to the ordinance to
comply with recommendations of a
council-appointed committee which
studied the coming procedure. A ma
jority report of the committee was
approved last night.
Rehearings were ordered on all
rezonlngs which had been acted on
since the new procedure became
effective. Hearings also were or
dered set nall rezoning requests
which have been held up pending
a final decision on the proper pro-
cedure to follow.
Double Hearings Required.
Major effect of the majority re-
port will be to require rezoning
hearings before both the Planning
Commission and the City, Council.
The zoning plan. which became ef-
fective May /. required a hearing
before the Planning Commission
only, and provided that the request
could be heard by the council only
If majority of the council favored
such a hearing. This provision
prompted criticism by attorneys who
said citizens were entitled to a hear
ing on all matters by the City Coun-
Gil
A minority report of the commit
tee favored throwing out the entire
new coming plan. 1t particularly
criticized a provision requiring a
vote of three-fourths of the council
to override an adverse Planning
Commission recommendation. Three
City Councilmen, Leroy S. Bend
helm, Jack Tulloch and Marshall
Beverley, supported the minority re-
port.
Mr.. Bendheim said he felt re-
quiring three-fourths vote sis a
dangerous precedent" and may
permit two members Of the council
to defeat the wishes Of the majority.
Legality Doubted.
IT don't think that is what the
people Of Alexandria want" he de-
cla-d, "in fact, doubt that it is
legal"
The three-fourths vote require
ment was upheld by a vote OF four
to three when the councilmen ap-
proved the majority report. Coun-
cilmen who voted for the majority
report were Alb>rt A. Smoot, Roy
Bragg, r. Samuel Luckett and
Mayor William T. wilkins.
The council was told by Fred c.
Forberg, supervisor Of appraisals in
the Vtrginias Department, of Taxa
tlp, tt~t&foVk surveyor 1ron fAe
dsbartnienh could re-appfaise fsAi
estate ineAexandria., Figures ahe
Supplied tcouncil indSeAted II
re-appraisaI would cost between
$4,000 and $4,000. A survey OF
Alexandria real estate was recon-
mended by the University of Vir-
ginia Bureau of Public Administra-
ton. which conducted a tax survey
Of the city this year.
Assessment Suits Settled.
Meanwhile, 1t was disclosed that
a number of suits against the city
for equalization of real estate tax
assessments had been settled by re-
duction of the assessments. The
suits were withdrawn after the
assessments were adjusted, it was
disclosed. Spot reassessments were
criticized In the recent tax survey.
The council approved a recon-
mendation of Mr.. Beverly to raise
the beginning salary for policemen
from $2,100 to $2,400.
Evening star., 1948-10-27
SuitIund Dance Planned

A dance, sponsored by the Ladies
Auxiliary of the Morningside volun-
teer Fire Department, will be given
at 9 pm. Friday at 5501 suitland
road, Suitland, Md.
Evening star., 1948-10-27
Krum to Address Citizens

The Springfield -Oakwood Fran
coma Citizens Association will hold
its monthly meeting at 8 o'clock to-
night in the Franconia School.
Tyrrell Krum, Republican candidate
for the House from the 9Th district,
will speak.
Evening star., 1948-10-27
Nearby Politics on Air

Political broadcasts today over
suburban radio stations are:
Tyrrell Krum, Republican
candidate for the House from
the 9th Virginia district, 4:45 to
5 pm, WARL.