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Evening star., 1948-10-21
1000 Trees 10 Fall
To Permit Widening
OF nth Street NV.

The District Highway department
is planning to widen Eleventh
Street NV. from Vermont Avenue
to Florida Avenue and about 100
stately old trees will be removed in
the process, it was learned today
Most Of the trees, which are about
IS or 40 years old, are sycamores but
there are a few oaks. A recent sur
vey found all of them in good con-
dition except about five.
The widening project was con-
firmed by Highways Director j. N.
Robertson 1t was decided upon be-
cause the space between the street.
car tracks and the curb is only 10
feet on each side. When automobiles
are parked along the curb, other
cars using the street often are forced
to follow streetcars without chance
to pass.
Eleventh street south Of Vermont
was widened several years ago, and
large trees were replaced with
smaller new sycamores. The De-
partment of Trees and Parking
plans to plant young sycamores to
replace the larger old ones which
arch over the street.
The widening is not planned for
about two years, according to en-
gineers of the Highway Department,
but it is on the preferred program.
John w. Batson, superintendent
of trees and parking. said he had
not vet been informed OF the plan,
but that any widening of the street
would necessitate cutting down the
trees.
The trees are very large. Mr..
Batson said. and their removal will
be costly. He said they are getting
old. and while they are in good
condition he has received COM
plants from residents OF the street
that limbs are growing against
their houses and windows. He said
also that some of the trees are
being damaged by trucks tearing
of the lower branches.
Other District officials said the
trees probably have outlived their
usefulness in this age of heavy
auto traffic, and the fumes from
automobiles and trucks eventually
would kill them.
Evening star., 1948-10-21


The thousands of dollars he
had spent; how he had not yet
received settlement from the
accident.
The agency told Mark not to
worry. From then on Martha's
medical expenses would be paid
from the Red Feather Hos
pitalization Fund.
Martha has been in and out
of the hospital. She has had
one operation after another.
She has had 27 blood transfu-,
sions. Her pain has been so
great that even sleeping medi-
cine would not permit her to
rest for more than a few min
uteS at a time.
Evening star., 1948-10-21
Sauter Says Charter
Would Upset Checks,
Balances in County

Strong opposition to the proposed
Montgomery County Charter was
voiced yesterday by County Com
missioner Wesley I. Sauter of
Bethesda.
The Montgomery County Com
mittee, Americans for Democratic
Action, meanwhile announced that
it has indorsed the proposed charter
and would work for its adoption
The action followed the report of
a special study of the proposal
made by committee under Blair
Lee III.
Mr.. Sauter asserted the proposed
home rule plan would destroy the
present system of checks and bal
ances under which laws are passed
by the General Assembly and ad-
ministered by the county. A charter
form of government, he contended
would enable the county council to
adopt, as we'll as administer, laws.
He also argued that the county
manager would have too much
power and could refuse to approve
Improvements in districts of coun-
cilmen who refuse to play ball with
him"
Sees Obligation to PTA.
In addition, Mr.. Sauter said, the
county government would be oper-
ated by people who work in Wash
ington and run the county at night
as a hobby" He did not identify
the persons to whom he referred.
Finally, Mr.. Sauter. declared, the
new county officials would be
obligated" to Parent Teacher Asso-
Citations who want extravagant
school improvement" He said that
Evening star., 1948-10-21
More Russians Listeninq
To Voice. Smith Reports

An increasing number of Russians
are listening to the Voice of Amer
lea despite Soviet efforts to Jam"
this Governments short-wave broad
casts, according to Assistant Secre-
tary Of State George v. Allen.
Mr.. Allen said in an interview last
night over the Columbia Broadcast
ing System that 1t. Gen. Walter
Bedell Smith, American Ambassa-
dor in Moscow, estimates that at
least 100000 Russians listen to the
Voice of America from time to
time"
The State Department, he added,
has located" 18 transmitters in the
Soviet Union trying to jam the
American broadcasts.
He said this Government is giving
no consideration whatever to trying
to jam Soviet newscasts to the
United States in retaliation.
1T would be a thorough waste of
time because nobody listens to them
anyhow" he explained.
Evening star., 1948-10-21
A MongIed Accident Victim Dores to Hone

The Instructive Visiting
Nurse Society, another Red
Feather agency, sent a nurse
to visit her at home 60 times.
She faces more operations.
There will be more hospitaliza-
ton and more treatments. The
disqualification Fund will foot
the bills.
And despite the pain and
hardships, Martha and Mark
are keeping their eyes on a big
goal-that Martha will walk
again.
The IVNS nurse shown with
Martha in these pictures knows
this is one patient who has
learned to help herself. Martha
cheerfully sews, bakes, washes
and irons and keeps her house
neat, from her wheel chair.
Mark takes over when the
going is too difficult.
Because you gave to the
Community Chest Federation,
two courageous people have
the outside help they need in
overcoming a crippling tragedy
help in paying medical bills
that already have swelled to
$4,000.
Their community stepped
into the crisis in their lives.
You are part OF the COM
.munity, and the Community
Chest Federation is your means
of being a good neighbor by
supporting the Red Feather
service.
Evening star., 1948-10-21
; More Drivers
Arrested for


Three more Washington motorists
were arrested in the last "a hours
for unnecessary blowing of their au-
tomobile horns, Capt. L. T. Johnson,
head of the Police Traffic Division,
reported today.
This brings the total number of
arrests since the campaign started
10 days ago to 20, Capt. johnson
said.
Latest order to the precinct COM
mancers on horn blowing was to
pay special attention to drivers who
sound their horns at night to at
tract friends indoors. AS the police
are explaining to the mounting
number of motorists arrested for
blowing horns, the only excuse for
using the noise-makers is when it
Is . reasonable warning Of dangQf'
Evening star., 1948-10-21
13-Cent Bus Fare Goes
In Effect Oct. 81 on
". N. & A. Lines

Fares for rides within the District
on buses of the Washington, Marl-
boro and Annapolis Motor Lines
Inc, will be increased to IS cents
cash or three tokens for IS cents
effective October 81.
The Public Utilities Commission
o' dered the increases late yesterday
bringing w. M. & A. fares up to the
rate schedule already authorized by
the PUG for the Capital Transit Co.
w. M. & A.. which now charges
10 cents cash and quarter for three
tokens, had asked the PUG to grant
a l5-cent cash fare and permission
to sell two tokens for quarter.
$500 Riders Daily.
V. A. McElfresh, executive ac-
countant and auditor of the PUG.
said about $500 persons ride the
District portions of the w. M. d A.
line daily. He recommended to PUG
Commissioners James H. Flanagan
and James Lauderdale that the
Capital Transit fare schedule be
applied to w. M. & A.-which sends
most of its buses into southern
Maryland through the southeast
section of Washington.
Public hearings before the PUG on
the request for rate increase were
begun September 81, continued on
October and concluded October II.
The PUG conclusion declared:
THE record is clear that during
the IL months ended June 80, l948,
the company sustained loss from
its total operations and that some
proportion of this loss was directly
attributable to its District opera
tions.
THE conclusion that an increase
In fares is necessary is inescapable.
The aggregate amount of the in
crease in revenues needed to main
tain the company in a sound finan-
cial condition is difficult to estimate.
1t is even more difficult to deter
mine. with exactness, the amount of
revenue that any given fare struc-
ture will produce.
so Return Expected.
"On the record before it, the COM
finds and concludes that the
of cash fare of 13
cents and token fare of liza cents
Ito be sold in lots of three) will
under reasonably forseeable condi-
tons, provide the company with a
return approximating 8 per cent on
Its investment devoted to furnishing
bus transportation service in the
District of Columbia"
The decision said the PUG is of
the opinion that such a return is !
fair and reasonable and will main
tain the company in a sound finan-
cial position insofar as its District
operations are concerned. On the
other hand, the PUG declared, such
q fare will not impose an undue
burden on the users of the service
and will be just, reasonable and
non discriminatory.
The new rates will not affect the |
rates presently being charged school
children.
Evening star., 1948-10-21
Fire Poster Contest Award;
To Be Made in Bethesda

Winners of Fire Prevention
Week poster contest in Montgomery
County will be awarded certificates
and prizes at pm. Friday at the
Bethesda Firehouse, 1920 Old
Georgetown road.
The first prize winners from eight
schools in the Bethesda area are:
Fdwina Cummings, Our Lady of
Lourdes School, Maria Girou-
Cerna, Alta Vista School; David
Fell, Bethesda Elementary; Mary
Ellen Hodge, Bethesda Chevy Chase
High School; Mary Ellis, Leland
Junior High School; Billy Reeder,
Lynnorook School: Bruce Kennedy,
Bradley School, and Robert Weld
man, Somerset School.
The posters were judged on apt
ness of thought, artistic expression
and appropriateness of expression
of the thought. Fire Chief A. j.
Bargagni announced. Judges were
Mrs. Thomas Emmert Beall. Mrs.
Sidney Karr and Capt. Preston B.
HaineS.
Evening star., 1948-10-21
Vireinion Ordered Held
On Bod Check Choroes

Judge Walter J. Casey yesterday
ordered Hobart Thompson, 2s of
Giles County Va, held under 81 900
bond on a charge of false pre-
lenses at a hearing in Municipal
Court.
Thompson, who was arrested here
Tuesday, is accused of having passed
worthless checks at Is auto service
filling stations. Police said he is
also wanted in Bristol, Va. where
they said he escaped from custody
while awaiting commitment to the
penitentiary on forgery charge
Evening star., 1948-10-21

Twenty-four operations ago,
the woman in the wheel chair
lay crumpled on the pavement
in the wake of a speeding taxi,
her feet nearly severed from
her body.
At the hospital, doctors con-
sidered her mangled legs and
despaired. Martha's son and
her f1ance protested the mur-
murs of "amputation.'
Martha's life hung in the
balance for weeks. And, vir-
tually bit by bit, the doctors
began to rebuild her shattered
legs.
The accident had struck on
a bleak January day in 1947.
Martha had planned to be
married again. Her son John
has just left the Naval Hospital
after long recuperation from
a sniper'S wound he had suf-
fered on Saipan.
Mark, Martha's s fiance, stood
by her through six months in
the hospital. Then, in July,
she was allowed a two-week
vacation at home. Mark went
down and picked out a wedding
gown Of pale blue.
Martha, in her wheel chair,
was married to Mark in the
Naval Research Laboratory
Chapel. They had 10 days and
then she had to 60 back to the
hospital. The operations and
treatments went on.
Mark had a good job at the
Evening star., 1948-10-21
Pedestrian Hurt by Ladder
Falling Off Truck on BRIDGE

A ladder which fell from a truck
crossing Key Bridge struck William
E. Binns. 56. of 1917 North Nelson
street, Arlington, sending him to the
hospital with an injured leg, police
reported today.
Mr.. Binns was walking across the
bridge when the accident occurred
yesterday police said. The truck
driver was listed by police as Rich
ard H. Coleman. 10, colored, OF 2444
Ontario road NV.
In another accident yesterday.
George Baker. 43. colored, of 1407
Fifth street NV, suffered a frac-
tured left arm when a trailer stand
ing in a gas station at Eighth and
M streets NV. rolled forward on
his arm. Mr. Baker was attempting
to check the wheels of the trailer,
police said. He was treated at
Hospital.
Evening star., 1948-10-21
Robbed Salesman Held
In Making False Report

A life insurance salesman who told
police he was robbed of $75 by two
bandits was charged with making
a false report today.
The salesman, Estil c. Eskridge,
"a, of the HOO block of Orren street
NE, admitted he had lost the
money, which belonged to his COM
pany, according to Detective Sergts.
Thomas F. Harty and William Spar
shot. He forfeited s25 collateral on
The charge.
Eskridge reported originally to
police that two men held him up at
pistol point last night as he was
walking in the 700 block of Kenil-
worth street NE.
Evening star., 1948-10-21
Aaron Sobghir Elected
Beth Israel President

Aaron Sabghir. sampling expert
for the United States Census Bu-
reau. has been elected president Of
the Congregation Beth Israel, 4O08
Minnesota avenue NE. He lives at
l Ridge road Sc.
Other elected at a meeting last
night include:
Maurice Baroff. vice president;
Nathan Krevor. recording secretary:
Samuel Goldsmith, treasurer, and
Jesse Stern, financial secretary.
Members named to the Executive
Board were Harry Spiwak. chair-
man; Abe Krissoff, Harry Goodman,
Phillip Morris and Martin Katzin.
The new officers will be installed
during special November meeting.
Evening star., 1948-10-21

laboratory and made a good
salary. But heavy medical ex-
penses soon exhausted his own
resources. His friends at the
laboratory Clipped in-from
$40 to $500. His brother cashed
$1,650 worth of bonds. Marks
debts grew to $9,500.
Every year, Mark had worked
as a key man in the Com
munity Chest campaigns. Now
he turned to a Red Feather aid
himself. He told his story to
the Hospital Service Agency.
Evening star., 1948-10-21
Recreation Unit
Required toGet
Schools 0. K.
Education Boord
Insists on Yearly Plea
For Use of Facilities

The Recreation Department will
have to continue to ask the Board of
Education each year If it can use
school property for its program.
Board members yesterday refused
to grant permission without a time
limit, but the board did instruct
School Supt. Hobart NJ Corning to
study the matter further. 1t then
approved the use of so schools by
the Recreation Department until
next June l6 for programs it spon-
sors outside of school hours.
Two colored board members,
George E. c. Hays and Mrs. James
w. Williams, we're against allowing
use of the schools by the Recreation
Department because of the depart
ment,s announced policy of racial
segregation in recreation.
Squabble Occurs Yearly.
The third colored member. John
H. Wilson, voted for the permission,
saying:
I'm against segregation and
would like to see it abolished, but
I'm not going to say-by my vote
that no child is going to play in
these schools unless segregation Is
abolished"
The Squabble over the use of the
school buildings and Fairgrounds
by the Recreation Department is
an old one and each year the
Donroot;oo nepo rf y,,e,,f r,,,,cf ask
for permission to use the schools.
Albert E. Steniem, chairman of
community use of buildings and
grounds. told the board it was duty
bound to grant requests of the
Recreation Department for use Of
the property if it did not interfere
with school activities and had no
jurisdiction over its use after per-
mission had been granted.
The board adopted his report
stating his conclusion.
Cites Interior Ruling.
Mr. Hayes asserted that the
School Board, under the law, was
authorized to enter into an agree
ment with the Recreation Depart
ment and. as official custodian of
the schools, could impose any con-
ditions 1t wanted regarding their
use.
He cited a ruling Of the Interior
Department solicitor who held that
the National Park Service, which
also loans facilities to the Recrea-
ton Department, retained control
and could impose any conditions 1t
chese-including nonsegregation.
To avoid this yearly controversy.
the Board of Recreation had asked
that permission to use the schools
be granted permanently.
In other actions, the board:
Approved plan submitted by DR..
Corning to set up remedial clinic
for children who were backward in
reading. This clinic would be Tor
the white schools and would utilize
six special teachers already working
in the system and use equipment al
ready on hand. A similar clinic will
be set up for the colored schools in
the future.
Ordered Dr. Corning to investigate
the radio workshop conducted yearly
at Wilson Teachers College under
auspices OF teachers radio COM
mittee and WTOP. Board members
raised questions about the legality
OF $40 fee charged for participa-
tion.
Retired Mrs. Ray T. Baker of 2124
K street NV, teacher at John F.
Cook Elementary School, after 20
years of service.
Evening star., 1948-10-21
Funds.toProviide
tuberculosis
Care Sought
LeohysAsks $l30, 900
For New Cases, Mony
Found in Survey
By GEORGE Beveridqe

William =. LedIly, EAcCullVc SOIl-
mittee chairman of the recent chest
x-ray survey. today urged the Dis
trict Commissioners to provide about
$4,000 for urgently needed facili-
ties for tuberculosis patients, many
of these cases revealed by the recent
survey.
Mr.. Leahy told reprters most of
the money could be diverted imme-
diately from unused appropriations.
At today's budget hearing, he dis
closed that 426 new cases have been
diagnosed definitely as active" tu-
Notwithstanding immediate hos
pitalization-from the survey alone.
Moreover, the District tuberculosis
Clinic at 469 C street NV. now is
handling 7,77S cases day. 400
over the number listed last January,
he added.
Mr.. Leahy struck hard at low pay
for doctors at the clinic and at
Glenn Dale Sanitorium. This, cou-
pied with lack of housing for doc
tors at Glenn Dale, he said. is
responsible for SO empty beds at the
sanitorium, while 100 emergency"
cases are on waiting list.
Proposals Outlined.
Specifically, he asked:
l. Provision of about $25 600 to
provide supplies and add to the staff
of the clinic one assistant director,
two doctors, two clerks. a laboratory
technician and messenger.
g Provision of about $92 900 to
add 35 nurses to the Health Depart
ment staff to. make home visits to
tuberculosis victims.
3. Upgrading of doctors at Glenn
Dale one grade from their present
PA, P-5 and P-6 ratings.
4. Plans for a new four-unit hous-
ing development for Glenn Dale
doctors to supplement four-unit
apartment already authorized. g
5. Removal of doctors at the clinic
from Civil Service classification and
an increase in their rate of pay
from s7O5 for a three-hour working
period to SIS an hour
SohHRol&Soh
Discussing the last point. Mr..
Leahy said it seemed sad that doc
tors get only s705 for three hours
of work while the District gives vet
erinarlans here s24 for two hours
of service, injecting the city's dogs.
Officials OF the District Tuber-
culosls Association said Glenn Dale
has from to 10 applications week
from doctors who want to serve
there, but that they soon lose in
terestg when they learn about the
low ply and lack of housing.
Mr.. Leahy stressed that only five
doctors are available to care for the
600 patients now at the sanitarium, !.
although Is are authorized.
He told reporters he feels that a
large amount of the money neces-
sary to provide the increased facili-
ties and personnel could be diverted
from the funds appropriated to pay
the authorized but unhired doctors.
DR.. Feffer Offers Support.
General support for the statement
of Mr.. Leahy was voiced by DR..
James Feffer. vice president OF
the District tuberculosis Associa ton.
Urging a minimum increase IN
appropriations for more nurses,
higher pay for tuberculosis physi-
clans and resident housing for physi-
clans at Glenn Dale, DR.. Feffer said
"if these recommendations are not
carried out, the full value of the
chest X-ray will not be realized and
tuberculosis in the District will be-
come more and more out of control"
Evening star., 1948-10-21
Bethesda Police Team
Wins Pistol Match

The team from the Bethesda
police substation has won the an
nual pistol shooting match in the
Montgomery County interstation
competition. scoring 929 of pos
sible 1000 points.
High individual score also was
made by member of the Bethesda
team. He is Pvt. Benjamin P. Nc
Knew, "a. who shot 1913 out of a
possible 200 points. Pvt. McKnew
Is former Army rifle instructor.
Second place in the team matches
was won by Rockville, after Silver
Spring had been eliminated earlier
Evening star., 1948-10-21

sixth polio fatal
ity in the Wash
ington area this
year.
M a r ! e ne, a
third grade stu
dent in the Be-
thesda Elemen-
tary School, died
just three days
after she be-
came i'll.
Her mother.
Mrs. J ose p h
Garfnkle. said
the first indica-
Evening star., 1948-10-21
Bethesda Girl, 8, Dies
OF Polio; Sixth Fatality
In Area This Year

Eight-year-old Marlene Gar
finkle of 1855 Cordell avenue, Be-
thesda, died of infantile paralysis
yesterday at Childrens Hospital.
She uaS tho
Evening star., 1948-10-21
On the Air Toniqht

Hear Martha's story at 1915
o'clock tonight on Radio Station
WMAL and Station WMAL-
FM.
Kodiak mirror., 1948-02-07

Ata special meeting Tuesday night, the City Council author |ized 8 letter to the District Court setting forth the Applica- tion of the Bills Club for a dispensary liquor license.
 A local ordinance forbids the granting of any new licenses, and the Council can only send the facts to the Court, which decides whether or not to grant the license. a
 The regular council meeting will be held Monday evening.
Kodiak mirror., 1948-02-07
'Hughes-Anstey
 NUptials Held

Miss Marjorie Anstey, daugh- ter of Dr. John Anstey of Mas. sena, Iowa, became the bride of John .. Hughes, local attorney. on Saturday morning ill St. Mary's Catholic Church. MT. Hughes is the son of Mr. and Mrs, Felan T. Hughes, Ft. Pie, ce, South Dakota. Father Louis B. Fink, s, J., read the nuptial mass, and Sister Hilary played the organ during the service. Mrs. Mary Else was vocalist.
 The bride was given in mari. age by MT. John A. Gibbons, and the couple was attended by MT. and Mrs. Leon Johnson.
 The bride wore a blue suit, with grey accessories, and her matron of honor selected g beige grey suit with brown accessories.
 A wedding breakfast was serv- cd at the Montmartre Inn fol- lowing the ceremony.
Kodiak mirror., 1948-02-07

F. Schwartzbacker, cold stor. age plant operator of Cordova. flew here Sunday to inspect the surplus property being offere d for sa'e at Ft. Greedy
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-04-19
TRANSFERS
 JOIN WITH
 CARPENTERS
Second Local AfL Union
 Walks Off Contractors Association Job

A new development took place to- day in the dispute between the Ju- neau Contractors and Employers Association and the Juneau AFI Building Trades Council when AFL Teamsters walked off the job this morning as AFL carpenters had done on April |
 No Teamsters Union official would make any comment on the situation today but it was reported that they had quit work because their con- tract expired on March 3l and an agreement has not yet been reach ed on new one. Carpenters walk ed out when their contract was end ed without waiting for further ne- gotiations which had been in pro- gress.
 The new walkout meant that con- struction work on the Douglas and Mendenhall River Loop Road bridg- es, scheduled to have begun today by the R. J. Sommers Construction O.. has been suspended until a settlement of the dispute.
 Representatives of the Carpenters Union also declined to comment to- day on developments in their dis pute with the Contractors Associa- tion
 In the meantime, the Association is attempting to negotiate with AFL painters, plumbers and electricians unions which are also members of the Building Trades Council in or der to secure a uniform agreement Union officials would not make any statements today on the situation as it now exists but preferred to withhold such statements until an agreement is finally reached.
 The new walkout affects only teamsters who are employed by As- sociation members in construction work.