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Evening star., 1948-04-02
Services See Segregation Policy
Chonge Unlikely Despite Threat

Racial segregation in the armed
forces, under attack by witnesses at
Senate hearings this week, appears
to be more prevalent in the Army
and Air Force than in the Navy,
although all three have policies
which are similar in some respects.
Threats Of a campaign of civil
disobedience among Negroes against
the draft and universal military
training, unless Congress forbids
segregation in the serves, heard
by the Senate Armed Services Com
mittee Wednesday. are not likely to
bring about any changes in any OF
the policies, spokesmen said today.
In the Army, Negroes are organ
lied in separate units within white
battalions in accordance with q
circular issued in 1916 and based on
Negro manpower studies made by a
board headed by 1t. Gen. Alvan C.
Gillem.
A. F. MOdifies Policy.
The Air Force was a part of the
Army when the Gillem Board re-
port was issued and today follows
the same policy, with notifications.
made peculiar by its organizational
structure.
The Navy, in line with directive
issued in 1914, "integrates" its Negro
sailors but it is its policy not to
allow the Negro portion of its ships
compliments to exceed 10 per cent
excluding stewards.
Gen. Jacob L. Devers, chief of
Army training, said at a news con-
ference that, what We are trying
to do is to put a Negro unit or bat
talon in regiment with two other
Evening star., 1948-04-02
Tighter Controls Sought
On Alien Registration
BY the Assoeioted Press

The Justice Department has
asked Congress for more effective
controls over alien registration.
In a letter to Speaker Martin
the department said yesterday pres
ent law governing notice of changes
of address by aliens has not worked
out.
The existing statute requires an
alien to advise the Government of
+, an address change within five days
of such change. 1t also provides
that nonimmigrant aliens notify
Federal authorities of their ad-
dress at the end of each three
months residence in the country
regardless of whether a change has
occurred.
AS proposed by Peyton Ford, As
sistant Attorney General, the law
would be revised to provide that
all aliens register their place of
residence annually in the period
July / to TO-
Evening star., 1948-04-02
Deal for Scout Camp
In Fairfax Completed

Boy Scouts will explore the woods
and Sea Scouts will anchor their
craft IN the neighborhood once fire.
quented by George Washington.
That's the plan of the National
Capital Area Council, Boy Scouts
|of America, which has just COM
pleted negotiations for acquiring q
site for new, year-round camp for
weekend and other short-term
visitors.
Ralph A. Van Orsdel, council
president, said the proposed camp
consists Of 173 acres, rs per cent OF
which is heavily wooded, In Fairfax
County, Va, only 20 miles from
downtown Washington. The land
lies at the mouth OF Pohick Creek
on Gunston Cove
The council hopes to raise money
to purchase the land. erect build
|ings and buy equipment through
the $125,000 Boy Scout camp CAM
paign which gets under way next
month. The campaign also is aimed
at providing additional funds for
improving the two existing Scout.
camps In Maryland ana developing
~tJ,or c~,-r, ,ices.
Evening star., 1948-04-02
DeudIines for Science Fair,
Calendar Art Contest Extended

The deadline for two Evening
Star-sponsored contests for junior
and senior high school students
the Student Calendar Art Contest
and the Science Fair-has been ex-
tended to April 8.
The deadline was to have been
yesterday.
So far, more than $50 pictures
have been submitted in the calen-
dar art contest. which is open. like
the Science Fair, to students in
senior and junior high schools in
Washington and the surrounding
area, whether public. private OF
parochial.
Most recent entries in the calen-
dar contest are Esther McCully OF
Dunbar High School, who SUBJ
mitted nve pictures; Mary Sander
son Of Hannah More Acsdemy
Evening star., 1948-04-02
Catholic Veterans TO Open
ID. {. Convention Toniqhf

The District Department of Cath
ollc War Veterans will open its sew
enth annual convention at 6 o'clock
tonight at the Hamilton Hotel.
Delegates from the IA posts in the
city will consider resolutions on pol
icy matters at the opening session
M. Joseph May will be general
chairman.
Members Of the posts and auxil-
iaries will form at the hotel at 9
am. tomorrow for a parade to st.
Matthews Cathedral. The Rev,
Francis j. Lauriola, department
chaplain, will celebrate a memorial
mass at 10 am.
The convention will be resumed
at the hotel at 2 pm. tomorrow
with final consideration of resolu-
tions and election of new officers.
Principal speaker will be Chester F..
Naumowicz, manager of the WASH
ington office. of the Veterans Ad-
ministration. The conference will
end with a military ball at 9 pm.
at the Burlington Hotel.
Evening star., 1948-04-02
Execution Of 2 Delayed Week
So Slayer Can Observe Birthday

Two convicted murdererS today
can look forward to an extra week
of life, which was granted so one
Of them can celebrate" his 23rd
birthday before being electrocuted.
The postponement was granted to
Reginald J. Wheeler, 26, and Jesse
James Patton, %, both colored, who
fatally shot Maurice L. Bernstein,
50, in his drug store in the 1700
block of Florida avenue NV, in
June, 1916.
A delay also was granted to Floyd
p. Wilson, 80, of Riverdale, Md. who
murdered Milton E. Lowe during a
holdup attempt outside a Giant
Food store in the 5000 block of
Minnesota avenue NE. in February,
1947.
All three men had been scheduled
to die on April 8. District Court
Justice Alexander Holtzod yesterday
agreed to postpone all three execu-
tions and set June as the new
Evening star., 1948-04-02
Two Store Clerks Held
For Grand Jury After
Admitting FakeHo|dup

Two Safeway grocery employees
were held for the grand jury to-
day when arraigned in Municipal
Court on charges arising from what
police said was false $4,000 rob-
berry story.
Charles De Board, %, of the
1900 block Of Quarles street NE, q
clerk who reported he was robbed
Of the store funds while on the way
to a bank, was held in 1000 bond
on a charge of larceny after trust
He pleaded guilty to a charge OF
making false report to police and
was sentenced by Judge Ellen K
Raedy to pay a $25 fine or serve
30 days in Jail.
His companion, Charles S. league
10, of the TOO block of Twelfth
street NV, was held in 81 900 bond
on a charge of grand larceny.
All But 81 Recovered.
All but So of the money, which
was spent for taxi fare and ciga-
rettes, was recovered.
1t. Edgar E. Scott, head of the
police robbery squad, said De Boare
had admitted the story was rugged
He was employed at the Safeway
store at TIT Eleventh street NV.
league was arrested last night al
he kept prearranged rendezvous
with De Board, 1t. Scott said. The
money was found in garbage car
about block from the rendezvou.
spot, restaurant on Kenilwortt
avenue NE. near the District line
Admits Money Given to league.
The affair began yesterday after.
noon when De Board was on his way
to the McLachlen Banking Corp.
Tenth and G streets NV, with
more than $4,000 in store funds. He
told police that as he neared the
bank. man showed him into ar
alley and demanded the cash while
holding his hand in a pocket as ii
he had pistol.
Lit. Scott said that after De
Board had been questioned during
the afternoon, he admitted the
money had been given to league.
Around 8 pm, two headquarters
cruisers. loaded with detectives, went
to the Kenilworth avenue restaurant
to keep the meeting which the two
men had arranged. AS De Boarc
came to the restaurant entrance
league stepped into the street ano
was arrested, 1t. Scott stated.
Evening star., 1948-04-02
Mans Height Varies Hourly,
Study at Howard u. Indicates

A mans height apparently varies
from hour to hour, the opening ses-
sion Of the American Association of
Physical Anthropologists at the
National Museum was told today.
The variability was reported by
DR.. w. Montague Cobb of Howard
University. 1t long has been recog-
nized that it is impossible to make
precisely the same measurement
twice, but the differences, due to
human error, are in minute fractions
of inches.
DR.. Cobb tried to overcome this by
having four students, each leaders
in their classes, measure each others
stature 10 times a day until there
were $50 measurements for each
man. In this way, the measurement
Evening star., 1948-04-02

white battalions which puts
them in competition in their own
units. SO that they can develop and
grow and give us broader base.
If they ever have to be put into
battle they will, we feel fight on a
better basis than before"
The general added that this al
ready had been done with the 82d
Division at Fort Bragg, N. c., the
9th Division at Fort Dix, N. j., and
the Sd Armored at Fort Knox, KY,
and the Oath Division in Japan has
q completely Negro regiment.
Ratio Established.
In addition to Negro Army and
Air Force units, NEGRO manpower
with special skill or qualifications
are employed as individuals in spe-
cial units" Gen. Davis said.
The Gillem Board set forth that
Negro troops in the Army should
conform to the approximately l to
10 ratio Of the Negro civilian popu-
lation to the total population of the
Nation"
The Navy directive also states
that it expects that every man
be trained and utilized in accordance
with the maximum individual
capacity determined on the basis
of individual performance"
When the late Frank Knox was
Secretary of the Navy, plan was
evolved to have three completely
Negro-manned small ships. Two
destroyer escorts actually were
designated for this purpose. How
ever, neither ever was more than go
per cent manned by Negroes, and
this policy later reversed.
Evening star., 1948-04-02
Suspects Wife Accused
In Alexandra Bank Theft

Alexandria police today charged
Mrs. Alice Briggs with receiving
stolen property, as result of the
theft of $4,000 from the night de-
pository of the First National Bank
in Alexandria, last June.
: Mrs. Briggs is the wife of David
Briggs, from whom the police said
they obtained a confession of the
robbery. He is now awaiting trial.
Detectives said they were continu-
Ing to question Briggs and a woman
spiritualist about the robbery. All
are colored.
Police quoted Briggs as saying he
placed $4,000 in cash taken from
the bank in piano at home, and
that he threw a bag containing
about $4,000 in checks onto a Queen
street roof. A neighbor found the
money bag later. Briggs was ar
rested in Detroit.
Evening star., 1948-04-02
NaW's Award for Hearst
Given 10 Son by Sullivan

Secretary of the Navy Sullivan
today presented to William Ran
dolph Hearst. jr., the Navys Distin-
guished Public Service Award auth
orized for his father in recognition
of services rendered by Mr.. Hearst's
publications and radio stations.
Mr.. Sullivan also presented SIM
liar certificate to Arthur G.. New
myer of Annapolis, Md, a former
Washington publisher who advised
the Navy on public relations during
the war.
The certificate takes the place OF
the Presidential Certificate of Merit
the authority for which expired last
June.
The first of the certificates was
issued last November to the Wash
ington representatives of six news
reel companies. :
Evening star., 1948-04-02
New GNU. Hospital Open
To All Types Of Patients

The new George Washington Uni
versity Hospital opened its doors
today to new patients seeking all
types of service and estimated it
would reach so per cent of its 405-
bed capacity within week.
Only emergency cases and trans
fers from the old hospital were ad-
mitted yesterday, but officials said
they were ready to take all patients
today.
The first patient admitted became
the mother of the first baby born in
the new hospital at Washington
Circle.
Mss. James E. Milnes, as, of 800
South Washington street, Alexan-
dria. gave birth to 4 5-pound g.
ounce boy last night. Her husband
liN an employe Of the Federal Bu-
'reAu Of Investigation.
Evening star., 1948-04-02
New Tests Urged
|ToFiII Vacancies
On Police Force
Only 46 Accepted
From List of l,550,
Burrett Points Out

Police Supt. Robert j. Barrett has
asked the Civil Service Commission
to conduct new examinations to
build the police force to authorized
strength and supply a reserve list
in the event Congress approves q
new budget request for 2o5 addi-
tional men, he said today.
The need for another examina-
ton was pointed up when only 46
rookie policemen were accepted
from a list of 1850 who took the
tests earlier this year.
With those 46 sworn in yesterday,
there still is immediate demand for
10 others. Perhaps not more than
46 of them will be obtained from a
group of 229 men still to be investi-
gated from the last examination
Maj. Barrett said.
Figures Show Problem.
Problems incidental to selection
OF new policemen were illustrated by
by figures taken from the recent
examination.
Maj. Barrett revealed that Of O.
$50 men who applied, 1850 took the
examination and LOTT passed the
mental test. In the preliminary
check that followed, 674 were GER
titled as eligible, and AS were noti-
fled to appear for physical exami-
nations.
All but 80 reported, and "a out of
Ais passed the rigorous physical
requirements. In the character in
vestigations that followed, seven
were ruled out. 16 others declined
to be appointed and Is are still be-
ing investigated.
46 others, with such defects as
diseased tonsils, were temporarily
rejected and will be reconsidered if
their deficiencies are corrected.
Defective Vision Bars IA.
In listing the causes for perma-
nent rejection on physical grounds,
Maj. Barrett noted several cases of
common ailments of the patrolmen
cases of cornS, three of
bunions and one of fiat feet.
The major reasons for rejection,
however, were AZ cases of unsound
hearts, IA of deficient vision and "a
OF varicose veins. Twenty-one per-
sons did not meet the weight re-
quirements and At were either too
tall or too short.
Maj. Barrett said he hoped the
final group cleaned from the exami-
nation could be added to the force
by April Is.
Discussing the rigid examinations,
Maj. Barrett said they were neces-
sary because all new policemen are
employed on years probationary
basis. At the end of that time they
face re-examination.
1t would be unfair for many men
who now have good jobs to ask them
to join the police force without some
assurance of regular employment.
Maj. Barrett said.
Evening star., 1948-04-02

cate Tor the sentence to be carried
out.
Attorney Wesley Williams, <repre-
senting Patton, then informed the
court that June 5 is his clients
birthday and that Patton would
like to be alive to observe it. Justice
Holtzoff acceded to the request and
Fixed June IL as the date for both
Patton and Wheeler. Wilson'S ex-
ecution date remains June 4, how
ever.
Patton and Wheeler were granted
the delay, the seventh since they
were sentenced, to allow time for
action on a petition for executive
clemency. The Supreme Court re-
fused to review the case, after their
conviction was upheld by the United
States Court of Appeals.
Wilson's postponement was grant,
ed, pending action by the appellate
court on an appeal from the District
Court conviction and to allow time
for an executive clemency petition
if the appeal fails.
Evening star., 1948-04-02

differences presumably were elm
mated, but the astonishing height
differences remained.
In one case, man was an inch
and half taller at one time than
another. The simplest explanation
DR.. Cobb said, was that loose -jointed
people cannot stand In the same
posture twice in succession, no mat
ter how hard they try.
Studies on glandular effects on
hair were reported by DR.. Stanley
M. Garn of Massachusetts General
Hospital.
-Four kinds of hormones appar-
emily are involved, he said. In gen.
eral persons with too great thyroid
secretion tend to have stringy hair
and those with too little have coarse
hair.
Evening star., 1948-04-02

Larry Heyman Of Roosevelt High
School, Jill Mills OF Woodrow Will
son High School, Patronienne Me-
Nally of Wasi1ington-Lee High
School and Gerald G. Weir Of Fair
fax High School.
Each of the six winners in the
art contest will receive Sl00 Saw
ings Bond. and the pictures will be
reproduced In The Stars 1949 cal
endar. A public exhibition will be
held in the lobby of the Commerce
Department Building for two weeks
starting May /.
So far 1872 entries have been re-
ceiyed for the Science Fair, which
will be held in the National Museum
for one week starting May /.
Full information may be obtained
by writing TO room 724. 2ae Evening
Star Building.
Evening star., 1948-04-02
German Editor Asks Show
OF Af in Other U. 5. Cities
BY the Assoeiated Press

German art treasures on display
at the National Gallery should be
exhibited in other American cities
during the next II months, a lead
ing German editor has proposed.
This would lead to better under
standing between the two nations,
Erik Roger, chief editor of the BerI
lin Tagasspiegel, said yesterday. The
newspaper he edits is the largest
daily newspaper published in Ger
many under license of the American
Military Government.
Mr.. Roger told a reporter that
most of my countrymen" would
agree that the masterpieces should
not be returned to Germany this
month, as planned.
He suggested that 8 or 10 Ger
man art experts come to the United
States and take charge of the ex-
hibit as it moved from city to city
This, he said, would assure the Ger
mans that the United States was
not trying to keep the pictures.
Evening star., 1948-04-02

1ne yearly CIRCUS pfeVleW was
curtailed somewhat yesterday, when
the 52-car-long train of Ringing
Bros, Barnum & Bailey pulled into
A.exandria's Potomac Yards.
Contrary to custom, the elephants
weren't taken out of their cars and
given water because the train was
well behind its usual schedule. The
81 pachyderms had been fed and
watered the evening before when the
train-one of the longest circus
trains ever assembled-stopped at
Rocky Mount, N. G.
Plagued with broken couplings, de-
lays occasioned by the reduction
in the use of coal-burning locomo-
tives and fatal accident while
travelling through North Carolina,
the cleaning white cars pulled into
Alexandria nearly seven hours late.
Roustabout Killed.
A cclored roustabout was killed
and three men injured late Wednes-
day when wagon lashed to the
fiat car on which they were riding
broke loose and pinned the men
against another vehicle. Two ele-
phants were unloaded and used to
pu-:l the wagons back in place.
Circus workers said the cage oc-
cupied by Toto and Gargantua, the
famous huge gorillas, rocked back
and fourth at the impact of the two
wagons.
Although the few children present
to welcome the circus were cheated
OF their chance to help water the
elephants, sympathetic roustabouts
and keepers did their best to ease
their disappointment.
Focal point of interest Was the
car occupied by Ruth, queen of the
elephant herd and-according to
keepers-"the incest blankety blank
animal in the world"
Allows Pats by Children.
Ruth allowed the children, lifted
high in the air by the keepers, to
pat her on the trunk. She also
opened her mouth and let them
Evening star., 1948-04-02
Two Killed, ; Injured
lin Three-Car Collision

Two Alexandria men were fatally
injured last night when their au-
tomobile figured in three-car
collision on Route l about 3 miles
south of Alexandria. Three other
persons were injured.
Dewey H. Campbell, 81, of Route 4,
Alexandria, died about 20 minutes
after he was taken to Alexandria
Hospital. Eugene Cash, IS, of 924
Franklin street, Alexandria, died
about six hours after arriving at the
hospital.
Among the injured was Hubert
Campbell, 81, of 9l2 Franklin street,
Alexandria, who suffered a COM
pound fracture of the right leg, a
broken arm and cuts. Mr.. Campbell,
police said, was the third occupant
OF the car in which the two men
were killed. They said he was not
related to the other Mr.. Campbell.
Others injured were Warrant Of
ficer jess Willard Hanson, 80, of the
Anacostia Naval Air Station, and
his wife, Mrs. Evelyn Hanson, 29, of
555 Newcomb street Sc. They were
taken to the Bethesda Naval Hos
pital where their condition was re-
ported to be satisfactory.
Evening star., 1948-04-02
Commissioners Block
Removal by Force Of
IFreedmen's S Patients

The Commissioners will not allow
Health Officer George c. Rutland
to remove by force to Glenn Dale
Sanatorium 10 INDECENT tubercular
patients who have refused to leave
Freedmen's Hospital-whatever the
legal status OF the District in the
dispute may be.
Commissioner Guy Mason made
the announcement to reporters as
he received an opinion from Corp
Grafton Counsel Vernon E. West
that the health officer is acting
within his rights in withholding
from Freedmen's Hospital the pay
ments which the city makes toward
the care of the 10 patients.
'If Freedmen's Hospital permits
these patients to remain in the
hospital =, these patients be-
come the responsibility of the hos
pital and not of the District Mr..
West wrote.
His opinion, which did not touch
on the question of whether the Dis
trict can use police authority to
move the 10 colored women, was
approved by the city heads.
The Corporation Counsel's Office
was asked yesterday by DR.. Rutland
whether the city would be within it's
rights in forcibly transferring the
patients to Glenn Dale.
In his opinion on the question
of the Districts right to discontinue
its payments for the 10 patients,
Mr.. West called attention to a
ruling by his Office last October 81,
which read in part:
There is no legal obligation upon
the District to send any INDECENT
patient to Freedmen's Hospital, and
it's only responsibility is for those
INDECENT patients it does authorize
Freedmen's to accept at District
expense"
Refused to Enter Ambulances.
The patients in question, whose
removal to Glenn Dale was ordered
because OF lack of municipal funds
to continue payments for them re-
fused Wednesday to get into two
ambulances sent to Freedmen's to
pick them up.
DIR. Rutland at first proposed to
send the ambulances back to Freed
mems with a policeman in each car
to see that the transfer was effected,
he told a reporter yesterday.
Mr.. West advised him at that time
to take no further action toward
removing the patients until the Cor
poration Counsels Office had time
to study the legal aspects of the
problem which he said involved the
possibility of suit against the Dis
trict for false arrest or false i'm
prisonment.
Evening star., 1948-04-02
Virginia Court 10 Hear Plea
OF 0usted School Board

The Virginia Supreme Court of
Appeals has agreed to hear a suit
by the former Arlington County
School Board which challenges the
validity of the act under which the
incumbent board was elected last
November.
The appeal was carried up from
the Arlington Circuit Court, where
Judge j. Garland Jefferson. acting
for Judge Walter T. Mccarthy, de-
MED the former boards challenge
that the law is unconstitutional
The appeals court has granted q
writ Of error In the case.
Evening star., 1948-04-02
5 Sidewalk Photographers
Arrested at White House

Police arrested six sidewalk pho
tographers today in front of the
White House.
The men were taken to the third
precinct, where it was said they
would be charged with "incommod-
ing the sidewalk" and directed to
post $40 each as collateral.
The photographers did brisk
trade with tourists before police re-
ceived complaint that the con-
centration of cameramen was OBJ
structing pedestrian traffic.