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Evening star., 1948-04-18
Rookie Policeman Quits Force:
Won't Gamble for Evidence

what it is, Inspector Truscott rea-
soned with Pvt. Hart. protesting
his gambling" would be of the legal
variety. But the 22-year-old colored
rookie held fast. announcing he
would design unless he was given
some other assignment.
Inspector Truscott said he would
regard the rookie as on leave in
case he should change his mind.
Pvt. Hart. who lives at 1920 Port
ner street NV, said he was going
to the Internal Revenue Bureau
tomorrow and ask for the messen-
ger job which he left to become
one of SO rockies out of 900 candi-
dates to be certified for the de-
partment.
That failing. he will return to
his home in Uniontown, Pa. where
his parents, four sisters and five
brothers live, and where he once
worked as a hotel porter.
With Pvt. Hart 1t is principle.
Evening star., 1948-04-18
Falls Kill Four
And Injuries 49
During Week

Falls again led the list of accidents
reported last week by the District
Red Cross Accident Prevention
Service.
Forty-nine persons who fell in
their homes went to hospitals for
treatment, and four others were
injured fatally.
A 41-year-old man fell down
stairs, dislocating a shoulder. An
other man fell into his bathtub
and fractured two ribs. Other in
juries from falls included two
sprained ankles. two fractured COL
larbones, a broken ankle and a
broken arm.
A broken toe was suffered by a
young woman who kicked chair,
and two youngsters who fell out of
bed were bruised.
Most unusual of the weeks &C
cidens occurred when a man clean
ing his teeth splashed tooth pow
der in his eye, causing an irrita-
tiOn.
Evening star., 1948-04-18
U. 5. Red Cross Earmarks
$4,000 for Boqota Relief

The American Red Cross an
nounced last night it is making
available $4,000 in disaster relief
funds for injured and homeless in
riot-torn Bogota.
The fund will be administered by
the Colombian Red Cross. under the
supervision of two American Red
Gross officials who were sent there
last week. They are Maurice R.
Reddy, 3713 S street NV. assistant
administrator of the disaster relief
service at national headquarters,
and H. E. Russell, director of ARC
operations in the Caribbean area.
Evening star., 1948-04-18
Episcopal Convocation
Scheduled for Wednesday

The Rev. Guy D. Christian, rec
tor of King and Queen parish, ST.
Marys County, has announced that
the Southern Convocation Of the
Diocese of Washington will be held
Wednesday at Christ Church, Chap
tico.
Holy communion will be celebrated
at 10 am. with the Rev. H. c.
Parkman as celebrant and the Right
Rev. Angus Dun, Bishop of Wash
ington, preacher
A business session and election of
officers will follow at 1880 am.
Evangelism" will be discussed at
the afternoon session.
Evening star., 1948-04-18
Public Hearing Slated
On District Budget;
Closed Session 10 End

Closed hearings on the s102, ,000, 900
District budget will be completed
tomorrow by the House Appropria-
tions subcommittee to make way for
one-day public hearing at 10 am.
Tuesday.
Representative Horan, Republican
of Washington, chairman of the
subcommittee handling the city sup
ply BILL tomorrow will consider esti-
mates for the National Capital
Park and Planning Commission, the
Office of National Capital Parks and
the Zoo.
Many Ask to Be Heard.
Many citizens have requested to
be heard on a variety of subjects at
the public session Tuesday. After
this, Mr.. Koran plans to go to work
with his subcommittee to make up
the city money bill for a report to
the full House Appropriations Com
mittee.
AS it now stands the budget is
more than S6,000.000 more than the
funds that will be available Mr..
Koran is expected to renew his
opinion in his report that sales
tax is needed to balance the budget.
This proposal was formally sub
mitted to him in the budget itself
as it came from the District Com
missioners.
Tax Hearings to Come Later.
The problem of city revenue is
not in Mr., Horan's hands, but is
the responsibility Of the fiscal sub
committee of the House District
Committee. Hearings already have
been held jointly by the House and
Senate District fiscal subcommit-
tees on revenue needs. These units
will begin consideration of their
problem later. No date has been
fixed as yet, however, for the ses-
sions.
The proposed sales tax is one of
the most controversial issues now
before District leaders in Congress.
It is sure to be strongly recon-
mended by several influential city
organizations, backing up the Dis
trict Commissioners. On the other
hand. considerable opposition has
been raised to the levy, especially
from organized labor, and from
members of Congress, who contend
it is a burden on low-income fami-
lies
Evening star., 1948-04-18
Planes, Dogs Hunt Pai|
Who Took $3.50,
.S|ugged Be|voir MP

Airplanes and bloodhounds yes
terday joined Fort Belvoir soldiers
in a search for two masked bandits
who slugged a military police
sergeant and ESCAPED with $3.50
from Fort Belvior's post exchange.
Maj. Howard Batson. provost
marshal at the fort, said the rob-
berry occurred about midnight Fri
day as the sergeant and civilian
employe were depositing IL bags
of PIX receipts in the night deposi-
tory. ....~q ...f.-.A
The civilian had deposited some
of the bags and the guard was
standing by when the two masked
men crept up behind the guard,
hit him over the head and dragged
him around the corner of the build
ing, the provost marshall said.
The men, he said, then pushed
the civilian aside, snatched the re-
manning bags and fled. A guard
stationed within the building heard
the disturbance, fired several shots
at the bandits and raised the alarm.
Maj Batson said a Gordon of mil
itary police was thrown around the
post within Is minutes. All cars
leaving the post were searched:
Virginia State police were alerted
and men walking on the grounds
were questioned.
Bloodhounds were borrowed from
Lorton Reformatory to join the
search. Airplanes from a small field
at Fort Belvoir flew low over the
Potomac River on the chance the
men had escaped by boat.
Later yesterday, Major Batson
said, military police searched un-
occupied buildings and patrolled all
post roads.
The officer said neither the guard
nor the civilian was able to give a
detailed description of their assail-
ants. The guard suffered several
knots on his head but was not ser
inllSly iniured Mai RatSOn said
Evening star., 1948-04-18
Cream PriceCut
Affecting D. {.
MAIDEN Virginia
Maryland Also to
Reop Benefit Of
1-2c-o-Pint Reduction
By Robert G.. Rollinqs

The retail price of cream will be
reduced in the Washington area
this week as the result of an order
issued yesterday by the Virginia
State Milk Commission.
Although the order has legal effect
in Virginia only. producers and dis
tributors will maintain a uniform
price throughout the Metropolitan
area under existing regulations.
At the same time, the Virginia
commission refused request OF the
Safeway Stores to reduce the price
of homogenized vitamin D milk.
Price Cuts Listed.
Under the commission order,
minimum retail prices or cream
will be reduced. effective Wednes-
day, as follows:
Light cream containing from
18 to % per cent buttertat, cents
gallon, cents a quart, l cent q
pint and 4 cent half pint.
Heavy or whipping cream (con-
tanning from SO to SO per cent
butterfab, Is cents a gallon. 4
cents a quart, 2 cents pint and
cent a half pint.
Grew Out of Hearing.
A milk commission hearing in
Alexandria April on request
of the Maryland and Virginia Milk
Producers Association for a reduce
tion in the price of class 2 milk.
from which cream and cottage
cheese are derived, resulted in the
cuts.
Bruce B. Derrick, secretary treas
urer of the producers association,
said he had not received copy
of the commission's order, but that
the reductions to distributors would
be placed in effect on the effective
Gate of the order.
Herman A. Schulteis, vice presi-
dent of the Chestnut Farms-C Chevy
Chase Dairy, said the retail price
cuts in Virginia would be effective
with the date specified in the order
and in the rest of the Washington
area after being granted by the
producers
Cottage Cheese Cut Awaits Study.
Whether cottage cheese prices
will be cut awaits the outcome of
computation of manufacturing cost
formulas, it was learned. One large
distributor doubted that the retail
cost would be affected to any great
extent, however.
Minimum prices are not set on
cottage cheese by the Virginia COM
mission.
At the Alexandria hearing, James
E. Click of the producers associa-
ton, said the proposed reductions
would put Glass milk on a COM
petitive basis with comparable milk
or cream products shipped into the
area.
Time Period Not Specified.
Although the association asked
that the reductions be limited to the
of May, June and July, the
commission did not specify any
time period in its order.
Sideways request, the subject Of
a hearing in Richmond, March 10,
was opposed by three Washington
area dairies. The commission an
nounced that it reached its decision
after full consideration of all
phases of the price structure in the
Arlington Alexandria area"
Evening star., 1948-04-18
Mrs. BeIen Elected Head
Of Women legislators

Mrs. Elizabeth L. Belen of Lam
sing. Mich, was elected president of
the National Order of Women Leg
lslators at the organizations con-
vention yesterday at the Washing
ton Hotel.
A former member of the Michi-
gan House of Representatives, Mrs.
Belen served as a Michigan COM
missioner of labor and industry in
l941 and 1912. and is former vice
chairman of the Democratic State
Central Committee.
The women legislators organiza-
ton. composed of 200 present and
past members of Al state legisla-
lures, was founded in 1888 in Wash
ington.
Evening star., 1948-04-18
New Navy JET Fighter
To Be Made at Dallas
By the Associated Press

Production of the Navy's new Jet
fighter plane, the F.6U-1 Pirate, is
to be started soon at Dallas, Tex,
the Navy announced yesterday.
The Navy Bureau of Aeronautlcs
said that the Chance Vought divi-
sion of the United Aircraft Corp.
has been authorized to take over
Plant B OF the naval industrial re-
serve at Dallas, May /, 1948.
Chance Vought has been produc-
ing the jet fighters on an expert
mental basis at its plant in STRAIT
ford, Conn.
The switch to Dallas, the Navy
said, is in line with the national de-
fense policy of locating vital plants
in interior areas.
Evening star., 1948-04-18
Citizens Urge
Restoration OF
Bus Service
Cancellation of Cuts
Made After Wage Rise
Asked by Federation

The Federation of Citizens Asso-
Citations last night asked that the
Capital Transit Co. restore all bus
service that had been curtailed in
recent months following wage in
crease to transit employees.
The resolution was presented by
the public utilities committee OF the
federation, which is headed by Milo
H. Brinkley. 1t pointed out that
the transit company made some cuts
in bus service following the wage in
crease in January.
In another resolution affecting the
transit company, the federation
asked the queue loading be estab-
llshed at the transfer point at Fifth
and Gallatin streets. NV.
Approve Youth Resolutions.
The federation also approved three
resolutions offered by DR.. M. Virginia
O'Neil of the committee on youth
problems, which asked:
ID That the program of foster
home care of children be improved
and extended by seeking more
funds for the Welfare Department
for that work.
(See page Al for story on
the situation facing the Welfare
Department in trying to carry
out this type of work. DR..
O'Neil presented similar facts
as carried in the page one story
in supporting her resolutiono
20 That an educational program
be made available for the increas-
ing number of children at the Re-
ceiving Home.
90 That the city look toward
establishment of study homes" for
mentally disturbed children where
they can be studied and treated.
Separate Hospital Department.
Mrs. Ernest w. Howard. chair
man of the Welfare Committee
presented a report in which her
committee recommended that a
separate Department OF Hospitals
be established, directly responsible
to the Commissioners, to administer
the municipal hospitals, thus TAX
ing the responsibility from the
Health Department. This matter
was referred to the federation's S
Health Committee for a recommen-
dation and the group will vote on
it when that report is made.
The group voted to send a letter
to all member associations advising
them that when they start Japa-
nese beetle control campaigns they
should make sure the chemical used
for spraying is manufactured by
a producer who has been licensed
by the Agriculture Department. BY
using milky disease spore dust
manufactured by an approved
plant, the best results are obtained,
it was said.
Evening star., 1948-04-18
Joseph lipscomb 10 Sing
Al Church Here Tomorrow

A concert by Joseph Lipscomb,
tenor, will be given at $50 pm
tomorrow at the Asbury Methodist
Church, Eleventh and K streets NV
The recital. featuring operate
selections and spirituals, will be
sponsored by the Mount Hope Bap-
tist Church, Brook. Va. The pro-
ceeds will be used to augment the
churchs repair fund.
Mr.. Lipscomb, who is studying at
the Julliard School of Music, New
York, and singing with a Phila-
delphia opera company, appeared at
the Watergate in La Traviata' in
1916.
He will be accompanied by Miss
Frances Walker, Washington
resident now studying piano in New
York.
Evening star., 1948-04-18
Typinq Course Offered

An adult class in tipping will be-
gin at 7:30 pm. Tuesday at Mont
gomery Blair High School, Silver
Spring. Registration will be held
Tuesday. Thursday and April 81
with enrolment to be limited to sc
persons, according to Mrs. Jane H
Lear, who will be in charge.
Evening star., 1948-04-18
O'BoyIe Reception Is Sci
By Catholic Duuqhters

A reception in honor Of the Most
Rev. Patrick A. O'Boyle, Archbishop
of Washington, will be held from
4:30 to 7 pm. today by Court Dis
trict of Columbia No. 2l2 of the
Catholic Daughters of America, at
the clubhouse at Scott Circle.
Greetings will be extended by Mrs.
Ileene D. Fisher, grand regent; Miss
GeneVieve Sweeney, territorial
deputy; Miss Augusta L. Uhl, presi-
dent of Court District of Columbia
Club: Miss Florence M. Winter, ma
tional lay director of the Convert
League. and the Right Rev. Msgr.
John K. Cartwright, chaplain OF
Court No. 212. All members OF the
court are invited.
Evening star., 1948-04-18
Patent Office Will Honor
War Dead With Plaque

A plaque honoring Patent Office
employees who lost their lives In
World War, II will be dedicated
at 8 pm. Tuesday in the Commerce
Department Auditorium.
Commissioner of Patents Lawrence
C. Kingsland will speak. The Patent
Office orchestra will play and
guard of honor will be provided by
The American Legion.
Evening star., 1948-04-18
Workshop Registration Set

The Washington Workshop CO.
operative, 1920 Massachusetts, ave-
nue. NV, announced yesterday that
registration for its spring semester
will begin tomorrow. Glasses will
run from April 26 through July 2
and cover painting. sculpture, writ
ing, photography, music apprecia-
ton, drama, dance and radio acting
and writing.
Evening star., 1948-04-18
Admiral Connolly Gets
Leqion of Honor Medal
BY the Assoeioted Press

Admiral Richard L. Conolly Com
mander-in- Chief of United States
Naval Forces, Eastern Atlantic and
Mediterranean area, has been
awarded the Cross of Commander
Legion of Honor, French decora-
ton, the Navy said yesterday.
Admiral Conolly. whose home is
in Waukegan. ILL.,, received the dec
Grafton Friday in a ceremony in
Paris attended by French govern
ment officials and United States
Ambassador jefferson Caffery.
At the same time, the Navy said,
Capt. Francois c. B. Jordan OF An
napolis, Md. was made a Chevalier
Of the Legion Of Heqor.
Evening star., 1948-04-18
Man, 40, Killed by Blow
With Pitcher One Held

A blow over the head with an
earthenware water pitcher last
night killed Fred Rivers, 40. COL
ored, of the 400 block of L street
NV. A fellow roomer was held
for the action of the coroner.
Oscar E. Williams, 80, colored, of
the same address was arrested.
Williams told the Homicide SQUAD
that he and Mr.. Rivers had been
friends for some time but had got
into an. argument. Williams said
Mr.. Rivers cut him with a knife.
An inquest will be held tomorrow.
Evening star., 1948-04-18
Mrs. Benjomin Marsh
Wins Divorce in Reno

Mrs. Eleanor Marsh, wife of Ben
jamin C. Marsh, secretary OF the
Peoples Lobby here, obtained a
divorce yesterday in Reno, the AS
sociated Press reported.
The divorce was granted on
grounds of three years separation,
according to the reports, which said
the couple was married in New
York in 1916. Mr.. Marsh's age was
given as IL.
Mr.. Marsh's address here is listed
as 810 F street NV. the address of
the Office Of the lobby.
Evening star., 1948-04-18
Nurse Joins Army Corps

Miss Eleanor Jeffries. 1907 Con-
necticut avenue NV. who recently
graduated as nurse from Della
ware Hospital at Wilmington, has
Joined the Army Nurse Corps and
soon will enter active duty. A
graduate of Woodrow Wilson High
School here, she is living with her
mother, Mrs. Charles E. Booth.
Evening star., 1948-04-18

- O u . z II Z
wouldn't p | a Y
the numbers.
Rather than
violate his own
moral c o d e
about the evils
of g a m b Ii n 6,
Rookie Police
man John w.
Hart told Asst.
P olice S u p t.
Floyd Truscott
that he was re-
signing. His con-
science wouldn t
condone gambl-
ing, even when
Evening star., 1948-04-18

The police. who spend much of
their time persuading citizens not
to play the numbers, yesterday lost
a member of their own force be-
Evening star., 1948-04-18
Gronqe Plans Dance

The Liberty Grove. Grange win
give a show and dance at $3.50 pm.
Thursday In the Silver Spring
Armory. =
Evening star., 1948-04-18

ing, eVtN WIItH
it was for gathering evidence for
the vice squad.
The shortage OF policemen being
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-01-22
Grain for Liquor
Washington Post)


 Secretary Andersons decision to allocate limited amounts of grain liquor manufacture during Janu ary represents compromise between the demands of the distlers and the demands for food conservation We still feel that in view of the continuing critical need for grain feed hungry people abroad it would have been better to continue the distery shutdown through January especially since would have caused the liquor industry real injury It is certainly true however that the 2450OOO bushel limit decreed by MT Anderson is a material saving over the 8584OO0 bushels consumed last January and the 8,l64OOO bushels used during the wild period in October before the voluntary shutdown took effect.
 Now the principal concern is that the allocations be equitable MT. Anderson has rightly included in alocatons all grain used by distuers since the vol untary shutdown ended December 24 That IS only fair to the public-sprted members of the industry who observed the request to continue the suspension during the last week of December the difficulty that some dstilers who ignored the request may already have exceeded their January allocaton. That gram of course, cannot be recaptured.
 As for the formula itself it appears to favor old line producers unduly. In effect, moreover 1t sanc- ons the hoarding of grain, since 1t IS not flgured on actual production but rather the amount of grain purchased Although the small independents are pro- tected by special minimum aocations, the net result of the formula to discriminate against the lntro- ducton of new competition into the industry fairer procedure for future We believe would be che based on sales during free period While this would not recognize fully the problem of the newer entrants in the field it would have the advantage of making the public, through Its purchases the ulIhaIe determiner of aocations
 This procedure already has been considered by Secretary Anderson and hope that it will be impenented if as he thinks probable regulation will be necessary long period. If such need maerializes Congress will do well to extend allocaon to include all users of grain.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-01-22
Chicken Back to Roost
(Cincinnati Enquirerl

The piecemeal revelation of grain spectators finally has yielded another name two identifiable with national politics-Brig Gen Wallace H Graham personal physician of President Truman and Gov. H B. Nav if Utah, although it is straining the phrase to say that the latter is national political figure.
 Governor Nav promptly countered with a state ment that he had participated in market trading on and the last 20 years" And President Trumans physician described his involvement in grain futures trading as the activity of a broker to whom he had given money for investment. conending that he had ordered his holdings disposed of when he discovered that he among the grain traders denounced en masse by the President
 Our feeling from the outset could be expressed in the title of Sharkespearean play Much Ado About Nothing. The limitations and expectations of this investigation have far exceeded the developments In the first place President Truman greatly magnified the supposed evils of grain speculation, taking little or no of the fact that trading in futures has legitimate economic function just does trading in stocks and bonds. Then all of the dark ntimations from Harold Stassen and the mysterious backing and filling on part of Secretary of Agriculture Ander son led folks to suppose that all branches of the government might be infested with grain traders benefiting by inside information"
 This mystery drama has taken something of the aspect of a soap opera--nothing much has hap pened but it's seemed if something might happen the next day.
 Aside from Ed Pauley, whose reputation for f- nancial shenanigans fairly well established before hand the investigation has not embraced any prom- nent political figure Certainly it has not borne out any suspicious that members of Congress or of the administrative branch generally have been traffckng in grain the strength Of official connections And we don't attach too much sinister importance the involvement of Dr. Graham-although in view of Presi dent Truman's rather vehement remarks on the sub- ject, this either bit of irony or of poetic justice.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-01-22

sweep of Communism, It has given Moscow a definite setback in France and Italy and sent the polituuro scurrying around to find new victories in Greece, Aus tria and perhaps Czechoslovakia.
 The Marshall Plan has gwen great encouragement to a demo- cratic Western Europe. But the hig question is: Does it go far enough?
 My own conclusion is that 1t does not go far enough, and that Europe will never get permanent ly back on her feet until the arti- tlcial barriers which break Flu rope up in petty pools of poten- tial hate are flattened out. In other words, there has got to be United States of Europe.
 And the biggest mistake was not to tie up the United States of Europe with the Marshall Plan.
 There is still time to do this. Already France and Italy have started to discuss tariff barriers and mutual economic problems.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-01-22
Honor Roll
 Turns Berlin
 Red in F Fate

BERLIN - 4 red-faced city gov errment recently discovered that the list Of Berlin's honorary citi- zens" still bears the names of Adolf Hitler, Hermann Goering, Jo- sef Goebbels and a number of other leading Nazis.
 An immediate purge was order ed which will also include the restoration of honorary citizenship to persons from whom 1t was with drawn during the Nazi era on rac- ial or political grounds.
 The only person to whom hon. crary citizenship has been grant, ed in Berlin since the war is the white haired, septuganarian Will helm Pieck, Germanys No. l Com muniSt and co-chairman of the Russian. sponsored German socialist Unity party.
 Pieck was made "Ehrenburger' by the ist-controlled city government which was installed by the Russians when they were sole occupiers of the city and which was swept out of office when Berlin held its first postwar election on October 20, 1946.