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Evening star., 1948-11-08
Talks With His Aides
Soon Will Interrupt
Truman S Vacation
BY Joseph A. Fox
Stor Stoh Correspondent


KEY WEST, Fla, Nov. g.
President Truman today started
his two-week vacation here with
prospects that the rest he is TAX
ing from the rigors of a 36-State
campaign will be broken by q
dash of business without too
much delay.
Ensconsed in the Little White
House" where he has been dom
iciled on previous visits to this trop-
ical spot. the President, who few
in late yesterday from Washington,
planned to swim and loaf today in
the first real break he has had from
the cares of office-and Office
seeking-since his March visit.
Tomorrow or Wednesday, however,
he expects to receive his Vice Pres
ident-elect, Senator Barkley of Ken
lucky, and shortly, too, Senator
McGrath of Rhode Island, chairman
OF the Democratic National Com
mittee, will be coming down. 1t goes
without saying that administration
policies after January 30, when the
new Presidential term begins, will
be discussed, even though the two
key Democrats repeatedly are doing
no more than accepting the Pres
ldent's invitation to vacation here.
Silent on Rayburn.
Asked about the possibility that
Representative Rayburn of Texas,
the prospective speaker, would drop
down, Eben Ayers, acting White
House press secretary, said he did
not know.
Undoubtedly, however, if Mr.. Tru-
man feels it advisable to call in
other Congressional leaders they
will be brought in.
The President landed at Boca
Chica airport, which serves Kew
West, at $50 pm. yesterday, about
seven hours out Of Washington. En-
route he stopped at Cherry Point,
the Marine base in North Carolina.
and motored 20 miles to Newbern
to attend services at the First Bap-
tlst Church.
Base HOnOrS President.
When the Presidential plane In
dependence dropped down Mr.. Tru-
man was greeted by Capt. C. C.
Adell, comn1andant of the Kew West
base, ard other officers, and then
headed a motorcade for the 9-mile
drive to the base. The force at
the base rendered customary hon.
ors as the President drove up. and
he went Immediately to his quar-
terS.
Key West, as usual turned out in
force to greet the President, the
favorite vacationeT of the natives
here, who have been his hosts on
several previous occasions. A couple
!ot bands were on hand, and the
Missouri Waltz" of course, was in
cluded in the repertoire. The Pres
ldentlal motorcade moved over Di-
vision street, which shortly is to
be come Truman avenue.
The Newbern stop, to attend divine
service, was made in pursuance to
a promise given by the President
Last September to the FIRST Baptist
pastor, the Rev. Thomas w. Fryer.
DR.. Fryer, 40-year-old, 200
FOUNDER who used to plav football
warned in his sermon that the
Nation is moving toward "devasta-
ting paganism" unless it attempts
to cure the materialism that infects
the social structure
Evening star., 1948-11-08
Skidding Car Hits Pole,
|njuring -Four Virginia
Students Critically

A student at Virginia finishing
school is in critical condition at
Emergency Hospital today with a
skull fracture suffered in an auto
crash which injured three other
young people early Sunday.
The injured student is Miss Mary
Kulzer of Daytona Beach, Fla, q
student at Fairfax Hall, Waynes-
boro, Va. A schoolmate, Miss Ann
Sancken, 18, Of Augusta, Ga, suf-
fered a broken ankle and head cuts
The girls were riding with Calvin
C. Cole, II, of 116 Hesketh street
Chevy Chase, Md, football captain
at Fishburne Military Academy
Waynesborc, and Jack Garst, II, of
Bonneville, Va. teammate.
Their car skidded on wet paving
and struck tree on Sixteenth street
near Colorado avenue NV.
AS the result of another accident
late Saturday. James Smothers, so,
of 523 Second street NV, is in
Gallinger Hospital with severe head
injuries.
! Mr.. Smothers was struck by a
taXicab at Third street and Wash
ington drive NV.
Driver of the cab was Edgar H.
Myers, 43. of 1718 E street Sc,
police reported.
Evening star., 1948-11-08
Desire 10 Entertain Blamed
In Woman's S S34,479 Theft
Rx the Associated Press

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. ga blond
$4c-a-Week novelty shop worker
accused of embezzling $34.479 from
her employer over the last two
years told police she took the money
because she liked to entertain.
Il like this way of living, and I
couldn't do it on $40 a week." de-
tectives quoted 3l-year-old Mrs
Helen Morganstein as saying yester-
day when she was arrested in her
I well-furnished apartment.
She was charged with embezzling
the money from Brantz Co., dealers
in novelties and toys.
Detectives said the woman told
them she spent most of the money
entert: ming friends at New York
thecte"s and on trips to Atlantic
C't' End oti'er resorts.
Mrs. Mcrganstein told detectives
Ter husband. Louis, knew nothing of
he" biriness activities.
"Iouis is innccent" detectives
quoted he" as saying. He never
questioned me in connection with
my expenditures and never knew a
thing about it
She said her husband is now
working in another city as a shoe
salesman.
Evening star., 1948-11-08
Mrs. Henrietta Drum, so,
Formerly Of D. E., Dies.

Mrs. Henrietta Eskey Drum. SO
former Washington resident. died
early today in ST. Joseph's Hospital
Pittsburgh, after long illness.
She was the sister of Arthur I,
Eskey, executive of the Chesapeake
q Potomac Telephone Co. here. anc
until recently she had lived with hin
at the Westchester Apartments
Since that time she had lived ir
Eustls, Fla, and Pittsburgh. which
was her home until the death OF
her husband, Clyde A. Drum. ir
l94l. Mr.. Drum was a Pittsburgh
building contractor. Mrs. Drum
was born near Wheeling, w. Va.
! In addition to her brother here
she is survived by a daughter, Mrs
Howard E. Rice. of Eustis; two
brothers in Pittsburgh. DR.. w. w
EsSey and DR.. E E. Eskey. and a
granddaughter.
Funeral and burial services wi,
| De held in Pittsburgh Wednesday
Evening star., 1948-11-08
Record Student Group
Visits WILLIAMSBURG
BY the Assoeiated Press

WILLIAMSBURG. Va, Nov. g.
Colonial Williamsburg, laboratory of
early American history, opened its
annual winter session" for student
tours with a record attendance last
week, officials announced.
Since last Monday when the an
nual special arrangements for stu
dent groups went into effect, 1900
children from 80 schools visited the
restored area to supplement their
classroom study of American history.
The special arrangements for
school tours here started November
l and continue through March. More
attention can be devoted to school
groups during this period
Evening star., 1948-11-08
Philadelphia Bandits SIay
NewsdeaIer's S Wife in Bed
BY the Assoeioted Press

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. ga hand.
kerchief dropped by, one of two
bandits was the only tangible clue
police said they had today in the
murder of a newsdealer's wife.
The woman. Mrs. Helen Pietrzak
81, was shot to death in her Ken
sington home yesterday after the
bandits had truSsed her and her
husband, Theodore, IS, in their
bed with a clothesline
Sergt Samuel Riccardi of the
homicide squad said Mr.. Pietrzak
escaped the killers bullets only
by feigning death. The first OF
three shots fired by one of the
bandits from a .38 caliber pistol
apparently was meant for Mr.
Pietrzak, Sergt. Riccardi said.
The shot, however, missed Mr.
Pietrzak's head and plowed through
the top OF the bed His hands and
feet tied, Mr.. Pietrzak lunged to
the floor and rolled under the bed
Detectives said either of the two
bullets fired at Mrs. Pietrzak, both
of which struck her in the head
could have caused death.
Detectives said the slayers es-
capped with $500 in cash. Mr.. Pietr-
zak had brought the money home
after closing his newsstand late
Saturday night.
Evening star., 1948-11-08
Woman Quizzed in Knitting
OF Soldiers Home EmpIoye

A middle-aged woman in whose
apartment police said they found q
bloodstained knife was being ques-
toned today at the Second Police
Precinct in connection with the stab
hing Saturday night of Orville A
Lamb, A, an employe of the Soldiers
Home.
Lamb, who is in a serious condi-
tion at Emergency Hospital with q
knife wound in his chest, told sew
eral stories about how he was
wounded, police said, but at first in
sisted he had been stabbed by man
When the seriousness of his condi-
ton was impressed upon him, police
said, Lamb told them his aSsailant
was woman.
Lamb was found bleeding on the
street. Police said they found blood
stains in the womans apartment in
the 1900 block of N street NV.
Evening star., 1948-11-08
Grand Jury Ordered
To Investigate Gaming
In InMontgomeyCounty

Calling for a careful investiga-
ton of Montgomery County crime,
Judge Stedman Prescott today de-
clared that gambling, vice and
other crimes cannot go on without
the knowledge of some members of
a community.
Judge Prescott's statement came
during his charge to the % grand
jurors selected at the opening of
the November term of Montgomery
County Circuit Court in Rockville.
1t followed by two days a series
of gambling raids in which IA per-
sons were arrested.
Montgomery County is an area
OF approximately SIT square miles, -
Judge Prescott said. I'VE believe
that the county has a competent
police force, but they do not num-
Der as many as in one precinct in
city as large as Washington. The
police cannot know everything that
goes on.
You will notice that members of
the grand jury are called from
every nook and Granny of the
county. Its members are familiar
with general conditions. It is not
only the privilege, but the duty of
the grand jury to bring to light the
commission of any Crime. If this
Is done our county will be kept
clean.
Gambling, vice and the commits
sion OF crime cannot 90 on unless
some members of society know about
It. II grand jurors will perform their
duties we can help remove it and
keep Montgomery clean.
of course these is bound to he
some seepage over from a metropol-
itan city. but we can work to hold
it down."
Frederic L. Thomas, Sandy Spring
banker, was appointed grand Jury
foreman.
States Attorney Walter w. Daw-
son said approximately 40 present.
mentS were to be considered.
Evening star., 1948-11-08
Woman, 90, Leaves Stote
For First Time in Plane

Mrs. Rebecea L. Jameson, 90, OF
Baltimore left Maryland for the
first time in her life yesterday.
Accompanied by her grandson
she boarded TWA plane at Ma
tional Airport here for Kansas City
where she will max her home.
Mrs. Jameson has one grandchild
three great grandchildren and four
great, great grandchildren.
Evening star., 1948-11-08
Patriotic Groups Plan
Programs 10 Mark
Armistice Day Here

veteran and other patriotic Or
ganizations will take the lead in
sponsoring Armistice Day observ-
ances Thursday commemorating
the American serviceman who died
in World War I.
Federal and District employees
will be dismissed for the legal holi-
day, but the Merchants and Manu-
facturers' Association announced
that all stores will remain open
Coal dealers AFFILIATED withthe as
sociation will close Thursday noon
if the weather is mild,
All District public schools will en-
joy holidays Thursday and Friday
Elementary and secondary Catholic
parochial schools in the District will
close Thursday only.
National Commander Perry
Brown of Beaumont, Tex. will be
the speaker at the annual observ-
ance of the American Legion at the
tomb of the Unknown Soldier in
Arlington Cemetery. Mr.. Brown will
speak in the amphitheatre after a
service at II am. at the Tomb
Wreaths will be placed.
Interior Rites Planned.
Others on the program will in
clude Mrs. Hubert Goode of Port
land, Greg, national president OF
the American Legion Auxiliary
and District Department Com
mander David Kisliuk
Armistice Day rites in honor of
the 153 Department of Interior en-
ployes who were killed in World
War will be held at II am. Thurs
day by American Legion Post No,
So IN the auditorium of the Interior
Building New officers of the In
terror Department Post will be in
stalled at 8 pm, at the clubhouse
of the District Department of the
legion, 2437 Fifteenth street NV.
Lee r. Pennington, past depart
ment commander, and administra-
tive assistant to ]. Edgar Hoover,
director of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation, will be the speaker at
Armistice Day ceremonies to be held
by the Cissell-Saxon Post, American
Legion, at 10 am. at Montgomery
Blair Senior High School. Silver
Spring. The post will hear Col
Melvin J. Mas, former Representa-
tive from Minnesota, at II am. at
the armory.
KensingtOn Dedication.
Kensington residents will dedicate
"a monument honoring men and
women from the town who served in
the armed forces at pm. Thursday
Brig. Gen. Eugene M. Foster, as
sistant chief of finance for the Army
will speak at the services. w. A.
Rogers of Kensington is chairman
Of the War Memorial Committee.
Public schools in Alexandria City,
Arlington and Fairfax Counties will
be closed on Armistlce Day. Mont
gomery County schools will be open.
while in Prince Georges the indivi-
dual principals will decide whether
to close their schools.
An Armistice Day ball will be held
at the Wardman Park Hotel by
the National Honor Guard, Vet
Grams of Foreign Wars, at 10 am
Wednesday. A feature of the affair
will be the crowning of Miss Jody
Miller, Miss Washington of 194S. as
queen of the ball.
Evening star., 1948-11-08
5000 jap Workers Call
On Cabinet to Resion
BY the Associated Press

TOKYO, Nov. 8.-An estimated
5000 government workers today de-
manded the immediate resignation
of the cabinet.
The union men accused the cabi-
net OF thinking only of party bene-
fits.
The government workers demand
ed wage of 1900 yen a month.
Evening star., 1948-11-08
Dance for Civilization

CHALK, England P.-The Rev
A. w. w. Bowman quipped in hi!
parish magazine: "A new dance i!
being introduced in which one ster
is forward and then two backward
Probably it goes with the latest sone
Civilization
Evening star., 1948-11-08
West Central Plant
Ready TO Help Heat
$50 u. ). BUILDINGS

The Federal Governments new
West Central Heating Plant
Twenty-Ninth and K streets NV.
is standing by to deliver a bods
blow to Jack Frost when winter
really comes.
Apart from a few tests yet to bt
completed and the ironing out Of
bugs in the system, the plant
now is in full operation. Engineers
say it is the most modern of it,
kind in America.
1t will supplement the East Cen
trail Heating Plant at Twelfth anc
&C streets SW. The two plants
will heat $50 public buildings ir
various parts of the city.
Pro. ision is made for the new
General Accounting Office, soon tt
be built at Fifth and G streets NV.
the new Federal Courts Building tt
be erected at Constitution avenue
and John Marshall place NV. anc
the Pan American Annex, under
construction at Eighteenth street
and Virginia avenue NV. The Dis.
trict government also is served.
Has Two Boilers.
The superintendent of the West
Central Heating Plant is r. J
RicGev. mechanical engineer. 1t is
under the direction of Commissioners
of Public Buildings w. E. Reynolds
and tine Federal works administra-
tor. MAJ. Gen. Philip B. Fleming.
The giant $S,500O0O plant now
has two boilers. Ultimately, it will
have six. Bids now are being
called for two more boilers. These
will be opened in Room 1925, Fed
eral Works Building, Eighteenth and
F. streets NV. at pm, November
80. Later, the last two will be
installed.
The existing two boilers will be
able to carry the load through the
winter, Mr. Hickey said.
The East Central Heating Plant
now is taxed to capacity. It's
counterpart in Georgetown is taking
over part of the load. The new
plant will permit the old:r one to
have better maintenance pro
gram and perform repairs more
easily.
Water Is Filtered
The output of the new plant Is
100000 pounds of steam per hour for
each boiler. At peak capacity, it is
100000 pounds for a two-hour
period. When the weather is really
cold, in January. this full test will
be run. 1t will not be done before
because officials do not want to
waste steam and power.
Frederick Terman, chemical en-
gineer at the plant, said the water
lis filtered, softened and the all
taken out to eliminate the oxygen
that corrodes boilers. Every three
hours, samples of water going to
the boilers is taken. The water
from the boilers is tested twice a
day.
Treatment Of the water is con-
,tro!led by electric timing devices
Mr.. Terman explained. A chemical
laboratory in the plant will be fully
equipped shortly, according to pres
ent plans, so this type of work can
be done in the building.
The Bureau of Standards analyzes
the coal. The plant is equipped to
operate efficiently with the lowest
grade coal obtainable, Mr.. Hickey
said
He is proud of the latest electrical
and mechanical devices-no dust or
smoke nuisance to the neighborhood,
he insists.
Evening star., 1948-11-08
Moi. Curriker to Talk

WINCHESTER, Va. Nov. g. tspe-
ciaD Maj. E. I. Carriker of the
office of the Chief of Air Force
chaplains, will speak at II am Sun
day at the annual memorial service
of the Hoover-Kern Bible Glass OF
Market Street Methodist Church.
Evening star., 1948-11-08

The cars, trucks and buses in the
United States. about $4,000, 900, con-
tain more than 100000 gears
and other toothed elements.
Evening star., 1948-11-08

A covered bridge at Lucerne
Switzerland, built in 1888 is believed
10 be the Oldest such span still ex-
listing.
Evening star., 1948-11-08
FOUND,

BRACELET, silver link. with service in.
sigma vic. of Conn. ave. and M about
| 10 days ago. Owner call and identify.
SLIGO 2l36 between 9 and pm.
DOG. toy Manchester, female. Wa 4594.
TERRIER, male, white and tan; in North
Arlineton Call CHI. 1858.
F0UND-cocker spaniel puppy, vic. Hill
side Md. Call HI. 6342.
IRISH TERRIER. male: harness, no tai; ;
vic. Arlington. CHI. 3373.
THREE CATS. different breeds. in Va.
Call CHI. 4455 after 6.
Evening star., 1948-07-04
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Evening star., 1948-07-04
Use Of Lisner Is Urged
For Broadway Plays

The Council for Civil Rights In
the Nations Capital has addressed
an appeal to the president and
board of trustees of George WASH
ington University to make LisneH
Auditorium available for Broadway
plays this fall, it was announced
yesterday.
A letter signed by Miss Ida Fox,
executive secretary of the council,
pointed out that Washington viii
be without an adequate place fo1
booking regular theatrical produos
tiops this fall and that the univeyA
sity could ''f1ll the gap"
The National Theater has an
nounced it will show movies beginA
ming in September in view Of an
Actors Equity ban growing out a
the theater's policy of refusing ads
mittance to Negroes.
The Federal Works Administras
ton has under consideration bide
from the American National Theas
ter and Academy and from Josep6
w. Curtis of New York to lease shs
old Belasco Theater as legitimate
playhouse.
Miss Fox's letter declared there
has been a most capricious and dis.
criminatory application Of the reg
ulations governing use OF Lisnes
Auditorium as adopted by the board
of the university on February ID,
1947."
She charged that while some
outside organizations" were per.
mitted to use the auditorium. others
proposing programs of the same
nature were denied its use.
Evening star., 1948-07-04
helped by Capt. Robert V. Murray,

helped by Capt. Robert v. Murray,
assistant detective chief.
Inspector Bryant said all persons
involved in stabbings, cuttings and
other fights would be screened for
their knowledge Of the murder.
Hitch Hiker Is Sought.
Principal target of police was the
35-year-old man seen between 4:30
and 5 pm last Sunday thumbing a
ride at Fourteenth street and Park
road NV. He attracted a paSser-
by's attention because of blood on
his shirt and face.
Another object of the search was
three girls seen hurrying from the
park about $40 pm. Sunday. They
were using the same path over which
Carol had ridden earlier and talked
excitedly' of catching bus.
Inspector Bryant said he also was
seeking a car with Maryland
license on the report that the man
driver had been's seen frequently fol-
lowing young girls.
Reviewing futile week on the
murder case, Inspector Bryant said
police had questioned scores OF per-
sons who were never arrested. Many
of these persons had sent bloody
clothing to laundries and cleaning
shops. but each had satisfactory
explanation. he said
Evening star., 1948-07-04
Boy,.4, Fatally Hurt
When Hit by Auto

The Districts seth traffic death of
the year was recorded last night
when boy, 4, was struck by an auto
mobile.
The dead child was Warren Harris,
462 Clarks Court S.W.
Police said the driver Of the car
was Louis A. Cyr, 26, of rs Forester
street S.W. The police report said
the child was playing in the street
and added that Mr.. Cyr was being
held for action by the coroner.
A man and his wife were injured
last night when a Capital Transit
bus and an automobile were involved
in an accident at Twelfth and Mon
roe streets NE.
Mrs. Julia Card, 40, of 1909 Twenty
eighth street, Mount Rainier, was
admitted to Casualty Hospital after
the bus rammed into their car. &C
cording to police. Her husband,
William Card, was treated at the
hospital and released.
Police said that after the crash
Mr.. Cards car struck taxicab oper-
ated by Guy S. Ewall, 3704 Kennedy
place NV. The bus was operated
by Daniel Fenton, Route 2, Fairfax,
police said. No one on the bus or
IN the taxi was injured.