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The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-04-16
STRIKE ACTON OF CANkERY WORKERS
 TO BE CONSIDERED

SEATTLE, April 16.-tR-The GIG Cannery Workers Union, Local T today called special meeting fol Monday afternoon to consider strik, actior against the Alaska Salmon Industry.
 Union business agent Ernie Man gaoang said the meeting call was issued after the union negotiating committee walked out of industry offices here last night.
 We are not breaking off nego tiatiors because we have had nc negotiations to break off" he said
 He also reported that maritime unions which would be affected by strike had been invited to meet ing with the cannery workers to- morrow afternoon.
 w. c. Arnold, Manager of the AL aska Salmon Industry. issued a statement saying:
 officials of Local 2 have appar- ently lost control of the negotiations Control has been taken over by Jer ry Tyler, former executive secretar. of the Seattle CIO Council, and by John Caughlan. attorney, who art interested not in tn affairs of Local 2 but in the state and nationwide dispute raging within the CIO over support of the Marshall Plan.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-04-16
TO SELL BOAT

The vessel Nan B of Ketchikan, was ordered sold today by Fed eral Judge George w. Folta in a U. s. District Court Admiralty action here.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-04-16
FROM MT. EDGECUMBE

Bonnie Stribling from Mt. Edge cumbe is at the Baranof Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-04-16
FROM FUNTER BAY

T. w. Peterson from Funter Bay is staying at the Baranof Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-04-16
The W ashington Merry Go Round
By DREW PEARSON

tcopyrisht. 194S, by The Bell Syndicate
 Inc)
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Evening star., 1948-11-08
Maryland Committees
On DPS Now at Work
By The Associated Press

BALTIMORE, Nov. s.-Mary-
lands county displaced persons
committees have been organized
and already are functioning, State
Chairman William F. Lauketis said
today.
The committees will serve as a
clearing house for persons wishing
to sponsor displaced persons COM
ing to this country from overseas,
he said.
The committee members by
counties include:
Anne Arundel-Benjamin Wat
kins, Davidsonville, chairman: F.
Garner Hayden and Stanley Day
Annapolis; Charles B.. Lynch, Sc
verna Park. and j. I. Ling, David
sonvil1e.
Montgomery - James B. King
chairman: S. Gilbert Brown. Silver
Spring; o. w. Anderson, Rockville
Wilson c. Poole, Sellman, and Ken
meth Windham, Gaithersburg.
Prince Georges-Harry w. Town
shend, Michellville, chairman; Mrs
Marguerite r. Miller, Hyattsville; P
E. Clark, Upper Marlboro; Rogers
Naylor, Westwood, and Harold c.
Townshen, Upper Marlboro.
st. Marys-Julius johnson, Leon.
ardtown; J. Claude johnson, Nor
ganza; Joseph M. Cooper, Scotland
and Elmer Railey, HOLLYWOOD,
Evening star., 1948-11-08
Droftees' and Veterans Guide
BY Maj. Thomos M. Mol

You get your order to report for
induction on the very day that your
mother comes down with serious
case of pneumonia. Or it may be
your grandmother. or someone else
of close relationship living in your
home.
Naturally, you want to be around
to aid the sick, to do your part in
the healing-or, If the worst comes,
to say the last farewell.
But you've got that order to report
at the induction station in IL days.
Anything you can do about it?
Of course, there is. Selective Serv-
ice may seem to you like any cold,
efficient piece of machinery, but
actually it's got what might be called
a heart. Selective Service is human.
AS soon as your mothers illness
gets to the serious point-Selective
Service calls 1t an extreme emer-
gency"-you go to your local board,
tell the facts and show documentary
evidence supporting them.
Don't think of doing this unless
the emergency really is extreme"
Your family doctor can help you
define the term.
Your local board looks into the
facts. If it decides an extreme emer-
gency exists, it postpones the day set
for your induction. It can put 1t
ahead for go days, at the end of that
time the extreme emergency should
be settled one way or the other.
But 1t might not be, you say.
That's right, and so in cases of "im-
perative necessity" (the official Ian
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guage) your local board can extend
the postponement another 60 days.
The regulations go on to say that
the Director of Selective Service
General Hershey or the State di-
rector may "for good cause postpone
the induction for such time as he
may deem advisable" which means,
I'd say, that "for good cause" post
ponement could be extended indefi-
nitely.
The only good cause" that comes
to mind would be a long death-bed
siege Of your mother or father-at
least something lot worse to con-
template than getting drafted.
But at any rate, if that something
happens you can get an indefinite
postponement. Let's hope it dosen't.
incidentally, If you get 60-day
postponement, 1t can be Cancelled
before it's over when the issuing
authority so directs"
Postponement of induction also
would apply, of course, If you your
self were too sick to report. I guess
you'd have to get a physician's s
statement to your local board as
evidence. As matter of fact, that
good cause" provision is probably in
there also to cover the case of bad
accident happening to registrant
who has received his order to report.
Maybe the accident would make
him 4-F. That would be a good
cause" for an indefinite postpone
ment until the local board could re-
classify the registrant.
(From AsSociated Press fewsfestures)
Evening star., 1948-11-08
Murder Trial Of Wife, 19,
On Wicomico Calendar
By the Associated Press

SALISBURY, Nov. 8.-The murder
trial OF 19-year- old Mrs. Mary Baker
Truitt was among eight cases listed
for disposal as the Wicomico County
Circuit Court reconvened here today
after months recess.
The small. red-haired woman Is
accused of shooting her husband.
William Edward Truitt, %.
His body was found in the bed
room of the couples home near
Pittsville last June 10. He had been
shot between the eyes. When Mary
land State police arrived, his q
year-old daughter was sleeping be-
side the body on the bed.
Sergts. c. c. Serman and Charles
L. Andrew said they had learned Mr..
Truitt had been drinking heavily
the week before he was killed.
When taken into custody. Mrs.
Truitt bore bruises about the face
and on one arm,
Evening star., 1948-11-08
Crippled Ex-Professor
Finds Home Is on Fire,
Awaits Rescue Calmly

Alone in a Chevy Chase house
which he discovered was on fire,
an iravalided former college profess
sor yesterday telephoned firemen
from his wheelchair, then rolled
next to window and calmly
awaited the firefighters.
He was rescued in a few minutes
by members of the Chevy Chase
Fire Department, who confined the
fire to the kitchen of the house at
6806 Meadow lane.
DR.. John J. Clarke, So, a pro-
fessor at Catholic University for 20
years before his retirement a few
years ago because of sclerosis,
which crippled him from the waist
down, was playing phonograph rec
ords in his first floor room when
he smelled smoke.
DR.. Clarke, who is confined to a
wheel chair, investigated and found
the dining room, two rooms away
from his. filled with smoke. He
wheeled himself to a window and
opened 1t, then telephoned the fre
department.
He said he had hardly hung up
the telephone" before he heard
the fire engines approaching. Fire
men broke into the house and car
ried DR.. Clarke out, then extin-
guished the blaze. Damage was
estimated at $4,000.
DR.. Clarke, who pitched for Cath
olic University in the early 1920s,
lives at the Meadow Lane address
with DR.. Dale c. Braungart and DR..
Braungart's mother. The Braun
CARTS had left the house to go to
the National Airport about noon, a
half-hour before DIR. Clarke discov-
cred the fire, DR.. Braungart said.
Evening star., 1948-11-08
Three From Prince Georges
Due for Induction TODAY

The first Prince Georges County
selectees we're to report for Army in
duction today at the Army and Air
Force recruiting Office in the Jesup-
Blair Community Center. The three
men are from Hyattsville and were
scheduled to leave for Camp Pickett,
Va, after being processed.
The inductees are Matthew j.
Gargen, COLL Forty-fourth avenue,
mechanic apprentice, James w.
Mitchell, 4705 Edmonston road. mer-
chant seaman, and James H. Sleeth,
jr., 1903 Tuckerman street library
assistant at the Library of Congress.
The second group of District regis
trants to be drafted has been noti-
fed to report tomorrow at the Army
and Air Force recruiting Office here.
This group includes II men. Last
Tuesday the first group of seven
men were inducted. During No.
vember q total of IS from the Dis
trict are to be taken into the Army.
Evening star., 1948-11-08
Frederick Legion Post
Wins Drum Corps Prize
sy the Associo,sd Press

BRUNSWICK, Md, Nov. S.-The
drum and bugle corps of the Fran
els Scott Key American Legion post
in Frederick was awarded first prize
for that division in Brunswick's an
nual pre-Armistice Day parade
yesterday.
Best band award went to the
Hagerstown civic band. The
Brunswick Lions won the prize for
the best float and the best veteran
unit was the American Legion
National Guard of Honor, WASH
ington.
About 5000 persons watched the
parade and heard Maj. Gen. r. B.
Mcclure, I'd Army chief of staff.
speak in Memorial Park,
Evening star., 1948-11-08
New Fog Foam Cuts Rescue
Path Through Raging Fire

the airportS 18-ton, 10-wheeled fire
truck rolled up, spraying foam under
pressure from an extension pipe fitted
with nozzle and two ground sprays
set on either end of the front bumper
Firemen in regulation canvas
coats and rubber boots leaped from
the truck with hoses to smother the
fire on the right and left, while a
third man moved down the lane
cleared by the stream from the pipe
nozzle to make the rescue"
The equipment cut path in a
few seconds through the burning
gasoline, while lesser streams were
directed along either edge. The
whole blaze was eXtinguished under
what appeared to be a blanket OF
soap suds in five minutes.
The system developed here was
used to put out two dangerous flash
fires at New York airports recently,
Mr.. Mahaney said.
Evening star., 1948-11-08
Maryland Women Voters.
To Hold Annapolis Session
by the Asseeiotsd Press

ANNAPOLIS, Nov. 8.-Delegates
from Ave counties and Baltimore
City will attend the biennial legis-
lative conference Of the Maryland
League of Women Voters here No
vember II, Mrs. John Rich said
today.
Mrs. Rich is president Of the
Anne Arundel County League, host
for the meeting.
The women will pass on measures
in the State leagues platform,
which are expected to come before
the 1949 General Assembly. Gerald
Monsman, chief of the Legal Aid
Bureau of Baltimore, will review
action Of the Maryland legislative
council since the special Assembly
session last May.
Mrs. Willard Barber Of Silver
Spring, State vice president, and
Mrs. Emil Crockin, Baltimore, a
director, will conduct the meeting
Delegates will attend from How
ard, Montgomery, Prince Georges,
Baltimore and Anne Arundel Coun-
ties,
Evening star., 1948-11-08
Episcopal Old Boys Elect
George Y. Worthinqton, Jr.

George Y. Worthington, jr.. real
estate man who lives at 2122 Leroy
place NV, has been elected presi-
dent of the Old Boys Association of
Episcopal High School, Alexandria.
Election of officers for four-year
terms was held Saturday.
Other officers elected are Robert
Train, Macon, Ga, first vice presi-
dent; J. Peter William III, Philadel-
phia, second vice president: G. C..
Baldwin, jr., 808 Twenty-sixth place
south, Arlington, Va, secretary
treasurer, and Richard Thomson of
Episcopal High School, Alexandria,
assistant secretary.
Douglas D. Hall. $685. Upton street
NV. was elected to the Executive
Board.
Evening star., 1948-11-08
year, a number of small triangles
are eliminated.

year, a number of small triangles
are eliminated.
Another Is .O05 Acres.
Next in size to No. 220 is a triangle
at Florida avenue and 21st street
NV, near S street. 1t contains
2O1 68 square feet, or .005 of an acre.
There is another triangle of 239
square feet on Delaware avenue be-
tween End and M streets S.W.; and
one of 331 square feet on Canal road
at Second street and Independence
avenue Sc.
Many of these small triangles are
impressed on the public mind, for
they are familiar sights. There are
81 less than 1000 square feet in size
Miss Stratton's records include 13
squares, "a circles, approximately
425 triangles and 130 center park
ings. A center parking may contain
three or four reservations to block.
They are conspicuous on such
thoroughfares as Maryland and
Pennsylvania avenues, Macarthur
boulevard, and New Hampshire
avenue extended.
Nobody in official Washington
seems to want the bother of taking
care of the new small triangles
created from year to year. They
constitute headache to both Dis
trict and park officials. Each group
would like to pass the buck to the
other, but the park Office has to &C
cept them under the law.
Sometimes, people wonder why
they are deemed necessary. Wash
ingtonians, however, have reason to
be thankful for some of these tri-
angles, which serve as ideal sites
for statues. Since statues are al
ways being erected, park officials
say. it is we'll to have a thought
fully placed triangle at hand.
Recently, such a problem bobbed
up to confound Federal planning
officials. A statue of Jose Artigas,
founder of Uruguay, required a site.
The Fine Arts Commission decided
to put 1t on small triangle oppo-
site the Navy Building at 18th street
Constitution and Virginia avenues.
1t also is opposite the old Pan
American Annex.
The triangles and other small
plots are here to stay, an integral
part OF the park system. Altogether,
they constitute about 1,500 acres of
the total 6,672 acres of reservations
within the District.
Evening star., 1948-11-08
Grand Jury Told
ToProbeGaI1lIiinq
In Montgomery
Judge Prescott Says
Violations Cannot
Be Kept From Public

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.
Cites Grand Jury Duty.
montgomery County is an area
OF approximately SIT square miles"
Judge Prescott said. "We believe
that the county has a competent
police force, but they do not num-
Der as many as in one precinct in
a 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. It's 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 20 on unless
some members of society know about
1t. II grand jurors will perform their
duties we can help remove it and
Keep Montgomery clean.
Urges Public Cooperation.
"Of cours there is bound to be
some seepage over from a metropol-
ltan city, but we can work to hold
it down." d
Frederic L. Thomas, Sandy Spring
banker, was appointed grand iury
foreman. The remaining % mem
bers of the investigative body were
selected by lot from the panel of
48 citizens. Six grand jurors are
women.
States Attorney Walter w. Daw-
son said approximately 40 present.
ments were to be considered.
Other members of the grand jury
are James A. Mustard, jr.; Adolph
A. Guide, jr.: Charles r. Bodmer
Alvin L. Luttrell, Reginald B. Look
er, Willie L. Burdette, Stanley M
Brown, Katherine H. Phillips Alex
ander, Emory w. Jordon, Paul w.
Stafford, j. Sterling Bowman, Lu-
cille B. Etchison, Albert L. Gloyo,
Lucille F. Bailey, George B. Allnutt,
Thelma B. Post, Alvie A. Moxley,
Charles H. Smoot, Florence S.
Mickle, Richard w. Janney and
Helen j. Bissett.
Evening star., 1948-11-08
Patriotic Groups
Plan Rites for
ArmisticeDay
Services at Arlington
Memorial Dedication
ToFeotureO Observance

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.
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.
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.
Interior Rites Planned.
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.
63 in the auditorium of the Interior
Building. Ne wofficers 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 j. 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 ]. Mas, former Representa-
tive from Minnesota, at II am. at
the armory.
Kensingt0n Dedication.
kenslngton residents will dedicate
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 Armistice Day. Mont
gomery County schools will be open,
while in Prince Georges the indivi-
dual principals will decide whether
to close their schools. District pub
lie schools will be closed both Thurs
day and Friday.
An Armistice Day ball will be held
at the Wardman Park Hotel bv
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 1s48, as
queen of the ball.
Evening star., 1948-11-08
Meeting on Curriculum
Set by Bradley PTA

understanding Our Curriculum
will be discussed at meeting of
the Bradley School Parent-Teacher
Association at pm. Wednesday,
8 pm, at the school.
A panel discussion will be started
by Mrs. Alice Quick, principal.
Participants will be DR.. Fern
Schneider, DR.. Mary L. Grau and
Miss Christine M. Heinig. Miss
Grace Alder will act as moderator.
Evening star., 1948-11-08
By Nelson M. Shepard
Washington's smallest park is only

Washington's smallest park is only
30 square feet. mere dot of 002 of
an acre on the surveyors map.
Hundreds walking or driving along
Delaware avenue, day after day,
pass it unknowingly at the inter
section of First and F streets S.W.
Yet this tiny triangular grass
plot, occupied by two trees, is de-
signed officially as Reservation 220
on maps of the National Capital
Parks and the District Highway
Department.
So obscure was it on the map that
Miss Margaret Stratton of the NCP
Office had to help a reporter and
"a photographer identify it. Miss
Stratton was called after identifi-
cation failed in the Office of the
Highway Department. AS tech
Inician' in charge of the maintenance
of records for National Capital
Parks, there Is little that Miss STRAIT
ton does not know about the park
system here.
Was Early Grant.
Reservation 220 is unique in Wash
ington. It's 002 of an acre COM
pares with the 1,743 acres of Wash
ington's largest-Rock Greek Park.
1t was one of the original grants
Of park areas in the District. of
which there are 381 on the books.
No. ! is designated The Presidents
Park. ~''
Little No. 22o, with its two trees
was one of the small parcels of
land remaining after the street in
terSection was made in the early
days of Washington.
An adjacent brick sidewalk area
is owend by the District Govern
ment. The 80 square feet of soil was
transferred to Federal titleship. 1t
is one of the citys unnamed reserva-
tions.
Those 381 reservations known as
original grants" composed the park
system of the "old city" included on
the official map of 1894.
Likely to Stay Smallest.
BY an act of July /, 1898, Con-
greSs gave the Commissioners juris-
diction over streets and sidewalk
lines. To the Army Engineer Corps
was given jurisdiction over the origi-
nal grants as of 1894 and such "por-
tionS of space in streets and avenues
after same shall have been set aside
by the District Commissioners for
park purposes"
There was proviso under which
little Reservation 220 is likely to
remain forever the smallest of the
city's reservations. Congress de-
clared that no area less than $50
square feet between sidewalk lines
shall be included within the park
system.
In other words" an official said,"
the present National Capital Parks
Office doesn't have to take over any
park under $50 square feet if it
doesn't want to-"
There are several other reserva-
tions in the city under that legal
lied minimum of $50 square feet and
a good many only slightly larger.
They all belong to the original
grants"
Since 1898, hundreds Of other res
ervations have been added to the
park system, which, in the mean
time, changed from custody of the
Army to the present setup under
the Interior Department National
Park Service.
The present number is between
750 and 760. 1t varies from year
to year. Several weeks ago, the
Commissioners transferred six small
areas to the park system. Like
majority of the small reservations.
they are triangles created by cut
ting through new streets or WIDEN
ing others. In like manner each
Evening star., 1948-11-08
Tokomu Park PIuy Set

Students of the Takoma Park
Junior High School will present a
playlet, What Characters" at a
meeting of the Parent Teacher AS
sociation Wednesday. The playlet
will be held in connection with the
annual book sale of the school
which will begin at pm. Wednes-
day and continue through Thurs
day, Friday and next Monday night.
Evening star., 1948-11-08
Lutheran Loymen to Meet

ROANOKE, Va, Nov. 8 R.-
About 200 Lutheran laymen from
Virginia and East Tennessee will
attend the annual convention of
the Brotherhood of the Lutheran
Synod of Virginia at st. Marks
Church here Thursday. Speakers
will include Martin A. McGrory, Mt.
Rainier. Md, former vice president
of the brotherhood.
Evening star., 1948-11-08

A new method Of cutting rescue
channel into the heart Of a raging
gasoline fire has been demonstrated
at National Airport.
Airport firemen used a newly de-
veloped type of fog foam to open
an immediate path for them through
200 gallons of high octane gas, burn
ing in puddles on the ground under
the wing of junked bomber on the
south end of the field.
The show was put on for Air Force
experts, Government technicians and
oil company representatives by Dan
Mahaney, safety engineer at the air
port. Mr.. Mahaney has been work.
ing on the system here for the last
two years. 1t recently was adopted
at La Guardia and Idlewild Airports,
after comparative tests with other
extinguishers.
When the gasoline was set ablaZe