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Evening star., 1948-03-22
Butter Probe Is Urged,
But Not by Andersen

A margarine backer in Congress
wants the price of butter investi-
gated-but not by a butter backer.
Representative Rivers, Democrat,
of South Carolina. suggested last
night that Congress look into recent
butter price rises which, he said,
already have cost consumers mil
lions of dollars"
But, MI. Rivers added, the inyes-
tigating should be done by some
other group than the special House
committee headed by Representative
Andersen, Republican, of Minnesota.
Mr.. Andersen" he said, %"is the
acknowledged leader of the butter
bloc in Congress. For more than
SO years this bloc has refused to
let the House vote on legislation
or modify the Federal anti-mar-
garine laws I" ="
Mr.. Andersen a1ready has an
nounced that his group has investi-
gators at work checking the whole
sale price rises in the New York
and Chicago markets.
Mr.. Rivers is the author of a petit
ton to force a margarine tax repeal
bill onto the House floor despite the
refusal of the House Agriculture
Committee to report out bill.
Evening star., 1948-03-22
Two 10 Testify for Company
AT Phone Hearing'To
By the Associated Press

RICHMOND, Va, Mar. 22.-Two
telephone company witnesses have
been called to take the stand today
in the Chesapeake g. Potomac Tele-
phone Co. rate hearing before the
State Corporation Commission.
They are Arthur w. Harrison,
general commercial manager of the
C.. g. p. and Burton r. Young, chief
statistician for the Western Electric
Co.
The hearing, which is expected to
be completed by Friday, will receive
testimony some time this week from
Herbert Borau. New York Univer-
sity economics professor. who will
not take the witness stand for the
C. & P.
Increases Of Is cents per month
on private phones and so cents on
commercial installations are being
sought by the telephone firm.
Evening star., 1948-03-22
Extension Phones Available
For First Time Since War

District residents who want ex-
tension telephones in their homes
may have them installed now. j. E.
Morrison, vice president and gen.
eral manager of the Chesapeake g.
Potomac Telephone Co., said yester-
day.
The company has not been able to
offer this service since before the
war. Mr.. Morrison explained that
during the war the scarcity of ma
terials and the conversion of manu-
featuring facilities to the war effort
prohibited installation of residence
extension phones.
After the war, he added, 1t was
almost impossible to catch up with
the demand for instruments. Re-
quests for extensions in homes can
now be met.
Istallation of new cable and CEN
trail office equipment is progressing
rapidly to meet the 10000 untitled
requests for telephone service in the
area, he said. Since VI day, the
company has added more than 3d.
600 telephones here.
Evening star., 1948-03-22
Courtesy Campaign
Ends al Rally Tonight;
Awards 10 Be Made

Washington's courtesy campaign
will end with rally at Constitutidp
Hall at 7:30 o'clock tonight.
But courtesy will not pass out OF
the picture" after the campaign
ends, James r. Colliflower, cam
paign chairman, declared. 1--WE
believe that we are just getting
started on the theme of courtesy
he said. 1--WE believe that concen-
trated attention upon courtesy dur
ing the campaign will have a last
ing effect and the impetus provided
by the program will carry forward
indefinitely"
The program at the rally tonight
will be climaxed by the presenta-
ton of awards to courtesy contest
winners. =.
Others on Proxrzm.
Also on the program wiIf be Nor
gan Baer's music, eight disc Jockeys,
namely, Florence, Eddie Gallaifer,
Jackson Weayer,sI.ee Dayton, Mike
Hunnicutt, Ray Michael, Milton @.
Ford and Howard Williams; Allen
Funt and his candid microphone
the Singing Squires, a barbershop
quartet, and Bob Knight, the man
behind the band"
The campaign has been sponsored
by the Greater National Capital
Committee.
Mr.. Colliflower said: "This rally
tonight will be the first of its type
ever attempted by any large city in
the country, and we can show to
the world that Washington can be
called not only the worlds most
beautiful National Capital but also
the worlds most courteous city,"
Auto Manners Seen Better.
Meanwhile the American Auto
mobile Association reported that
automobile drivers in the District
area had showed a great improve
ment in driving manners. r.
Emergency road service mechanics
travel counselors and representa-
tives in the area were asked to watch
the reactions of the average cal
owner during the campaign, accord
ing to William r. Haight, director
OF service and travel Obvious
Improvement was reported, he said
Evening star., 1948-03-22
Mayflower Reception
Planned for De Valera
On Return March 80

Former Prime Minister Eamon
de Valera of Ireland will be hon.
ored with reception and dinner
at the Mayhower Hotel at Z pm,
March 80, on his return visit to
Washington. The special affair will
be sponsored by District civic lead
ers and officials of local Irish So
cieties. !,
j., Mr.. de Valera visited President
Truman at the White House soon
after his arrival in this country IL
days ago, and then left for q. tour
OF other American cities. s
A headquarters for dinner res
ervations has been established at
1401 street NV, and will be open
from 10 am. to 9 pm. daily. Invi-
tations have been issued to church
leaders, Supreme Court justices,
members of Congress, the Commits
sioners and members of the diplo-
matte corps.
Francis j. Kane is general chair
man OF arrangements for the affair.
Mr.. Kane will be assisted by five
vice chair1nen, Martin A. Cook,
Martin w. McNamara, Miss Mary E.
CIeary, James Madden and Mrs.
Sean Sheehan.
Chairmen of committees will be
James A. Cassidy, dinner: John A.
Reilly, speakers; Thomas w. Lyons.
advisory; Miss Marie O'Connor,
ticket: Robert M. Meehan, floor:
James B. Mccain, decorating, and
Vincent McGarry, seating.
Francis A. McCann will be general
secretary and Edmund M. O'Sulli-
van, treasurer.
The general committee for the
reception and dinner will include
Joseph Daily, Michael J. Dowd,
Miss Mary Molloy, Miss Clare
williams, Leo E. Mcclure, Edward
Heating, Neil Burkinshaw, Dennis
Collins, John Dillon Fitzgerald,
Royal McKenna, Justice Edward
M. Curran, william E. Leahy,
Edgar Morris, James F. Reilly, J..
Edgar Hoover, Maurice Collins,
Maurice O'Connor. Andrew l..
Hickey, Judge James D. Quinn,
Leo A. Rover, Thomas j. Meany,
the Rev. Patrick J. Begley, James
E. Collifower, John G. Bell, Thomas
F. Murphy, Patrick H. Mccormick,
the Rev. Timothy MacCarthy,
Charles A. Raney, George L. Cas-
sidy, Sean Sheahan, Miss Mary
Barry, William j. Crane, Miss Lii
liam Fay, Mrs. Hannah Sheahan,
James T. Mccarthy, Mrs. Peter
Drury, Mrs. Peter Nee and Joseph
A. Arcenaux.
Evening star., 1948-03-22
Group TO Honor Gillette
For Free Palestine Effort

A committee of more than 40 dis
tinguished Americans has been
formed to pay tribute to former
Senator Guy M. Gillette, president
Of the American League for a Free
Palestine. at series of dinners.
Justice Ferdinand Pecora of New
York is chairman of the group
sponsoring the dinners. Mr.. Gil
lette and members of the Senate
and House will outline a positive
program for American action in the
Middle East, it was announced.
The first dinner will be held next
Monday in New York and the Sec
ond on April 4 in Philadelphia.
Speakers will include Senator Tobey,
Republican, of New Hampshire;
Senator Pepper, Democrat, of Flor
ida: Justice Pecora and Mr.. Gillette.
Their addresses will be broadcast.
Evening star., 1948-03-22
Architects Offer Plan
For StabiIizing Industry

Tearing down and replacing build
ings that have outlived their use
fulness is being urged by the
Committee on Urban Planning,
American Institute of Architects, as
a means of helping stabilize the
construction industry.
Douglas w. Orr of New Haven,
Conn, institute president, released
the committee report through the
groups headquarters here at 1741
New York avenue NV.
The committee recommendations
will be laid before the organizations
convention at Salt Lake City in
June for adoption by the general
membership. The report declared
continuity in production must be
achieved to avoid the extreme
fluctuations in the construction in
dustry-to minimize boom and de-
preston periods.
Evening star., 1948-03-22
Michael Plans
ToPayCa|I on
Truman Today
Mother Scheduled
To Attend Teu
At White House

King Michael, deposed monarch
OF Romania, arranged to call on
President Truman at the White
House today. ..., .s-
The young ruler forced into exile
by the Communist regime in his
country arrived here last night for a
three-day visit.
With his mother, Queen Helen,
and six aides he went from Union
Station to the Shoreham Hotel,
where a f1ve-room suite was re-
served for his party.
After the Kings formal call on the
President, his mother was to have
tea at the White House with Mrs.
Truman this afternoon.
Assigned Two Detectives.
The Police Department assigned
two detectives to guard the King,
Ia great-great-grandson of the late
Queen Victoria of England.
The royal par was greeted at
Union Station last night by several
hundred Romanians, Romanian
Americans and well wishers. They
were welcomed officially, by Ray
mond D. Muir, the State Depart
ment's assistant chief of protocol.
Among the first to greet them was
Alexander Cretzianu, King Michaels
one-time representative to Turkey
and son Of former Romanian min
lister to Washington.
Michael declined, on his arrival
last night, to comment on either the
political picture in Romania or on
his own plans for the future. His
engagement to the Danish Princess
Anne of Bourbon-Parma recently
struck snag when the Pope re-
fused Anne's request for a dispen-
sation to marry the Greek Orthodox
former King. The Vatican's posi-
ton is that any children born out
of the union must be reared in the
Roman Catholic Church.
Eat in Hotel Dining Room.
L. Gardner Moore, manager of the
Shoreham, said today the hotel had
assigned one of its own staff of de-
tectives to the royal party's floor
"just to keep out nuisances."
While the royal suite includes a
private dining room and kitchen,
he said, the party, at late supper
last night and an early breakfast
this morning, chose to use the hotels
regular room service.
The King and his mother will be
guests tonight Of the British Am
bassador and Lady Inverchapel at
the British Embassy. Tomorrow the
King will entertain Secretary OF
Commerce Hartman at a luncheon
in his Shoreham apartment. The
National Press Club viii be host at
dinner Wednesday at 1880 pm. in
his honor. .sssss,,gs.I
Evening star., 1948-03-22
Sewage Works School
TO Ee Held in Herndona

A sewage works school win be
held in the Herndon Municipal
Building at 9 am. tomorrow for
sanitary engineers and sewage works
operators in Northern Virginia.
The school is being conducted
by the State Health Department
under the direction of Maj. Richard
Messer, director of the Bureau of
Sanitary Engineering, who will be
one Of the lecturers. Other instruc-
tors include P. H. McGauhey,
professor of sanitary engineering,
and j. A. Rives, associate professor
of sanitary engineering of Virginia
Polytechnic Institute, and E. C..
Meredith, assistant State director of
sanitary engineering.
Luncheon will be served by the
Home Economics Department of the
Herndon High School.
Evening star., 1948-03-22
House Nomination Won
By WorreII in Virginia
By the Assoeiatsd Press

BRISTOL, Va, Mar. 22.-Eugene
Worrell of Bristol gained major
ity on the fourth convention ballot
Saturday to become the Republic
can nominee for Congress from the
Ninth Virginia District.
The 29-year-old Chamber of Com
merce secretary defeated Ralph L.
Lincoln of Marion and S. Holiday
Sutherland of Clintwood after trail
ing both on the first two ballots.
The final count was Mr.. Worrell,
1371s votes; Mr.. Lincoln, SO. and
Mr.. Sutherland, 30k. The required
number for nomination was 1874.
John w. Flanagan, jr., Demo-
crat, now represents the district.
Evening star., 1948-03-22
Four 5000 Scholarships
To VPI to Be Awarded
BY the Asseeieted Press


BLACKSBURG, Va, Mar. 22.-
Four $500 scholarships will be
awarded outstanding high school
graduates who enter Virginia Tech
as agricultural or home economics
students next fall, DR.. Thomas B.
Hutcheson, dean of architecture, has
announced.
The scholarships, given by the
Kroger Grocery g. Baking Co., will
be divided equally between agri-
cultural and home economics STU
dents, DR.. Hutcheson said.
The awards will be based on scho-
lastic achievement in high school
and leadership demonstrated in
school, church, All clubs, Future
Farmers of America groups and
similar organizations, he added.
Evening star., 1948-03-22
Steam Device 10 Aid
Leaf Growers Gets
Trial Near La PLATA
Special oispafeh to The Stor

. LA PLATA, Md, March 22.-With
the turn Of a valve two of the.
most stubborn problems confronting
Maryland tobacco growers appeared
today to disappear in mists of steam
generated by a new development in
agricultural machinery. -
The problems have been how to
eradicate grass and weed seeds and
germs of soil-borne diseases, from
land used for tobacco, and how to
convert a barn of dry, brittle to-
bacco into moist, pliable stripping
condition.
Both may be solved by device
assembled by Hillen j. Morgan,
manager of Mulberry Grove Farm,
near Port Tobacco.
Apparatus Demonstrated.
Mr.. Morgan demonstrated his ap-
paratus publicly for the first time
Saturday at La Grange, a Colonial
estate near here, owned by James
w. Mills. Looking on were Walter
B. Posey, tobacco specialist of the
University of Maryland; P. D.
Brown, Charles County extension
agent; w. Mitchell Digges, Farm
Bureau official, and small group
of farmers.
What they saw was a 42-horse-
power oil-flred steam boiler, mount
ed on rubher-tired steel truck, and
a steel pan 6 by feet. The boiler
and pan we're connected by a rubber
steam hose.
IT designed and built the pan
and have applied for a patent on
it" Mr.. Morgan explained.
Above the noise Of the gasoline
engine which drives the force-feed
oil burner and the kissing of steam,
Mr.. Morgan said an operating pres
sure of 100 pounds is built up with
in 10 minutes and the boiler uses
125 gallons of water each hour.
Jets Are Used.
The pan has 218 sharp-pointed
steel jets. When the pan is placed
on the ground, the jets penetrate
the earth. and the steam heats the
ground to 1870 degrees or higher.
Mr.. Morgan said a temperature of
140 degrees would kill almost all
varieties of grass and weed seeds, as
we'll as disease germs.
"It takes about five minutes to
sterilize the ground and then the
pan is moved Mr.. Morgan said.
About an hour and a half Is re-
quired for a tobacco bed of 100
square yards.
Dry tobacco stored in barns can
be brought in order quickly with
the same equipment. according to
Mr.. Morgan. But he added, I'VE
need new type of steam distribu-
ton system for that work before we
make too MANY claims
Evening star., 1948-03-22
Conferees Start
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Rent Bill Study;
Halenlate Seen
Local Option Clause
Moy Block Accord,
Flanders Predicts
BY tho Associqted Press

House and Senate conferees
begin writing a rent-control
compromise today-with neither
side ready to yield.
The biggest stumbling block Is
whether to give local rent boards
fun and final authority to raise CELL
ings or to lift controls entirely.
The present rent-control law ex-
pires, March 81, a week from
Wednesday.
House members of the Conference
Committee which must resolve diff
ferences between the two versions
are pledged to fight for such a local
option provision. The Senate is op-
posed to 1t.
Tobey Says Senate VIII Be Firm.
Chairman Tobey of the Senate
Banking Committee called the first
joint session today. He predicted
the Senate will not back down.
And another member of the group,
Senator Flanders, Republican, of
Vermont said House insistence on
its provision may be aimed at killing
Federal regulations entirely.
Senator Flanders said he thinks
1t Is possible that the conferees may
reach g. stalemate on the issue.
Three Alternatives Seen.
In that event they could ID re-
turn to the House and Senate for
further instructions, (2) seek a new
emergency stopgap to try to work
out compromise or 90 allow the
rent law to die March 80.
I'm just questioning whether the
let-it-die thing may be the purpose
of the home rule provision" he said.
Senator Cain, Republican, of
Washington, who headed the sub
committee which drafted the Sem
ate rent bill, said he sees no way
to compromise the issue, that one
side or the other must give way.
Local Option is Main Issue.
At present the rent boards have
authority to recommend to Housing
Expediter Tighe Woods that rent
ceilings be raised or lifted entirely.
But Woods has the final power to
act.
Except for the local option clause,
differences between the Senate and
House versions are not expected to
cause any great conflict.
There is only months difference
in the period of extension proposed
Until April 1, 1949, in the House
measure and month longer in the
Senate bill.
Evening star., 1948-03-22
|W Post Inspects
|viers Mills, Seeks
Other Complaints

A Washington Veterans of For
eign Wars post today started a
move to have veterans throughout
the Nation report to the organiza-
TONS national headquarters all
complaints against housing projects
so the information can be forwarded
to Congress.
The move grew out of visit
yesterday by Treasury Post No. 2400
to the 1,400-home Viers Mill project
near Wheaton, Md, which has been
under investigation by the House
Expenditures Committee for alleged
violations of building codes. After
the visit, the post issued a state
ment agreeing with a committee in
vestigator that there was faulty
construction at the project.
Eugene A. Grady, who is on the
Housing Committee of the post, said
his group would petition VFW ma
tional officers to issue a directive
to all posts asking that complaints
about projects be sent in. In this
way, he said, the post hoped to help
alleviate "deplorable conditions" in
the construction Of houses.
Mr.. Grady also said the group
would ask Congress to strengthen all
laws pertaining to loans made by
government agencies and to check
the administration of such loans
pertaining to- veterans housing.
n The ho,i6e at the project have
been priced at $S,70o. Appraisers
hired by the House committee have
set a lower value. s,,.,sg.,s
The investigation was started
after Representative Bea1l, Repub-
lican, Of Maryland had received a
letter from Brooke Johns, chairman
of the Montgomery County Com
missioners, charging that the four
room bungalows were over priced.
Mr.. Grady said his group yester-
day criticized foundations, interior
work. wiring and ,chimneys at the
project. ~.
Evening star., 1948-03-22
Dynamite Demonstration
Slated in Montgomery

Ditch digging with dynamite will
be demonstrated shortly in two
areas Of Montgomery County, Coun-
ty Agent o. w. Anderson announced
today.
The first demonstration will be on
the farm of James D. King in Ger
mantown at 2 pm. Wednesday,
while the second will be .on the
farm of Eugene S. Walker Of
Browningsville at 2 pm. March 81.
These demonstrations are being
sponsored by the Montgomery
soil conservation supervisors to ac-
quaint farmers with the blasting
method of digging drainage bitches,
Mr.. Anderson, secretary Of the
group, explained.
Evening star., 1948-03-22
Bandit TokesCob
To HoIdup Scene,
Then Steals 1t
BY the Assoeiotsd Press

BALTIMORE, Mar. 22.-Vol-
ney Rosser, a cab driver, be-
came suspicious when a passen-
get got out without paying his
fare.
That's all right" the pas
senger said. "I1l be back as
soon as I pick up some money
in this Western Union Office"
Mr.. Rosser waited. Finally
he glanced into the Western
Union Office. His passenger had
disappeared.
In addition, $500 had disap-
peared from the Western Union
office. Mrs. Louise Joeckler and
Miss Alice M. Nicholson said
they had been held up at gun
point. 49,.
Mr.. Rosser called the police,
gave. them a description Of the
passenger and wandered back
toward his cab. 1t was gone.
Evening star., 1948-03-22
Virginia G. O.. P.
| Plans Protest on
| Abbitt's S Spendinq
By the Assoeiotsd Press


RICHMOND, Va, Mar. 22.-The
Virginia Republican Party thinks
too much money was spent by the
successful candidate in the recent
4th district congressional election.
The winner was Watkins M. Abbitt,
Democrat, who has listed his CAM
paign expenditures as $4,84005.
Earle Lutz, executive director of
the Republican Party in Virginia
said he would call 1t to the atten-
ton of the House of Representa-
tives. Mr.. Lutz said 1t was "an ap-
parent violation of the Federal
Corrupt Practices Act.
He said it was his understanding
that the act limited a candidate
for the House of Representatives to
$500 or to cents for every vote
in q previous election.
Evening star., 1948-03-22
Booking Truck Breaks
Mans Thigh in ArIinqton

Frederick H. Gadd, A, of the 3400
block Of M street NV. suffered a
fracture of the left thigh today when
the truck on which he was riding
was struck by another truck on an
Arlington construction job.
Police said Mr.. Gadd was stand
ing on the running board of a
truck when a second vehicle backed
into 1t near Columbia pike and
South George Mason drive. Mr..
Gadd was admitted to Georgetown
University Hospital, where his con-
dition was described as good.
None was charged in the accident.
Evening star., 1948-03-22
Catholic U. Gives Degree
To Head Of Dominicans

The Most Rev. Emmanuel Suarez,
o. p. master general of the DOM
inician Order, yesterday received the
degree of doctor of laws from Cath
olic University as avidence Of pro-
found admiration and affection for
this truly illustrious successor Of
st. Dominic"
The degree was conferred on
Father Suarez by the Most Rev.
Patrick A. o'Boyle, Archbishop of
Washington and chancellor of
Catholic University.
Among those participating in the
program were the Right Rev. Msgr.
P. ]. Mccormick, rector Of the uni
versity. and the Right Rev. Msgr.
Edward B. Jordan. vice rector
Evening star., 1948-03-22
Church Discords
Kerosene Lamps
For Electricity
Special Dispotch 10 The Stor

WINCHESTER. Va, Mar. o.
Kerosene lamps that have been used
during the past century for lighting
the Sandy Ridge Christian Church
were stored as relics today and were
supplanted last night by electric
brackets and chandeliers.
Lines of the Northern Virginia
Power Co. have been extended from
winchester westward to include
Sandy Ridge along with other COM
munities and the congregation lost
no time availing itself Of the i'm
proved facilities. The Rev. S. j.
Goode Of this city is pastor at Sandy
Ridge.
Evening star., 1948-03-22
Policeman Ends Chase of Truck
By Crashing His Cruiser Into 1t

An Alexandria policeman ended
his pursuit of a four-ton truck
last night by crashing his cruiser
into the rear of the fleeing vehicle.
Sergt. Robert Brenner, in the po-
lice cruiser, and Pvt. Edward Han
back, who had commandeered a
private car, chased the truck about
three miles along Alexandria S
waterfront before Sergt. Brenner
ran into the truck, causing its
brakes to lock.
The driver jumped out and ran
about a block before he was tackled
by Pvt. Hanback,, who was off duty
at the time.
The chase began shortly after 8::30,
when police received a report that
Evening star., 1948-03-22
Visual Education Expert
To Speak at LeIund High

DR.. Floyd E. Booker. chief of
visual education, United States Of
fee of Education, will speak at
showing of social hygiene films at 8
o'clock tonight in Leland Junior
High School, Chevy Chase, Md.
The meeting is sponsored by the
parent-teacher associations of the
area and was arranged by Mrs. Ray
mond S. Hart, jr., and Mrs. David
G. Whitten.