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Evening star., 1948-04-16
$4,000 Cafeteria
Urged by Gen. Young
For Municipal Center

Engineer Commissioner Gordon
R. Young recommended today that
the District spend $120,000 to build
an underground cafeteria next to
the Municipal Center Building to
replace the lunchroom now occupy
ing what was planned as q pistol
range.
The board of city heads tenta-
lively approved the recommended
ton, but reserved its final decision
until after it has made its studies
of the 1850 budget picture. They
will not seek an appropriation for
the improvement until the 1850
fiscal year.
The move to provide proper
lunchIoom space for the Municipal
Center building began last year,
when the District Health Depart
ment found the present cafeteria
was Substandard.
Several Cost Estimates Obtained.
Gen. Young, to whom the problem
was referred, sought cost estimates
on three possible ways of correcting
the situation. They were remodeling
the present lunch room, providing q
cafeteria building near the Munich
pal Center and building the lunch
room underground in space between
the present East Administration
! Building and the projected West
Administration Building.
/ In his report, the Engineer Com
missioner said it would cost $2l ,75O
to fxup the present lunchroom.
ut seemed undesirable" he wrote
".* to spend so large sum in a
place which was not intended for a
cafeteria and would never be really
satisfactory"
Gen. Young's study showed that
to complete the underground lunch
room so as to provide space for
occupants of, both the east building
and the projected west building
would cost S160,000. The $l20,000
figure would take care of those pres
emily employed in the east building.
Excavation Already Made.
The space in which the cafeteria
would go was excavated in rough
! form when the East building was
| built.
Gen. Young said If the proposed
cafeteria were properly run on a
concession basis, the District should
receive a return on its investment
of approximately $4,000 a year.
! This, he pointed out, was a 6.5 per
cent dividend.
! Meanwhile, the commissioners
agreed to ask Paul Chalupsky, Dis
trict property survey officer to see
what could be done at small ex-
pense to improve the condition OF
the present lunch room until the
| new one can be built
Evening star., 1948-04-16
Parents Blamed for Increase
In ChiIdren's Traffic Injuries

ed out, occur away from the schools,
when the parents bear the RESPONSE
bility.
One suggestion was that parents
should be urged to talk about acci-
dents and safety at breakfast time.
Another was that they should read
accounts of accidents in the news
papers to their children.
Mr.. Hammond recommended that
safety precautions be stressed before
schools let out for summer vacation.
He suggested safe summer" as .
slogan.
A proposal for a co-ordinated
safety education program for the
entire District area was made by
Frank c. Palmer, Arlington safety
education officer. In the past, he
pointed out, the various communi-
ties have not combined their efforts.
Starting next Monday, Inspector
Miller said, the Police Department
will issue a report Of each child
accident to precinct safety co-ordi-
nators. The co-ordinators will be
instructed, he said, to acquaint
school children in their precincts
with these accidents.
Inspector Miller also urged that
80 600 or $1,000" of the Districts
annual safety education fund %
devoted to the purchase OF stiees
safety signs in the form OF poncd psd
men. These signs would ne p.hcsa p.hnoa
in the center Of streets IN n srn rress
zones 70 inspector Miller sala a,atS pa
en1 e's warning signs are inadeQoaO
Evening star., 1948-04-16
House Group Backs
Extending DC. Rent
Controls Till 1949

The Senate-passed bill to ex-
tend District rent controls to March
81. 1919. was approved today by a
House District Subcommittee with
two minor clarifying amendments.
Representative O'Hara, Repub-
lican, Of Minnesota, subcommittee
chairman, said he hoped early ac-
ton could be obtained to complete
Congressional approval and send
the measure to the White House.
The amended bill would extend
the 1941 District Rent Act with
some notifications.
Certain housing accommodations
would be decontrolled after April
30.
AS revised by the O'Hara sub
committee, the facilities decontrolled
would include:
Any housing accommodations in
hotels as defined by this act used
exclusively for transient occupancy;
ANY housing accommodations the
construction of which was COM
pleted after March 81, 1948, or which
are additional housing accommoda-
tions created after March 81, 1948,
by conversion of buildings or IA
cilities or both not heretofore used
for housing accommodations;
Mon housekeeping. furnished
housing accommodations located
within a single dwelling unit not
used as a rooming or boarding
house. but only If (a no more than
two paying tenants, not members OF
the landlords immediate family
live in such dwelling unit is occupied
by the landlord or his immediate
family"
The District Rent Act, which
would have expired March 81, was
extended to April 30 by special
stop-gap act recently passed by
Congress.
Evening star., 1948-04-16
Weight|ifter Denies
Guilt al Police Trial

A plea Of not guilty was entered
by Police Pvt. r. Keith Gallo, anna
ture weight-lifting champion, before
a Police Trial Board today to charges
that he "feigned illness and disa-
bility," and made false statement
to his commanding officers on
April 2.
Pvt. Gallo, a policeman for six
years, was suspended on April by
Capt. Archie Winfree Of No. 6 pre-
cinct. His suspension followed an
investigation which allegedly re-
vealed he was playing golf on April
2 when he had been ordered to re-
main at home by DR.. William w
Saeger, a member Of the Board OF
Police and Fire Surgeons.
DR.. Saeger testified today he ex-
amined Pvt. Gallo on April 2 and
found he was suffering from lum-
bosacral strain. DIR. Saeger said
he then instructed the policeman to
go home and not to exercise.
DIR. Sager also testified he told
Pvt. Gallo that he might expose
himself to the sun in his yard.
Under cross-examination by De-
tense Attorney Thomas Ahearn, DR..
Saeger said he was aware of the
fact that another doctor had ordered
Pvt. Gallo to exercise. DR.. Saeger
also said that go days of duty out OF
three months service does not neces-
sairily constitute malingering.
After Pvt. Callio's plea the trial
Evening star., 1948-04-16

Washington's parents were blamed
today for an increase in child trail
fic accident victims.
District area school safety CO.
ordinators took this stand in con-
sidering the ways and means of
coping with the problem at meet
ing with George r. Hammond
safety and education director of the
District division, American Auto
mobile Association.
Police Inspector Arthur E. Miller,
head of the District Traffic Divi-
sion. said it is the lack of train
ing" of the parents which is behind
many accidents to children. He
cited a total of los traffic injuries
among children last month, and
predicted continued increase during
the summer months unless action
Is taken.
The safety co-ordinators, in a
round-table discussion, were par.
ticularly bitter about parents who
willfully disobey safety regulations
setting bad example to their chill.
dren and encouraging them to dis
obey.
Parents frequently disobey the in
structions Of school-boy patrolmen
when accompanying their children
to and from school, the policemen
reported. They agreed this con-
tributes to the lack Of safety con-
sciousness which results in care
lessness on the part of the children
Most child accidents, it was point
Evening star., 1948-04-16

cells and as a growth promoter OF
micro-organisms. DR.. Shorbs work
shows it occurs not only in liver
but, in minute amounts, in prepara-
tions of fish meal. egg white and
egg yolk, and extracts OF whey and
soy bean meal.
Until q years ago, pernicious
anemia was an invariably fatal
disease. Then it was discovered
that life could be indefinitely pro-
longed by including liver in the
diet. It soon became obvious that
only a small fraction of the liver
was active in promoting red cell
growth. Ever since there has been
series of increasing potent liver
concentrates, with the final elm
nation of all but the active prin-
ciple itself.
While positive results have been
shown with intramuscular injection
of as little as three millionths OF a
gram, DR.. West has used much
greater doses in his medical ex-
periments.
DR.. Shorb, her husband said to-
day, got her first lead while work
ing on the bacili found in milk at
the Bureau of Dairy Industry at
Beltsville. 1t soon became appar-
ent that three substances were
necessary for the growth Of this
micro o-organisms, one of which
fitted perfectly the specifications OF
the liver extract obtained by the
Merck chemists.
Evening star., 1948-04-16
Damages Awarded Both Sides
In Four Suits Involving Fence

A legal battle over the location of
. backyard fence in Brookmont, Md,
ended yesterday in Montgomery
County Circuit Court at Rockville
with both sides being awarded DAM
ages.
The verdicts, according to court
attaches. were among the most un-
usual ever returned by a Circuit
Court jury.
After celebrating more than an
hour, the jury, composed of seven
men and five women. awarded 81
damages to Mrs. Myrtle j. Thomp.
son in-her suit against T. w. Tie
deken and 81 in her suit against
Ernest l.. Munsey.
Mrs. Thompson, who lives at 6031
Ridge drive, had sued Mr.. Tiedeken
1924 Broad street, and Mr.. Munsey
1920 Broad street, for $1,000 each.
In countersuits, Mr.. and Mrs
Munsey, who had sued Mrs. Thomp-
son for $4,000, were awarded $75
while Mr.. and Mrs. Tiedeken, WHIT
sought $4,000 damages from Mrs
Thompson, were awarded $3.50.
All four cases grew out of the sam,
dispute and were tried at the sam.
time. A fifth case. In which Mrs
Evening star., 1948-04-16
Gieseking Date
With Symphony
|sConceIed

Walter Gieseking, noted German
pianist, will not play with the
National Symphony Orchestra here
as previously planned.
Blacklisted in 1945 by the Amer
ican Military Government in Ger
many for his wartime association
with the Nazis, Gieseking will not
appear here because of protests re-
ceived by the symphony manage
ment.
J. E. Mulch, symphony manager
explained today he was not aware
last month when he signed Gieseking
for appearances next March in Bal
tlmore and Washington that the
pianist was known as Nazi sympa-
thizer.
Since we announced our season
program numerous protests have
been heard" Mr.. Mutch said. LAS
soon as I learned of the facts, I
Cancelled the bookings. We couldn' t
stand to have anything like that"
Evening star., 1948-04-16
BeItsviIIe Woman Aids Isolation
|OfNewViton1in to Fight Anemio
Scientist Mother of ;
On Maryland U. Stoff
Leader in Discovery
BY Thomas R. Henry
Science Editor Of The Sfor

Isolation of a hitherto unknown
vitamin, apparently the principle in
liver which is essential in the treat
ment of pernicious anemia, was an
nounced here today.
Among the leaders in what may
prove one of the medical discoveries
of the decade was DR.. Mary S. Shorb
of Beltsville, Md, member OF the
Department of Poultry Husbandry
of the University of Maryland.
DR.. Shorb, 40, mother Of three
children, is the wife of DR.. D. A.
Shorb of the Department OF Agri-
culture experiment station at Belts
vile. She is a graduate Of Johns
Hopkins University.
The new substance is more than
10 900 times as potent in stimulat-
ing the production of red blood cells
and hemoglobin as the same
amounts of the concentrated liver
extract hitherto used in treatment
of pernicious anemia.
1t was OBTAINED IN tne 10TH VI
crystals in the shape of small red
needles by a team OF chemists
headed by Edward L. Rockies OF the
research laboratories of Merck &,
Co., drug manufacturers, OF Ran
way, N. J.
DR.. Shorb's major work came in
the discovery that factor, which
now proves to be identical to the
blood forming factor, was essen
tial for the growth of a type OF
bacteria found in milk and that
it's activity showed an exact paral-
lelism with the potency of the re-
fined liver extract.
A third phase of the discovery is
the work of DR.. Randolph west
who has tested the extract on per-
nicious anemia patients at Presby-
terian Hospital, New York. and
found that it has striking results
in doses as low as three micro
grams-a icrogram being a mil
lionth of gram.
The new vitamin is member OF
the rapidly growing B complex
which already has more than a
dozen members, and appears to be
about the most powerful biological
substance yet discovered, both as
specific producer of red blood
Evening star., 1948-04-16
District, Park Service
Reach Agreement on
Arizona Parkway

An agreement between the Dis
trict government and the National
Park Service designed to get con-
struction of the Arizona parkway
under way was announced by the
Commissioners today.
The proposed parkway when con-
structed will run along Canal road
and Van Ness street NV. located
in the Glover and Archbold Park
areas within the Foundry Branch
valley. 1t will provide facilities for
traffic for the park area south OF
Massachusetts avenue and will be
developed as scenic parkway.
The agreement places responsible
ity for construction on the District.
District to Prepare Plans.
Plans and specifications are to be
prepared by the District, but Sub
ject to the approval of the park
service. The design of bridges and
other structures along the parkway.
including landscape development
and the location of park areas, are
features for which the park service
will be responsible.
Capt. H. c. Whitehurst, director
of the District Highway Depart
ment, said he was not ready to give
an estimate of the total cost of the
parkway development.
He pointed out that the agree
ment was made with the under
standing that the District would
submit the project to the Public
Roads Administration and request
its participation under the Federal
Aid Highway Act. This would
mean, he added, that half Of the
cost would be borne by the Federal
Government.
Capt. Whitehurst said he doubted
if construction would actually get
under way for another year or so,
but with this agreement plans and
specifications can be started.
Land to Be Furnished.
The agreement provided that the
park service and the District gov
ernment would furnish whatever
land was necessary for development
of the parkway area.
After completion it will be under
the jurisdiction of the District for
all purposes, except that the con-
troll of traffic, policing by the park
police, the operation and main
tenance of lighting system and
the issuance of permits shall be
under the jurisdiction Of the Ma
tional Park Service.
The agreement further stated that
all existing underground utilities
owned or controlled by the District
and other essential utilities, such
as sewers, would be permitted to
remain and continue in service.
After completion of the park
way, permits for other than Dis
trict-owned utilities will be issued
and administered by the park serv-
ice after consultation and approval
by the District government.
Evening star., 1948-04-16
Excavation of New Water Basin
At DoIecor|iu Near Completion

Excavation of a huge sedimenta-
ton basin to improve the Districts
water supply is virtually completed
at the Dalecarlia filter plant, the
District Office of the Corps OF En-
gineers reported today.
Col. D. G. White, District en-
gineer at the Office, said the excava-
ton is the first major step in a
vast plan to provide adequate water
to an estimated 1,455,000 popula-
ton expected in the Washington
area by the turn Of this century.
The sedimentation basin will be
the first of four double-deck basins,
each with capacities of $4,000, ,00C
gallons, to be constructed at Dale
carlia under the long-range pro-
gram. The basin, about 150x5O0 feet
long and 30 feet deep, will be COM
pleted next spring, Col. White said
Present Basins Overloaded.
Water in the basin will pass
through an alum syrup to pick out
sediment particles. BY the time it
reaches the end of the basin, it will
be nearly clear. From there, officials
explained, the water will pass
through a regular filtration plant
before being pumped to consumers.
Officials said the present basins,
nearly half the size of the new ones,
have Seen overloaded because of
heavy demands. Particularly in
warm weather, they said. water
passes into the filtration plant with
too much sedimentation.
In the Dalecarlia area, Col White
said, engineers during the next 10
years also will construct six addi-
tional filters, a new and much larger
pumping station, a large clear
water reservoir and a modern chem
ical building, where purifying pro-
cesses will be determined.
Col White said the neYt deyelop-
Evening star., 1948-04-16
Defense Denied Plea
For MistriaI in Labor
Conspiracy Case

Defense attorney Joseph B.
keenan,, Tokyo war crimes prose-
cutor, failed to secure a mistrial
in the labor conspiracy case in
District Court today when he
charged the prosecution was inject
ing race prejudice.
Special prosecutor Leo A. Rover,
in his opening statement to the
jury, charged $4,000 of funds Of
Local 1872 of the International Hod
Carriers and Common Laborers
Union. AFL, was illegally used to
build barracks, night spots and res
taurants near the naval base at
Cedar Point, Md. He pointed out
to the jury one night spot was for
white persons and another for COL
ored and the same was true of the
barracks built through the con-
spiracy to misuse union funds.
Mr.. Rover said these private en-
terprises went to enrich some of
the nine defendants illegally.
Barracks Called Shacks.
Mr.. Keenan, rose to his feet with
the charge that the prosecutor was
deliberately pointing to the separa-
ton of white and colored to create
race prejudice because of the COM
position Of the jury. Seven of the
jurors are colored.
Motion denied" said Justice
Alexander Holtzoff, presiding at the
trial, and Mr.. Rover continued with
his opening statement.
The prosecutor charged that
$4,000 was spent to build the two
barracks, which he described as
"shackls," and said "the whole
kaboodle," referring to the entire
enterprise, could be built for that
sum.
Office Used as Cover.
"These men were not interested
in the laborers, but in their own
pockets" declared Mr.. Rover, re-
ferring particularly to the missing
defendant, Larry Kelly, and to
Isaac Weiner of Leonardtown, Md.
real estate and insurance man and
movie theater operator.
He said that the defendants, to
cover up, went through the form
of building small union Office and
accomplished their illegal purpose
with union money"
Mr.. Rover told the jurors that as
a result of these operations. Local
1872 today is out $4,000 and the
barracks were leased to the local
although its own union funds built
them.
The defendants are: Joseph Speed
George Morgan, Evans H. Hamilton
George w. Plummer. former pres
ident of the local; Joseph v. Mores-
chi, president Of the international
Faust Moreschi. his son, former
secretary treasurer of the District
Council: John w. Garvey, general
organizer and representative Of the
International Achilles R. Persion
general secretary and treasurer OF
the international, and Weiner ano
Kelly.
Says $4,000 Is Involved.
Mr.. Rover has accused the de-
PENDANTS of conspiring to milk union
members of between $4,000 and
100000 in the period from April
1941, to March, 1914. Not all the
defendants proited personally, how
ever. he said.
The long delayed trial got under
way yesterday.
With Mr.. Rover, representing the
Government at the trial are At
torneys John B. O.Brien, jr, and
Frank Cunningham.
The defense attorneys are Mr.
keenan,, Nichols Chase, Robert
]. Murphy, Charles E. Ford. Ken
meth D. Wood and Austin F. Can
| field.
Evening star., 1948-04-16

ment in the water-expansion pro-
gram will be at the 42-year-old
Bryant street pumping station. Eow
the oldest station in the waterworks
system. The station will be thor
oughly revamped and doubled in
capacity" he declared.
Early expansion and moderniza-
ton of the Anacostia pumping sta
ton also is scheduled.
The Capital improvement program
was outlined in report of the
Washington Aqueduct and the Dis
trict water division. High lights of
the plan also included:
A new Potomac River dam at
Little Falls, and remodeling of the
intake at Great Falls.
A new pumping plant at Fort
Reno.
Crosstown Water Main.
A large, 7-mile-long crosstown
water main to interconnect the
Dalecarlia and Mcmillan filter
plants and the Bryant street pump
ing station.
Five ground surface reservoirs
and one elevated tank for storage.
David v. Aud. superintendent of
the District Water Division, which
handles distribution of water, said
the improvements are being financed
entirely from water revenues, but
warned that they will not be ade-
quate to carry improvements at
the rate now planned. The District
last year, he said. suggested to Con-
gress that a credit loan be provided
for the purpose.
Present revenues, meanwhile, will
provide an estimated $2,500,000 a
year for the improvements, Mr.. Auld
said. This figure was increased last
July. he said, by 25 per cent in
crease in water rates and a 81 900, 600
Federal payment for water used by
the Government.
Evening star., 1948-04-16
Mrs. Jockson Reoppointed

nounced the appointment Of Mrs.
Eleanora Jackson to a fourth term
as member of the Board Of Co.'S
metology. Mrs. Jackson, who has
served on the board since July 7,
1889, will begin her new three-year
term July 6.
Evening star., 1948-04-16
Night Nurses Honored
AT Association Bunquet

The Washington Nurses Associ-
alton honored night duty nurses at
banquet last night in the YWCA
Seventeenth and K streets NV.
The night nurses were paid trib-
ute in a speech by Mrs. Virginia
Gaskins, vice president. Mrs. Ger
trude Funk, president, was chair
man,
Evening star., 1948-04-16

CARDOZO UNIT WINS DRLL-Cadet Maj Louise D. Scott 18
1928 Pomeroy NV received the rstpace award
behalf Sd Battalion Cardozo High School, at the second
colored girls cadet competition this morning at Brooks
Stadium and streets NV Making the presentation
were (center WAC office of the adjuant
general Maj Rnggold WAC. office OF the sur
geon general. star Stau Pnoto
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SPORTS, Folks and Facts
BY BRANToN CRANE

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police stop people from GAMBLING
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