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Laurel outlook., 1948-02-11
"Song of the Thin Man.

End Feature
Another of Zane Gray's Western
stories to the screen in this
thrill packed western drama. The
gun-toting hero is cunning for the
members of the Tonic Rim gang
which is a battle full of heart
pounding excitement.
Tim Holt Richard Powers
Nan Leslie Carol FOrman
Richard Martin Tony Barrett
Laurel outlook., 1948-02-11
1.-THE Foxes of Harrow

Sunday matinee at 2:30 P. M.
Sunday night shows at 6:45 and 9
P. M. Monday and Tuesday shows
at s P. M.
Added: March of Time entitled
"CoId War;" and Newsreel.
Laurel outlook., 1948-02-11
MONDAY, TUESDAY

SUNDAY, MONDAY, TUESDAY
February 15-16-17
Here's tempestuOus love as you've
dreamed that love might be. It's
a magnificent romance of a man
torn by a mad dream of empire
and a woman who loved with reck-
less daring. No two ever loved with
more to lose.
Rex Harrison Victor McLagfen
Mareen O'Hara Vanessa Brown
Richard HAYDN Gene Lockhart
Laurel outlook., 1948-02-11
"Under The Tonic RIM

Bank Night Thursday with shows
at 6:45 and 9 P. M. One show
Friday at s P. M. Saturday shows
at Gas and 9 P. M.
Evening star., 1948-12-07

Chairman LANCER of the Senate
Civil Service Committee said today
that many married women working
for the Government are childless
because they are not allowed time
off with pay to have babies.
Senator LANCER said in an inter-
view that he will reintroduce his
bill which would allow go days OF
maternity leave with pay each year
1t was twice. reported favorably by
the Senate committee during the
last Congress. 1t never got through
the Senate.
Senator LANCER forced the Senate
to adjourn one day when he objected
to consideration of any other legisla-
ton after the maternity bill had
been blocked.
Every other civilized country on
the face of the earth pays its women
employees in cases where it is neces-
sary for them to have a leave OF
absence from their Federal jobs to
give birth to their children" he said!
The Labor Department and most
other Federal agencies have support
ed the maternity leave proposal.
They estimate it would cost the
Government about $5,400,000 year
for an estimated 1880 maternity
cases.
Some sponsors of the maternity
plan asked that it apply also to un-
married Government workers but
the Civil Service Committee last
session limited it to married wom-
en-.
Senator Langer's committee,
meanwhile. held hearing today on
the problem of some stenographers
Evening star., 1948-12-07
Hearing Society Told
OF Rehabilitation

Rehabilitation is one of the most
important Red Feather services,
Arthur H. Kruse, executive director
of the United Community Services,
said last night.
Speaking, at the annual member
ship meeting Of the Washington
Hearing Society. 2431 Fourteenth
street NV, Mr.. Kruse emphasized
the need for citizen participation
with the UCS in its rehabilitation
work.
In an annual report, Miss Rose
Feilbach, executive director, said the
society directly served at headquar-
ters, exclusive of attendance classes,
881 persons, 81 of whom were chill
dren, during the year. The regular
classes, of lip reading and other
aids, were attended by 1884 persons,
she said.
Of this total attendance 81 per
cent we're residents of the District
and IS per cent were from nearby
Maryland and Virginia areas Eight
per cent were outside the Metro
politan Area.
Mrs. Paul pernecky, jr., chairman
of the Bazaar Committee, reported
a $1,000 profit at bazaar Novem-
Der 20.
Five new members elected to the
society's Board of Directors were
Mrs. Elizabeth Nitchie, Mrs. Arthur
c. Watkins, Allan Fisher, Miss
Minnie M. Hill and Mrs. Gerard
Lambert,
Evening star., 1948-12-07
Guest List Announced
For Inaugural Reception

A preliminary list of guests for
the inaugural reception to be given
by President and Mrs. Truman at S
pm. January 20 in the National
Gallery of Art was made public to-
day at the White House.
The group comprises the State
Governors, the presidential electors,
the Supreme Court, the cabinet, the
Democratic National Committee,
the Joint Congressional Committee,
the Inaugural Committee, heads Of
independent agencies, little cabinet,
District Commissioners, State chair
men and vice chairmen, State COM
mittee members, officials of Truman
Barkley Clubs, officials of Young
Democratic Clubs, the families and
friends of Mr.. and Mrs. Truman
and of Mr. Barkley.
Evening star., 1948-12-07
Lonqer to Reintroduce His Bill
For 60-Doy Maternity Leaves

and typists having to rent typewrit-
ers to use in taking civil service eX-
aminations. The Senator expressed
his opposition to this system, saying
that the Government should bear
the cost.
The story unfolded before the
committee showed that people TAX
ing the examination could either
furnish their own typewriter, bor-
row one from the Government office,
if permitted, or pay a 81 fee for
the use of machines provided by a
typewriter dealer.
The Senator said he intended to
pursue the problems, to get the Civil
Service Commission to take over the
responsibility, even if appropriations
are necessary. He said it might re-
quire new legislation, but he will
study it and introduce it if neces-
sary.
Several men and women appeared
as witnesses to tell of their expert
ence in taking examinations. Some
of them complained of difficulties
because they we're unfamiliar with
the typewriters they had to use or
the machines were unsatisfactory
while a few testified they were COM
pletely satisfied with conditions
under which the examination was
taken.
Spokesman for the Civil Service
Commission, including William
Edgar Byram. chief of the Office
Services Division, declared it was a
question of appropriations. officials
of four typewriter companies told
the committee they offered machines
under the best conditions available.
Evening star., 1948-12-07
Patron of Baltimore Night Clubs
Seized as Bogus Money Posser

tered a Baltimore night club at
$3.50 am. today. The arresting offi-
GERS said they had been assisted by
young show girl who had a date
with him the night before.
Secret Service agents reported
that some of the bills were such
good counterfeits they could be de-
tected only with a magnifying glass.
Under the spare tire of the 194S
automobile which Acunzo was driv-
ing the agents found $1,081 bank
roll.
Two Baltimore detectives had been
working for fortnight on report
that part of a Midwest counterfeit
ring was moving its operation to the
East Coast.
They learned that frequent Gus
toner at several night clubs had
passed $120 worth of bogus bills at
one time and $3.50 worth at another.
Secret Service agents and a spe-
cial police detail officers set up a
watch at the Baltimore night club
and one of them arrested Acunzo as
he got out of his car.
Evening star., 1948-12-07
500 Here Get 100000
Western Union Back Paw

About 500 Western Union employees
in the Washington area are slicing
a melon approximating 100000 in
wage adjustments granted a year
and half ago.
Altogether, about $4,000 Western
Union employees throughout the
Nation are benefiting in payments
made possible through decisions of
the old War Labor Board and fact
finding board.
The decisions followed certifica-
tion of the Commercial Telegraphers
Union (AFL) as national bargaining
agent for telegraph employees in an
election held in 1945.
The wage awards resulted from a
classification of all employees,
definitely establishing job conditions
of Western Union employees for the
first time.
The money now being distributed
was made retroactive to June 2, 1916.
and gives employees an average Of
312 cents an hour in extra pay for
that period.
Evening star., 1948-12-07

Fitting around tombstones
with the dexterity Of a wrath, a
15-year-old Georgetown boy
wanted for two burglaries finally
was captured in a cemetery
early today after a half-hour
game of tag with a dozen police
men.
While scout cars punctured the
eerie darkness with searchlights,
another boy slipped out of the net
thrown around Holy Rood Gene
terry, Thirty-fifth street and Wis
consin avenue NV.
The chase started when the boys
were detected in the 2200 block OF
Wisconsin avenue NV, where a
grocery and beauty shop had been
burglarized during the night.
Finding the grocery door open,
Pvts. Hubert Harmon and Andrew
Kissal of Scout Car u were about
to enter when they saw the boys
lurking against a wall. The youths
fed, with the policemen giving
chase for a block and half until
the fugitives disappeared into the
cemetery.
Radioing for assistance. the po-
licemen were joined by 1t. Horace
Skinner and Detective Roy Schwab
of the seventh precinct. Soon other
cars drove up and police were sta
toned around the 2-acre plot.
Once 1t. Skinner and Pvt. Schwab
picked up one of the boys with their
spotlight, hiding behind a tomb
stone. But before they could catch
him, he had slipped away.
The hunt went on until one youth
made the mistake of passing 1t.
Daniel Fletcher, night inspector,
standing outside the cemetery. 1t.
Fletcher grabbed the boy and held
on tight.
Attacked Safe With Hammer.
At the seventh precinct, 1t. Skin
ner told how the captured youth had
dropped IL feet through the sky
light of a District Grocery Store at
zoos Wisconsin avenue NV, then
opened the rear door for his COM
panion.
They tried to open the safe, using
a claw hammer in an effort to loosen
a panel, but the handle broke. Then
they emptied cash register Of pen
nies and set to work on a refrigera-
tor box. From it they took eight
pounds of bacon and a ham.
Exploring further, they found four
cartons OF cigarettes and six cans
of tuna fish to add to the loot.
Later they made a similar entry
Evening star., 1948-12-07
Killing Of Policeman S
Shotgun Slayer Ruled
JusfifiabIe Homicide

The shooting of Robert S. Wilker-
son, 35, construction worker and ex-
convict, after he killed a police cor
poral last Thursday night. was jus
tifiable homicide a corners jury
reported today.
Policeman Harvey C. Womble of
the ninth precinct, who emptied his
38-caliber revolver at WilkerSon
after the latter blasted Corpl. Grady
Beacham with a shotgun, was
cleared of a technical, homicide
charge by the jury's verdict. The
jury deliberated only II minutes be-
fore decidingsthat Pvt. Womble fired
lin defense Of his own life and to-
maintain an arrest"
The coroner's inquest into the
death of Wilkerson and Beacham
reconvened today after the Federal
Bureau of Investigation submitted
results OF ballistics tests of the serv-
ice revolvers of the two policemen.
Beacham fired two shots at Will
kerson before he collapsed and
Womble fired five, the evidence
showed. Two shots struck Wilker-
son, one in the abdomen and one
in the forehead. The head wound
resulted in his death. The FBI re-
ported that the fatal bullet was so
badly damaged that an exact COM
parison was impossible but tests did
show that the slug had been fired
by Smith & Wesson revolver car
rled by Pvt. Womble and could not
have been fired by the Colt revolver
carried by Corpl. Beacham.
Corpl Beacham and Wilkerson
were killed in the bedroom of the
apartment of Mrs. Elizabeth Arm
strong, "a, of 1901 Montello avenue
NE.
Corpl. Beacham and Pvt. Womble
we're called to the Armstrong apart
ment by Mrs. Armstrong; son Rob-
ert to serve a threat warrant on
Wilkerson. The warrant had been
sworn out by Mrs. Armstrong sew
eral weeks previously. When Corpl.
Beacham kicked open the bedroom
door he was struck in the chest by
a blast from the shotgun. AS he
fell he fired twice Pvt. Womble,
standing beside him, emptied his
gun and dropped Wilkerson.
Evening star., 1948-12-07
BY the Associated Press

The Secret Service announced TO-
day the arrest at Baltimore of John
Acunzo, 80, on a charge of passing
about two dozen $40 and $40 coun-
terfeit notes in Baltimore night clubs
last Sunday.
Oficials said this counterfeit
money was identical with a "consid-
cradle quantity of counterfeit notes
recently passed in New York, Phila-
delphia and elsewhere in the Middle
Atlantic seaboard area.
The Secret Service said it's Balti-
more agents and police there seized
car Acunzo was driving and found
81 900 in counterfeit bills in the car.
Acunza also had 5000 in counterfeit
money in his pocket, the service
added.
Acunzo gave his address as South
Norwalk, Conn, officials said.
They said the man was in Wash
ington Monday, but apparently
passed no counterfeit bills here.
Acunzo was picked up as he en-
Evening star., 1948-12-07
Lyle Watts Speaks Today
To Foresty Committee

Lyle Watts, chief of the United
States Forest Service, was to speak
at a. meeting of the Forest Con-
servation Committee of the Ma
tional Lumber Manufacturers AS
sociation today at the Shoreham
Hotel.
The Board of Directors of the
association is holding its annual
three day meeting at the hotel.
At the opening session yesterday
Howard Bruce, deputy administra-
tor of the Economic Cooperation
Administration, told the lumbermen
of the progress in Europe to COM
bat communism. r. A. Coglan, ex-
ecutive vice president of NINA,
warned the group they would have
to be alert Ito save what is left
of a free economy" and return the
Nation to "a Republican form of
government"
Evening star., 1948-12-07
II Policemen Catch One Boy
After Niqht Chase in Cemetery

at a beauty shop at 2211 Wisconsin
avenue NV, owned by James A
Martin. The loot here was only
cigarette case and a commando
type knife.
Youth Was Involved in Fight.
1t. Skinner said the youth now
held was arrested last Friday and
charged with assault with dan
gerous weapon. along with another
youth who had engaged two SOL
diers in a midnight street fight in
the 5000 block Of M street NV. The
second boy in that fight was not
the same involved in this morning S
burglaries.
Attacked with q screwdriver and
knife, the soldiers went to George
town Hospital for treatment and
were released. Later they were
charged with disorderly conduct.
The boys were turned over to the
District Receiving Home and then
released to the custody Of their par
ents. Police said the boy arrested
this morning will be turned over
to juvenile authorities for further
action.
Evening star., 1948-12-07

North Evergreen street, Arlington,
Miss Hasal was dressed in her ma
tional costume.
At the doll counter was blond g.
year-old Gerd Araldsen, daughter
of Capt. o. P. Araldsen, Norwegian
Naval and Air Attache, and Miss
Barbara Zakrzewska, niece of the
former Polish Military Attache here
Gen. Izydor Modelski. Both were in
costume.
Then there was Miss Generosa
Nunez, 1920 Fuller street NV, who
worked six hours a day for three
days to make doll costume similar
to her own ruffled Spanish one. She
is here on a visit from Havana,
Cuba, and is learning English at
Webster.
Greece and Guatemala were rep
resented by Miss Loula Papamichael
and Miss Olga Dressing. both of
whom have come here to live. Miss
Papamichael f ro m Alexandria,
Egypt, lives at A Rhode Island
avenue NV, while Miss Dressing
lives at 1871 Hoban road NV.
Evening star., 1948-12-07
Virginia Sole to Speak
In Silver SPRING Armory

Virginia Sale, actress and radio
star, will present her Americana
character sketches at 8:15 pm.
Thursday at the Silver Spring Ar
mory.
Her appearance will mark the
final attraction for the season of
the Silver Spring Town Hall pro-
grams sponsored by the Silver
Spring Rotary Club for the benefit
Of its Student Loan Fund.
Evening star., 1948-12-07
Hacker Says Three Men
Sluqqed and Robbed Him

Joseph F. Derdge. IS, Of AIT D
street NE, a cab driver. reported
that he was yoked and robbed early
today by three passengers, who took
s13.27 from his trousers pocket
after he was struck on the head
and face by one of the trio.
the driver reported to police he
picked up three men at Connecticut
avenue and Tilden street NV. They
asked to be taken to West Virginia
avenue and Mount Olivet road NE.
On arrival he was robbed. He told
police he was dazed after the fist
beating and could not tell how the
men made their escape.
Evening star., 1948-12-07

Costumed dolls and other handi-
work drew crowds Of prospective
buyers to the Webster Americaniza-
ton School Associations 22d annual
benefit bazaar yesterday.
Pretty costumed students presided
over the bazaar stalls, aided by
school staff members, while others
served exotic dishes at cafeteria
luncheon.
The school, at Tenth and H streets
NV, offers courses in English,
citizenship and handiwork to foreign
newcomers here. Each year the
association gives the bazaar for
charity. This year it will benefit
the Cancer Institute.
Assisting at the bazaar were two
young people whose father figured
prominently in the news last sum-
mer, when he escaped dramatically.
from Communist Czechoslovakia.
They are 1st 1t. Milan 'Hasal, %,
and Miss Milica Hasa1, Is. children
of Gen. Antonin Hasal, military ad-
wiser to the late President Benes of
Czechoslovakia. They live at 227
Evening star., 1948-12-07
Hospital Planners Told
New Site Should Be
Convenient 10 Doctors

A community planning new
hospital should select site conven-
lent to doctors and personnel rather
than to patients, hospital leaders
We're told today. s.
Fred A. Mcnamara of the Budget
Bureau discussed the Importance of
site selection at the second session
of the Institute on Hospital Plan
ming at the Wardmah Park Hotel.
Planners for a new hospital. he
said, should remember that most
patients use hospital only once,
but doctors and other workers use
it every day, and that must be re-
membered in choosing site
Ample Space Important.
Also of primary Importance, Mr..
Mcnamara told about 100 hospital
leaders attending the f1ve-day con-
ference, is assurance of ample space
for future hospital expansion and
consideration of future commercial
growth in the locality.
He referred to one site purchased
a number of years ago in Washing
ton for a proposed hospital which
now is totally unsuitable" because
of commercial growth. Mr. Nc
Namara said he was not at liberty
to identify the group, but that its
hospital plans are still in progress.
About the only good thing about
it's original selection, he added, is
that the expansion has multiplied
realty value of the property about
10 times. That should give the
group a good start for its new hos
pital," he said.
Sites to Be Avoided.
Hospital planners, the official said,
also should avoid sites near recrea-
tional areas, railroads and ceme-
teries. The psychological effect on
sick person who could look out
wondow and see marble tomb
stones in the distance is obvious" {"
he declared.
This was one of the objections
raised to Federal purchase of the
25-acre Nevius tract in Arlington
for the proposed 750-bed Veterans
Administration Hospital The tract
adjoins Arlington Cemetery; but VA
officials argued successfully that ad-
vantages of the location far out
weighted that factor.
The institute, conducted by the
American Hospital Association, will
consider construction of specialized
hospital departments this afternoon.
At a session at 7:30 o'clock to-
night, Albert v. Whitehall, director
Of the AHA Washington bureau, will
discuss provisions of the Burton
Act, which provides Federal funds
for hospital construction to States,
with the States or communities
putting up two-thirds of the neces-
sary construction money.
Evening star., 1948-12-07
Mason 10 Seek
100% Boost in
DC. Liquor Tax
Would Exempt Beer
From Increase in
Asking Legislation

District Commissioner Mason pro-
poses doubling the city liquor tax
and the license fees of dealers
handling distilled spirits.
He announced late yesterday he
will lay his recommendation before
the other District Commissioners
and ask that legislation be pre-
pared for submission to the new
Congress.
Revenue from liquor should be
increased here, he emphasized, to
bring the taxes more nearly in line
with those of nearby jurisdictions
and to relieve the financial distress
of the District government.
Beer should not be subjected to
higher taxes here, he believes, be-
cause it is the poor mans drink"
But the Commissioner said he had
not yet made up his mind on what
to do about the levies on wines, in
cluding champagne.
Increase Asked Previously.
Mr.. Mason said the Commission
ers previously had recommended to
Congress an increase in liquor taxes
at time when the city was search
ing for more revenue from liquor
Details of the Districts budget
for the year beginning next July l
still are an official secret. But it
was recalled that Congress, in writ
ing the appropriation bill for the
current fiscal year ending June 80,
had virtually scraped the bottom
of the barrel for the city's re-
sources.
One of the big expenses facing the
city when Congress comes back, Mr.
Mason said, will be the $3.50 pay in
crease for city workers, denied them
during the closing days of the last
congressional session. Because of
failure of the sales tax bill, designed
to carry the pay raises, city workers
were deprived of the annual increase
granted to Federal workers.
Backs Retroactive Raise.
Mr.. Mason said he will recommend
the increase for city workers be
made retroactive to last July l, to
bring them in line with the pay
Of Federal employees. This will cost
at least IS 500, 900 year.
The principal effect of doubling
the liquor tax here would be to
increase the present tax of so cents
a gallon on distilled spirits to ST.
Maryland, he pointed out. gets
S120 a gallon. County controlled
stores are permitted by local option.
In Virginia liquor is sold through
State stores.
Under the doubled liquor tax here,
Mr. Mason estimated, the revenue
from this source would rise from
the present 100000 annually to
s4,000,000 a year.
S790,000 From Licenses.
Total income from all alcohol bev-
erage licenses issued by the Alcoholic
Beverages Control Board amounted
to $4,000 in the past fiscal year.
This included fees from beer Ii
censes, which would not be increased
under the Mason proposal.
In addition, special tax on the
liquor industry for support of the
alcoholic clinic is bringing in about
$79, 900 a year, Mr.. Mason said. The
tax on beer itself is producing taxes
of about $275, 900 a year.
If liquor taxes and Incense fees
were doubled here. Mr.. Mason said,
retail prices probably would go up:
but he believes consumption would
continue at about the same level.
Evening star., 1948-12-07
Maryland Drive
Brings Rush to
Pay Back Taxes
BY the Associofed Press

BALTIMORE, Dec. 7.-Maryland-
ers have been rushing to pay their
back taxes since two violators of
the State income tax law went to
Jail.
About 300 delinquent taxpayers
appeared in Baltimore yesterday.
Two men were fined $500 each and
sentenced to 80 days in jail Friday.
They were the first to 60 to jail
since the State began Its recent en-
forcement campaign.
Controller James j. Lacy said the
of delinquents would
except in the case of those
who pay voluntarily.
Evening star., 1948-12-07
District Employees to Get
Dec. "a Half Holiday

District employees as we'll as Fed
eral employees will get half-holi-
day on the day before Christmas.
The Commissioners, authorizing
the holiday. said today that all de-
partments and agencies of the Dis
trict Government will be closed the
afternoon of December "a. The
only employees not to be excused
from work will be those essential
to maintain safety or to look after
persons cared for by District
agencies.
Evening star., 1948-12-07

score of policemen who said they
went to the grill frequently and
saw nothing to support Pvt. WAL
lace's charoes.
At police headquarters it has
been reported that a shakeup in
No. / precinct may be expected
when the Mitchell's Grill case finally
is settled.
Evening star., 1948-12-07
ChondIer's Boot Shop
Employees to Get Bonus

Employees of Chambers Boot
Shop, 1908 F street NV, will share
in $685. 900 Christmas bonus funds
to be distributed by the Edison
Bros. Stores, Inc. of st. Louis. oper-
ators of 202 stores over the Nation.
The amount each employe will
receive is determined by length of
service. position and salary rate,
according to Norman Goldberg,
manager Of the F street store.
Evening star., 1948-12-07
; Horn Blowers Arrested

Metropolitan police reported the
arrests of three more horn blowing
violators in the District in the "a
hour period ending at am. today.
Unnecessary use of the auto horn Is
forbidden on District streets.
Evening star., 1948-12-07
18 Industry Deaths Listed

RICHMOND, Va, Dec. 7. IP.-A
total of 18 fatalities, 28.6 per cent
more than listed for November 1947,
was reported to the State Industrial
Commission last month.