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Evening star., 1948-02-09
|raq Bars U. 5. Loan
To Develop Big IVA
On 1igris, Euphrafes
BY Leigh White
Foreign Correspondent of The s.or and
the Chicago Daily News

fHe $HeoSo 6otiJ NeWx
BAGHDAD, Iraq, Feb. "a pro-
posed American loan of $4,000, 600
to help finance a $3.50, 600, 900 Tigris-
Euphrates Valley Authority, rough
ly modelled after the Tennessee VAL
ley Authority, has been rejected by
1raq because of our Government s
attitude toward Palestine.
Salah Jabr has informed our En-
,baSsy here that so long as the
United States supports creation OF
q Jewish state in Palestine the
1raq government will have to get
along without our assistance, how
ever badly needed.
I'VE no longer require any science,
culture or education from an Amer
lea that knows neither truth nor
Justice" Is the comment of AL
Mazda, a leading Baghdad news
paper.
The decision to partition Pales-
tine has embarrassed American
educated government officials who
had long been hoping, with our
help, to develop Iraq agriculture
according to modern scientific meth
DDS. a
If the anti-American trend con-
tinues, they fear, Iraq will be un-
able to throw off its semi Colonial
ties with Great Britain. in which
event living standards will fail to
rise fast enough to counter-ac the
popular discomfort which the Soviet
Union Is waiting to exploit.
Although Iraq is theoretically an
Independent country, its develop
ment is being retarded at present by
its utter dependence on pounds
sterling which cannot be spent on
vital public works.
] Accumulated oil and other reve-
a1ues since 1880 have given Iraq a
total sterling credit of more than
.S240, 100000. Until British industry
has fully recovered from the effects
of the war. However, Iraq's imports
will continue to be severely rationed.
It's present quota Is approximately
:s20, 100000 a year, in pounds. of
which only $6,000,000 may be spent
ON British imports.
The chief purpose of the rejected
American loan was to enable Iraq
to proceed with the construction Of
a series of dams on the Tigris and
Euphrates Rivers without having to
wait until Britain can afford to
supply the necessary equipment and
materials.
A secondary purpose was to en-
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"a blessing rather than curse. !"
2. Numerous smaller dams on the
northern tributaries Of both rivers,
to prevent the flooding Of the arti-
fetal lakes.
8. Mechanization of agriculture
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/ throughout the island" created by
TEVA In order to prevent its be-
coming another Egypt, with a vastly
increased population living at the
same low standard as that which
now exists.
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(. Subsidiary education. sanitation,
forestation. housing and gradual
electriflcation to extend the bene-
fits of mechanized farming through
out the areas where 1t is practiced.
Evening star., 1948-11-21
Yu|e Display Planned
At5i|verS Syringe Center

A Christmas display costing more
than $1,000 is being planned at the
Silver Spring Shopping Center
Colesville road and Georgia avenue,
by merchants in that section.
Plans for the decorations will
augment the celebration of the Re-
tail Merchants Division of the Silver
Spring Board of Trade, which in
cludes erection of decorated Christ
mas trees in the center of Georgia
avenue from the District line to
Cameron street.
Santa Claus will arrive at the
shopping center next Friday and
make his headquarters in Holiday
House, a structure just built In the
center. Hundreds of lights will form
a canopy over the parking area in
front of the stores in the center.
A 2O-foot Christmas tree on top OF
a service station will form the hub
for the string of lights. There viii
be three tableaux above the mar
quee.
The shopping centers program
will include radio broadcasts over
Station WGAY Mondays through
Fridays at Holiday House. There also
will also be broadcasts in which the
school children of the area will par
ticipate at HAS am. daily, except
Sundays, starting December TO-
Evening star., 1948-11-21
Teacher Union Local
Backs Interior on
Rule Of Fairgrounds

Local n, American Federation OF
Teachers, yesterday sent a letter to
the Attorney General supporting the
Interior Departments claim that
it has control of 81 District play
grounds instead OF the District
Recreation Board.
The dispute over control Of the
areas, which always have been under
District control, now is in the hands
of Attorney General Clark.
The Interior Department sent to
him an opinion by its solicitor,
Mastin G. White, holding that the
lands are a part of the Federal park
system and that the National Capt.
tai Park and Planning Commission
had only the power to designate"
use of the lands, not to turn over
control to the Commissioners.
Board Sends Opinions.
The Recreation Board, supported
by the Commissioners and by Maj.
Gen. U. s. Grant, ILL.,. chairman OF
of the planning commission, has
sent opinions presenting the Dis
trict side of the question. An opin-
ion from Corporation Counsel Ver-
non E. West also has been for
warded by the Commissioners-but
the content has not been released
by Mr.. Clark's office. Mr. West has
said he supports the Recreation
Board.
Agreeing with the Interior De-
partment, is the National Associa-
ton for the Advancement OF Col
ored People and the Civil Rights
Council, among others.
Letter Is Quoted.
The letter from the local teachers
union urged Mr.. Clark to uphold
the opinion Of the solicitor Of the
Interior Department to the effect
that Fairgrounds obtained under
the Capper -Cramton Act are under
control of the National Park Serv-
ice and that the policy Of nom
segregation adopted by the latter
agency is based on law"
The union also asked that steps
be taken to change the "undemo-
cratic policy of the Recreation
Board whose bylaws prevent our
teachers unions from meeting to-
gether in a public school auditorium
simply on the basis of race" Local
q is colored while Local of the
same union Is white.
Evening star., 1948-11-21
Man Breaks Arm
In Nightmare;
| 83 Hurt at Homes

Among victims of home accidents
last week was 74-year-old woman
scratched by a cat While trying to
remove it's paws from a mouse trap,
and a 37-year-old man who frac-
tured his arm while having night
mare.
=. The Red Cross Accident Preven-
tion Service also reported three
deaths from home injuries - two
from falls and the other from ac-
cidental poisoning.
Altogether. SO persons required
hospital treatment for falls, burns,
poisonings, cuts, bruises and other
home accidents.
One 9-year-old caught his pants
on fire while playing. Other children
drank such things as camphorated
oil, oil of wintergreen, paint thin 1
her and fly spray. They swallowed
ouch objects as phonog, aph needles
quarter, straight pin, lanolin and
eelluloid..
Evening star., 1948-11-21
Municipal Center Cafe
To Be Closed Wednesday

The lunchroom in the Municipal
Center building will close Wednes-
day afternoon and the space will be
returned to the Police Department.
1t was originally built for use as a
police pistol range.
Another lunchroom in the build
ing will open in about month. The
new lunchroom will be in room 1876
in the basement, which has been
used as storeroom, for several
years.
The existing lunchroom was
placed in the building at the begin
ming of the war at the request of
the War Department. which had
taken over the building. After the
District government moved into the
building about three years ago, the
lunchroom was permitted to oper-
ate rent free.
Under the new arrangement. 1t Is
believed that the District will charge
a rental for the space the lunchroom
will occupy.
Evening star., 1948-11-21
Arlington Approves
Assessment Study

The Arlington County Board yes
terday agreed to have State taxa
ton experts make a scientific study
Of Arlington real estate assessments
in preparation for the 1850 general
reassessment.
The study, which will begin in
January and take about a year to
complete, will cost an estimated $25,-
370, according to State authorities.
The board deferred appropriation OF
the funds.
Board to See Blundon.
The board also decided to confer
with ]. Paul Blundon. Keyser, w.
Va, regarding his employment az
consultant in the investigation Of
rates of the Rosslyn Gas Co. Tho
County Public Utilities Commission,
which recommended Mr.. Blundon.
will participate in the conference.
for which no date was set.
At the suggestion of Mrs. Florence
Cannon, the board agreed to ask
the County Electoral Board to look
into the question of further revising
districts of three of the county's
largest voting precincts. These are
Columbia Bancroft and Park Lane.
The board voted to rename the
Green Valley Playground the Jen-
ME Dean Play Field. The facility is
for Negroes.
Evening star., 1948-11-21
Florists Threaten Suit
Over Hospital Sales

The Northern Virginia Florists
Association yesterday threatened to
obtain an injunction against Airing
ton Hospital unless it orders the
removal by Tuesday of a refriger-
ated hower-vending concession In
Its lobby.
The association announced its
plans for the legal move In protest
over lobby sales being made by w.
". Steddom, a Washington florist,
who also conducts concessions in
Alexandria Hospital and at Gar
field Hospital.
At q press conference in the Of
nee Of their attorney, John Paul
Jones, 1921 North Irving street,
Arlington, members Of the associa-
ton asserted that Mr. Steddom is
selling flowers at the hospital at
prices Is per cent below those the
florists get at their shops.
Mr.. Steddom entered denial. He
said:
"As far as the charge of unfair
competition is concerned, we want
to point out that we give the hos
pital 20 per cent of the sale price,
which is the legitimate discount all
florists allow. These are for pre-
cisely the same bouquets we sell at
our shops"
John ]. Anderson, Arlington Hos
pital administrator, said the con-
cession is maintained only for con-
venience of hospital visitors.
Evening star., 1948-11-21
Arlington Civic Symphony
To 0pen Season Dec. 7

The Arlington Civic Symphony
will open its fourth season of adult
concerts at $50 pm, December 2, in
the Washington-Lee High School,
Arlington.
Van Lier Lanning, formerly of the
National Symphony Orchestra, will
conduct. The December 2 concert
first of a series of three, will in
clude the New World Symphony OF
Dvorak; the Nutcracker Suite of
1'schaikovsky; Glinka's Russian and
Ludmilla Overture, and new COM
position for piano and orchestra en-
titled Alba mbra.
The orchestra began a series OF
four concerts for children at the
school on October 81. Other con-
certs in the children's series are
scheduled for January %. March q
and May %.
Evening star., 1948-11-21
Maryland Team Leaves
For Livestock Contest

Seven members of the University
of Maryland livestock judging team
and their coach, Prof. Malcolm H.
Kerr, left yesterday for the Inter-
national Livestock Exposition In
Chicago.
Maryland's team placed third out
of nine at the Eastern National COL
lesiate Livestock Judging Contest at
Timonium, Md, on Saturday, No
vember 13. The team will compete
with 80 others from State colleges
all over the country at the expo
sition Saturday.
Members of the team, all students
in animal husbandry at Maryland.
are: H. Louis Bitter, Baltimore: Carl
Emerson, $50 Randolph street NV;
Richard Greenwood. Walkersville.
Md; Steve Kahoe, jr., College Park.
Nd; Francis White, 1927 P street
Sc; Lewis o. Myhry, Lakewood.
Ohio and Edwin Statter, Baltimore.
Evening star., 1948-11-21
'One of9Lives Gone,' Says Man,
Buried for an Hour by Cuve-in
Alexandria Plumber
Escapes With Bruises.
Rescuers Praised

A 24-year-old plumber who was
buried an hour in trench cave-ln
grinned from his hospital bed last
night and considered his survival
as "one of my nine lives used up"
II used all the prayers that
knew" he said. but thought I was
going to get out just didn't know
when"
The near-victim was James H.
Bryant, jr., of Presidential Gardens,
Alexandria. an eX-Marine who works
for his father, an Alexandra
plumbing contractor. He suffered
only bruises and cramped muscles
and is to be released from Alex
andria Hospital today.
The elder Mr.. Bryant was only q
few feet away when the 9-foot, g.
inch trench caved in on his son
during sewer repairs at the resi-
dence of DR.. Preston Titus. 1913 Mon
cure drive, Alexandria, about 1890
am yesterday.
"A big section of the top of the
lCCt IoiiS OAAA ASS'
deep, suddenly let 60 and poured
down on him." the father said.
To the son. it felt like this:
"All 1 felt was the dirt showing
down on me. pushing me forward
1t didn't really hurt. l felt as
though l fell forward. but actually
1 was only pinned from the waist
down.
Il tried not to breathe too much.
+ wanted TO save what air there was
down there. I could move my hands
a little and 1 turned on a f1ashlight
1 had. I. could hear them shouting
up on top and tried to shout back
that I was all right"
Both father and son praised
members of Alexandra Rescue
Squad No. !. who, the father said,
arrived within 3 minutes" after
Evening star., 1948-11-21

being called by Mrs. Titus. The
father also praised Patrolman Rob-
ert Payne, who was the first police
man to arrive and who jerked off
his coat, grabbed q shovel and
started digging"
The father estimated 1t was about
half hour before rescuers were
able to get an oxygen hose down
through the heavy clay and gravel
bank piled above his son.
Then I shouted to them not to
tell my wife until they got me out, +"
young Mr.. Bryant said last night.
"All l thought of was to relax and
wait.
1T wasn't really as bad as il
sounds but l guess I'm a pretty
lucky guy" he grinned.
Young Mr. Bryant served four
years with the Marines, most of it
at Quantico as an instructor in a
bomb disposal unit. He is a grad
uate of George Washington High
School, Alexandria. He has two
children. Martha Louise 3, and
Robin Lee Bryant, 2.
Evening star., 1948-11-21
Budget Bureau
GetsE5timatefor
D. +. This Week
Requests Now Pared
To Approximate City's
Anticipated Revenue

The Districts 1850 budget esti-
mates. cut by the Commissioners to
figure approximating the city's
anticipated revenue, will be sent to
the Federal Budget Bureau this
week, budget officials revealed last
night
The budget is confidential. OBJ
servers at the District Building,
however, speculated when the Com
missioners began pairing that the
s110.188,648 estimates would have
to be cut by $13,443,376 to balance
the books.
The extent to which the Com
missioners have cut the department
heads estimates will not be re-
vealed until President Truman sends
the budget message to Congress in
January.
Failure of the last Congress to
pass a proposed District sales tax
law, plus rising costs, forced the
city heads to issue an unprecedented
economy order last summer when
preliminary budget estimates were
being prepared. When these estl-
mates reached an impossible figure,
the Commissioners ordered even
more drastic cutting.
Expected Revenue IS Million.
The result was the $l10, ,188 ,648
estimate. This compares to the
Districts anticipated revenue in
fiscal 1850 of s96,546141. Most OF
&l3,443.376 deficit would exist in the
general fund if Congress were to
pass the estimates as they stood
before the Commissioners began
cutting.
The solution favored by the Com
missioners to the citys fiscal Ills Is
a 2 per cent sales tax with ehmina-
ton from District income tax
liability of all persons earning So
900 a year or less. This bill was
killed at the last session by the
ouposition of Senator johnson.
Democrat, of South Carolina, but
it is considered likely tnat Con-
pressional sponsors can punch the
law through at the next session.
Failure of Congress to grant the
sales tax prevented the DISTRICTS
employees from receiving the $3.50
year Federal pay raise granted to
other Government employees. The
District had no other way to raise
the money to meet the pay increase.
Ifa sales tax law is passed. budget
officials believe, it will be possible
to follow through with pay raise
for District employees. Other econ
omies would have to be ef1ecteo,
however. because the first year OF
sales tax would not provide the
city with a full l2-months' revenue.
"Clean" Copies Now In.
Budget Oficer Walter L. Fowler
had hoped to get the revised budget
into the hands of the Budget Bu-
reau by November IS. The public
hearing, however, was not heio
until October 81 and the closed
executive sessions between the city
heads and the department execu-
tives began the next day.
The Commissioners made their
cuts in the next two weeks but the
marked-up budget estimates had to
be returned to the department
heads for study and rewriting. The
clean" copies now are all in and
the document is ready for trans
mission to the Federal Bureau,
Evening star., 1948-11-21

coming in for a normal landing
when it crashed about 100 yards
short of the runway.
The base said its control tower
was in radio communication with
1t. Meinzen until he crashed. The
plane did not burn.
It was the first jet plane fatality
at Andrews, although other pilots
based there have been killed else
where on training flights. The last
such accident was May 5 when 1t.
Robert J. Kovar was killed near
Richmond. Va.
LII. Meinzen had been based at
Andrews since June of this year.
Evening star., 1948-11-21
Liquor Board Cashier
Held in Montgomery
In $4,000 Shortage

The cashier of the beer division
Montgomery County Liquor Con-
troll Board, was charged by Mont
gomery County Police yesterday
with embezzlement in the theft ol
approximately $4,000 in liquor
board funds.
Detectives said Charles w. EN-.
brey, 81, R. F. D. 2, Rockville. hao
signed a statement in which he
admitted taking funds between July
l947, and last Tuesday. by making
false entries in his books involving
empty beer kegs.
Embrey was lodged in the Rock
vile Jail in default of $4,000 bono
pending a hearing at 10 am, De-
cember Z. in Silver Spring Police
Court.
Start With S120 Shortage.
He was charged with embezzline
s120 last Tuesday, but detectives
said additional charges of takinf
funds on other dates will be placec
against him when a complete audit
of beer division accounts is com.
pleted.
The losses were discovered on thu
completion Friday of the board !
regular monthly audit, according tt
J. Forest Walker, board chairman
Mr.. Walker said the audit showed
"a discrepancy in the inventory o.
empty beer kegs
The board chairman said tha
when Embrey was confronted witt
the audit report, he confessed hi!
responsibility for the shortage. Tht
cashier was suspended Immediately
from his $3,100-a-year job. Mr.
Walker said. The exact amount o.
the shortage cannot be determined
until a complete audit is made o.
the record, he added.
No loss will be suffered by thu
board since Embrey was covered b,
a $4,000 bond, Mr.. Walker said
Embrey. whose legs are paralyzed
has been with the board about sever
years and was assigned to its bee
warehouse at Linden, near Silvel
Spring.
Helped Support Family.
Inspector James S. McAuliffe, ane
Detective Sergt. James Anderson
said Embrey told them he had spen
most of the money to help support
his parents and three sisters. They
live on the Raymond Morton farm
near Potomac, where his father
works. He spent the rest OF tn.
funds for "taxicab rides and liquor,
the detective quoted him as saying
Police said he gave the following
account of the method he useo
in embezzling the money:
Drivers for the liquor board pick
up empty beer kegs from tavern
operators. They pay the operators
Sc for each empty keg and turn In
slip to Embrey for the amount
they had paid out.
When Embrey entered the num-
Der of kegs turned In on his books
he would enter more kegs thar
were actually retWned and pocke'
the difference between what he re.
paid the drivers and what was paie
to him by the board for the kegs.
Detectives said Embrey told then
he made between 5000 and $40(
extra every two weeks.
Evening star., 1948-11-21
P-TA Meeting Planned
At Swanson Junior Hiqh

Claude A. Richmond, principal OF
Washington-Lee High School. Arl-
ington, will discuss courses offered
by the school at a meeting of the
Parent Teachers Association of the
Claude A. Swanson Junior High
School at 8 pm. Tuesday in the
Swanson auditorium, $500 North
Washington boulevard.
Others speakers will INCLUDE:
Clinton Cone, assistant prflcipal
and Misses Barbara TillsoM and
Alice Bolton, Of Washingtoh-Lee
High School,
Evening star., 1948-11-21
Wartime Pilot Dies
In First JET Crash
AT Andrews Base

A 24-year-old wartime pilot was
killed early yesterday afternoon
when his F-80 jet plane crashed at
Andrews Air Force Base.
He was 1t. Robert w. Meinzen, of
Oakland, Calf, veteran OF 81
months of European air fighting.
He held the Air Medal with six
clusters. He was married and had
been living with his wife at the
air base
The fighter plane had taken OIL
on a routine flight about noon, Base
officials said, and apparently was
Evening star., 1948-11-21
DjstrictMustAsk
New Law toSet
Up Civil Defense
Present Code Contains
Only Vague Authority
To Mobilize Residents

The Commissioners will have to
ask Congress for q law authorizing
civil defense mobilization If ths
District is to comply with recon-
mendations of the Hopley civil de-
fense report, Assistant Corporation
Counsel Oliver Gasch said last night.
Mr.. Gasch has made an informal
study of the report on how tho
Nations civilians should be pre-
pared for modern warfare. He said
the District Code contains only one
vague reference which might be ap-
piled to the recommendations.
This section permits the Commits
sioners to organize special police
in event of pestilence, civil disturb
ance, rioting or in case of public
celebration. Mr.. Gasch said it
could not be construed to cover the
many suggestions embodied in the
report made to Defense Secretary
Forrestal last week by Russell J.
Mopley's Office of Civil Defense
Planning.
To Meet on Special Police.
Meanwhile, it was learned that
the Commissioners plan to take up
again Tuesday the recommendation
of Police Superintendent Robert j.
Barrett that a special police reserve
corps be set up here in connection
with the planning of civilian de-
fense for Washington.
The Corporation Counsel's Office.
it was reported, has sent the city
heads an opinion that most-but
not all-of Maj. Barrett's recommen-
dations be adopted. One stipulation
of the city law departments opin-
ion, it was said, Is that Maj. Barrett
be permitted to organize and train
the reservists but that they not be
called out for service unless an act
ual emergency exists.
This opinion, if followed by the
Commissioners, would prevent use
Of the reservists for practice black
outs or any other exercise short Of
an actual attack on Washington.
Contains Model for Act.
Mr.. GaSch pointed out that the
Hopley report contains a model ver-
sion of Civil Defense Act for use
by the several States if necessary.
Something along the same lines, he
said. probably would be necessary
for the District If the provisions of
the report are to be followed here.
The model law would authorize
creation of a State DISTRICT Civil
Defense Agency, confer emergency
powers on the executive heads of a
political subdivision and provide for
the rendering of mutual aid between
political subdivisions in carrying out
civil defense functions.
1t would provide that all civil de-
fense functions of the District be
co-ordinated with the comparable
functions of the Federal Govern
ment and other States and private
agencies of every type.
Gen. Young Studying Report.
The act would authorize specific
establishment of local organizations
for civil defense including a Mobile
Reserve Battalion and the same sort
of police reserve corps proposed by
Maj. Barrett.
Mr.. Gasch said the Commissioners
have not requested the Corporation
Counsel's Office to prepare such leg
islation. Engineer Commissioner
Gordon R. Young, however. has
been studying the Hopley report for
a week and probably will make rec
mendations to Commissioners John
Russell Young and Guy Mason
within another weeks time.