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Evening star., 1948-05-25

The Republican Democratic base
ball game, played last Friday night
at Griffith Stadium, made another
record yesterday-the Congressional
Record, wherein victors and victims
took turns in tossing bouquets at
one another.
Representative Bishop, manage,
of the defeated Republicans. paid
tribute to the Democrats, but
warned I'VE have already started
our scouts throughout the Nation
to bring In some raw material fol
next year" The gentleman from
illinois admitted that although hiz
players did "an excellent job In
their own way" the Democrats die
much better.
Representative Richards of South
Carolina, Democratic manager, sale
it took "a real man to get up her'
and congratulate his enemies in the
face of such an ignominious 23-l4
defeat" but that he had no dispo-
sition to rub salt into the wounds
of such a gracious opponent. Mr.
Richards added that the leaders Of
the Nation might well profit by his
own experience in leading a dissen.
sion-ridden team to victory.
May I add my congratulation'
to The Evening Star Newspaper
which sponsored this great game fol
the benefit of underprivileged chill
dren, who otherwise would not get
a chance to go to summer camp
I am sure each one of us will alway.
be happy to have participated II
Evening star., 1948-05-25
| Arlington Man,
| go Today, Works
|OnHis Garden

August Reher, with 10 grandchil.
dren and 40 Observation-Disclosures
today observed his Goth birthday at
his home, $40 North Piedmont street
Arlington.
To celebrate the event, Mr.. ReheI
planned to spend part Of today in
his garden which he has grown at
the home of two OF his daughters'
the Misses Clara and Bertha Reher
with whom he lives. Mine OF his IL
children now are living. A daugh-
ter, Mrs. C. o. Neal. lives across the
street from him. A son, Charles
Reher. lives in the 800 block OF
Eleventh street NV.
Mr.. Reher is a retired matchmaker
who reads the newspapers without
the aid of glasses which he dis
carded about 20 years ago. A native
of Germany, he came to America
in 1871 and worked at his trade IN
Ohio and Illinois before moving to
Arlington about II years ago.
Evening star., 1948-05-25
1oomey Named President
OF Society Of Natives

The Society of Natives last night
elected James c. Toomey, WASH
ington attorney, as association pres
ident for next fall.
The following were also elected:
Frank Strickler, Marselina Hum.
mer, and Ford Young, vice presi-
dents; Hugh MCGEE, recording Sec
retary, and Mrs. Jane Nolan BHnes,
corresponding secretary.
Fred Umhau, treasurer, and Eta
Taggart, historian, were reelected.
Mr.. Umhau has held this Office con-
tinuously since 1927.
Mrs. Dorothy Wilson, member of
the District Bar Association, gave a
report of her trip as delegate 10
the fifth conference of the Inter-
American Bar Association last year
in Lima, Peru.
The meeting conducted by Robert
P. Leeman, president, was held in
the Mayflower Hotel, Connecticut
avenue and l. street NV.
Evening star., 1948-05-25
Editors al Maryland U.
| Named for Publications
by the Assoeioted Press

Allen Bowers of Riverdale, Md. q
senior in the College of Arts and
Sciences, has been chosen editor Of
the Diamonback, student weekly
newspaper at the University Of
Maryland.
Arthur Cosing. s06 Upshur street
NV, Junior in the College Of
Home Economics, was named editor
of the Old Line, campus magazine.
Henry Saylor. 631l Eighth street
NE, was named editor Of the M
Book, which is distributed each fall
as a guide for entering freshmen.
He is q senior in the College OF
Business and Public Administration.
Frank Masterson, Catonsviile,
Junior in the College OF Arts ana
Sciences, was named editor OF the
Terrapin, university yearbook.
Evening star., 1948-05-25
$1,000 Awarded Gleason S
On Injury Case Appeal

Mr.. and Mrs. John w. Gleason,
of Savannah, Ga, stand to get a
total of $1,000 for hip fracture
Mrs. Gleason suffered in December,
1345, under a United States Court
of Appeals ruling yesterday.
A District Court jury awarded
Mrs. Gleason $500 for the injury,
suffered when she fell down steps
at the Academy Of the Holy Cross,
in the 1900 block of Upton street
NV. Mr.. Gleason was awarded
81, 500 for expenses and loss of his
wife's services. The verdict was
against the academy.
This verdict, however, was set
aside by Justice Jennings Bailey,
who ruled that the place where Mrs.
Gleason fell was not inherently
dangerous"
The appellate courts decision
overruling Justice Bailey has the
effect of reinstating the verdict.
The Gleasons were represented by
Attorney Arthur J. Inland.
Evening star., 1948-05-25
500 Children, Elders
Join Parade 10 Urqe
Woodbridge New Look

Nearly 50 adults Joined more than
$50 school children Of the John Bur-
roughs School this morning in a
junior civic parade to demonstrate
the interest of the young sprouts
in community betterment.
The parade was organized by the
school in connection with the Board
of Trades Junior Community I'm
provement Project. And the floats
slogans and banners of the marchers
proclaimed the youngsters efforts to
do their part in community i'm
provement. The school is at Eight
eenth and Monroe streets NE.
"Give Woodbridge the New Look
was the placard that struck the key
note of the parade after pretty
Drum Major Eleanor Dodder, II
and a phalanx of bicycles started
the parade.
| Woodbridge civic organizations
businessmen and 18th precinct po-
lice joined in the parade, which
swung around the block and back to
the school play court.
Score of Floats in Parade.
Nearly a score of floats rumbled
along the sidewalk, pulled by cos
tuned students. Two depicted home
improvement, while the prize win
ner was a wagon decked with flow
ers and depicting a child in a crib.
Flowers Give Joy to All" was its
motto.
Don't Be a Jerk, Get Out and
Work" was another placard that
headed the parade. Following were
children representing home beauti-
flcation and improvements, cleanli-
ness, gardening. conservation and
health, and many other civic ideals
and activities.
One group Of children bore a sign
asking, Help Us Capture Vandal-
ism" Pretty soon Vandalism him
self passed by. The role was played
by Wayne Dauber, II, who glowered
from inside a miniature Jail on a
wagon top.
Boy, 8, Health King.
rIcChlCu 1dul MCLSdll, o, WdS
King of Good Health. He rode en-
throned on a wagon while a con-
tingent bearing hoes and rakes fol-
lowed as his bodyguard.
There were Scouts and Brownies,
too, as we'll as costumed groups OF
younger children. One had a sign
reading Street Sweepers, Rah
Rah."
Part of the parade was devoted
to signs and floats giving hints on
how to help local businesses. do
Not Handle Unless You Buy" one
read.
There were older persons in the
parade, too. Besides representatives
of Woodbridge businesses there were
the presidents of the Burroughs
Citizens Association, Burroughs Par
nt-Teacher Association and East
Gate Businessmen's Association.
They were Robert N. Burrows, Mrs.
Donald G. Welsh, and James Hagan.
Evening star., 1948-05-25
Two in Fire Department
Promoted 10 Capfaincies

The Commissioners today an
nounced promotion of two Fire De-
partment lieutenants, Albert A..
Thompson and Emile j. Daigle, to
the rank of captain.
The promotions were made to fill
vacancies which will appear on
June l when Capts. w. H. Roman
and G. L. Darling become battalion
chiefs.
In their new rank, Capts. Thomp-
son and Daigle will draw $5,023 a
year.
In other promotions announced
today, on recommendation of Fire
Chief Clement Murphy, Sergts. No.
bic o. Teats and williams w. Snow
become lieutenants at a salary of
s4,278 q year, and Pyts. Robert H.
Kirchmyer and Benjamine r. How
ard become sergeants at $3,872
year.
Evening star., 1948-05-25
D. T.. Medical Society
Offers Aid in PLANNING
For Disaster Relief

District Medical Society officials
today offered to help the Commits
sioners set up an emergency medical
care plan that could swing into
operation here in case of a wartime
bombing or any other disaster.
The proposal was made to Com
missioner John Russell Young in a
visit to the District Building by DR..
A. Clagett Gray, head of the So
ciety's Committee on Emergency
Medical Care, and Theodore Wip-
rud. secretary of the society.
The plan, If adopted, probably
would deal with means of evacua-
ton and organization Of the city's
medical facilities to operate in case
of bombing or any other type of
disaster threatening the city.
Ready for Conference.
Mr.. Wiprud said he thought such
q plan should be tied in closely
with nearby counties of Maryland
and Virginia.
He said the medical group Is will
ing Ito sit down any time" to dis
cuss the plan with the city heads.
He said he told Mr.. Young the So
ciety's committee, headed by DR..
Gray, then could cooperate in
drawing up a detailed plan.
Reached by telephone. Mr.. Young
said the proposal probably would be
in line with city plans for a civilian
defense program, which has not yet
been set up. He said he asked the
medical ofiicials to return for a
later meeting at which all three
Commissioners could be present.
DR.. Gray represented the District
recently at a Chicago meeting of
the associations Council on Emer-
gency Medical Service, which dis
cussed the need for such a plan of
medical organization.
Members Of the special District
Committee, besides DR.. Gray and
Mr.. Wiprud, are: DR.. G. Victor
Simpson, vice chairman; DR.. Fred
erick o. Coe, DR.. Worth B. Daniels,
DR.. Gusts Lee Hall, Brig. Gen. Wal
lace H. Graham. physician to Presi-
dent Truman; DR.. Ross T. McIn-
tyre, DR.. James A. Crabtree Of the
Public Health Service, and DR.. Her
man s. Wigodsky OF the National
Research Council.
Evening star., 1948-05-25
Deputies Win Pledge!
From Last Squatters
To Quit Trailer Camp
Deputy marshals today used diplo-

Deputy marshals today used diplo-
macy and q pleasant manner to
win promises OF immediate departure
from the last trailer-housed fam
lilies charged with unlawful occu-
pancy" OF the Washington Tourist
Camp.
Seven trailer occupants were still
at the camp when the deputies
arrived to see If the families had
needed the 1890 am. deadline set
for their voluntary departure.
Although "forcible removal" was
threatened, the scene at the trailer
camp was peaceful. With Marshall
w. Bruce Matthews overseeing the
job, the families agreed they would
vacate.
Waiver Given on License.
One main said he didn't have a
license for his trailer. Arrangements
were made promptly with Park Po-
lice Capt. Mark H. Raspberry to
give him a waiver, and motorcycle
policeman was assigned to escort
him to another trailer site.
While agreeing to leave. Anthony
Trout, 81, said he had no place to
take his family. Mrs. Trout, l8,
an expectant mother, sat with her
S-month-old daughter Jacqueline on
the trailer step and forlornly
watched the narshals.
Oficials said one trailer occupant
would be allowed to remain a month
longer as a hardship case. She is
Mrs. Robert B. Lloyd, wife Of an
Army officer patient at Walter Reed
Hospital.
Appeal to Krug.
The families had petitioned Sec
retary OF the Interior Krug to be
allowed to remain in the camp
which the office Of National Capital
Parks wants restored to its full
use as a temporary accommo-
dation for tourists with two-week
limit on occupancy. The families
remaining in the trailer section are
all that are left of more than 100
who came during the war.
Some families plan to move to
the new quarters provided for the
squatters on Columbia Island, where
there are bath houses, water and
electric power for cooking and light
ing. To induce them to leave the
East Potomac Park premises, NCP
has offered them the new site free
of rent for two months.
In charge of the removals were
Chief Deputy Charles Ward and
Assistant Chief Deputy James Mat
tingly. The camp is conducted for
National Capital Parks by Govern
ment Services, Inc, and Manager
mis- NaDoH
Evening star., 1948-05-25
1,5OO Veterans Bid
On 10 Motor Vehicles
Al War Assets Sale

More than $500 veterans Of World
War II crowded into two large
wings Of the War Assets Admins
tration Building. Fourth street and
Independence avenue SW., to take
their chances of getting in on a
bargain counter" sale of automo-
biles. jeeps, motorcycles, house trail
ers and station wagons.
About 10 pieces of equipment were
on sale.
Another 30 trucks, ambulances
and carryalls went to priority and
nonpriority competitive bidders. In
all about $4,000 worth of equip
ment was on sale at WAA list prices
High good humor marked the
start OF the SALE When the first
few numbers drawn from a closed
metal eontainer were between ZOO
and 900, low-number holders called
Shake it up. Get to the bottom
ones."
Chevrolet Costs 1925.
John B. Rosenburg, 27-year-old
Army veteran Of Alexandria. held
the first number. He chose a 1942
Chevrolet sedan. He paid 1896.
About Is automobiles, station
wagons and jeeps were gone a hall
hour after the sale had opened.
Because each piece was sold "as
is" and where is" some veterans
got house trailers which have nc
wheels-and are located as far away
as Winchester and Front Royal, Va
Donald M. Crossman, Al, OF Farm
ington, Conn, who came down fol-
the sale, said, after his choice of a
trailer:
Il can finally get a wife, now
that I've got somewhere to put her.
Pays 500 for Trailer.
Mr.. Cross, who few two years with
the Navy in the Pacific, paid $1Ot
for the trailer.
Many of the veterans brought
their wives along. The women ex.
pressed as much elation as disap.
pointment as their husbands as each
lot was called.
Three hours after the start oi
the sale, about 200 veterans ano
commercial dealers still were or
hand for the auction which followed
the sale by lot.
WAA hoped to recover about one.
third of the Governments orig.
inal $7l,276 investment through the
sale.
Evening star., 1948-05-25
Price War Seen
Breaking Liquor
Dealers Here
Kronheim Testifies
For Bill to Permit
Trade to Fix Prices

A wave Of bankruptcy among
retail liquor stores unless the in
dustry is aided by legislation allow
ing it to Ak prices, was predicted
today by Milton S. Kronheim,
whisky wholesaler before a House
District subcommittee.
"The economic situation OF the
business today gives US q bit Of
ALARM" Mr.. Kronheim said. '"The
list Of delinquent accounts is larger
than ever before. Unless something
Is done to stop these price wars
there will be so many bankruptcies
in this town that business will suf-
fer a severe setback"
Mr.. Kronheim explained that un-
der the law liquor retailers must pay
the wholesaler for their deliveries
by the 18th of the following month.
If the retailer is delinquent, subse-
quent deliveries have to be on a
COD basis. This, he said, was the
delinquent list he referred to-
Commissioners Oppose Bill.
The committee. under Represen-
tative Mcmahon, Republican. OF
New York, was considering a bill
which would allow wholesalers to
write in the resale price in their
contracts with retailers despite the
Sherman Antitrust Act.
The opposition of the Commits
sioners to the bill was voiced at the
hearing by Corporation Counsel Ver-
non E. West. Alan Payne. chair
man of the Alcoholic Beverage
Control Board, said the board was
against the legislation.
Mr.. Payne said that if the pur-
pose of the bill, "the better control
of the alcoholic beverage industry"
was to be achieved. "the best way to
do it is to establish the Govern
ment monopoly system in the Dis
trict," He said that California,
which has a system similar to the
District, was studying changing from
licensed stores TO State monopoly.
One of his objections to the bill was
that the ABC Board could not en-
force 1t.
F. Joseph Donohue, representing
the Washington Retail Liquor Deal
ers' Association, said that of 388
licensed liquor dealers in the Dis
trict, 376 had signed a petition for
the passage of this bill
New York Law Cited.
He said the purpose of the similar
bill enacted in New York, was ITO
foster and promote temperance and
to bring about a more orderly dis
tribution Of alcoholic beverages"
He expressed disappointment that
Mr.. Payne had not studied the
workings of similar laws in New
York, California, Illinois and New
Jersey. He said the Washington
liquor business was geared to big
volume and quick turnover. OBJ
viously," he said, these people
don't want to price themselves out
Iof business"
| There is no right, he said, to pur-
chase goods at less than the cost
Of production. He asked what would
happen to our social legislation,
how Social Security taxes and legal
fair wage standards would be met,
If the cost of production was not
paid for by the consumer.
The District committee room was
filled with liquor dealers and their
wives. Their association recently
held a mass meeting for the bill at
the Hamilton Hotel, attended by
several hundred persons.
Evening star., 1948-05-25
Wender Reappointed Head
OF Recreation Board

Harry S. Wender, prominent WASH
ington attorney and recreation lead
er, today was reappointed chairman
of the District Recreation Board by
the Commissioners.
Mr.. Wender, who has been a
member of the board since its in
ception in 1912, is reappointed for a
four year term. The appointment
becomes effective Saturday.
At the same time, the Commis-
sioners redesignated Budget Officer
Walter l.. Fowler as representative
of the Board of Commissioners on
the Recreation Board for one-year
teEn beginning Saturday. Geoffrey
M. Thornett, secretary to the Board
of Commissioners, was redesignated
as alternate to Mr.. Fowler for one
wear
Evening star., 1948-05-25
Five Plead Not Guilty
To Mis|abe|ing Drugs
Sold as VenereaI Cure

Five men associated With a down.
town drug and music store were
placed under $500 bond in Municipal
Court today on Federal charges
that they improperly branded drugs
sold over the counter as venereal
disease cure.
Arrested last week on warrants
sworn to by agents of the Food and
Drug Administration, each defend
ant pleaded not guilty before Judge
Walter J. Casey Their requests for
jury trials later were granted. Judge
Casey allowed the defense 80 days
in which to file any motions.
Listed as defendants in a 32-page
information we're: Super Cut-Rate
Drugs, a partnership at 1108-10
Seventh street NV; Irving Field,
"a, and his brother Israel, 30, both
of $500 Luzon avenue NV; Joseph
D. Cabaniss, Sc, colored. 1923
street NV; Arlington D. Anderson
S., colored, IS u street NV, and
James w. Spriggs, 40, colored, 36ll
Tenth street NV.
Fields Partners in Firm.
The Fields are identified as part
ners of the firm. Cabaniss and
Anderson are listed as registered
pharmacists employed there and
Spriggs as a former manager Of the
stores drug department.
The store sells drugs as well as
musical instruments, phonograph
records and quick lunches.
The partnership and the Fields in
dividually face Is counts charging
either misbranding or inadequate
branding of drugs. The pharmacists
face nine counts each and Spriggs
is charged with eight counts.
A Food and Drug spokesman said
the charges involve sales allegedly
made between November. 1916. and
May, 1947, of sulphur compounds for
gonorrhea treatment, barbiturates
in sleeping potions and another mix
ture described as worthless" in
venereal disease treatment. The
sulphurs and barbiturates were said
by the spokesman to be dangerous
to health in the manner in which
they were labeled.
Fights Increase in Bond.
Attorney Alfred M. Schwartz. rep
resenting four of the men, fought
the substitution of $500 bond for
the $50 collateral which his clients
posted Friday at the Second Pre-
cinct.
These charges are not as serious
as the thick volume Of typewriter
pages of the information indicate, ~
he told the court. Mr.. Schwartz
emphasized that the pharmacists
have been registered here "for
many years" and that the Field
brothers are longtime owners OF
real estate.
Assistant United States Attorney
James Mckay. however, countered
that he cant imagine anything
more serious than a situation where
some Of these drug purchasers were
not only not being cured, but actu-
ally were getting worse as result
of the self treatment"
Mr.. Mckay argued that among
the charges contained in the infor-
nation it is alleged that box labels
for some of the barbiturates sold
failed to state that the drug is
habit-forming. He added that the
prosecution was started as a result
of complaints by customers Of the
store.
Evening star., 1948-05-25
Police Brutality
Denied al Taxi
Murder Trial
Brothers Attorneys
Quiz Witnesses
About Confessions

Questions implying that confes-
sions of two brothers on trial IN
District Court on murder charges
were obtained through police bru-
tality we're asked by defense attor-
neys today at the trial Of George
and Lawrence Garner.
The two colored brothers are on
trial for their lives in the Staying
last February ~ Of Howard Jones,
81, colored taxi driver OF the 400
block of Irving street NV.
Defense Attorneys John Alvin
Groghan, representing George Gar
ner. and Louis Jongbloet, repre-
senting Lawrence, asked the ques-
tions in cross-examining Govern
ment witnesses.
They asked the Government wit
nesses, If at police headquarters,
they saw the two defendants being
beaten, spit upon, one of the broth
ers unconscious on the floor and
Mai. Robert J. Barrett, police super
intendent, taking a hand in the
affair.
DSHS oCCAh6 oASA oS~@~'
The witnesses said they had not
witnessed such scenes.
Police say they obtained confess
sions from both George, 25, who
lived in the first block of Hanover
street NV, and Lawrence, who
lived in the 2100 block OF l. street
NV.
Each side plans to call 80 wit
nesses. The trial, which began yes
terday with the picking OF jury, is
expected to last a week or 10 days.
There are four women on the jury.
Gun Not Recovered.
Assistant United States Attorney
Arthur J. Mclaughlin, in his open
ing statement to the jury, yesterday
declared the gun used by the broth
ers in the crime has not been recov-
cred. The prosecutor declared Law
renee got rid of 1t in the vicinity OF
Key Bridge by taking it apart and
throwing the pieces in the Potomac
River.
Mr.. Jones watch was recovered
from George, Mr. Mclaughlin de-
clared. A police search of Lawrence
yielded a clip to hold ammunition
and the lead bullet found at the
scene of the crime, near Second and
l streets Sc, fitted 1t, the prosecu-
tor said.
Further, Mr. Mclaughlin assert
ed, Mr.. Jones change carrier, bill
fold and papers were recovered from
a sewer near Sixth street and Wash
ington drive on the Mall, where the
brothers had thrown them.
Wearing apparel worn by the de-
PENDANTS had blood on it" said Mr..
Mclaughlin.
Says Jones Was Beaten.
He declared the Government will
prove the defendants were seen in
the neighborhood where Mr.. Jones
was, that Lawrence drove the stolen
cab around the city after the shoot
ing and that the taxi driver was
beaten by the brothers before he
was fatally shot through the head.
Mr.. Jongbloet. appearing for Law
renee, told the jurors the father OF
the defendants was insane. The
lawyer declared the defense will
bring in people who have known the
defendants all their lives, as well as
medical testimony.
The brothers have been indicted
also for the frst-degree murder of
another taxi driver, James Hardy,
38. colred, of the 900 block of G
street NE, also on February 81.
Evening star., 1948-05-25

Cadet Wellington Hung, IS, of
Central High Schools Company c,
drew deep breath as the Army
officer snatched the rifle from his
hands and asked him its serial
number.
The company was going through
its routine in the competitive drill
at Griffith Stadium this morning
and it was Corpl. Hung's turn to
have his rifle inspected by 1t. Ar
mold F. Vernarelli of the crack Sd
Infantry Regiment.
A cadet must keep his gun spot
les, know its workings and, above
all, it's serial number. The cadet,
who lives at 1011 l. street NV.
ratified off the seven-digit number
and the piece was whipped back
into his arms. Young Hung breathed
easier. The company was called to