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Evening star., 1948-01-25
Bill Proposed 70 End
Error Liabilities Of
|Disbursing Officers

Legislation will be sought at this
session of Congress to lessen the
hardship of present District laws
which make a disbursing officer or
head of department responsible
for money paid out, even in the
case of an honest mistake.
At present, disbursing officers and
even the auditor can be forced to
pay the District for funds which
had been paid under a misappre-
hension and which could not be
collected from the person to whom
the money was paid.
Many of these mistakes have been
made in the Department of Public
Welfare, where grants OF money
have been given persons after an
investigation, and 1t finally was dis
covered that the person was not en-
titled to the relief.
One case was pointed out at the
meeting of the Board OF Public
Welfare at its meeting last Friday
A person applied for assistance ano
after investigation it was found the
person was in distress and gran,
of money had been given to him
Later it was learned that the gate
leading to his front yard was in the
District, but the house in which
he lived actually was in Maryland
He received relief for six months
before being cut off, The District
is now trying to collect the money
Several years ago it was brought
out that the District in little more
than 10 years had paid out about
5000 900 for relief and other meas
ures which 1t should not have paid
Evening star., 1948-01-25
Second Class Finishes
Traffic Course Here

A second class in the Districts
traffic school was graduated" yes
terday, with all. seven members
passing the written examination.
Two had perfect scores.
The first class, which met Friday
nights, had an enrolment Of II, of
whom IA passed their examinations
and three made perfect marks.
Among the voluntary students
were Municipal Court Judge D.
Nelson and his wife. Inspector
Arthur E. Miller of the Police Traffic
Division is in charge of the school.
Each enrollee attends three weekly
sessions.
Glasses are held in the Municipal
Building Friday nights and Satur-
day mornings. Those attending in
clude traffic court defendants and
persons referred by permit exam
ination and revocation officers.
Evening star., 1948-01-25

Mozart's Symphony No. 20 in A
major has been selected by Howard
Mitchell, associate conductor of the
National Symphony Orchestra, for
the major work on the eighth
Neighborhood Concert which will be
given by the National Symphony
Orchestra under sponsorship of The
Evening Star tomorrow night.
The concert will be held at West
ern High School, beginning at pm
All holders of invitations are
urged to be seated by 8:45 pm. as
interest in the concert indicates a
capacity audience. At the seventh
concert last Monday at Coolidge
High School, some of the latecomers
were forced to stand.
Invitations have been distributed
through Western High School. Cor
don Junior High School and Grant,
Key, Hardy, Stoddert, Murch,
Hearst, Oyster and Adams ele-
Evening star., 1948-01-25
Prince Georges {, Of {.
To Discuss Flood Control

Road improvement plans. flood
control proposals and the Federal
housing program will be discussed
by speakers at a meeting Of the
Prince Georges County Chamber Of
Commerce tomorrow night.
Nicholas Orme, jr., chairman Of
the Program Committee, said the
meeting, at the Prince Georges Golf
and Country Club, win open with
dinner at pm. and that business
session will start at $50 pm.
T. Howard Duckett, attorney and
banker, will speak on Maryland's
efforts to obtain Federal funds for
roads carrying heavy traffic into the
District, and the Army Engineers
proposal for flood control along the
Anacostia River
The effect of the Government
housing program on Prince Georges
future will be the subject OF talk
by Curt c. Mack, assistant commits
sioner of the, Federal Housing Ad-
ministration.
Evening star., 1948-01-25
Truscof Is Appointed
Assistant Police Head /;
BRYANT Also Elevated

Police Supt. Robert j. Barrett
yesterday announced the temporary
appointment of Inspector Floyd
Truscott as executive officer and as
sistant superintendent of police,
and of Capt. Robert S. Bryant as
acting chief of detectives.
Inspector Truscott has been chief
of detectives since July /. Capt.
Bryant, former head of the mar
cotics squad, has been assistant
chief of detectives for more than a
year.
1t. Robert v. Murray, now head
of the robbery squad, will be Capt.
Bryant's assistant, Maj. Barrett
said.
Retains Rank and Salary.
The appointments become effec-
tive tomorrow. Inspector Truscott,
who retains his present rank and
salary, will serve as second in COM
Evening star., 1948-01-25
Salt From Icy Streets
May Damage Cars;
Washing Is Urged

Automobiles using snowy streets
that have been treated with salt
should be washed If the car shows
traces of white powder on the paint,
William A. xanten, superintendent
of the Division of Sanitation,
warned drivers yesterday.
Mr.. Xanten pointed out that when
the snow melts the white particles
are often swept by the wind onto the
body Of an automobile. If allowed
to remain for any length of time
this salt will damage the paint, he
said. He also said that In the spring
it is advisable for car owners to have
the under-carriage OF their cars
washed.
Mr.. xanten advised car owners
who have used the following salt
treated streets to pay particular at
tention to his warning:
SMilitary road NV, from Chevy
Chase Parkway to intersection with
Missouri avenue east Of sixteenth
street overpass. ssS
Connecticut avenue NV, north OF
Calvert street.
Nebraska avenue NV, from Utah
avenue to Connecticut avenue.
Brandywine- street NV, from
Broad Branch road to Linnean
avenue.
Massachusetts, avenue NV, from
Wisconsin avenue to Nebraska ave-
nue..
Foxhan road NV. from Reservoir
road to Nebraska avenue.
Cathedral avenue NV, from CAL
vert Street Bridge to Twenty-ninth
street.
Tilden street from Connecticut
avenue to Sedgwick street.
Park place NV, from Park road
to Manor place.
Missouri avenue NV, from inter-
section with Military road west of
Sixteenth street to Thirteenth
street.
Thirteenth street NV, from
Florida avenue TO CLIFTON SJreet.
Pennsylvania avenue Sc, from
Twenty seventh street to Branch
avenue.
Thirty-first street Sc, from
Pennsylvania avenue to Westover
drive. -
Talbert street Sc, east of Nichols
avenue to Talbert terrace.
Mapleview place Sc, from Nichols
avenue to Mount View place.
Hillcrest drive Sc, from Twenty
eighth street to w street,
r street Sc, from Twenty-eighth
direct to Thirtieth street.
Ridge road Sc, from Anacostia
road to Ely place.
Ridge road Sc from Burns street
to Bowen road.
North Carolina avenue Sc, from
First to Second streets and D street
from Second to Third streets.
Evening star., 1948-01-25
Some Price Gouging
On Fruits, Vegetables
Seen Here by Horan

District shoppers still pay COM
paratively high prices for some
types of fresh fruits and vegetables
despite reductions in prices paid
farmers, Representative Horan, Re
publican of Washington, declared
yesterday. e.&
A spot survey of wholesale and
retail prices made here at his re-
quest by the Marketing Research
Administration of the Agriculture
Department showed that price re-
ductions on many fruits and vege-
tables have not always been passed
on to local consumers" he said.
Mr. Horan suggested that the
departments market news service
be strengthened to call attention
Of consumers to such price trends
The report Of this first assnple
survey Indie 4tes Mere are1M9Se nps
portufiitiess iffstEe fresh w4rsAt 1he
vegetable, departments in groceries
for taking large margins without
patrons noticing it than there are
in other departments" he said II
appeared, consumers are more likely
70 follew price trends In meats and
dairy products than In fresh pro-
duce. The average housewife, Il
appears, can readily quote the cur
rent price Of butter, eggs or steak
but rarely knows the price OF
cabbage"
Mr.. Horan said he was informed
by the Agriculture Department that
wholesalers not only expressed
lively interests" in the survey but
Thought the Government should
publicize retail and wholesale prices
as a service to consumers and the
trade"
Besides indicating considerable
differences between farmer and re-
tail store prices for some fresh fruits
and vegetables, the survey, Mr.
Koran said, also showed many vari-
ations in retail prices. Carrots
lettuce, Idaho potatoes and tomatoes
showed wide price variations ir
stores here, while green beans
grapefruit and Maine potatoes wer,
more or less uniformly priced, h
added.
Evening star., 1948-01-25
Steam Pouring Out Of Hotel
Causes False Fire Alarm

Steam that poured ominously out
of top-foor windows Of the Palace
Hotel brought four fire engines, two
ladder trucks and an ambulance
racing to 1902 Fourteenth street
NV. shortly before 8 last night
There's no fire." embarrassed
hotel officials explained to the fire.
men. Steam pressure blew out an
escape valve in one OF our third
floor room radiators"
The room was unoccupied.
Evening star., 1948-01-25
2 Get Boys Club Posts
In Prince GEORGES.

The Rev. Raymond P. Cahill, as
sistant pastor of st. Jerome's Cath
olic Church, Hyattsville, and George
A. E. Rheinbold of Cottage City
have been named to the board of
directors of the Prince Georges
County Boys Clubs
Father Cahill will serve as rep
resentative of Catholic churches in
the county and Mr.. Rheinbold will
represent the County Volunteer
Firemen's Association.
Evening star., 1948-01-25
Special Pentagon Exhibit
Aids March Of Dimes :

An exhibit, designed to depict
graphically how and where infan-
tile paralysis strikes, has been set
up in the concourse of the Pentagon
in conjunction with the current
March of Dimes campaign by the
National Foundation for 1nfantile
Paralysis.
The exhibit includes a large chart
of the human figure with lights
showing what. muscles are affected
by poliomyelitis. In addition a map
gives the number of cases of infan-
tile paralysis which have occurred
in the various States.
Members of the Ashton Heights
Women's Club, Arlington, are IN
charge of the exhibit.
Evening star., 1948-01-25
Grove TO Head Arlington
Chest X-Ray PROGRAM

George P. Grove, Arlington attor-
ney, has been named chairman of
the Arlington Chest X-ray Survey
Campaign which will begin Feb
ruary II, it was announced yester-
day. E....-. ...
The survey will be financed in part
by receipts from the sale of Christ
mas seals by the Arlington Tuber-
culosis Association. The total sale
amounted to $33, ,7o3, the association
announced.
All persons more than is years of
age are urged by health officials TO
participate in the campaign.
Evening star., 1948-01-25
|HouseUnifPI Ians
10 Study 21-Day
WaIkout at GSI
Hoffman Soys ; Men
Will Decide If u. S.
Coerces Management

The 21-day-old strike Of Govern
ment cafeteria workers Is sched-
uled for another airing by come
mittee of Congress tomorrow.
Representative Hoffman, Repub-
lican, of Michigan, announced yes.
terday that a three-man Subconi~
mittee Of the House Labor Comrnit-
tee would meet on the dispute to.
morrow at 10 am.
He said the committee seeks to
find out If the administration "is
attempting to coerce" Government
Services, Inc, into bargaining with
Local All, Cafeteria and Restaurant
Workers, an affiliate of the CIO
United Public Workers.
Union Official Broadcasts.
Another issue will be whether
GSI Is to bargain exclusively with
Local All and the effectiveness Of
such bargaining, If it takes place:
also as to the right of any other
union to demand, at the same time,
a like right to bargain with GSI,"
Mr.. Hoffman declared.
Meanwhile, Richard A. Bancroft,
president of the local, called on
President Truman, in an address
yesterday over Station WQQW, to
deal firmly" with GSI officials who,
he said, seem to have clearly for
gotten that they are servants Of the
people" .~
Mr.. Bancroft further asserted:
This strike with its attendant pick
citing, will not end until every striker
is back on the job, every strike
breaker is fired and we have union
contract to guarantee decent wage
and working conditions"
Picketing Continues.
Despite the snow storm, union
picketing continued yesterday in
front of the National Gallery of Art,
FBI, Arlington Farms and Justice
Department, Mr.. Bancroft said. It
will be resumed today at the Cab
lery and Arlington Farms.
Neither GSI nor union officials
had received formal notices of to-
HlOEIOWS nearing.
j. C. Niehuss, personnel manager
of GSI, said their attorneys were
studying the ruling Friday Of Labor
Department Solicitor William s.
Tyson that GSI can bargain with
the union even though union officials
have not filed nom Communist affi-
dayits and financial statements, az
set forth in the Taft-Hartley Act,
GSI Maintains Operations.
The GSI spokesman added that
in the meantime, I'VE cannot sec
where the ruling applies to -olr posi-
tion." GST, although admitting IL
/ technically could negotiate, has re.
fused, to deal with the union on the
/ ground that Its leaders failed to
/ file aff1davits with the National
Labor Relations Board. 2
/ Mr.. sNiehuss pointed out that
GSI was going full steam ahead"
In its service Of food at 40 eafeterias
affected by the dispute. He esti-
mated the corporation now has over
1900 workers-about 800 of them
employees who, he said, have dis
associated themselves" from tho
union and the remainder new en-
ployes.
In response to a personal appeal
from CIO President Philip Murray,
President Truman last Wednesday
directed Secretary of Labor Schwel-
lenbach to try for solution of the
dispute. This was followed by Mr..
Tyson's ruling Friday.
A Labor Department spokesman
indicated Mr.. Schwellenbach planned
no conferences on the dispute this
week end.
The same subcommittee that goes
. into the dispute tomorrow held Q
brief hearing last Tuesday on tho
strike.
Evening star., 1948-01-25
Falls Church Still Seeks
Investigator of Police

Falls Church Is still seeking IAN
impartial investigator" to investi-
gate its Police Department, Town
Manager Roy Dunn said yesterday.
At the same time, Councilman
James E. Durant. who recently was
named chairman of the council
manic committee to investigate
complaints from citizens regarding
conduct of the Police Department
called on all citizens who have any
facts regarding police misconduct to
report them to his committee.
Evening star., 1948-01-25
Legion Post to Report
On War Memorial Drive

A radio report will be made this
afternoon on the progress OF the
s85, 900 war memorial campaign
launched last week by members o1
the Bethesda Chevy Chase Post
American Legion.
Joseph A. Cantrell, chairman oi
the Campaign Organization Com.
mittee, will discuss the fund drive
in a program to be broadcast by
Station WBCC, Bethesda, at 2:1s
pm. A barber shop quartet viii
sing.
Evening star., 1948-01-25
Civic Group to Meet

A delegate to the Montgomery
County Civic Federation will be
elected at the monthly meeting of
the Westmoreland Hills Citizens
Association at pm. tomorrow III
the Westbrook School. Reports
from several committees will be
heard.
Evening star., 1948-01-25
Street Plan Hearing Set

A public hearing on the proposed
master plan of streets and highways
for the central business district OF
Kensington, will be held at 8 pm.
February n in the Kensington Ele-
mentary School, the Maryland-Na-
tional Capital Park and Planning
Commission has announced.
Evening star., 1948-01-25
PTA to Hear Bowden

Dr.. Paul w. Bowden, Arlington
County medical director for schools,
will speak at the meeting OF the
Claude A. Swanson Parent Teacher
Association at 8 pm. Tuesday. Two
school health nurses, Miss Sabina
Neel and Mrs. Esther Arnott, will
demonstrate apparatus used in eye
and ear tests.
Evening star., 1948-01-25
-ourtIund Civic Unit to Meet

The Courtland Civic Association
will meet at 8 pm. tomorrow at the
home Of Mrs. L. N. Morscher. l4l6
North veitch street, Arlington.
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Court Decision
Continued from page u

\COIlClIlueu lTOul page ~
the highest court.
The Fisk publication showed
that racial housing covenants wer
responsible for taking out of the
housing market for potential use
by Negro families more than five
square miles of land in ST. Louis,
Mo-, and II II square miles of liv-
ing space in Chicago. The area
in Chicago, according to Johnson
and Long, is larger than the pres
ent amount of land now occupied
by Chicago's 4OO,OO Negroes.
"ItI cannot be emphasized too
strongl," Johnson added, ''that the
decision of the court does not
mean wholesale invasion of white
residence areas by Negro families
Present low vacancy rates in the
areas of improved housing, Sc
lective and competitive factors
will operate in the situation
erected b ythe decision. "Near-
ness to friends and relatives, dis
lance to work ad other personal
choices will be potent factors in
determining the, type Of residen-
tial patterns which may now pos
sibly develop in northern Cities"
Johnson pointed out.
The court decision, Johnson
added, will require a complete re-
vision of present practices by real
estate agencies and organized
groups of property owners who
nave been active in promoting ra-
cial housing restrictions. "In the
adoption of new policy consistent
with the court decision, these
groups now have the opportunity
to make one of the permanent
contributions to better ra.-
tons that has yet beer
in recent years." JOIN a7
The judgment of the cou ill
have reverberations even among
federal housing agencies, parti-
cularly FILA, which has sponsored
racial deed restrictions through it's
manual, according to DR.. John
son.
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dent, he was recently denied the
use Of the Ohio State campus
for a speech. He held it anyway
at the border O fthe campus. A
tremendous overflow of students
and townspeople turned out, MAX
ing the affair a great success de-
spite the undeomratic denial of
free speech by pssy footing uni
versity officials.
General admission to the con-
cert is 81. Reserved seats are So
and $3.50. Tickets may be OBJ
tanned at Lyon& Healy, 131 South
Ludlow street, NAACP office,
Anderson Piano company, Mutual
Record store, PA South Main, and
the Fifth Street Y. Mail orders
can be directed to the Cliff Nor
gan company, Is East Second.
Checks must be made payable to
the Leontyne Price Scholarship
fund.
The committee of sponsors in
cludes DR.. Walter Anderson, di-
rector of music at Antioch col
lege, who will play several origi-
nal piano compositions; Lewis
Booth, DR.. M. R. Clark, DR.. Rolla
Foley, Charles Francis, Prof. Mac
Greene, MI. and Mrs. William J..
Hamilton, w. O. Hawkins, Rabbi
Benjamin Lapidus, DR.. Oliver
Loud, Rev. H. P. Marley, Lem
MARYLAND, Rev. H. Laurence Nc
Neil. Also Morris Patterson, Her.
man Pfuhl, Rev. Granville Reed,
Prof. Anna Terry, Clarence
Thomas, Prof. Paul Treichler,
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Acting President

concluded from page u
chestra which, under his magma
tive leadership, is devoted to the
development Of symphonic music
as a social and educational force
in the community"
Previous recipients of the
award, which is now in it's fourth
year, were Howard Hanson, Leon
Barzin and Alfred Wallenstein.
Mr.. Dixon, as previously an
nounced, will conduct the CHS
symphony in three works by con-
temporary American composers,
two of them world premieres.
These are Wallingford Riegger's
3rd symphony and Quincy Port
er's Viola concerto with Paul Dok-
tor as soloist. The presentation Of
the award will follow the Porter
work. The third work on the pro-
gram is Robert Wards End SYM
phony. The concert is the final
one in the current Festival of
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1948-05-15
Name Ann
Edwards Secretary to
Health Project

NEW YORK, May IL. (ANP)
Appointment of Mrs. Elizabeth
Ann Edwards as executive secre-
tary of the national health pro-
ject of the Alpha Kappa Alpha
sorority as successor to Flora B.
Chisholm, who resigned, was an
nounced this week.
Mrs. Edwards attended New
York university, graduated with
first honors from the Harlem hos
pital school Of nurses, and holds
a masters degree in personnel adj
ministration and guidance from
Teachers college, Columbia uni
versity.
For the past five years, she has
held various supervisory and
teaching positions in nursing edu-
cation. The last position vas as
director of student personnel at
Harlem hospital school for nurses,
New York City department of
hospitals.
Her active participation in pro-
fessional and community activities
is reflected through her member
ship on the executive committee
Of the Committee on Structure
Of National Nursing organiza-
tions, the eduaction committee of
the National Association of Col
ored Graduate nurses, Planned
Parenthood federation, and the
speakers bureau Of the National
Vocational Guidance association.
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Santa Fe Railroad
Complies with NAACP
Request

OAKLAND, CAL, May Is. GA
NP)-Passengers will no longer
be referred to eating places that
discriminate against certain other
groups, the Santa Fe Railway
company here announced last
week. The company set this pol
icy after a request by the Bakers
field NAACP.
In a letter to Henry oJhnson,
Jr., the NAACP executive secre-
tary, C. C. Thompson, the rail-
roads passenger traffic manager,
wrote:
"This situation has now been
corrected and all passengers, re-
gardless of race or creed, are
placed upon the buses and taken
to our bus terminal in Bakers
field where they are directed to
a cafe within the tation and served
: regardless of race or color"
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1948-05-15

The Bakersfield branch made
it's request of the railroad after
Mrs. Gwendolyn Whitlow of Oak
land had complained that a cafe
designated for the passengers had
refused to serve her and her
child in March.
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Contemporary music being held at
Columbia university.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1948-05-15

Charles Washington, Prof. Jean
Ward, DIR. Charles Wesley and
Mrs. Miley Williamson.
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Ginqerbrpad
To Be a Decorator?

completion and when you realize
that the minimum number of arti-
Giles used in the average living room
become aware of the amount Of
shopping time and detail involved.
This method OF operation is cas-
Ter for the architect on his job,
because between him and the con-
sumner is the contractor and builder
who takes over the function OF
buying the materials to the archi-
tects specifications and design. In
the decorating field there is NO
comparable person to take over the
buying function for the decorator
Often the decorator will make his
or her fee on the materials used.
An architect is licensed by the
State and takes a stiff examination
There is no such prohibition or
limiting factor for decorators. Thus
there are well-trained and poorly
trained decorators, and unless they
have professional recognition you
have no guarantee that they will be
capable.
There are now several good three
year courses In decorating in schools
Of college status and in colleges
The student needs. some architect
ural training. a knowledge of period
styles, the ability to recognize If
not do good drawing and some
merchandising and business train
ing.
The profession is comparatively
new, in demand and good decorators
are at a premium, as well-trained
people always are. A talented child
can 20 far.