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Evening star., 1948-12-24
Woman 'sC|ub Loses
Tax.Exemption Fight

The Chevy Chase Womans Club
is not a charitable organization and
must pay Montgomery County prop
erty taxes, under ruling of the
Maryland State Tax Commission.
The decision. handed down yes
terday in Baltimore, supported a
position taken by Wilton T. Allen,
county assessment supervisor, that
the club should pay taxes on its
property at 7431 Connecticut ave-
nue., assessed at $4,000.
The club, which has a membership
of about 300, had claimed tax ex-
emption on the ground it was Or
ganized for charitable, benevolent,
educational and literary purposes.
In its ruling. the commission held
the club is IAN association for the
mutual benefit of its members and
not a charitable or benevolent in
stitution within the meaning of the
statute"
Mr.. Allen said that as result OF
the tax commmiSsion's ruling, he
would place an assessment for the
1949-50 fiscal year Of $18,420 on the
Bethesda Women's Club, $500 So
noma drive, which recently was held
to be tax exempt by the commits
sion because of a technicality.
Taxes from the two clubs will
amount to a total Of about 81 800
a year, Mr.. Allen said.
Evening star., 1948-12-24
Truck Drivers Held
After Man Is Hurt in
3-VehicIe Accident

Two truck drivers we're charged
with driving at an unreasonable
speed today as the result of an un-
usual three-vehicle accident that
sent another man to the hospital.
Police said two trucks of the B
& B Commfssary, 6303 Georgia ave-
nue. NV, were going north eon
Thirteenth street NV. when the
first struck a car headed west on
Kennedy street NV.
In an effort to avoid the two
vehicles, the second truck swung
around them, only to be struck by
the first truck, police said.
The driver of the car, James r.
Borman. %, of 43 Thirty third street
NV, a mail carrier for the Bethesda
Post Office. was taken to Emergency
Hospital with back injuries and cuts.
Pedestrian Hit BY Car.
George w. Armstrong. %, colored
1922 Thirteenth street NV, driver
of the first truck, and Woodrow w.
Long, 80, colored, 1923 P street NV,
who drove the other truck, were
booked on the unreasonable speed
charges.
In another accident. M Sergt.
James A. Anderson, 80, of the 1000
block of Barnaby terrace Sc: was
charged with driving while drunk
after an accident in which pedes-
trian, Mrs. Mary Davis, 80, of 129
Thirteenth street NE, was struck
at Thirteenth and B streets NE.
Mrs. Davis was in Casualty Hos
pital with a possible skull fracture,
cuts and bruises.
3 Hurt in Collision.
Three persons were injured early
today in head-on collision between
new mail truck and an automobile
on the Baltimore boulevard near
Beltsville. The truck was being de-
livered to Macon, Ga.
Injured were Harry McCutchen,
SO, of Lancaster, Pa, driver of the
truck; his sister, Miss Elizabeth Nc
Cutchen. So. also of Lancaster, and
Lee Edward Miller, %, colored, of
the 1900 block of Varnum street,
Bladensburg, Md. driver of the car.
Rescue workers had to pry the Miller
car open to extricate Mr.. Miller, who
suffered fractures of both legs and
Evening star., 1948-12-24

the name OF Ine entlIe Sidte, ue
agreed.
Born in Howard County.
His confession regarding the char
ter vote might be political blunder
for most candidates. It is doubtful
that the admission will hurt Mr..
Selby. He's the kind of person who
seems to be sought out by fellow
citizens In all sorts of situations.
Born and reared on a farm in
Howard County, he moved to Mont
gomery in 1918, when he organized
the Liberty Milling Co. with a $25,-
900 investment. In 80 years the
investment has grown to $500, 1000
and the annual business from
$150,000 to more than $1,000,000.
Mr.. Selby b secretary treasurer
and manager of the mill, president
of the Germantown Bank across
the street, a director of the First
National Bank of Gaithersburg, vice
president of the Citizens Building
& Loan Association of Silver Spring
and director of the Millers' Mu-
tual Fire Insurance Co., Harris
burg, Pa. He belongs to the Balti-
more Chamber of Commerce, the
Millers' National Federation and
the Rockville Rotary Club, which
he once served as president. He and
Mrs. Selby have a son and a daugh-
ter.
His opponent for the I'd district
council seat is Charles K. Davies,
jr.. of Gaithersburg, Democrat
running as an independent.
Evening star., 1948-12-24
Commerce Agency Emp|oye
Gets S325 for SUGGESTIONS

Albert F. Hopkins, radio engineer
with the Civil Aeronautics Admins
tration, was $325 richer today be-
cause of a money-saving suggestion
he made to the Commerce Depart
ment.
The check was presented to Nfr.
Hopkins yesterday by Commerce
Secretary Sawyer in ceremony in
Mr.. Sawyer's office.
The award was for new method
of computing prices of intermediate
quantities of items purchased by the
Government. The suggestion has
been adopted and will save, thou
sands ofidollars a year. Mr.. Hopkins
is chief of the technical specifica-
tions of CAA. He lives at 800 Bev-
erly drive, Alexandria. The award
was the largest made since the sug-
gestion program was started in the
Commerce Department last year.
Evening star., 1948-12-24
Two Taverns Called
Crime Rendezvous

"Ruffians from Washington" are
using Prince Georges County taverns
as a setting for plotting crimes, the
County Board of License Commis-r
sioners said yesterday in acting on
complaints against four establish.
mentS.
william G. Brooks. acting board
chairman. said newspaper stories
indicate that persons charged in at
least three serious crimes in the
last several months have been
patrons of the Oxon Run Inn at
Oxon Hill. which Is referred to as
the Bucket of Blood" =
Warning that the place should
keep an eye" on its customers, the
board chairman declared: 1--WE
don't want those rufflns from
Washington coming into the county
and planning their crimes"
The Bucket of Blood" was one OF
two county taverns that received
warnings by the License Board yes
terday. Also warned was James
Burke, manager of Franks Tavern
in Kenilworth. The board told him
that two defendants, recently COM
victed in Circuit Court in a rape
case testified during the trial that
they had purchased whisky in the
place on the Sunday the assault
occurred. Mr.. Burke was warned
against Sunday sales.
The Campus Club at Hillside was
ordered to suspend operations for
two days, and owners of the Club
Hillbilly at Seat Pleasant voluntarily
surrendered their license to serve
alcoholic beverages, rather than show
cause why revocation action should
not be taken against them.
Evening star., 1948-12-24
By John V. Horner

1t will surprise a good many citi-
zens of Montgomery County that
one of the 10 candidates for council
forgot to vote on the charter ques-
ton in the November referendum.
But the people won't be any more
surprised than this candidate, Au-
gustus r. Selby, was when he was
nominated.
Mr.. Selby is Germantown miller
and banker. He never paid much
attention to the charter issue, which
was spirited for years. He just
tended his businesses and left po-
Ilitical matters to the politicians.
A good Republican, he went to
the polls November 2 and voted for
the presidency and the House Of
Representatives. When he emerged
from the curtained voting machine
he realized he had overlooked
casting a ballot on the charter
adoption.
Embarrassed by Oversight.
/ Mr.. Selby admits to little en-
barrassment over failing to vote on
so important a matter. Soon, how
ever, he forgot the incident.
To his amazement, one day late
in November the Charter Nominal
ing Committee requested permission
to put his name on the council
slate.
Truth of the matter is I hadn't
ever read the charter through.
Surely was funny how things got
turned around. They wanted me to
be a candidate" he said.
Mr.. Selby said he was reluctant
to run. He had been urged before
to seek the Office of county commits
sioner, and refused. The only pub
|lic Office he ever held was as a
member of a Montgomery County
draft. board.
The Nominating Committee told
Mr.. Selby that at least two other
of its candidates had made their de-
cision to seek council places con-
tingent on Mr.. Selby's agreement
to Join them. After ascertaining
Evening star., 1948-12-24
Capital Transit Shows
S120,266 Net Income
During November

November-the first month Of in
creased fares-brought substantial
improvement in the day-to-day OPP
Grating finances of the Capital
Transit Co., a report filed today
with the Public Utilities Commission
discloses.
The company reported a net in
come for the month of $120,266, as
against a deficit of s71,5o2 in Mo-
vember, 1947.
The figures show net income Of
1894 431 for the first II months Of
this year. as compared with an $83,.
295 deficit during the same period
last year.
Last October-final month of op-
Grafton under the old fare schedule
brought the transit company net
income of 1884.
The net income last month was
drawn from a gross operating rev.
enue of $2,427 ,033. The gross operat-
ing revenue in November, 1947, when
deficit occurred, amounted to 81
2l8,457. Last october, it was $2,244,-
Alb.
The total operating expenses,
taxes and depreciation last month
amounted to $2,276,229. The figure
for November, 1947. was 2,257,251.
Passenger totals dropped last
month, according to the report.
There were 26,S19,264 revenue pas
sengers as against 28,953, ,726 in Octo-
Der and 29,471, ITO in November, 1947.
Total passengers, including trans
fers, we're, respectively, 34,180,834,
37,057,781 and 37,867,718.
The company also reported re-
duced streetcar and bus mileage
The figures for streetcars are: No.
vember, 1,668.000; october, 1,717,000;
November. 1947, 1905 900, and, for
buses, 1,s75,o0O. 1926, 900 and $780,
900.
The gross operating revenue for
the 11-month period was $24, ,668.378
as compared with $24,795 ,624 for the
same period in l947. The total oper-
ating expenses, taxes and deprecia-
ton amounted to $24,024, ,454 an
against $24,567,774 in the 1947 Pc
riod.
Passengers, including transfers, for
the period this year numbered 403,-
80l, ,723. The 1947 11-month total
was 45l,599.919.
Evening star., 1948-12-24
Jewish Conference Plans
Organization Meeting

Specific functions of a newly
created jewish Agency executive
Conference will be decided on at
meeting early next month, George
M. Pikser. provisional chairman, an
nounced today.
The group, formed yesterday at a
meeting of executives of several
Jewish sccio1 work.. recreot'on anc
other organizations in the Offices
of the o,W.sn welfare Board, los I
Massachusetts, avenue NV, will
serve as co-ordinating agency for
Jewish community organizations in
the Washington area. The meeting
was called by Milton Bernstein of
the Trading Bureau for Jewish
Communal Service.
Mr.. PikSer, who also is director
of the Washington Jewish Social
Service Agency, said officials of
groups not represented at yester-
days session also have been invited
to the organizational meeting next
month, where plans will be COM
pleted Besides its co-ordinating
activities, the group will help define
and improve the Jewish content" of
programs in the various bodies, Mr..
PikSer said.
Evening star., 1948-12-24

possible fracture of the arm. He was
taken to Freedmen's Hospital.
Mr.. McCutchen was treated at Le-
land Memorial Hospital for cut
hand and released. His sister was
admitted for treatment of a frac-
tured arm and possible fracture of
the ankle.
Pvt. Joseph w, Vincent of the
Prince Georges County police said
Mr.. Miller told him he dozed just
before the crash. The Miller car
was damaged beyond repair, Pvt.
Vincent said, and about $500 dam
age was dons to the mail truck. Pvt.
Vincent said no one had been
charged.
An Alexandria woman who was
knocked down by a hit-run driver
yesterday afternoon walked two
blocks to the Alexandria Hospital
for treatment.
Mrs. Dycie Wrenn, 40. of 1109
Duke street. presented herself at
the hospitals emergency room yes
terday afternoon, saying she was
knocked down by a car at Duke and
Alfred streets. She was treated for
multiple cuts and abrasions and re-
leased. Alexandria police said Mrs.
Wrenn was unable to give full
description of the car.
Evening star., 1948-12-24
Johnston Urges Raise
In Federal Payment
To Cover D. T.. Waqes

Funds to cover the $3.50 pay raise
recommended for District govern
ment workers should be provided
by an increase in the Federal pay
ment toward city costs. according to
Senator Johnston, Democrat, of
South Carolina.
The chairman designate of the
Senate Civil Service Committee in
the new Congress said he would ap-
prove the proposed bill for increased
salaries for top Federal officials only
if the measure carries the $3.50 in
crease for city workers.
I'VE should not raise the pay of
the big boys unless we raise the pay
of the District people" he declared.
Senate Unit Votes Bill.
The bill has been approved by a
Senate Civil Service subcommittee
and probably will come before the
full committee at a meeting Decem-
Der 81, Senator Johnston said.
The measure includes provision
to give District government workers
the $3.50 raise they were denied last
summer when Congress gave such a
boost to the pay of Federal classified
workers. The new bill would make
such pay retroactive to last July l.
Senator Johnston, member of the
Senate District Committee, still is
strongly opposed to District sales
tax, which he. filibustered to death
on the Senate floor, after bill for
the levy had passed the House.
Senator johnson said he will con-
tend, in the forthcoming Congress,
that the Federal Government should
pay for services rendered by the
municipality" He reiterated his
previous recommendation that the
present Federal payment of s12,000,-
600 year to the city be increased
by about Is per cent. Even this, he
said. might be too little. Possibly
the increase should be $10,000,000 or
s11 100000, he declared.
Cain Welcomes Bill.
Senator Cain, Republican, of
Washington, chairman of the Senate
District Subcommittee on Fiscal At
fairs in the expiring Eightieth Con-
gress, welcomed the new bill to take
care of city workers.
But he wondered whether its au-
thors had in mind some way of rails
ing the income of the District gov
eminent to meet the cost.
This is the season for Santa Claus
to give you something for nothing"
Senator Cain quipped. "All we want
to know is where the money is COM
ing from, and we'll vote for it,
Evening star., 1948-12-24
Chanukah Candles 10 Be Lii
By Inmate Of Home, 102

Harry Gam, 102-year-old resident
of the Hebrew Home for the Aged,
1125 Spring road NV, will light
the candles at the home for Chanu-
kah. the Jewish Festival Of Lights,
at 7:30 pm. Sunday.
A cantor will chant the benedic-
ton over the candles and Mr.. Gam
will sing a religious prayer. The
festival starts at sunset Sunday and
will continue eight days.
A seven-piece orchestra will play
and a magician will perform for
guests at the homes Chanukah cele-
bration.
The monthly birthday party for
residents with December birthdays
will be celebrated at the same time
Guests will receive gifts from the
women's AUXILIARY and there will
be Special gifts for birthday cele-
brantS.
Evening star., 1948-12-24
Prooroms of Christmas Music
Arrunqed in MANY Churches
offertory and Candlyn's scherzo

the offertory and Candlyn's scherzo
I'm Dulci Jubilo," as postlude.
West Washington Baptist Church
will have special music at the morn
ing service on Sunday. Excerpts
from Handels Messiah" will be
sung at the offertory by Carroll
Mattoon, soprano soloist. Clara G
Newton is the organist. On Sunday
night. The Church of Two Worlds
will offer Christmas music, when
Barbara Perkins, soprano, will sing
Neidlinger's The Birthday of a
King" and Stenson's The Prayer
Perfect" and Freda D. Egbert. pian-
ist, will play the "Hallelujah Chorus
from THE Messiah" as prelude
Diggle's Moonlight Over Nazareth
will be the offertory number.
The Lincoln Congregational Tenn
pie will have one-hour service at
7 am. on Christmas Day at which
the choir will sing Christmas carols
The musical program at the Sunday
morning service will be given by the
chorus choir and soloists and several
excerpts from Handdels Messiah
will be featured. A special service
at Peoples Congregational Church
at II o'clock Sunday will commence
rate the 200th anniversary of Isaac
Watts. father of English hymnody.
The best known hymns by Watts
will be sung by the young people S
and the senior cholrs. The church
school will present christmas
around the World" in carols and
pantomime at pm.
The last of a series Of Christ
mas musical programs will be given
at Mt. Vernon Place Methodist
Church Sunday at pm. pre-
sented by the Cloister and Angelus
A Capella Choirs with Margaret
Barnwell and Ivan Genuchi direc-
ting and Edith Gottwals at the
organ. The Cloister Choir will sing
two groups of Christmas numbers
followed by r. Deane Shure's Folk
Lore Christmas Cantata" sung by
the Angelus A Capella choir. As
bury Methodist Church will have a
service at $50 am. Christmas Day
and on Sunday the Wesleyan Choir
will give a recital at pm. The
Christmas Eve Candle light service
at Wesley Methodist Church will be
held at II pm. The Wesley Choir
under the direction of James L. Nc
Lain, will offer variety of Christ
mas music inucluding folk carols Of
different countries. and works by
classic and modern composers.
Evening star., 1948-12-24
Keneipp Warns Drivers
On Holiday Drinking

Reyocations of drivers permits
for drunken driving increases as
much as so per cent during the hol-
iday season, Traffic Director George
e. Keneipp said today, in warning
special occasion" drinkers to re-
frain from driving after drinking.
The motorist who seldom drinks
during the year, but does so at holi-
day parties" Mr.. Keneipp said, lis
one of the most dangerous"
Evening star., 1948-12-24
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will play the organ Prelude" from
Bach's Christmas Oratorio,' and
the choirs will sing, among other
numbers, Torovsky's "Hark, Ye
People" Priests 20 Wondrous
Night" Niles Jesus, Jesus, Rest
Your Head" and Mckinnon's Sleeps
Judea Fair"
The Christmas communion service
at Takoma Lutheran Church will
be held at IL am. Sunday. De
Lang's Christmas Pastorale" and
Rebling's christmas Fantasy" will
be played, as prelude and postlude,
respectively. by Mrs. Harvey Brake,
sr., assistant organist. The anthem
following the traditional Gloria in
Excelsis" will be Christiansen's" To-
day There Is Ringing The Christ.
mas pageant, written by Sarah
Pfeiffer and Rev. J. Adrian Pfeiffer,
pastor, will be presented at 7:30
pm. with members of the entire
Takoma Lutheran Sunday school
participating. Among the anthems
sung will be Handel's Joy to the
World" and Schulz's 20 Come,
Little Children" In Christ Lutheran
Church, Missouri Synod. the Mathis
Choir will sing the Newton Gore
THE First Christmas Morn" at the
$50 service on Sunday morning and
Christ Lutheran Choir will be heard
in Kountz's Rise Up Early at II
o'clock. Purvis' "Of the Fathers Love
Begotten" and Diggle's God Rest
Ye Merry" will be played by John
B. Wilson, organist.
The choir and soloists Of Gun
ton Temple Memorial Presbyterian
Church will present Ringwald's THE
Song of Christmas" q Fred Waring
choral arrangement of the story of
the Nativity as told in songs, carols
and biblical verse. at the IL am.
service Sunday. Paul D. Gable, Or
ganist and director, will play Bucks
The Holy Night as prelude, Du
Bois' March of the Magi Kings" at
Evening star., 1948-12-24
YuIe Cuntutu Planned

The Memorial Methodist Church
choir of Hyattsville will present a
Christmas cantata entitled Christ
Child" at 8 pm. Sunday at the
church, 1912 Farragut street, Hyatts-
vile, under the direction OF Mrs.
Mary Brumbaugh.
Evening star., 1948-12-24
Il Alexandra Prisoners
Released for Christmas

Judge James r. Duncan Of Alex
andria Civil and Police Court tooay
ordered the release of 81 persons
from the Alexandria jail so they
could be free at Christmas.
All q were serving terms Tor
minor offenses and their terms
would have expired within the mex
three weeks. Both men ana wonie"
we're affected.
Judge Duncan each year mas re-
leased a number of minor oftenoers
from the Jail on Christmas eve. 1.a
Evening star., 1948-12-24

Bethesda Subur-
b a n Hospital,
John H. Selby,
president of the
hospitals Board
of Trustees, an
nounced today.
Mr.. D e ! a n O
lives at "a Quincy
S t re e t. Chevy
Chase, Md. For
merly he was
general manager
of he H o m e
o W n ers' Loan
Corp. a n d ! n
1885 he was ap-
pointed gover-
Evening star., 1948-12-24

nor of the Federal Home Bank. He
is also district director of the Red
Cross
Suburban Hospitals campaign
goal is $4,000 to be used for main
tenance and toward purchase Of the
hospital from the Government.
Evening star., 1948-12-24
Preston DeIano TO Aid
Suburban Hospital Drive

Preston Delano. controller of the
currency since 1888, has become
chairman of the membership and
purchasing fund campaign of
Evening star., 1948-12-24
A. r. SeIby Council Candidate,
Foroot to Vote on the Charter
Mill Owner, Banker
Confesses His Error;
Surprised at Choice

This is one in a series OF
biographical sketches OF candi-
dates for the 1,e1D Montgomery
County Council in the January
6 election,j
Evening star., 1948-12-24
Agricultural AGENT to Retire

BLACKSBURG. Va, Dec. "A (P1.-
Miss Sally Guy Davis of Lynchburg,
district agent for the Virginia Agri-
cultural Extension Service since 1924,
will retire January !.
Milford chronicle., 1948-12-10

attack less than an hour before. He
had had numerous light attacks
over the past several years. Many
times he was forced to leave the
choir loft and Trinity Methodist
Church on account of a heart con-
dition. He was born near Farming
ton, the son Of the late jeremiah
and LOVey Johnson Locates, but
had resided in this city for more
than so years. He first owned and
operated his own barber shop in the
Block which has since been
moved to his home which he made
for his widowed mother. For sew
seral year they owned an organ,
which he played during his mo-
ments Of recreation from the shop.
His shop was one of the Old-timers
and contained row upon row of in
Gividual shaving mugs, old style
barber chairs and pot-bellied
stove used to heat water for his hot
towels and face cloths. During the
early years he had several appren-
tices in the shop who later owned
and operated their own shops in diff
ferent places. Some of these includ-
ed Frank Truman, Frank Richards.
Frank Hampton and Charles o.
Neal. His shop was not equipped with
any Of the latest sanitary measures
and when it was razed for a time
he had shop in the Taylor Hard
ware Store, but later he made ar
rangements to occupy the barber
shop with Mr.. Benjamin Knox, an
other veteran barber, who still con-
duets shop on the main street Of
this city. He was member of
Trinity Methodist Church of this
city where he was choir leader for
ga years and Mrs. Lulu Homes Pot
ter, Organist, for over twenty years,
under the direction of Mr.. Locates.
will Officiate at the funeral services.
Milford chronicle., 1948-12-10

awarded the door prize. All reported
a very pleasant evening. The Har-
ringtOn Club is holding a covered
dish luncheon and Christmas Party
Monday afternoon over the First
National Bank.
The Honor Roll of Veterans of
World War II has been recently re-
decorated by Joseph Penny and it
was decorated for Christmas. The
Evergreen Wreaths were made and
donated by Mrs. Benjamin Emory
and two new flags were furnished
by Harry c. Tee, while Mr.. Emory
arranged to decorate the honor roll.
All these men are veterans Of World
War 1.
Mrs. Edgar Dill, Of Bridgeville,
has accepted a position in the PeO-
pies Bank, succeeding Mrs. Char
lotte Jester, recently resigned. Mrs.
Layton started December 1st.