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Evening star., 1948-01-02
New Dial Unit 10 Give
HyattsyiIIe 2,4O
More Phone Lines

The Chesapeake & Potomac Tele-
phone Co. announced today that a
third unit of dial equipment would
be installed this year in the central
Office at Hyattsville, providing 2,340
more subscriber lines.
The expansion, costing $442, ,000
will enable the company to clear up
400 untitled service applications, the
announcement said.
A company spokesman in WASH
ington said the Hyattsville work was
expected to begin early in the
year"
The Hyattsville improvement is
one Of a group listed for the State
of Maryland by the utility's Balti-
more headquarters
ALLEGATIONS for Maryland improve
ments in 1948 were reported by the
Associated Press to be $3,869 900.
OF this total, 100000 was ear
marked for routine construction, re-
placement and removal of plant
equipment.
$113,00O for La Plata Section.
More than $204, 900 was author
lied for additional cables, extension
Of rural lines and other improve
ments in the Annapolis West River
area, and $4,000 was appropriated
for that purpose for the La Plata
Wayside section.
Other allocations:
To provide additional long dis
tance and exchange cable facilities
in the Cumberland area, $308, 900
For additional long distance
facilities to provide more circuits
between Baltimore and Chester
town, Elkton and Dover, Del.
Chestertown and Elkton, and Havre
de Grace and Wilmington, DEL
$4,000
For more long distance circuits
between Baltimore and Frederick
Hagerstown and Cumberland and
between Frederick and Washington
$4,000.
New Office Approved.
t Six other groups of Western
Maryland long distance circuits alse
will be, expanded. under the ap;
pffbp pftatton.
r. Expansion 81 cable facilities ant
rural lines in the areas Of Chesa'
kpeakes City, Brunswick and Roci
Hall were approved at total COS
tot $211,tt1.
/ A new telephone Office, to- cos
l$55, 900, was approved for SHERWOOD
Forest.
New. switchboard positions In the
Hagerstown central Office will cost
$63,000.
Other ALLEGATIONS included $27, 7,00t
to offset price increases in connec.
ton with new equipment being in
stalled in the Easton Office, $8,40(
for installation of two switchboard
positions in Cockeysville and $4,000
for additional long-distance circuits
between Hagerstown and Waynes.
boro. Pa,
Evening star., 1948-01-02
Dr.. French Named Delegate
To Caracas Child Congress
snseial pl.poieh 10 The ster


ANNAPOLIS, Jan. 2.---Dr. Will
liam j. French, Annapolis and Anne
Arundel County health officer, has
been appointed a member OF the
United States delegation to the
ninth Pan American Child Confer
ence to bes held in Caracas, Ven
ezuela, next week.
The appointment was made by
Secretary of State Marshall with
the approval Of President Truman.
DR.. French was In Colombia and
Ecuador last June as advisor on
public health and In 1946 he toured
South America as representative OF
the United States Childrens Bureau
on both missions.
Evening star., 1948-01-02
| Construction Progress ins7948
To Aid D. C.. Transportation

pounds Of steel and iron and 5,OOO
cubic yards of concrete for the bas-
cule draw span and superstructure
Of the east bridge.
The New York firm OF Merritt
Chapman and Scott still is con-
structing piers and approaches to
this span, a $4,000, 900 job, but Dis
trict officials explained they wished
to open bids for the superstructure
so the successful contractor can OBJ
tain the necessary steel.
After the east bridge is completed
the existing Highway Bridge, just
upstream, will be torn down and
replaced by a new span. A. B. Green,
Highway Division bridge division
engineer, estimated it will take three
and one-half years to complete the
twin bridges.
Overpass Completed.
One overpass was completed re-
cently-that carrying the tracks Of
the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad over
Riggs road, near First place NE
Built by the Repass Co. under Dis
trict supervision, the overpass cost
$159,371. Riggs road in that area
will be paved as soon as sewers are
installed.
District authorities expect work
on the Dupont Circle underpass to
start the latter part OF February
John McShain Of Philadelphia Il
| doing the work for $3,951 900, and II
should be ready for use in 18 months
or two years. The District will take
care of the paving.
One other building project sched'
uled for completion in May is ths
100000 West Central Heating
Plant at Twenty ninth and K streets
NV. Being built by the Public
Buildings Administration, 1t vii
heat Federal buildings.
Evening star., 1948-01-02
|Virginions Fight 20 Sales Tax,
Cite MARYLAND Stores Losses

SdlcS bdA dAGCI AIAdh14I6 dA1OWd41SCS
for other factors.
william Wright, chairman Of the
merchants division Of the Silver
Spring Board of Trade, declared II
is the concensus of merchants thai
the sales tax has cut hard into the
volume of business done prior te
Christmas.
THE independent merchant, par.
ticularly," he said, feels that he
has done less business this season
than last because of the sales tax
Clothing and shoes are off, but
1947 should have been a recorc
year for all of us because of oul
great increase in population.
1--WE have found that electrical
dealers are an exception because
there were more appliances avail.
able in ,1947 than year ago"
Other Exceptions Found.
Other exceptions were found
as would be expected-in the Goa
and fuel oil business where ths
demand exceeds the supply.
Managers of several chain drug.
stores estimated business was of
about 10 per cent. The volume o1
drugs-which are not taxed-ex.
ceeded 1916; the food department.
about equaled 1916, while the cigar
and candy departments, including
miscellaneous toys, household ap.
pliances, etc., were down about II
per cent. Similar stores in the
District noted gain, it was said
Fred Lutes, president Of the Sub
urban National Bank and prominent
in civic and business circles, said
the banking business could furnish
no indication of the sales tax effect
but agreed that most merchants feel
they have been hurt. This might
be tempered somewhat by the nearly
unanimous feeling that the levy is a
nuisance" to collect, he said.
Five-and-ten-cent stores reported
holding our own"
Big Drop Reported.
The manager of women's spe-
|cialty shop reported that his busi-
ness had fallen off more than 40
per cent from the previous season.
He did not attribute it all to the
sales tax, however. The tax effect
was felt most on items selling for
81 or more, he said. -t'"
he(mAnager of a mems specially
store said the past season was the
first in mine years that he had not
experienced an increase in business.
He fsaitf business had declined gen.
orally in his field, but he blamed
the. sales tax for failure to show
an increase.
Charles Buscher, manager Of the
Montgomery County liquor dispen-
sary system, said the tax has not
hurt sales.
~ Violations Reported.
Many merchants believe that the
use tax law, a companion of the
sales tax measure designed to pro-
tect Maryland merchants by i'm
posing levy on out-of-State pur-
chases, is being widely violated. One
manager of a branch furniture store
said furniture dealers in Washington
are complying with Maryland's USE
tax requirement by collecting the
per cent levy on bedroom and dining
room sets. and other large pieces
which must be delivered to homes
in Maryland. Therefore, he said
his sales of large items had moi
dropped off appreciably. He has
noticed decline in such items al
pictures, cigarette stands, bric-a.
brac and other items which the Gus.
toner can carry away with him.
Evening star., 1948-01-02
.omun Treated for Burns

Mrs. Virginia Hughes, 412 East
Monroe avenue, Alexandria, who
was reported to have fallen asleep
in a chair while holding lighted
cigarette, was treated for burns
yesterday at Alexandria Hospital.
The hospital reported her condi-
ton as fairly good" this morning.
Evening star., 1948-01-02
Baltimore Sunpopers
Ruise Carrier Rutes
BY the Assoeiofsd Press

BALTIMORE, Jan. 2The Balti-
more Sunpapers will increase car
rier delivery service rates by i've
cents a week effective Monday.
An announcement in today's edi-
tions OF the Sun explains large and
continuing increases in the costs
of operation" make the higher
prices necessary.
The street sale prices Of five cent,
for each OF the daily papers and
lis cents for the Sunday Sun vii
not be changed.
Evening star., 1948-01-02
Gasx.ks 1

Overhead, on land and under
ground, Washington will take steps
in 1948 toward smoothing out Its
transportation wrinkles.
Not all the construction work
under way will be completed this
wear. but the K street overpass Is
scheduled for use on December %.
The So, ,294 900 job, undertaken by
Contractor Alexander Repass, Will
provide an elevated motor highway
from Thirty-sixth and M streets
NV. and Key Bridge to the Rock
Creek and Potomac Parkway. Piers
and approaches now are being
erected, and District officials expect
steel construction to begin in Feb
ruary or March.
Meanwhile, the Chesapeake 81
Ohio Canal is blocked of at
Thirty-sixth and M streets NV.
but will be re-filled with water
when the Key Bridge approaches
are completed. .,.
S New Hangers at Airport.
Aviation will get a'boost with the
completion of five hangers at Ma
tional Airport, costing a total OF
$4,414, 700. The first will be ready
,n June, the last in August, and
they will be rented by the Civil
Aeronautics Administrations to
Trans World Airways, United Air
Lines, American Airlines, Colonial
Airlines and Northwest Airlines.
Large enough to accommodate
Consultations and DC-6s, the
hangers will be used by the airlines
for repairs and storage. Dyker
Building Co. OF Washington began
the work last January, under the
supervision of the Public Buildings
Administration.
Another effort to complete a new
bridge across Boundary Channel, at
the northwest corner of Columbia
Island, will be undertaken at 10
am. January 10. At that time bids
for steel superstructure will be
opened in the Office of H. F. Spell
man, division engineer Of the Public
Roads Administration.
Bids Exceed Funds.
A part of the Arlington Memorial
Bridge program, the bridge con-
struction, has been held up by high
steel prices. Twice before, when
PRA advertised for the work. the
bids exceeded available funds. Traf-
fic now moves over a temporary
wooden trestle.
A part of the new bridge, built Of
concrete and granite facing, was
constructed for $3.50, 900. An under
pass road Is being graded and
should be completed shortly. The
roadway viii be paved after the
bridge is completed, Mr.. Spelman
said.
Another project under way is the
South Capitol Street Bridge across
the Anacostia Rivera $2,329, ,04a
! contract held by the American
Bridge co. and due for completion
in early 1850.
Steel Being Fabricated.
Steel now is being milled and
fabricated for the superstructure
and should be ready in September
or October. Awaiting this work is
the bridges substructure gray
stone piers approaches which cost
$2,51S,36 and were built by the
lDravo Corp. of Pittsburgh.
Bids viii be opened at 2 pm
January Is, for the superstructure
Of another bridge project, the twin
bridges to span the Potomac.
The bids viii be opened In Room
snQ district building for 13 IOOO. .0OC
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-02-10
\Xy E::Tia 5:

CRAFTS.
Glass Of instruction in sewing ana o osh s,I
House, ESQ am. tomorrow.
GOSPEL SINGING.
Stamps Baxter All States Gospel SINGERS
in program at the Open Door CHURCH. s:1b
O'Clock tonight.
soroptimist Club Of Washington. willard
Hotel, 1918 pm. tomorrow. Members
:. ws:sSinston Host Lions CLUB: Ns.yio yer
s1e' MEETING.
Junior jewish consumptiye Relief 80
ciety, willard Hotel, o'clock tonight.
SPECIAL EXHIBITS.
Library Of Congress, First and East Cap
Mondays through fridays, . am. 70 9 Pm:
sed Ao. e a 10 pr 81 hs
ment until December, il; ORIGINAL manu-
ssr Of dr ns sa ndass psroa aaea
raS and correspondencs q Abraham
Lincoln, for an indefinite period: c,,
lection tnn q Fine Arts. tenth street and
l:so p.na daily; 18th annual exhibition
p sy ter
Corcoran Gallery Of Art, seysnteenth
street and New York avenue NV, open
pm. Tuesdays through Fridays, 8 am; to
$50 pm. Saturdays and 2 to pm. sun
days and holidays. water, colors BY artists
lector's room, for an indefinite period,
National Gallery Of Art, Constitution
avenue and Sixth street NV, open lO
Sundays. paintings and sculpture compris-
Ing the Mellon, Kress,, Widensr and Dale
collections. and gifts from other donors.
Prints and Books for an indefinite period
Fish. and Wildlife Service. under main
lobby in Commerce Department. Buldlns,
ma to pm. daily; display Of sntmals
and fresh-water fish, for an indefinite Pc
Dumbarton Oaks Museum, Thirty -hrst
daily; collection Of Byzantine. and related
arts Tor an sa snasha!'f nE Hss1Ha'
Square dance with string band ana
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-02-10

caller, Thomson Center. Twelfth and L
streets NV, $3.50 o'clock tonight.
FOR sERWCEnGEN.
Soldiers, Sailors and Marines Club 10i6
writing desks, billiard tables. radio.
Servicemen's Victory Center. Ills Penn
sylvRnia avenue NV, lounge. recreation,
free canteen; spen daily from IL am. to
midniRht.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-02-10
ARLINGTON PTA to Heur ToIk

L. T. Goodman, executive secre-
tary OF the Arlington County
YMCA, will describe the Gray"
program for elementary school stu
dents at q meeting Of the Bancroft
School PTA at 8 pm. Wednesday IN
the school, Gas South Wakefield
street, Arlington. An open house
at 7:30 pm. will. precede the
meeting.
Evening star., 1948-07-06
Police Traffic School
Continued 6 Months
By Commissioners

The Commissioners today decided
to continue their school for traffic
law violators for another six months.
This was decided after Police
Supt. Robert j. Barrett handed the
city heads at their board meeting
a recommendation by Inspector
Arthur E. Miller, police traffic ex-
pert, that. the school be continued.
Maj. Barrett Endorsed the recon-
mendation.
Present authorization for the
traffic school, to which Municipal
Court judges have been sending Ger
tain violators in lieu of fines or jail
sentences, expires Friday. The
school began last December.
Inspector Miller's report on the
first six months stated that 1,009
persons attended various day and
night sessions of the school, con-
Quoted by police, and representa-
tives of the Vehicles and Traffic
Department and the Board OF
Revocation and Restoration OF
Permits.
The traffic school is quite a
burden and a considerable respon-
sibility to U.S." Inspector Miller said.
He added, however, that he thought
| it should be continued for six
months, after which I'VE will be in
better position to pass final
Judgment on its success.
Evening star., 1948-07-06

r. Roy Dunn. company vice pres
lent and treasurer, was questioned
by Lloyd B. Harrison, special as
sistant corporation counsel, and
Byron E. Harding. chief counsel
of the Bureau of Federal Supply.
The bureau is an intervenor in the
case
Mr.. Dunn said that until company
earnings equal the average the
company will not be able to do any
financing on favorable terms. He
made the point that Pepco is not
necessarily seeking to bring the
company's earnings to a basic So
per cent return, but is seeking suf-
ficient earnings to attract capital.
Stock Rating Cited.
The company exhibit showed that
the Fitch rating of its common
5tock was "CCC." symbol for the
est lower grade common stock. OF
tle other 10 companies with which
the comparison was made. the COM
mon stock of only one had similar
~ating, the other nine being rated
higher
Fischer S. Black, assistant to the
president of the company, was te
testify this afternoon as the CON-
Dany's rate expert.
Charles J. Bauer, secretary of the
Building Owners and Managers AS
,ociation, also was expected tt
testify.
The association is opposing the
rate increase as is, the Fairmac
Corp, owner of Mclean Gardens.
Evening star., 1948-07-06
Sentencing Of Youth
'0n Seduction Charge
Is Stayed for 50 Days

Arlington Circuit Court Judge
Walter T. Mccarthy today granted
a 60-day stay of execution OF SEN
tence in the seduction case against
Guy H. Fuller, jr., 10, after denying
a defense motion to set aside a jury
conviction.
at does not seem to me that this
boy should be sent to the peniten-
tiary," the judge said.
A jury several weeks ago found
Fuller guilty of the seduction OF
Shirley Jackson, II, of the $500 block
of North Fifteenth street, Arlington,
and fixed his punishment at two
years in the State penitentiary.
The stay of execution was re-
quested by Defense Attorney Earl
Davis to give him time to ask the
Virginia State Supreme Court OF
Appeals to grant q writ OF error.
Judge Mccarthy indicated he would
entertain a motion to refer the case
to the State probation officer, but
no such motion was made.
Fuller, whose parents operate q
restaurant at Fifteenth and H streets
NE, was continued at liberty under
a $500 bond.
Evening star., 1948-07-06
Virqinia Youth browns
In Potomac as Canoe Tips

Donald Dasher, 81, of Fairfax Sta
ton, Va, drowned in the Potomac
about a mile north of Great Falls
yesterday while canoeing with his
brother and sister-in-law. Mont
gomery County Police at Rockville
reported today the youth was with
Mr.. and Mrs. Noel Dasher when the
canoe tipped. Young Dasher, who
could not swim, leaped overheard
police were told.
The brother jumped in after him
but was unable to reach him. Mrs
Dasher remained in the half sub
merged canoe until it drifted tc
shore. The accident occurred around
pm. and police dragged the river
until late last night, but his body
has not yet been recovered. Young
Dasher, it was said, was married
recently.
Evening star., 1948-07-06
Fireworks Lead
ToArrest of Six
In MONTGOMERY

Six youths were arrested over the
week end by Montgomery County
police on charges of discharging
without a permit in
violation of the State law.
Three of the six forfeited COL
lateral today in Silver Spring Police
Court.
They are Hugh M. Smythe, 18. and
Charles B. Bairle, 20, both of Takoma
Park, and Horace H. Trussall. 81,
Olney Smythe and Bairle posted
$3.50 each, while Trussall posted
$l145.
The remaining three are sched-
uled to be tried next Tuesday in
Silver Spring Police Court. They
are Robert G. Houser, 10, of 8100
block of Piney Branch road, Richard
Cissel, 18, of 800 block of Silver
Spring avenue, both of Silver Spring,
and Thomas Colburn, 5000 block of
Sixth street NV.
Houser and Cissel posted $3.50
collateral each and Colburn posted
S11.45. Police said Houser, Cissel,
Colburn and Trussall were arrested
Sunday after they threw firecrackers
from their car.
Evening star., 1948-07-06
Baltimore Bridge Team
| Wins CarveI Hall Title
sy the Associated Press

ANNAPOLIS, July 6.-By point.
Baltimore team last night won
the open team of four title, closing
event in the three-day Carvel Hall
duplicate bridge tournament.
Mrs. Edward Behrend, Mrs. Eliza
beth Whitaker, James Hunter and
James Surrock of Baltimore had
321a match points to defeat a
Washington team composed OF
James Newland, Mary Ann Bosch
anne, Charles C. johnson and
Comdr. John Parish.
Winners of the mixed pair event
Saturday were Mrs. Margaret Ham
ilton and Arthur Schlesinger OF
Baltimore.
Although scheduled to appear,
National Masters Charles H. Goren
and William E. McKenney did not
play in the 18th annual tourna-
rnent
Evening star., 1948-07-06
Housebreaker Hur|s
Kit al Doctor, FIees

Police were searching today for
he intruder who flung a medical
bag full of clothes at DR.. Philip
Warner. 1902 Connecticut avenue
NV. when DR.. Warmer attempted
TO catch him as he fed from the
house.
The physician said he and his
family returned after watching a
fireworks display to find a front
window broken. While his wife went
to call police, DR.. Warner circled
the house. Suddenly man, who
police said, apparently had run out
the back door as the Warmers ar
rived, sprang from the bushes
When the doctor chased him, the
intruder threw Dr. Warmers medical
kit bag at him. This stopped the
Dursuerer momentarily, and the man
got away.
The bag was filled with clothes
taken from the house, DR.. Warner
said. He reported a few trinkets
of little value were missing.
In another robbery attempt yes
terday, police said the apartment OF
Navy 1t. Jonas Harr, 2805 Fifth
street Sc, had been ransacked and
a linen closet set afire. The fire
which scared the closets contents
and did about SIS damage, appar-
emily was extinguished when the
intruder closed the door.
Police said the intruder may have
become angry and set the fire when
he found nothing of value, or he
may have carelessly dropped a
match.
Evening star., 1948-07-06
Taxi Safari Carries
.229 D. T.. Children
To Virginia Camps

Forty Washington taxi drivers
with knack for handling overly
energetic children, loaded their cabs
this morning with 229 boys and girls
between the ages of 9 and II and
began bumper to- bumper safari
to Camp Good Will and Camp
Pleasant.
Two police escorts led the long
line of cabs through Washington
streets to Highway Bridge where
Virginia police picked up the con-
voy. Signs were posted on the cars
reading Thanks Folks, We're Going
for Two Weeks of Fun at Camp
Good WILL" so passersby had no
trouble figuring out who the youth
full Landowners were and where they
were going.
All told 720 children will have
two-week vacations at the camps
this summer because Washington
citizens donated the necessary funds
through The Stars Summer Camp
Fund. The camps, operated by the
Summer Outings Committee of the
Family Service Association, are To-
Gated in Chopawamsic National Park
near Triangle, Va.
Opposition Overcome.
Suitcases-or reasonable facsimiles
and duff1e bags, shopping bags,
cardboard boxes, pillow cases and
even one doll trunk were piled in
the cabs at the direction OF the
drivers
Opposition was expressed by sew
eral of the boys who wanted to ride
in the cars which had radio and
who said We amt gonna sit next
to any girls" but they lost their
fight. The cabbies said they had
kids of their own, and even grand
children, and they warent going
to be out-foxed by these tough
characters9s One driver said he
anticipated no trouble at all since
his passengers were very bashful.
He placed a girl on each side of the
boys for the 40-mile trip.
Another driver checked his pas
sengers for guns and knives" be-
fore the journey began and made a
big hit. The girls ignored the boys
shouts to pipe down. and con-
tlnued to ask each older person they
saw?
Are you going to Happy Hunt
ing Grounds?" An abashed adult to
whom one such inquiry was made,
later found out Happy Hunting
Ground, in this case, wasn't the In
dian heaven at all, but the name OF
cabin at Camp Good Will.
Get Physical Checkups.
The youngsters were given last
minute physical examinations for
teeth, hair, eyes, nose and throat
to prevent contagious diseases from
breaking out at the camps.
Twenty of the cabs left from the
Thomson School at Twelfth and L
streets NV. and the others from
Garnet-Patterson Junior High,
Tenth and U streets NV. The
taxi drivers transported the chill
dren free, using their own time and
own gasoline for the trip.
Cars representing nine different
cab companys Of Combined Cab
Service, Inc, formed the caravan,
led by Henry H. Bierhans. 1t was
Mr.. Bierhan's idea to use free taxls,
thus saving $1,100 in camp costs.
Evening star., 1948-07-06
Pepco Officers
Testify in Favor
OF Rate Increase
Compony's Earnings
Compared With Ratio
For Other Utilities

Officers of the Potomac Electric
Power Co. were cross examined
today as the Public Utilities Com
mission resumed its hearings on the
company's petition for an increase
in rates.
The company is asking for rates
estimated to bring in an additional
s3,OO1 900 a year. Residential con-
sumers would pay $4,000 of the
total or, the company estimates, an
average of 43 cents month more
The company's position is that it
nuct have additional earnings to
make its securities attractive to in
yestors so it can finance an S86, ,OOO,-
900 expansion program.
Earnings Compared.
The company today presented a
comparison between the percentage
ratio of its operating income to the
,otal valuation of its utility plant,
With the ratios of 10 other COM
panies which had sold stock issues
since January. 1947.
The Pepco ratio and the average
for the 10 companies at the end OF
the year over six-year period
follow.