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Evening star., 1948-03-26
D. {. :: Home for Aged
Branded Fire Trap
By Welfare Board

The Home for the Aged and In
firm at Blue Plains has been brand
ed fire trap by the Board Of Public
Welfare.
A committee was appointed by the
board at its meeting yesterday to
take up the matter with Congress
Immediately.
There are 455 aged and inflrm per-
sons at the home. OF these. 1856
are in the inf1rmary. If a fire
started there. the buildings would
go up in flames quickly and many
of the inmates would be trapped,
the board warned.
The committee to see Congress
will be headed by Raymond Clapp,
acting director.
Acts on Food Costs.
Also brought to the attention of
the board was the rising cost of food.
The group approved a deficiency
measure of $60,930 to buy food for
the institutions under its jurisdic-
ton. The present appropriation
was based on a cost of 81 cents per
person. Meanwhile, the cost has
risen to So cents a person, it was
said.
1t also was decided to invite Rep
resentative Miller, chairman of the
Health and Welfare Subcommittee
of the District House Committee, to
meet with the board and discuss
the rehabilitation of some of the
buildings controlled by the board.
The boards construction program
for the coming fiscal year totaled
SO SGT 900. The Commissioners
slashed this to $4,000 before sub
mitting it to Congress, leaving pro-
vision only for two buildings at the
District Training School at Laurel
Md. Hearings on the District Bud
get will begin next Tuesday.
The board also approved rec
ommendation that Congress be
asked for an additional $50, 500 fol
the Children's Receiving Home, now
under construction on Mount Olivet
road NE.
Aid Regulation Eased.
The regulation in effect since last
fall, whereby applicants for public
assistance were refused aid if they
had relatives who could provide for
them, was changed by the board.
Hereafter, If such applicants are in
need of aid they will be given relief
and the corporation counsel will be
asked to get reimbursements from
the relatives. bringing suit If nee
essary. 1t was decided it has been
unjust to penalize those needing re-
lief, when their relatives have re-
fused aid.
The change in the name of the
National Training School for Col
ored Girls to the Industrial Training
School for Colored Girls was ap-
proved.
The board also discussed the pos
sible transfer of the National
Training School for Boys on Blad-
ensburg road from Federal to Dis
trict authority. There have been
reports that the Federal Govern
ment is contemplating moving the
school and returning to District
care the 1O6 Washington boys who
are confined there. The board de-
cided the 326-acre tract would be
unsuitable for District needs
Evening star., 1948-03-26
Virginia PIons to Lift
Emergency Load Limits
BY the Associated Press

RICHMOND, Va, Mar 26-Emer-
gency load limits on Virginia hgn-
ways will be lifted Monody' nut
truckers are being asked 70 nnit
their cargoes voluntarily on weak
rosds which have been damaged
ssuere,v - by winter weather. the
state Highway Department SAID
'e1To0 The emergency limits were de-
s~sed a sarly this month when spring
th.ws brought a serious breakup
of many highways.
Evening star., 1948-03-26
Primary Filing Closes May 5

RICHMOND, Va, Mar. 26 (P.-
May has been set as the deadline
for candidates to qualify for Vir-
ginia's August 3 Democratic pri-
maries, Levin Mock Davis, secretary
of the State Board of Elections, said
Yesterday.
Evening star., 1948-03-26
Group Elects Dixon

RICHMOND, Va, Mar. 26. (P.-
DR.. Fred Dixon. principal of John
Marshall High School here yester-
|day was elected president of the
Virginia Guidance Association.
Evening star., 1948-03-26
Boxed Goods to Be Sold

A sale of home baked goods, spon-
sored by the Ladies' Auxiliary of the
Hillendale Fire Department. will be
held tomorrow at 956 Thayer ave-
nue., Silver Spring.
Evening star., 1948-03-26
King of Kings to Be Shown

The motion picture King OF
Kings will be shown at the Arling-
ton Presbyterian Church. Columbia.
pike and Lincoln street south, at 8
o'clock tonight.
Evening star., 1948-08-30
.Sheriffs' Hunt Second Man
In Florida Beach SIayinqs
by the Associated Press

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla, Aug. 30.
A search for a second man impli-
Gated in the moonlight Staying two
weeks ago of a vacationing couple
on Ormond Beach was intensified
today.
Meanwhile, Sheriff Alex Little.
field of Volusia County cast some
doubt on parts of the Staying story
told Saturday by Clarence Alburty,
38, escaped colored convict arrested
at Camilla, Ga.
Alburty in his statement, Sheriff
W. M. Harris of Camilla said, &C
cused a companion of Staying Greg
ory Blount, %, University of Ken
lucky student, and Mary Hucks, "a,
of East Point, Ga. after attacking
her. Alburty said he acted as a
lookout.
Asked If he thought this was
plausible, Sheriff Littlefield said,
certainly not Arresting officers
also reported evidence Of teeth
marks as well as scratches on AL
burty's arms and these were un-
explained.
While Sheriff Littlefield continued
reluctant to comment on the case
or disclose the course it was taking,
Sheriff Harris said a Richland (Ga)
man was being sought for ques-
tioning.
Evening star., 1948-08-30
Grand Jury Returns
|33 indictments; Held
In Thefts From Homes

Thirty-three indictments were re-
turned by the grand Jury before
District Court Justice Richmond B.
Keech today, naming a total Of So
persons on variety of charges.
Jack T. Reagan. 80, of the 900
block of c street NE, was indicted
on charges of breaking into two
dwellings and taking jewelry valued
at approximately $4,000.
Named in two separate indict-
ments, Reagan is accused In one of
them OF taking jewelry worth $2,700
from DR.. and Mrs. G. N. 'Brekkle,
2445 Porter street NV.
In another indictment Reagan is
accused of breaking into a residence
at 1929 Williamsburg lane NV. and
taking jewelry worth approximately
$4,000 belonging to Mrs. Florence A.
Briggs and her daughter, Miss Ann
Briggs.
Richard Beavers, for whom no
age or address is given, was named
with Reagan in the second indict-
ment.
Two Charged In Sayings.
Two persons were charged with
recent slayings. One of them was
Clotial Cox, 81, colored. of the 1900
block of v street NV, who was
named on first-degree murder
charge accusing her of shooting Hat
tie H. Lavender, "a, colored, of the
1000 block of Fifteenth street NV,
on August 2.
John L. Calvin, SO, colored, of
the HOO block of Seventh street
NV, was charged with second de-
gree murder in the fatal stabbing
of James R. Mills, 30, colored, o.
the 1000 block of Eighth street NV,
on July "a.
Florence B. johnson, so, of the
1900 Block of Seventeenth street
NV, was charged with false pre-
tences. She, was accused of passing
a bad check for $2,332 in payment
for an automobile.
Two Held in Sex Offenses.
Dewey F. Dawson, so, of Hyacinth,
Va, was indicted under the Dis
trict's new sex law on a charge of
taking improper and indecent
liberties" with a 14-year-old boy.
Louis r. Cornelius, IS, of the 400
block of H street S.W. was indicted
on charges of carnal knowledge in
volving a 14-year-old girl.
In another indictment, Edward T.
Ward, 81, colored, of the first block
of D street SW. was charged with
forging checks totaling more than
$40O.
Lewis Kanick, 40, of the TOO block
of Tuckerman street NV. was in
dicted on charges of placing in the
mail post cards on which were writ
ten "defamatory and threatening
statements" intended to reflect in
juriously" upon the character and
conduct of a woman restaurant en-
ploye.
Evening star., 1948-08-30
Guard Units 10 Leave
For Training Sunday

The District National Guards
171st Military Police Battalion and
715th Truck Co. will leave Sunday
for a two-week training period at
Fort Meade, Md-off1cially ending
this summers encampment pro-
gram for the guard.
Another unit, the 163d Military
Police Battalion, headed by 1t. Col.
George o. Weber, arrived here yes
terday after completing two weeks
of training at the Maryland camp.
Two of the 800 members of the
battalion who did not make the trip
home were Maj. John L. Meakin,
executive officer, who is on his way
to Fort Leavenworth, Kans., for
training at the Army's General Staff
and Command School, and 1t. An
thony Censabella, who suffered a
back injury in training. He is a
patient at Walter Reed Hospital.
At final ceremony at Fort Meade
Saturday Pfc. Charles B. Wilcox,
jr, II, of 3210 Otis street, Mount
Rainier, Md. was awarded an expert
craftsmanship medal for a carbine
score of 1876 out of a possible 900
the battalion's best record.
During the ceremony Maj. Gen.
Charles Mullins, jr., deputy COM
mander of the I'd Army, also pre-
sented cups to Company A for win
ming volley ball and softball con-
tests and to Company B for winning
a battalion track meet.
Evening star., 1948-08-30

Betting turnover on horse racing
in Britain totaled about $1,800, ,000,-
900 in the last year.
Evening star., 1948-08-30
Bradley Says U. 5.
Neg|ects Teaching Of
1wo-Way Democracy
By the Assocjo.ed Press

ST. LOUIS. Aug. 30.-Teaching of
"two-way" democracy has been neg
lected by American education, Gen.
Omar N. Bradley said today.
Despite the opportunities for free
education in these United States,
too many young men come into the
Army appallingly ill-informed on
the issues and crisis that warrant
their service" the Army Chief of
Staff said in addressing the 49th
encampment of the Veterans of
Foreign Wars.
American education has failed
to give many young men an alert
appreciation Of their liberties and
consequent explanation of their
obligations. We have too long con-
centrated on how. to make good
how to get ahead. We have taught
our young people how to plunder
our resources, how to get jobs, and
how to get rich.
I'VE have neglected to tell them
that democracy is two-way street
that with its benefits comes the
necessity for also giving service"
And, Gen. Bradley said. "the Army
has too long ignored the insides of
its men"
During the war;" he said, sit was
apparent that men fought best when
they understood why they were
fighting. To give troops conviction
and to equip them with ample JUS
tification for the service on which
they embark, the Army will add
emphasis to its educational pro-
gram"
Touching on the international sit
uation and the draft revival, Brad
ley said "A tragically divided world
is engaged in a contest of perse-
verence and in a conflict of ideas"
He added:
The United States cannot safely
bluff its way through the chan
celleries of other nations without
risking all that we have gained from
victory in the last World War. There
is no economy that can justify the
need for some other Omaha beach
head in some future avoidable war"
Evening star., 1948-08-30
IUrdn BOARDS Plckefel
lin New York Civ by
Foes Of Segregation
BY the A,seeiuted Prass

NEW YORK, Aug. 3o.-Shouting,
placard carrying pickets today
greeted Col. Gambler Cobb as the
city selective service director began
touring draft boards where registra-
ton of 25-year-olds was under way.
Col. Cobb was met by a picket
line of nine white and negro DEM
onstrators when he made his first
stop at Haaren High School in mid
town Manhattan.
The pickets carried placards read
ing: Strike a Blow Against Jim
Crow" Junk Jim Crow" AS they
marched, the pickets shouted: !:
Don't register, don't join the black
and white armies"
Bayard Rustin, 80, colored, of
West Chester, Pa, executive secre-
tary of the campaign to resist mill
tary segregation, led the pickets.
He said his group included 1000 men
In the country who have refused
to register.
LOWELL, Mass, Aug. 80 Dr.
Pickets appeared outside selective
service headquarters here today, de-
manding repeal Of the draft law.
The pickets identified themselves
as members of the young Progress
sives of America, an affiliate of the
Progressive Party.
They carried placards and dis
tributed pamphlets attacking the
draft law.
Evening star., 1948-08-30
AFGE
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ideal, model employer, and Of Gov
ernment service a career that will
attract the best talent in the land"
the President said.
Flemming Urges Career Attitude.
The delegates also heard warm
ing from retiring Civil Service Com
missioner Arthur S. Flemming that
unless Government employees
"wholeheartedly" adopt the concept
of a career public service, any
future changes in administration
might result in a large turnover of
Jobs.
Mr.. Flemming explained that Civil
Service employees must administer
every policy that the elected repre-
sertatives OF the people desire to
put into effect as though they were
in complete agreement with it,"
If the career civil servant can't
bring himself to do this, Mr.. Flem-
ming asserted, he should leave the
career service. Mr.. Flemming. whose
resignation becomes effective this
midnight, will become president of
Ohio Wesleyan University.
Praises British Civil Service.
Mr. .Flemming praised the British
career civil service system and said:
"It has made it possible for the
British Civil Service to serve
government madeup of representa-
tives of the Labor Party just as
effectively as it serves the govern
ment headed by Winston Churchill"
The retiring commissioner also
reaffrmed mis- views that Govern
ment employees must abstain at all
times from any partisan political
activity.
He also declared that Govern
ment workers must adhere to high
ethical standards"
Another suggestion made by the
speaker was that top agency off,
cials should appear before commit
tees of Congress to defend and ex-
plain personnel policies, rather than
leave the task to their employees.
Factions Seek Support.
Meanwhile the rival factions in
the AFGE were busily engaged in
trying to line up delegate support
for the unions presidential election
later this week.
The candidates for the top AFGE
job are James B. Burns, who re-
signed recently after tiff with the
unions Executive Council, and
James Y. Yaden, a Civil Service
Commission official. At the present
moment, Mr. Burns seems to have
a. slight edge, but the outcome Is
still in doubt
Evening star., 1948-08-30
Copt. Smoot Commands
Cruiser Newport News
By the Associated Press

NORFOLK, Va, Aug. 30.-Capt.
Roland Nesbit Smoot of Provo, Utah,
will be the skipper of the cruiser
Newport News, the Navy's newest,
when she is commissioned about
February l.
The cruiser was christened March
6, 1947, at the Newport News Ship
building g. Dry Dock Co. plant,
where she was built.
Capt. Smoot returned to Norfolk
recently after serving as chief of
staff to Rear Admiral H. H. Mclean,
task force commander for this sum-
mer's midshipmen cruise to Europe.
The new cruiser will mount nine
s-inch rapid-fire guns in three
turrets which will be fully auto
matte from ammunition handling
room to gun muzzles.
Evening star., 1948-08-30

and at times later in the day the
registrars had nothing to do.
Fire houses reported that every
thing was clicking" although COM
paratively few of the registrants
were firemen. No. engine company
at Seventeenth and K streets NV.
registered about 20 men this morn
ing.
Most of the first stations assigned
four fremen as registrars. They
cited the possibility that fire calls
might interrupt registration for
short periods at some points from
time to time.
Registration dates for the other
age groups after today are as
follows:
Men born in 1928 register tomor-
row and Wednesday.
Born in 1924 register Thursday
and Friday.
Born in 1925 register Saturday or
September 7.
Born in 1926 register September
8-9.
Born in 1927 register September
10-11.
Born in 1928 register September
1914.
Born in 1929 register September
1916.
Born in 1880 before September 10
register September 17-18.
Those not 18 by September 10
register on 18th birthday or within
five days.
The first policeman to register
today at his precinct station was
Pvt. James E. Waters, 25, colored,
of No. 3 station He is married.
New Yorker Drops BY.
The second man to register at
that station was a New York City
resident who stopped off en- route
to Florida. He said he would be on
vacation during the next two weeks
and wanted to register now.
Between 800 and 1000 volunteer
registrars were working today.
Director Leahy has estimated that
about $4,000 men 18 through Is will
register here between now and Sep
tember 49,
He was unable to estimate the
number of 25-year-olds who will
sign up today. Ordinarily there
might be as many as 5000, but the
registration requirement for that
age group applies only to men who
we're born in 1922, after August 80,
1922.
Throughout the United States to-
day more than 100000 men in the
25-year-old bracket were registering
at some 10000 registration places.
Very few of the 25-year-old men
registering today are likely to be
inducted for 81 months training
under the Selective Service Act
passed by Congress last June. Draft
officials believe the great majority
of the approximately 100000 to be
called into service between Novem-
ber and next July will be from 19
through % years old.
Men 10 through 25 are subject to
the draft, but practically all those
18 through Is must register.
The registration cards will be sent
by chief registrars to the respective
draft boards at the close of each
days registration.
Within a few days the boards will
start mailing detailed question
naires, first to the 25-year-olds.
These questions must be returned
within 10 days, and will be the basis
for classification of men into cate
gories from Ia through V.
Evening star., 1948-08-30
Gurney Gets Malay Post

LONDON, Aug. 80 (P.-An in
formed source said today that Sir
Henry Gurney, so, has been nomi-
mated as the new high commissioner
for the Malayan Federation.
To stimulate food production. Fire
will issue grants to farmers to i'm
prove their land.
Evening star., 1948-08-30
Gernnun
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appeal by saying he did not under
stand what the council wanted
from him. If the council needed
police protection, he said, they
should apply to the Communist
controlled police in the Soviet sector.
A decision on whether to move
may be made at today's scheduled
meeting of the senior committee of
the council.
The Council has called a meeting
for tomorrow. Should it be held
in the Soviet sector the Communist
demonstrators are again expected to
be there.
The Soviet-sponsored Socialist
Unity Party issued special week
end proclamation summoning the
Evening star., 1948-08-30
Alabama Educator, Wife
Killed as Train Hits Car
Nv the Associoted Press

BY the Associoted Press
FLORENCE, Ala, Aug. 30.-Dr.
]. A. Keller, so. president Of Flor
ence State Teachers College, and
Mrs. Keller were killed in a grade
crossing accident at Tuscumbia,
Ala. last night.
Evening star., 1948-08-30

workers of Berlin" to press their
"unrelaxed fight against the city
government The proclamation
called for more demonstrations.
The Socialist Unity Party asked
for the overthrow Of the present
city government. They want it sup
planted with a Communications
mated action committee" They
said their committee would work
in closest cooperation with the
Communist German Economic Com
mission of the Soviet zone. This
would mean virtual incorporation of
Berlin into the Soviet zone.
Reports that the Moscow talks
had approached the final stages
stirred considerable speculation In
Berlin as to whether the Russians
would lift the blockade simultane-
ously with four-power COM
munique.
The Russians yesterday released
Pvt. Joseph Moore of Roxbury
Mass, after about 18 hours de-
tention in Soviet Jail. He had
been arrested Saturday night in the
Russian sector allegedly because he
paid a bar bill with Western
sponsored marks.
The Russians have outlawed
Western money in their sector al
though Soviet-sponsored money is
considered legal tender in Western
Berlin. United States Investigators
said the Russians failed to produce
the marks they allegedly confiscated
from Pvt. Moore.
Evening star., 1948-08-30
Steers Soor to $41.40,
New High at Chicago
By fhe Assoeioted Press

CHICAGO, Aug. 30.-A load OF
choice prime beef steers set a new
all-time record high price at Union
Stockyards today, $41.40 a'hundred
pounds.
This was cents a hundredweight
above the previous record set August
18 and equaled several times since.
All other grades of cattle sold at
lower prices.
Evening star., 1948-08-30
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Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1948-12-10
Dunbar
tConiinued from Page II

'Beareat Queen and "Bearcat
Sweetheart, solos by Ora Lee
Johnson, Bernard Martin, Edward
Miller, Pearline Chukes, Roselie
Mitchell and Eddieomen Davis.
Alma Minton, Janet Moore and
Betty Sue Jones gave a novelty
number, Max Green and Alice
Lucille Love, an exhibition number.
The Maiorettes, an exhibition num-
Der, Orientus by Marjorie Lowe.
Mary Allen, Freda Love. Pauline
Minton, Dollie Gray and Janice
Mccoy. The feature of the even
ing was the costume parade. The
prizes were won by Juanita Par
IRISH. who wore a native costume,
Bettye Mccoy who wore fairy
costume and Treopia Green who
wore a Little Bo Peep costume.
THE Night in the Land of Make
believe is an annual project of
Dunbar faculty and students.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1948-12-10

civil rights :. !"
Mr. White indicated that in
eight large cities charges have
been filed against Negro postal
and other government workers,
many of whom have records of
loyal service for more than Is
years. Expressing confidence that
these individuals will be COM
pletely exonerated "if given a fair
hearing, Mr. White pointed out
that considerable time and money
is being spent in processing these
cases although written answers
furnished by employees are more
than sufficient to justify dismiss
al of the cases"
The NAACP Board of Directors
recently announced that the Asso-
citation viii adopt a policy of in
Prevention in loyalty cases where
charges are based upon race or
color of the persons involved,
membership or activity in the N
AACP, or membership or activity
in any co-ordinating group ap-
proved by the National Office of
the MACE.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1948-12-10
CAMPUS ROMANCES
DEVELOPING

Quite few romanees are de-
veloping here and there, but none
is more interesting that that of
Bebbie Burton and Daisy Marks.
Both of these young folk are of
high scholarship. excellent char
aeter, and splendid school record.
Little Miss Nails has an admirer
in every class and few eff-cam-
pus devotees while her technique
is a smooth as covered
stone. One young man took his
lady fair home a short time ago
and found himself without car
fare back to the campus. He will
count his money more carefully
next time he starts. Coach Shep-
ard may be bachelor; but, la
dies, he is hard No lady can in
veigle him into anything. But
then. you ought to see the girl
the coach Left behind.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1948-12-10

Other compositions include "A
Night on Bald Mountain" by Mus
sorgsky, a vivid portrayal of an
assembly Of witches awaiting the
arrival of Satan, subterranean
sounds of unearthly voices, the
appearance of the Spirits of Dark
ness, and wild and weird revels
AT the the height of the orgies. a
bell of a little church is heard
and the Spirits dispense at the
coming Of dawn. "Adagio From
The Violin Concerto" Joe Blatts
own composition for violin and
wind instruments with Martin
Sauser as soloist. This concerto
mas been performed in Vienna and
IN Carnegie Hall with Mr.. Blatt.
conducting This will be its first
in A r k n S S. Strauss "Blue
Danube Waltz" will end the pro-
gram