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Evening star., 1948-06-29
Woman Walking Boby
Fends OFF Purse Thief

BY holding tightly to her babys
stroller and her purse containing
several hundred dollars. a beauty
shop proprietor last night success
fully resisted would-be thief last
night at the entrance to Meridian
Hill Park.
Mrs. Mary E. Macdonald. "a, Of
140l Fairmont street NV. told po-
lice a colored man wearing base
ball cap approached her at Fifteenth
and Euclid streets NV. and grabbed
her purse.
When she held on to the purse
and the stroller, he let go and ran,
causing her to fall backwards, she
said.
The baby, Howard. /. was cut
slightly when the stroller over
turned, Mrs. Macdonald told the
police. She operates a beauty par
lor at 1883 Columbia road NV.
Evening star., 1948-06-29
City Heads Turn Down
Plea for Playground
On Parking LOT Site

The Commissioners today disap-
proved . request of the District
Recreation Board for permission to
set up a playground for 500 Negro
children at the rear of the old Den
nison School, 1927 street NV.
The proposal met with consid-
cradle opposition by businessmen
and residents of the area at a three
hour public hearing before the
Commissioners ON June 4.
Harry S. Wender, chairman of
the board. told the Commissioners
the space-now rented by the Dis
trict to businessmen as a parking
lot-was desperately needed" for
a playground. Although. it can be
reached only through an alley, Mr..
Wenoer said, it is the only mid
city space available.
Challenging oponents to name a
more suitable playground place, Mr..
Wender said, "it Is far more i'm
portant for neighborhood children
to be protected than it Is for busi-
nessmen to have a place to park
Renah F. Camalier, attorney for
the businessmen. said the ALLEY
playground" would pose a tre-
mendous, safety hazard to the chill
dren from trucks using the alley.
He declared removal of the park
ing space would damage Fourteenth
street businessmen and force them
to move to Maryland and Virginia.
Woolsey w. Hail, speaking for the
Federation of Civic Associations and
the Central Northwest Citizens AS
sociation, said those groups were
unalterably opposed to the alley
playground plan.
Property including eight houses
on street is being held by the Dis
trict as a possible site for the pro-
posed Cardozo High School. Mr..
Hall said he would not object to the
establishment of the playground
there if the eight dwellings were
razed so that the playground could
extend to S street.
Evening star., 1948-06-29
Tomorrow Is Final Day
For Free Chest x-Ray

Tomorrow is the last day for Dis
trict residents to take advantage
of the Washington Chest X-Ray
survey services for the detection OF
tuberculosis. qass
More than 100000 washington
residents have taken advantage ct
the free opportunity to have their
chests checked since the drive
started January II.
Sponsored by the District Health
Department, the United States Pub
lie Health Service and the District
tuberculosis Association, the sur
vey aims at controlling and event.
ually eliminating tuberculosis by
discovering it in the early stages
when the disease can be most read
lily cured.
Portable and mobile X-Ray units
are in operation today and tomor-
row in downtown and residential
areas of Washington.
Evening star., 1948-06-29
PoIicemun's Lot q Lively One
In Washington, Tourists Find

While waiting for patrol wagon
to come pick up Lawrence. Pct.
Ducote saw another man running
toward him on H street with two
women in hot pursuit. The officer
released his grip on Lawrence long
enough to grab the running man,
Francis E. Jackson. %. colored. of
the 4500 block of Jay street NE. He
was carrying two rings. taken, it was
reported later, from Feldman'S
Jewelry Store, 1851 H street NE.
Lawrence disappeared meanwhile.
but other police arrived and he was
soon picked up in nearby tavern.
After waiting patiently through
all this. the New Hampshire tour
ists-Pvt. Ducote never did get their
names-were told to follow one Of
the recently arrived scout cars to
the address they were seeking.
Quite a CITY," said one OF the
tourists.
Evening star., 1948-06-29

A tourist never knows what he'll
run into In Washington. Take the
case of family down from New
Hampshire and Police Pvt. Remy
G. Ducote.
The policeman was stopped by the
tourists around 7:30 pm. yesterday
at Third street and Massachusetts,
avenue NV. The tourists COM
planned they had been trying for
two hours to find the home of friends
in the 1900 block Of D street Sc.
Pvt. Ducote said he'd show them.
At that moment he saw a fight
between two men near the corner.
He told the tourists to park min
ute. walked over to the fight and
arrested one of the participants,
Ray Lawrence, Is, OF the 300 block
of Parkland place Sc. Lawrence
later was booked on Q charge OF
disorderly conduct.
Evening star., 1948-06-29
Trosh Fire Damages
House, Family EIees

A family of eight was forced to
flee a two-story frame building at
5O4 Twenty first street NV. yester-
day afternoon as fire shot up the
south side of the building to the
roof, firemen reported.
The flames started by trash burn
ing beside the house, badly DAM
aged one side and the roof. The
family of Stonewall Jackson, COL
ored, who lived in the basement,
fed. No one was injured.
Evening star., 1948-06-29

KEYS absence police were told a
monkey was fitting over the roof
tops around 635 South Carolina ave-
nue. Sc.
Not so nimble. Pvts. L. M. Daniels
and T. J. Sullivan contrived hot
weather monkey snares while the
neighborhood gathered. Police and
the neighborhood watched.
Peppie rambled oil to another
roof top with the bait pronered by
Mrs. Cauffman and Mrs. Theresa M.
Brown Of 706 Ninth street Sc, but
finally went home under his own
power, meek and hungry.
Evening star., 1948-06-29
Woman Under Arrest
Dies: Autopsy Ordered

A 27-year-old woman, who was
arrested for disorderly conduct at
sixth street and Pennsylvania ave-
nue. Sc. last night. died at Gallinger
Hospital early this morning after
becoming ill in detention room at
the Women's Bureau.
She was listed by police as Mrs
Elizabeth Burch of 1923 Clifton
street NE.
She was found near her cot with
her nose bleeding and with a small
cut on her head. Taken to Gal
hnger. she was pronounced dead at
$50 am. Friends said she had been
involved in an auto accident week
ago and complained she had head
injuries. Coroner A. Magruder Mac
Donald ordered an autopsy.
Evening star., 1948-06-29

Heat wilted Peppie the Monks S
wanderlust today.
Feeling like Gargantua in the
cool of the morning, the pet monkey
owned by Allen Cauffman. 7. of 420
Seventh street Sc. ripped aside the
home ties and fed to the rooftops
and trees
Three hours, two apple pieces, a
Florida mango and Coca-Cola
later Peppie was tired, detected
and hot little monkey.
Shortly after Aliens mother, Mrs.
Ethe, Cauffman noticed the mon
Evening star., 1948-06-29
Southern Railway System
Gets ; Safety Awards

The Southern Railway System
Yesterday received three Of six an
nual National Safety Council awards
a ceremonies in the Southern Build
ing.
The awards for outstanding
achievement in employe safety were
received by the general managers
of three of the Southern's system
of roads.
J. P. Moon. general manager OF
both the Cincinnati, New Orleans q
Texas Pacific Railway and the New
Orleans 81 Northeastern Railroad,
and D. w. Brosnan. general man
ager of the Georgia Southern d
Florida Railway, accepted the Ger
tificates from Lewis Wallace OF the
National Safety Council.
Evening star., 1948-06-29

Brig. Gen. Albert L. Cox. COM
mander of the District National
Guard, is considering the possibility
that the Armory drill hall manager,
to be selected today by the Armory
Control Board, might be paid
percentage of the net income in
stead of a straight salary.
The Guard commander an
nounced this today as he prepared
to meet at pm. in the Armory
with Commissioner John Russell
Young and Attorney Leonard P.
Walsh, the congressional appointee
who will cast the deciding vote in
differences that crop up between
Commissioner Young and Gen. Cox.
Approximately 20 men will be
considered by the board at today's
closed session. the first meeting of
the control board since Mr.. Walsh
was appointed by Chairmen Buck
and Dirksen of the Senate and
House District Committees.
Col. Leonard Mentioned.
Among leading candidates for the
job, whicn Commissioner Young
feels should carry $4,000 a year
salary, are:
Col Waldron E. Leonard, director
of the District Veterans Service
Center.
Jack K. Espey. former general
manager of the Washington Red
skins and Baltimore Colts.
Col Harold Livingston, former
manager of Uline Arena.
Brook "Untz' Brewer, former
University of Maryland football
star.
Ray C. Alvis, fight manager and
promoter, who formed short-lived
amateur hockey organization here.
Thomas N. Rosa, a Washington
theater manager.
Shipley D. Burton. Washington
representative for industrial groups.
H. C. Rising, chief engineer and
superintendent at the Statler Ho-
tel.
Increase in Capacity Studied.
The Control Board also is expected
to discuss ways of increasing the
capacity of the drill hall from the
1925 limit now in force because Of
District fire egress laws.
An arrangement, also is likely to
be worked out. after hot dispute
between the District Government
and the National Guard, on how
profits from events held in the drill
hall are to be apportioned.
The Commissioners and the
Guard have been quarreling since
last June, when the National Guard
reoccupied the armory as the Fed
eral Government pulled out its last
wartime employees. The inability of
the Commissioners and the Ma
tional Guard to get together on the
drill hall finally resulted in the
appointment of Mr.. Walsh, the
third man on the board.
Evening star., 1948-06-29
Gambling Probe Hears
Witness Wounded in
Brass Rail- Shooting

One OF the two men wounded in
shooting in cafe last January
testified today before the special
grand jury investigating gambling
here.
The witness, Charles Henry Mel
son. 80, colored, of the 1900 block
of H street NE, was shot in the
Brass Rail, 1889 Seventh street NV.
The special grand jury heard him
for about Is minutes.
He would not discuss his testi-
mony with reporters, but his attor-
ney, Bernard Margolius, said yes
terday he did not expect his client
to give much information in the in
quiry.
Henry M. Leake, 80, colored, Of
the 100 block of r street NE, the
other man shot in the cafe, il
scheduled to appear tomorrow. His
attorney. Curtis P. Mitchell, said
He hxd INSTRUCTED him to refuse to
answerany but preliminary iden-
tifying questions. on the ground the
answers might tend to incriminate
him.
Both Under Indictment.
Both Nelson and Leake are under
indictment on charges Of assault
with intent to kill, assault with q
deadly weapon and carrying dan
oaro,,s mao po,o
Other witnesses today. before the
special grand jury included Miss
Hazel Brown, colred, understood to
have been employed at the Brass
Rail as a cashier, and Isadore
tShep) Shapiro, who would not
identify himself further. Neither
would say what questions were
asked in the grand jury room.
A gun said by police to have been
used in the alteration was shown
the special grand jury yesterday
by Pvt. Jacob L. Rinker of No. 2
precinct, who participated in the
investigation OF the case.
Other Witnesses Listed.
Other witnesses yesterday in
cluded Cornelius c. Parker. 80. col
ored, of the 100 block Of Seaton
place NV, who said he was walking
by the Brass Rail at the time of
the shootings and witnessed the
disturbance.
The special grand jury presumably
has been seeking to establish
whether the shootings arose from a
numbers game dispute.
As the inquiry proceeded, S.
year -old man was to face lottery
charges today in Municipal Court
following his arrest yesterday by
vice squad detectives in the $500
block OF Georgia avenue NV.
He was booked as Irving B. Sum-
mers of the 1000 block of Fuller
street NV. and freed under $l,50G
bond.
1t. Roy Blick. squad chief, said
the man had $500 in cash, includ-
ing "a 500 bills, on his person when
arrested, together with "a quantity
of v,,1rnhnrS SlinS
Evening star., 1948-06-29

tral High School in 1881. -.
Shortly after graduating he went
to work for the District govern
ment. first in the Highway De-
partment and later was transferred
to the Assessors once. In 1888 he
was transferred to the License
Bureau and in l942 he was made
assistant to Mr. Bailey.
Mr.. Nottingham Is married and
has two children, Chatham Towers,
jr., 8, and Candace, 2. His grand
father was the late Chatham Tow
ers. who was for many years col
Iector Of taxes in the District.
Evening star., 1948-06-29
CAB Calls Hearing Friday
In Air Crash Fatal 10 43
By the Assotioted Press

The Civil Aeronautics Board has
ordered hearing at 10 am. Friday
at Ashland, Pa. to take testimony
of witnesses to the crash of a
United Airlanes plane near Mount
Carmel, Pa, on June II. Forty
three persons died in the crash OF
the big deg, flying the last lap OF
a transcontinental run.
Robert w. Chrisp. chief Of the
CAB hearing and reports section,
will preside.
Another hearing will be called
later to hear technical evidence
concerning the accident.
Evening star., 1948-06-29
Avery Reelected Chief
Of Appalachian Troll
By the Asseeioted Press

FONTANA DAM, N. c., June %
Myron H. Avery of Washington was
reelected chairman of the Appa-
lachian Trail Conference yesterday.
Miss Marion Park. Washington. was
reelected secretary.
The conference maintains the
2,050-mile Appalachian Trail ex-
tending from Maine to Georgia.
Evening star., 1948-06-29

llC1C. L Aolll3c n.
Heelan, an Al
coholic Control
Board inspector,
was named as
Sistant license
superintendent.
Mr.. Noting
ham, who lives
at 1914 Ca ry
la ne, Sill er
Spring, was born
in the District
October 5. 1914.
He went to the
pu blic schools
here and gradu-
.kal fror Can
Evening star., 1948-06-29
important Notice

The telephone number for THE STAR Is now sIEkLIN1
5O00
Telephone tranhc at THE STAR increased to polnt
which additional trunk lines to provloe prompt
and ecen to customers These trunk lines were
available Immediately the new Sterling exchange
So to call THE STAR for reason-rememoei'
STERLING 5000 ss
Evening star., 1948-06-29
DRIVING Course Called OFT

A two-week summer institute for
instructors in highway safety and
driving scheduled to open today at
American University has been called
of, university officials announced
today. Lack of registration forced
the change in plans. it was said.
Evening star., 1948-06-29
Bill Authorizes Stump

President Truman today signed
a bill which authorizes the Issuance
of a stamp next year to COM
memorate the 20oth anniversary OF
the founding of the city Of Alex
andria.
Evening star., 1948-06-29
Nottingham 10 Head
ID. T.. License Bureau

Chatham T. Nottingham today
was appointed by the Commissioners
to succeed the late Edward T.
Bailey as license superintendent
Evening star., 1948-02-05
Too Much Is Too Much

Any one thinking of writing serious
book about international problems, the
recent war or atomic energy had better
regard the task as labor of love that
will never make him a rich man. Ap-
parently. with relatively few exceptions,
the American people have read their I'LL
of such matters for the time being. What
they are chiefly interested in, according to
the American Library Association, are works
dealing with their personal problems and
purporting to show how they can make
themselves happier and more prosperous
as individuals
Although this probably will come as dis
couraging news to all serious thinkers who
believe that everybody must think as they
If mankind Is to be saved, 1t really may
be less bad than 1t sounds. In fact, it
may even be wholesome. At any rate,
most OF us human beings cannot be ex-
Evening star., 1948-02-05

pected to carry on, day in and day out,
with long faces and dark, unhappy
thoughts just because of the terrible fix
the world is in and seems incapable of
getting out of. People have to cross to
the sunny side of the street at least once
in while; If they stayed constantly in the
dank shade, if their reading diet consisted
only of solemn dissertations on interna-
tional relations, armed conflict and A
weapons, they certainly would bruise their
psyches and perhaps grow SO jittery or
panicky that matters in general might
become a whole lot worse than they are
now.
This does not mean, of course, that we
can afford to be apathetic about public
apathy toward the most important sub
jects before us. But we ought not to
confuse apathy with state of mind that
may be altogether understandable and
even healthful. Actually, the current read
ing pattern, rejecting more than boredom
with heavy books or more than disbelief in
repeated cries of wolf, wolff" may repre-
sent sensible and mentally therapeutic
fight from vast output of views on the
real or potential morbid events and hor-
rors of our time. Psychologically, as well
as physically, there is still a great deal to
be said for moderation in all things, in
cluding ones appetite for literature on the
atom or the danger of another war.
Evening star., 1948-02-05
Mr.. Wheeler Demurs

1t Is not surprising that the effort by
the American Federation of Labor to IN
duce former Senator Burton K. Wheeler
to take over direction of its much
heralded 1948 political purge has struck
snag. For there is something about the
work which this assignment would entail
that seems out of keeping with the char
acter of Burt Wheeler.
The first development in this curious
episode came when AFL President William
Green told reporters that Mr.. Wheeler had
been offered and had accepted the S2O,0OU-
a-year post as director of the AFL Labor S
League for Political Education. When Mr.
Wheeler was consulted by reporters, how
ever, he indicated he would take the loo
only on certain conditions. When word OF
this reached the AFL high command it was
received with confusion, indignation and
assertions from some of the union officers
that Mr. Wheeler would take the job on
AFL terms or not at all.
There seem to be two points of differ
ence. One concerns the Marshall Plan,
the AFL being unqualifiedly behind it, and
Mr.. Wheeler being troubled with certain
reservations But the main collision be-
tween Mr.. Wheeler and his prospective
employers has to do with the purge.
The AFL says it is out to defeat every
member of Congress who voted for the
.Taft-Hartley Act. No matter how fine a
legislator an individual might have been, If
he voted for this law, he is on the AFL
blacklist and is marked for political death
If the AFT, can kill him Off
This does not sit well with Burt Wheeler.
He was in the Senate himself and he
knows how silly this is He also Is per-
fectly capable of detecting the hollowness
In the AFL outcries to the effect that this
Evening star., 1948-02-05
Letters to The Star
Sodium Chromate Recommended

Sodium Chromate Recommended
To the Editor of The Star:
In re your editorial of February /, "Why Not
Add Some Pepper, Too?" please be advised
that it might be wise for the American Road
Builders Association to add few corrosion
engineers to its staff. While the ARBA
might have convinced Mr.. Xanten that the
use of calcium chloride or sodium chloride is
harmless, their argument falls fiat against
scientific fact. Any person with an ocean
cottage will quickly inform them of the COM
bined corrosive effects of salt spray and the
atmosphere on metal parts. The Navy De-
partment has spent many thousands of dollars
in research on the corrosion caused by just
such conditions.
However, there still is hope for the tax
ridden motorist whose own tax money is used
by the State to ruin the car he drives!
prominent tire manufacturer, after spending
considerable time and money in research
studies. has found that the addition of small
amounts of sodium chromate to common de-
icing salt mixtures will prevent such corrosion.
Mr. Xanten can read report on those studies
on page 56 of the January issue of Chemical
and Engineering News. He would do well to
investigate this improved salt mixture for use
during the next winter season.
FRANCIS L. SCHMEHL.
Evening star., 1948-02-05
New Atomic Weapons

The past few days .have brought forth
reports from the Joint Congressional Com
mittee on Atomic Energy and the Atomic
Energy Commission. The central fact to
be cleaned from them is that we are
sparing no effort in the development of
new atomic weapons.
That this has to be done is sad COM
mentary on the state of the world. But we
have to live in the world as it is, not as
we would like it to be, and as long as
we are confronted with a threat of war
the great majority of Americans will
heartily indorse this conclusion by the
congressional group: Until such time as
an effective, enforceable and reliable pro-
gram for the international control of
atomic energy is in successful operation,
the most vital business of the Atomic
Energy Commission must be the meeting
of the atomic requirements of national
defense"
The report of the Acc makes it perfectly
clear that it agrees with this conclusion,
and that it is going forward with it's vital
business to the best of its ability.
It is fortunate that there is no i'm
portant division of opinion within official
circles on this point For as matters stand
today bur one best hope of staying alive is
to build up our striking power-our ca
pacity for destruction-to such degree
that Soviet Russia, the only conceivable
source of danger, will not be willing to
take the risk of striking at us. Conversely,
the surest way to invite attack, and to
bring about our own destruction, is to
permit our means of damaging an enemy
to fall into disrepair, as we did after
World War I.
Evening star., 1948-02-05


a new war"
Dr. Martin Niemoller of Germany gives
moving illustration of deepening despair in his
country; the Bishop of Chichester DR.. George
Bell, leaves no doubt in any ones mind as to
this despair as he describes the gravity OF
our international situation.
Easy optimism for world Of peace and
order is gone. Many are now saying that all
progress is impossible in our kind of world.
In the midst of this cynicism and despair
there are, however, rays of hope. They come
from almost every area OF the earth; they are
seen best perhaps, at least for a part OF the
world, frcm new vantage point. 1t is
Geneva, Switzerland. Here is the center OF
the World Council of Churches, the tangible
expression of the growing sense OF Christian
unity among the churches of the nations Of
the world. In this center leaders OF the
churches from across the face of the earth
have been gathering in preparation for the
consummation of years of hope, the actual
organization of the World Council OF Churches
Forty Countries Represented.
One hundred and thirty three church bodies
of 40 countries have already by official vote
decided to be part of the World Council OF
Churches when it organizes and adopts con-
stitution and program at its first assembly in
Amsterdam, Holland, next August. Plans are
made for the attendance Of 1400 people at
the Amsterdam assembly; $50 of these will
be official delegates; some $50 alternates; the
remaining number will be divided among con-
sultants, fraternal delegates, observers, accred-
tied visitors and representatives of the religious
and secular press.
Although the Roman Catholic Church will
not be a part of this World Council OF
Churches by its own choice, it is expected.
according to the desire of number OF men,
bers of this church. that few observers will
be present at the assembly. The church In
Russia has not as yet declared It's intention