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Evening star., 1948-11-29
Alexandra Lumber EmpIoye
Is Found Shot to Death in Car

in which the Lords Prayer Is dis
cussed.
Another book, Life and Death Of
a Spanish Town." also was in the
car.
Police estimated Mr.. Arnold, who
lived with his wife, Mrs. Mae
Arnold, at 300 South Washington
street, had been dead about two
hours. The couple had no children.
Alexandria Councilman Albert A.
Smoot, Mr.. Arnold's employer, could
ascribe no reason for the death. He
said that he had last seen Mr..
Arnold on Saturday and that he
had not noticed anything unusual"
Mr.. smoot said MIR. Arnold, who
handled sales and office work for
the firm, was very valuable man."
A native of Alexandria and grad
uate of George Washington High
School there, Mr.. Arnold had
worked at the Smoot Co. since 1941.
He served three years overseas in
the Army, Mr. Smoot said. Prior
to going to the Smoot Co., Mr..
Arnold had worked at Alexandra
Hospital and for the Southern
Railroad here.
Evening star., 1948-11-29

The velvet rope across the en-
trance to the Folger Library's read
ing room has been taken down.
Instead a sign directs readers to a
pretty recepticnist at desk whose
Job it is to make readers welcome.
And you don't have to be Pm.
D. to get in, either" said DR.. Louis
B. Wright. director of the library,
today.
Until DR.. Wright came here from
the Huntington Library in Califor-
mia this year. any one desiring to
use the reading room had to write
letter to the library. establishing
himself as scholar, to obtain ad-
mittance.
The 270-seat Elizabethan theater
in the library, modelled after the
Fortune of London, will be used for
presentation of a play for the first
time in March, when the Amherst
College players present Julius Cea-
sar."
And the library, one Of Washing
tons few modernistic buildings in
exterior architecture, is being mod
Evening star., 1948-11-29
z Families, IS Children
Face Eviction From Home

Two families, one with nine chill
dren and the other with six, were
still living today at 1919 Minnesota
avenue NE, although they expected
the house was going to be torn down
today to make way for new stores.
Daniel Goodman, one of the own
ers of the Ace Wrecking Co.. which
expects to tear down the building at
the proper time, told The Star today
this will not be done today. He
added that his firms policy is not to
tear down houses while people are
living in them, and that any court
action to evict them Is not in his
department.
Mr.. and Mrs. George w. Lewis
and their six children and Mr.. and
Mrs. George A. Underwood and their
nine children, grateful they still
have a roof over their heads, are
still looking for new homes. The
Lewises rent from the Underwoods
now
Evening star., 1948-11-29
Not Approached in Advance
On Benefit Ball, CARE Says

The relief organization, CARE,
issued a statement from its WASH
ington office today that it had no
knowledge before it was advised in
newspaper stories that the organiza-
ton will receive 10 per cent of pro-
ceeds from the United Nations Clubs
benefit ball and pageant at the
Statler Hotel Friday night.
The statement follows: CARE
has received a number of inquiries
as to its participation in the benefit
ball and United Nations pageant
which is being given by the United
Nations Club on December 8, 1948
THE announcement OF this ball
states that it is to aid CARE.
CARE received its first know
ledge of the benefit from the news
papers. This organization is now
informed that 10 per cent OF the
net proceeds will be devoted to the
purchase of CARE packages for
the needy overseas.
CARE will be happy to receive
any contributions from this benett
and hopes that the occasion will be
a success. However, it is CARES
general policy not to sponsor bene-
fits given by other organizations
nor to assume any responsibility IN
their management
Inquiry to New York Office.
CARES statement was seen as
an answer to questions which have
arisen since the United Nations
Club issued invitations and early
publicity on the ball which said
proceeds of the event would benefit
CARE and other welfare activities.
An answer to CARES denial OF
knowledge that it was to share In
the ball came today from Mrs.
Richard P. Hairless, the former Miss
Meredith Howard, who is president
of the United Nations Club and
general chairman of the ball.
Mrs. Hairless said she discussed
CARES participation in telephone
conversations with the New York
publicity Office starting November g.,
and was assured no other authority
need be approached to obtain
CARES permission.
At the local CARE Office it was
said that word had been received
from New York that Mrs. Hairless
had made an inquiry, but that she
had been referred to the Washing
ton Office.
In invitations issued early this
month, the United Nations Club
listed Attorney General Clark as the
honorary chairman and cabinet Off
GERS, their wives and other high
ranking persons as patrons and
patronesses.
Named as sponsors were the min
listers of most Nations with the ex-
ception of Russia, Poland and
Czechoslovakia.
One early news release said: with
Attorney General Tom Clark as
honorary chairman, net proceeds of
the ball will be divided between
CARE food packages for needy
Europeans and other welfare activi-
ties
In asking for a statement from
Evening star., 1948-11-29
Two NokesviIIe Men
Burned in Blast on
Boat al SoIomons

An Arlington automobile dealer
and another man escaped with
burns yesterday in an explosion and
fire on boat at Solomons Island,
Md.
They were Walter H. Eyles, 81,
president of the Nash Arlington
Corp, 2015 North Moore street, and
Alfred Shafer, 48. Both men live
in Nokesville. Va.
Mr.. Eyles was reported in fair"
condition at Doctors Hospital with
eye injuries and burns of the face
and hands. Mr.. Shafer was released
after treatment for burns.
The explosion occurred as Mr..
Eyles turned on the ignition switch
to start the motor of the 35-foot
cabin cruiser preparatory to a fish
ing trip.
The blast was accompanied by
flames which spread rapidly over
the craft. G. M. Bowen, at whose
wharf the boat was tied, went to
the aid of the injured men and
called the Prince Frederick Voun-
teer Fire Department and firemen
from the Solomons Naval Mine
Testing Base.
Hand extinguishers were brought
into play by nearby boatmen as the
flames blistered paint and scorched
a boat alongside the Eyles craft
owned by Capt. Alfred Hill, fishing
skipper.
Capt. Leon Langley, another
fisherman, towed the boat about
so yards off shore but the line
burned through and the wind blew
the cruiser back toward the dock.
Ed Bowen, IS, son of the wharf
owner, then hooked the burning
craft with an anchor from another
boat and towed it to the My Legs
Island, about $50 yards away,
where the cruiser burned to the
Waterline and sank.
Evening star., 1948-11-29

Mr.. Clark today, The Star was re-
ferred to the regular information
channels of the Justice Department.
l. was impossible to learn from that
source whether Mr.. Clark had an
understanding of the financial ar
rangements at the time he accepted
the honorary Craftsmanship.
On inquiry, The Star was told by
a director of the club that the plan
was to allot 10 per cent of the net
proceeds to CARE and use the re-
manning 90 per cent for club activi-
ties such as the promotion of cul-
tural classes.
Perfectly Usual Procedure
A release by the club today re-
fe;red to the event only as the sew
enth annual benefit ball and the
final paragraph of story released
for tomorrow's editions said "a per-
centage of the proceeds of this bene-
fit ball will be used for the purchase
of CARE packages to be sent to the
children of Europe"
A club director said today that the
early publicity failing to mention
the 1890 split of proceeds was
perfectly usual procedure. Club
officials said they took the position
that CARE would be glad of any
share of the proceeds, and that con-
versations with the New York office
bore this out.
He said the club at first planned
to give part of the proceeds to
American Overseas Aid, as was done
last year, but later 1t was decided
70 find a new agency and CARE
was chosen.
Goodwill Flight Planned.
Mrs. Hairless said the clubs
monthly bulletin was being sent to
all members and persons invited to
the ball, stating that 10 per cent
would go to CARE and 80 per cent
to the club.
The elaborate ball has advertised
such attractions as Walter Pidgeon,
the actor, as master of ceremonies,
and other celebrities. A group in
cluding Walter Wanger, Hollywood
director, and John Robert Powers,
beauty authority, will select Miss
United Nations, 1949," to be crowned
by Attorney General Clark.
Another feature planned by the
club is an overseas goodwill flight"
which will send a planeload of candy
and chocolate to destitute children
in Europe. Planned for Christmas,
the flight will be launched at the
ball with the help of movie per-
sonages. The United Nations Club
ic accepting pound units of candy,
chocolate and cocoa for the fight
at its headnlarters here
Evening star., 1948-11-29
City Center Is Hit
ByCoffee Drought
| |AsCofe Closes

A coffee drought parched the
Municipal Center today.
The center's only coffee spigot-
the lunchroom-closed up shop
Friday afternoon on orders Of the
Commissioners because it could
not comply architectually with fire
and health regulations.
Coffee addicts were seeking an
answer. Some brought percolators
to make their own. but that move
faced the frowns of District Health
Officer George C. Ruhland, who dis
courages coffee-making in the
Offices.
Other employees brought thermos
Jugs to have sent out, but the
problem was still there. The jugs
hold more than one serving of
coffee and too many persons in
one office want theirs black. Or
with cream. or with sugar and no
cream, or i. etc.
A new, approved lunchroom will
not be opened for a month or more.
Evening star., 1948-11-29

Raymond Leslie Arnold, 80, Alex
andria lumber firm emloye, was
found shot to death, pistol in hand,
in his parked car last midnight in
the 100 block of Duke street, Alex
andria. DR.. John A. Sims, city
coroner, said he would issue certifi-
cate today.
Mr.. Arnold, an employe of the
w. A. Smoot Co., was discovered
by two Alexandria policemen on
routine patrol. They reported he
was seated in his Austin sedan, a
32-caliber automatic pistol clutched
in his hand. He had been shot
once in the head, police said. They
said an empty cartridge case was
in the car.
A religious novel, THE Invisible
Encounter" by Igor Sikorsky, was
open on the seat beside Mr.. Arnold's
body, police said. The book makes
a plea for men to seek spiritual
rather than material power. The
chapter to which the book was open
is entitled THE Tragic Discord," i"
Evening star., 1948-11-29
Inquest Is Postponed
In Boatyard Drowning;
DC. Man Free on Bond

An inquest scheduled for today in
the drowning of Jack Corrlngton,
Detroit chemist, in the Anacostla
River Saturday night has been post
poned because the lawyer OF a man
under bond in connection with the
case cannot appear, according to
Coroner A. Magruder Macdonald.
The lawyer was retained by
Charles w. Foley, resident engineer
at the Fairfax Hotel, 2l00 Massa-
chusetts avenue NV. Mr.. Foley,
who was released under $4,000 bond
pending the coroner's action. was
questioned by police late Saturday
at the Buzzards Point boatyard
few minutes after Mr.. Corrington's
body had been recovered from the
Anacostia River.
Body Found Near Boat.
The body was found few feet
from Mr.. Corrington's 50-foot motor
launch docked there. He had put in
here a few weeks ago for repairs,
friends said. He was on his way to
Florida, it was said.
Police said Mr.. Foley admitted
visiting the Detroit resident aboard
the latter's boat during the evening.
DR.. Macdonald said Mr.. Foley
was wanted at the inquest because
the engineers account of his move
ments did not check in every detail.
The coroner set no new date for the
inquest.
Mr.. Corrington's body was taken
from the river by DR.. Samuel w.
Johnston, dentist, who lived in a
houseboat nearby. He caught the
body on a graphing hook about a
half an hour after he heard a shout
and splash, he told police.
Rescue Squad Called.
After recovering the body, DR.,
Johnston applied artificial respira-
ton for about II minutes, pending
arrival of Fire Department Rescue
Squad No. /. The squads efforts
also were futile.
Mr.. Foley has worked at the Fair
fax about six months. officials there
said. He previously was employed at
the Martinique Hotel. it was added.
Mr.. Corrington had retired be-
cause of i'll health, according to
Archibald Mason, friend who lived
IN a houseboat nearby.
Evening star., 1948-11-29
DC. Teacher Wins $4,000
In Nationwide Contest

Miss Gladys E. Quinn, 1929 Con-
necticut avenue NV, business edu-
cation teacher at Stuart Junior
High School, Fourth and E streets
NE, learned last night she had
won $4,000 in a Nationwide con-
test.
This morning. she said: "I can't
really believe I'm going to get it
yet"
When she heard her name on
the Take 1t or Leave 1t" program
over station WRC, she said, she
temporarily lost her voice in the
excitement.
Miss Quinn said her only informa-
ton about the award came over
the radio. She has not yet been
oficially notified by the Eversharp
Co., which conducted the contest.
It required entrants to tell in Is
words or less why they liked razor
made by the firm.
Evening star., 1948-11-29
Gifts This Week
Decide Quotas
For Chest Units
Committees to Meet
In December to
Distribute Funds

How Washington area residents
respond in the next four days to ap-
peals for the Red Feather Campaign
will determine "in large measure"
the ability of Chest-supported agen-
Cies to meet next years demands
for help, according to Chauncey G..
Parker. general campaign chairman
Mr.. Parker explained that budget
committees of the five Community
Chests in this area and United
Community Services of Washing
tor must meet during December to
calculate how much each of the 104
Red Feather Services will receive
each month of 1949.
The fist checks to Chest-sup-
ported agencies based on funds now
being raised, will go out in Janu-
ary, Mr. Parker said Figures on
which the budget calculations are
based, he added. must reflect the
total sums received in cash and
pledges before Christmas.
Drive Reaches 1872 Per Cent.
He pointed out that the Commu-
nifty Chest Federation's budget COM
mittee of volunteers is responsible
for an estimate of the total sum
to be made available to the member
Chests and, through them, to the
agencies providing the services.
So far, the Federation has reached
732 per cent Of its S4,566, 100 goal
1t is scheduled to close it's volunteer
soliciting efforts Friday.
Mr.. Parker said while the direct
mail campaign, aimed at former
contributors not yet heard from this
year, can be counted on to bring in
relatively important sums" the per-
sonal appeals of the thousands Of
volunteers still working this week
will substantially provide the base
on which 1949 agency budgets will
be calculated.
Not Private Organizations.
The campaign chairman urged
those who have not yet been solicited
in person or by mail to make out
their checks to the Community
Chest Federation and mail them at
once to 1lOl M street NV
This is not private organiza-
ton" Mr.. Parker declared. 1T de-
pends on the entire community of
families, of business firms and Of
. individuals.
ut is still not too late to give"
Evening star., 1948-11-29

Louis G. Caldwell, who conducted
most of the questioning for the ex-
ecutors, said the deposition probably
would take another day. After the
luncheon recess Mrs. Gizycka was
scheduled to resume testimony
Through her attorneys. Mrs.
Gizycka filed her will contest Sep
tember 13. In her petition to set
aside the will, she charged that her
mother was of unsound mind and
that the will had been obtained
through fraud. deceit and undue
influence. Mrs. Patterson left an
estate estimated at s16.500,000, in
Guiding the Times-Herald, which
was beoueathed to seven of its exec
utives.
Now AZ, Mrs. Gizycka is the for
mer wife of columnist Drew Pearson.
She has one child, Mrs Ellen Pear
son Arnold of Santa Monica, Calf
Evening star., 1948-11-29
Potomac Yards Inspector
Hurt in Fall From Boxcor

Henry F. Boley, 4s, Of 1928 Sec
ond street NE, a car inspector at
Potomac Yards, Alexandria, suffered
head, hip and back injuries early
today when he fell from a boxcar
at Henry and Monroe streets, Alex
andria
Mr.. Boley was taken to Alexan-
dria Hospital by the Alexandria
rescue squad where his condition
was described as good.
Evening star., 1948-11-29
Cathedral Drive Leaders
To Report at Luncheon

Team captains of the Washington
Cathedral Sustaining Fund Drive
will give reports at luncheon in
Satterlee Hall on the cathedral
grounds at 1890 pm. Wednesday,
z. r. Finkenstaedt and Mrs. James
M. Barnes, co-chairmen of the drive,
announced today.
The campaign seeks 100000 to sup
port the regular work and services
of the cathedral.
Evening star., 1948-11-29
Demurrer Filed
Backers in
Charter Suit
December 9 Is Set
For Hearing on Move
To Block Election

Supporters Of Montgomery Coun.
tvs new charter government today
sought to assure the holding of
special County Council election JAM
uary by demurring to an injunc-
ton suit which would prohibit a
vote.
Demurrer papers were filed at
Rockville by the County Board Of
Election Supervisors, the Mont
gomery County Charter Board and
the Charter Committee. Circuit
Judges Charles w. Woodward and
Stedman Prescott set arguments for
10 m. December 8.
The injunction is sought by four
of the five County Commissioners
who stand to lose their jobs by the
election of council. They contend
that the Maryland constitution for
bids an election before 1850.
Election Called Legal.
The demurrer states that the elec-
ton was legally scheduled under
constitutional provisions for coun-
ties adopting the charter system.
Montgomery became the first Mary
land county to approve this type
of government in referendum
November 2.
Whatever the ruling in circuit
court, the case will be carried to the
Maryland Court of Appeals for final
determination. Both the contest
ants and the courts have indicated
that they will hasten the proceed
ings because of the short time re-
naming before the council election
date.
II council is named January 6.
it will take Office four days later.
The demurrer enters a general de-
nial of the Commissioners allega-
ton, then follows with speciflca-
tions. It says there is no incon-
sistency between the charter and the
constitution with respect to either
the time of elections or the method
of nominating council candidates.
Authority Feared Lacking.
1t says further that if the election
is blocked and the Commissioners
continue in Office, the Commissions
ers would lack authority to enact
local legislation. Since the consti-
tuition prohibits the Maryland Leg
islature from passing local laws for
charter counties, the demurrer said,
Montgomery County could obtain
no local legislation before May, 1851.
It added:
"A court has a duty to construe
constitutional provisions so as not
70 produce absurd results where q
construction avoiding such results
is possible"
It also said that the Commits
sioners were guilty of inexcusable
delay in filing their suit.
Attorneys for the defense will DO
Allen T. Gardner, chairman of the
County Charter Committee; Gerald
D. Morgan, Edwin Brown and
James j. Hayden, member of the
Charter Board.
The charter, itself, takes effect
Thursday. Some of the most i'm
portant executive and legislative
powers are reserved to a council.
Meanwhile, the charter forces are
preparing to make their nominal
tions for council in belief that the
election will be held as scheduled.
The nomination deadline is De-
cember 13
Evening star., 1948-11-29
VA Transfers Dr.. Dawson
To Richmond Post

DR.. A. Roy Dawson, assistant
medical director for physical medi-
cine rehabilitation in the Veterans
Administration, has been appointed
chief of physical medicine at the
Mcclure Veterans Hospital, Rich
mond, it was announced today.
DR.. Dawson, who supervised med
ical rehabilitation work in the
Richmond area before coming to
Washington a year ago, was trans
ferred at his own request, it was
explained.
His assistant, DR.. A. B. c. Knud-
son, will take over direction Of the
physical medicine rehabilitation.
Evening star., 1948-11-29
Delay Expected
In Recruiting Of
Po|icewomen
Reservist Training
Also May Be Put Off
Until After inaugural

High police officials predicted to-
day that recruiting of the 80 po-
licewomen authorized to join the
force will be delayed for several
weeks.
It was further predicted that
training of the first recruits IN the
Police Departments new civilian
reserve corps probably will not be-
gin until after the Inauguration.
The Police Department is in the
midst of negotiations with the Civil
Service Commission to obtain the
newly authorized policewomen from
current lists of junior professional
job applicants. One conference of
police and commission officials was
held late last week. 1t was under
stood. however. that police had been
asked to submit an outline Of their
requirements to the commission and
the various stages of approval are
expected to take at least two weeks.
Screening to Take Weeks.
Therefore, it was estimated,
screening of the applicants and in
vestigation of their backgrounds will
take another two weeks so their
training will not start before some
time in January.
The policeWoman, who will be
assigned to station houses as assist
ant station clerks. are due to go
through the six-week rookie train
ing school and thereafter will get
special clerical training.
The press of other duties COM
bined with the difficulties of writing
a manual of rules and regulations
for the Civilian Reserve Corps, is
expected to delay training for the
corps until after the Inauguration.
100 Men to Be Checked.
1t was explained that the COM
mission recently has submitted the
names of nearly 100 prospective re-
cruits for the regular force and
examination and investigation Of
these men takes priority over the
reservists.
Heavy Christmas assignments and
preparations for the inauguration
also are expected to interfere with
getting the reserve. organization
under way.
In any case. it cannot be organized
until the Commissioners approve the
reserve corps manual, which will
spell out the dos and don't's for
police reservists including whether
or not any of them will be armed.
Evening star., 1948-11-29
W. J. Fisher in New Post

William j. Fisher, York Pa)
manufacturer. has been appointed
a division director of the National
Security Resources Board. He will
direct the mobilization planning
activities of the agricultural
machinery and implement division.
Evening star., 1948-11-29
300 Konn Employees
To Get $50 Bonuses

More than 300 employees Of S
Kann Sons Co. will receive Christ
mas bonus of $50 apiece, Sol Kann
president, announced today.
Persons receiving this sum have
worked for the department store for
10 years or more, and others en-
ployed since 1888 will receive bon
uses based on length of service, 1t
WAS said
Evening star., 1948-11-29
Church Postpones Concert

Because of an emergency opera
ton performed last night on julie
Zabawa, director of music of the
Church of the Reformation. 212 East
Capitol street, a concert of the male
chorus, scheduled for tomorrow
night, has been postponed. the Rev.
DR.. Oscar Blackwelder, pastor, an
nounced today.
Evening star., 1948-11-29
Ross Silent on Envoy Post
For Mrs. Roosevelt

The White House today refused
comment on the statement of a
radio commentator last night that
Mrs. Roosevelt had been offered the
post of Ambassador to France.
Press Secretary Charles G. Ross
was also noncommittal on a report
that Marshall Field, Chicago pub
Usher, could have the post if he
wanted it. Reports have been cur
rent for some time that Jefferson
Caffery. the present Ambassador,
was relinquishing the job.
Evening star., 1948-11-29
Guard Unit Elects General

Maj. Gen. Sumter Lowry OF
Tampa, Fla. has been elected to
the Executive Council of the Ma
tional Guard Association. He is
commanding general of the 51st
National Guard Infantry division
and represents the Sd Army area.