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Evening star., 1948-01-11
Six Weeks Are Left to Enter
Scholastic Writing Contest

The scholastic writing competi-
tion sponsored by The Evening Star
and open to all children enrolled in
public, parochial or private schools
will enter its final six weeks to-
morrow.
All manuscripts to be eligible for
consideration must be mailed to
Scholastic Writing Awards, care of
The Evening Star by midnight of
February 20.
The contest Is divided into two
divisions, senior and junior, the SEN
ior division consisting of the 10th,
11th and 18th grades and the Junior
division the sixth grade through the
ninth.
In the senior division there are
II classifications of writing includ-
Ing six in Journalism. The junior
division has five classifications in
Guiding one In journalism.
All English teachers in Washing
ton and the metropolitan areas of
Virginia and Maryland have sup
piled with rules pamphlets. Addi-
tional copies may be had by writ
ing to Room 724, The Evening Star
Building.
Evening star., 1948-01-11
Connosseur to Eat Wild Game Dishes at Zoo Restaurant

Nebraska, association members will
still pay $3.50, the price set by the
OPA when the group started.
Two brown bears, five reindeer
and a buffalo have already been OBJ
tanned for the luncheon series. Mr..
Leech orders the game several
months before the first luncheon
was scheduled.
The first year, we announced sew
eral meats which never arrived" he
says. Since that experience, we
make sure they are in our lockers
before we send word to the mem
bers."
Because these are mot meals to
be hurried through" each luncheon
is scheduled to last from 1870 am.
to pm.
And we quickly decided to do
away with speeches" Mr.. Leech re-
ports. Such things spoil a good
dinner"
Evening star., 1948-01-11
Demand Exhausting Tickets
For Neiqhborhood Concert

Requests for invitations for the
Seventh Neighborhood Concert by
the National Symphony Orchestra
which will be held Monday evening,
January 10, at Coolidge High School,
Fifth and Tuckerman streets NV,
are rapidly exhausting the supply Of
tickets.
Distribution points for the invi-
tations are Coolidge and Roosevelt
High Schools, Paul and Mcfarland
Junior High Schools, Shepherd, Ia
koma, Whittier, Truesdell, Bright
wood, West and w. B. Powell Ele-
mentary Schools and the Commu-
nifty Center department, Sixteenth
and Lamont streets NV.
Invitations also may be obtained
at the counter In the lobby of The
Star Building.
The concert, one of the series OF
10 sponsored by The Star, will mark
the final appearance of DR.. Hans
Kinder, conductor. in the 1947-4s
series of Neighborhood Concerts.
The entire program. which will start
at 9 pm, will be broadcast by Sta
ton WMAL, The Star radio station.
Evening star., 1948-01-11
Covenant Issue Comes to Head Wednesday
When High Court Argument Sturts in 4 Cases

Supreme CoMt to take special note
of its 1917 decision in the case OF
Buchanan VS.. Marley. In that rul-
ing the court declared unconstitu-
tionai a Louisville KY, city ordi-
nance requiring segregation of races
in residential areas and prohibiting
property transfers.
The anticovenant group argues.
therefore. that if it is unconstitu-
tional for the legislative branch of
government to impose bans of
thai kind it is equally unconstitu-
tional for the judicial branch to
grant injunctions to enforce such
restrictive covenants.
But the covenant holders cite a
"clear distinction" between State,
county and municipal laws and or
dinances and the private actions or
contracts OF individuals" They de-
scribe the judicial branch as sep
arate and unique form of govern
mental function" Although created
and supported by the Government,
the Judiciary gives the Government
mo other position than that Of the
ordinary litigant,' they declare.
Moreover, so far as contracts are
concerned the courts offer the only
effective means whereby property
owners as well as citizens in general
may obtain equal protection of
the laws and save themselves from
being deprived of their property
without due process of law.
Referring to the situation in the
District, the covenant holders OBJ
serve that Congress has exclusive
control here. They say that if
Congress opposed property cove
nants in the District it would have
abolished them by law long ago.
In a 149-page brief, attorneys for
the anticovenant group base their
case on the following principal
grounds: .-
That judicial enforcement of re-
Evening star., 1948-01-11

restaurant. Mrs. Mann suggested
the name.
Because of limited seating capac-
ity in the dining room, a series OF
luncheons is held, with a different
menu each time. Wednesdays ban
quet will offer bear steak.
Although cooking bear Is much
the same as cooking any other steak
"the secret is in the sauce" confides
Mr.. Leech.
"The basic idea for our sauce ]
got from an old guide in Wash
ington State" Mr.. Leech reported
Without revealing the secret, he
said an important ingredient is cin-
namon.
Mr.. Leech discounts the idea that
wild animals such as bear or buffalo
taste "gamey."
IF these meats are well-cooked
with g sl2itah luce. there is nc
After all,
Evening star., 1948-01-11

The Zoo restaurant will serve
buffalo roasts. bear steaks and rein
deer outlets to connoisseurs of game
on the next four or five Wednesdays
Animal lovers need have no fear for
the lives of their favorite exhibits
at the Zoo, however. No slaughter
of animals there is contemplated.
The menus are being planned for
the fourth annual series Of lunch
cons of the Anteaters Association, an
organization of some 900 members
who meet yearly to enjoy wild game.
The fare is bought from dealers
throughout the country who shoot
the animals in their native haunts,
and ship them here frozen.
Idea for the organization-which
has no dues, officers or programs
originated with DR.. William M.
Mann, Zoo director, Mrs. Mann, and
Gordon Leech. proprietor of the
Evening star., 1948-01-11

our ancestors ate, liked and thrived
on such fare"
He says, the bear steak should be
sliced not thicker than one-half an
inch, then grilled.
Actual cooking is done by Chef
Russell Deremer, who never in his
native France was called upon to
prepare such pioneers fare"
Buffalo to Be Roasted.
Like most good cooks, he has nc
arbitrary recipes for his sauces, but
uses rule of the thumb"
Buffalo, which will be served the
2lst, will be roasted, Mr.. Leech re-
ports. Successive Wednesday will
offer reindeer, then buffalo again,
then pheasant.
IF there is still demand-and If
I can get one-wen go back to bear
the following week." he declares.
Despite rising prices, which affect
brown bears from Virginia's Dismal
Swamp as well as prime beef from
Evening star., 1948-01-11

George Lowther. radio director
and writer of the current Tom Mix
program, has given his Endorsement
to the writing awards by declaring
THE Evening Star is doing more
to develop fine writers through
Scholastic Writing Awards. than is
any professional school that teaches
special techniques of radio script
writing or any other creative writing
speciality.
by encouraging students to try
their hands at all types of writing
the newspaper Is giving them an op-
portunity to really learn how to
write. BY giving them pat on the
back in the form of an award, 1t
may we'll be giving the encourage
ment needed to start fine poten-
tial writer in the proper field.
Here's my advice to young
writer's:
Ground yourself we'll in every
form of expression; don't aim at
the start for any particular form.
Later, you will find which is your
real field. Then study the best
writing in that field. Most impor-
tant of all, get to know all you can
about your subject"
Evening star., 1948-01-11
By J. Theodore Crown

Washington police are finding
themselves actors in serio-comic
performance which might be called
THE Old Numbers Game or who
Let in that Numeroiogist?"
AS part of his program to teach
an old department new tricks, Supt.
Robert j. Barrett placed the Cen
tral Complaint Room in service
last Wednesday.
The room is an element of Maj
Barrett-s overall modernization OF
police complaint handling and crime
reporting procedure. To the pre-
cinct desk sergeant and the man in
the scout car, however, it just
means more numbers
They have been acutely number
conscious since January l, when
first steps in the conversion were
taken. At that time, new numbering
series came into use at each precinct
and bureau for complaints and re-
ports of police action.
Another Number Added.
The Central Complaint Room
added a "CCR number to the list
of numbers an efficient policeman
must remember to note in reports
on case.
"A numerologist must have
thought this system up mumbled
a desk man yesterday.
Maj Barrett it not disturbed oy
such comments. He feels certain
the entire department will handle
all the numbers involved with ease
after the "shakedown" period Is
over.
For the present, however, police
are displaying a wariness OF the
numbers. For example, this con-
versation has taken place more than
Evening star., 1948-01-11
Crime Reporting System Makes
DC. Police Number-Conscious

once between the landline (tele-
phone) dispatcher and a scout car
man:
S. C. M.-"Say, what's your Ger
number on that last alteration
complaint"
l.. L. D.-"What number are you
carrying it under?"
S. C. MI don't have a number
for it yet"
L. L. Dwell, you'll have to tell
me your number before I tell you
my number. These things have to
come out even.''
Records Accumulating.
Handling a missing person case
is great sport for man who likes
numbers. A report may include
Ger number, a precinct serial num-
ber, a teletype number tif 1t Is
case carried ever from last year,
and a missing person number tbe-
cause the Missing Persons Bureau
has it own filing SYSTEM. There
could be more numbers on an in
volved case.
Going forward with his moderni-
zation plans, Maj, Barrett is study
ing the practicability Of reducing
old records to microflm-to clear
storage space for the mounting ac-
emulation of more recent, WE'LL
numbered reports.
He also is taking steps to obtain
a photo-duplicating machine to pro-
vide more rapid copying of police
records.
How about machine to handle
all these numbers?" commented a
scout car man. Its getting so Clark
and Cgle (the Detective Bureaus
erti-ce milling specialists) won't
',,no-' vhc,h her they're in a station
house or a numbers Joint"
Evening star., 1948-01-11

strictions on the sale of land, based
solely on the race or creed of the
buyer, violates the due process
clause of the Fifth Amendment; is
contrary to the Civil Rights. Act;
goes against the charter OF the
United Nations to which the United
States is a party by treaty; is dis
criminatory and grossly inequi-
table," and imposes unreasonable
restraints on transfer of property.
The petitioners also ask the Su-
preme Court to rule that the hard
ship to the petitioners would SO
far outweigh the benefit to the
covenant holders that courts should
not be permitted to enforce such
property agreements.
These cases involve this funda-
mental ISSUE" the brief states,
Shall we in the United States
have ghettos for racial, religious
and other minorities by a system
of judicially enforced restrictions
based on private prejudices and
made effective through the use of
Government authority and power?"
The brief contends, further, that
Mr.. Urciolo. a white man, is un-
reasonably restricted in his busi-
ness of selling real estate. 1t con-
tains numerous statistical charts
and tables designed to show that
restrictive covenants have injurious
effects on the social, moral and eco
nomic welfare of communities as
well as individuals.
Most of the "amicus curiae' briefs
oppose covenants. For the most
part they cover the same general
grounds as does the main petition
ers' brief.
Organizations Listed.
The following organizations or
groups are among those that have
sent briefs opposing covenants:
The Justice Department. Ameri-
can Civil Liberties Union. American
Federation of Labor, Congress of
Industrial Organizations, American
Association for the United Nations,
National Bar Association, American
Veterans Committee. National Law
yers' Guild, National Bar Associa-
ton, American Jewish Congress,
American Jewish Committee, st.
Louis Civil Liberties Committee,
Civil Liberties Department of Grand
Lodge Of Elks, National Committee
Evening star., 1948-01-11
Arlington Chest to Hold
Membership Meetinq

The Arlington Community Chest
will hold its annual membership
meeting at pm. tomorrow in the
Arlington Recreation Center, 3700
Lee highway.
A new board Of trustees will be
elected. All contributors to the 1948
Chest campaign who live in Ar
Ilington are entitled to attend the
meeting and vote, according to j.
Harold Stehman. president.
Evening star., 1948-01-11

the Justice Department Of "gross
Misrepresentation" and "pernicious
statements" They asserted that the
real issue is whether Tthe courts are
prohibited, under the Constitution
from enforcing private contracts re.
lating to private rights in private
property"
The appellants, or petitioners, ir
the District cases seek to have GOV.
enants outlawed. Their principa
attorneys are Charles H. Houston
and Phineas Indritz of Washington
and Spottswood w. Robinson, III
of Richmond. Mr.. Houston and Mr.
Robinson also are associated with
counsel in the Detroit case.
Cases Described.
Henry Gilligan and James A
Crooks, Washington lawyers, are
handling the cases for the respond
ents, or defenders, of the covenants
in the District cases. They also are
participating with counsel for the
covenants in the Detroit case. Each
side will have three hours for argu-
ment.
The basic issues in the District
Michigan and Missouri cases are
the same, although the types o1
covenants differ in some details. The
District cases, being considered ir
a consolidated petition, came ul
from the United States Court o1
Appeals here. ...
The others reached the high court
on appeal from. the Missouri ano
Michigan Supreme Courts, In each
instance the lower courts ruled ir
favor of the covenants.
The District cases are:
No. 290. James w. Hurd and Mary
I. Hurd VS.. Frederic E. and Lena A
Hodge, Pasquale and Victoria De.
Rita, Constantine and Mary March.
egiani, and Balduino and Margaret
Giancola. --...
No. 291. Raphael G. Urciolo, Rob.
ert H. and Isabelle j. Rowe, Herbert
B. and Georgia N. Savage and Paul
inc B. Stewart VS.. Frederic E. Hodge
and the other respondents in No. 900
The Missouri case is No. 72: j. D
and Ethel L. Shelley VS.. Louis ano
Fern w. Kraemer. The Michigan
case is No. 81: Orsel and Minnie
McGhee VS.. Benjamin J. and Anna
Sipes and James A. and Addie A
Coon.
Covenants involved in the Dis
trict cases are not limited to time
They run against sale of the cove
nanted property to or ownership by
colored people. The ban is inserted
in the property deeds themselves.
In the Michigan case, the cove
nant runs to January l, 1860. II
provides that the property in ques-
ton shall not be used or occupied
by any person or persons except
those of the Caucasian race" Ir
the Missouri case, the covenant runs
for so years from February. 1911, anc
likewise excludes use and occupancy
by persons mot of the Caucasian
race" The covenants in these cases
are embodied in written agreements
officially recorded.
The District cases deal specifically
with lots on the south side of the
100 block of Bryant street NV
Evening star., 1948-01-11
March Of Dimes Drive Woman Critically Hui
Set by Commissioners In Collision; Three
For January IS 10 30 Others Are Injured

A woman from nearby Maryland
was on Emergency Hospitals criti-
cal list last night after an auto
collision which injured three other
persons.
She was Mrs. Lillian E. Alber
$500 Ridge drive, Brookmont, Md
Hospital authorities said she suf-
fered head injuries, shock and q
hip injury. The crash occurred al
Forty-sixth and Yuma streets NV
Police charged Robert A. Moss
IT, of 5112 Connecticut avenue NV.
with reckless driving after he was
treated at the hospital for cut lip
He was the driver of the car which
struck Mrs. Alber's, police said.
Passengers Injured.
l Stephen B. Crowley, jr., 20, o1
3717 Legation street NV, pas.
senger in the Moss auto, was taken
to Emergency Hospital with a
broken nose and possible fracture
and later was transferred to Mount
Alto Veterans Administration Hos.
pital. His condition there was called
good, His brother, Richard Crow
ley, 10, was released after treat
ment at Emergency for bruised
knee and hip scrape.
Mrs. Alber's granddaughter, il
Anne Slattery, S, daughter of DR.
and Mrs. Edward j. Slattery of the
Brookmont address, also was taker
to the hospital but did not require
treatment.
Both cars were badly damaged
Police said Mrs. Alber was driving
east on Yuma street and Moss was
going south on Forty-sixth street
when the accident occurred. Ar
Emergency and two Bethesda-C Chevy
Chase rescue squad ambulances took
the injured to the hospital.
Boy, 7, Struck by Car.
In another accident yesterday 9
7-year -old colored boy was struck
police said, as he ran from between
parked cars in the 400 block o1
Third street S.W. and his condition
last night was undetermined at Cas-.
ualty Hospital. He was John E
WilIingham, 425 Third street S.W
Police filed no charges against Hugh
L. Butler, 33, colored, TIT Twenty
fourth street NV, driver Of the
car.
Backing into parking space ir
the 3700 block of Alabama avenue
Sc. late yesterday, the car o1
Thomas E. Presgrave, AZ, Of 2014
Fort Davis street Sc, struck his
son, Thomas w. Presgrave, 5. The
child was released after treatment
at Casualty Hospital for leg injuries
In a rush-hour accident at Fifth
and G streets NV, one car was
overturned and two others damaged
but no one was dhospitalized.
A sedan driven by Mrs. Mary H
Kline, 80, of Herndon, Va, was
turned on it's side and struck a
parked vehicle after collision with
an auto driven by Fred E .Kreis
At, of 1714 Fort Davis street NE.
Police charged Mrs. Kline with
failing to give full time and atten-
tion tn her driving
Evening star., 1948-01-11

on Civil Rights and Liberties, Ex-
ecutive Committee of the General
Council of Congregational Christian
Churches, Human Relations Com
mission of the Protestant Council
of New York City, American Indian
Citizens League of California. Nom
Sectarian Anti-Nazi League to
Champion Human Rights, and Isaac
Pacht, and a group of California
attorneys.
Organizations that have filed
briefs in favor of covenants are the
Federation of Citizens Associations
of Washington, including the Cit
liens Forum of Columbia Heights;
Arlington Heights Property Owners
Association, National Association Of
Real Estate Boards and the Mount
ROYAL Protective Association Of
Baltimore.
Evening star., 1948-01-11
City-WideC Chest
|x-Ray Surveyto
Open Tomorrow
tuberculosis Tests
For City Heads Will
Lounch compoiqn

| Washington's mass X-ray survey
will be officially launched, tomorrow
when the District Commissioners
and other District government off,
cials report to the special x-ray
booth erected in front of the Dis
trict Building to have their chests
examined.
Seven portable X-ray units will
be functioning this week in Gov
ernment agencies and four others
in business adjustments here, as
health officials undertake the task
Iof determining how many District
citizens are tuberculosis victims.
The survey is expected to last six
months. It's sponsors. the District
Health Department. United States
Public Health Service and District
tuberculosis Association, hope to
furnish every adult citizen a free
chest diagnosis.
To make 1t easy for every one to
take part in the survey, public
health experts will bring the X-ray
equipment almost to the doorstep
OF every District resident. The first
step in this campaign, they have
announced, will be to X-ray as
many people as possible during
working hours.
Seven Days a Week Scheduled.
The X-ray drives special head
quarters at Fourteenth street and
Pennsylvania avenue NV, where
the Commissioners will be examined,
is scheduled to be in operation seven
days week from 10 am. to 6 pm.
It's the most centrally located Of
the downtown sites.
Government workers will be pro-
vided with portable x-ray units as
follows:
Munitions Building, Monday
through January %; South Agricul-
ture Building, Monday through
January %; Federal Security Build
ing, Monday through January 10:
Yards and Docks Annex, Arlington,
Monday and Thursday; State Fed
eral Works Agency. Friday; Moses
Building, January 10 and 20; Com
merce Department, Monday through
January %; Arlington Annex
Navy, Monday through January
%; Government Printing Ofices l
and 2, Monday through Friday;
Government Printing Offices and
4, January 10 through 26.
Portable installations for business
establishments. to be available only
for those employed there, will be set
up tomorrow and Tuesday in the
Hotel Statler and Jelleff's Depart
ment Store; Wednesday, Thursday
and Friday, in the Mayflower Hotel
and Garfinckel's Department Store.
| @' Service in Home Areas.
Mobile units will go into action
in the residential areas Tuesday,
and will be available thereafter
from $50 am. to pm. each week,
Tuesday through Saturday.
For the first two weeks of the
campaign. they will be set up at
Sixty first and Dix streets NE,
South Capitol and Nichols avenue
S.W. Pennsylvania and Nichols
avenues Sc. and Connecticut ave-
nue. ana K street NV.
Tomorrow at pm, the public
health nursing section of the Grad
uate Nurses Association will hear
the part which nurses can play to
help make the X-ray survey sue
cess.
They will be addressed by DR..
John w. Cronin. chief medical di-
rector of the Federal Health Di-
vision, United States Public Health
Service, at the District Medical So
cietY auditorium. 1712 M street NV
Evening star., 1948-01-11

A proclamation was issued by the
District Commissioners yesterday
setting January Is through the 30th
for the March of Dimes" campaign
to raise funds for the fight against
infantile paralysis.
Commissioners John Russell
Young, Guy Mason and Gordon R.
Young pointed out that the last five
years, during which 10000 Ameri-
cans were stricken by the crippling
disease, marked the highest incl
dence of infantile paralysis" Of any
similar period in the Nations his
tory.
The Commissioners called atten-
ton to the fact that the March
of Dimes" drive is the sole support
of the ational Foundation for In
fantile Paralysis, and the founda-
ton will need millions of additional
dimes this year for its growing edu-
cational program designed to strike
at the heart Of polio's two greatest
allies-fear and ignorance
Residents OF the District. the
Commissioners said, have played a
leading role in helping to finance
research seeking the cause and cure
for this great crippler." They ex-
pressed confidence the public will
continue to back the drive until the
dread disease is rendered harmless.
With the Commissioners when the
proclamation was issued were Edgar
Morris, general chairman OF the
District March of Dimes Commit
tee, and 6-year-old Jeanne Walker.
of 313 Holly avenue, Takoma Park,
Md, a polio victim whose recovery
has been aided by the foundation.
Jeanne, the daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. E. H. Walker, was stricken on
Thanksgiving eve, 1916. and spent
four and half months in Children's
Hospital before she was able to re-
turn home. She still returns to the
hospital three times week for spe-
cial treatment and elementary
school tutoring.
Mrs. Walter estimated the cost of
Jeanne's care since she>first became
i'll at about $4,000, all of which was
paid by the District Chapter of the
National Foundation for Infantile
Paralysis.