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Evening star., 1948-01-16

The sound of electric drills will be
heard around the south portico Of
the White House almost any day
now, for President Truman is going
ahead with construction Of the
much criticized second-floor balcony.
He recalls opposition also greeted
the introduction Of bath tubs, gas
lights and cook stoves into the
Executive Mansion.
AS a matter of fact, White House
aides report that preliminary work
on the addition Is under way. No
material has been moved to the
scene yet, and actual building op-
erations are still a little in the
future, but once workmen swing
into the job, the balcony can be
completed in pretty short time, ac-
cording to word from the F. H.
Martell Co., contractor.
The President announced his in
tention of pushing the work at a
news conference late yesterday when
a reporter asked If he were going on
with the controversial balcony" in
the face of widespread criticism.
Flatly the President responded
that he is-the reporters paper,
which has been critical. notwith-
standing.
His is not the only objecting pa
per, the reporter said.
Well, the President responded,
they don't know the facts; don't
want to know them, and you can't
explain to them.
He's thinking about issuing a
statement on the matter, the Presi-
dent continued, and it will be inter-
esting.
The same complaints. he con-
tinued, were heard when the first
bathtub made its appearance.
Evening star., 1948-01-16
Truman to GoOnWth Balcony;
Recalls Buthtubs Also Had Foes

That didn't change the structural
appearance of the White House, a
reporter chimed in.
Oh, but it did-the interior, the
President said. Why, he continued,
they wanted to lynch Mrs. Millard
Fillmore, wife of the 18th President,
who sponsored the first bathtub.
It was the same way with gas
lights, Mr.. Truman said, and also
cook stoves, the cooks at first re-
fusing to use them and sticking by
the old f1replaees.
Another reporter wanted to know
If the President would have rock
ing chair on the portico, and the
President. with chuckle, said he
hoped so.
Another of the audience said that
Republicans were pointing out that
the President is only temporary
resident of the White House.
No President ever has been any
thing but a temporary tenant, Mr..
Truman responded briskly, and he
hoped that would be the case as
long as the Republic lives.
Earlier in the day, Representative
Muhlenberg, Republican, of Penn
sylvania, in private life an archi-
tect, brought the balcony issue to
the House floor with a critical
speech in which he declared that
these public buildings are not the
property of any tenant" Mr.
Muhlenberg asserted that the Presi-
dent was proposing to use: White
House maintenance funds Illegally to
finance the structure.
Member of a subcommittee which
handles Federal construction, tht
Pennsylvania said he believed thai
installing the portico over the op.
position of the Fine Arts Commis
sion is not proper.
Evening star., 1948-01-16
Fire in Baltimore Store
Routs Patrons al Movie
~ the Assoeio,sd Press

BALTIMORE, Jan. 16.--A spec
tacular but brief four-alarm fire
badly damaged a downtown fur
store last night and caused patrons
in a nearby movie theater to rush
to the street.
Police said at least two persons
suffered minor injuries as they
fed from the theater after SMELL
ing smoke which originated across
the street.
Before it was brought under con-
troll. the fire gutted all but the top
story of a four-fioor structure oc-
cupied by the Fur Outlet co. ana
smoke from burning fur coats COW
cred the business district.
Evening star., 1948-01-16

opened 1t a man said. 7 am bill
collector and then pulled the door
open and struck at me-"
The intruder, who was wearing a
yellow knitted scarf wrapped around
his head and face, chased Mr.. Fair
fax into his bedroom and then hit
him on the head with hard object,
the barber said.
Meanwhile, Mrs. Fairfax, who Is
81, was aroused by the disturbance
and came out from a bedroom into
the living room, where she was seized
at gunpoint and tied up by two
other gunmen who had made their
way into the house. Her husband,
who had collapsed in a semicon-
scious condition as the result of the
blow on his head, also was bound
by the thugs.
While they ransacked the house
the men asked repeatedly where
is that $18.000," Mrs. Fairfax re-
lated. After searching fruitlessly,
the men finally returned to Mr..
Fairfax and threatened to burn the
soles of his feet if he refused to
disclose where he kept his money.
Obtaining his wallet containing
between s4o0 and $500, the men
expressed disappointment. Mr.. Fair
fax said, but then departed, first
disconnecting the telephone. They
drove away in car which had
been parked in front of the house,
the victims said.
Mr.. Fairfax. clad only in his un-
derwear, went next door to phone
police. Later he was taken to Arl-
.ngton Hospital, where he was
treated for scalp lacerations and
released.
Mrs. Fairfax was treated last
night by physician for shock. A
son, Eugene, H. is away at school.
The only description the couple
could offer for the three men was
that one was about 6 feet tall and
wore a yellow scarf and overcoat,
and a second was comparatively
short. Two wore handkerchiefs over
the lower half of their faces. All
carried revolvers, Mrs. Fairfax said
Mr., Fairfax operated barber
shop in Arlington for II years and
for the last three months has owned
a shop in the 2400 block of Mount
Vernon avenue, Alexandra. He
could not explain their reference to
the $4,000"
Evening star., 1948-01-16
County Liquor Board
Rejects Applications
|0f Two Restaurants

The Prince Georges County Board
Of License Commissioners yesterday
for the second time refused. to issue
an on-premises beer and wine Ii
cense to the Fat Boy. Jr. Restau-
rant, 1906 Southern avenue, Brad
bury Heights. Md.
The commission also rejected an
application for a permit filed by
Dee's Restaurant, Three Naples, on
the Washington Baltimore boule--
ward, Beltsville.
In both cases, the commissioners
received objections from residents.
The board ruled that existing per-
mits are sufficient to take care of
the beer and wine demand in the
two communities.
Reversal Suit Failed.
Fat Boy, Jr. was denied a permit
in May, failed to win reversal in
an appeal to State authorities and
filed a second petition after a delay
of six months, as formerly allowed
by the law. The law now requires
a years delay.
Albert p. Talbert, 4808 @ street,
Bradbury Heights, was spokesman
for citizens opposing the license yes
terday. The board was handed a
protest petition signed by IS per-
sons
The Rev. Glenn J. Cooper, a
Methodist minister. fought the APP
plication Of Dee's Restaurant as
spokesman for a group of residents
Of the Beltsville area.
Five Applications Granted.
The commissioners approved five
license applications and continued
four others for further study or for
technical reasons.
Those approved were for the Old
Toll House, Marlboro pike, Nell
wood; Curfew,. Inc, Washington
Baltimore boulevard, Muirkirk
Railroad Inn, Washington avenue
near Chestnut avenue, Bowie; r and
N Liquors, Ritchie' road, Ritchie
and the Maryland Delicatessan
Inc, 3703 Bladensburg road, Colmal
Manor.
Cases continued involved Swann's
8706 Livingston road, Chapel Hills;
Maryland Park Market, 502 Sixty
fifth street, Maryland Park; Shady.
side Liquors, IL Southern avenue
Capitol Heights, and Red Cohan's
Bar and Steakhouse, Inc, Rhode Is
land avenue, Brentwood.
Evening star., 1948-01-16
Jail Eseapee Ordered Held
For Jury on Entry Charge

James Hampson, "A, of the TOO
block L street NE, one of four men
who escaped from the Upper Marl-
Dor Jail last month. was ordered
held for action of the Prince
Georges County grand jury in
Hyattsville Police Court yesterday
-on charges of breaking into a
Queens Chapel Manor cleaning es-
tablishment.
Hampson was captured by Hyatts-
willie police yesterday at the clean
ing establishment. He was last of
the escapes to be rounded up. The
others were apprehended in Utah.
Besides holding the man for grand
jury action, Trial Magistrate Alan
Bowie fined him $500 for unau-
thorized use Of IN automobile,
Evening star., 1948-01-16
Lottery Charges Cost School Group Meets
Seven S5,000m Fines, On Montgomery Plan
Sentences Suspended To Aid Handicapped

Plans for a program to aid handi-
capped children of Montgomery
County were discussed at the first
meeting OF the newly organized
Committee for Exceptional Chill
dren yesterday at Montgomery Hills
Junior High School.
Attending were officials of the
county Board of Education, repre-
sentatives from II schools in the
eastern suburban area and num-
ber of principals.
Tentative plans call for a survey
in the eastern suburban area to de-
termine the number of children
whose handicaps are keeping them
out of school. Later 1t Is hoped
to expand the program to cover the
entire county.
DR.. Harold H. Mitchell, school
physician in charge of the health
program, told the group that both
he and his staff would cooperate
and be available to make physical
examinations.
Joining DR.. Mitchell in praise OF
the movement were Mrs. Curtis
Walker, president of the Montgom-
cry County Board of Education, and
Owen Knight, personnel counsellor
Of the Board of Education.
Mrs. Margaret E. Nolte, chairman
Of the committee, appointed chair
men of two subcommittee Mrs.
Helen P. Bready, personnel coun-
sellor for the Board of Education,
was put In charge of the school
survey, and Mrs. Wesley McCune,
former consultant for preschool
children for the Board of Educa-
ton, was named to arrange COM
munity participation.
| Mrs. Clarence H. KRISTEN has
been named co-chairman in charge
Of publicity.
School officials and principals who
attended included Mrs. Lillian L.
Gore, general supervisor of the
Board Of Education; Miss Bess M
Young Woodside Elementary
School: Mrs. Marion lockwood, Ia
koma Park Elementary School
Daryl w. Shaw, Montgomery Blair
High School: Mrs. Grace A. Zeller
Parkside School; Mrs. Louise Colip
Coiesville School; Miss Eliza E.
Callas, Pleasant View School ano
Miss Laura Mixner, -Four Corners
School.
Evening star., 1948-01-16
Five in Dice Come Fined
After Policeman Loses

Five Montgomery County men
were fined $50 each In Rockville
Police Court yesterday after a trial
in which a county policeman testi-
fed he lost $40 to the men in a dice
game.
Policeman Charles Pearson, testi-
fed he was in plain clothes the
night of December 20 when he went
to Rockville pool hall and parti-
cipated in the game in the back
room.
The men fined on gambling
charges we're Everett Welsh, 30:
Paul Luper, 27; Ralph Lutz, 80:
Benny Embrey, 21, and McDon-
aid Umberger, ~, all Of the Rock
vile area.
Evening star., 1948-01-16
Arlington Police Seek
; Gunmen Who Beat
Man, 58, Took $500

Arlington police today are seeking
three gunmen who last night beat
a 58-year-old man into semi-con-
sciousness, tied his wife to a chair,
ransacked the couples home and
made away with approximately $500.
The couple, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
c. Fairfax, had retired for the night
when the three, men, masked and
carrying revolvers, aroused Mr.. Fair
fax, an Alexandria barber. by knock
ing on the door and forced their way
into the home, at BIT North Lincoln
street, Arlington.
"At first I thought 1t was woman
who was pounding on the door," Mr..
Fairfax said today. But when I
Evening star., 1948-01-16
ChiIds Heads Fund Drive
OF Purenthood League

Marquis Childs, Washington COL
umnist and author, will serve as
honorary chairman of the Mont
gomery County Planned Parent
hood Leagues $4,000 drive opening
February II.
Mrs. Robert Huse. league presi-
dent, announced the following new
appointments for the drive: Mrs.
w. Oliver Kincannon, chairman;
Mrs. John 3. Mason, special gifts;
william D. Blair. treasurer.
Evening star., 1948-01-16
Church Group to Meet

The mems group OF st. Luke's
Lutheran Church on Colesville road,
Silver Spring. will meet at 8 pm.
Tuesday. After q short business
session, Judge Norris Bake, for
mer member Of the Supreme Court
OF Colorado, will discuss Christ
Speaks to the Lawyer"
Evening star., 1948-01-16
Gen. Gerow Heuds I'd Army

FORT GEORGE G. MEADE. Mo.
Jan. 16 DIT. Gen. Leonard I.
Gerow, who led the 29th Division
In World War II, yesterday assumed
duties as commandant Of the "a
Army.
Evening star., 1948-01-16
SurottsviIIe PTA to Meet

The Surattsville Md Parent
Teacher Association will meet at
7.45 pm. Tuesday at the school.
A movie on the atomic bomb VIII
be shown.
Evening star., 1948-03-03

RATES "a FOR EFFoRT-Don Kokes us) crashed through
trio of washngtonLee players in attempt for
at the Maryland gym last night He failed but his st. Johns
outfit recorded 573e triumph the Generals The Stars
Metropolitan Area high school basket ball tourney got under
The W-L athletes In foreground here Ernie Brown
(s and Hook Zimmerman (ss In the other game last night
Bethesda Roosevelt Star Staff Photo.
Evening star., 1948-03-03

i've sure points he figures the Eagle
mittmen will deliver.
A. US top ringman to date has
been Marvin Schiff. 145-pounder
from Chelms Ford, Mass, but this
presented another problem for
Courage. He has had four of his
best prospects all at the same weight
and due to the strict regulations
governing the weights Of college
boxers the others have been forced
to idle. Mahlon Wight and Phillip
Heathcote are two who still are out
for the team, but trailing Schiff.
With limited boxing budget, the
team has been operating on a shoe
string to date, but with three home
matches coming up, Courage hopes
to build up reserve and put the
sport on scale where the Eagles
will meet Catholic U. and other
local and Eastern ring powers next
season.
Evening star., 1948-03-03
"Binoo Bongo! Me ieaue Congo for
FIaror. Cut DILL,S BEST!"

You can travel far and never find
better pipe tobacco than DnL's BEST.
Flavor Cut for cooler burning. Flavor
Cut for cleaner smoking. Flavor Cut
to bring you ~ the fauortaI nsildness
Evening star., 1948-03-03

to the Gallaudet Jayvees and
Mcclure still thinks this was
the result of overcon1idence.
Sidweu Friends nosed it out in
one game before Kendall could
shift out Of its quick-breaking
offense and adapt itself to q
small floor. But It's record was
good enough to warrant q trip
to the tourney.
Tuttle and Truitt Saunders
probably are Its outstanding
players, although, as Butler
pointed out, you still need five
to play the game" Tuttle has
272-point total for the season,
averaging 81 game for the last
II games. Saunders tossed in 80
against National Training School,
but if the Trainers couldn't stop
him neither could Gallaudet
stop their Votaw, who picked up
80 for himself.
Both boys played football and
basket ball for Butler when he
coached at the North Carolina
School for the Deaf, and were
good enough on the gridiron to
win berths on the all-America
deaf eleven. Saunders is an end
and Tuttle a back.
Their favorite pro star, Of
course, is Bones Mckinney, q
Tar Heel alumnus, and they've
seen him play enough to get his
style down pat. Glenn Robert
son, a Canadian, was a center
on the junior championship team
of Ontaria, but he's never seen
the Caps play.
At Trenton, Kendall will bump
into teams that can hold their
own in any company. The New
York School for Deaf, for ex-
ample, has Carl Lorello, player
who averaged 40 points a game
this season. Last year on his
18th birthday he sent 81 through
the hoop by way Of celebrating.
Butler hasn't figured out how his
boys can stop him If they get
over Rhode Island in the opening
round.
Teams from Buffalo, Virginia,
Maryland, Pittsburgh, Hartford,
Conn; another from New York
and the host school will compete,
and Mcclure says If Gallaudet
could enroll just . few Of the
better players 1t could quit its
Evening star., 1948-03-03
Holy yCross,,1uning Up
For NCAA Tourney,
Wins 18th in Row
by the Assoeiofsd Press

NEW YORK, Mar. 3.-Holy Cross
keeps rolling along. The NCAA
basket ball champs, tuning up for
defense of their title in the coming
NCAA tourney, walloped Brown,
s0-35, last night for their 18th in
row.
Bob Cousy paced the Crusaders to
their 21st triumph OF the season.
He trimmed 10 points, getting five
baskets in / minute and As seconds
during the first half.
The game was one of the few
major ones on last nights national
card.
Oregon eliminated Washington
State from the Northern Division
Of the Pacific Coast Conference,
taking 1884 verdict.
Oregon plays Oregon State in its
final league game later this week
Another Oregon victory will bring
about a deadlock between Oregon
State and Washington, provided
Washington beats tail-end Idaho
twice in their weekend series.
st. Louis, which failed to retain
its Missouri Valley Conference title,
but nevertheless will play in the
National Invitation tourney In New
York, trounced Tulsa, 68-48.
The victory assured st. Louis OF
second place in the conference.
West Virginia, still hoping for q
post-season bid. whipped Temple,
1851, IN Morgantown, w. Va. It
was West Virginia's 42d straight
victory on its home court.
Siena surprised Canisius, S-44,
In another independent fray.
An attractive schedule Is listed
tonight. The Southern Conference
tourney opens at Durham with
Wake Forest playing william and
Mary and Duke battling South
Carolina. Other top-notch games
find Cornell at Colgate, Princeton
at Columbia, Harvard at Dartmouth
and Notre Dame at Penn.
Evening star., 1948-03-03
Two District Fighters
Face Charlotte Boys
In Golden Gloves
Special Dispateh 10 ThsSter

NEW YORK, Mar. 3.-Leon
Daughtry and Roland Randall, the
two lone survivors from Washing
ton in the Eastern Golden Gloves
tournament, are scheduled to bat
tie two Charlotte, N. c., hopefuls
In the semifinals at Madison Square
Garden tonight. The finals will be
held tonight Immediately after the
senifinals.
Daughtry, who decisioned A. B
Morton Of Huntington, w. Va, In
a 147-pound bout last night, will
face Leland Pillen tonight. Ran
dali, 160-pound entrant, won the
nod over Joe Markle Of Newark
N. j., and will take on Bill Sned-
don tonight.
Newark boxers proved to be the
undoing Of three Washington fight
ers last night. william Morgan
knocked out Jimmy Caraway at :52
of the third round, Lloyd Holmes
decisioned Dave Primrose in a 112-
pound battle and Pete Dowd edged
FTanke SteilaGO, washington Marlue
Corps boxer. se e-a :
Tonight's winners will qualify to
meet the Western champions,
crowned In Chicago, In the inter-
city series, later.
Pittsburgh's defending champions
established themselves as again the
team to beat by sending five men
into the semifinals last night. =,
The Steel City's survivors in q
rousing four-hour slugging bee were
Heavyweight Bob Baker, Light
heavyweight Jim Edwards, Middle
weight Floyd Morris, Featherweight
John Thompson and Bantamweight
Clem La Cava.
4 The stoutest chanengers are New
York and Buffalo, each with four
men left.
Evening star., 1948-03-03

role of doormat in the Mason
Dixon Conference pronto.
Kendall's squad includes Lou
Keaton, Jim Burgee, Bruce
French, Ray Barton and Bill
Baker in addition to those al
ready mentioned. They're hard
working, smooth playing young
sters, and Mcclure won't be one
bit surprised If they win this
tournament. But Butler shakes
his head and wonders. He knows
competition will be keen and the
team that wins will need some
breaks.
One thing certain, the team
that Icks Kendall-if one does
will think 1t tangled with an
angry buzzsaw.
Evening star., 1948-03-03
HondbuIl Doubles Title
To Be Settled Tonight

Sam Papandrew, District AAU
four-ball handball singles champion,
will team up with John Mozur
against Gus Goldstein and AL Hou-
lon for the doubles title tonight at
the Central YMCA at O'Clock. Pa
pandrew and Mozur were top-seeded
In the tourney and are favored to
come through with the title. They
made their way to the final last
night by downing Jack Schwartz
and Irv Ornstein, 21-18, 9-21, 21-18.
Papandrew, Mozur and Houlon
will compete in the National YMCA
handball tournament in German
town, Pa, beginning MEch Is.
Goldstein also received an invitation
but had to decline.
Evening star., 1948-03-03
Coach Couroge's Courage Puts
American u. in Boxing Rinq

For q coach who lost his heavy.
weight fighter because the fellow
worked on week ends as q butche,
and whose 125-pound representative
often misses practice because he
must work on his oil paintings
Bert Courage Is in an optimistic
mood as his American University
boxers face three straight home
matches.
After four matches on the road
A. us first oficial ring team meets
Western Maryland Saturday night
Georgetown March 13 and Lock
Haven State Teachers in q return
match on March 10, all in the A. U.
gym on Ward Circle.
Courage has overcome hundred
handicaps In presenting boxing as
q potential major sport at A. u
Twelve years ago q team fought
two matches and last year the A. U.
boxers lost their lone match, but
this year Courage, former Hobart
and Syracuse ringman, took over
and the sport is booming.
Coach Starts From Scratch.
Courage had to start from
scratch. The school did not have a
ring, there was little equipment,
no scholarships and most of the
candidates who reported for the
team had little to recommend ex-
cept enthusiasm.
Several of the boys who showed
promise happened to be married and
when the little women learned what
they were up to, several faces were
missing by the next practice.
The heavyweight, Jim Dickerson,
fought in the first two matches, but
Courage could not blame the fellow
for picking up a fat days pay at a
meat counter on Saturday and thus
he lost Dickerson. The big blond
incidentally, fought under a handi-
cap as he carried a souvenir Of a
hand-to-hand battle while escaping
from a German prison camp-a
knife wound through his right hand.
He had to rely on his left for most
of his power.
Fighter Doubles In Oils.
Martin REFS, the 125-pounder who
will fight against the Terrors on
Saturday, has reputation as
talented painter in oils, but he also
is an enthusiastic boxer and Cour-
age is counting on him for one OF
Evening star., 1948-03-03
BY Lewis r. Atchisor

Coach Ray Butler thought may
be his Kendall School basket ball
squad would settle for second
place in the Eastern States tour
ney for. the deaf, opening tomor-
row at Trenton, N. j., but he
was wrong.
First place." said Marvin Tut
tie in the sign language. FIRST
place." he emphasized, waving a
finger aloft while his teammates
nodded approvingly. It was the
old story of the unquenchable
spirit that pervades Gallaudet,
something hard to beat.
Butler is proud of his team.
Kendall, which goes from pre-
school to prep, has only 80 male
students only - boys old
enough to play high school bas-
ket ball-and eight are on the
squad. They won II of their 16
games this season and Bill Nc
Clure, who Is in charge of the
school, thinks at least three are
good enough to make Gallaudet's
varsity next year-if they make
the scholastic grade.
They're taking an accelerated
preparatory course" he ex-
planned, "and to be accepted for
Gallaudet they've got to rank
in the top $50 students in all
the schools for the deaf in the
country. That makes this place
sort of the West Point of the
deaf. I think they'll make the
grade. I hope so. If only we
could get some of the outstand-
ing athletes in the other schools
Gallaudet would be right up
there in the Mason-Dixon Con-
ference" {
Gallaudet, If you're not farnil-
lar with its ivy clustered history,
Is the only college in the Nation
where the deaf can obtain a
degree, and space is limited.
Two of Kendall's losses were
Evening star., 1948-03-03

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Tournament DeudIine

Girls basket ball teams interested
in the annual Merrick tournament
must get their entries in by March
10. Entries are being received by
John Poston at 619 Fifth street
NE, and Phil Minke at the Merrick
Boys Club. Entrance fee is $3.50.
Evening star., 1948-03-03
Bethesda Girls Score

Bethesda Chevy Chase High
School girls basket ball team made
its way past the first round Of the
Maryland State tournament yester-
day by shading Hyattsville High,
1888, at Blair High. Jerry Welker
took scoring honors with AZ points.