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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-11-01
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Evening star., 1949-11-15
Girl Drops Two Charges;
Marines Put on Probation

Charges Of rape and sodomy
brought last month against two
Quantico Marines by a 19-year-old
District girl were dropped yester-
day in Fairfax County Trial JUS
tice Court.
Pfc. Arvel A. Nichols, 81, who
had pleaded not guilty to the rape
charge. and Pfc. Robert F. Rag
land, %, who had pleaded not
guilty to sodomy. were then given
suspended sentences of six months
in jail on charges Of assault and
battery preferred by the girl.
The girl had told Trial Justice
Harry L. Carrico October % that
after meeting the Marines in a
dwontown Washington club, she
had been driven to a secluded area
near Shirley highway. There, she
said, the attacks occurred.
A Virginia State trooper later
stopped the vehicle for speeding
and the girl complained to him
that she had been attacked.
Evening star., 1949-11-15
Benefit Musical Revue
To Aid Shut-in Children

For the benefit of the shut-in
children Of the District. musical
revue entitled Let's Be Gay will
be held at 8:15 pm. December
2 in the auditorium of Coolidge
High School, Fifth and Tucker
man streets N. w.
The Visiting Instruction Home
and School Association said the
proceeds from the revue will be
turned over to the shut-in chill
dren so they can be supplied with
audio and visual educational ma
terials necessary to their studies.
The devices are required, because
teachers attached to the Public
School Visiting Instruction Corps,
Divisions to 8, are able to visit
the children only two periods
each week under direction of Mrs.
Elizabeth M. Goodman.
Highlighted by popular song
and dance hits, the revue is be-
ing produced by the Madolin
Smithson Hodgson School of
Dance and Expression. Tickets
for Lets Be Gay" may be OBJ
tanned at the Oyster School,
TWENTY ninth and Calvert streets
NV.
Evening star., 1949-11-15
volved the control dial while he
was manipulating the throttles
with his left hand.

volved the control dial while he
was manipulating the throttles
with his left hand.
Radio on Proper Channel.
George Clark of New York, a
CAB safety, investigator, with
more than 200 hours experience
in the air with a P-38, testified
that Capt. Rios very high fire.
quency receiver properly was
tuned to military Channel B when
it was retrieved from the Po-
tomac, into which the fighter
plunged along with the forward
section of the DC-4.
The volume control dial OF the
receiver. however, had been car
ried away by the impact and has
not been found, Mr.. Clark said.
Recommendations that all air.
craft be equipped to give, pilots a
wider range of vision were made
by the Aircraft Owners and Pilots
Association and Attorney Robert
F. Davis of Washington. war;
time Navy pilot who represents
the estate Of one of the victims of
the crash. Both Mr.. Davis and
j. B. Hartranft, jr., general man
ager of the A. o. P. A., told the
hearing in written statements
that the tragedy might have been
avoided If the pilots involved
could have enjoyed q less re-
stricted range Of vision.
Evening star., 1949-11-15
Naval Reserve Air Unit
To Help Instruct PUPILS

About 100 students from three
senior District high schools and
from the Capitol Page School will
participate today and tomorrow
in a special Institutional program
of the Naval Air Reserve Training
Unit at the Anacostia Naval Air
Training Station.
Mrs. Pearle T. Robinson, teach
er of aviation in District high
schools. and Keith johnson, head
of the science department in
Junior and senior high schools,
have been instrumental in ar
ranging the program. The high
schools represented are Coolidge.
Wilson and Western.
The new program is designed to
augment District school aviation
training by providing lectures and
demonstrations and making avail
able naval air Reserve training
facilities.
Periodic visits to the Naval Air
Station are among the projects
planned for assisting the schools
in promoting interest in aviation
training.
The groups will be welcomed
by Capt. G. L. Kohr, command
ing the Naval Air Reserve Train
ing Unit at Anacostia.
Evening star., 1949-11-15
Firemen Move Bedfast Man
From Smoke-FiIIed Room

Firemen carried a bedfast vete-
rinarian from his Smoke-fl
room about noon today when fire
damaged an apartment on the
floor below him.
DR.. Charles Robinson, SO, of
$500 Colorado avenue NV, who
has been i'll for several months,
was in the third floor apartment
with his wife when flames starting
in a second floor apartment
moved up inside the walls.
The fire started in an apart
ment occupied by Rains Wallace.
who was away at the time. A
janitor saw smoke pouring from
under the door. opened it with a
pass key and dashed water on a
smoldering wastebasket.
Believing the fire was out. he
left the room, but firemen were
called after tenants on the upper
floors complained on the con-
tinued smoke. Firemen found the
flames had eaten through the
walls and up toward the ceiling.
Evening star., 1949-11-15
Man, II, Held on Charge
Of Knitting Sleeping Father

A 22-year-old man was held for
grand jury action yesterday on q
charge that he stabbed his father
while the latter was sleeping.
Howard N. Shorter, colored, Of
the HOO block of Third street
S.W.,s was held under $4,000 bond
by Municipal Court Judge George
d. Nelson. The high bond was
asked by Assistant United States
Attorney Joseph Sommer because
the defendants father, James e.
Shorter, 81, is in critical condi-
tion in Providence Hospital.
Police said the elder Mr.. Shorter
was attacked with a butcher knife
while sleeping at his home Sum
day morning. Howard Shorter
was arrested in the yard of the
Third street address. He was
holding butcher knife at the
time, police said.
Evening star., 1949-11-15
Opening Neighborhood Concert
Draws 1000 Adults, Children

Margaret Grosvenor, II. of 2235
Thirty-ninth place NV. said:
I'm very fond of music. I'm TAX
ing piano lessons"
And so it went. The children
didn't have to be promised a
movie the next day. or funny
book. or anything else to make
them go to the concert. They
were there because they wanted
to be.
Total Audience of $4,000.
They didn't f1dget or yaWn or
give any evidence they were wait
ing for the end of the hour. The
Symphony No. 6 in B Minor" by
Tshaikowsky, especially the second
movement. held them. And you
could see gayety in their express
sions as the orchestra played
Tales From the Vienna Woods"
by Johann Strauss.
Samuel H. Kaufman, presi-
dent of The Evening Star News
paper Co.. spoke briefly of the
meaning Of three years of neigh
borhood. concerts:
THE results, we feel. have fully
justified the effort. Already more
than $4,000 people have attended
these concerts in their own neigh
.borhoods. We are especially happy
THAT among these have been a
large number of young people
students whose degree Of music
appreciation has been developed
by them
. Last nights program also in
cluded the overture to the Mid
summer Nights Dream" by Men
delssohn; "Adagio for Strings" by
Samuel Barber. and the overture
to Die Meistersinger," by Wagner.
The concert was broadcast in
full over WMAL, The Stars radio
station, with Bill Coyle, the news
papers promotion manager. in
charge.
Evening star., 1949-11-15
County Civic Group
Rescinds Request for
Ban on Apartments

The Montgomery County Civic
Federation last night rescinded its
month-old request for suspension
of issuance of permits for apart
ment construction on land already
zoned for such purpose. At the
same time, it reaffirmed its opposi-
ton to further rezoning for apart
mentS.
At it's October meeting the fed
Grafton asked complete suspension
of apartment construction in the
belief the county needs catching
up" period for development of
schools, roads and utility services.
It's resolution was under recon-
sideration becaues the legality of
stopping the issuance of permits
was questioned.
In the hours debate that fol-
lowed the request for reconsidera-
ton, Henry Smelling argued that
the Maryland-National Capital
Park and Planning Commission
not only has the right to suspend
issuance of construction permits,
but has duty to do so in the pub
lie interest. Samuel E Stone
braker cited a court case to prove
that the commission does not
have the right.
DR.. Harold Morris was named
chairman of a special committee
which will study the effects Of
apartment house construction on
county economy, Such study
was requested by Mrs. Mary B.
Mohler, representing the Chevy
Chase Terrace Community Asso-
citation.
Prompt measures to control the
recent outbreak of rabies in the
Takoma Park Chillum- -Four Cor
ners area were asked of the
County Council and the Maryland
Livestock Sanitary Commission.
Citizens were urged to cooperate
in any measures that may be
adopted.
Evening star., 1949-11-15
|h|der Says Realty Men
Want Public Housing
Held Strictly TO Poor
BY stof4 Correspondent. Of The stor

BOSTON, Nov. 15.-John Ihl-
der, director of the National Cap
ital Housing Authority. today de-
MED charges that Washington's S
5000 families living in public
housing are prisoners of eco
nomic ghettos."
Addressing a session of the 10th
annual convention here of the
National Association of Housing
officials, Mr.. Ihlder said, however,
that proposals by real estate in
terests would make of public
housing projects places into which
"only the poor would be sent"
THE home builders association
and their deluded allies" he con-
tinued, think it is a good idea
to confine public housing to the
INDECENT or to the lowest S per
cent"
Mr.. Ihlder was introduced by
John Taylor Egan, commissioner
of the Public Housing Administra-
ton, as "a pioneer OF pioneers
in the public housing field.
The housing director admitted
that as group the administrator:
of public housing projects in diff
ferent parts of the country hae
tended to create some economic
ghettos because of some fals'
thinking in the past"
He pointed out that in Chicago
there was current discussion ovel
whether tenants in the same prof.
ect should be charged varying
rents.
For years. he said, varying
rents have been charged NCHA
tenants in the same building.
1--WE have families who pay the
full economic cost of their rent
and we have families who pay
only a fraction" he said, 'but
there is quite a wide economic
range among them. We have nc
fears about charging varying
rents such as appears to be the
case in Chicago"
Evening star., 1949-11-15
Commissioners Give
Themselves q Ruise

The Commissioners today gave
themselves a raise-from $10,500
to $1,000 a year, retroactive till
October %.
The raise was provided under
the new Classification Act, along
with the increases for other Gov
eminent employees. but the city
heads, as presidential appointees.
had to write an order to put it
into effect.
Evening star., 1949-11-15
Gas Rates Here Go Up
5 to 8% Tomorrow
For 775,OOO Users

Higher gas rates 60 into
effect tomorrow for Washing
ton residents.
The Public Utilities Com
mission last week gave the
Washington Gas Light Co.
permission to collect an addi-
tional s749, $50 a year from its
175,O00 District customers.
The increase will show up
in bills to be mailed next
Tuesday, based on tomorroW's
meter reading.
Householders who do not
heat with gas will find their
rates 8.01 per cent higher.
Those who heat with gas will
pay 5.07 per cent more.
Evening star., 1949-11-15

Many parents hope that if their
children hear symphonic music at
an early age, they will grow up
to like it.
That was the idea in the minds
of lot of fathers and mothers
last night during the opening free
Neighborhood Concert by the Ma
tional Symphony Orchestra at
Western High School.
Its just hard to express" said
one mother. The music does
something to the kids, and that's
why I take them to the symphony
and the ballet. I can't really
explain it but you know what I
mean"
About 1000 Attend.
All you had to do was to look
around to tell what she meant.
Here were 1000 or so people at
tending the first concert of the
series sponsored annually by The
Star. More than one-third of the
audience was composed Of chill
dren, S. 10. Is years old. All of
them paid rapt attention to Con-
ductor Howard Mitchell and the
orchestra.
Between numbers. a few of them
explained why they were there 81
Natalie Hope Heaney, I. of 4005
Davis place NV. said simply: Il
like the concert tsx,n
Her father. James N. Heaney.
confirmed this. I'VE had a bad
timestrying to keep her away. Ny
wife and I thought of getting a
baby-sitter for Natalie. but she
wouldn't think of it. She took her
nap this afternoon so she could go. p"
Richard P. Ertzinger, 6, of 1922
Ellicott street NV, said: "Momma
told me all about it. I said I'd
like to CO." Richard Is a neigh
Dor of Mr.. Mitchell, but last night
was the first time he heard the
orchestra.
Evening star., 1949-11-15
Judge Matthews Thanks
Truman for Appointment

Judge Bernita Shelton Matthews,
the first woman named to District
Court here, called at the White
House today to thank President
Truman for the appointment.
Judge Matthews still carries her
left arm in sling as the result
of a break sustained in fall the
day her appointment was an
nounced several weeks ago.
She has already taken her place
on the bench.
Evening star., 1949-11-15
Park View Annex Plan.
Hit, Cardozo School
Relief Still Hangs Fire
By Colt HendIey, Jr.

The decision on what to dc
about relieving overcroWded con-
ditions at Cardozo High School
was postponed again today after
the Board of Education's Build
ings and Grounds Committee
heard an expert denounce the
proposal to use the Park View
Elementary School as an annex.
The board committee, headed
by Mrs. Philip Sidney Smith, de-
cided to hold off its decision SO
the committee could make an
Official visit" to Cardozo. Also
the committee wanted to give
School Supt. Hobart M. Corning
time to study the problem further.
It has been before the board since
last spring.
DR.. Knox Is Heard.
DR.. Ellis o. Knox. professor of
education at Howard University
addressed the board at the invi-
tation of DR.. Phillip T. johnson,
colored board member who is lead
ing the fight to have Central
High School transferred to col
ored students. 8.
DR.. Knox called for immediate
transfer of Central to the Cardozo
students and branded the school
boards long-range building pro-
gram as q fond hope" He said
1t was very doubtful if Congress
would appropriate the approxi-
mately $4,000, 900 needed to pro-
vide new CardoZo and a new
Armstrong High School.
DR.. Knox said the case Of Car
dozo is one of building made
quacy" and outweighs all other
defects to such an extent that
"overcrowding" is a minor prob
lem. He pointed out that there
was plenty of room in other white
high schools for the Central stu
dents and that the transfer of
Central was the only feasible solu-
ton in his mind.
COnnaughton Appears.
John H. Connaughton. past
president Of the Federation of
Citizens Associations and a rep
resentative of the North Washing
ton Recreation Council, also ap-
peared to support DR.. Corning S
proposed use of Park View as an
annex.
Herbert Leeman, the new presi-
dent of the Federation of Citizens
Association, told the board the
Federation opposed the transfer
of Central and thought the use OF
Park View was the correct solu-
ton.
Evening star., 1949-11-15
Capital Transit Asks
Pay Arbiters 10 Study
Situation

Capital Transit Co. officials to-
day asked an Arbitration Board to
consider the company's financial
situation in deciding whether to
award wage increases and benefits
demanded by the transit workers
union.
The company spokesmen stressed
what they claimed was 7l2 per
cent decrease in passenger reve-
nues now facing the company.
The board, after hearing testi-
mony from the company on 10
different exhibits presented at the
morning session, listened closely as
counsel for the transit union
opened cross-examination shortly
before the luncheon recess.
Two Men Voice Plea.
The claim that Capital Tran
sits financial ability should be a
prime factor in the proceedings
was stressed by both j. E. Heberle,
vice president and controller, and
by Hawley Simpson, labor con-
sultant.
Mr.. Simpson introduced docu-
ment from the Labor Department
quoting the National Defense Me-
diation Board as having said that
ability to pay is indeed factor
In deciding whether or not wages
should be set any higher ''''
ss Mr. Heberle presented an ex-
hibit yesterday showing the COM
pany,sy net income for the year.
ended September 80, 1949, as
$65l ,257. 1t also gave estimates
for the succeeding 12-month
period with no changes in the
present union contract. putting
the net income at $88,200.
Tells of Revenue Slump.
Supporting his statement about
the traffic slump, Mr.. Heberle
presented another exhibit show
ing that, in the first months Of
1896, there occurred a loss of 6.2
per cent in passenger revenue
which continued at approximately
this rate through last spring.
Then, in June, the further slump
appeared, and in the five months
from June through October. ac-
cording to Mr.. Heberle, the nor
NAL" 6.2 per cent decrease ap-
peared to have mounted to 71a
per cent.
Presenting other exhibits, Mr..
Heberle said the book value of the
company's stock is about 500 a
share. It was quoted on the Wash
ington Stock Exchange yesterday
at from $21.25 to $21.50.
Evening star., 1949-11-15
Postal Rates Lowered
On Gift Relief Packages
BY the Assoeioted Pres,

It will cost less in the future to
send gift relief packages from this
country to Europe.
The Economic Cooperation ADJ
ministration announced yesterday
that postal rates have been low
cred from cents to 6 cents a
pound on gift shipments to most
Western European countries.
Evening star., 1949-11-15
p ans Formed
For Attack on
.5|um Problem
Council Organized,
Invites Interested
Groups to Meeting

Plans for a city-Wide attack on
Washington's slum areas were un-
der way here today.
A few hours after Surgeon Gen.
eral Leonard A. Scheele Of the
United States Public Health Serv-
ice had cited Washington slums
as cause for real indignation,
group that includes civic, real
estate and housing interests an
nounced formation of the Slum
Clearance and Housing Council.
Charles T. Penn. temporary
chairman of the council, issued
a call for various groups con-
cerned with slum clearance to
meet with the council.
He said the councils major
goal was integration of various
points of view of individuals and
organizations on slum clearance
and housing problems.
Groups Urged to Agree.
The chance of obtaining fa-
vorable consideration by Congress
to constructive citizen recommen-
dations would be greatly enhanced
if the many groups concerned
agreed beforehand on what those
recommendations should be-" Mr..
Penn declared.
DR.. Scheele, speaking in Boston
at the annual convention of the
National Association of Public
Housing Officials, listed six major
cities which he said had locations
where recent health studies have
found cold facts that should cause
real indignation.
He named Washington. Hart
ford, Conn; Birmingham. Ala.
Cleveland. Denver and Los An
geles. He said that in Washing
ton the tuberculosis rate among
"the people in its squalid slums"
was 80 per cent higher than for
the rest Of the population.
The Public Health Service said
the information about Washing
ton used by DR.. Scheele was based
on a survey made about two years
ago in connection with city-wide
chest X-rays.
Meeting Next Month.
A District health department
spokesman said the figure used by
DR.. Scheele is about right" for
conditions existing today.
Mr.. Penn said the following
groups have joined the council
and agreed to send representa-
tives to a meeting, to be held
early next month:
Washington chapters of the
American Institute of Archi-
Etects and National. Association for
advancement of Colored People.
American Legion. American Vet
terans' Committee, Federation Of
Citizens Associations. : Washing
ton Building Congress, Washing
ton Home Builders Association.
Washington Housing Association.
Washington Real Estate Board
and the Washington Urban
League.
Announcement will be made
later on the exact date of the
council meeting.
Mr.. Penn. a Washington busi-
neSsman and director of the
Washington Board of Trade and
the Washington Housing Associa-
ton. said Mr.. Hilda Cloud of the
Housing Association had been
named temporary council secre-
tary. Interested groups may
reach her at Sterling 2437,
Evening star., 1949-11-15
DenfeId Vacates Quarters
Al Naval Observatory

Admiral Louis Denfeld today va
Gated the living quarters assigned
to the Chief of Naval Operations
at the Naval Observatory, and his
successor. Admiral Forrest p.
Sherman, plans to move in soon.
Admiral Denfeld, who is on so
days leave. has gone to his native
Westboro. Mass. He plans to take
a vacation in Florida.
Admiral Denfeld has not yet
announced whether he will retire
or accept the offer of an assign
ment in London as commander of
naval forces in the Eastern Allan
tic and Mediterranean. Should
he accept the offer, Admiral Rich
ard L. Conolly, who now has that
post, will become superintendent
of the Naval Academy.
Evening star., 1949-11-15
Negro Group Calls on
Montgomery Board
To 'Equa|ize' Schools

The Citizens Committee for
Mutual Improvement, an organi-
zation of Montgomery County
Negroes. has called on the Board
of Education to "equalize" edu-
cational facilities for Negroes
with those of white students.
The demand was made in a
letter which charged that build
ings in which Negro schools are
housed are overcrowded and
most of them unfit for occu-
pancy."
An inquiry to determine "the
nature, needs and adequacy OF
educational facilities for Negroes
and the extent of fair and equal
provisions in the school system.
has been completed. the letter
stated. The study. made under
the guidance of Walter G. Daniel
Howard University professor o1
education. is before the commit
tee for consideration and such
action as the facts warrant
the committee declared.
"We wish to express our ap.
probation and thanks for your
cooperation in making this study
possible" the committee wrote
However, the particular purpose
of this letter is to call to youl
attention a few of the salient
considerations of inequality main.
tanning in the school set-up anc
upon which we are demanding
immediate attention and correc.
ton.
"The bi-racial organization o1
the schools has the effect of two
educational systems. In this stu
alton it follows that they must
be equalized now.
Continuance of bi-racial char.
acter of school organization i,
inefficient, expensive and can un.
der no circumstances effect. ar
equalization of educational op.
portunity.
The letter was signed by Romeo
w. Horad. president; John Chap:
man, secretary, and Walter E
Williams, Simon o. Smith ane
James D. Smith, members.
Evening star., 1949-11-15
Executive Bourd Meeting

The American Women's Legion
OF World Wars will hold an Execu-
tive Board meeting tomorrow atI
II am. at the Mayflower Hotel.
Ad-daleel., 1949-03-30

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