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Evening star., 1949-02-16
Police Warned 10 Obey
City Center Parking Signs

Metropolitan policemen were
warned yesterday in memo
randum from Superintendent of
Police Robert J. Barrett that there
was to be no double standard
insofar as parking in the vicinity
of the Municipal Center was con-
cerned.
The notice, drafted by Inspector
Arthur E. Miller of the Traffic
Division, pointed out that there
have been too many cases OF
policemen parking illegally around
the headquarters building.
Inspector Miller said cars
driven by policemen will receive
tickets if parked in violation OF
the law. No excuses will be ac-
cepted. he said, unless there is a
definite emergency" Disciplin-
ary action may follow in cases
where police have disregarded the
warning. it was said.
The traffic division head pointed
out that provision had been made
for parking scout cars in the east
parking lot. and that stop must
be put to violations on the part of
police for which the ordinary
citizen would receive a ticket.
Evening star., 1949-02-16
Grand JuryCa||s
.0nA|exandriato 10
0ustHouseboats
| Report Critieizes
AXIS on Potomac
And Hunting Creek

A special session of an Alexan-
dria grand jury today recon-
mended removal of houseboats
from the Potomac River and
Hunting Creek within the city
limits.
The grand jury also recon-
mended that the city amend its
qualifications for policemen to per-
NIT acceptance Of applicants who
live in Arlington and Fairfax
Counties.
A third recommendations was
the inspection by city departments
of a building at 208 King street
because of a possible health and
fire menace"
Potomac "Arks" Mentioned.
Regarding the houseboats, or
"arks," the jury specifically men,
toned those on the Potomac
River near the acid plant in the
north end of town and on the
north shore of Hunting Creek
near Highway No. u
Although the grand jury did not
amplify its recommendation, Com
monwealth's Attorney Howard w.
Smith. jr.. said there had been q
number Of fights in the house,
boats on the Potomac. He said
that when the matter was called
to his attention last week he mott
fed the occupants to move.
Only 73 In Department.
The grand jury said the police
department has an authorized
strength Of 80 men, but only 73
are employed.
There is apparently consider
able trouble in securing additional
men," the jury stated, lone rea-
son being that only persons living
within the city limits are eligible.
Corporation Court Judge Will
liam P. Woolls told the jury that
he would have the recommended
tions sent to the proper depart
mentS.
w. Seldom Washington Is fore
man of the Jury.
Evening star., 1949-02-16

The Franklin Laundry, 504-508
Thirteenth street NV, which was
established here more than SO
years ago, has been sold to Jay P.
Conger, who heads the Yale
Laundry, 437 New York avenue
NV, it was learned today.
A small part of the laundry and
dry-cleaning machinery and equip
ment of the Franklin Laundry also
was sold to the Yale firm. but the
remainder, consisting of more than
400 items, will be sold at public
auction at pm. next Monday
at the laundry.
The laundry building-Which is
not involved in the sale-is a part
Of the estate >of the late Franklin
Valentine Killian, whose widow,
Mrs. Beatrice w. Killian, is ben
eficiary. Attorney Ringgold Hart.
trustee of the Killian estate, said
today there is no present intention
to sell the building and that a
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1850. is held by the Franklin arm.
Two nepl1ews of the late Mr..
Killian-Franklin L. Kendrick
and Killian E. Kendrick-were
president and secretary-tr treasurer
of the firm which operated the
laundry since January /. 1916.
Prior to that time, the laundry
was operated by trustees of the
Killian estate.
AuctioneerS for the sale are
Adam A. Weschler & Son.
Robert Flanagan, manager of
the Yale Laundry. said today the
Franklin Laundry Office on Thir-
teenth street would remain open
until March /. He explained that
a large percentage of Franklin
Laundry employees have now been
employed by the Yale firm.
The new ownership, it is un-
derstood. will continue to use the
name Franklin Laundry. Ralph
A. Cusick, attorney for the former
owners. said TO-DAY
Evening star., 1949-02-16
Armstrong Concert
Invitations Issued in
Neiqhborhood Series

Invitations for the Febru-
ary oath Neighborhood Con-.
cert by the National Sym
phony Orchestra, to be held
in Armstrong High School,
now are being distributed.
All invitations for tomor-
rows concert at Eastern
High School have been is
sued.
The invitations for Arm
strong are being issued
through Armstrong, Dunbar
and Cardozo High Schools,
Browne Junior High School,
Phelps Vocational School,
Browne and Randall Junior
High Schools. Miner Teach
ers' College, the Recreation
Department at Sixteenth and
Lamont streets NV. and the
business counter in The Star
Building.
Evening star., 1949-02-16
Citizens Favor Sales Tax
And Revised Income Levy

The Central Northwest Citizens
Association last night favored a
District sales tax and a revised
District income tax Ito include
everybody and exclude nobody"
The group also asked for the
passage of a District home rule
bill, permitting the election of all
policy-making officials by the peo-
pie of the District.
A contribution was made to the
Junior Police Citizens Corps and
to the Metropolitan Police Boys
Club.
The meeting was held in the
Garnet Patterson Junior High
School. Vermont avenue and U
street NV. Richard F.. Ware con-
Quoted the meeting, with Mrs. Lii
ian Ezanti, acting secretary.
Evening star., 1949-02-16
|VFW Hits Pension Bill
As Preventing Aid 10
Needy Ex-Servicemen
WILLIAM PRESS.

The multibillion- dollar veterans
pension bill approved by the House
Veterans Committee yesterday
does not take care of the needy
veterans for whom the Veterans
of Foreign Wars is fighting. Omar
B. Ketchum. national legislative
director. declared today.
He told an assembly of State
commanders of the organization
at the Mayfower Hotel that the
bill only puts the well off" vet
eran on the pension rolls at the
age of IS, and is not the legisla-
ton the VFW wants.
The State commanders and
their stats, here for three days
of discussions of veterans affairs,
are visiting their respective dele
cations in Congress this after
noon. They will acquaint them
with the VFW desires in legisla-
ton and explain their stands or
the latest veterans pension bill.
Dinner Set Tomorrow.
They also will invite member
Iof Congress who are veterans II
attend the VFW congressional
dinner tomorrow night at tn
Mayf1ower.
+ Mr.. Ketchum declared that th'
bill approved by the committee
after a tumultuous meeting yes
terday does not take care Of
large group of veterans including
those. mostly Of World War I
who cannot get employment be-
cause Of their age and who can
not comply with the 100 per cent
disability requirements, which to-
gether make it necessary for them
to appeal to their home commu-
nifty charities for help.
He charged the country is being
misled by the press into the belief
the veterans are getting their pen
sion program. That is not so, he
declared.
Amendment Sought.
Mr.. Ketchum told the delegates
that the only thing left to do is
to make an effort to have the bill
recommitted to the committee or
amended on the floor of the House,
but, failing that. the only hope
would be to have it changed in
the Senate.
The National Council of Ad-
ministration will hold a brief as
sembly at the Mayf1ower tomorrow
at $50 am. Between the coun-
Gil meeting and general assem-
bly, at 2 pm. there will be group
meetings of national committees
At the afternoon session. Veterans
Administrator Carl R. Gray will
speak. Senator Tydings, Demo-
crat, Of Maryland will speak Fri
day morning. Following this will
be legislative program discussion
at which Representatives Rankin
Democrat, of Mississippi anc
Kearney, Republican, of New York
will sneak
Evening star., 1949-02-16
By Thomos R. Henry
Stor Stoff CORRESPONDENT

GOOSE BAY. Labrador (By
MaiD. "A former Washington
priest, the Rev. Alexis A. st. Onge,
who was stationed at Holy Re-
deemer Church. New York and
New Jersey avenues NV, for five
years just before the war. was an
authentic voice of Santa Claus out
of the frozen North last Christmas.
He talked directly as the benev-
olent gift bringer to hundreds OF
children scattered all over the
United States from his radio shack
at the Air Forces great junction
field here at Goose Bay. where he
is a chaplain with the rank Of
captain. y
Every Wednesday afternoon he
holds story telling sessions for
hundreds of children in their
homes all over the United States
and Canada.
Aided Icecap Rescue.
It was through him that the
Air Force in Washington was able
to keep in touch with the hour-to-
hour developments In the Green
land icecap rescue last month.
He enables soldiers stationed at
this isolated oaltpost in the Lab
rador wilderness TO keep in voice
communication with their families.
BY the same means, he collect
ed more than 1000 pounds of gifts
for the isolated families of hunt
ers and fishermen scattered along
the Labrador coast last Christ
mas.
For many it was their first real
Christmas. The gifts were dis
tributed through the Moravian
church missions. 1t was first
planned to drop them over these
missions by parachute, but the ice
cap rescue operations intervened,
and they were taken in later by
ski planes.
Ham" Radio Operator.
Capt. st. Onge is, of course, a
ham" radio operator and one of
the best in the business. While
still parish priest in Washing
ton. he was an enthusiastic radio
amateur, but he lost all contact
with his hobby after he entered
the Army in 1912.
When he found himself in
stalled as the chaplain of this dis
Evening star., 1949-02-16
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alT hree Times q Doy

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'IlIgrams are presented three
MINES a day, Monday through
Saturday, over Stations WMAL
land WMAL-FM.
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THE Stars newsroom. may be
heard from II noon to 1905,
i6 pm. to sos and II pm. to
#11:15. They are prepared by
1.-THE Star, based on informa-
'.tion supplied by the papers
entire news-gathering organi-
Ezation.
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}6 p m. and II pm. Supplement
Your reading of The Star by
lGetting up-to-the-m minute re-
ports by radio from Washing
tons news authority.
Evening star., 1949-02-16
\ Former D. C.. Priest Was Voice
|Of Santa Claus in Far North

tant post, where contact with the
outside was often very difficult, he
took it up all over again. He now
holds a station license from the
Newfoundland government.
Scarcely a day goes by that
Father st. Onge does not make a
personal contact for some soldier.
This afternoon, for example.
soldier came to his Office with a
letter informing him that his wife
was very i'll. She lived in a small
town in Northern Michigan. 1t
required about IS minutes to get
Michigan contact-with a ham
operator named Mildred" in
Grand Rapids.
She was willing to cooperate
but had never heard OF the town.
It requires a few minutes for her
to look it up on the map. She put
through a telephone call for the
Red Cross in the county seat.
They contacted their local rep
resentative in the village where
the sick woman lived. In about
an hour, this representative was
able to relay to Gosoe Bay
message directly from the doctor
All the time Father St. Onge
and the soldier seated by his side
kept up a constant conversation
with the Michigan, operator SO the
contact would not be broken.
Heard Baby's First Cry.
Perhaps his most dramatic ex-
perience came when young lieu
tenant tried to get in touch with
his wife, who was about to be-
come a mother. He had not heard
from her for several weeks. A
ham operator in the neighbor-
hood contacted the hospital and
the timing was just right. A con-
tact was made so that the lieu
tenant heard his baby's first cry
in the chaplain's radio shack.
So far more than 900 stations
in the United States. Canada and
Europe. have been contacted.
Father st. Onge, native OF
Brockton. Mass. has been a priest
for Is years and is a member of
the Missionary Society OF st.
Joseph. with headquarters at Bal
timore, which serves colored par
ishes exclusively.
Within the next two months he
expects to leave Goose Bay for an
Air Force post in Georgia.
Evening star., 1949-02-16
Franklin Laundry Sold Son, 7 Grandchildren
To J. P. Conger, Head Share in S3,94,335
OF Yale Cleaning Firm Estate Of Mrs. Hitt

The late Mrs. Sally r. Hit,
widow of Representative Robert
r. Hit of Illinois, left an estate
of s3,944,335. petition for pro-
bate of her will disclosed in Dis
trict Court yesterday.
Mrs. HIT, for many years an
important social figure in the Cap
ital, died January 81 at the age
of 105.
After a number of bequests. the
will directs that her son. William
F. Hit. Middleburg, Va, receive
half of the bulk of the estate, and
one-quarter each go to two grand
children, Edith Elizabeth Hertel-
endy and Robert Reynolds Hit.
1900 @ street NV.
Sums Left to Servants.
The bequests include gifts of
personal and household effects to
the son, 100000 to the grand
children, and various sums to
servants. including a 5000 yearly
income from a trust fund to a for
mer maid, Hanna Morrissey.
The other sums listed included
$4,000 to Afra Bleicher. 81 900 to
Margaret Greene. 81 900 to Sarah
Greene, $500 to Irene Young.
$500 to Anthony Aneser. $3.50
to Wallace Freese. and $500 each
to Teresa O'Mahoney and Hulda
Radhe.
The petition listed a value of
$15O,000 for the Hit home at 1901
New Hampshire avenue NV.
Property Mrs. Hit owned in Ill
inois is valued at 1900. and
personal property estimates total
S3,623,335. The latter includes
s138,285 in cash. $3.441, ,050 in
securities and $4,000 in personal
effects.
Miss Schneider Will Filed.
In another petition for probate
of a will yesterday. it was dis
closed that the late Miss Carrie
A. Schneider, member of an old
Washington family. left an estate
valued at $269.194.
Miss Schneider, 86, was the
daughter of Christian Schneider
who founded the C. Schneider &
Sons electrical supply business,
long located at 1907 F street
NV. and now at 726 Eleventh
street NV.
Miss Schneider died February
3 in the home of a niece. Mrs.
Herbert A. Ehrman. 4510 Walsh
street, Chevy Chase, Md, with
whom she had been making her
home for the last three years.
Her will leaves $4,000 to the
Luther Place Memorial Church,
which her family assisted in Or
ganizing; $1,000 to the National
Lutheran Home for the Aged
Eighteenth and Douglas streets
NE, and $500 to the Central
Union Mission, 613 c street NV.
Other bequests include gift
of her home at 1912 Allison street
NV, to Mrs. Ehrman. and items
of jewelry to other relatives. The
bulk of the estate is to be divided
among six nepheWs and two
nieceS.
The petition lists a total of
$228.484 in personal property. and
$40,710 in real estate, including
a one-sixth interest in the prop
erty at 1907 F. street NV.
Mrs. True to Speak
Mrs. Arthur True, chairman of
the Arlington School Lunch Com
mittee, will speak at meeting of
the Charles A. Stewart School
Parent Teacher Association at
BIS o'clock tonight at the school
Evening star., 1949-02-16
Food Costs Show Decline
Al District Institutions

Food prices at District Institu-
tions are dropping, according to
Roland M. Brennan, District pur-
chasing officer.
There will be a saving of about
$500 in eggs and the same
amount in poultry. Prices of fresh
fruits and vegetables will be about
the same, while fish prices show
small drop. as compared with
January.
Contracts for fresh fruits and
vegetables have been awarded to
the Robert L. Andrews Co.. $9,572.
and S. A. Frees g. Co., Inc, $6,719.
Capital Butter and Egg Co.. Inc,
will supply eggs for the month for
$8,877, and the Kolker Poultry Co.
will supply poultry for $6.192. The
Washington Fish Exchange was
awarded a contract to supply fish
for $2.407.
Mr.. Brennan explained the drop
in egg and poultry prices is sea-
Sonal
February 4 because Pvt. Bonac-
corsy was on leave. he said.
Several weeks after the beating
incident, Maj. Barrett ordered the
reassignment Of two plainclothes-
men who were on the vice squad.
They were Detective Sergt. Roche
and Pvt. Bonaccorsy. Maj. Bar
rett said the transfers were
prompted by a report OF the beat
ing.
Mai. Barrett assigned Inspector
Bryant to investigate the case.
The police chief said If the
facts warranted it he would turn
the case over to Mr.. Fay.
Evening star., 1949-02-16
Pukiston Seeks Bunk Seat

iKARACHI, Pakistan, Feb. Is
R.-Pakistan Is seeking admis-
sion in the international None
tary Fund and the international
Bank of Reconstruction and De-
velopment. 1t was announced to-
Aav
Evening star., 1949-02-16
Mrs. True to Speak

Mrs. Arthur True, chairman of
the Arlington School Lunch Com
mittee, will speak at a meeting of
the Charles A. Stewart School
Parent-Teacher Association at
8:15 o'clock tonight at the school,
24OO North Underwood street,
ARLINGTON
Evening star., 1949-02-16

man of the jury.
Evening star., 1949-08-14
Miss KeIIems 10 Test
Withholding Tax Law
BY the Associated Press


STONINGTON, Conn, Aug. 13
-Vivien Kellems said today that
she's trying to recover from the
Government the $6,133 1t seized
from her company's bank account
as a penalty for failure to with
hold income taxes from her en-
ployes.
The first step in legal battle
to recover the money was taken
with the filing of a formal request
for it's return with Collector of In
ternal Revenue. John j. Fitzpat-
rick, at Hartford. When this re-
quest is refused, as she expects it
to be. Miss Kellems said. the way
will be open for a suit to test the
constitutionality of the withhold
ing provision of the income tax
law.
Miss Kellems has been trying to
get the Government in court since
early In 1948 when she first an
nounced she'd no longer collect
the withholding tax because she
considered the law unconstitu-
tional. She asked President Tru-
man to have her indicted to get
the constitutional issue before the
courts, but her request was ig-
nored.
Throughout the controversy
employees of the Kellems cable grip
manufacturing shop have been
paying their own taxes. Each
Evening star., 1949-08-14
Many in Hawaii View Bridges
And Big S With Equal Distoste

/ The union has never receded
officially at least, from its original
demand for a 32-cent-per-hour
wage increase. The employers, af-
ter re-examining their books, Of
fered 8 cents. The union rejected
it.
The employers offered II cents,
to avert a strike. The union re-
jected that. too.
A fact finding board recon-
mended IA cents. Again the union
said no. BY all the laws of col
lective bargaining, the union
should have offered a wage coun-
ter-proposal, but none was forth
coming.
Arbitration Real Objective.
BY then it was apparent that
what Bridges & Co. really wanted
was not so much a wage increase
as arbitration of wages.
Some mediators suspect that
even if the employers had met
the 32-cent demand, which would
play havoc with island wage
scales, the union would have
found a way to reject it.
Arbitration has become the most
hated word in the islands. For
the principle of arbitration of
wages is what stands in the way
of settling a strike that has cost
the Territory nearly s30,00o,000.
Bridges wants arbitration as
means of achieving what he may
fail to achieve by show OF
economic strength. If he can es-
tablish the principle of arbitra-
ton of wages in the shipping in
dustry, he figures it can be applied
in the sugar and pineapple indus
tries.
Employers Recognize Strategy.
The big-five controls those in
dustries and Bridges controls the
workers.
The ILWU leadership realizes
that, with a general leveling off in
the economy during the next few
years, it may be difficult to get
new wage increases by collective
bargaining or strikes.
Therefore. they reason. they
have nothing to lose and a great
deal to gain by submitting a wage
demand to arbitration, even Il
they get only part of it.
The employers are well aware
of all this. That is why they re.
ject arbitration, even If the arbi.
tration board should include Pres.
ident Truman, Gen. Macarthur
and Cyrus Ching.
Principle Accepted Elsewhere.
In their present contract with
the ILWU the employers recog-
nize arbitration in all dispute!
arising from the contract. witt
one specific exception-wages.
Yet arbitration is fairly we'll
Evening star., 1949-08-14

accepted principle of American
labor relations. Arbi-
tration of all disputes. including
wages, is provided for in the
IWLU's contract with Pacific
Coast shipowners.
That contract, with its wage
arbitration provision. was nego-
tiated for the shipowners by two
paid negotiators, Dwight Steele
and James Blaisdell.
Today Steele and Blaisdell are
representing the Hawaiian en-
ployers in their battle with the
local ILWU. In effect. they are
arguing that while it may be all
right to let a third party settle a
wage dispute on the coast. it isn't
all right here,
Evening star., 1949-08-14
By Reyes Beech
Foreign Correspondent Of The Stdr and
the chieoso Dolly News

Ho SHSoSo NShp i<e~s
HONOLULU, Aug. 13.-A new
comer'S first impression upon
reaching this strike-bound para
disc is that everybody is against
the strikers and nobody is for
them.
That isn't quite the case.
It is true that public opinion is
overwhelmingly against the strik-
ers. Harry Bridges and his Inter-
national Longshoremen and
Warehousemen's Union make a
convenient target.
But there are people here
white-collar workers. small busi-
nessmen, shopkeepers-who re-
gard the big five industrial own
ers and Bridges with equal dis
taste.
"Best People" Oppose Strikers.
They just don't advertise their
views. 1t isn't popular and, more
important, it isn't profitable. All
the best people" are against the
strikers. 1t is the best people
who, to a very large degree, run
these islands.
At least a dozen organizations
have sprung up to battle Bridges
and the longshoremen as tools OF
Moscow and worse. Wives of lead
ing citizens formed a broom bri-
gade" to picket strike headquar-
tiers.
To be neutral is to be damned
by both sides.
To try to be impartial can be
costly, as the Honolulu Star-Bul-
letin, the islands leading news
paper, found out.
The Honolulu Advertiser has
delivered strongly pro-employer
anti-strike blasts daily.
Heat Put on Advertisers.
In contrast, the Star-Bulletir
tried to be impartial.
Executives of the newspaper
knew its policy would be under
widespread attack and that the
paper stood to take heavy losses
Because the Star Bulletin re-
fused to go down the line against
the strikers, citizens committees
led by the best people" began
to put the heat on advertisers.
Half a dozen of the biggest ad-
vertisers withdrew their advertts-
ing under threat of a boycott II
they didn't. They have since come
back, rather sheepishly.
Anti-strike forces also launched
q drive against Star Bulletin cir
culation which cost the paper
probably 200 readers.
Called to Protest Picture.
Members of the broom brigade
picketed the paper. The Star-Bul-
letin countered by putting a sign
in it's window which said:
Women prefer the Star-Bulle-
tin"
The pickets saw ILWU Leader
Jack Hall entering the Star-Bul-
letin and shouted:
There goes that Communist
into the Communist newspaper
Hall wanted to see Editor Riley
II. Allen, all right-to protest 6
caption under a picture of uWU
pickets. ~ -. ,f
Both Allen and Joseph r. Far.
rington, owner Of the Star-Bulle'
tin and delegate to Congress, are
registered Republicans and have
been all their lives. So are the
rest of the directors.
Neither Side Blameless.
The fact Is that in the current
dispute, now in its fourth month.
neither the employers nor the
union can come into court with
lily-white hands.
Evening star., 1949-08-14

News and will take an active part
in running it. He is the son OF
the late Walter Strong, owner
and publisher Of the Chicago
Daily News before his death in
1881. He purchased the interest
of Mason H. Dobson, who plans
to retire as editor.
Evening star., 1949-08-14
Strong Buys Into Paper

CHICAGO, Aug. 13 (P.-Wal-
ter A. Strong is getting back into
the news business after seven
year absence. He announced to-
day he has purchased a one-third
interest in the Beloit, Wis, Daily
Evening star., 1949-08-14

week, Miss Kellems said, the COM
pany has notified the employees
the amount of withholding taxes
due and has helped them send
money orders for the correct
amount to the Treasury Depart
ment