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Evening star., 1949-09-13
Navy Veteran Plunge!
To His Death From
Rail Of Key Bridge

A certificate of suicide was ex-
pected to be issued today in the
death of Hugh E. Murphy, jr., "a
a Navy veteran who plunged about
IS feet to his death late yesterday
from Key Bridge to a new dirt
section Of the George Washington
Memorial Parkway.
DR.. A. Magruder Macdonald
District coroner. said he would
issue the certificate after perform
ing an autopsy.
The police said they were in
formed by persons at 3946 East
Capitol street. the address listed
on Mr.. Murphy's Navy discharge
papers, that he had been despond-
ent over Ill health and had ap-
peared highly nervous" He left
no notes.
The veteran, who served for
three years on a destroyer escort
in the Atlantic, was seen peering
over railing of the bridge before
the plunge. The body was found
lying face down on the dirt near
the Potomac River by persons
who rushed to the scene. An
Emergency Hospital physician
pronounced Mr.. Murphy dead.
Police said a wallet containing
two 81 bills. a few pennies, two
streetcar tokens and his Navy dis
charge papers was found on his
person.
According to the papers, Mr.
Murphy served as a carpenters
mate, third class, and was hon
orably discharged from naval
service at Bainbridge, Md.
Edward w. Hansbrough of the
Capitol street address, an uncle.
said Mr.. Murphy had lived with
him since he was IS. Mr.. Muir
phys parents are dead.
Mr.. Murphy was born in Wash
ington and attended Eliot Junior
High School and Chamberlain Vo-
cational School. He left the
East Capitol street address about
February of this year. and since
worked as a locomotive fireman
for the Washington Terminal Co
Evening star., 1949-09-13
BIoodmobiIe Plans Stop
At ArIinqton Church

Starting Monday, the Red Cross
bloodmobile will stop at the Wilson
Boulevard Christian Church, Will
son boulevard and North Piedmont
street, when it visits Arlington.
The mobile unit, which reaches
the county every three weeks, has
been operating at the Claredon
Baptist Church, Wilson boulevard
and North Highland street. Resi-
dents may donate blood between
10 am. and 1 pm.
Evening star., 1949-09-13

] Shirley StanSbury adjusts the
S. Star Staff Photo.
ANIMALS and perennials. Mr.. and
Mrs. A. R. Emo; best dahlias. Percy
Fulton; best rose, Mr.. and Mrs.
George A. Smith: best flower ar
rangement, Mrs. George A. Smith.
Dahlias Win Mention.
Special mention in the largest
blossom class went to Percy Full
ton for his dahlias.
First, second and third awards
were made to the softball team,
the pistol team and the Social
Committee. Prizes awarded to
groups for work done so far this
year in PBA went to the office of
the supervising architect. the Navy
group and the Interior group
They will receive an engraved gold
cup.
In the collection hobby group
Armin Roman, Richardson Libby
and Mary F. Parker were winners;
photographs, Catherine Felber
Nanny H. Pope and Emanuel Els
ner; needlecraft, C. L. Helff, M. R
Winer and John Strusch; creative
arts, Stuart Maxwell, first prize
others not yet chosen. and fine
arts. Charles C. Council, Betty
G. Gordiechuk and Elenor j
Graham.
Evening star., 1949-09-13

crown of yellow half-cent stamp
to print a Boy Scout stamp. began
his collection last May. Included
in the collection are stamps from
Romania, France, Siam, Russia,
Hungary, New Zealand and the
Philippines.
First, second and third place
ribbons we're awarded in each
class, with points allowed on each
award toward an overall sweep
stakes in the flowers, fruits and
vegetable classes. Sweepstakes
prizes were: First, SIS; second,
$40. and third, IS. Awards for
best specimens in those classes
were 81.
Winners in Each Class.
Winners of first. second and
third in each class we're:
Overall sweepstakes for flowers,
Mr.. and Mrs. George A. Smith,
Percy Fulton and Ernest Weide-
mier.
Overall sweepstakes for vege-
ables. fruits, canning and baking
section: Mr.. and Mrs. George A.
Smith, Armin Roman and A. w.
Hopkins.
Best vegetables, John Gibson:
best fruit, Joseph Dent; overall
on canning, A. w. Hopkins; best
baking. Clara Malone: best flowers
Evening star., 1949-09-13
New Canal Bridge TO Open
AT Chesapeake CifySept. Il
By the Assoeiofed Press


CHESAPEAKE CITY. Md.
Sept. ia new bridge across
the Chesapeake and Delaware
Canal will be opened here at
ceremonies September 81.
The tanker Fritz Classen
knocked down the old bridge while
going through the canal on July
%, 1912.
For a time. the trip from one
side of the town to the other
q distance of $40 feet-involved
q 22-mile drive.
Then the Army set up free
ferry service at cost Of $3.50, 1000
q year.
The new bridge is 1000 feet
long and is 1875 feet above the
canal at IT'S highest point.
Evening star., 1949-09-13
Industrial School Unit
To Be Opened for Care
OF SO More Children

The Commissioners today ap-
proved opening of the Lincoln
Building at the Industrial Home
School Annex to provide shelter
for so additional homeless chill
dren during this fiscal year. It
will open this week.
In May. with a total Of IA
children in residence, welfare Of
ficials closed the annex to fur
ther admissions. The 1850 budget
provides for 80 children.
Edgar Morris, welfare board
chairman. reported that as of July
Is the annex had 118 children, in
cluding IA babies housed in two
buildings.
Will Require S49,134 More.
The Board of Public Welfare
estimated that an additional ap-
preparation of $49,134.02 would be
needed to care for children this
year in the Lincoln Building.
The Lincoln Building has been
unused except for school classes
since the Receiving Home for
Children moved from quarters
there last February. Formerly
the Receiving Homes administra-
ton building, the structure has
been unfit for use, according to
Gerard M. Shea, home school su-
perintendent.
He said today roof repairs will
be made and that the interior has
been refurbished, adding that the
third floor will not be used, con-
forming with District fire regula-
tions. The first floor will be used
for school classes, while the sec
ond floor will be made into a
dormitory for older girls. The
Lincoln Building was not put into
service earlier because 1t was be-
'lieved the other two annex build
ings would be adequate.
Additional personnel necessary
to handle the addition includes
five matrons. four counselors, one
teacher, one nurse. one social
worker, one chief counselor for
boys and a cook. Approximately
$1.725 worth Of repairs also will be
needed.
Barrett Reported on Difficulties.
Police Supt. Robert j. Barrett
sent the Commissioners a report
in July Of the difficulties exper-
fenced by the Woman's Bureau in
arranging temporary emergency
shelter for children who are
abandoned, abused or neglected
when overcrowding or other factors
cause the welfare board to halt
admissions.
In July, he wrote. policewomen
had to keep an 18-month-old
child all night in the Women's
Bureau. The child had been de-
serted by its insane mother. and
it took about 18 hours to identify
the child and locate the mother,
he reported.
Maj. Barrett outlined other cases
of the type which he said occur
constantly and necessitate a great
deal of additional work on the
part of policewomen.
The Women's Bureau is re-
sponsible for making temporary
arrangements for infants and
children who are abandoned or
neglected.
Evening star., 1949-09-13
Queen LoreIei Named
For Seufood Festival
BY the Assoeiofsd Press

HAMPTON, Va, Sept. 13.-The
National Seafood Festival here
September 1917 will have Miss
Gregg Sherwood, of stage and
screen, to reign as queen Loralei
II.
Maids of honor for the queens
court will be selected by governors
of eight Middle and South At
lantic seafood States.
Evening star., 1949-09-01
Mayo Clinic Psychiafrist
Defends Comic Books
BY the kssoeioted Press

MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. Comic
books for children fill a definite
need in our society, a .Mayp Clinic
psychiatrist said here yesterday
While not great literature,
these comic books allow children
to siphon off many of the hostile.
aggressive feelings they are not
permitted to express" DR.. Robert
Faucet told a teachers workshop.
After ALL" he said, everything
alWayss Comes out all right in the
end Good always triumphs over
evil. The child gets a moral with
his crime and violence"
DR.. Faucet said that If folks
would only stop to think about it,
nursery rhymes and fairy tales are
every bit as bad as comic books,
but have been around SO long
we've come to accept them"
"The story Of Cinderella. for in
stance, isn't all sweetness and
light" concluded DR.. Faucet. "for
those stepsisters were just about
as nasty as they come. And Snow
Whites stepmother is q horrible
character"
Evening star., 1949-09-01
Lobbying Charges Reduced y {
AGAINST Southern Officials
by the Associated Press

Federal lobbying charges against
two Southern State farm COM
missioners and others indicted
with them more than a year ago
have been scaled down.
The Justice Department yester-
day dropped the indictment-in-
volving a felony charge-and sub
stituted simple information
charging a series of misdemeanors
Named in the action were:
James E. Mcdonald. Texas
State Commissioner Of Agricul-
ture: Tom Linder, Commissioner
of Agriculture for Georgia: Rob-
ert M. Harriss. senior partner in
the New York cotton brokerage OF
Harriss & Vose; Ralph w. Moore
of Granger, Tex; the Nationsl
Farm Committee. and the Farm
Commissioners Council. in which
Mr.. Linder and Mr.. Mcdonald are
the principal officers.
The indictment, returned by a
Federal grand jury here June 16.
194s, charged a conspiracy to vio-
late the Lobbying Registration
Act.
Evening star., 1949-09-01
Revised Traffic Rules,
Many Simp|ified, Now
Effective in District

Revisions in the Districts traf-
tfic regulations went in effect to-
day, bringing Washington's rules
closer in line with the national
uniform vehicle code.
The revisions clear up and sim
plify more than they fundamental
ly change the laws.
Under a clearer definition Of
what constitutes speeding, the reg
ulations now give person charged
with speeding the specific right to
show in his defense that while he
was exceeding the speed limit. he
was not a hazard to life or prop
erty.
An example would be a speed
ing case at 3 am. on a section Of
highway with no intersections
where there was no other trafflc.
Parking Rule Altered.
It is now a specific offense, also,
to drive unreasonably slow and
impede other traffic.
Drivers may park IL inches from
the curb instead Of the former six
inches.
Drivers of emergency vehicles,
such as ambulances and fire
trucks, heretofore required to come
to a complete stop at red lights
and stop signs although they could
proceed before light turned
green, may now go past a red
light or stop sign when the way is
clear.
Drivers Still Held Responsible.
They also may park and turn
against regulations and exceed
speed limits. Pedestrians are
obliged to yield the right Of way
to them.
Inspector Arthur E. Miller. in
charge of traffic, emphasized that
this does not relieve the driver of
the responsibility of driving safely,
nor protect him from the conse-
quences of reckless disregard for
safety.
Until now, the regulations have
prohibited the driver Of an auto
mobile from opening the door OF
the car on the side from which
traffic approaches. Now the pro-
hibition extends to passengers in
the car as we'll.
Bicyclists Included in Rules.
Parents and guardians are pro-
hibited under the revised regula-
tions from knowingly allowing a
child or ward to violate traffic
regulations. This means that if
the adult lets a minor driver with
out a permit, or If he sits beside
Evening star., 1949-09-01
Bus Service in ; States
Affected as 300 Strike
BY the Assoeioted Press

PITTSBURGH. Sept. 1.-Bus
service in three States is affected
today by a strike of 800 drivers
and mechanics on the western di-
vision of the Blue Ridge Bus Lines.
The men walked out today after
last-minute attempts to reach an
agreement on wage increase
failed despite intercession of the
Federal Mediation and Concilia-
ton Service. There was no in
dication when contract talks would
resume.
The men, members Of Division
1868. Amalgamated Street Elec-
trio Railway Employees (AFL), seek
a 25-cent hourly wage increase.
Bus routes affected, company
spokesman said. are between Pitts.
burgh, Bridgeville, Washington
New Kensington and Indiana, Pa
Wheeling and Clarkesburg. w. Va.
and Steubenville. Ohio.
The Eastern division Of the bus
company is not affected. 1t serve:
Pittsburgh. Cumberland, Md, anc
Washington, with connections al
Hagerstown, Nd. and Harris
burg, Pa. GG
Evening star., 1949-09-01
7 Diplomatic Nominations
Approved After Long Delay
BY the Associated Press

The Senate yesterday confirmed
two long delayed diplomatic, ap-
pointments by President Truman.
but delayed a third. -
Confirmed. after having been
blocked since June %, were Ellis
o. Briggs of Maine as Ambassador
to Czechoslovakia and Nathaniel
P. Davis of New Jersey to be Min
lister to Hungary.
Nomination of w. Walton But
terworth of Louisiana to be Assist
ant Secretary of State was passed
over again as 1t had been many
times.
Republican Senators who disap-
prove of this country's policies in
failing to continue aid to anti
Communist forces in China have
protested the Butterworth promo
ton. They claim Mr.. Butterworth
has been responsible for many Of
the decisions.
Senate Minority Leader Wherry
and Senator Brewster, Republican,
of Maine had blocked action on
the Briggs and Davis nominations
until yesterday.
Evening star., 1949-09-01
II Portable House Units
To Be Sold 10 Veterans

The Public Housing Administra-
ton today announced 1t will sell
II portable house units at 10 am.
September is. Veteran appli-
cants may purchase them at fixed
prices ranging from $375 to $500.
-Four of the buildings are To-
Gated in the 100 block of @ street
S.W., two in the 1900 block of
First street S.W., six in the 100
blocks of Fourteenth and Fiji
teenth streets Sc, and five in
the 1900 block of Fenwick street
NE.
The sale will be conducted by
drawing numbers to determine the
order in which the purchaser may
select q unit. Some kitchen and
space heating equipment is miss
ing and none of the units is fur
nished.
The units will be open for in
spection from 10 am. to 4 pm.
September IL through September
is.
Evening star., 1949-09-01
|Pefri|Io Threatens Ban
On New York Music
In Artist Guild Dispute
BY the Assoeiaisd Press

NEW YORK, Sept. 1.-James c.
Petrillo has threatened to silence
orchestras in New York. and pos
sibly throughout the Nation, in q
dispute with the AFL American
Guild Of Variety Artists.
Mr.. Petrillo, head Of the AFL
American Federation Of Musicians,
said yesterday he may pull or
chestras out Of New York hotels,
night clubs and theaters lin q
couple of days"
The action. he said, could ex-
tend over the entire country"
The threat appeared to be the
start of a showdown battle in a
long standing feud between the
musicians union and the artists
guild, composed mostly Of actovs.
Guild Accused Of "Raids."
Mr.. Petrillo accused the guild
of "raiding our union" and Fore
ing his members to join the guild.
He ordered any musicians who had
joined the guild to get out Of 1t.
Every time one Of our men
opens his mouth" Mr.. Petrillo
said, "up pops an agent Of the
AGVA and says, Gimme $50-you
said something. You're an actor
This has got to STOP"
Mr.. Petrillo told a news confer
ence that I'VE are debating on how
far we must go to stop this outfit
from raiding our union"
May Order Complete Ban.
He said he hadn't decided
whether to call out orchestras at
10 New York places, or four, as a
starter. He said he may order all
ATM members not to appear on
any programs with guild members.
This, he said. would tie up hotel
entertainment. vaudeville, night
clubs and possibly some television
shows.
However, Albert Westbrook. bus
iness agent for the Artists Guild,
said: Our members are we'll
equipped to go on working without
musicians.
Mr.. Westbrook said his union
claims jurisdiction over ANY one
who speaks or acts on a stage be-
fore a curtain"
Evening star., 1949-09-01

the Associated Press in a letter
yesterday that in referring to my
political party affiliations the term
Democrat-Liberal be used"
The new roster of the House of
Representatives lists the son OF
the late President under the des-
ignation "Democratic-Liberal."
Listing by large capital letters
reserved for minority parties
has for years been a distinction
enjoyed solely by Representative
Vito Marcantonio, American La
borite, New York.
Evening star., 1949-09-01
Reds on Tennessee Faculty
And in IVA, Crouch Charges
BY the Assoeiofsd Press

Former Communist Paul Crouch
told the House Un-American Ac.
tivities Committee that about si1
University of Tennessee professors
and 20 to Is IVA employees al
Knoxville were Communists.
Mr.. Crouch gave the testimony
last May while the committee was
investigating Clarence Hiskey, a
former chemistry professor at the
University of Tennessee. The
testimony was made public re-
Gently.
Mr.. Crouch said he had at
tended Communist Party meetings
with Hiskey.
Evening star., 1949-09-01

the youth while the latter goes
through stop signs or speeds. he
is liable to prosecution.
New regulations applicable to
bicyclists prohibit riding abreast
except on roads set aside exclu-
sively for use of bicycles, and sub
ject bicyclists specifically to speed
and traffic light regulations.
The revised code is the result
Of more than two years work by
committee which undertook the
rewriting job shortly after the
1946 Presidents Highway Safety
Conference, which recommended
enactment of uniform State traf-
fic laws and municipal ordinances.
Evening star., 1949-09-01
Communist tIrreguIars
Capture Big Piece Of
Kwangtung Province
BY the Assoeiotsd Press

CANTON, Sept. Communist
irregulars today bit q huge hunk
out of Northeastern Kwangtung
Province.
News dispatches conceded the
fall of Hsingning, 125 miles east
northeast Of Canton, to irregu-
lars who slashed down from
Kiangsi Province.
Meihsien, 80 miles northWard,
was abandoned without a fight.
Swatow was threatened. The
Kwangtung port is 80 miles east
of Puning, which the Red guer-
rillas took. Nationalist forces
were trying to retake the village.
Human Reds Regroup.
In Human Province, the Reds
appeared to be regrouping for a
massive drive toward Canton. The
attackers were east of the Hankow-
Canton railroad. A big concentra-
ton Of men was reported north
east of Hengyang.
Nationalist sources claimed
Tzen, 1876 miles northwest OF
Hengyang. had been retaken. A
strike to the east from Tell might
endanger Red supply lines from
the Yangtze River.
Chungking, capital of wartime
China, is now the governments
administrative center, an official
spokesman said yesterday.
Canton, the refugee capital, re-
mains the political center and
formal seat of government. of1-
cial spokesman Pao Ching-an
told the Associated Press.
The foreign diplomatic corps Is
awaiting the signal from the For
eign Once to move to Chungking.
Chungking will succeed Canton
rs the formal capital when the
Reds reach this southern city.
Chang in Chungkins.
: General.ssimo Chang Kai-shek
now is in Chungking conferring
with Nationalist generals and war
lords.
Quiet prevailed on most OF the
front north and northeast OF Can
ton. Military observers felt this
was a lull before the storm OF q
new Communist offensive.
Red irregulars, armed by the
regular Communist Army. were
carrying on harassing operations
inside Canton's Kwangtung Prov
tnce. They now are reported ac-
tive south of Lungnan, 40 miles
northeast of Canton.
It Is east of Lungnan that irregu-
lars moved 10 miles inside Kwang-
tung and captured Pingyun. Ping
yum is 210 miles northeast OF
Canton.
Evening star., 1949-09-01
By the Associuted Press

| BY the Assoeioted Press
NEW YORK, Sept. LIN a
simple ceremony attended by a
few relatives and friends, Repre-
sentative Franklin D. Roosevelt,
| jr., was married yesterday to
Suzanne Perrin, society figure and
wartime Marine reservist.
The ceremony joining the late
Presidents third son and the 28-
year-old Miss Perrin was held at
the brides East Sixty-sixth street
apartment. The couple met last
spring and had been engaged six
weeks.
It was the second marriage for
35-year-old Roosevelt, and the
first for his bride.
Mr.. Roosevelt's marriage in 1887
to the former Ethel du Pont ended
!, in divorce last May.
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, the
bridegroom's mother, attended
1.-the ceremony. Mr.. Roosevelt s
fbrother Ellictt was best man.
The Rev. DR.. Lee Vaughan
Barker, pastor of the Broadway
Tabernacle, performed the cere-
mony.
The bridegroom recently was
elected to Congress from New
York's Goth District. and is serv-
| ing as aDemocrat-Eiberal.
His bride, member of socially
prominent New York family
served for two years during the
war as a member of the Marine
Corps Women's Reserve.
With champagne and accordion
music for the wedding guests. the
couple received for an hour after
the ceremony. then left by car on
their wedding trip.
Smiling at small army OF
newspaper and newsreel photog-
raphers, they declined to be inter-
viewed or disclose their wedding
trip plans.
The brides mother. Mrs. Lee
James Perrin, said Mr.. Roosevelt
had rented a home for his bride
at the Capital. somewhere In
Georgetown"
Miss Perrin's late father was
senior partner In the law firm OF
Appleton, Rice 81 Perrin, and
served as chairman Of the Ciba
Pharmaceutical Products Corp,
Summit, N. j.
Mr.. Roosevelt has two sons,
Franklin. Sd, II years old, and
Christopher, 8, by his former wife.
Evening star., 1949-09-01
Marshall Plan
Continued From First Page.

on the change from Sellers
market" to a buyers market" in
the United States. This has not
made much difference in American
life, he said, but it has cut deeply
into the amount Of goods that
Americans are willing to buy from
Europe.
Plan to Be Offered to ECA.
The Marjolin-Snoy plan will be
submitted to the Economic Co.
operation Administration.
The plan calls for an allotment
to Britain of 1862, 100000. This is
$118,000, 900 more than originally
allotted, but far less than the ST.
5000 900 deficit Britain esti-
mated for herself. f'- - -
Britain willsAccept the new f1g-
ure, Sir Edmund@ Hall-Patch. his
country's representative on the
council. said. He had refused a
previous ALLEGATION.
Reservations about accepting
their shares were expressed by vir-
tually. all the speakers, except the
Belgian representative. His coun-
try's allotment had been worked
tout several months ago.
Greece held her share should
be increased, or that the present
figure of $163, 100000 should not
be reduced further. France also
said she could stand no further
cuts. Switzerland. though a men,
ber of the OEEC. has never re-
ceived dollar aid.
Division of 1949-50 Aid.
The official figures on the divi.
sion of 1949-50 dollar aid released
by Mr.. Marjolin were: