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Kodiak mirror., 1949-08-06
Insurance Men Study Town

Colonel o. G. Hoaas and Stanley c. McPherson, repres- entatives of the National Fire Underwriters, spent from Friday to Tuesday grading the town to the NFU standards,
 Their findings, which will be made public in about two months, will establish a base rate from which all fire insur- snce rates in Kodiak will be made.
 The nen gave no indication that the present rates would be changed
 Their inspection list covered over 1900 items, ranging from the effeciency of the local fire department to the condition of the streets.
 Other items concerned the
Kodiak mirror., 1949-08-06
GI Dividend Applications Soon

Application blanks for the special dividend that will be paid to sixteen million ex-GI's who held National Service Life Insurance policies will be avail able August 29. according to the Veterans Administration.
 The forms will be available at Eost offices, VA offices and Vet eFans' service organizations.
 AT the veteran needs to do to get the dividend is obtain a blank, fill it out and mail it to tne VA.
 Checks will start flowing out sometime in January of next pear.
 To avoid confusion and not burden the VA with extra work. veterans are utged not to write to the VA offices requesting their blanks.
Kodiak mirror., 1949-08-06

Blueprints and plans for re- modelling of inc Orphuem The- atre were brought from Seattle this week by MT. and Ms. James Martz, who recently pur- chased a half interest in the theatre from Jorgen Fredrickson.
 The plans call for an entirely new front, an enlarged lobby, new and additional seats and the remodeling of the apartment on the top floor. MT. and Mrs. Martz plan to occupy the apart- ment.
 A new marquee which will start on the side of the building on Harbor avenue will run the entire length of the front and will follow the contour of the curb. Plans include a new Orph. cum sign tower illuminated by
Kodiak mirror., 1949-08-06
Jury Finds
 Fisherman Insane

Roland Taylor Harris, AS, was committed to MorniDgside san. itarium this week by a jury of six local men.
 Harris was taken from the floating cannery, LaMerced, on July 2S. by the Coast Guard, on the request of the skipper of the cannery boat
 Harris has been under med. ical observation since his arriv. al here He also requested that he be sent to a hospital for treat. ment.
 Harris said he was from Prince Edward Island and claimed he had a sister liviL g there He signed for the voyage on the floating cannery through a seaman's union in Seattle
 John Hughes, attorney, was appointed by the court to act as counsel for Harris. The jury men were W. J. Wheeldon, Morris Burnham, L. K. Wodlineer, William Lamme, Gene Marian and Melton Crawford
Kodiak mirror., 1949-08-06
Orpheurn To Have New
 Seats, Lobby, Marquee

a hundred bulbs that will extend three feet above the present building.
 The projection room is the only room that will not be moved or changed.
 The entire construction of the front will be of steel beams and columns and will be finished on the outside with corrugated transite. The lobby and apart. ment will be finished in flat transite.
 "We are conforming in every way with the building code and the building will be as 6reproof as we can make it," Marts said. The new marquee is to be of cantllever construction and will require no supporting chains. Advertising frames on the out. side will be of cast aluminium. One of the old exits at the front of the lobby will be used for the entrance into the audi torium. A new connecting pass. age way will give access to the aisles which will be wider. A full row of loge seats will run along the entire back of the auditorium.
 New leatherette seats with plush fabric panels will be in- stalled and 8 stair step seating arrangement will allow 20 more seats to be used. More room for patrons knees will be provided as the seats are to be set further apart than formerly. ] The built up level platforms between each row of seats will provide better vision, Martz said.
 MT. and Mrs. Martz selected the new seats and draperies while outside conferring with the architect. While they were gone the inside of the theatre was ; painted in three shades of rose paint.
 Martz said the work will be l accomplished without closing the theatre, and the new seats will be installed between shows He added that the work will begin as soon as the materials start to arrive.
Kodiak mirror., 1949-08-06

Mrs Charles Swanson, mother of Paul Swanson, ha' arrived from Anchorage to make her home here with her son.
 It is her first visit in ko- diak in 52 years.
Evening star., 1949-10-02

"a "a roa1 ~ d aox eng.
beouil printed silks we've
many year! They look for oil the world like French imports
small WONDER they patterned this country by French de-
gner Lovely abstracts fos poen oon
Exquisite combinations They'll look wonderful fosh
ina your floor you'll look like million
them lot what modest to you'll. 40" vide
Third F1oo
Evening star., 1949-03-04
Civil Rights Dispute
Ties Up Rent Control
In House Committee
BY the Associated Press

A civil rights showdown raised
the final obstacle today to House
Banking Committee approval Of
q bill to continue rent controls for
Is months.
The committee broke up in an
uproar late yesterday when Rep
resentative Barratt O'Hara. Dem
ocrat. of Illinois offered an
amendment to veterans priority
section which would bar any dis
elimination because of race, color.
religion or national origin.
One committee member said
the amendments effect would be
to require rental or sale of prop
critics to white and Negro veter-
ans in the same apartment build
ings and in the same communities.
Adjourns to Catch Breath.
A motion to table the amend
ment failed. II to 8. Then a mo-
ton was made to approve it.
Thereupon the committee ad-
journed it's closed-door session to
catch it's breath.
The showdown was delayed un-
til today. There were some pre-
dictions that either the O'Hara
amendment would be defeated or
the rent bill would not get out of
the committee.
Republicans were reported to
have voted heavy support for the
amendment at a time when sew
eral Democrats were out of the
room.
Chairman Spence forecast the
committee would approve "a good
rent control bill" today, after dis
posing of the race issue.
Before the civil rights fight de- /
veloped the committee had buf-
feted the administration bill
around roughly, although it turned
down some amendments which
would have given it still sitter
treatment. The group:
!. Voted, % to ?, to extend con-
trols for only IS months. rejecting
an administration proposal for a
24-month continuation.
2. Turned down an admlnlStra-
ton proposal to impose fines up
to $4,000 and Imprisonment up to
one year for landlords convicted
of willfully violating rent ceilings.
3. Approved an administration
request for power to sue a land
lord violating rent ceilings for
damages amounting to three times
the overcharge.
4. Decided to let the rent ad-
ministrator recontrol any rental
area decontrolled since June 30,
l947. Tighe Woods. the admins
traitor, said this also would permit
him to remove controls from about
100 areas.
Reasonable Return Defeated.
5. Rejected, II to IL, an amend /,
ment by Representative Brown.
Democrat, of Georgia. that would
have required the rent" admins
traitor to set rent ceilings so as to
provide a reasonable return on
fair value" Brown said he will
offer this amendment again when
the bill reaches the House floor. /
The administration contends
operation OF such q provision
might require fair value" ap-
praisals of millions of separate /
properties.
AS it now stands, the law re-
quire the rent administrator to
relieve hardships and inequities in |
rent ceilings, and give considera-
ton to landlords suffering loss be-
cause Of the controls.
The committee defeated a pro-
posal to decontrol so-called luxury
housing renting for over $3.50 q
month. 1t voted to permit re-
control Of apartments in residen-
tial hotels, but rejected the idea
Of imposing rent ceilings for per-
manent residents in transient !
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Evening star., 1949-03-04
Lithuonion Supper Planned

The Lithuanian So
ciety of Washington will sponsor
a supper with Lithuanian food at
pm. Sunday in the Immaculate
Conception School Hall, Eighth
and N streets NV. Proceeds will
be used for the benefit of dis
placed persons.
Evening star., 1949-07-05
Girl Describes
Rescue From
Great Falls
) Fire Companies Lu
Ladders 1000 Yords
To Reuch Victim

Martha Treml. saved from prob
able death in the rushing waters
Of the Potomac River at Great
Falls, knows what people really
think about when they believe
they are drowning.
The 26-year-old Washington
secretary was rescued from q rock
. 100 feet from the Virginia shore
yesterday by volunteer f1remen
who made a path of ladders for
her.
Veteran firemen couldn't recall
another instance when a person
got that close to the drop of the
falls and failed to be carried over
In the swirling currents. They
said the rock that saved Miss
Tremis life was less than 4 feet
from the drop.
When I was in the water"
Miss Treml recalled today, Il
didn't think of my past, as they
Evening star., 1949-07-05
I'd. {. Men Among II
To Be Reburied

Two Washington men will be
among the II World War II SER
vicemen to be reburied in services
at 2 pm. tomorrow in Arlington
Cemetery.
Rites will be held for Pvt.
James o. Reinhardt. son of Mrs.
Nellie Reinhardt Warner, 622 F
street S.W., who was killed in
action February l. 1945. while
serving with the 168th Infantry
Division in Italy. Born in Calvert
County, Nd. he was graduated
from the Calvert County High
School at Prince Frederick. and
later attended vocational school
in Baltimore.
He was 19 at the time of his
death.
Besides his mother, he is sur
vived by two sisters. Mrs. Hazel
Hammett, Baltimore, and Mrs.
Amos L. De Lawder, 622 F
street S.W.
Services also will be held for
Staff Sergt. Harry Payne. 25, who
was killed in action October %,
1914, while fighting with the 92d
Division in Italy. :
He attended Armstrong High
School and was employed at the
General Accounting Office before
joining the service in November,
1S43. He went overseas in July.
1914.
He is survived by his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Payne, and
a son Richard, all Of 206 Flagler
place NV. Also surviving are q
brother. Pvt. James Cedric Payne,
Metropolitan policeman of sos
Park road NV, and three sisters,
Miss Oracle F. Payne, 81 Forty
seventh street Sc, and the Misses
Harriet and Isabelle Payne, both
of the Flagler place address.
Sergt. Payne's widow, Mrs. Beu-
lah Jackson Payne, died in 1347
Evening star., 1949-07-05
Speeiol Dispafeh 10 The Stor

PRINCE FREDERICK, Md.
July 5.-A $3.50. 600 jackpot is
steadily piling up for@ the new
Calvert County Hospital. which
will be built with slot machine
money.
About $4,000 came into the
hospital treasury from license fees
paid in the last fiscal year, the
first year of legal operation. The
fiscal year for slot machine Ii
censes begins July l..
A similar amount is anticipated
during the next IL months from
operators of some 500 machines,
the approximate number licensed
last year.
The county's slot machine law
was approved in a referendum
about two years ago by a vote OF
nearly 2 to /. 1t provided that
revenues be used first to pay the
1000 cost Of the special election
and then turned over to the hos
pital by the county commission
ers until the building fund
reached 4 total Of $250,000. After
that income from the devices will
revert to the county's general
fund.
Plans for the new hospital call
for expenditure Of 1915 900, the
difference between that amount
and the $3.50, 900 is to come from
the Government under the Hill
Burton Act. This provides for a
Government grant of so per cent
of the total raised by the county.
With a substantial amount on
hand and more coming in each
month, the hospitals Board OF
Directors has selected a site and
employed an architect to draw
plans for a one-story f1reproof
structure with space for % beds.
A 70-acre tract about l mile
north of Prince Frederick has been
chosen and negotiations for its
purchase at an undisclosed price
are under way with the owner.
Percy johnson. Construction Is
expected to begin within the next
few months.
The new masonry building will
Evening star., 1949-07-05
Star Movies

Community movies. sponsored
by The Star. the Recreation De-
partment and the Film Center. are
scheduled for 8 o'clock tonight.
Programs OF comedy, sports. car
toons and musicians will be shown
at the following Fairgrounds and
recreation centers:
Rosedale-Seventeenth and Gales streets
Jefferson-Eishth and H streets sW.
Twin Oaks-Fourteenth and Taylor
turkey Thicket-Michigan avenue and
Paiisades-Dana and sherrier streets
NV.
Ridse-Ridge road and Burns street Sc
Bruce-Kenyon street and Sherman
SHOWS court-Twenty-n NTH and streets
MI MEiow-Benninr road and Nineteenth
aus Circle-Betveen Southern avenue
and Sixty-frst street Sc.
ss.Dwelling-20OO Alabama ave-
nue. Sc.
Evening star., 1949-07-05
Damage Sci al S7,000,000
In VIRGINIA Flash Flood
Special Dispateh TO The Stor

MARTMSBURG, w. Va, July
5.-Damage resulting from the
flash flood that struck the Po-
tomac and Shenandoah Valleys In
Virginia and West Virginia about
three weeks ago was estimated
yesterday at approximately ST.
000, 900.
The estimate was made by Army
State officials and soil
experts and includes losses in per-
sonal property, homes, bridges
and livestock.
West Virginia's primary and
secondary roads in the flood
stricken. areas Of Grant, Pendle-
ton and Hardy Counties were
damaged to the extent of about
81. .000. 900, according to Road
Commissioner Ray Cavendish.
Losses in poultry were esti-
mated at more than 200 900 chick
ems In Hardy County and nearly
500. 900 in Grant and Pendleton
Counties.
Evening star., 1949-07-05
Board Of Trade
Po||sMembers
On HomeRu|e
To Give House Group
Results Of Survey
On kefouver Bill

The Washington Board of
Trade is seeking the views of its
membership on the District home
rule bill introduced by Senator
Kefauver. Democrat, OF Tennes-
see. and approved by the Senate,
in a poll now being conducted.
Results Of the survey are ex-
pected to be presented by the
board at public hearings before
the House District Judiciary Sub
committee in the latter part of
this month.
The poll was authorized by the
trade groups Board of Directors
at its latest meeting.
194S Poll Recalled.
The announcement in the Board
OF Trade News recalled that strong
opposition was registered by men,
bers on the Auchincloss home rule
bill in a poll conducted in Febru-
ary. 1948. to which some 30 per
cent of the membership responded.
Questionnaires in the latest sur
vey will cover approximately the
same ground and will be" "as SINH
lar as possible to last years poll IN
order to accurately gauge any
shift in sentiment which may
have occurred" the News said.
Heavy Opposition.
Results Of the 1948 poll, reflect
ing only views of District resi-
dents. were as follows:
DO you favor adoption Of the
Auchincloss bill?" Yes. 26.9 Der
cent: no. 64.7 per cent.
DO you think those living in
the District should approve by an
ofhcially conducted referendum
vote any new form of government
before it Is put into effect?" Yes,
79.1 per cent; no. Is per cent.
DO you favor election OF the
Board OF Education?" Yes, 33.5
per cent; no, 59.2 per cent.
DO you think local suffrage
without representation in Con-
gress Is desirable?" Yes, l7.2 Der
cent: no, 1913 per cent.
Evening star., 1949-07-05
Leohy, RuhIond to Meet
on Alcohol Clinic Site

District Draft Director William
E. Leahy will confer this week
with Health Officer George C..
T.uhland on the location of the
full-time alcoholic clinic program.
Mr.. Leahy said the Logan
School, Third and G streets NE,
has been considered as possible
location rather than the old
Weightman School, Twenty-third
and M streets NV, where the
draft staff has offices.
DR.. Leopold E. Wexberg, alco-
holic clinic director, probably will
attend the meeting with DR..
FINLAND
Evening star., 1949-07-05
Man Questioned by Police
Seriously Injured in Lean

While being questioned in con-
nection with q stabbing, Curtis
Window. 50. colored, TOO block of
Florida avenue NE, jumped from
a first floor window of the 18th
precinct last night and was in
jured seriously.
Police said Window had been
arrested after Ike Spradley. SO,
colored, was stabbed in his home
at 2128 Ninth street NV. Sprad-
ley's condition was reported as
satisfactory at Freedmen's Hos
pital today.
At Gallinger Hospital. Window
was reported to be suffering q
possible fracture OF the spine and
head cuts. Police charged him
with assault with deadly weapon.
Evening star., 1949-07-05

In a ruling upholding Veterans
Administration methods of deter
mining beneficiaries of CT life in
surance policies. the Court of
Appeals today refused to award a
$4,000 policy benefit claimed by
a serviceman' widow who argued
that Mexican divorce from her
first husband was valid.
The court overturned ali earlier
ruling by District Court Judge
Alexander Holtyoff who granted
the $4,000 benefit to Mrs. Made
leine Ursula Snyder of Westfield,
N. j., instead OF the dead mans
sister. Dorothy II. Reul.
Both women claimed the death
benefits of policy taken out by
Charles r. Snyder. who was chief
pay officer of the Lakehurst Naval
Air Station when he was killed in
1916 automobile crash.
Centers on Mexican Divorce.
The question centered on the
validity of Mrs. Snyders Mexican
divorce from her first husband.
The Synders subsequently were
married in Maryland. Mrs. Sny-
der contended that Maryland con-
siders the marriage valid. and as
the wife of Mr.. Snyder she was
entitled to the death benefit.
Judge E. Barrett Prettyman,
speaking for the Appeals Court,
cited the VA regulation which
governs the validity of marriages
in cases where compensation. pen
sion and insurance claims are
sought.
Void In New Jersey.
Noting that the regulation states
that "all marriages shall be proved
as valid according to the law Of
the place where the parties resided
at the time of marriage" Judge
Prettyman found that both Mr..
and Mrs. Snyder were residents of
New Jersey when they were mar
ried in Maryland.
Judge Prettyman found also
that New Jersey courts regard
Mexican divorces as void, and he
held that under the VA regula-
ton District Court was in error
in ruling that Maryland law ap-
piled in the Snyder case.
Evening star., 1949-07-05
Virginia Potato Shipments
0ne.Third Of 1948 Figure
Ix the Associated Prsss

NORFOLK, Va, July 5.-Rail
shipments of Virginia potatoes as
June, the major month of the dig
ging season. closed. were barely a
third of the shipments of June,
l948.
william s. Hancock. representa-
tive OF the Production and Market
ing Administration at Onley, re-
ported that through June 80,
Norfolk area growers had shipped
675 carloads. The digging season
opened June 8. The figure last
year was 1861 carloads. The sea-
son total was 1,743 cars.
Eastern Shore growers shipped
991 carloads for the month. Their
digging season began June /. Last
years June shipments totaled 1882
carloads. and the season total was
1897 cars.
Evening star., 1949-07-05
Assault Charge Naming
Policeman's S Wife Dropped

A charge of assault with q dan
gerous weapon against Mrs. Shir-
ley Phillips. 81. Silver Spring, wife
Of a Washington policeman, was
dropped today by States Attorney
Walter Dawson of Montgomery
County.
Mrs. Phillips was accused OF
shooting her husband. Pvt. James
T. Phillips, "a. of No. 8 precinct
during an argument June ~ at
their home.
Mr.. Dawson said he nolle
pressed the case because Pvt. Phil
lips refused to prosecute. The
case had been scheduled for hear
ing today in Silver Spring Police
Court.
Evening star., 1949-07-05
Youth Accused of Fiirinq
Rifle at Policeman

A 17-year-old youth was turned
over to juvenile authorities today
on a charge of assaulting an Of
f1cer after he allegedly fired a 20
caliber rifle at Pvt. Marston Beals
Of No. 2 precinct yesterday.
The boy. who is colored, shot at
Pvt. Beals, police said. in the 1900
block of Covington street NV,
when the policeman sought to
question him about a knife slash
ing of another colored youth. The
boy gave himself up later at No. 2
police said.
Evening star., 1949-07-05

by the 20-mile hour current.
Thrown from the canoe, Mr..
Tomlin was carried so yards down
the river to the shore. He ran to
Fletcher's boathouse for help
while Mr.. Latham stayed on a
rock beside the submerged canoe.
Sergt. Franklin Morrette and
Pvt. James E. Shepherd Of the
Harbor Police responded with a
line throwing gun. Pvt. Shepherd,
a specialist in line-throwing. shot
the line to Mr.. Latham across IS
feet of water. BY means of the
line, Mr.. Latham received two life
preservers and was pulled ashore.
Evening star., 1949-07-05
Appeals Court Backs PBA Guard Quizzed
VA Determination Of On Clue He Offered
G| Policy Beneficiary In Sailors Murder

Montgomery County detectives
investigating the murder Of a
young sailor near Rockville
today questioned a Public Build
ings Administration guard re-
ported to have seen two men
near the spot where a blood
stained car was found early Sat-
urday.
The guard described one OF the
men as 6-feet-taH and wearing
a maroon sports shirt, detectives
said. He was unable to describe
the other man. Both were white.
Detectives said the guard told
park police he saw the pair hurry
ing away from the Potomac River
seaWall at Rock Creek parkway
and Constitution avenue a few
hours before the half-submerged
car was found.
Bloodstains in the car, accord
ing to police. have been found to
match the blood Of the murdered
sailor, John J. Little. 18. whose
body was discovered last Saturday
beside tavern on Route 240 about
a mile and a half from Rockville.
The sailor. whose head had been
beaten in. was hitchhiking from
the Naval Air Station, Oceana,
Va, to his home at Loretto, Pa.
Detectives said the guards re-
port is the only tangible lead OBJ
tanned thus far in their attempt to
solve the murder. The car is owned
by Hazel Oliver Hawkins. colored,
Rockville. who reported the auto
mobile had been stolen Friday
night in Rockville.
Detectives also urged the two
men who found the abandoned car
to get in touch with them to sup
ply further information in the
case. .......
At the same time, detectives
said. study of State police re-
port on the holdup OF two Rich
mond College students early Sum
day at Beltsville revealed there
was no connection between that
incident and the murder.
Yesterday, detectives questioned
a sailor stationed at the Naval
Medical Center in Bethesda.
They quoted him as saying he
picked up another sailor answer
ing the slain youths description
early Saturday in Bethesda and
drove him to Rockville. Detectives
said the sailor was unable, how
ever. to identify a full-face pic
ture of the victim.
Evening star., 1949-07-05
Mrs. F. FreeIand Chew
Burned by Cos Stove

Mrs. Anne Chew. wife of r. Free
land Chew, Arlington County
board member. was burned on the
face and hands yesterday when
accumulated gas flared up as she
attempted to light the oven burn
ers of q gas stove.
Mrs. Chew was reported in good
condition this morning at Arling-
ton Hospital. The accident 'oc-
CURED at the Chew's home. 1902
North Edison street, about 4 pm.
Evening star., 1949-07-05
Calvert Slot Machines Piing Up
$25O,OOO for New Hospital

replace the existing two-story
frame hospital which for years
has operated without a license.
The State Health Department has
explained that while precautions
have been taken the unavoidable"
fire hazard in a frame building
makes it necessary to withhold a
license.
Evening star., 1949-07-05
Dr.. Ernest Bryon Elected
By Christian Endeuvor

DR.. Ernest r. Bryan, 5302
Massachusetts, avenue NV. West
moreland Hills, Md. was elected
president of the international So
ciety of Christian Endeavor in
Toronto yesterday.
He will succeed DR.. Daniel A..
Polling of Philadelphia, who served
as president for the last "a years.
DR.. Bryan. a visual education spe-
cialist for the Navy, formerly was
general secretary of the society.
Evening star., 1949-07-05
u. S. Technicions Aid
|Greek Communications

By the Associated PFess
ATHENS.-The ECA will help
the Greek government put the
country's Accommodation sys-
tenn on a sound technical and
financial basis. The project was
arranged at the request OF tho
Greek government.