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Evening star., 1949-09-01
Ground Will Be Broken
For S4,O00,O00 Community

Groundbreaking exercises al
2::30 pm. September 10 will sigma
the start of construction for q
$4,000, 900 garden apartment com
munity in Seat Pleasant. Md.
The project calls for building
los detached homes, apartment
buildings providing SOB residential
units and a shopping center. II
will be situated on a 50-acre tract
known as the Gregory farm. be-
hind Seat Pleasant School. Greg
ory Estates, Inc, is the builder
Gov. Lane has been invited to
participate in the groundbreak-
ing ceremonies, along with men,
bers of the Town Council, men,
bers of the Maryland General As
sembly, and others. The program
will be directed by Mary Elizabeth
Anders. a broadway producer.
r. H. Bailey. a banker in Farm
ingdale, N. Y, is president OF
Gregory Estates. Robert Creme is
vice president and construction
and Paul B.
Walker of Princeton, N. j., treas
urer. Contract for the work was
to Wertheimer Construc-
ton Corp. MIR. Creme said the
apartment would have the lowest
rental scale of all new construc-
ton in the Washington area.
Evening star., 1949-09-01
Food Prices Up Again
Margarine, Coffee,
Meats on Upswing

More food price increases. in
cluding such standard items as
coffee and oleomargarine. face
the week end shopper in the
Washington area.
Margarine has gone up from
one to two cents pound. de-
pending on the brand. A spokes-
man for one large chain store at
tributed the increase. in part. to
a new Government support price
program on cottonseed. Cotton
seed oil is an important ingredient
in margarine.
Coffee also has jumped one to
two cents a pound, leading gro
GERS reported.
Loin lamb chops edged upward
again and are now selling at SLIT
a pound in chain stores-two
cents higher than a week ago.
Other Prices Up.
One big retail chain listed these
additional changes: chuck roast,
81 to SO cents a pound: whole
pork loins, 81 to So cents; rib
lamb chops. $105 to SLOT.
Commented one store Official:
Everything is showing strength;
there's no indication of weakening
in prices"
Snap beans topped the list ot
lower-priced items. while lettuce
and lima bean we're q little
higher. Limas are nearing the
end of their season.
The first artichokes and brus-
sell sprouts of the new season
from California arrived in distant
markets this week and were de-
scribed as good in quality and rea-
sonable pricewise.
Grapefruit Crop Hurt.
The hurricane in Florida last
week end was estimated to have
destroyed about one-third of that
States new grapefruit crop. due
to start coming to market in the
next two or three weeks.
Robert c. Evans. general man
ager of the Florida citrus commits
sion, said the loss probably would
run between 100000 and H.
000,00 boxes. Some observers
predicted that prices this season
would reach a record high.
The Dun & Bradstreet whole.
sale food price index this week de-
clined to S5.78 fro m$5.86 the pre-
vious week and compared with
$500 year ago. The figure rep
resents the total wholesale cost
of pound each of 81 general use
foods.
Evening star., 1949-09-01
Mrs. Butler Retires
From State Department

Mrs. Dorothy X. Butler. 2733
Ordway street NV. retired from
the State Department today after
43 years in Government service.
In a letter to Mrs. Butler yes
terday, Secretary of State Acheson
praised her "outstanding record"
A native of De Land, Fla, Mrs.
Butler was stenographer at the
Interior Department from 1900 to
1908. After a lapse of six years,
she returned to Government SER
vice in the State Department in
1914. She was assigned to the
Bureau of Indexes and Archives,
now the Division of Communica-
tions and Records. where she has
remained for IS years. She re-
tired as chief of the financial
unit of this division.
Evening star., 1949-09-01
Nv ,be A..oeio,ed Pres.

EASTON, Md. Sept. 1.-The
search for Kenneth G. Lord and
a pretty young woman he took
for spin in his new boat ended
Yesterday when their bodies were
found in Chesapeake Bay.
Mr.. Lord, 32-year-old part
owner of a sheet metal shop at
Cambridge, Md, set out Sunday
from North Beach with a woman
who called herself Peggy" They
didn't come back.
Anne Arundel County police
said a man identified the woman
as Helen Stevens, %, of Wash
ington. The man, Frank Krigline
Of Washington, said he was
relative. They lived at 1928 CO.
lumbia road NV. He told officers
Miss Stevens also called herself
Peggy.
Raymond Wright told Maryland
State police he and Mr.. Lord
had sailed across the bay to North
Beach in new cabin cruiser
He said Mr.. Lord struck up con-
versation with the woman. and
Evening star., 1949-09-01
Ga|Iinger Is Sending
Maternity Patients
Home After 48 Hours

A steadily increasing number
of maternity cases at Gallingel
Hospital has forced many patients
to leave the hospital 48 hours
after their babies are born. DR.
Philip A. E. Stebbing, Gallingel
superintendent, revealed today.
"The number of maternity cases
per month has been increasing
steadily since 1896" DR.. Stebbine
said. I'VE have been aiming al
at least three-day stay here fol
all maternity patients, But now
unless complications develop,
patient is taken home in ar
ambulance in 48 hours"
In August there were 548 ma.
ternity patients in the ward. Dur
ing August of last year there were
478 maternity cases.
Prior to November, 1916, the
number averaged only 200 a
month. But the maternity ward
at Freedmen's Hospital was closed
down for six months beginning in
November because of an outbreak
of diarrhea. When the ward re-
opened. the number of beds was
cut almost two thirds. Since then,
the hospital has said the number
cannot be increased because of a
lack of nurses and ward space, it
was said. s-, . 5
Gallinger Load Doubled.
The situation at Freedmen's, Dr.
Stebbing said, doubled the month :
ly load at Gallinger almost imme-
diately. Since then the monthly
rate has been increasing steadily.
On the other hand. Joseph
Irvine. director Of the Bureau of
Vital Statistics, said Washington S
birth rate is on the decline. He
said there were 406 less births
recorded for the first six months
of this year than for the same
period last year.
Inc main reason 1Or Lne IN
creased maternity load at CALM
ger is the increasing unemploy-
ment rate, according to John P.
Sanderson. director of the Dis
trict Hospital Permit Bureau.
which issues contracts for care of
INDECENT patients.
Sanderson Tells Reasons.
Mr.. Sanderson said that difficult
economic conditions always in
crease the load on municipal hos
pitfalls like Gallinger. He pointed
out that only emergency INDECENT
maternity cases are handled by
hospitals with contracts to care
for such patients. There are eight
contract hospitals in the District
and only about half of them have
maternity wards. he said. and.
with an increase in INDECENT cases,
more are sent to Gallinger.
DR.. Stebbing said he thought
another reason for the increase
is that the District Maternal and
Child Welfare Bureau has dis
continued its home delivery serv-
ice.
Evening star., 1949-09-01
4O-MiIIion Dividend
Starts to Veterans
OF World WurI

The Veterans Administra-
ton today started to pay a
special insurance dividend to
435, 900 World War I veter-
ans-but it has nothing to do
with the vast $2,800.000.000
fund to be split next year
among 100000 World War
II veterans.
The special $40, 100000 divi-
dend will go to older veterans
who took out Government life
insurance on a permanent
plan before January /. 1914.
and kept it in force through
last December.
The dividend, resulting from
a restudy of the insurance
trust fund. will not be paid
on any term policies.
Evening star., 1949-09-01

cards. bringing together those for
each applying veteran.
6. From the information on the
cards, VA will use its formula to
compute payments, and stamp the
amount on the punch cards bear
ing the veterans current ad-
dresses.
7. Finally, when the formula is
thoroughly tested, vouchers and
checks will be run off for each
veteran.
A serious bottleneck in the pro-
cessing job is being caused by
veterans who are stapling, past
ing or taping together the folded
parts of their dividend applica-
tion. Officials asked that the
applications merely be folded and
dropped in the mail.
Some May Get Shock.
Veterans who have received
overpayments under the CT Bill
or through any other benefits will
get a shock in the form Of deduc-
tions from the dividends. officials
warned. Any deductions will be
so noted.
The more than 5000 employees
at work in the new headquarters,
officials said, probably will be in
creased to 1000 before the end
of the year.
In January, VA expects to begin
rolling checks out at the rate OF
about 100000 a day. The dividend
period has been set at between
the time the policy was begun and
the policy's anniversary date in
194S. 49,.
In the future, officials said, the
agency hopes to pay dividends
annually on active policies.
But by the time the current job
is finished, a two-year backlog
already will be built up.
Evening star., 1949-09-01
7 Condemnation Suits
Filed on Widening Of
Wisconsin Avenue
Seven suits to condemn property

Seven suits to condemn property
needed for the widening Of Wis
consin avenue between East-West
highway and Glenbrook parkway
Bethesda. were on file today in
the Montgomery County Circuit
Court by the State Roads Com
mission.
Two of the suits involve the Hot
Shoppe restaurant at East-West
highway and the Humphrey fu-
neral home at Wisconsin avenue
and Avondale street. Defendants
in the Hot Shoppe suit. which
seeks to acquire 1887 square feet
for SAT, ,048, are the MunSey Trust
Co., trustee, and Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles B. Hawley. Charles B.
Hawley. jr., and Eleanor w. Haw-
ley, benefciaries.
Mrs. Irene Pumphrey is the de-
fendant in the suit seeking to ac-
quire 1,179 square feet of the
funeral home property for $500.
Other Defendants.
Defendants in the five other
suits are Daniel P. and Annie
Maris Shaw, 2 Sedgewick lane,
Bethesda, who own 2,505 square
feet at 8101 Wisconsin avenue;
Mrs. Rose Bellatti Grow, 609
square feet at 800l Wisconsin
avenue; Miss Annie E. Meyer,
Gil square feet at 8005 Wisconsin
avenue; Paul M. and Edith Ludt,
856 square feet at 8215 Wisconsin
avenue. and Mr.. and Mrs. Hawley.
11,739 square feet in the rear of
the Hot Shoppe.
The commission said in each
suit that it has filed checks with
the court which 1t believes repre-
sent "fahr value" for the prop
critics involved. In the Shaw suit,
the commission filed a check for
$7,515; Mrs. Grow, 5000; Miss
Meyer, $611; Mr.. and Mrs. Ludt,
1856, and Mr.. and Mrs. Hawley.
$7,711.
All Other Cases Settled.
The remainder of the 81 prop
erty owners involved in the widen
ing already have donated the nee
essary land or reached an agree
ment with the commission or the
county over the purchase price,
Mr.. Barnett said.
Meanwhile, work on the project,
which calls for the widening of
the street from 40 feet to 10 feet,
started yesterday with the re-
moval of trees along the east side
near Glenbrook parkway. An es-
timated 200 trees will be removed
from both sides as a result of the
widening.
Mr.. Barnett said the street will
be widened about 171a feet on the
east side and between IL and Is
feet on the west side.
Evening star., 1949-09-01
| Alumni Stand
AGAINST Shift Central
To Co|ored Students

The Alumni Association of
Central High School today re-
iterated- it's position that it will
work to obtain appropriations for
new high schools for colored
youths but that it was opposed to
transfer of Central from white to
colored students.
In a letter addressed to Stephen
G. Spottswood. president of the
District branch Of the National
Association for the Advancement
of Colored People, and DR.. Paul
Cooke. president of Local o.
American Federation of Teach
ers. the association criticized the
two groups for injecting" the
racial question into the problem
The alumni association said il
was quite aware that the coloreo
high schools were crowded. II
added that it did not feel that the
transfer of Central High School
either on a temporary or per.
manent basis would be the righ
solution.
Defends Proposal.
"Our position has always beer
that our colored neighbors shoult
be provided with equal if not tn
| best of schools and recreationa
facilities" the association de
clared.
The association defended It
proposal for relieving congestion
at the colored Cardozo High
School until the proposed Spingarr
High School can be built and 8
replacement for the present Arm.
strong High School constructed.
The plan advanced by the as
ISOLATION would transfer the stu.
dents at Wilson Teachers College
to Roosevelt High School. The
colored students at Miner
Teachers College would be placed
in the Wilson building and the
Miner building used for part OF
the Cardozo enrolment.
The teachers union and the
NAACP have stated an outright
transfer of Central High School il
the best solution.
Hearing Next Tuesday.
The Board of Education. hoping
to solve the problem by the open.
ing of school, has scheduled 8
public hearing on the matter al
10 am. next Tuesday.
Before the School Board ar.
three proposals made by Schoo
Supt. Hobart M. Corning. Thes,
are the temporary transfer Of Cen
trail to colored students with th'
present students being allocatet
among other white high schools
the permanent transfer Of Cen
trail, or a transfer of the Wilson
Teachers College enrolment II
Central so that the Wilson build
ing may be used by the overflow
from Cardozo.
Evening star., 1949-09-01
New Woman Police Officer
Indorsed by City Heads

The Commissioners today ap-
proved a recommendation of Po-
lice Supt. Robert j. Barrett to
seek authorization from the Civil
Service Commission for q second
officer in the Women's Bureau
with the rank of lieutenant.
In line for the new rank, If it
is granted, is Sergt. Veronica
Winder, who has charge Of as
signments for Investigations and
supervision of special investiga-
tions.
: Sergt. Winder also is the liaison
officer for the bureau with other
community agencies, particularly
In dealing with problems OF young
people.
Evening star., 1949-09-01
Arlington Bandit Linked
To Fairfax Tuxi Holdups

Fairfax County police believe
the man who robbed a taxicat
driver in Arlington early yester-
day is the same one who robbed
hackers in Fairfax County Sun
day and Monday.
The robber got $12 and $14 Sun
day and Monday in holdups staged
after he had taken cabs into Fair
fax County, police said. In the
Arlington holdup, police said. the
taxicab driver was held up near
Columbia pike under similar cir
cumstances. All descriptions were
similar.
Evening star., 1949-09-01
Man Starting JoiI Term
Is Found Dead in Cell

A 35-year- man who began
a 6O-day sentence at District Jail
yesterday was found dead in his
cell early today.
Deputy Coroner Richard Rosen-
berg was to perform an autopsy
today. The prisoner, David H
Jones, who told police he lived
in the 900 block of New York ave-
nue. NV, was sentenced yester-
day on drunkenness charges and
was In Jail In lieu Of . $50 finel
Evening star., 1949-09-01
Truman NoncommittuI
On Remaining Clarke

President Truman today refused
to say whether Gilmore D. Clarke
would be reappointed as chair
man of the Fine Arts Commission
Mr.. Clafk's term expired last
March and 1t has been under
stood that the official, who figured
in the differences between the
commission and the President over
the construction Of the White
House balcony, would not be re-
named.
Evening star., 1949-09-01
Mosons Will Dedicate
Memorial to Weber

A set Of lights as memorial to
Charles G. Weber will be dedi-
Gated at 8 o'clock tonight at the
Singleton Masonic Lodge, 444l
Wisconsin avenue NV.
Mr.. Weber, who died in jan
uary. 1949, was master OF the
lodge in 1912.
Evening star., 1949-09-01
Labor Situation
r,butSnoot
Strike Continues
Radio Dispute Ended,
Truck WuIkout Off,
PIosterers Negotiate

The labor dispute situation in
the District seemed somewhat
brighter today.
A last-minute agreement settled
an engineer wage controversy in
volving Radio Station WTOP;
truck drivers called off a threat
ened walkout pending further
talks, and striking plasterers re-
ported progress In narrowing
issues with a group Of 18 SUBJ
contractors.
There was no change, however,
In the four-day-old strike of AFT
engineers and teamsters asking
a 25-cent-an-hour wage increase
at the Smoot Sand g. Gravel
Co. A union official said he
knew of no plans for another
negotiating meeting "at an early
date"
A walkout of some 500 team
sters and helpers here and $500
more in Baltimore, Hagerstown
and Cumberland, Md, and in
Winchester, Va, was to have be-
gun today but was postponed late
last night.
Further Talks Planned.
Negotiators for Local 639 of the
AFL teamsters union and the Dis
trict Trucking Association repre-
senting IL firms, met yesterday.
A union official announced there
would be no work stoppage at this
time and that further talks would
be held, probably Saturday. The
drivers seek wage increase from
$1.18 to s1.45 an hour. and a 40
instead of a 48-hour work week.
The plasterers' strike has
reached the stage where 18 sub
contractors, represented by the
Employing Plasterers Association,
agreed "in principle" to a welfare
fund and would be willing to fl
nance it on the basis of a straight
two per cent of the workers base
pay of SO an hour. negotiators
disclosed.
Local 96 of the Operative Plas-
terers is still demanding that the
employers pay on the basis of two
per cent of the weekly gross wages.
An all-day session yesterday failed
to bring an agreement on that
point.
Federal Cancellation Commits
sioner Gilbert S. McCutcheon' said
he hoped to bring the negotiators
together for another meeting with
in a day or two. Both sides have
agreed to a two-year contract run
ming to August l. 1851. and that
the welfare fund will become
effective next January /. The
union has dropped its demand for
q standardized workmen's COM
pensation in Maryland, Virginia
and the District.
Agree on Pay Boost.
Radio station WTOP and Local
1915. International Brotherhood
of Electrical Engineers, announced
late yesterday that they had
agreed to q $3.50 across the board
wage increase for 80 broadcasting
engineers.
This agreement averted q
threatened walkout by the engi-
neers last midnight. The new
contract is to remain in effect
until October /, 1850.
Though a scheduled strike of
800 truck drivers in Baltimore was
postponed last night because their
local and IS trucking firms were
reported TOO close to an agree
ment to strike" that city report
ed a strike of 400 steel workers
today.
Workers at the Eastern Stain
less Steel Co. in Baltimore went
on strike a few minutes after
midnight. They are members of
the CIO United Steel Workers of
America.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1949-05-27
UNION SHOP
ILLEGAL, SAYS
LABOR BOARD

WASHINGTON, May 27.-tR-
The National Labor Relations Board
ruled unanimously today that John
L. Lewis union shop agreement
with the steel industry's coal mines
is Illegal.
Lewis has the same arrangement
with the rest Of the coal industry,
but today's case involved only the
so-called captive mines, owned
by Is steel companies.
The Board ordered Lewis to agree
within 10 days to stop giving effect
to the union shop clause with the
steel industry mines and TO promise
neither to call strike nor threat
en- one to get the steel companies
to agree to a similar union shop
clause in new contract negotiations.
The union shop clause declared
Illegal specifies that all mine en-
ployees must be members of Lewis
United Mine Workers Union.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1949-05-27

Heacock added shat this monop-
oily could not exist except for the
active assistance of the CAB and
the millions upon millions of tax
payers funds handed to that mon
opcly by that board to drive more
efficient competitors out of bust
ness"
Demanding "a return to competi-
ton" he said the independent car
riers want freedom to introduce
economies, to establish lower rates
and provide a mass market for SER
vice."
He contended that regulations is
sued by the board are designed TO
destroy all nom scheduled operations
except those with insufficient fire.
nuency to constitute competition
with the scheduled airlines.
He denied claim of the sche-
duled carriers that the independents
skim the cream" of the business.
On the contrary, he said, the nom
scheduled lines. have pioneered a
wealth of new business"
Heacock said that since the war
veterans have worked new mira
Giles" in air transportation but I'M
less they get help from Congress
their business will be strangled
by the rulings" of the CAB.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1949-05-27

vide his own bedding. Facilities OF
the mess hall will be taxed, ac-
cording to Powers, since the group
is more than twice as large as last
year.
Waterfront activities will be a
major part Of the camp program,
and they will receive close super
vision from the adult staff, with
scouts using the buddy system" in
swimming, and every effort made
to teach swimming and water
safety principles.
The camp will talk by radio to
the ACS office in Juneau each day.
In case of emergency, parents may
SEND messages to their sons by get
ting in touch with the office Sec
rotary of the Boy Scout organiza-
ton. and she will see that the mes
sage is relayed. Mail to the boys
will be delivered, if addressed to
Box 2509, Juneau.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1949-05-27
STAFF FOR BOY
SCOUT CAMP IS
ANN0U need

Announcement of the staff for
the Eagle River Boy Scout camp
was made today by Scout Execu-
tive Maurice Powers, who will di-
rect the camp again this year.
Coming from Ketchikan tomor-
row to assist, is Doremus P. Scud-
der, Alaska Council field executive.
Scudder has been with Alaska scout
ing since December of last year
having served previously as a field
executive of one of the California
councils.
Three scoutmasters plan to help
direct the program for the 60 boys
who will OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Volz
of Sitka, Chester Zenger and Chuck
Buttrey of Juneau DR.. E. L. Kelly
will cook for the camp, with one
OF the patrols serving each day on
KIP, helping prepare the vege-
tables and washing the dishes.
Other volunteers will assist from
time to time, including Tom Cashen
of Douglas and Verne Harris OF
Juneau.
Senior scouts who will serve on
the camp staff in addition to the
men listed are: Dick Klingbeil OF
Juneau troop 6l3, Don MacKinnon
Of Juneau troop %, and Robert
Franks of Sitka troop Gal, all three
of whom will have special respon-
sibilities as Junior Assistant Scout
masters" Scouts Jerry Wade OF
troop % and Jerry Hill OF troop
613 will serve as senior patrol
leaders for the camp.
EIGHT PATROLS
The other SIS boys will be orga-
nized into eight patrols, each OF
which will occupy one of the 16
by 16 foot pyramidal tents. Tents
will be erected Sunday afternoon
by the scouts. Each tent has a
wooden tent floor, four of which
were installed last year, and four
OF which were made by the troops
ir Juneau this spring. Each boy
will have his own cot and will pro-