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Evening star., 1949-03-22
7 Policemen Cleared
In Beating Of Boys

The Commissioners decided to-
day to ignore complaints that
Policeman Oliver A. Cowan
founder of the Junior Police and
Citizens Corps. and another po-
liceman had beaten two boys
while questioning them in the
18th precinct station house about
a housebreaking.
The city heads acted on recon-
mendation of the Complaint Re
view Board in dropping the
charges.
Pvt. Cowan and Pvt. Leroy E
Espeut. both colored, were &C
cused by Attorney De Long Harris
of mistreating two colored boys
aged IL and IA, on the night OF
January 1920 in the station
house. The boys were being ques-
toned with three other youths in
connection with the 1852 robbery
of a 6O-year-old newsstand
operator.
The case was investigated by
18th Precinct Capt. Albert I. Bull
lock. 1t. Daniel Pittman anc
Chairman Floyd D. Akers. Viii.
liam j. Mileham and Joseph A
Wilmer, of the review board.
Pvts. Cowan and Espeut deniec
in signed statements that they
beat the suspects. The boys, ir
their signed statements, told con-
flicting stories.
Evening star., 1949-03-22
fHouse Resolution
Asks Trimmed
lDress Week

The women's fashion center of
the world has shifted from Paris
to New York" according to a
resolution introduced in the House
yesterday by Representative Klein,
Democrat, Of New York.
Further. the resolution states,
this historical change in orien-
tation has been due Ia, gely to the
skill. originality and ingenuity of
American designers and the
needle trades"
American originals are setting
the style pace in the Western
Hemisphere in this spring of
1949," it continues.
In recognition of all this. Mr..
Klein's resolution proposes, the
period of April II through II
shall be designated National
Trimmed Dress Week"
Evening star., 1949-03-22
Invitations Issued
For Final Concert in
Neiqhborhood Series

The seasons final Neigh
borhood Concert by the Ma
tional Symphony Orchestra,
sponsored by The Evening
Star. will be held Thursday
at $50 pm. at Coolidge High
School, Fifth and Tuckerman
streets NV.
Invitations, which are free,
may be obtained at Coolidge,
Paul Junior High School,
West, Brightwood, Barnard,
Rudolph, Keene. Whittier.
Shepherd. Takoma, Takoma
Park and Truesdell ele-
mentary schools, 1akoma
Park Junior High School; the
Recreation Department, Six
teenth and Lamont streets
NV, and the counter in the
lobby of The Star Building,
Eleventh street and Pennsyl-
vania avenue NV.
Evening star., 1949-03-22

The Gin writing" feature
prompted discussion in the hear
ing as to whether telegraphic stop
notifications still would be hon
ored. Mr.. Addison said:
I'm my opinion. this bill. as
drawn, does not contemplate q
telegram as being a stop payment
order in writing"
He emphasized. however. that
banks still would honor kilograms
unless they had reason to believe
they were not authentic.
Corporation Counsel Vernon E.
West told the subcommittee it
was his view a telegram would be
a notice in writing within the
meaning of the proposed law.
The bill would require that all
stop orders be directed to the
branch at which an account is
kept.
Evening star., 1949-03-22
Bulk Of Bishop Estate
To Widow, Two Daughters

Arthur G. Bishop, former board
chairman of the Perpetual Build
ing Association, left an estate OF
more than 100000, most OF
which goes to his widow and two
daughters, according to his will
filed for probate yesterday in Dis
trict Court.
Mr.. Bishop, who died December
% at 70. also bequeathed amounts
to several District institutions.
They include $4,000 each to the
Ninth Street Christian Church
the Disciples Home of Washing
ton and the Central Union Mis-
sion, and $500 to the Lydia Bibl'
Glass of the Ninth Street Christian
Church. Another $4,000 was left
to Lynchburg College and $4,000
to Mrs. Catherine Stevens, whe
had been Mr.. Bishops nurse.
The will ordered that the re-
mainder of the estate be divided
between his widow. Mrs. Dorothy
H. Bishop. STA Sixteenth stree
NV, and his daughters, Mrs
Doris Crowell, 1920 Nineteenth
street NE, and Mrs. Mildred E
Cooper Of Silver Spring.
Evening star., 1949-03-22
Time Of Crisis
Budget Cuts May Force Closing
OF ? Public Swimming Pools

The department had $6,250 for
phone service and postage this
fiscal year. It asked for an in
crease of $2,364 so that seven
additional telephones could be in
stalled at centers not having them
and to meet the postage rate
increase.
The House denied this request
for the extra $2.364 and, in addi-
ton. cut $3,127 from what was
allotted this year. The result
means fewer telephones for the
department.
Only two new positions. those
of recreation directors for Turkey
Thicket and Happy Hollow, were
allowed by the House. The Rec
Ireation Department asked for
seven new positions, but the Com
missioners reduced this to two and
the House went along with that.
Therefore. the Taft; Watts
Branch, Bald Eagle and Ridge
recreation areas will have no di-
rectors and no organized pro-
grams this year. The other posi-
tion sought was a fiscal account
ing clerk to help the accounting
section keep current the records
of special use" activities. This
work has been piling up because
of lack of personnel and will con-
tinue to do so.
The total budget asked by
the Recreation Department was
$1,774.473, When the Commission
ers and the House were through,
it stood at $1,253,878, with only
the 100000 for land improvements
left in the way of capital improve
ments.
Evening star., 1949-03-22
Time Of Crisis
By Colt HendIey, Jr.

Two public swimming pools
here will be forced to operate with
"unsanitary" bathhouse facilities
and under threats from the
Health Department that they may
be closed down-because of cuts
made in the District Recreation
Department budget by the House.
If further cuts are made, the
Recreation Departments meager
improvement program will come
to a complete standstill," Milo
Christensen. recreation superin-
tendent. declared.
These cuts are likely. The
House slash of $115,122 from the
Recreation Department budget
was a part of the IS 5,584 900 taken
from the city's total revenue esti-
mates. Another $2.500,000 must
be cut to bring it in balance unless
additional revenue, supposed to
be raised by the defeated sales
tax, is found.
| District officials have indicated
the s2,500,000 will come from con-
struction items if it becomes nee
essary to slash again.
Facilities Worn Out.
The Recreation Department
asked for $4,000 to replace the
bath-house facilities at George
town and Rosedale pools, the only
two pools directly under its juris-
diction, The existing facilities
were described by Mr.. Christian
sen as "unsanitary, unsightly and
Wornout."
He said the Health Department
has warned the department sew
eral times about the bath-house
facilities at the two pools. But
the $4,000 needed to correct the
situation is no longer in the
budget, he pointed out.
The pools will be operated as
we'll as possible with the worn
out" facilities, he added.
The House allowed $4,000 to
the Recreation Department for
land improvements - grading,
draining. fencing. planting, con-
struction of hard-surfaced areas
and such-on Is existing recrea-
ton units. The Recreation Board
originally asked for $433,500 for
this purpose as a minimum"
The Commissioners cut it to
$4,000. and the House brought
this down to 100000.
This means work will have to
be spread thin" over the Is
areas. recreation officials pointed
out.
Maintenance of units already
in operation also will be curtailed
during the coming year.
The Recreation Department
transfers maintenance funds to
the National Capital Parks to pay
for the actual maintenance work
which is done by the park service.
Because of the salary raise Fed
eral employees received last year,
the Recreation Department will
be paying more for the same serv-
ice it received last year.
Cut in Phone Service.
A substantial" numberSof tele-
phones now being used in the
Recreation Department will have
to be disconnected if the budget
is passed as it stands.
Evening star., 1949-03-22
Eastern High Writers
Win Story Contest

Two girl student reporters for
The Easterner, Eastern High
School newspaper, yesterday were
named winners in a feature story
contest for school newspaper re-
porters conducted by the Smith
College Club of Washington.
The girls, Carolyn Cunning
ham and Angela Bachman, based
their story on a press conference
with Erwin Laszlo, 16-year- -old
Hungarian pianst. who will ap-
pear in a concert at Constitution
Hall Thursday. They will receive
free tickets to the concert.
Evening star., 1949-03-22
2 Groups Back Houston
For Commissioner Post

The Bloomingdale and CapitoI
View Civic Associations last night
Endorsed Charles H. Houston, COL
ored attorney, for District Com
missioner in the position now held
by John Russell Young, whose
term expires in May.
The Bloomingdale group. meet
ing in Tabor Presbyterian Church
Second and S streets NV, heard
DR.. Paul Cooke of Miner Teachers
College, urge nonsegregated
school system in the District
The Capitol View group met ut
Richardson Elementary School,
Fifty-third and Blaine streets NE.
Evening star., 1949-03-22
7 New Charges Filed
AGAINST Train Bandits
In West Virginia

The State of West Virginia to-
day filed two new charges against
a pair of youthful bandits who
have confessed robbing the Balti-
more g. Ohio's Ambassador ex-
press near Martinsburg March 9.
Assistant United States Attor-
ney William Hitz said here that
counts of armed robbery and
shooting in the course of a rob-
berry have been filed against 20
year-old George L. Ashton and
Luman RamSdell, %, already
under indictment in West Virginia
for the robbery.
Ashton was scheduled to appear
in District Court this afternoon
before Judge Richmond B. Keech
for a removal hearing. His COM
panion. Ramsdell, wounded by a
Washington policeman when he
was captured here the day after
the robbery, has recovered suffl-
GENTLY, Mr.. Hitz said, to appear
before the United States Com
missioner. No date has been set
for the commissioners hearing,
however, the attorney said.
Ramsdell was shot as he at
tempted to draw a gun when two
policemen caught them in Penn
sylvania avenue pawnbrokers ex-
change. The bullet missed his
heart by only 2 inches.
Both men have expressed a de-
sire to plead guilty to charges of
theft in interstate shipment here,
which would mean they would not
stand trial in West Virginia. but
the indictment and filing of the
two additional charges probably
will deprive them of that oppor-
tunity.
In addition, Florida police have
filed detainers against them for
the robbery of grocery store
there,
Evening star., 1949-03-22
Golf Courses
Inquiry Slated
For Tomorrow
LeoffIer Contract
With U. S. Faces
Scrutiny Of Group

The special House subcommittee
assigned to the task of investi-
eating the operation of the public
golf courses in the District will
hold its first meeting tomorrow.
Representative Redden. Demo
crat. of California who has been
designated chairman of the spe-
cial subcommitte of the House
Public Lands Committee. said he
will call a meeting tomorrow tc
make plans for the investigation
The actual hearings will start
soon. he indicated.
Mr.. Redden and the other men,
bers of the subcommittee were
named yesterday by Representa-
tive Peterson. Democrat. of Flo
rida the acting chairman of the
Public Lands Committee.
Others on Committee.
Appointed to serve with Mr.
Redden were Representatives
Havenner, Democrat. of Califor-
mia; Bentsen. Democrat, of Texas;
Poulson, Republican. of Califor-
mia, and D'EWart, Republican. OF
Montana. Mr.. Peterson said he
would serve on the subcommittee
also.
Subject of the hearings will be
S. G, Leoff1er, who has held the
contract to operate the courses
for the Interior Department for
the past % years, and the Ma
tional Capital Parks. which is the
Washington branch of the Interior
Departments National Park Serv-
ice. The National Capital Parks
has direct supervision of the pub
lie golf courses-Anacostia,' Lang
ston, Rock Creek. Fort Dupont
and East Potomac.
The golf courses, object OF fire.
quent criticism. are not under
contract to any one at the moment.
although c. Girard Davidson, As
sistant Interior Department Sec
retary, has announced he intended
to give the contract to Mr.. Leof-
fer for another five years. The
old contract expired on December
81, and Mr.. Leoffler has been oper-
ating them without a contract
since then.
Mr.. Davidson said his reason
for deciding in favor of Mr.. Leof-
fler again was based partly on a
promise made to him in 1947,
when the golf course manager
advanced more than 100000 for
the construction of a clubhouse
at Fort Dupont and two miniature
golf courses at Anacostia and
Langston. Mr.. Leoff1er was to be
repaid out of future receipts.
Books Under Audit. ~
Left out by this announcement
were the District Recreation De-
partment and the Cleveland Con-
cession Co.. represented locally by
Ray c. Alvis, a sports promoter.
Both wanted the golf contract.
Meanwhile. Mr.. Loef1er's books
are undergoing a thorough audit
by the National Park Service &C
countants, so the Interior Depart
ment will be prepared for the
hearings.
The District Recreation Board,
still in the fight. has meeting
scheduled for Thursday with Mr..
Davidson to discuss a secret re-
port prepared by board members
on the operation of the courses
under Mr.. Loeffler. Board men,
bers intend to meet after the
conference with Mr.. Davidson to
determine when to release the re-
port to the public.
Evening star., 1949-03-22
Breakdown Of Budget
Given Legislators by
DR.. Byrd at Hearing
Star Staff Photo.
by }. L. MlCnoel
Stor Stoff CORRESPONDENT

ANNAPOLIS, Mar. 22.-Dr. H
c. Byrd, president of the Uni
versity of Maryland, gave men,
bers of the Senate Finance and
House Ways and Means Commit
tees a three hour lesson in budget
making last night that left the
legislators somewhat dizzy.
He delivered his own views anc
parried verbal thrusts, ther
walked out Of the House cham.
Der as fresh and smiling as wher
he came in-with bales Of printed
data, a corps of assistants and ;
huge chart listing labyrinth o
figures.
He appeared at the hearing
with James G. Rennie, Stat,
budget director, after the two hat
asked Gov. Lane to arrange {
hearing to end demands that tn,
university budget be submitted il
detail rather than in lump sun
form as has been the case for thu
last IL years.
Bill May Be Held Up.
A pending bill to force this pro-
cedure may be pigeon-holed as 9
result of the session last night
An almost identical measure was
defeated in the House several days
ago by a one-vote margin.
DR.. Byrd said last night he nc
longer opposed the bill. He ex-
planned that after a change OF
wording the university does not
now have sufficient objections tc
warrant making a fight against it
After agreeing to furnish all
State legislators with detailed
budget information, DR.. Byrc
asked that they hold the data
confidential.
If it became public" he said
1T might serve to disturb morale
among personnel and also woulo
give other schools information
they could use to wean our best
people away through higher sal
ary offers"
Aid Plan Studied.
Members of the General Assem-.
bly, today studied two alternative.
for providing more State aid tt
localities for school construction
teachers who, constituted the
sion.
One. offered by Gov. Lane,
would establish a $5O.OOO,00O fund
from which the localities could
borrow at a low rate of interest.
In conflict with this, however,
is the plan indorsed last night
by more than 1000 parents and
teachers who, constituted the
largest delegation to attend pub
lie hearing during the current ses-
sion.
They favored bills to increase
the States payments to the vari-
GUS counties for new school con-
struction..
These bills, already pending
would quadruple the school in
centive fund and authorize a
$30,000,000 State bond issue to
help counties which have reached
their debt limit.
Almost unanimously, the speak
ers either ignored or opposed the
administration measure which was
introduced yesterday. Under the
Lane plan. Baltimore and the
counties could borrow in proper
ton to the money they receive
from the redistribution of taxes
collected by the State. such as the
frc0rnn fov
Evening star., 1949-03-22
Arlington Rug Class Set

A demonstration in hooked rug
making will be given at the Ar
lington Recreation Center, 300
Lee highway, at 7:30 o'clock to-
night. Registrations for q weekly
Tuesday night class also will be
taken. Both men and women are
eligible.
Evening star., 1949-03-22
Fifth Dairy Plans
To Cut Prices;
Big Firm Waits
Chestnut Forms Slash
Due When Producers
Announce Cut

A fifth dairy cut it's milk
prices cent a quart here to-
day. but one of the large distrib-
utors decided to wait until the
producers association makes an
expected reduction next week.
Cream prices, eanwh lie,
dropped in Baltimore but re-
mained unchanged in the WASH
ington market.
The Wakefield Dairy lowered it's
price today from 81 cents to 20
cents quart delivered. The EN-
bassy Dairy yesterday started SELL
ing at the 20-cent figure. The
Lucerne Milk Co., supply division
of the Safeway Stores. cut it's
price to II cents. The previous
price was 18 cents quart for
purchases of four quarts Or more
and 10 cents for fewer than four.
Thompson's Dairy announced a
cent a quart reduction, effective
April /, with a 2-cents-a-quart re-
duction on plain homogenized
milk. The Embassy Dairy also
reduced its price on plain ho-
mogenized milk by 2 cents.
Public Hearing Scheduled.
The Richfield Dairy, which sells
to hotels. restaurants and institu-
tions. decreased its ,price a cent
a quart today.
But the Chestnut Farms Chevy
Chase Dairy, which distributes
more than Al per cent of the Met
ropolitan Area milk supply. said
any price reduction it makes
would have to come "simultane-
ously" with a decrease in pro-
ducers prices.
The company, as we'll as
Thompson's Dairy and the Alex
andria Dairy Products Co., have
asked the Virginia State Milk
Control Commission to authorize
a reduction of so cents a hun
dredweight in the price paid by
distributors to producers. The
commission will hold public
hearing at 2 pm. next Tuesday
at the George Mason Hotel in
Alexandria.
Pending action by the Virginia
State Board. the price cuts an
nounced here thus far apply only
to the District and nearby Mary
| land.
| Reports current among dealers
that the producers association,
which controls almost 80 per cent
of the milk supply in this mar
ket. has agreed informally to a
price cut and that practically all
distributors will lower milk prices
a cent a quart by April /.
Bruce B. Derrick, secretary
! treasurer of the association, said
the association will put in an
appearance" at the hearing. He
did not say whether it would op-
pose the distributors request. The
present producers price is $6.06 q
hundredWeight.
The 21-cents-a-quart milk price
has been in effect here since last
April, following a cent and half
increase at that time. Some
changes were made in cream
prices last June. Dealers who
have announced price reductions
this week said they have no way
Of knowing" whether cream prices
will go down on or after April /.
In Baltimore today the price Of
cream was cut from rs to Is cents
half pint for table cream and
from 80 to 81 cents for whipping
croon
Evening star., 1949-03-22
osesCriticaI
Of Theoretical
City Planning
Some Problems Can't
Be Put Off, He Tells
Mayors Session

construction co-ordinator, told the
United States Conference of May
ors today that theoretical city
planning is no good as such" The
conference is being held at the
Hotel Statler.
Mr.. Moses. veteran city plan
ner, took issue with my old
friend" Bernard Baruch, who ad-
vised the Mayors yesterday to put
off as many city projects as pos
sible until a decision is reached in
the cold war with Russia.
There is no way that the ines
capable problems of a city can be
put of until we see how much we
will have to help Europe" Mr.
Moses said. Neither can you put
off your problems on the theory
Of an imminent war"
Taking as an example the pro-
posed Second avenue subway in
New York. Mr.. Moses said it will
cost $500.000,O00. which we
haven't got"
But you can't tell people that
they are going to be crowded into
cars like cattle until the situa-
ton in Europe gets Strengthened
out. They just won't stand
for it," he added.
Mayors Hear Vandenbers.
The same necessity, he said,
"has applied to plans for new
sewage-disposal plants and meas
ures to relieve the housing short
age
When you're up against i'm
mediate problems like these. all
: the theoretical planning goes by
the board" he declared.
Mr.. Moses said that theorists
in the field of city planning are
eloquent and persuasive. and
have great influence in the
universities
But they never seem to be
around when there's a job to be
DONE" he added My cure would
be to put them all to work. but
I don't believe they'd last 10
minutes"
After the morning session, the
Mayors attended luncheon meet
ing and heard Senator Vanden-
berg, Republican, of Michigan in
dorse the North Atlantic pact
as "the most important step in
American foreign policy since the
Monroe Doctrine"
Fleming Urges Redevelopment.
Large urban redevelopment pro-
grams. with Federal aid. to solve
the problem of traffic congestion
in cities was urged in a talk by
Maj. Philip B. Fleming. admins
traitor of the Federal Works
Agency.
He told the Mayors that the
problem Of traffic congestion is
'as yet unsolved and rapidly be-
coming more serious"
John L. McCaffrey, president of
the International Harvester Co.,
Chicago, and the only businessman
to address the conference so far,
spoke this morning on Industry
and Government at the Grass
Roots"
There is. he said, too much
ivory tower thinking" declaring
that "all of us need to talk more
and think more about the things
we believe in"
Discussion on Slums.
This afternoon, the mayors were
to hold a discussion on "Slums
and Housing" Mayors Roberts Of
Providence, Van Antwerp of De-
troit, Harrell of Norfolk and Muir
ply of Newark were to speak.
Later, some of them were to
participate in Nationwide
broadcast on atomic energy.
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
spoke yesterday to a luncheon
group who already had heard
President Truman and Mr..
Baruch.
Gen. Eisenhower told the
Mayors a maximum of self-gov-
ernment is implicit in our con-
ception of democracy" Mayors
must resist. he said, the tempta-
ton to "cast things onto the
Federal Government"
Evening star., 1949-03-22
MurshuIIs Back at Lodqe

PINEHURST, N. c., Mar. % (F).
Gen. and Mrs. George c. Mar
shall returned by plane last night
from Florida. They are spending
the winter at their Pinehurst
home, LiScombe Lodge.
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RAINIER5 GO up;
NOW IN IND SPOT
IN p. {. LEAGUE
Bv JIM HUBBARD

Early in the season, the dope
sters were picking the Seattle
Rainiers as the team to heat II
the Pacific Coast League pennant
race. 1t took the Rainiers quite 9
while to gather up steam, but to-
day Monday they are holding
down second place by virtue of a
double victory Sunday over San
Diego.
The Padres dropped the opener
7 to 2 and the second game. 5 to A
Guy Fletcher, ace of the Seattle
pitching staff, turned in his 18th
straight affair and his 18th OF
the season in the first contest, q
l0-inning affair.
Los Angeles, usually weaker
than a two-bit highball, fixed up
long enough to split with Holly
wood. Young Bob Kelly turned in
a three-hit performance for the
Seraphs in the nightcap, shutting
out the Twinks, to 0. The opener
was a free-swinging scrap which
Hollywood won, Is to z.
San Francisco and Oakland each
won one Sunday. The morning
game, played at Oakland, went to
the Acorns by 3 to 2. But the
Seals bounced back in the after
noon for an II to triumph on
their home field.
At Sacramento, where double
headers are played in the evening
because of the heat, the last place
Portlanders took the seven inning
opener, to 4. However, four hit
pitching job by Bob Gillespie gave
the Solons a 7 to Q win in the
nightcap.
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STANDINGS OF THE CLUBS

Saturdays Results
Seattle 3, San Diego 0.
Oakland s, San Francisco 7.
Hollywood Is, Los Angeles 4.
Sacramento 7, Portland 4.