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Evening star., 1949-04-17
Observation-Disclosures
To Take Active Part in
'49CIeanupC Campaign

The Districts 10000 school
children will take an active part
in this years fix-up and paint up
campaign which begins April 80
Kirk Miller. chairman Of the
Washington Board Of Trade Clean
up Committee. announced yester-
day.
The cleanup campaign will
open dramatically with two power
full fire department bumpers
splashing the District Building at
Fourteenth street and Pennsyl-
vania avenue NV. with tons of
water to wash the CRIME from its
white marble facade.
The Fire Department washes the
Capitol Building every year. but
this will be the first time the Dis
trict Building has had a Fire De-
partment bath.
Full Support Urged.
Associate School Supt. Carl F.
Hansen has sent a memorandum
to all division directors urging
their full support in the cam
paign.
In exerting its influence in the
campaign, Mr.. Hansen wrote
the school might well begin at
home. to set a good example for
the rest OF the community to fol-
low:
"Wholehearted and purposeful
participation by children and
youth in the proposed effort to
render our area a cleaner. safer
and more beautiful place in which
to live will not only greatly i'm
prove present conditions, but will
also result in interests. attitudes
and habits which will reflect
themselves throughout future
years. The opportunities for par
ticipation are varied and many"
100 Posters Entered.
DR.. Hansen reported that more
than 100 posters have been en-
tered in the poster contest spon-
sored by the cleanup committee.
When the campaign gets under
way, school children viii take
home special report. cards sug-
gesting steps to be taken to clean
up their homes and yards.
Boy Scouts Of the District have
been assigned the task of clean
ing and improving vacant lots.
Evening star., 1949-04-17

would Be deposited ~!ih TIE See =
reta-y o. the Treasury. who would
authorize the printing Of mcnev.
The money. backed by the bends,
would cArry the United States cur
gency inscription On one xade ard
the stamp o. the bond Issuing
Nation On the other. The bonds
would be paid OF in - years with
OIL interest. with the foreign
country paying . small percent
age for issuance Of the currency.
Such q plan. he said. would pot
Europe on is feet financially
enanle IL 10 pay It's debts. and At
the same time would safeguard
this country against excessive
drain on its resources and mount
ing TAXATION.
Evening star., 1949-04-17
Dr.. Grissby Appointed
Education Office Deputy

Appointment of DR.. Rail I.
Grigsby as deputy commissioner
of the ONCE of Education was an
nounced yesterday by Commis-
sioner Earl j. McGrath.
DR.. Grigsby served as acting
Commissioner of Education from
July, 1s48. when DR.. John w.
Studebaker resigned as commis-
sioner, until last month when DR..
McGrath assumed the ofiice. He
| has been a member Of the Once
of Education staff since 1899.
Evening star., 1949-04-17
Red Cross Here Offering
Potomac Caaoeine Lessons

The Red Cross announces YES
serH2ay thai u will teach nsra are
women. young and cid alike. lc~
10 handle cAnor. ca the Potomac
Anac42r2e .ag o base eassSw ms
e1aSs. Daniel A. Leonard clgwx scs
Of safety services for tar Dassgx xi
Bed Cross. cited TIE fact that
canoeing ard boating Acc3csnts
caused g Of the II. dguwntngs
reported BY the D.stgses vllal
Statistics Bureau ssnce lssA
The canoeing class AL b.
Evening star., 1949-04-17
Gen. Coxey, Now o5, Proposes
Scheme to Finance Atlantic Pact

the Nations Capital In q fight for
good roads and for adoption Of hts
big ides"-money at cost and
interest bearing bonds.
Today he offered a new propose.
for financing the Marshall Plan
and the recently signed Atlantic
Pact
Under his plan European ma
tons seeking goods from the
United States would issue non
interest bearing bonds for the
amount OF the bill. The bonds
Evening star., 1949-04-17
n, fss A..e<io.ed p,sss

MASSILLON. Ohio. April 10
The man who led 'Coxey's Army
TO Washington IS years ago
reached his 95th birthday today
without an ache or pain"
His health Is fine. but Gen.
Jacob S. Coxey is worried. His
worries center around America S
mounting National debt and the
worlds tax burden.
More than q half century ago
ne led his army Of unemployed TO
Evening star., 1949-04-17

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Evening star., 1949-04-17
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Evening star., 1949-11-02
Julian Leaves Estate
OF fS4,457,988
BY the Associated Press

CINCINNATI, Nov. 2.-William
A. Julian, treasurer Of the United
States, left an estate of $4,457,-
988.41.
The inventory was filed yester-
day with Probate Judge Chase
M. Davies. Mr.. Julian was killed
in an automobile accident near
Bethesda, Md, last May 20. His
wife, Mrs. Gertrude E. Julian, died
last March Is.
The inventory showed he had
cash of $436,513 in banks in Gin
cinnati, Washington and New
York. He also had bonds to-
falling $177,678 and stocks valued
at $3,757,576. Among the stocks
were 1000 units of Cincinnati
Gardens, Inc, valued at $4,000
and 5000 shares of Julian Asset.
Co. of Delaware, valued at ST.
100000.
Mr.. Julian's only jewelry was
wrist watch valued at $35. The
inventory also showed he had real
estate valued at $3.50. notes re-
ceivable in the amount of $85, 1884
When his will was filed, il
showed a cash bequest Of 100000
to nephew. Charles A. Julian
Frankfort, KY, and $4,000 be-
quests each to Mrs. Douglas j
Ebert, Birmingham. Ala. and
Evening star., 1949-11-02
-Four Educators Approved
For Teacher Traininq

The names of four college edu-
Gators to be added to the speak
ers list of the teachers in-service
training program were approved
yesterday by the personnel COM
mittee of the Board of Education.
It was recommended for board
action today that DR.. Hobart
M. Corning. superintendent of
schools. contact the following per-
sons, suggested by him:
DR.. Allison Davis, professor of
education at the University of
Chicago: Miss Mildred Fairchild,
Ia member of the Fine Arts De-
partment of Columbia University
Teachers College, New York; DR..
Foster E. Grossnickle, professor
Of education at New Jersey State
Teachers College, and Miss Made
laine Merchon, consultant in the
Department of Child Study, Uni
versity of Maryland.
The athletic committee, which
also met at the Franklin School,
approved for board action a post
season football game to be held
December 3 between the top
teams of the Catholic High School
League and of the white District
public high schools. The game
is to be sponsored for the Times
Herald Welfare Association and
the Touchdown Club.
Evening star., 1949-11-02
ESQ Prize-Winning Fish
To Be Displuyed Here

A display of more than $50
prize-winning fish from the ex-
hibit of the National Aquarium
Society of Washington held last
week may be seen from IL am.
to 10 pm. at the Playhouse
Theater beginning today.
The two weeks display includes
rare tropical fish and fancy gold
fish suitable for home culture.
Evening star., 1949-11-02
Mrs. Lillian ]. Abbott, Clearwater

Mrs. Lillian J. Abbott. Clearwater,
Fla.
An unestimated trust fund was
left as follows:
Berea College. Berea, KY,
12/20th; Associated Charities,
|2/20ths and 1/20th each to the
YWCA. Widows Home, Walnut
Hills, Childrens Hospital, Clover
nook Home for the Blind. Chill
drens Home and the Franciscan
Brothers Protectory for Boys,
Bank street.
Evening star., 1949-11-02

Approximately one-fourth of
the area of the United States is
commercial forest land.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-10-27
Accident, Health Group
Meets Here Tomorrow

The District Accident and
Health Association. representing
commercial health insurance I'M
derwriters, will hold a regional
conference in the Mayfower
Hotel tomorrow. beginning at II
am.
After a morning business SEES
sion, luncheon speakers will in
clude Joseph c. McGarraghy
Washington attorney, and Harry
E. Ritter, jr., chairman of the
associations Law and Legislation
Committee.
The public is invited to an
afternoon session, featuring a talk
by DR.. Ralph j. Gampell, who
left England to practice in this
country in protest against the
British health insurance pro-
gram.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-10-27
Godivo's Statue
| Fenced to Bar
'Peeping Toms
By the Associofed Press

COVENTRY, England. Oct. 81.
They've had to put a fence
around Lady Godiva's statute. It's
to keep the Peeping Toms away.
A statue showing the lady, clad
only in her tresses and sitting
side saddle on a horse, was un-
yelled last Saturday by Mrs. Lewis
Douglas, wife Of the American
Ambassador.
Almost at once, crowds wanting
q closer look began trampling
over the surrounding turf. City
officials put up a 3-foot-high bar
ricade yesterday to save the grass.
Godiva rode forth in the nude,
legend says, about 900 years ago
to shame her husband, the lord
Of the town, into giving tax re-
lief to the people. The towns
people went indoors to let the
lady pass unseen. But one man
looked and was struck blind. His
Grant ways give birth to the
term Peeping Tom.
"The statue is proving an un-
expected attraction" said one
city official.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-10-27
Mrs. Cote Wins Parole
In Christmas Staying
BY the Asseciofed Press

" 'hC ~sSoStofcQ EIeSS
BIRMINGHAM, Mass, Oct. q.
Mrs. Bertha s. Cote. 31-year-o
brunette, was freed from Sherborn
Women's Reformatory under pa
role conditions today after serving
% months for the Christmas tree"
Staying of her playboy husband.
Quietly, she left the reformatory
at ! am, with relatives-and
headed for reunion with her
7-year-old daughter, Barbara Ann,
who had been told her mother had
been in hospital.
Until 1858, the petite widow must
live under strict conditionS-pre-
venting her from remarrying or
leaving the State without permis-
sion of the State Parole Board.
Her husband Rene, Brockton
automobile dealer, was found
bludgeoned to death at the foot
of their daughters Christmas tree
in 1916.
Testimony was given during the
trial that Cote had spent the eve-
ming night-clubbing with a dancer
who specialized as a strip-tease
performer on the stage.
Sentenced to three and one-half
to six years, Mrs. Cote was paroled
before expiration of her sentence
for good behavior.
She was charged originally with
murder but pleaded guilty to
manslaughter in the midst of the
trial.
Before her arrest she had ac-
cused young Brocton automo-
bile mechanic of the murder
and described him as her lover.
This story later was repudiated
in court.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-10-27

under the new system. The de-
partments and agencies may go
ahead and set up the new jobs
without waiting for the commits
sion.
OF course, the commission will
keep close tab on the general Sit
uation to see that no abuse Of this
authority occurs. But the agen-
cies will have a comparatively free
hand. and If they prove to the
commission that the program is
being administered effectively,
most of the individual promotions
won't even have to be post
audited by the commission.
All this will greatly enhance
promotional opportunities for
Government employees, and 1t
marks an important milestone in
improved personnel policy for the
Government service.
+ X X Il
HOOVER PROPOSALS - DR..
Robert L. johnson, president OF
Temple University and chairman
of the Citizens Committee for the
Hoover Report, predicts Congress
next year will enact the bulk of the
Hoover Commission recommended
lions for reorganizing the Govern
ment.
DR.. johnson told the New York
Herald Tribune Forum that Con-
gress this year had enacted about
20 per cent Of the Hoover pro-
posals and that there is q good
chance another go per cent Of the
recommendations will be approved
next year.
ANNIVERSARY - Congratula-
tons to Carl Berger, the employee
relations oflcer for the General
Accounting Office. who celebrates
his 18th straight year on the air
tomorrow in conducting his pro-
gram your Government and
Mine" over Station WWDC. Carl
was one Of the pioneers in the
Government news field, and he's
still going strong.
4 X + +
PRAISE-Federal Security Ad-
ministrator Oscar r. Ewing de-
clares the usefulness OF Federal
credit unions has been greatly
increased" as a result Of Congress
action in permitting the credit
groups to increase the present
maximum $500 loans to $500. and
increasing the maximum time for
repayment from two to three
years. President Truman recently
signed the bill into law.
Government employees belong
ing to these credit unions now
may get loans under these new
terms.
PAY-There's no need for Fed
eral employees to get jittery over
the Presidents failure 50 far to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-10-27
Truman Approves Bill
Awarding Ex-Nurse
$4,000 for Injuries

A former Red Cross nurse who
was badly injured in the Indian
war theater four years ago, will
collect $35, 900 from the Govern
ment as the result Of a vigorous
fight by Senator Mccarthy, Re-
publican, Of Wisconsin.
The grant is believed to be a
record in such cases. The legis-
lation was signed late yesterday
by President Truman.
The claimant is Mrs. Ben Sar-
gent of Milwaukee, the formerly
Miss Mary Thomas Schiek.
Hurt in Truck Wreck.
She was injured In a truck &C.
cident in May, 1945, while taking
a party OF soldiers on a sight
seeing expedition.
1t was brought out in the
Senate debate that the first doc
tor who treated the nurse said
she was uninjured.
A later examination disclosed
that her back was broken in two
places, the sacrum badly frac-
tured, the pelvis broken and sew
eral ribs damaged.
Today, Mrs. Sargent walks with
difficulty. and is unable to sit or
lie in one position for more than
short period.
Sought $4,000.
Senator Mccarthy had sought
to get $4,000 for his constitu-
ent. but the final agreement was
for the $4,000 voted by the
House. In the Senate considera-
ton of the claim, Senator Kill
gore, Democrat, of West Virginia
said that the most ever previously
voted by the Senate in similar cir.
cumstances was $4,000.
The case attracted little gen.
eral notice, but was extensively
covered by The Star while in the
Senate. Senator Mccarthy said
he was hopeful this publicity
would assist him in efforts to
obtain reforms in the 150-year-
old congressional system for han
ding claims.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-10-27
franklin Park Hotel Suit
Involves Hotel License Only

District Court has been asked
by the Franklin Park Hotel. 1882 I
street NV. to have a three Judge
panel hear complaint against
the District Commissioner for re-
fusal to grant a hotel license.
The hotel has petitioned to pre-
vent the Commissioners from hold
ing that the establishment does
not come within the legal defini-
ton of a hotel because it does not
maintain a dining room for at
least 80 guests. In The Star yes
terday 1t was stated inadvertently
that the complaint dealt with re-
fuSal to grant a LIQUOR license.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-10-27
FEC Stops Du Mont Color Test
After Converter Blows Fuses

Having shown it Is in no mood
for testing about color television
the Federal Communications
Commission met in a closed ses-
sion today to decide on a further
course of its inquiry on whether
such television is ready for broad
casting to the public.
Five weeks of open hearings
were recessed late yesterday after
the Allen B. Du Mont Laboratories
Of Passaic. N. j., staged a bur-
lesque of color television CONVEX
sion problems-a demonstration
that provoked a lot OF laughter
before Commission Chairman
Wayne Coy called it OF as side
show"
Du Mont's chief researcher, DR.
Thomas T. Goldsmith. said the
demonstration was intended to
show that such conversions are
ridiculous.
FUSES BLOWN In lest.
After fuses were blown out and
Du Mont engineers suggested the
commissioners move back from
the machine before it went into
high gear, Mr.. Coy snapped:
eve are not in the sideshow
business. This demonstration is
called off,"
Du Mont, a leader in the tele-
vision field. takes the position that
no color TV system is ready for
general use, and that converting
present receivers to color recep-
ton is not as simple as some have
commended.
1t chose for the purpose a Du
Mont-built extension of the CO.
lumbia Broadcasting Systems
color plan, involving use of mo-
tor driven color wheel. which in
the case of converting present
set would be locked into place be-
fore the viewing screen.
Columbia Protests Experiment.
A de luxe $4,000 cabinet model
with 2o-inch screen was selected
for the demonstration. which went
forward over Columbia's protests
that it had never recommended
the color wheel for anything larger
than a 12l2-inch tube.
CHS Attorney Richard S. Salant
accused Du Mont Of setting up "a
publicity gag at considerable ex-
pense."
DR.. Goldsmith said, however.
that his company believed that
color conversion should be avail
able to every set owner, large or
small, if color should be author
lied and that his laboratories had
built the equipment nee
essary for a 20-inch receiver.
When this was unveiled from
its heavy wraps, it turned out to
be a steel-housed color wheel 4
feet in diameter. powered with
a five horsepower motor, all
mounted on a heavy platform. It
weighed about TOO pounds and
the set it was to
convert.
Heavy Power Lines Used.
AS two husky young men
wheeled it into place, DR.. Gold
smith said that This is what the
would have to do to
change from a black-and-white to
color program" When the big
motor was plugged into an ordi-
nary wall switch, fuses blew out
and DR.. Goldsmith turned to the
commission and audience of sci
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-10-27
Unification WORKING
Despite Squabb|es,
johnson Aide SAYS

After two years Of unlflcation
some of the boys on the Defense
team don't want to play unless
they can call the signals; but
they're playing under a man,
Defense Secretary Johnson. who
says he's going to call the signals
himself.
This is how Paul H. Griffith,
Assistant Secretary of Defense,
summed up the current Mayfair
Force controversy, which was
barred recently before a House
committee. He spoke last night
at the first of series of adult
programs at the Chevy Chase
Community Building. 560l Con-
necticut avenue NV.
Mr.. Griffith made only slight
reference to Capt. John G. Crom-
melin, who spanked the inquiry by
releasing confidential documents
relating to Navy morale and the
quarrel over unification, when he
declared:
1--WE have information that that
ohhcer was not alone-that it was
part Of a concerted effort on the
part Of several high Navy officers.
Unification Is Working.
But, he said, unification is
working. The Army. Air Force and
Navy are all for it," he declared.
mo one has lost anything yet in
the movement, except the Army
and they lost the Air Force"
The defense official said he be-
lieves morale is low in the Navy,
but perhaps only because some of
the top brass have been disloyal."
Mr.. Griffith said the contro-
versy, ignited by Mr.. JoFnson's
decision to scrap the proposed SUI
percarrier, was no different from
"dif1culties' already encountered
between the Navy and Marine
Corps, or between the Navy and
the Bureau of Yards and Docks.
Il want to allay any sus-
picions, he said, that we want
to do away with the Navy or the
Marine Corps AS for the B-36, I
only know what I've seen it do,
and I have a lot of confidence
in it."
Program Inaugurated.
Mr.. Grifnth's talk marked the
inauguration of an adults pro-
gram at the community center,
which has been in full swing since
October, 1913, after years of work
on the part of residents to house
1t in the converted E. v. Brown
School.
We've left it completely to the
teen-agers for a year." COM
mented Mrs. Henry Grattan
Doyle, in charge of planning for
the center. And now it's the
parents turn"
Mrs. Doyle said the Chevy Chase
Preside Explorers, the name under
which the parents are organizing,
plans to go in for more lectures,
besides exploring" such things as
ceramics. plastics and popular
science. Next session probably will
be held next month.
Presiding at last nights meet
ing was Samuel bigger, chairman
of the Chevy Chase Community
Council. Charles Lueck introduced
Mr.. Griffith.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-10-27
Johnson Says Nation
Cannot Afford Rival
Services in Defense

NEW YORK, Oct. 27.-Secre-
tary of Defense Louis johnson
said last night that America can
not afford the luxury of a defense
setup composed Of competing serv-
ices with duplicating roles.
Honorable roles and missions
are assigned to each of the three
services" he said. Each gets the
part it is best qualified to do in
the opinion of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff"
And he added:
This does not necessarily mean
that each is directed to do what
he would best like to do. Nor
do the plans allow for the luxury
of competing and duplicating roles
to be paid for out of the pockets
Of the American taxpayer, whose
tax burden is already approach
ing the rock-bottom limit"
Speaks at Forum.
Mr.. johnson used his place on
the New York Herald Tribune's
forum on "the interdependence of
world problems" to comment in
directly on the defense squabble
highlighted by Navy resentment
of its place under uniflcation.
He insisted that American mill
tary strategy calls for teamwork
among all the services with the
object of stopping any possible
enemy onslaught and then carry
ing the war abroad.
Among other speakers were
Gen. Lucius Clay, former Amer
lean military governor of Ger
many; Nine. v. L. Pandit. Indian
Ambassador and sister of Prime
Minister Jawaharlal Nehru of In
dia, and Barbara Ward, foreign
editor of the conservative London
weekly, the Economist.
Gen. Clay called for an early
peace treaty with Western Ger
many.
THE policy which we are now
following is sound" he said, pro
vided we follow it consistently and
insist and urge that others do
likewise.
midas Philosophy Explained.
There is no other way in which
democratic government can de-
velop in Germany"
Gen. Clay said he believes the
German people will not be de-
ceived by Soviet promises of SOW
ereignty in the eastern zone.
Nine. Pandit discussed India's
new place in world affairs and ex-
planned her country's philosophy
of peace.
Our foreign policy is based
upon detachment, but not indif-
ference" she said. I'VE have no
traditional enemies, and we Ger
tainly have no prejudices."
Miss Ward, speaking on Amer
ica's economic position in the
world, said a continued rise in
American income-with invest
ment of cash SURPRISES overseas
could be the means of solving the
worlds dollar shortages in years
to come.
She pointed to the doubling of
American income during the war,
and said that in the next 10 years
this country might be able to ex-
pand its total national income
from 100000, 100000 to $780,
600 900 600.