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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-01-03

needs. Baltimore City and Mont
gomery County. for instance, say
they have to offer above scale saia-
ries to attract teachers.
The current biennial schools bud
get of $50, O000 900 is record breaker,
twice as much as was appropriated
in the preceding two years.
Better Salaries a Factor.
Better salaries for Maryland
teachers, whose average jumped
from near the bottom to near the top
nationally last year, accounted for
the largest share of the increase.
And legisls tors recall that the most
impassioned appeal for enactment
of the two per cent sales tax was
that it would make pay raises pos
slble.
The budget itself is only part Of
the story,
Compared to what DR.. Pullen says
must be spent to improve school
buildings, the general fund request
seems paltry.
He told the Legislative Council
last month that S139 100000 will be
needed in the next five years to
pay for buildings that are "educa-
tionally adequate and sufficiently
well equipped to provide a decent
program of education"
The 1947 General Assembly au-
thorized the counties to spend some
S80,000,000 for school expansion
About three-quarters has been
used or earmarked.
Guarantee Approved.
The Legislature also approved q
novel building incentive fund.-
through which the State guarantees
50 per pupil-up to $10-for each
penny levied by the county for
building.
DR.. Pullen called it "A God send, "
but added, There is considerable
sentiment throughout the State for
increasing this fund"
In some counties, particularly
Montgomery, Prince Georges, Anne
Arundel, Baltimore and Hartford,
emergency grants may be necessary
to prevent time schedules next
year, DR.. Pullen told the council.
Throughout Maryland, he esti-
mated, enrolment will climb an
other $4,000 in the next two years.
Whether the General Assembly
will go along with the entire pro-
gram remains to be seen. Some
skeptics already have said adjust
ing property assessments in several
counties would produce enough
money locally to reduce the States
outlay.
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hasn't filed with Carroll S. Linkins
on presidential trips.
Clarence Limerick. so. of Wheaton
Hills. Silver Spring, Md, is one who
seldom if ever uses Morse. although
he has been with Western Union
81 years. He was one of the last
graduates of the Morse school and
now is automatic technician in the
traffic department and president
of Local "a, Commercial Telegraph
ers Union.
Another who might still be a
Morse operator but for circum-
stances and the narrowing field is
Frank B. Powers, 60, of $50 Rich
mond avenue. Silver Spring, Md,
who reported train by" in a
Minnesota railroad station when I
was eight years old"
Editor and Statistician.
Now editor and statistician for
the CTU, he hasn't worked at a key
since 1921, when he was elected in
ternational secretary. He served as
international president 10 years.
Time was" he said, when almost
every messenger boy was potential
telegraph opeartor. but the field is
narrowing down now Morse always
seemed to come best between the
ages Of Is and 10. I never knew
really good operator, except one,
who learned after he was 81.
There are no newcomers to the
business now"
Thomas J. McBreen, 60-year- old
manager in The Stars Western
Union section, smilingly recalled
one newcomer in 1915 in Chicago.
I'VE had a man up there witt. a
cultural voice. He picked up
message from the West flashing the
death Of a fighter named Mccarthy.
He blurted out Mccarthy killed t.
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Maryland Seen
Cutting Request!
ForSchoo|A Aid
s31,9S7, 1889 Asked,
Increase of IFS Pct.
Over Present Outlay
BY the Associated Press


ANNAPOLIS, Jan. 3.-The Mary
land Legislature is about to demon
strate again that public education
Is costly.
State aid for schools in 1948 cost
almost 80 per cent of the total $56,-
100000 charge against general funds
For fiscal 1850, Supt. Thomas G
Pullen, jr.. wants s31 ,987889. This
is an increase of 1875 per cent over
current appropriations.
Sources close to the State House
say it is certainty that Gov. Lane
and the Budget Bureau have
chopped something off the schools
request. But whatever sum is ap-
proved by the General Assembly
which convenes Wednesday, it will
be on top of millions more raised
in the counties and Baltimore City
by their own taxes.
The public school budget likewise
does not count money borrowed on
bonds to put up and modernize
buildings. \
Pays State Accounts.
1t does pay these State accounts:
Basic aid per classroom $4,000
and per pupil 500, teachers re-
tirement system and the "equaliza-
ton fund"
Equalization money helps the
counties meet State requirements in
the salaries they pay and standards
of education they maintain. But
TO qualify for it, their local tax
rate must include at least IS cents
for schools.
Most of the counties now levy
considerably more than the mini
mum to take care of their individual
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-01-03
Bill Asks Accounting
By Maryland u. for
u. S. Funds 1t Gets

CUMBERLAND. Md. Jan. 3.
The chairman of the Allegany
County delegation of the Gen
eral Assembly plans to intro
duce a bill to require a full
accounting by the University
of Maryland of any Federal
funds it receives.
Delegate Horace P. Whit
worth, jr., Westernport Repub-
lican, said lack of such account
ing makes it difficult for the
Legislature to act on the uni
versity's budget.
He said he expects some OPP
position to his measure, but is
counting on support from GER
tain Baltimore groups
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-01-03
Alexandria Jail Wins
Favorable Stote Report

The Alexandria Jail has won a
favorable report after a regular in
spection by officials from the Vir-
ginia State Department of Cor
rection.
The city has been informed by the
department that improvement was
noted in the operation of the jail.
In previous report about six
months ago the Jail was criticized
chiefly because Of its physical lay
out. Since then, however, the kitch-
en- has been relocated and other
structural changes made to conform
with recommendations of the De-
partment of Correction.
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Newman to Be Installed
At Virginia Polytechnic

BLACKSBURG, Va. Jan. 3.-Dr.
Walter S. Newman will be inaugu-
rated as 10th president of Virginia
Polytechnic Institute in ceremony
here April Is.
Speakers will be Gov. Tuck and
President James r. Killian, jr., of
the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology.
DR.. Newman became head of Vir-
GINA Tech in September, 1947, sue
ceeding Dr. John r. Hutchinson, who
was elected chancellor. Arrange
ments for his Inauguration are being
made by a committee appointed by
the Board of Visitors
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-01-03
U. of M. Luborer Dies
After Clothes Catch Fire

Charles Miller, 20. colored. died
of burns in Leland Memorial Hos
pital, Riverdale. yesterday about
nine hours after his clothing was
ignited while pouring kerosene into
a stove in his trailer at Lakeland,
Md.
Mr. Miller, laborer at the Uni
versity of Maryland, ran outside
and called for help. The trailer did
not catch fire.
A certificate of accidental death
was issued by DR.. John T. Maloney,
Prince Georges County deputy med
ical examiner.
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Diminishing Handful of Veterans Answers Roll Call of Morse Men
By ChorIes J. Yorbrouoh


The future which Samuel F.. B.
Morse envisioned for dot-and-dash
biography has about run its course,
but handful of proud veterans
here still has it in sight.
Death and new transmission
methods have trimmed the ranks
of full-time Morse operators in
Washington's Western Union offices
from IS to fewer than a dozen in
the last Is years. Their average
age is 65, and their experience
average spans almost half century.
No young requirements are COM
ing up. None is necessary. West
ern Union closed its last Morse
school about 20 years ago.
There's no future in 1t for a
young man." the veterans agree,
but the few still at it are as proud OF
their def and sensitive fingers as
the best surgeon Retirement will
trim the ranks still more next year
Still Widely Used.
Morse is still widely used. West
ern Unions traffic department on
the ninth floor OF the Commerce
Pank Building at Fourteenth and
G streets NV. has a score of keys
among its we'll ordered equipment.
Railroads, the Government, press
associations and newspapers use it.
The roster of the Baltimore chapter
of the Morse Club. which requires
at least one years actual working
experience for membership, carries
page after page of members, many
Of them from the Washington area.
Western Unions Washington area
superintendent, A. K. Mitchell, a
member Of the Morse Club, agrees
the dot-and-dash is a fading art,
but the men still at it ARE most
certainly valuable to US
But as artists. the full-time Morse
veterans stand alone, Some Of them
were at it only 81 years after Mr..
Morse sent his What has God
wrought" message in 1874.
At Key Here so Years.
Dean Of them perhaps, in the
Washington Office at least. is st.
year-old Leo G. Liebschutz, 1915
Missouri avenue NV, who has been
at the key for so years and never
worked outside the Washington
area.
Thousands of words have gone
through his fingers from the House
and Senate press galleries and from
newspaper Offices here.
Another is Vernon T. Brantley, SO,
of $40 Varnum street NV, who was
billing freight and clearing trains at
Wilmington, N. c., during the
nish-American War.
The operator at the railroad sta
ton tried to get up Morse class"
he recalled. MY father paid him IS
or Sc a month, and was his only
student"
Another railroad-taught telegra-
pher is James E. Wildman, ST., IS,
who is justice of peace at Bowie,
Md. when not being sports super
visor for Western Union here. He
learned biography in the railroad
station at Cumberland, Md, when
he was IL years old and counts up
SO years in the business.
Many Work In Season.
Among them they've handled more
news into and out of Washing
ton than the average newspaper
reader ever gets through. Mr..
Brantley has handled the Gov
crop reports for % years;
Mr.. Wildman has been at the key
for brokers, newspapers, railroads
and for sports events.
Many of Western Unions opera
tors get back into the business lin
season." There isn't sports
writer in town who doesn't know Ed
Riley. Joe Berlinsky. Claude Apper-
son, Glen Valley and Willie HUM;
Or a White House reporter who
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found to be violating the Virginia
segregation laws.
Restrainer Is Asked.
In asking for an injunction, ATS
also asked that the United States
Attorney at Alexandria be re-
strained from enforcing any GRIM
inal penalties arising from nom
conformance.
ATS officials contend new con-
gressional legislation is necessary to
define segregation status OF the air.
port property. The Commerce De-
partment asked the 80th Congress
for such legislation, but no action
was taken.
Since then, CAA officials said. the
Justice Department has assured
them they have sufficient legal
precedent to order and enforce nom
segregation without additional leg
islation.
The question of whether CAA, as
an executive agency. has the right
to issue such an order without spe-
cific legislation, is another disputed
point the courts will be asked to
decide.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-01-03
Sheurin to Address
Bethesda 6. of G.

Plummer Shearin. executive sec
rotary of the Montgomery County
Charter Committee, will address the
Bethesda Chamber of Commerce
tonight on what benefits business
men may expect from the new
charter government.
The dinner meeting at the KEN
wood Golf and Country Club will
begin at I pm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-01-03
Virginia Chamber Seeks
Nominations for Award
BY the Associated Press

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va, Jan. 8.
Nominations for the Virginia
Junior Chamber of Commences out
standing young man of 1948 must
be received by January Is. accord
ing to James v. Greasy of Char
lottesville, chairman.
The award is made annually by
the Junior Chamber for contribu-
tons to the civic improvement.
Nominees must be 81 to IS years
of age. Nominations should be
mailed to Mr.. Greasy at the Ma
tional Bank Building here.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-01-03
Polo Leuque Leaders Win

CHICAGO, Jan. 3 (P,-Arlington
Farms of Chicago, international
Polo League leaders, defeated the
Detroit Gold Hats, 21-15. yesterday
in the International Amphitheater.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-01-03

others. Modernizatiop is killing
off Morse sure enough"
Al Western Union, Mr. Wildman
had said, Why don't you just give
it DASH -dash-dash? 1t means,
No more"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-01-03
Virginia Boy Killed by Car

BEDFORD, Va, Jan 8 (Py.-Don-
aid Francis Huddleston, IL, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Huddleston
of Moneta, was fatally injured yes
terday when the bicycle he was
riding was struck by car about
five miles east of Stewartsville.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-01-03
TIC. Kelley Seen as Key Figure
On New Montgomery Council
Unopposed Candidate
For Sd District Seat
Has Brood Experience

This is the last in a series OF
sketches on candidates for Mont
gomery County Councu.J
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al operator for transmission to the
East, but it came out "Mikado
killed" and was on its way to every
newspaper in the East
before We got a correction out"
Solemnly. he agreed with the
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Auto Presented Pastor
OF Mt. Vernon Baptist

The Rev. and Mrs Willard r
Pierce of the Mount Vernon Bap-
fist Church, South Twenty-third
street, Arlington. have been pre-
sented with a new automobile by
members and friends of the church
Alfred E. Frisbie, superintendent
of the church Sunday school, and
a member of the Arlington County
Board, made the presentation at
a recent party.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-01-03

State might discontinue support of
the Manassas operation if Fairfax
County withdrew.
Mr.. Woodson conceded that some
Negro students travel farther than
white high school students, but said
that some white primary students
have to get up just as early to
catch school buses.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-01-03

"Or better still, Mr. McBreen sug-
gested, make it two dashes, two
dots: three dots, a dash and a dot.
That's 49, and we use it to mean,
Best regards"
Evening star., 1949-02-04
Reorganization Bill
Gets Riqht Of WAY

President Truman was ster
nearer today to getting the broae
powers he seeks to reorganize tn.
executive branch of the Govern.
ment but there still was a long way
to go.
The House Expenditures Commit.
tee last night approved the Admin.
istration bill with only minor re.
strictions, and the House leadership
gave it the right of way for fool
debate Monday.
But Senate Committee has still
to consider an identical bill, anC
that must be done before the Senate
acts.
The principal curb on presidential
power in the bill as outlined by
Chairman Dawson of the House
committee provides that any re-
organization plan affecting national
defense, the Interstate Commerce
Commission, Securities and Ex-
change Commission and Federal Re-
serve Board must be considered sep
arately from any proposal involving
unrelated Offices. That would afford
Congress the opportunity to oppose
changes in these three Offices with
out at the same time blocking some
other reshufling plan.
Mr.. Dawson said also that the
provision permitting the President
to set up a new cabinet department
was eliminated with the assent of
the President.
Evening star., 1949-02-04
Lee Toy, President
OF long Here, Dies

Lee Toy, 56, president of the On
Leong Chinese Merchants Associa- -
ton here, was found dead in bed
this morning by his wife at his home,
800 Sixth street NV. Death was
attributed to a heart attack.
Mr.. Lee had been president of the
tong. which has 500 members here,
at various times for the last 10 years.
He was reelected president month
ago and presided at the organiza-
tion's Chinese New Year celebration
last Friday night.
Mr.. Lee, who also was head of ths
Lee clan organization here, was q
native of Canton, China. He came
to the United States more than 40
years ago and settled here. He was
a naturalized citizen and operated
a Chinese importing business. He
also had a financial interest in a
number of Chinese restaurants here
and in Baltimore, his family said.
In addition to his widow he in
survived by two daughters and a
son, Miss Helen Lee, 49, and Dalford
Lee, II, who live at home, and Mrs.
Rose Tow Moy of South Hill, Va.
Funeral arrangements have not
been completed.
Evening star., 1949-02-04
Citizen Invites
| StoHn-7runon
Talk in Home
By the Assoeioted Prsss

INDEPENDENCE, Mo-, Feb. A.
Soviet Prime Minister Stain is 60.
ing to get a surprise invitation
when he checks in at the Kremlir
today. 1t is an invitation to meet
President Truman in the home oi
an ordinary American citizen.
The invitation was cabled by
James w. Stobaugh. SO, an employe
of the Western Union Telegraph
Co. 1t read, in part:
May I respectfully invite you
to meet with President Truman in
my home at 1928 Cedar avenue
Independence Mo-, a typical Amer
ican home in the most typical OF
all American communities?
Here in this home town of our
honored President, away from gilt
ter and pomp where the only armed
force in evidence Is the traffic pa
troll on the highway, I believe any
and all differences may be solved
Mr.. Stobaugh said he sent a tele-
gram to President Truman quoting
his message to Stain and adding:
I'VE trust the invitation will also
receive your sympathetic considera-
ton"
Evening star., 1949-02-04
BaHIeship Royal Sovereign
is Returned 10 Britain
BY the Associoted Press

ROSYTH, Scotland, Feb. 4.-The
British battleship Royal Sovereign
came home today. after five years
under the flag of the Russian Navy.
A day overdue on her trip from
Murmansk. the 29,150-ton ship was
welcomed by the British destroyer
Nepal. which had returned to port
alone from a scheduled rendezvous
yesterday in the Firth of Forth.
Heavy weather in the North Sea
was blamed by the Admiralty fol
Russia's failure to keep the date.
/ Still at sea when the Royal Sover-
eign tied up at the naval station
here were three submarines also
being returned and two transports
which will carry the Soviet crew.
men back to Russia.
The battleship, which will now be
scrapped, was lent to Russia in 1914
It's return at this time is part of an
Allied gareement under which the
Soviet Union simultaneously received
its share of the Italian Navy, in
Guiding the battleShip Giulio Cesare.
Evening star., 1949-02-04
D. G. BUDGET
Continued From First Page.)

and repulSive," and declared there
were other available means Of
greater revenues.
Among her suggestions were a
broadening of the Districts income
tax, higher taxes on liquor. borrow
ing for permanent improvements
and greater Federal payment,
based on a fixed formula.
The budget, Miss Adams said. was
pared to the bone" and therefore
covered only minimum requirements.
Mrs. Gertrude Evans, speaking for
the Progressive Party of the Dis
trict, also joined in the call for
broadening the application of the
city's income tax. The sales tax
is the most regressive' form OF
taxation, she argued, because it hits
the loW-income groups, who already
are struggling against the cost Of
living.
Mrs. Evans called the budget in
adequate and declared that for
schools, recreation, welfare and
health the proposed outlays mean
Ia cutting of essential services and
eliminating almost all capital items
for buildings and equipment.
She called the situation in the
schools deplorable, protesting against
overcrowded classes, part time
classes, lack Of equipment and "un-
derpaid and overworked teachers. -
Mrs. Evans also denounced the dual
school system and coupled this with
a protest against segregation on
Fairgrounds.
Mr.. Absher, chairman of the Fis-
cal Relations Committee of the
Federation, said I'VE believe the
budget calls for entirely too much
money for the taxpayers to bear
He said it was "deplorable" the esti-
mates for the schools had been cut
drastically while so much money
was allotted to public welfare He
said funds proposed for public well
fare were way overheard"
Hits Public Assistance Item.
Mr.. Newell, past president o1
the Federation, attacked the public
assistance item as perhaps the
worst excess" in the budget. HI
said appropriations for relief hae
been increased to a point more
than eight times that of 1882 al.
though the District population wa!
less than double the 1882 total.
Mr.. Newell also criticized the re.
tirement and relief costs for tht
Police and Fire Departments ane
urged that the deductions from thl
pay of members of these depart.
ments toward retireme mt be in.
creased from 31a per cent to PEI
cent.
AS means of reducing the Dis
trict cost for patients at st. Eliza.
beths Hospital, Mr.. Newell asked
that the Federal Government pay
for the care of patients not definite.
/ ly proved to be bona fide District
residents.
The Federation spokesman also
contended that the budget includes
4manv things District taxpayers
should not have to pay for, and he
mentioned the National Geological
Evening star., 1949-02-04
Communicated Front
Is Pureed in Bulgaria
BY the Assoeiotsd Press

SOFIA, Bulgaria. Feb. 4.-Tht
Communist newspaper Rabotnich-
esko Delo said today that Com.
munist-led Fatherland Front organ.
izations have decisively purged theil
ranks.
1t said the purging campaign
affected hostile and anti-peoples
elements" who joined the coalition
party after February, 1948.
The organizations coalition oi
the Bulgarian Workers (Commu.
nisD, Republican (Zveno). Govern.
ment Agrarian, Government Socia
Democratic and Small Radical Par.
ties-seized the government and lee
Bulgaria into the Allied camp during
the closing days Of the war.
Evening star., 1949-02-04

T LdWT6IlCe Ml. uinespae.
Lewis. Mr.. Gillespie was reelected
to a two-year term on November
y, 1914.
A native of Salina, Kans., Mr.
Gillespie moved to Denver in 1904
He was president of Dean Gillespie
& Co., the Power Equipment Co
and the Motoroyal Oil Co., and vice
president and treasurer of the Blue
Hills Food Co. He was a member
of the United States Chamber o1
Commerce.
Tribute to Mr.. Gillespie was paic
on the House floor yesterday wher
Is Representatives rose to expires!
their sorrow and to praise his lif.
and character.
Evening star., 1949-02-04

line. The story itself was a dispatch
from New York by the official
Soviet news agency, Tass.
The story covered Secretary OF
State Acheson's statement Wednes-
day by saying "Acheson spoke mega
lively, both of peace pact and on
other questions" brought up in Mr.
Stains recent question and answer
statements.
Several hours after this, Presi-
dent Truman had press conference
at which he supported the opinion
of Acheson," TaSs said.
Tass said it was thought the
negative attitude of Truman is
explained by the fact that the peace
pact runs counter TO aggressive plans
for organizing the Atlantic alliance.
Evening star., 1949-02-04
Lucas Backs Move 10 Delay
Showdown ON FiIibuster
By the Assoejoted Press

Senate Majority Leader Lucas
threw his support today behind a
move to delay showdown on the
filibuster and civil rights questions.
Senator Lucas called for q Demo-
cratic caucus tomorrow to line up
his colleagues against a Republican
effort to shove the filibuster dispute
before the Senate Monday for vote.
Senator Knowland, Republican, Of
California yesterday offered a mo-
ton to make an anti-filibuster reso-
luton from the Senate Rules Com
mittee.
The effect of his motion would be
to bring the f1libuster question up
at once for possible Senate action.