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Evening star., 1949-01-20
Enjoys Paying Taxes,
Huqerstown Man Says
BY the Associated Press

HAGERSTOWN, Md, Jan. 90
This should warm the hearts of all
tax collectors.
For three successive years. Nicolo
di Benedetto has been the first per-
son to pay his local taxes.
When he headed the line again
this year, tax Office employees de-
cided to ask him why.
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1949-08-01

The American Women's Club of
Denmark, founded Ia years ago by
Mrs. Ruth Bryan Rohde, then I'm
tied States Minister to Denmark,
is among the constructive bodies
working for international under
standing and goodwill. 1t meets
monthly in the rooms of the Hell
lerup Club in Copenhagen.
The club maintains connection
with the American General Fed
Grafton of Womens Clubs. Among
those active in it's affairs is Mrs
Josiah Marvel, Jr., wife of the u.
S. Ambassador to Denmark. The
clubs officers include distinguished
Danish women.
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1949-08-01

tended Nordisk Bygdeungdoms
STAMINA, large festival in
Malm0, where 1900 folk dancers
from all the Nordic countries and
Esthonia and Holland met and
danced together in their native
folk costumes.
Gordon purchased every avail
able book on folk dancing. He
started collecting folk music.
While touring parts of Sweden, he
went to a number of music shops,
found some Of the rarest records
in existence. All told, he collected
100 Swedish folk dance records, in
GLIDING three very rare recorded
versions of the popular Swedish
OX-dance.
Promising future
The collection comprises every
thing in the way of folk dance
records sold up to the time he left
Sweden in the summer of 1913.
He now has about 800 records on
folk music.
my trip to Sweden was the fin
est experience I've ever had" says
Gordon who speaks Swedish quite
well, land I'd do anything to be
abel to go there again!"
Tracie and his group, which also
performs A meric an old time
dances and square dances, may
well expect to receive many new
engagements in the future.
Tracie will give instruction in
folk dancing to adults, provided
there is sufficient interest. Any
one interested in the project is
urged to call him at MElrOse 1901.
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1949-08-01
Big Norwegian 'Sangertest'
Soon To Be Held In Everett

Advance reservations for the
banquet can be made through ia
cob Nestby, former business man.
ager of Normanna Hall, at his Of
flee, 1902 Broadway, Everett. His
phone number is BavieW STA.
Reservations for friends of the
singers should be made at Nor
mama Hall, 2725 Cakes, Everett,
call BAvieW 0291, Brede Berg,
chairman of the publicity commit
tee, announces.
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1949-08-01

The various committees are now
making final plans for the big
10th "sangerfest" scheduled for
August 25, 26 and 81 in Norman
ma Hall in Everett. The Everett
Norwegian Male Chorus will be
honored host for this elaborate af-
fair, which will attract more than
200 singers representing various
Norwegian male choruses on the
Pacific coast from Los Angeles
to Vancouver, B. c.
A reception will be held Thurs
day evening, August 25 in Nor
mama Hall. The highlight of the
affair will be the grand concert
at the Civic auditorium in Ever
EFT, Friday evening, August 26,
followed by the Singers grand
ball the same evening at Norman
ma Hall. Saturday morning, on the
9th, there will be the customary
Norway chorus breakfast and in
the afternoon of that day a bust
ness meeting will be held. In the
evening the singers and their
friends will participate in the
grand banquet.
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1949-08-01

Thorsten Nyman, who has as
sumed the editorship of the Scan
dinavian American, is of Swedish
extraction but has been raised in
America and Sweden and has had
journalistic training in both coun-
tries. When he was IA years old
he accompanied his parents on a
trip to Scandinavia where he has
relatives in Sweden and Norway
Last year, at the age of rs, he re-
turned to the United. States. Be-
fore occupying his present posi-
ton he was reporter on the
Grays Harbor Washingtonian in
Hoquiam. Nyman is also on the
editorial staff of the Swedish
Post.
K. Einar Carlson.
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1949-08-01
Went to Sweden, Got the Idea:
Student S+or+s Popular Folk
Dance Club At The University

Gordon Ekvall Tracie, 28-year-
old University of Washington
graduate, has one of the finest If
not the best private collections of
Scandinavian folk music on phOnO-
graph records in the Northwest.
He's making full use of his big
collection, too, and the chances
are that a lot of people will be
hearing them in the future.
Tracie is head of the Scandal
folk dance club at the University
of Washington. The club, including
more than so students, has been
very active during the past year.
1t also features a select group of
about eight couples, which gave
eight different public demonstra-
lions within 80 days earlier this
summer, truly an indication of
popularity. This select group per-
forms a variety of Nordic folk
dances and the members have
made their own costumes, pat
termed after Scandinavian origi-
mails. And of course they use Ira
cie's records when they perform.
Tracie launched the folk dance
movement at the university last
year. 1t looks like it will become
an institution on the campus.
Nevertheless he is not just an
other enthusiastic follower of the
folk dance craze which is sweep
ing the country. There's a special
reason why he became so pro-
foundry interes t e d in the old
Nordic dance rituals.
Studied in sweden
In the spring of 1947 Tracie at
tended a six-week course for
American students at the Univer-
sity of Oslo and also made two
week tour of that beautiful coun-
try. In the fall of the same year
be went to Stockholm, enrolled in
a special college for American
students at the Universal y of
kotOChliOiiil dloiiS Will ~ olliCl
American students. Over a period
of nine months he studied various
phases of Swedish life and wrote a
paper on the educational projects
sponsored by the Swedish Cooper
ative Society.
Sweden, the native country of
his mother, fascinated him and he
became attracted to Swedish folk
dancing. He joined the Swedish
Academic folk dance team as well
as the Svenska Ungdomsringen
for Bygdekultur, the foremost or
ganization in the field of folk
dancing, and he received instruc-
tion from top instructors.
Attended Big Dance Festivals
He participated in big get-to-
gether affairs for Swedish folk
dance musicians and dancers, in
Guiding the biggest event of its
kind in Swedish history at Dali
arna, the province in the central
part of the country, where he had
the opportunity of m e e t i n 6 his
mothers family. Later he also at
"
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1949-08-01

The 18-year old rauI NOrrback
of Vasa, Finland, was among the
passengers who arrived on the
Swedish American liner "Grips-
holm recently. He is already
known as one of the best accord
ionists in Finland. He will give
about 80 concerts for various Fin
nish clubs and organizations in
Canada and the u. 5. A.
Evening star., 1949-03-24
Te|evision Music Rights
Extended by ASCAP

The American Society OF Com
posers. Authors and Publishers
has extended through April 80 its
grant to the television industry
of the right to use copyrighted
music of ASCAP members, it was
announced last night.
Since 1941, ASCAP said, the
society has granted free use Of its
members copyrighted music over
television. in order to encourage
the new means Of communicating
music by eye, as we'll as ear.
During 1s4S, the television in
dustry requested ASCAP to obtain
from it's members authorization
to conduct negotiations on their
behalf with a view toward licenS-
ing public performances of their
copyrighted music via television
the society said. Negotiations
begun early this year between
ASCAP and the television industry
are continuing, 1t added.
Evening star., 1949-03-24
Spotlight Review
Set al Leland Junior

The second annual Spotlight
Review, a benefit performance
by Montgomery County teachers
will be staged at 8:l5 pm. Mon
day at Leland Junior High School
Bethesda, and repeated at the
same hour April IL in Richard
Montgomery High School. Rock
vile.
Proceeds are to be used to pro-
mote college scholarships for
worthy graduates Of Montgomery
County high schools who plan to
become teachers.
Last fall three scholarships were
provided to Margaret Cooke.
Gaithersburg; Priscilla Leishear
Sherwood High, and Charlotte
Parks, Travilah.
Miss Gertrude Gantz Of Ken
sington Junior High School again
will direct the production. Will
liam Lauer will be co-director
Arthur Somervell, stage manager;
Miss Weeta Piercy. house man.
ager; Mrs. Ann Reid, ticket
chairman. and Miss Carrie
Schneider, program director.
The main parts will be taken
by Mrs. Grace Howes. principal
of the Montrose School; E. Guy
Jewell, vice principal, Richard
Montgomery High, and Charles
Hamm, a teacher at Leland
Other participating instructors
include Mrs. Elizabeth Macdon-
aid, Miss Marian Schwartz, Frank
Proctor and Miss Mary Craig
miles Lee.
Evening star., 1949-03-24
More Stores 10 Stay Open
Next Thursday Night

4 The movement for Thursday
night shopping begun last week
BY q number Of downtown shops,
will be increased next Thursday
with another gala opening night"
sponsored by the Central Business
Association.
The opening date for many
other stores was decided at
meeting called by the association
lin the Burlington Hotel and at
tended by representatives Of IS
downtown stores. The late shop
ping begun last week was spon-
sored by a group from the Mer-
chants and Manufacturers Associ-
alton, and others.
Sid Bertram, chairman of the
campaign for the central associa-
tion, reported that although plans
for next Thursdays opening have
not been completed, several
downtown parking lots already
have offered free parking service
for that night. Closing hours In
most cases are $50 pm.
Evening star., 1949-03-24

In the spring sea gull's fancy
lightly turns to thoughts Of tender
earthworms.
That's why thousands Of gulls
can be seen daily traipsing over
the greensward in Potomac Park,
the Mall and the Pentagon
grounds.
Ornithologists at the Smith
sonian Institution explained that
the herring and the ring billed gull
the varieties, seen pecking at the
park lawns-are migratory birds
and great flocks of them are now
en- route north.
Their arrival in Washington
usually comedies with the vernal
warming of the earth and spring
rains which get the worms stirred
up. AS the gulls 60 winging over
head they spot the great move
ment of the worms.
So the gulls swoop down and
eat their I'LL before heading north.
The gulls seen today will probably
Evening star., 1949-03-24
CIV Scholastic Award
Goes to Nancy Groves

Miss Nancy Groves, a senior at
George Washington University,
has been awarded the cup given
annually to the sorority girl who
has maintained the highest
scholastic average during her col
lege career.
The presentation was made
during a Panhellenic Sing in Lis
ner Auditorium last night.
Miss Groves, the daughter Of
Mr.. and Mrs. William L. Groves,
2OO6 Columbia road NV, is ma
joring in home economics. She is
a member of Kappa Gamma
sorority, Mortar Board and Del
phi, honorary senior sorority.
Kappa Kappa Gamma took top
honors in the singing contest.
Second place went to Chi Omega
and third place was won by Delta
Zeta.
Evening star., 1949-03-24
Navy Officer Lawyer
Accepts Papers in
Maintenance Suit

An attorney today accepted offl-
cial notification on behalf Of Navy
Capt. Harold A. Latta-Lawrence
of a maintenance suit filed by the
officers wife, complaining that
Representative Edith Nourse Rog-
ers, Republican, Of Massachusetts,,
was the reason for their marital
difficulties.
The District Court clerks office
was informed that Attorney JOS
eph Leo McGroary accepted a
copy of the suit from deputy
United States marshals.
Capt. Latta-Lawrence. Al, has
remained In seclusion since the
filing Of the suit Tuesday, except
to issue a statement yesterday
afternoon "categorically" denying
the charges as he read them IN
the newspapers.
The wife, Mrs. Eilene Diana
Latta-Lawrence of the Roosevelt
Hotel, asserted in her suit for at
least $500 a month maintenance
that the captain told her his
future prospects would be ruined
if they resided together here, be-
cause the marriage last April was
q cause of great misery and
suffering" to Mrs. Rogers.
The 67-year-old Congress mem
ber from Massachusetts, declared
the allegations were fantastic" "
as did Capt. Latta-Lawrence in
his statement.
Evening star., 1949-03-24
Workmen Find Tunnel
Believed From Old Fort

Workman excavating for a new
addition to Woolworth's Store at
1881 Good Hope road Sc have
uncovered a brick tunnel about
6 feet underground which may
have led from Fort Stanton. one
of Washington's Civil War de-
fenseS.
Fort Stanton, which was situa-
ted just south Of Good Hope road.
was principal fort in a chain
which formed the defenses of
Washington during the Civil War.
The tunnel is approximately 8
feet in diameter and 10 feet long.
It is lined with handmade bricks.
Arthur Leuhers, superintendent
in charge of the excavating, said
Workmen are filling in the tunnel.
Evening star., 1949-03-24
New PoddyWogon Comfortable
For All |-PoIicemen, That Is

The Police Department has
added something new to its patrol
wagons, but any benefits to the
customers in the back are doubt
full.
Four new vehicles just delivered
are equipped with special hy-
draulic shock absorbers and
heavily upholstered seats mounted
on coil springs-up front. that is.
for the comfort Of official per-
sonnet
In the cab sections also are
windshield defrosters, special
heaters and radios. The depart
ment's own mechanics built spe-
cial accessories into stock model
light delivery trucks after Police
Chief Robert j. Barrett ordered all
old paddy wagons" on patrol duty
and personally went along on the
first cruises.
Evening star., 1949-03-24

The old paddy" or pie wagons
with almost no springs and bench
type seats gave official spines quite
a pounding in the course Of eight
hour shifts with the patrol cars.
Old and new wagons are equipped
with two-way radios to serve in
the dual capacity as patrols and
prisoner carriers.
The new wagons have front and
rear doors. each locked from the
outside. This eliminates the need
for policeman to ride in the rear
to protect the back exit.
Seats in the lookup section OF
the new vehicles, however, are as
hard as ever. And any warmth
from the heater up front will have
to trickle back through a steel
grill. Furthermore. the radios
are strictly utility.
Evening star., 1949-03-24
Neighborhood Symphony
Series 10 End Tonight

The last of this seasons Neigh
borhood Concerts by the National
Symphony Orchestra will be
played at $3.50 o'clock tonight at
Coolidge High School. Fifth and
Tuckerman streets NV.
Under the direction OF the Or
chestra's new conductor, Howard
Mitchell, the orchestra will per-
form Mendelssohn's Fourth. or
italian" Symphony, the Romeo
and Juliet" overture-fantasy by
Tchaikovsky. and the popular
emperor Waltz" by Strauss.
Concerts of the Neighborhooo
series are arranged by The Star
in cooperation with the National
Symphony Orchestra Association
and the District Federation Of
Musicians, Local ISL. AIM
Tonight's concert concludes the
third season of the series.
Admission to the concert is free
The program also will be trans
mitted over the two Star radio
stations, WMAL and WMAL-FM.
Evening star., 1949-03-24

emy, is one of
Is graduating
class members
this year to be
selected for the
Navy's civil en-
gineer corps.
After his
graduation in
June, he will
study for an
other year for
a Bachelor of
E n g / n e e ring
degree at RenS-
co1oor pa1v-
Evening star., 1949-03-24
Health Service Gets
Task Of Trying 10 Save
Conqressmen' S Lives

The United States Public Health
Service got a new assignment to-
day-to save the lives of Congress
men who appropriate its funds.
Senator McCarran, Democrat. of
Nevada pointed out that heart
attacks have ended the lives of
two members of Congress within
the last 80 days.
DR.. Leonard Scheele. surgeon
general of the Public Health Serv-
ice, was testifying at an appropria-
ton bill hearing at the time.
The Senator suggested that Fed
eral exports in the newly organ
lied National Heart Institute be
assigned to examine the hearts of
Congressman and do what they
could to save their lives.
Congress Praised.
Diplomatically, DR.. Scheele
praised the warm-hearted gener-
osity Of the. Congressman who
appropriated funds for the cur
rent budget of the Public Health
Service and expressed confidence
that the same big-hearted under
standing would prevail in consid-
Grafton of the budget for the next
fiscal year.
Senator McCarran returned to
the subject Of deaths in Congress
and DR.. Scheele assured him that
the Public Health Service stands
ready to do all In its power to
protect the. hearts Of Congress-
men.
One Of the things the National
Heart Institute will attempt-if
Congress provides the money
will be to find methods for more
accurate diagnostic procedures so
that heart disease can be detected
in it's earliest stages. DR.. Scheele
explained.
New Facilities Cited.
With the facilities of the new
National Heart Institute being
established in the great research
center now under construction
near Bethesda. Md. the Senator
suggested that some experts from
this agency should be assigned to
Congress.
THE individual member should
be told what his condition is" the
Nevadan said.
The member should be told OF
treatment or recommended to
tighten his work before he is
killed by heart disease, he added.
eve must save some lives here"
he declared.
The two members Of Congress
who died recently Of heart attacks
were Senator Broughton, Demo-
crat, Of North Carolina. and Rep
Iresentative Bloom, Democrat, OF
New York.
Evening star., 1949-03-24
New $557,300
Request for DC.
Sent 10 Senate
Supplemental Items
Include Extra Funds
For GoIIinger, Schools

The Districts need for addi-
tional funds was swelled late yes
terday, when President Truman
forwarded to the Senate requests
for $557. 300 in supplemental items
to the pending 1850 city budget.
Major items in the list, as out
lined by Budget Director Frank
Pace, jr.. covered extra funds for
operation of Gallinger Municipal
Hospital, for welfare institutions,
school equipment and the Recre-
alton Department.
The Commissioners budget
called for an outlay of $103. 400
900. leaving an 100000 deficit
with no provision for the delayed
pay raise for city employees. With
no new revenue bill yet on the
books, the House sliced the spend
ing to about sos, 9,000. 900. to reduce
the budget to $2,500,000.
Senate Hearings Delayed.
Senate hearings on the spend
ing program are being delayed
until the House has another
chance to solve the city's fund
shortage. If items cut by the
House are restored and a retro
active pay raise for city workers is
approved, the additional revenues
needed next year would rise to
about s19.O0O,0OO.
Budget Director Pace submitted
the additional fund requests with
out comment. except to note that
the Commissioners had requested
revenue legislation which. If
passed, was estimated to meet the
money needs.
The largest of the extra budget
requests was for $215.000 for Gal
linger Hospital, needed mostly for
hospital supplies and medicines.
An appropriation of $l35,000
was asked for the continued op-
Grafton of the Office Of the District
rent administrator, assuming
the local control law will be ex-
tended.
An item of $34,400 was re-
quested for school equipment
asked for the furnishing and
equipment of the Parkview Ele-
mentary School.
The new budget request also in
cludes s58,700 to buy fuel for the
Home for Aged and Infirm and
the Industrial Home Schools for
white and colored children and
$4,000 extra for the conversion OF
a temporary dormitory building at
Langston Terrace into a comn1u-
nifty center pending the con-
struction Of the proposed Spring
arm High School.
The House, In its recent budget
economy moves, repealed earlier
appropriations for the springarn
High School, which HAD been
planned to relieve overcrowding
in other high schools for colored
children.
Evening star., 1949-03-24
Pepco Seeks Method
To Sell S37,000,000
Bonds After RuIinq

The Potomac Electric Power Co.
today was seeking another method
of selling $37, 100000 in unsecured
bonds to finance its new construc-
ton program and refinance its
funded debt. Ssss sssfF
This was the result Of . Public
Utilities Commission ruling late
yesterday, denying q Pepco appli-
cation for permission to sell the
debentures to d three insurance
companies without competitive
bidding.
Pepco had planned to use the
money to repay $17,000,000 of out
standing bank loan notes due this
November Is; to redeem 225,0O0
shares Of 3,6 per cent preferred
stock presently outstanding for
s11,981 ,250. and to cover the cost.
in part, of the estimated 1949 con-
struction program of $8.0l8,750.
In asking permission to make
the noncompetitive sale, Pepco
told the PUG it would need about
s7,000,000 more to complete its
1949 construction plans. Pepco
said 1t plans to raise this money
through the sale of additional
shares Of copamon stock this year.
Chairman James H. Flanagan,
in announcing the PUG ruling,
declared:
"The record made in this case
does not convince this commits
sion that it would be in the public
interest to permit the substitu-
ton of 3A per cent debentures for
2 per cent and 214 per cent bank
loan notes, or to permit redemp-
tion of 3.6 per cent preferred stock
at premium Of $731 $50"
The PUG ruling stated the COM
mission felt the debt ratio that
would result from the proposed
transaction would not be in the
public interest nor in the interest
Of Pepco or its investors.
The three insurance companies
involved were the Metropolitan,
Equitable and Prudential.
Chairman Celler Of the House
Judiciary Committee made an in
formal appearance before the PUG
at the start Of yesterdays hearing
and objected to the proposed
bond sale, because, he said. Pepco
would then belong "lock, stock
and barrel" to the insurance COM
panies,
Evening star., 1949-03-24
Passage Is Forecast
For Conflicting Bills
On Ending Oyster Wal
By J. L. MichoeI
Special Correspondent Of The stor


ANNAPOLIS, Mar. 24.-Passage
of two conflicting bills designed
to. solve the 300-year-old Mary
land Virginia oyster dispute was
forecast today as the Senate pre-
pared to take up committee re-
port on the administrations plan
for reorganization of the Tide
water Fisheries Commission.
All three measures were report
ed favorably yesterday by the
Senate Chesapeake Bay and Trib-
utaries Committee along with a
bill backed by Gov. Lane to en-
large the Board of Natural Re-
sources.
The Senate approved the COM
mittee's report on the latter. set
aside the fisheries bill until today,
and adopted the favorable report
on a measure which seeks to end
oyster wars by divorcing Chesa-
peake Bay and Potomac River
conservation problems.
Originated by Senator Monroe
Republican. Of Charles County
the plan was worked out in 9
series of conferences between
tidewater legislators Of the two
States.
Senator Goldstein, chairman o1
the Chesapeake Bay and Tribu.
taries Committee. said the ad.
ministration's peace pact. which
was held in committee yesterday
would be brought to the floor to.
day.
The bill conflicts with the Mon.
roe plan in that it Jumps bay
and river questions together a.
well as in other less important
respects.
The administration proposal
would require bi-State concur
renee. amendment of the 178s
compact and ratification by Con-
gress. while the Monroe plan
would become effective upon
passage of similar legislation by
the Virginia General Assembly.
Sponsors of the Monroe bill pre-
dicted that both measures will
reach the Governors desk. Sen
ator Bailey said he could see NO
hope for the administration meas
IRE.