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Evening star., 1949-03-30
| Sales Tax in Brief
From Yesterdays Last Edition.

From Yesterdays Last EditionJ
The 2 per cent sales tax in the
bill, passed by the House today
would apply to the following:
=. Generally, all commodities sold
at retail here, or bought outside
ana brought here for use.
Sale of meals at restaurants
hotels. clubs, drugstore counters
and the like.
The price on rental of transien
rooms in hotels, rooming houses
tourists camps.
Utility service bills. such as gas
oil, electricity and coal.
Building materials used in new
construction and in alteration OF
repair of properties.
Any production. fabrication OF
printing of tangible personal prop
erty on special order for a con-
sideration, with an exemption fol
newspapers.
Magazines published here OF
brought into the District for sale
Specifically exempt are the fol-
lowing:
Sales of tickets for admission to
places of amusement and sports
Sales of transportation and
communication services.
Professional, insurance or per-
sonal service transactions which
involve sales as inconsequential
elements for which no separate
charges are made.
Sales Of commodities to the
United States and District gov
ernments, or to States or to their
political subdivisions if such juris-
dictions grant similar exemption
to the District.
Sales to semipublic institutions
including nonproflt hospitals
churches and charities.
Sales of medicines. pharmaceu-
ticals and drugs made on pre-
scriptions by duly licensed physi-
clans and other healing art prac-
titioners.
Sales of crutches. wheelchairs,
artificial limbs. dentures. artificial
ewes and hearing aids.
Evening star., 1949-03-30
Boby's Condition Good
After ScuIdinq in Fall

A 10-month- -old girl is in Prov
idence Hospital with serious burns
over so per cent of her body re-
sulting from an upset pot OF
boiling water.
Nurses at the hospital said the
child Linda Marie Steele, how.
ever. is in good condition. Police
said she fell from a highchair IN
her home, 4631 Hanna place Sc.
while her mother, Mrs. FLOYD
Steele, was in another room. IN
falling she knocked the pot over
and was scalded.
Evening star., 1949-03-30
Bishop Dun 10 0rdain
! at Cathedral Tomorrow

The Right Rev. Angus Dun,
Bishop of Washington, will ordain
two Episcopal candidates at 10
am. tomorrow at the Washing
ton Cathedral.
The candidates are the Rev. w.
Robert Miller. now in charge of
Ascension Episcopal Church. Sill
yer Spring, and the Rev. Quilan
Reeves Gordon, to be vicar in
charge of Atonement Episcopal
Chapel. Mr.. Miller will be pre-
sented for ordination by Canon
Theodore O. Wedel of the College
of Preachers, and Mr.. Gordon by
the Rev. billiard Brown, rector Of
st. Luke's Episcopal Church.
The Right Rev. Arthur r. Nc
Kinstry, Bishop of Delaware, will
preach the sermon.
Evening star., 1949-03-30
james F. King Appointed
To u. S. information Job

James F. King. former Wash
ington newspaper man, today was
appointed deputy director of pub
lie information of the National
Military Establishment.
Mr.. King, who lives at 1901
Lorcom Lane, Arlington, is a ma
tive of Georgetown. S. c., and a
graduate of Harvard College. He
has worked on the Washington
Post. Washington Daily News,
Baltimore Sun and newspapers in
South Carolina.
At present he is consultant IN
the Office of the Secretary OF the
Army and during World War II
served in the Navy.
Evening star., 1949-03-30
Sunpapers Allowed TO File
Briefs in Radio News Case
By the Associated Press

ANNAPOLIS, Mar. 30.-The A.
S. Abel Co.. publisher of the Sun
papers, was granted permission
yesterday to intervene on behalf
of three Baltimore radio stations
appealing contempt of court con-
victions.
The stations and a news COM
mentator were fined for violating
a Baltimore court rule which lin
it's crime news. The offending
broadcasts related to the arrest
of Eugene H. James, 80, colored
handyman. for the knife Staying
of 11-year- old Marsha Brill.
James appeal of his death SEN
tence also is pending before the
Court of Appeals.
Chief Judge Ogle Marbury
signed an order permitting the A
S. Abel Co. to submit briefs in
the radio appeals.
Evening star., 1949-03-30
Chestnut Farms Milk
Price Cut as Virginia
Ruling Is Awaited

While the Virginia Milk Com
mission prepared to rule, possibly
tomorrow, on the question of
lowering milk prices in the Alex
andria -Arlington-Fairfax area, the
Chestnut Farms-Chevy Chase
Dairy today joined others serving
Washington and nearby Maryland
in announcing price reduction.
An announcement from Chest
nut Farms today said its milk
prices would be reduced l cent a
quart. effective Friday. Lower
cream prices announced were 81
cents a half pint, 38 cents pint
and 81 cents a quart for table
cream; 40 cents a half pint and
IA cents a pint for whipping
cream; 81 cents a half pint and
38 cents a pint for sour cream.
The Chestnut Farms Dairy is
the only large concern here that
has not cut prices in the last week
in the District and Maryland.
Sales in Virginia. however, must
not be below the minimums set
by the Milk Commission.
Hearing in Alexandria.
The requests for permission to
drop prices in Virginia were made
yesterday in a four-hour commits
sion hearing in Alexandria. After
the hearing, members of the three
man commission told The Star an
announcement of a decision prob
ably will be made tomorrow in
Norfolk, prior to a hearing for
that area at 10 am.
Yesterdays hearing was called
at the request of the Alexandria
Dairy Products Co., the Chestnut
Farms-Chevy Chase Dairy and
Thompson's Dairy, all OF which
requested a price reduction. In
addition, County Manager A. T.
Lundberg, representing the Coun-
ty Board, asked for a drop. and
Commission Chairman Upton r.
Snavely said similar requests had
been received from the city of
Falls Church and the Arlington
Branch of the American Associa-
ton of University Women.
Several proposals were placed
before the commission.
Chanpes PrODOSed.
The changes proposed by
Thompson Dairy and the pro-
ducers' association would result
in a 1-cent drop. The Alexandria
Dairy suggested a 69-cent reduc-
ton in the price to the producer.
but M. H. Burchell. the company's
secretary treasurer, would not
state what he thought the retail
price should be.
Bruce B. Derrick, spokesman for
the producers association, went
further than the immediate sit
uation, and proposed two reduc-
tions and two increases OF SO
cents per hundredweight annually
in the wholesale price.
The first change would be a
reduction in April. Then would
come an increase in July, followed
by similar raise in October. The
fourth change would be cut on
January l. All changes would be
so cents per hundredweight.
1T is intended that the pro-
ducers receive the same price on
an average throughout the year.
and the consumers would pay the
same average price, Mr.. Derrick
declared.
Evening star., 1949-03-30
Gets go Days in Assault

John Henry Ellison, Is. colored
of Layhill, Md. was sentenced to
80 days in Jail yesterday on his
conviction of assault in firing a
rifle through a neighbor's window
to persuade his wife to return
home. Judge William B. Wheeler
imposed sentence In Silver Spring
Police Court.
Evening star., 1949-03-30
EmpIoye at Gun Factory
To Retire After 43 Years

James Arthur Miller. so. an in
strument maker in the Naval Gun
Factory's radio laboratory. will re-
tire tomorrow after nearly 43
years service.
Mr.. Miller began work at the
Navy Yard in September. 1906, as
an apprentice. He lives at 73l
Twelfth street Sc.
He and his wife. whom he mar
ried So years ago, plan to take a
trip to Florida this year after MIR.
Miller's retirement.
Evening star., 1949-03-30

The 1St Dis
trict D e m o.
CT t ic Repre-
sentative gave
his age II
years as the
reason prompt
ing him to end
the service he
started 81 years
ago.
Il feel now"
he said in a
statement, that
in justice to
them (the peo-
Evening star., 1949-03-30
Lenten Service Tonight

Army Chaplain Gregory j. Lock
of Fort Myer will be guest preach
er at 8 o'clock lenten services to-
night in the Church of the Epi-
phany. 2001 North Quincy street
Arlington.
Evening star., 1949-03-30
Bland 10 Retire in 1850
After 81 Years in House
BY the Associated Press

Representative Bland, dean of
the Virginia delegation in Con-
gress, announced today he will
not seek reelection next year.
Evening star., 1949-03-30

District) and to myself that an
other should replace me-"
Evening star., 1949-01-12
Noted Race Pilot
Forced Down by
| Mystery Bullet
By the Assoeioted Prsss

SPRING HILL, Tenn, Jan. IA
fuel tank punctured by mysteri-
ously fired bullet caused S. j. Witt
man, noted racing flyer to make ar
emergency landing in a farm fiele
near here yesterday.
The 44-year-old aviator was un-
injured. although somewhat groggy
from gasoline fumes, when he set
his midget plane down in a muddy
field. The plane was not damaged
in the emergency landing.
Mr.. Whitman said the bullet struck
fuel tank of his plane, the Witt
man Special" about 2 miles from
the point where he landed. 1t was
in the Whitman Special that the
flyer won first place in the Cont
mental Trophy race for midget
planes at Miami, Fla, last Sunday.
Mr.. Whitman was on his way to
his home at Oshkosh, Wis, where
he operates an airport.
Bill Brennand, a flight instructor
at the Whitman Airport, was flying
in another plane, which he landed
in the field near Mr.. Wittmans.
State highway patrolmen and
county officers are investigating.
Evening star., 1949-01-12
Miller Trial Set for Feb. )
In Indecent Exposure Case

A Municipal Court jury trial on ar
indecent exposure charge against
John F. Miller, 30, president of the
Trinidad Boys Club, today was SCI
for February 3.
Miller, who lives in the $500 block
of Sixty-seventh avenue, East Pines
Md. was arrested yesterday on the
complaint of three sisters, aged
II. IA and "a. On his appearance
today before Judge John P
Mcmahon, the defendant pleaded
not guilty and was allowed to re-
main free on the $500 bond which
he posted yesterday.
The witnesses reported the Of
fense occurred in front of their
house in the 600 block of Fourteenth
street NE. at about 10 pm. Police
called to the scene reported they
chased Miller in his car for about
aH mile before overtaking him OF,
Bladensburg road NE. near Mount
Olivet Cemetery. He denied the
charge.
Evening star., 1949-01-12
Six Indicted on Charue
Of Operating Stills
BY the Associated Press

BALTIMORE, Jan. 12.-Six South
ern Marylanders yesterday were in
dicted by a Federal grand jury on
charges of operating whisky stills.
A seventh was charged with pos
session and transportation of un-
taxed whisky.
William G. Savoy Of Charles
County was indicted on information
that alleged he had a 335-gallon
still, with 1900 gallons of mash and
10 gallons of illegal liquor on hand.
Jesse D. Chambers and Alphonzo
o. Chapman were charged with op-
Grating a 50-gallon still in Prince
Georges County and having $50
gallons of mash.
Frederick M. Proctor was charged
with running a 35-gallon layout in
Prince Georges County and having
80 gallons of mash in his possession
Clement William Copsey and
Leonard E. Copsey were charged
with operating a 35-gallon still in
St. Marys County and having $50
gallons of mash and 81 gallons of
illegal liquor in their possession.
The seventh man was Henry john
son of Prince Georges County,
charged with possessing and. trans
porting untaxed whisky.
Evening star., 1949-01-12
U. 5. Accepts Bids for Five
Greenbe|f Church Sites

The Government has accepted the
bids of five religious groups in
Greenbelt for land on which to build
permanent edificeS.
Town Manager Charles T. Nc
Donald said he was informed of the
acceptance yesterday by the Office OF
John T. Egan, Public Housing Ad-
miniStration commissioner.
The bids were as follows:
st. Hugh's Catholic Church, $4,500
for 3,35 acres; Greenben Community
Church, $4,500 for 2.55 acres: Mowatt
Memorial Methodist Church, $1,000
for 80 acres: Greenbelt Lutheran
Church. $1,000 for 313 acres, and
Jewish Community Center, 81 900 for
8 acre.
Until the churches are completed,
the town religious groups will con-
tinue to worship in such places as
the movie theater and the center
school building.
Evening star., 1949-01-12
Army Plans 10 Close
Camp Pickett in 10 Week,
By the Assoeiofed Press

FORT MEADE, Md, Jan. H.
Camp Pickett, Va. and Camp Breck-
enridge, KY, will stop receiving new
personnel next Monday and will shut
down 10 weeks later, End Army
headquarters said today.
The deactivation is the result of
revised Army plans, which call for
the elimination of the 18th Air
borne Division at Camp Pickett and
the l01st Airborne at Camp Breck-
enridge.
Since last August both units have
been training one-year volunteers
under selective service.
Recruits arriving until Monday
will compete their 10-week training
program, after which all personnel
except skeleton maintenance corps
will be transferred.
Evening star., 1949-01-12
'SIeuth' Baskerville Hounded
Twice More in Hunt for Thief

There are some who might say
Richard Baskerville, amateur de-
tective, was bounded by bad luck
today when he either pursued or
was pursued by a fate that caused
him to be robbed three times-at
2, and 6 am.
Mr.. Baskerville, 43, colored, "a
Myrtle street NE, embarked on a
four-hour trail of trouble at 2
O'Clock, when a lone colored man
snatched $40 from him. When po-
lice at the second precinct advised
him to 60 home after he had re-
ported the theft he doggedly re-
fused.
He was going out and catch the
thief, he said.
Police next heard from Mr.. Bask-
erville two hours later, when he came
back to the precinct to make a prog
reSS report.
Evening star., 1949-01-12
PSC Puts Off Hearings
On Phone RATE Rise
By the Assoeioted Press

BALTIMORE. Jan. 12.-The Public
Service Commission no sooner post
poned hearings on a requested in
crease in telephone rates yesterday
than 1t received request for raises
in gas, electricity and steam heat
rates.
The Consolidated Gas, Electric
Light & Power Co. seeks an 1l1a
per cent increase in basic rates. The
company furnishes heat and power
to Baltimore and suburban areas.
The commission had opened a
hearing on a temporary rate boost
asked by the Chesapeake g. Potomac
Telephone Co. Later in the day, the
commission ordered a recess for two
weeks to allow the city and the State
to prepare their opposition.
Peoples Counsel Philip H. Dorsey
jr., told the PSC the State and city
needed time to study financial ex-
hibits submitted by the company
and to prepare for counter argument
and cross-examination of witnesses.
Evening star., 1949-01-12
Polio Poster Girl
To See Truman,
Launch Drive

Tomorrow will be special birth
day in the life of blond Linda Iris
Brown OF San Antonio. Tex. who is
this years national polio poster girl
for the March of Dimes" She will
officially open the 1949 District cam
paign against infantile paralysis.
The little polio victim, who will be
4 years old tomorrow, will meet the
Texas Congressional delegation and
visit President Truman at the White
House as we'll as being the center
of attraction at the opening cere-
mony.
Edgar Morris, chairman of the
District drive, announced that Lin
da will launch the drive here a day
before the Nationwide campaign
opens in New York. The campaign
will continue until the end of the
month.
District officials are expected to
participate in the ceremony, which
will be held in front of the Capitol
Theater where the March OF
Dimes" booth will be located The
exact time of the ceremony still is
to be set.
Linda was stricken with polio
when IL years old and it affected
her right leg. She now is able to
walk without braces and has only a
slight limp.
Evening star., 1949-01-12
$1,000 Reported Lost
In Montgomery Fire

More than $1,000 in cash was re-
ported destroyed yesterday in a fire
that burned out the interior Of a
100-year-old farm house near
Clarksburg. Montgomery County.
Assistant Chief William L. Bur-
dette of the Hyattstown Fire De-
partment said David v. Smith
owner of the house, told him that
more money than the house was
worth was in the structure. Mr..
Burdette estimated it would cost
about $1,000 to replace the house.
The fire official quoted the owner
as saying the money represented a
cash settlement of a debt on jan
uary .. No trace Of a Satchel, in
which the money was repeatedly
kept, was found, however. Mr..
Smith could not be reached for
comment.
The owner and his wife were in a
barn when they noticed the blaze
and had to travel more than a mile
to call firemen, Mr.. Burdette was
told.
Several weeks ago q family in
Prince Georges County reported loss
of $4,000 in cash when a fire de-
stroyed a house.
Evening star., 1949-01-12
Phofogrammetry Society
Opens Three-Day Meeting

The use of aerial photographs for
locating and designing new high
ways and the Importance Of the
polar regions will be in the fore
front of discussion of the 18th annual
meeting of the American Society of
Photogrammetry which began a
three-day session today at the
Shoreham Hotel. Photogrs mmetry
is the science of using photographs,
mostly aerial, in engineering.
About 1000 delegates from over
the world, including representatives
from various legations and embassies
here, are attending the convention
Tomorrow's session will feature an
address by DR.. Isaiah Bowman, pres
ident emeritus of Johns Hopkins
University. Awards for outstanding
achievements in photogrammetry
will be made at the business session
tomorrow night.
Evening star., 1949-01-12
Mrs. Ruby F. Gresham
Of MiddIeburq Dies

Graveside services were to be held
at Bruington, King and Queen
County, Va, today for Mrs. Ruby
Fleet Gresham, IA, mother of Mrs.
Martha Safer OF Middleburg, Va.
Mrs. Gresham died Monday at Win
chester Memorial Hospital after a
weeks illness.
Mrs. Gresham had lived for the
last nine years in Middleburg. She
spent most of her life in Newport
News, where her husband, the late
Thomas Gresham, worked for the
Virginia Public Service Co.
Mrs. Gresham was a member of
the Middleburg Garden Club and
the Middleburg Baptist Church.
Besides her daughter she is sur
vived by a brother. three sisters and
-four grandchildren.
Evening star., 1949-01-12
| ; Die in AirIift Plane Crash,
Bringing Toll So Far 10 33
By the Associated Press

FRANKFURT, Germany, Jan. r.
An American airlift plane return
ing from Berlin crashed near here
today, killing all three crewmer
The big four-engined C-54 Sky
master cut a swath 100 yards long
through a forest miles east of
the Rhein- Main Airport, bowling
over foot thick trees like tenpins
Most of the fuselage remained in
tact, but the wings and Landing
wheels were knocked off and the
chockpit crushed. The landing gear
was down. indicating the pilot was
about to land.
Cause of the crash was not deter
mined. A light snow was falling
at the time, but airport officials
said visibility was fairly good.
Names of the victims were with
held pending notification Of next of
kin.
The accident raised the death toll
on the airlift to 26 Americans and
seven British since the operation
to supply Russian -blockaded Berlin
began last June.
Evening star., 1949-01-12

Two colored men, he said, had
yoked him and taken his new hat.
Police gave him an old hat and
again advised him to give up the
Sherlock Holmes role.
Mr.. Baskerville made no reply, but
grimly left the station.
At 6 am, robbery squad detec-
tives chased three co,ored men who
were robbing a man in the HOO
block of Seventh street NV.
The victim was Mr.. Baskerville,
by now minus his overcoat and
shoes. The shoes were recovered
after Mr.. Baskerville made a bare
foot search along the route taken by
the fleeing men.
Police are searching for the six
men wanted for robbery. A police
report on the headquarters teletype,
contains this notation.
Mr.. Baskerville has finally gone
home"
Evening star., 1949-01-12
Famous Rodeo Clown
Killed in Truck Crash

FORT WORTH, Tex, Jan. 12.-
Ralph Fulkerson, A, nationally
known rodeo clown who survived
more broken bones than he could
count" was killed instantly yester-
day when his pickup truck over
turned 2 miles east of Watauga.
The rodeo performer was dead
when passing motorists reached
him.
Mr.. Fulkerson was en- route from
Saginaw to his farm home near
Smithfield.
Mr.. Fulkerson, born in Midlo-
THAN. Tex, in 1904, gained ma
tional prominence when he ap-
peared in Madison Square Garden
and Boston rodeos, starting in 1890
He was best known for skill In bait
ing Brahma bulls away from fallen
riders.
Evening star., 1949-01-12
|Dr. Richardson Elected
To 39th Term as Head
OF Philosophical Unit

DR.. Edward Elliott Richardson
pastor emeritus of Congress Heights
Baptist Church and professor emer-
titus of George Washington Uni
versity, last night was elected pres
ident of the Society for Philosophi-
cal Inquiry Of Washington for the
seth consecutive time.
The meeting, held in the Ma
tional Museum. also elected w. H.
Evans as vice president and Glenn
T. Draper as secretary-treasurer.
DR.. Richardson Is the second
president of the 75-year-old organ
ization. He succeeded his philoS-
ophy professor at George Washing
ton University, DR.. j. MacBride
Sterrett. on the latter's death in
1910. For five years before DR..
Richardson became president he
served the society as its secretary.
The 75-year-old professor, pastor
and author came to Washington in
1892 to study medicine at what was
Columbian University. He received
his medical degree in 1895 and prac-
ticed in the District while teaching
anatomy at his school from 1897 to
1908.
During the years the physician
taught, he studied liberal arts and
philosophy, receiving his B. S. de-
gree in 1904. M S., 1905, and Phi. D.,
1909, from the institution, which by
that time had become George
Washington University. In the fall
of 1908 he started teaching phil
osophy at the university and kept
at it until his retirement in 1888.
During this period Mr.. Richard.
son became an ordained Baptist
minister and in 1918 began a 80.
year ministry at Congress Heights
Church. He retired in 1943.
Evening star., 1949-01-12
Suspect Unable 10 Write,
Lottery Charge Dismissed

Charges of operating a lottery
against an Arlington man were nolle
pressed in County Court today be-
cause 1t had been determined after
his arrest that he is unable write.
The nolle PROSE- was requested
IN case involving Robert l.
Thomas, 48, colored, who was ar
rested December % in his home in
the 1900 block of South Rofle street
Assistant Commonwealth Attorney
Paul D. Brown told Judge Hugh
Reid that Thomas was not able to
write.
The defendant, however, was con-
victed of illegal possession of whisky
fined $50 and given a suspended 30
day jail sentence. He pleaded guilty
to the illegal possession charge
Thomas was represented by Attor-
ney Homer Randolph Thomas.
Evening star., 1949-01-12
Congress in Brief
by the Associofed Press
Senate,

StHdtc.
In recess until tomorrow.
Agriculture Committee meets ir
executive session to organize.
Interior and Insular Affairs Com
mittee meets in executive session to
organize.
Rules and Administration Com
mlttee meets in executive session to
organize.
House.
Adjourned until tomorrow.
Ways and Means Committee
members study Democratic assign
ments.
Agriculture Subcommittee in
quires into cotton situation.
Evening star., 1949-01-12

cioll ASC Appl Cll-
ticeship Council
to complete the
unexpired term
of Milton r.
Stevens.
Mr.. Stevens re-
signed to become
vice president in
charge of the
Southern district
of the Operating
Plasterers an d
Cement Finish
ers International
Association in
ATLANTA, Ga. He
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representative here of Plasterers'
Union No. 96 and also was chairman
of the council.
Mr.. Downey has been business
manager of Plumbers Local No. s
for the last eight years. He Is also
q delegate from his union to the
Central Labor Union and Washing
ton Building Trades Council.
Mr.. Downey. 80. was born in
Northeast Washington, is married
and lives at 1719 Lang place NE.
Evening star., 1949-01-12

AAuC'
The measure
easily passed the
Senate last year,
but ran into a
S n a 6 in h e
House Executive
Expen d / t u r e S
Committee when
1t encountered
the opposition
of the then
Chairman Hof-
man of Mich
igan.
With a change
in committee
Evening star., 1949-01-12
Downey Is Named Member
Of Apprenticeship Council

Bernard A. Downey, business man
ager Of Plumbers Local No. 5, has
been appointed by the District Com
missioners a labor member of the