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Evening star., 1949-08-05
Sales Tax Seen Popular
When Bugs Are lroned 0uI

Jo v. Morgan. Washington at
torney and tax expert, told men,
bers of the Cosmopolitan Club
yesterday the sales tax may be a
nuisance now but. when the
bugs" are worked out, 1t will be
popular tax.
Mr.. Morgan, who was chairman
Of the Board of Trade committee
that assisted in drafting the sale s
tax bill, addressed the club at a
luncheon meeting in the Carlton
Hotel.
He said Washington is the most
appropriate place in the United
States for a sales tax because OF
the fluidity of the population here.
He said it was the responsibility
of the businessmen in town to see
that it works properly.
1T should be easy to get used
to-" he declared. THE District
has had every sort of tax con-
ceived by man from time to time. "
Anthony J. Scullen. president OF
the club 3presided at the luncheon
meeting.
Evening star., 1949-08-05
Congress in Brief
BY the Asseeiotsd Press

Senate:
Resumes debate on the foreign
aid bill.
Judiciary subcommittee continues
hearings on displaced persons bills.
Foreign Relations and Armed
Services committees meet in exec
utive session to discuss arms for
Europe.
Joint Atomic Energy Committee
meets behind closed doors to dis
cuss atomic security.
Appropriations subc ommittee e
confers in executive session with
Secretary of Agriculture Brannan
on farm legislation.
Banking and Currency Com
mittee takes up housing bill in
closed session.
House:
Debates natural gas act.
Foreign Affairs Committee con-
tinues hearings on arms aid to
Western Europe.
Armed Services subcommittee
hears Secretary of the Army Gray
in f1ye-per-center inquiry.
The first steelworks in America
is believed to have been one estab-
ished at Trenton, Nj, in 1874.
Evening star., 1949-08-05
1917 Rent Rise Approved
For 2O3 Apartments

A rental increase of about 10
per cent was approved yesterday
by the Rental Control Admins
tration for 2O3 apartments at Su-
burban Gardens in Northeast
Washington.
Suburban Gardens, Inc, had pc
titioned for a II per cent increase
on grounds of a substantial rise
since January ]. 1941, in operat-
ing expenses, real estate taxes
and water rent.
The adjusted rents would
range from SAT a month for three
rooms and bath to $66 a month
for five rooms and bath. The
rents until now range from $42
| to $61 a month.
Evening star., 1949-08-05
By the Associated Press


ROME, Aug. 5.-Ingrid Berg
man announced today she will
divorce her husband, DR.. Peter
Lindstrom. She also said she will
quit the movies.
The beautiful Swedish sta1
made the declaration in a deeply
emotional statement issued to re-
porters by her personal repre-
sentative, Joseph Steele.
Sources close to the actress re-
ported that she intends to marry
Italian Director Roberto Rossellini
after her divorce.
Miss BergmanS statement said
1T was my desire not to make
any statement until the conclu-
sion of the picture I am now
making CATER the Storm.
But persistent malicious gossip
that has even reached the point
where I am made to appear as a
prisoner. has obliged me to break
my silence and demonstrate my
free will.
Il have instructed my lawyer tt
start divorce proceedings immedi.
ately. Also, with the conclusion o1
my present picture. it is my inten.
ton to retire into private life"
Will Sue in Italy or Sweden.
Miss Bergman expects to file hel
suit in either Italy or Sweden
according to Mr.. Steele.
Mr.. Rossellini, who is directing
Miss Bergman's picture, was moi
available for comment. A mem
Der of his family said he had left
in order not to be disturbed. He
was not in his hotel suite.
Evening star., 1949-08-05
6aIIinger Nursing School
Awards Diplomas 10 II

Diplomas were presented yester-
day to IL nurses who have COM
pleted their training at the Capi.
tai City School of Nursing o1
Galliger Hospital.
DR.. Phillip A. E. Stebbing, sup
erintendent of Galliger Hospital
presided at the ceremonies which
marked the 48th annual gradua.
tion OF the nursing school. The
address to the graduates wa!
made by DR.. John Parks, member
of the school of nursing advisory
committee.
The graduates were Phyllis Z
Brandon, of Orleans, VT; Sarah E
Brown. Roanoke Rapids, N. c.;
Lydia E. Fellows. Falls Church
Va; Jane E. Hardee, Loris, S. c.;
Patricia M. Norman, Erie, Tenn;
Roberta Y. Nair of Washington;
Margaret S. Overton, Parkersburg
W. Va; Kathryn R. Scarpine
Youngstown, Ohio; Theresa A
Stancavage, Mahanoy City, Pa;
Stella M. Swope, Needmore, Pa.
and Doris J. Taylor, Cape May
N J.
Evening star., 1949-08-05
Weather Bureau
Forecasts Clear
| Sky for ItsPicnic

Staunch believers in their own
long distance forecasts, Weather
Bureau employees will picnic in
Rock Creek Park from l to pm.
tomorroW-an event they sched-
uled Is days ago.
The forecast is for good picnic
eather.
1t will be the newly formed
Weather Bureau Clubs first pic
mic, but employees of the airport
division of the bureau had to post
pone their picnic earlier this year
The reason: Bad weather.
Evening star., 1949-08-05
|35-MiiKonL Loan by RFC
To ,000Lustron Firm
Studied by Committee
BY the Associated Press

A House committee pondered to-
day how Carl G. Strandlund,
Chicago industrialist, borrowed
$35 500, 900 from the Government,
put up $1,000 of his own money
and his patent rights. and set up
his Lustron Corp. of Columbus,
Ohio, to mass produce prefabri-
Gated houses.
Mr.. Strandlund and officials of
the Reconstruction Finance Corp,
who made the loans, told the
story to the House Banking and
Currency Committee yesterday.
Mr.. Strandlund had told the
committee his company is within
sight Of making money on it's
venture, but that he will need
even more RFC millions to tide
it over.
Cole Undecided on Course.
At conclusion of the commit
tees inquiry, Representative Cole,
Republican, of Kansas, who had
questioned the witnesses sharply,
told reporter:
Congress must close the doors
against any more deals like this
one. But whether we should pinch
off further loans to Lustron. and
possibly force it's collapse and the
loss of probably a big share Of the
$35 500, ,000-that's another matter.
I just don't know what to say"
Mr.. Strandlund, a portly man
with a small mustache, told the
committee his corporation is losing
about 81 900, 900 a month now, but
will be making a profit within 30
days, and he hopes to pay back
the loans within six. years. Some
of the loans fall due in September.
House Every 20 Minutes.
He added the company is turn
ing out prefabricated house
every 20 minutes during an eight
hour shift, five days a week.
Richard c. DyaS. an RFC off,
cial, told the committee this plant
can produce the houses, there is
no question of that and that
there is a tremendous" potential
market for the structures in the
mass housing market"
Committee Chairman Spence re-
fused to permit Mr.. Cole to probe
into the salaries of top Lustron
executives. Mr.. Strandlund is re-
puted to draw a salary of $50, 900
a year and one Of his vice pres.
idents. E. Merl Young, $4,000.
Mr.. Strandlund said Mr.. Young
who resigned from the RFC to join
the Lustron organization, never in .
f1uenced any of the loans.
Evening star., 1949-08-05
Mrs. Roosevelt Ready
To Meet SpeIIman
BY The Associctsd Press

HYDE PARK, N. Y, Aug. s.
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt says
she is willing to meet with Francis
Cardinal Spellman to discuss their
dispute over Federal aid to paro-
chial and other private schools.
Commenting on a statement by
Mayor William ODwyer that he
hoped the two could be brought
together to reconcile their differ
ences, Mrs. Roosevelt said last
night:
Il have never said that I have
any objections to talking with
Cardinal Spellman about our diff
ferences. But it seems to me that
it is up to him to propose such
meeting. I have always enjoyed
talking with the cardinal"
The cardinal could not bs
reached in New York for COM
ment.
The dispute started when he
accused Mrs. Roosevelt of anti.
catholicism . unworthy Of an
American mother" in opposing
Federal aid to church-operated
schools.
Meanwhile. Dr.. John K. Nor
ton, Columbia University profess
sor and official of the National
Education Association, praised the
Mayors peace-making efforts.
But he said the dispute is not
Superficial or personal" and that
if the reconciliation is Ito be
more than a sham, the tactic OF
name calling = should cease"
and 1.-The apparent feeling on the
part of some high officers of the
Roman Catholic Church that any
disagreement with them is an at
tack on them end their religion
should be revised"
Evening star., 1949-08-05
Eight District Bills
Passed by House in
Rapid Succession

Eight District bills were passed
by the House in rapid succession
late yesterday.
Seven of them now 60 to the
Senate. The other one goes te
the White House. 1t would au.
thorize the Commissioners to dele
gate to contracting officers au-
thority to enter into contracts fol
amounts not exceeding $4,000. The
present limit is 1000.
BY terms of one of the Other
measures approved, retired f1re-
men and policemen would receive
the proportionate benefits of the
retroactive pay raise recently
granted active members of thei1
departments. They would not be
required to apply for the added
retirement compensation.
The other bills passed and sent
to the Senate are intended:
/. To remove the requirement
that members Of the Commission
on Mental Health be residents OF
the District.
2. To permit admission of pay
patients to the Home for the
Aged and Infirm.
3. To bring the District insur-
ance law in line with modern
practice in the regulation of group
insurance business.
4. To provide. minimum stand
ards for industrial life insurance
and make other adjustments in
the law governing life insurance
business.
5. To clarity the tax exemption
OF property of the Sons of the
American Revolution so that per-
sonal property of the organization
as we'll as real estate, would be
exempted.
6. To authorize the issuance o1
q license to practice chiropractis
to Abraham j. Ehrlich.
Meanwhile, Chairman Harris oil
a House District subcommittee
said today he would call an execu.
tive session soon to act on severa
pending bills for changes in the
District liquor laws and regula.
tions.
Among the measures on which
recent hearings have been held by
the subcommittee are those to:
Establish price fixing on stand.
ard brands Of liquors to prevent
cut-rate sales.
Extend the legal hours of serv.
ing drinks at hotels, restaurant.
and bars from Saturday midnigh
to 2 am. Sunday.
Permit chain stores to obtain {
permit to sell beer and light wine!
at each of their outlets instead o.
only one in each chain as a
present.
Require payment of cash on de.
livery Of beer to retailers. Dur.
ing the hearing yesterday on this
beer bill, Bourbon Dawes, execu.
tive secretary of the Washington
Hotel Association, opposed thu
plan to require such deliveries tt
be cod He was incorrectly
quoted in yesterdays Star as hav.
ing favored the bill.
Evening star., 1949-08-05
Virginia Apples Estimated
Al $4,000 Bushels
BY the Assoeioisd Press

RICHMOND, Va, Aug. 5.-The
Federal-State Crop Reporting
Service yesterday forecast Vir-
ginia's 1949 apple crop at 8,670, 900
bushels.
This represented a slight in
crease over the 1913 crop. but a 10
per cent drop under the 10-year
average, the service said.
A forecast for a peach crop OF
so per cent above that for last
year also was made. The estimated
yield this year was set at 1883 900
bushels as compared with 1909 900
for 1913.
Evening star., 1949-08-05

In Hollywood, DR.. LindStrom' S
publicity representative said the
doctor had not heard directly from
Ingrid and would not comment
until she notified him personally
OF her action.
Mr.. Steele told neWSmen Miss
Bergman intends to wind up her
present film within the next
month or so.
"She wants to lead a private
life" he added. She has yearned
to get away from the bright glare
of publicity. She has made her
decision in good faith
The star arrived in Rome yester-
day from the seaside resort. Anal
fl, and now is in seclusion with
friends here.
Will Claim Incompatibility.
Mr.. Rossellini and Miss Berg
man reached Amalfl Tuesday from
Stromboli, volcanic isle where most
of their movie has been filmed.
Mr.. Steele said Miss Bergman
probably will claim incompatibility
in her suit and that "she does not
expect her husband to contest the
divorce"
He declared that Miss Bergman
will not seek exclusive custody OF
her 11-year-old daughter, Pia.
That should be worked out sat-
iSfactorily later" he said.
Mr.. Steele stated that DR.. Lind
strom was informed of the i'm
pending divorce on his recent fly
ing trip from Hollywood to Sicily.
He added that Miss Bergman had
contemplated divorce before she
met Mr.. Rossellini in Hollywood
last year.
Evening star., 1949-08-05
Page County Bar Bocks
Keyser for Circuit Bench
By the A,,oc;oted Pres,

LURAY, Va. Aug. 5.-The Page
County Bar Association yesterday
indorsed Robert w. Keyser, Luray
attorney. for appointment to the
25th Judicial Circuit Bench to
succeed the late Judge William v.
Ford. Mr.. Keyser is a former law
partner OF Judge Ford.
The circuit embraces Rocking
ham and Page Counties.
Evening star., 1949-08-05
National Dairy Firm
With 7 Branches Here
Shows Record Profit

The National Dairy Products
Corp, of New York, which has
two subsidiaries in Washington,
had record earnings in the first
six months of the year, according
to its financial statement.
The corporations Washington
subsidiaries are Chestnut Farms
Chevy Chase Dairy and Southern
Diaries, Inc.
The corporation issued its six
months report yesterday and. at
the same time. directors voted a
dividend Of so cents a share. This
was an increase of 5 cents a
share over the previous rate and,
the company said. the highest
paid since 1882. The corporations
shares advanced 81 on the New
York Stock Exchange today.
Total Sales Decline.
The new high record of earn
ings was achieved despite price
reductions on it's products, the
corporation said. Net earnings for
the six-month period were $16.-
537,423, or 1882 a share, COM
pared with $13,324,874, or s2.12
a share, for the comparable period
of 1913.
Total sales were $456,218,0Ss, a
decline from the $483. 308,770
figure for the first six months OF
194S. L. A. Van Bomel, president,
explained that the decline for the
most part reflected price reduc-
.tions to customers.
He said the company has little
control over the price of milk, the
volume of which had held its own
despite continuing high prices.
The volume of ice cream, however,
declined moderately. condition,
he said, felt generally throughout
the industry.
Expenses Reduced.
1--WE have long advocated low
consumer prices whenever such
prices are consistent with a fair
return to the stockholder." Mr..
Van Bomel said. That we were
able to make price reductions on
many OF our products and at the
same time improve our earnings
was due to lower costs for supplies
coupled with greater efflciencies
and economies in our operations. "
The company reduced its op-
Grating expenses from s461, ,535,316
In the first half of last year to
$428, ,637 ,431 in the first six months
Of 1949.
Chestnut Farms Chevy Chase
Dairy is one of Washington's larg-
est milk distributors. Southern
Diaries, Inc, wit headquarters in
Washington, has about so plants
IN the South, extending to Florida.
In Washington Southern Diaries
manufactures Sealtest ice cream
and distributes Seabrook frosted
foods.
Evening star., 1949-08-05
Senator'S Pledge Probe
OF Frauds Charged
In Army Contracts
BY the Associated Press

Aroused Senators today pledged
IA broad investiga tion into charges
Of World War II contract scandals
involving Army officers, Govern
ment personnel and civilian con-
tractors.
Controller General Warren's re-
port that fraud and waste in war;
time contracting had cost Ameri-
can taxpayers millions of dollars
brought promise of action from
both Chairman Mcclellan of the
Expenditures Committee and Sen
ator Hoey, Democrat, Of North
Carolina.
Senator Hoey, who heads a spe-
cial investigating subcommittee,
left no doubt that the group would
inquire into the Warren charges.
In his report to Congress yes
Iterday, the Government official
said his audits of about $1.165,-
900, 900 in contract settlements to
date showed irregularities amount
ing to more than $11 5000
Mr.. Warren noted that this was
only a small sampling" of the
total contract settlements made
by Government agencies.
S474,717 Refunded.
Mr.. Warren said that $2,340 900
was lost through improper and
excessive" payments in 388 set
Elements - one out of every "a
examined. He added that $474,-
TIT had been refunded "volun-
tarily" by the contractors at the
invitation" Of the General As
counting Office.
Improper payments induced
by fraud" the Controller General
said, amounted to more than S.
280, 900, of which only $l07 1892
had been recovered. He gave
Congress a closer view of some
of the 472 settlements in which
he said fraud was involved.
Among them was an account of
the award of contracts in the
New York City area for technical
manuals based on fraud, collu-
sion. and Tor bribery on the part
of certain Government personnel
military and civilian and
others"
These involved what Mr.. Warren
called a "feathering of nests" by
Army officers and employees of the
Government, who later were hired
by the contractors.
Officers Got Stock Shares.
In one case, he said. two former
Army officers. while still on active
duty, received shares of corporate
stock valued at $4,000 in return
for their services to a firm which
shortly thereafter received Gov
ernment contracts totaling over
$lOO, ,UUU.
Mr.. Warren said that. in addi-
ton to the fraud cases already
certified to the Justice Depart
ment, the General Accounting
Office has under study rs other
settlements involving more than
100000. 8
mo case has been called to my
attention" he noted acidly, lin
which the settlement resulted in
an underpayment to the con-
tractor. In other words, all errors
or inaccuracies were in the con-
tractors favor-not the Govern
ment's."
The controller general divided
the blame for the situation be-
tween the 1914 Contract Settle
ment Act and the agencies in
volyed in making the settlements.
Evening star., 1949-08-05
PoIecut Borbers Man

Waking from sleep after a hard
days mountaineering, a member
of a party of climbers from Wor-
cester, South Africa, in the Hex
River Mountains. felt something
tugging at his hair. 1t was a pole
cat and before it was disturbed ii
had cropped half his head bald.
Evening star., 1949-08-05

Congress from $4,000 to $4,000
or $25, 900 a year when the pay bill
for legislative employees comes up
for consideration.
BE sure to listen in Sundays
at 11:15 am. oUer WMAL,. The
r Star station, for Joseph Young's
broadcast Dersion of the Fed
eral Spotlight, featuring addi-
tional ne1Us and DieWs OF the
Government serDice.)
Evening star., 1949-08-05

S l m l l q r pa y
boosts for the
Gov e rnment'S
classified e M
ployes W oul d
win approval.
The biggest
o b s t a c ! e still
facing pay leg
islation at this
session is the
tim lie element.
Many i'm p o r.
tant bills still
remain to be
a C t e d on by
Evening star., 1949-08-05

As much as 10 tons Of ice is
required for single railroad re-
frigerator car on a coast -to-coast
trip.
Evening star., 1949-08-05
The feteruI Spotlight
Tho federoI Spotlight
House Leaders Give Light
On Pay Boosts Up to $72O
By Joseph Young

The leadership passed the word along that will
legislation individual increases
kept somewhere between 500 and $120.
Speaker Raybun informed House Civil Service Committee
legislation
Evening star., 1949-08-05

Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest, 96, on July 26.
Lowest 81, on January 30.
HiEA and Lew for YesIsrasy.
High. So, at 2:55 pm.
Low, "a, At 2:34 am.
Evening star., 1949-08-05

postal workers. And committee
members say they have been told
Evening star., 1949-08-05

The first steelworks in America
is believed to have been one estab-
lshed at Trenton, N. j., in 1884.
Evening star., 1949-08-05

Monthly precipitation In inches In ia
canifal lcDrrept mcnth to datal:
Smyrna times., 1949-07-14
Young and Slender
Choose Two-Piece Style

Those who have a good figure
that can stand inspection may wear
the two-piece suit. The figure
should be flat and firm because the
midriff which is bare cannot hide
flabbiness in the waistline.
Two-piece suits are available in
many styles and colors, and they
have become a real favorite with
women who like to get plenty of
sun. They're comfortable to wear
and the styles are stunning, pro-
vided, of course, you have the fig
'ure for them.
Rayon knits are cooling and are
so constructed as to hold their
shape. Cotton suits of this type are
available in lovely designs and
colors.
Snug trunks and trim bra in the
Smyrna times., 1949-07-14
ENGINEER HEAD
AT UNIVERSITY.
CONTINUED from PAGE one)

of Ohio University, he holds a mas
ter's degree in engineering from
the University of Michigan. Mr..
Gaylord's industrial experience in
cludes service with the Truscon
Steel Co., Youngstown, Ohio; the
Naval Ammunition Depot, Charles
ton, S. c.; the Goodyear Aircraft
Corp, Akron, Ohio; and the Bell
Aircraft Corp, Buffalo. For Good
year, he was, during the late stages
of the war, consulting stress an
alyst on the design of an expert
mental model of the Northrup
"Black Widow" plane. He has
been consultant for Bell for the
past four years in connection with
the development of helicopters.
AS a result of the latter, he re-
ceived a grant from the National
Advisory Committee for Aeronau-
tics, for a study of indeterminate
structures stressed beyond the pro-
,-portional limit.
In 1946-4S, Mr.. Gaylord was a
member of the structural commit
tee of the American Society for
Engineering Education, and now is
member of the structural light
alloys committee of the American
Society of Civil Engineers. In ad-
dition to his memberships in those
societies, he is a member of Theta
Tau, professional engineering fra
ternity, and Tau Beta Pi, honorary
engineering group.
A 40-year-old native of Sharon,
Pa, Mr.. Gaylord is married and
the father of three sons.
DIR. Shields, whom he succeeds,
became chairman of the Depart
ment of Civil Engineering last fall,
succeeding the late t. D. Mylrea.
DR.. Shields joined the Delaware
faculty in September, 1947, after a
number of years of experience in
industry, schools of engineering
and with the American Society of
Mechanical Engineers.
Smyrna times., 1949-07-14
WOMAN'S WORLD
You Can Improve Your Figure
BY Purchasing Right Swim Suit
BY Ertta Haley
BY Ertta Haley

yzTHEN SUMMER COMES around.
w many women gaze with dis
may at the figures and say, Il just
can't plan to wear bathing suit
this SUMNER
There are some figures, of course.
which a bathing suit cannot dis
guise, but tn EN- neither can
clothes. However, many of the new
bathing suits are designed to do a
lot for the figure. whether it's good
or bad.
Don't discard the idea Of wearing
a suit because of some figure faults
which can be much minimized
by a good suit.
Trying on suit is the best way
of deciding just what each one
does for you. Just as in buying
dresses, several mirrors that give
a view of different angles. can help
you to decide on the most effective
suit.
Smyrna times., 1949-07-14
NOTICE
NOTICE

Visit our supply yard and car
penter shop, Church Street, Smyr-
ma.
Check our materials, workman
ship, and finished jobs, and then
compare prices, in made-to-meas-
ure. And we know you will place
your order for those screen doors
and windows, door frames, window
frames, cabinets, or front en-
frances, any style you want.
We will build and complete that
new home you are planning, from
the layout to the day you move in,
or remodel and repair that old one.
Don't overlook us on that paint
job, or those floors that need sand
ing and finishing. We may save
you some money.
Consult us freely.
VIM. L. PleasantOn
Phone 1923 Smyrna, Delaware