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Evening star., 1949-03-06

first public appearance with the
Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra
at 8 and has been playing con-
certs ever since.
At Is he won first prize in the
international Music Competition
at Geneva, the youngest contest
ant maong 424 pianists from 40
countries.
Erwin now is attending the
Children's Professional School in
New York City, where he made
his American debut last year at
Town Hall.
While on tour he practices four
to six hours a day, does all his
homework and still finds time for
his favorite hobby, photography.
What do you think of American
Evening star., 1949-03-06
Broden to Give Lectures
At World Studies School

Spruille Braden. former Assist
ant Secretary of State, has been
named visiting lecturer at the
School of Advanced International
Studies, 1t was announced yester-
day by Philip Thayer, dean OF the
school.
Mr.. Braden is to lecture at the
summer session of the school on
current problems in inter-Ameri-
can relations. The school holds
its regular sessions in this city
and conducts a summer session
each year at Peterborough, N. H.
Evening star., 1949-03-06
Hungarian Pianist, II Stopping
Here, interviewed by Students

stood facing the seated roomful
of students, mostly girls.
Erwin is a child prodigy who
began playing the piano at the
age of five, taking lessons from
his mother who was a teacher.
After he had learned all she could
teach him in six months, he be-
gan studying under Ernest DOH
nanyi, famous Hungarian pianist
and composer. The boy made his
Evening star., 1949-03-06

ySo al oAN - SA@
garian pianist,
took it in stride.
Erwin, who is
on a concert
tour through
t he I'm i t e d
States, stopped
off here yester-
day for a stu
dent press con-
ference at the
World Affairs
Center. 1712 H
street NV.
The confer
ence got off to
Evening star., 1949-03-06
Aid 10 Needy Persons
Able 10 Work Believed
Doomed by High Cost
By the Assoeioisd Press

new billions in cost apparently has
doomed President Truman's pro-
posal for expansion of Federal
public assistance-or home relief
to include needy persons able to
work.
But it appeared that persons
disabled and unable to work might
be added to the aid list.
There were signs that Congress
may bring no more than 100000
additional persons under the old
age insurance program. Mr.. Tru-
man has asked that 20,000.000 be
added, bringing the total to
5o.000,o0o.
Simultaneous with these de-
velopments, the Social Security
Committee of the United States
Chamber of Commerce issued a
report calling the basic idea OF
social security good-but warning
against over-expansion and "un-
tried schemes"
Voluntary Programs Stressed.
The report urged greater stress
on voluntary security programs,
and said:
The desirability Of social Sc
curity benefits should not be
considered in abstract. Costs. the
burden on the taxpayer, together
with the strain on governmental
budgets, must also be taken into
account.
An excessive flow of social Sc
eurity funds would impair the
basic economy upon which all
security rests" :.
After a week of House Ways and
Means Committee study OF Mr..
Trumans proposal for vast ex-
pansion in the social security
program, the picture shaped up
about like this:
|. Congress may expand home
relief to cover persons disabled
and unable to work, but not in
clude "all needy" as the President
requested. The direct assistance
program, now costing the Gov
ernment s1,1O0,O0o0O0 a year IN
funds-matching arrangement with
the States. Is limited to aid Tor
needy aged, the blind and Tor
dependent children.
2 Groups Outside Benefits.
2, Old-age insurance benefits
may be increased and some addl-
tional millions may be blanketed
under this program. possibly in
cluding some self-employed, also
employees of State and local gov
ernments, and maybe some other
small groups. But two big groups
farm workers and household
vorker-may remain outside the
program.
8. Congress may increase the
social security payroll taxes to
cover any increase in BENEFITS.
Mr.. Truman has asked that the
/ per cent tax on employees pay
and employers payroll be in
creased July / to 112 per cent
against each, and on January l
to 2 per cent.
The public assistance (home re-
hef) program and the old age
and survivors insurance program
are two separate social security
operations. Public assistance IS
based on a needs test and the aid
comes out of Federal, State and
local funds. Employees and their
bosses pay in payroll taxes Tor
benefits under the insurance pro-
gram.
Little Support Found.
A spot check of Ways and Means
Democrats and Republicans indi-
Gated yesterday very little support
for the aid-to- o-all-needy proposal
Including ablebodied unemployed.
Arthur j. Altmeyer, Social Sc
curity commissioner. testified this
week that nobody on earth
could tell what the cost OF such
q program would be If the country
entered a depression. He said, IN
answer to questions, 1t would be
possible under such program to
aid families of men on strike, II
$boy moro in need
Evening star., 1949-03-06

Being interviewed by "a teen
age student reporters at the same
time is no small task for any
celebrity, but Erwin Laszlo, IT.
Evening star., 1949-08-27
500 D. {. Air Guardsmen
Returning From Training

It was to be payday this after
noon for 800 officers and men OF
the District Air Guard units who
completed . 15-day training pro-
gram yesterday at New Castle
County Air Force Base in Della
ware.
The pilots are returning to
Andrews Air Force Base In cargo
planes and . truck convoy. The
fighter planes used In the final
formal review were flown to Wash
ington yesterday. They were used
by the 121st Squadron Of the 113th
Group. The group includes squad
rons from Delaware and Virginia.
State officials taking part in the
Governors Day ceremonies ut the
base yesterday included Gov. Tuck
of Virginia and Gov. carvel OF
Delaware. Brig. Gen. William H
Abendroth. commanding officer Of
the District Guard, also was pres
ent ut the inspection.
Col. Ladder Mackall, Washing
ton lawyer, is group commander
as well as head of the District
Air Guard. ..,
Evening star., 1949-08-27
Patient
Found Dead in GARAGE

A Navy veteran who has been
awaiting a veterans hospital va
cancy for further treatment OF
tuberculosis was found dead In
the front seat of his car in rented
garage late yesterday. the motor
running at high speed.
The victim, a former torpedo
man, is Joseph Shurden. 42, OF
4018 Georgia avenue NV. who
earlier in the day had told his
wife he was going for "a long walk
the kind you don't return from. y
A relative by marriage. John
Crouch, 4403 Iowa avenue NV.
who found Mr.. Shurden slumped
in the front seat. said the hood
of the car was up and that one
of the double doors of the garage
was open. The garage is near the
Crouch residence.
No notes were found and an au-
topsy Is to be performed today
according to Deputy Coroner
Christopher j. Murphy.
Mr.. Crouch said Mr.. Shurden
had been undergoing treatment
for the tubercular condition for
the last two years. Since his dis
charge from the Navy Mr.. Shur-
den has worked as an operator
for the Capital Transit Co.
Evening star., 1949-08-27
Auditor Found Dead
In Apartment Fire

The District coroner was ex
pected to rule today in the death
of Carl L. Euren, 55-year- -old
former Government employe, who
died yesterday in his smoke filled
apartment at 1900 H street NV.
Police said Mr.. Euren, who
formerly worked as an auditor
for the Maritime Commission, ap-
. parently died of suffocation and
burns. He was found dead at
the foot of a sofa by firemen.
Mrs. David S. Carter, manager
of the apartment house, said a
janitor. Grafton Wilson. 81, COL
ored, 422 Tennessee avenue NE,
first noticed smoke coming from
the fourth floor apartment. Get
ting a key from her, he entered
the apartment and discovered the
body, Mrs. Carter said.
The manager said the janitor
took an extinguisher into the
apartment, but there were no
flames in the smoke filled room.
Mrs. Carter called police, who
notified the Fire, Department.
Cigarette butts on the floor near
the sofa indicated Mr.. Euren may
have fallen asleep while smoking.
Mr.. Euren's wife, Mrs. Fannie
Euren, was summoned from her
job at the Southern Railway Office
after he was found dead. The
apartment was damaged slightly.
Evening star., 1949-08-27
District Gas Rate Hearing
To Be Resumed tuesday

The Public Utilities Commits
sion gave notice yesterday that
the hearing on the Washington
Gas Light Co.'S application to in
crease gas rates to District con-
s,mers at Z per cent will be re-
sumed at 10 am. Tuesday In the
District Building.
The hearing was recessed July
2S, after the gas company had
presented its case for seeking an
additional 100000 a year in op-
Grating revenues.
The company cited a 40 per
cent. decline In net operating reve-
nues' since 1899, owing primarily
to the increased cost Of labor.
The hearing was recessed to
permit preparation for cross-ex-
animation and presentation Of ad-
ditional evidence.
Evening star., 1949-08-27
Two New Polio Cases Here
Put Total for Area al los

The total of polio cases for the
District area now stands at 105.
with two more Washington cases
reported to the Health Depart
ment yesterday.
They are a six-year-old boy,
living in the 6200 block of Seventh
street NE, who was admitted to
Gallinger Sunday, and a severn
year-old boy, living in the 1900
block of Saratoga street Sc, who
was admitted to Children's Hos
pital Thursday.
This brings the District total to
II, as compared with 40 at this
date last year.
Evening star., 1949-08-27
'Gamesf' Policeman Wins
Promotion 10 Sergeant

Corpl. Aubrey Yowaiski, a Met
ropolitar1 policeman who insisted
on returning to duty despite q
serious leg injury. will be promot-
ed to sergeant September l. Supt
of Police Robert J. Barrett saic
today.
/ Corpl. Yowaiski. described by
police officials as lone Of the gam
est men on the force" nearly los
his leg in an accident four year
ago. After more than a year O
disqualification, he returned to th'
force, although he was in grea
pain. He refused offers Of fur
ther leave, police said.
The policeman, who was injuret
by a car while on duty, lives a
b802 Carlyle street, Cheverly. Mo
Evening star., 1949-08-27
Two Day-Care
Units toCIose
With BudgetCui
Stuffs Have Served
Without Pay Here
Since July

The Board Of Public Welfare
will have to close two Of its six
child day-care centers, If drastic
budget cuts in the House are not
restored by the Senate.
This was revealed as the board
met yesterday and noted that
stats at the centers have served
without pay since July l.
Funds for the operation Of the
centers are contained in the sup
Elemental appropriation for fiscal
1850. now in the Senate. The
House Appropriations Committee
voted an appropriation Of $50. 900,
one third of last years amount.
The committee recommended that
this be matched by $4,000 to be
collected in fees from parents who
leave their children at the CEN
ters.
$4,000 From Parents.
The board and the commits
sioners originally recommended an
appropriation Of 100000. To
this would be added about $48,-
900 in fees from parents. Last
year the amount was $150.000
from Congress and the fees went
to the Treasury.
As 1t now stands the board
would receive about 100000 dur
ing fiscal 1850. including the fees.
If this amount stands" said
Raymond F. Clapp, acting board
director, ut means a reduction
from four to>six centers. Care
would be limited to parents able
to pay almost $6 per week per
child"
The rate now varies from $1.67
to $3.50 per child per week, de-
pending on the number Of chill
dren. Under the House-passed
appropriation, parents who need
the help of the centers most would
have to be eliminated to assure
the $4,000 total, Mr.. Clapp said.
Children Given Meals.
The centers are used by moth
ers who work during the day. The
children. over 2 and under IL.
get a full noon meal and orange
juice and milk during the day.
Three centers are for white and
three for colored. The same ra-
ito would be continued under any
reduction. Mr.. Clapp said.
The centers now accommodate
about 260 children. This total
would be reduced to 1875, with a
corresponding reduction in staff
personnel. One counselor is re-
quired for about every 10 chill
dren, Mr.. Clapp said, in addition
to cooks and cleaning personnel.
The board adopted a statement
of appreciation to about 40 work
ers at the centers who have served
without pay since July !.
In other action, the board re-
elected it's present officers for an
other term. They are Edgar
Morris, chairman: Fred S. Kogod.
vice chairman, and A. j. Drisccll,
secretary.
Evening star., 1949-08-27
Policeman Is Stobbed
Curling Baltimore Fight
by The Asseeieisd ersss

BALTIMORE, Aug. 2T-Two
men, including a policeman, were
knitted last night when the oflicer
tried to break up an argument In
East Baltimore. .-..-.s s.-1
Patrolman william Staylor was
stabbed in the stomach and -vas
In serious condition at
Mercy Hospital.
The other wounded man was
one Of the participants In the
dispute. He was taken to Johns
Hopkins Hospital, but attendant.
would not disclose his identity no,
the nature OF his wounds.
Evening star., 1949-08-27
Rupert Lloyd Assigned
To Paris as Vice Consul

Rupert Alstyne Lloyd OF
Phoebus. Va, first Negro American
FOREIGN Service officer ever to be
assigned to Paris. has been trans
ferred to the Embassy there as
second secretary and vice consul.
the State Department announced
yesterday.
Mr.. Lloyd has served in Mica
ragua and Liberit. He entered the
Foreign Service in 1941.
A native Of Manassas, Va. he
was graduated from Dunbar High
School here and from Williams
College. He received his M. A.
degree from Harvard University
In 1881.
Mr.. Lloyd taught at Miner
Teachers College here in 1924,
at Atlantic University In 1858
and at Morgan State College at
Baltimore In 1940-41.
Evening star., 1949-08-27
Firm U. 5. Foreign Policy
Is Favored by Matthew'S
Nv the Assecjoted Press

TTTUSVuLE, Pa. Aug. a.
Secretary of the Navy Matthews
said today that Americans can
"favorably resolve" the theological
conflict between East and West If
they "are ready to pay the price"
1--WE have learned through the
operations of the Truman doc
trine, the Marshall Plan and the
Atlantic pact that we can hold of
aggression If we demonstrate
firmness of purpose and adequate
military strength to back up our
foreign policy" Mr.. Matthews said.
He described the military aid
program now before Congress as
"the latest phase Of our plan for
the progressive development OF
international stability and world
peace"
In his address at the Goth an
niversary celebration of the drill
ing of Americas first commercial
oil well, the Navy Secretary blamed
communism" for men
acing the peace of the world"
Evening star., 1949-08-27
Union Veterans Asked
ToMeet Once More in
North Carolina Town
BY the Associoted Press

WILSON, N. c.. Aug. 81
The South extended the hand
of friendship today to the boys
who marched through Geor-
gia with Sherman.
The Wilson Chamber of
Commerce invited the Grand
Army of the. Republic to hold
its final encampment at VIII
son in 1850. The invitation
was addressed to Charlie
Chapel, 102-year-old vice
commander of the GAR.
What Is termed the final
annual encampment Of the
group" is under way at In
dianapolis.
But Wilson wants the Union
veterans of the Civil War to
meet just one more time-and
to meet in Wilson as a ges-
ture that nobody is mad.
Evening star., 1949-08-27
Wallace Supporters Lunch
with Tito on Adriafic Isle .
,sy ths Asseeistsd Press

LONDON. Aug. 27.-Premier
Marshsl Tito lunehed with q
group Of American supporters Of
Henry A. Wallace on the ,Adriatic
island Of iBrioni Thursday, the
cfIicial Yugoslav news agency
Tanjug said last night.
Tanjug said In . broadcast
heard here that the group In
cluded Louis Adamic, the writer,
Jerome Davis. educator and so
ciologist; Henry Pratt Fairchild
social scientist. and Of. Kirtley
Mather, . geolegist. =
In the course Of q lengthy
conversation" the agency re-
ported Marshal Tito replied to, q
number OF questions about Yugo-
slavia OF interest to the, pro-
gressive people in America"
It said the group had been II,
Yugoslavial several days after
visiting Poland. Czechoslovakia
J Hungary Ind other countries.
Evening star., 1949-08-27
t5oPound s,ie Is Stolen
From Closet With $500

Theft Of ! 150-pound safe con-
tanning $500 was reported to po-
lice last night b. Samuel Parzow,
1882 fourteenth street NE. who
said it was taken from = closet in
his room. z: '
Police said q neighbor reported
seeing two. men carrying away
what looked like . safe about q
half hour before the theft was
discovered.
william "A. TaylSr. manager OF
q safeway Store at 1880 Narth
Capitol street. told police three
|colored boys snatched 1888 from .
cash register shortly before clos
ing time last night.
Evening star., 1949-08-27
Gorvey Doy Celebration
To Be Held Tomorrow

A Marcus Garvey Day celebra-
ton will be held at 7 pm. tomor-
row in Carolina hall, 1917 Yer.
mont avenue NV.
The meeting, sponsored by the
Corain Union. will hear Attorney
Russell Morris and DR.. A. Lang
ston Taylor discuss THE Future
of the Garvey Movement. Mr..
Garvey sponsored a Back to AZ
rica" movement for Negroes In
hsl4. 4
Evening star., 1949-08-27
12-Story Office Building
Planned at 14fh and H

Plans are being drawn up for
a. 12-story modern Office building
on property fronting on Four
teenth and H streets and New
York avenue NV.
A parking lot and q smaller
building now occupy the site.
The new building will be at the
rear of the proposed new York
Avenue Presbyterian Church.
A. r. Clas is the architect Of
the project, which is under direc-
ton of the Virginia Hotel Co.,
a holding group for the Joseph
E. Henry Willard Estates. owners
of the land. The estates former
ly owned the Willard Hotel until
about three years ago.
Evening star., 1949-08-27
Traffic Plan at Church Shows
Small Parks Need Champion

knows what is most needed from
the standpoint of trafl1c and safe
ty. The District apparently feels
It is very important to do some
thing-they would not do 1t II
they did not consider it very i'm
portant."
Mr.. Root, Of course. Is concerned
about the appearance. of the plot
His staff has made pencil sketch
of q plan for resodding, planting
shrubbery and trees and putting
concrete benches on either side
Of the channel.
Mr.. Root is considering this
plan, and If 1t is approved the
Parks onicials will ask that the
District do the work in return fol
permission to put the street ovel
its land. Mr.. Root has not YET
signed the permit for the project
but indicated 1t would be done.
Street to Be Narrowed.
The plan calls for q narrowing
Of H street from 20 feet to % feet
along the tip Of the triangle
which Mr.. Root said would resul.
in approximately the same amount
Of park space as is now in the plot
wen guarantee that it will bt
Just as attractive as we can make
it." he said. But he noted thai
there win be more pavement.
and that people who are opposed
to pavement naturally would moi
like any plan we made.
There apparently is no provision
specifically to inform the public
In advance Of such minor
projects as the one contemplated
While the Highway Department
does not withhold the informa.
ton, it Is more or less . matter o1
newsmen's seeking it out.
Mr.. Harrison said the work was
not considered of sufficient scope
to call q public hearing on it
While certain street changes. such
as an alteration Of the main high.
way system or the changing OF 9
street name, are required by law
to be subjects of public hearings
the Commissioners use their dis
cretion on other matters.
1--WE could not" said Commis-
sioner Guy Mason, hold . public
hearing on every street change
that is made or we would have
time for nothing else"
Members Of the church now are
studying blueprints of the chan.
Inelization project to decide
whether they will lodge a protest
against 1t with District officials.
Engineer of Streets 8. r. Harri.
son said the work on the triangle
would not be begun for a few
weeks. and that the church mem
bers would have ample time ir
which to present their views be.
fore It Is done.
Evening star., 1949-08-27
Road Widening
.ContractLet
lin Bethesda
Wisconsin Avenue
Project Completion
Due Before Winter

Work will be started soon or
the widening and modernizatior
of q badly congested section o.
Wisconsin avenue, Bethesda, be.
tween East-West highway and the
southern boundary Of the Nava
Medical Center grounds.
In announcing the award Of 9
Job contract yesterday. the Mary.
land State Roads Commission
said half of the project can bt
completed before winter weather
sets in.
The road will be a four-lane
divided highway with a raised me.
dian strip separating northbounc
and southbound traffic lanes. The
curb-to-curb width will be 10 feet
The Roads Commission said the
contract was awarded to the vii.
moth Paving Co. of Washington
for $565.500.
Right-of-Way Unsolved.
The work will proceed although
all rights-of way problems have
not been solved. Clinton johnson
public relations director for the
commission, said the commission
will file suit next week to bring
about settlements for seven par.
GELS of land still needed on the
east side of the thoroughfare. Ne.
gotiations are being conducted ir
an effort to reach agreements or
other parcels, some on both sides
of the road.
The Montgomery County Coun-
Gil has been pressing for a start
on the big job, which Is expected
to relieve one of the worst tafht
bottlenecks in the suburbs. Wis
consin avenue in Bethesda car
ries a heavy load of commuters
and also is the artery for Route
240, through Frederick.
The council originally agreed
to bear all right-of-way costs and
pay for the construction of curbs
cutters, sidewalks and storm
drainage facilities. 1t withdrew
the agreement on right-of-way
however, when it experienced diff
ficulty with many property own
ers along the route.
County Pays Half of Costs.
Subsequently, the roads COM
mission agreed to bear half OF
the right-of-way costs if the
county would bear the rest.
Working together, the commission
and council conducted negotia-
tions which brought most Of the
owners into the fold.
Mr.. johnson said the roads
commission decided to award the
contract now so the whole job
would not have to wait until next
year. He expressed confdenct
that the commission and council
can keep ahead of the contractor
In the matter of disputed rights
of-way. He indicated that the
first phase of the Improvement
program would affect the east side
of the avenue.
If half of the work is COM
pleted before winter, Mr.. john
son said, the thoroughfare can be
kept open to traffic during bad
weather, and the second phase of
construction can be started next
spring.
Evening star., 1949-08-27

months in the Pacific during the
last war as deputy chief OF stan
Of the 7th Air Force, .Hickarn Air
Force Base, Hawaii. and later rs
assistant plans ofncer ut several
Central Pacific Theater installa-
tions.
From April, lS4S. until his re-
cent appointment as chief Of stan
he was inspector general Of MATS.