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Evening star., 1949-08-15
Unemployment,
Illness Blamed
In Suicide Lean
Notes Found on Body
Of Lewis Harvey After
Calvert Bridge Jump

Dependency induced by i'll
health and unemployment was
blamed today for the suicide leap
of Lewis Bolton Harvey, SO, from
the Calvert street bridge yester-
day.
Robert Segal of the Park Lane
Apartments, 2025 I Street N. W..
told police he was crossing the
bridge at $40 pm. and saw Mr..
Harvey leap from the south side
Of the 125-foot structure.
The body struck an abutment
several feet from the ground and
bounced onto the grass bordering
Rock Creek parkway.
Two notes were found on the
body. identified by a social security
card. In one, Mr.. Harvey gave
the address of former lodgings in
the 1900 block of Seventeenth
Street N. w., from where he moved
to the Cairo Hotel about a week
ago.
Mr.. Harvey wrote that he saw
mo future" and left instructions
for disposition of the body. In
the other note. he left his per-
sonal effects to Ralph Cline, 1474
Columbia Road. N. W., whom he
described as his best friend"
Until a month ago Mr.. Harvey
had been employed for two years
at the Colony House. a furniture
company at 1914 Connecticut
avenue NV. Before that he had
worked at Woodward & Lothrop.
He was discharged from his last
position after several periods of
absenteeism, Colony House officials
said.
A week ago he left the Abe
marie Apartments at 1880 Seven
teenth street NV. when the man
ager, Mrs. LIE Claire Hoover, need
ed his room because of illness.
Mrs. Hoover described Mr.. Harvey
as a gentleman who kept his
room in perfect order"
Appeared Desp0ndent.
A bachelor, Mr.. Harvey had
roomed for % years with his
friend, Mr.. Cline, before the lat
ter's mother came here to estab-
lish home for Mr.. Cline and
his sister Florence.
When he moved recently to the
Cairo Hotel. Mr.. Harvey tele-
phoned the Cline home to tell
his friend. However, Mr.. Cline
was in the Midwest on a business
trip.
Mrs. Hoover said Mr.. Harvey
seemed despondent when she
talked to him last Friday. but
gave no indication of taking his
life.
His closest relatives are aunts
living in Philadelphia and Will
mington. Del,
Deputy Coroner Christopher j.
Murphy issued a certificate of
suicide today.
Evening star., 1949-08-15
Business Mems Group
Will Meet Wednesday

The Federation of Businessmen S
Associations, Inc. will meet at
8:15 pm. Wednesday to vote on
whether it will endorse the United
Community Services in connec-
ton with the coming Chest drive.
The meeting will be held in
the board room of the American
Security and Trust Co.
The federation has not endorsed
the services for the past two
years, Louis F. Frick, secretary,
said, because it felt "too many
organizations were included which
were not contributing their serv-
ices to charity in the ordinary
sense of the word"
Evening star., 1949-08-15
Woman Hurt When Car
Leaves ARLINGTON Road

Mrs. Ola Gay Dye. 43, of the
900 block of North Vermont street.
Arlington, was injured early today
when the car in which she was
riding ran off the road in the 310O
block of Wilson boulevard.
Mrs. Dye was admitted to Ar
lington Hospital with a possible
fractured leg and nose. Arlington
police said she was riding in a
car driven by Marshall E. Sedford
SO, also of the 900 block of North
Vermont street. Police said Mr.
Sedfofd told them his steering
wheel locked. He was uninjured
Evening star., 1949-08-15

trip at Colton's Point in St. Marys
County. Md.
Mrs. Powless, who lived at GA A
Street N. E, had been fishing with
two male companions. one of
whom almost lost his life in an
attempt to rescue her, according
to Maryland State Police.
He was Allen A. Rowe. also of
the A street address. The third
member OF the party was his
brother, Robert F. Rowe of 435
Tenth street NE.
Boat Ran Out of Gas.
The Rowes told police they
rented row boat to which they
attached an outboard motor.
When the water became choppy.
they started for shore but were
forced to stop about q mile out
when the motor ran out Of gas.
Mrs. Powless fell overheard
while Allen Rowe, who was pilot
ing the boat, was refilling the gas
tank. When the men saw her,
she was floating face down about
Is yards from the boat. Neither
man saw her fall in the water,
they said.
Allen Rowe swan toward Mrs
Powless but was unable to reach
her because the current soon wild
ened the space between them. Rob-
ert Rowe meanwhile succeeded
in getting the motor started, and
picked his exhausted brother out
of the water
Mrs. Powless' body was found
shortly after noon yesterday by q
couple who were grabbing along
shore. DR.. Julian S. Lane, St
Marys County medical examiner
issued a certificate of accidental
death due to drowning.
Survived by Parents.
Mrs. PoWless is survived by hel
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Daniel v
Richardson, 1910 Fifty-seventh
avenue, Hillside, and hVe children
James P. Shugart, also of Hillside;
Pvt Donald Hughes. Fort Bliss
Tex, and Doris, Mary and Frances
Hughes of Washington. Mrs
Richardson said her daughter had
been married three times. He1
husband, Ralph Powless. lives in
Pine Ridge, S. Oak.
Other survivors include two sis
ters. Mrs. Lillian Stewart and Mrs
Agnes Baker. both of Hillside, and
five brothers, Stephen, Harvey and
Calvin Richardson, all of Wash
ington: John Richardson, Acco-
keek, Md. and Vincent Richard
son. Hillside.
Burial will be in Cedar Hill
Cemetery.
Evening star., 1949-08-15
Falls Church Opens
Drive on Unlicensed
Business Concerns

Falls Church police today
launched drive against non
resident businessmen accused of
operating in the city without
paying a business license tax.
Chief E. H. Howe said the first
man arrested was Leonard Brown,
2205 Twentieth street North. Ar
lington. who was taken into GUS
tody as he made deliveries in
Falls Church for Genes Launder-
ers and Cleaners, Fifth road North
and North Randolph street, Ar
lington.
The annual license fee for norv
resident laundry trucks is 5000.
Laundry and cleaning trucks
operated for Falls Church busi-
nessmen are assessed $25 on the
first $4,000 of gross business in
the previous year and 10 cents
on each additional S100.
Mr.. Brown was charged with
violating a tax ordinance and re-
leased without bond. He was Or
dered to appear at 10 am. tomor-
row before Trial Justice William
T. Finley in Municipal Court.
Chief Howe said other out-of-
town businessmen found operat-
ing in the city without a munich
pal license would be arrested.
Those doing business for District
firms, or for other businesses out
side of Virginia, will be required
to post bond.
The Chief said he is contactina
81, 81 Falls Church firms which 81
FAR hayeifailed to pay the tax. duo
in June. He is to report to the
City Council The names Of busis
fnessn1en who do not pay after he
has contacted them.
Evening star., 1949-08-15
Bill 10 Extend
Social Security
Nearly Ready
House Group Studies
PIun to Add II Million
To Those Covered
by the Associotsd Press

The House Ways and Means
Committee is putting finishing
touches on legislation intended to
insure about 100000 of Amer
ica's working people against want
in their old age.
Moreover, the legislation-if 1T
becomes laW-would
/. Increase by about 10 per cent
the benefits being received BY
2,500.000 persons now retired, pr
by their survivors If they hafe
died. Increase by an average pf
90 per cent the benefits of insurkd
persons yet to retire, or to th&r
survivors if they die. I
2. Liberalize by about $160 ,000.-
900 the Federal participation with
the States in granting public as
sistance, Or home relief, to needy
persons not covered by the insur-
ance program. The Federal Gov
eminent now is contributing about
s1,100, 0,00o,000 a year for this pur-
pose. }
New Category Proposed.
3. Create a new category-the
totally and permanently disabled
persons-for protection under both
the insurance and public ASSIST
ance divisions of the Social Sc
curity program.
In the insurance program
the workers and their employ
ers pay for what the workers
get. Public assistance is direct
relief based on need.0
4. Increase the payroll taxes
that support the insurance pro-
gram. The committees new sched-
ule calls for an increase from
the present / per cent each on
employees pay and employers pay
rolls, to Y per cent on each next
January l, to per cent each On
January, 1851; 212 per cent In
1860; 3 per cent in 1865, and 3N
per cent on each In 1870. |
This is the most important
Social Security law revision ap-
proved by the committee since
1889 when Congress brought sur
vivors" of the insured into the
program, along with providing
benefits for the insured persons
in their old age.
The program goes long way
toward what President Truman
has asked Congress to do.
Final Action Seen Delayed
However. there is little chance
that the LEGISLATION will be ap-
proved finally this year. The Hou$e
may act upon it. A legislative
jam in the Senate probably will
cause that body to delay action
until 1860: .
The Ways and Means Commit
tees bill would add 100000
working persons to the insurance
program that now covers 35,000,-
900. President Truman had asked,
that 100000 additional workers
be covered.
Largest uncovered groups that
would be brought into the pro-
gram are the self-employed (ex-
cept some professional groups).
domestic servants and employees Of
State and local governments df
these local governments approve).
The biggest groups that still
would remain outside the insur-
ance are about 100000 farm
operators and about 5000 900 farm
hands.
Evening star., 1949-08-15
Joust Set for Wednesday
Al Marshall Hall Park

Professional and amateu
= knights will ride Wednesday in the
64th annual jousting tournament
at Marshall Hall Park.
The event will begin at l pm
and the winner will crown his
Queen of Love and Beauty" at
8 pm. in the park ballroom.
State Senator James B. Monroe
OF Charles County will address the
knights before the fitting begins
James B. Bland of Suitland will
act as chief marshal.
A. D. Langley of Arlington, Va.
who has managed the joust for
more than 40 years. has named a
committee on arrangement COM
posed of r. A. Hungerford, L. C
Addison and Charles County Sher-
IL Elmer M. Quade. ~
Evening star., 1949-08-15
Water Show Scheduled
At Bunnecker Pool

King Neptune and Queen Nep-
tune will be crowned at the 18th
annual water show at Bannecker
swimming pool, $500 Georgia ave-
nue. NV. at 8 pm. Thursday. The
show is sponsored by the District
Recreation Department.
Kenneth Washington will be
King Neptune and Geneva Turner
will be queen. Other events will
include water ballet, clown diving,
formation and rhythm swimming
Evening star., 1949-08-15
DouqIus HYDE Exhibit

The death of Douglas Hyde, the
first President of Fire. will be COM
memorated in an exhibit from
August 20 through September 80
to the Main Exhibition Hall of the
Library of Congress. Manuscript
materials, printed materials and
an autographed portrait Of the
Gaelic scholar will be shown.
Evening star., 1949-08-15

2 pm. tOmOr-
row at the Mat
tingly funeral
home, 131 Elev-
enth street Sc.
Mrs. PoWleSS,
a former wait
ress who had
been recovering
from a series
of operations,
drowned about
7 pm. Satur-
day in the Po-
tomac r iv e 7
while returning
from a fishing
Evening star., 1949-08-15
Norfolk Group Protests
PoIicemun's Transfer
By the Associated Press

NORFOLK, Va, Aug. 15.-The
City Employees Protective Associ-
alton is asking City Manager C..
A. Harrell to intercede in behalf
of Police Sergt. Leon Nowitzky.
Sergt. Nowitzky, after serving
81 years as homicide detective,
recently was assigned to street
sergeant duties.
The association, which has 750
members, yesterday labeled Sergt.
Nowitzky's transfer q sin and
q shame"
Evening star., 1949-08-15
Catholic Archdiocese
Moves Chuncery Office

The Chancery Office of the
Catholic Archdiocese of Washing
ton completed its move from 1928
Rhode Island avenue NV. to 1719
Rhode Island NV. over the week
end.
The new building will afford
more Office space for the Chancery,
the Archdiocesan Tribunal and
other functions.
The Chancery's old Offices will
be used for priests attached to St.
Matthew Cathedral and for visit
ing bishops and priests, it was said.
Evening star., 1949-08-15
Gallery to Offer Lecture
On 'EnqIish Painting

Miss Elisabeth Puckett. lecturer
at the National Gallery of Art,
will discuss English Painting" at
4 pm. next Sunday in the gallery
lecture hall.
Picture of the week this week is
Constable's "A View of Salisbury
Cathedral.
She will give daily talks on the
picture at 1890 and 2:30 pm,
and at 2:30 and $50 pm. next
SUNDAY,
Evening star., 1949-08-15
Edwin Unqer to Speak

v. Edwin Unger of Fedralsburg,
Md, new Governor of the 267th
District, Rotary International, will
address a meeting Of the Rotary
Club of Washington at 1915 pm.
Wednesday in the Mayfiower
Hotel.
Evening star., 1949-08-15

rides for children, a creased pig
contest and a redhead contest dur
ing the three day festival.
Entries for the redhead girl con-
test are being received at festival
in the Falls Church
garage display room. Lee highway
and Hillwood avenue.
Evening star., 1949-08-15
Leqion Post to Elect

The George S. Patton, jr., Tank
Corp Post No. 19 will elect officers
at pm. Wednesday at the Amer
lean Legion Clubhouse. 2437 Fiji
teenth street NV.
Evening star., 1949-08-15
You Don't Have to Miss q Thinq
When you go on vacation you don't have to mi

,acation. you don't have to miss thing.
You can relax and still get all the news
and features from home as published by
your favorite newspaper. The Star.
You can have The Evening and
Sunday Star mailed to you for only
81 so month.
The Star is also available at news
stands or by carrier delivery at most
nearby summer resorts.
Arrange to have your favorite news
paper follow you wherever you CO. Call
.tion delivery of The Evening and sun
Evening star., 1949-08-15
Mrs. Evelyn Pow|ess,
Drowning Victim, 10 Be
Buried Tomorrow

Funeral services for Mrs. Evelyn
Powless, 38-year- old Washington
mother of five children, who
drowned Saturday. will be held at
Evening star., 1949-08-15

Sterling 5000 for vacation delivery of The Evening and Sun
day Star.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1949-04-22

that final action at all should be taken the Israeli
picaon during the present session of the Assembly and
that voting be postponed until the September session
BY that time the u N. Cancellation Commission will be
ready with its report regarding the INSTRUMENTATION of
Jerusalem to which the Israeli Government objects Those
interested in putting obstacles in the way of Israe appa
ton convinced that they will be able to utilize the report
of the Cancellation Commission for their"purposes How
ever the prosrae forces at Lake Success not sitting
by idly They intend to that the vote srael admis
sion to u N membership should be TAKEN under all crcum
the present session of the Assembly The fight
behind the will into the open at the end of this
month"; during the first week of May when the Political
Committee will have to bring its decision to the General AS
semby 1t is admitted by u N. officials that Israeli dplo
mats at the United Nations overcondent about Is
raes immediate admission to the United Nations They
therefore, did practically nothing to foresa any possible
action the part of the antsrae forces in the United
Nations . This will be rectified 49,.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1949-04-22
THE UNITED NATIONS
BY BORIS SINCLAIR

Israeli diplomats at the United Nations
are not exactly disappointed over the fact
that the General Assembly declined to
vote outright on Israel's application for
u N. membership and turned the matter
over to its Political Committee But Is
rael's enemies at Lake Success are elated
bv this move of the Assembly ID. Led by
Britain, they are now conducting cam
paign behind the scenes at Lake Success
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1949-04-22
REPORT ON
MICHIGAN
BY DAVID SCHWARTZ
Copyright. 1949, Jewish Telegraphic
Agency, Incl

ABOUT now one would like to be
back in Michigan
back on the farm
with a milk pail on my arm.
The Michigan of today is not so
bucolic. The automobile revolu-
ton mainly pivots about Michi-
gan and the state today is largely
industrialized.
Jewish settlement of Michigan,
! gather from Phil Slomovitz' ar
ticle in the Universal Jewish En-
cyclopedia, dates back to pre-
revolutionary days. In 1863 there
were a few Jewish settlers in
what was then Indian country.
The first STABLE Jewish settle
ment, however, did not occur I'M
til around 1850.
Michigan is one of the states
which the British during the War
of 1912 counted on to make part
of the Indian puppet country I'M
der British rule had they been
more successful in that war. The
British didn't like the whites en-
tering this part of the country.
The British always like the least
progressive. They are much more
easy to order about.
Detroit is the home of Editor
Slomovitz, president of the Ang-
lo-JewiSh publishers association.
There is a certain geographical
fitness in this for Michigan has
been rather focal point of
American Jewish news in recent
years.
Henry Ford lived in Michigan.
Ditto Father Coughlin. Gerald
Smith. To this last might be add
ed Claire Hoffman.
Editor Slomovitz can tell you
many an interesting story about
the elder Ford, of the time he was
summoned to meet Ford, of
Ford's relations with Rabbi
Franklin, etc. The present Ford
policy, as Mr.. Slomovitz informs
me, is quite radically changed
and perhaps the best evidence of
this was the visit here few days
ago of His Excellency, Mr.. Elath,
the Israeli ambassador to the
United States. Mr.. Elath was
most courteously received by the
Ford organization and later flew
back to Washington in a Ford
airplane.
One day Slomovitz, in his book
of "reminiscences, will also relate
some of those wonderful stories
about Ossip Gabrilowitch, the
famous conductor of the Detroit
Symphony Orchestra, who was
a son-in-law of Mark Twain.
Gabrilowitch was of course Jew
ish, but his early training had
been very un-Jewish. However,
he became intensely Zionist, and
made several visits to Palestine
Slomovitz recalls how his wife,
Mrs. Clara Clemens Gabrilowitch
at the beginning of the Nazi agi-
tation, expressed her concern
over her daughter, since as she
put it, she was half-Jewish.
Michigan, by the way, is also
the home of the Council of Juda-
ism. Your correspondent had the |
of speaking at the tenn
pie in Pontiac in which this or
ganization was born. Today the |
rabbi of the temple, Rabbi RoSen-
baum, is very ardent Zionist.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1949-04-22

way with their spokesman they enlisted the aid
of Christian people who have mouthed their superficial plat
form to mslead the general public regarding the whole
hearted acceptance of the state of Israel and the
attitude of American JewrY this democratic
wealth in the Middle East
AS example of the shallow thinking espoused by the
Council print below four paragraphs Of speech delivered
by Kermit Roosevelt to the Philadelphia chapters meeting
held last week:
neither right nor 1vise for American
commit himself vtou reservation to the support of
foreign The sound formation of democratic foreign
policy the confidence of all citizens that each
honestly concerned for the good-and
special foreign
"Wishtul thinking part of obscure
the fact that America forced choose betDeem the
friendship old aly Britain Of improved Israel
there question but that choice must be Britain
eve should this country If the TsraeliS
antdgomze large segment of American opinion,
endamger important American national interests will
other Americans hold their teloDctizens of e10is faith
blame?
1T my unhappy convinced opinion that the att
ude of Israeli a0hch insists identifying itself uith all
the Jeos of the uUord holds danger of nnti-Se
sm than this country has get SEEM"
Kermit Roosevelt is fundamentally in when he
assumes that anSemism is caused by anything that Jews
may do fail to do nti-Semtism disease which in
c nonJews and is they who need the rather than
Inc victims. When Kermit the words placed In his
mouth by the Council he unwittngY becomes tool in the
hands of anti-Semes who looking for reasons
matter how far fetched-to spread the baci of Jewhatred
Gerald L. K Smith has frequently referred to the Council
as his authority on anti-Semitic remarks
We glad that Southern JewrY has only handful OF
chapters of the Council although have come across com
munities including where there are Jews VINO
think Tor better put. DON'T TENK) the Council These
renegade Jews however smart enough not to ldenfY
themselves Council members being content to stab pro-
sessve Jewish institutions in the back and do their work
surreptitiouslY.
The Council is menace the future security of Ameri
can Jewry inecs false and ambiguous issues before the
general public and doubt and confusion 1t spreads
ue the fire of anSemitism 1t tends to dlsunlte the
FORCES among the ranks of American Jewry 1t IS the out
standing dscordant note in the most beautiful symphony OF
modern times the establishment of the state OF israel
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1949-04-22
The Infamous Council For Judaism, Inc.

This weekend in Chicago the
American Council for Judaism. Inc.
is holding its fifth annual conven-
ton. We would not be concerned
with this infamous group of a few
hundred dispirited and dissident
souls except that this organization
Of bitter anti-Zionists frequently
breaks out in public print with vio-
lent anti-Jewish propaganda which
subjects the large majority of our
Jewish people to shame and ridicule.
Having failed to gain much head
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1949-10-21
WHEN IS A CHILD SEcURE7
TOPIC or STUDY CLUB
SPEAKER AT HALLE OCT. "a

When is a Child Secure?" II
the topic to be discussed by Mrs.
Pearl T. Cummings Of the Insti-
tute Of Child Welfare, University
OF Minnesota, at the initial meet
ing of the Child Study Club at 8
p. m. Monday. Oct. "A at Halle
O. Brown house.
This discussion win mark the
beginning Of an opportunity for
parents OF the community to get
sound information and counseling
on physical and psychological
problems affecting them and their
children.
The Child Study group Is sched-
uled to meet at 8 p. m. the third
Monday Of each month. At each
session q specialist In child de-
Velopment viii be present to give
new information and answer ques-
lions which cannot be solved by
discussion within the group.
Such specialists are being made
available by the Children's Ser
vice, Inc, Family Nursing Service
and the Community Chest Speak
er's Bureau.
Lectures and group discussions
well be supplemented from time
TO time with movies, socio-dramas
and case study examples.
This program 10 being featured
by the Young Adult department
OF Halle as a result Of interest ex-
pressed by parents in the COM
munity.
All parents and friends are in
vited to attend. For further in
formation cali Dale s27s or Mrs.
Margaret Young, Mulberry 1889.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1949-10-21
Mrs. J. w. crVmp Is
Community Chest
Solicitor copfuin

Mrs. J. w. Crump, $50 Fuller
st., Is the Captain of Team II Of
a group Of Community Chest
solicitors. Mrs. Crump Is the first
Negro in st. Paul to be named
captain Of such a group.
Lieutenants soliciting under
her are Mrs. Cecil Bagbee, Hector
Vassar, Mrs. Minnie Robinson and
Mrs. Fred Ashby. Workers In
Team IT are the Mines. James
Boyce, Esther Zachary. b. Ever
son, B. c. Archer, bessie Clemens,
James Thomas. b. Shelton. Miss
Virginia jackson and b. c. Archer.
Some Of the Community Chest
solicitors for Team 10 are the
Mines. Margaret Young. Prentiss
Harris, John Patton. lieutenants.
and some Of the workers are Miss
Eva Lghtfoot and John Whitaker.