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Evening star., 1950-02-25
Cut in April Relief
Payments Deferred by
Board 10 May |

The Board of Public Welfare
has deferred a proposed cut of
8 per cent in relief payments
until May /, 1t was announced
today. The board previously had
announced the cut would be put
into effect with the April pay
ments.
The cut is necessitated, the
board said yesterday. by the in
crease in the number of persons
seeking relief. The appropriation
was intended to take care of 225
new cases month. This was the
number it was estimated would
qualify for relief in the $50 addi-
tional requests made each month.
The number has risen to 800 re-
quests a month and still is grow
ing.
$4,000 More Asked.
A deficiency appropriation Of
$4,000 has been asked from Con-
gress and, If granted, the cut will
not be made. Persons on relief
already have received cuts Of IL
per cent during the past year.
Relief payments are based on the
1916 cost of living.
The board also has requested
the Commissioners to ask for
another deficiency appropriation
of S46,363 to pay for the tuition
of wards of the board in homes
in Maryland and Virginia.
Children from the District have
been placed in foster homes in
Maryland and Virginia since 1892
and because they were being taken
care of by residents of those States,
they were not required to pay
tuition fees in the public schools
in those States. The District, how
ever. has placed a tuition cost on
students from Maryland and Vir-
ginia and these States also put a
charge on the wards. The board
did not foresee this action and
there is no money in its budget to
pay the costs.
Contract Approved.
The board also approved con-
tract with the Berkshire Indus
trial Farm at Canaan, N. Y, to
take care of wards who are in need
of emotional care. This care can
not be provided in any of the in
stitutions controlled by the board
in the District.
Following the meeting a recep-
ton was held for John M. Tram
burg. former director who resigned,
to take over the position of well
fare director in Wisconsin.
Evening star., 1950-02-25
Two Residence Halls
To Close July 81

Commissioner John Taylor
Egan of the Public Housing Ad-
ministration today announced two
wartime dormitories, Arlington
Farms and Midway Residence
Hall, will close July 81.
Arlington Farms is near Ar
lington Cemetery, while Midway
Hall is near Oklahoma avenue
and Benning road NE. Both have
been operating at a loss recently
Mr.. Egan said.
The Public Building Service
which manages the properties for
PHA, said a study showed the
Government would be faced with
a very substantial deficit on an
average occupancy of 1900 girls. -
This would be true even if both
operations were combined, it said
This leaves no alternative than
an orderly closing Of the hall.
and transfer of most of the girls
into private accommodations for
single persons Of which there
appears to be an adequate supply. u
said the announcement.
Arlington Farms, built for 1890
Government girls, at the end OF
last month had only 1,763, official,
said. Midway Hall, built to house
453 girls, had only 157 Janu-
ary 81.
At various times it has been
announced that Arlington Farms
would close, but up to now an
extension always has been given
Evening star., 1950-02-25
Mount Rainier Boptists
Plan Groundbreokino

Members of First Baptist Church
of Mount Rainier will attend q
groundbreaking ceremony for their
new $4,000 church at 3 pm. to-
morrow at Thirty-second and
Shepherd streets, Mount Rainier.
The Rev. C. C. Thomas of Bal
timore, executive secretary of the
Maryland Baptist Convention, and
DR.. Eldon w. Koch of Berwyn,
Md, moderator of the Southern
Maryland Association Of Baptists,
will be the speakers. The Rev.
Donald l.. Harlan is pastor of the
church,
Evening star., 1950-02-25
Two Road-C Camp Fugitives
Still al LARGE in VIRGINIA

Two prisoners who escaped from
Virginia State Road Camp No. 13,
Woodbridge, were still at large
today after an all-night search
with bloodhounds.
Charlie Skinner, 20, and Roy
c. Stages, %, got out of the camp
about 2 pm. yesterday by filing
through leg shackles. Guards said
they did not know what the pris-
oners used for files. They had
been shackled for refusing to work
The escape was discovered when
a passerby reported seeing two
convicts dash into the woods.
Skinner was serving five years
for housebreaking and Stages was
serving two years for grand
larceny,
Evening star., 1950-02-25

A new alcoholic treatment CEN
ter to be built here by the Saliva
ton Army will provide an alcoho-
lie with virtually everything he
wants except drink.
There will be pool tables and
television. There will be lounge
where a man can sit and talk
with his friends. There also will
be abstinence and nightly church
services.
Ground will be broken next
week for the new 100000 center
at Ninth and ! streets NV. Plans
call for its completion in about six
months.
The two-story building will be
known as the Harbor Light Corps.
Must Attend Services.
"One idea behind the plan is to
give a man everything he would
get in tavern except a drink. A
man will be able to talk with his
pals-that's one reason they drink
in the first place." says 1t. Col
Wesley w. Bouterse, commander
of the National Capital Division
of the Salvation Army. But a
man must attend church service
before he gets meal or a bed
The basement will contain a
dining room. On the first floor
will be lounge, recreation room
and 168-seat chapel. A dormitory
for 48 men will be on the second
floor.
If medical or psychiatric treat
ment is needed. the alcoholic will
be sent to Gallinger Hospital, Col.
Bouterse said.
Evening star., 1950-02-25
Vaughan Promotes Federal
Building in Home Town
by the Assoeio,sd Press

Maj. Gen. Harry H. Vaughan,
military aide to President Tru-
man, is reported interested in get
ting a Federal building sometime
in the future for his home town
of Glasgow, Mo.
Representative Moulder, Demo-
crat, of Missouri, in whose con-
gressional district the town is To-
Gated, told a reporter Gen
Vaughan has asked him If he
would have any objection in event
site were contributed by Glasgow
in the hope that a Federal build
ing later could be obtained there.
Mr.. Moulder said he replied that
he had no objection. He added
he believes that If the site is con-
tributed without cost, it would not
conflict with selection of some
other town in his district also for
the purchase of a site and prep
aration Of building plans.
No money has been asked of
Congress for any post Office con-
struction in the year starting July
/, but a program for site acquisi-
tions and building planning is un-
der way.
Evening star., 1950-02-25
Trade Board Official
Hits Home Rule Bill

A Board of Trade official yes
terday attacked the Kefauver
home rule bill as being most un-
acceptable to the people of Wash
ington."
Edward F. colladay, general
counsel for the board, told a
luncheon meeting of the Reel
procity Club that the bill is not
home rule at all and does not fit
the needs of the people here.
Mr.. Colladay said that under
the bill two members of the city
council would be presidential ap-
pointees and the city manager
would be appointed without Sen
ate confirmation. He said such
appointments are a violation of
"all the rules of local govern
ment."
Meanwhile, the District Depart
ment of the American Legion
voiced opposition to the Ke-
fauver bill.
The Legion sent letters to mem
bers to Congress saying Wash
ington belongs to the people of
the Nation-not to the inhabitants
thereof"
Evening star., 1950-02-25
Ditch Cove-In Fatality
Declared Accidental

A coroner's jury yesterday ruled
as accidental the death of a 40
year-old laborer who died in a
construction ditch cave-in Tues
day.
The victim, Erwin K. Brown,
colored, of 5019 Fitch place NE,
was working in the ditch at the
Fourteenth street entrance to the
Hains Point tourist camp. His
skull and chest were crushed.
Evening star., 1950-02-25
Separate Handling
0fD.C.Appropriations
Proposed by Cannon

The District 1851 appropriation
bill should be separated from the
omnibus supply measure for the
Federal Government, in the opin-
ion of Chairman Cannon of the
House Appropriations Committee
The Missouri Democrat said he
favored this move because most
of the funds come from District
taxpayers, and not out of the
general revenues of the Federal
Government.
He suggested. however, that the
s12 million Federal payment to-
ward city costs could be included
as an item in the omnibus meas
ure, since that would be a charge
against all Federal revenues.
Chairman Bates of the ap-
preparations subcommittee ham
ding the city measures, said he
welcomed the Cannon proposal,
although he had not discussed it
officially with any one. He said
he would rather have the city bill
considered by itself.
AS 1t went to Congress the Dis
trict budget totaled about $11s
million. but is believed to have
beeen cut by the Bates subcom-
mittee IS million or Sc million.
The city bill. however, has not yet
been acted on by the full APP
preparations Committee, or by the
Executive Committee which is
supposed to handle each chapter
of the big overall measure.
The omnibus bill probably will
come out of the Appropriations
Committee in report to the
House late in March or early in
April. But how the House will
handle it remains to be seen
There is some opposition to a
single measure on the part of GER
tain House leaders, but Chairman
Cannon plans to present it to the
House in one package.
Evening star., 1950-02-25
800 From Here Expected
To Make Rome Pilgrimage

Approximately 800 District area
residents will travel to Rome on
the official Washington Archdi-
ocesan Pilgrimage, Msgr. John s.
Spence, archdiocesan education
director, said today.
The group will leave by boat
on April %, Msgr. Spence. who is
spiritual leader of the pilgrimage,
said. The pilgrimage is sponsored
by the Most Rev. Patrick A.
O'Boyle, Archbishop of Washing
ton.
Msgr. Spence said there are a
few openings for the % and 48
day tours, which include stops at
number of important shrines
in addition to stays at Paris and
Rome. He suggested persons
wishing to fly to and from Europe
could join the groups at Paris.
Members of the Washington
tour will witness canonization
ceremonies of Blessed Anthony
Mary Claret in Rome on May Z.
Pope Plus XII is expected to take
part in that ceremony, which will
be held in s.. Peters Basilica.
Evening star., 1950-02-25

I'm our clinic we will stress re-
ligion," he added. 1--WE don't
mean just nose dives where a
man prays and then goes out and
gets drunk again.
If a man comes in and shows
a desire to be helped during a
church service, we will make an
appointment for an interview the
following day. If he comes back,
he's a good prospect"
100000 More Needed.
Col. Bouterse said all but 10000
of the required amount for the
Harbor Light Corps has been
raised. The remainder he hopes
to get soon through individual
contributions. There are about
80 other such clinics in the coun-
try, but this is the first in the
Salvation Army's Southern terri
tory. he said.
Clinic director will be Maj. Ver-
non Van Sykle, who is now in
charge of work in the downtown
area. An assistant director will
come from similar clinic in
Chicago.
If a man needs a job and shows
signs of being cured of alcoholism,
he will be provided a job at the
Salvation Army mems social serv-
ice department at First and F
streets NV. if there is a vacancy.
"A man will be able to stay at
the clinic as long as we feel he
needs care-maybe a year." said
Col. Bouterse. 1--WE will work in
our own way but will cooperate
with other alcoholic treatment
agencies"
Evening star., 1950-02-25
Shuttle Of ) Police
Captains Unexplained

The Police Departments Case
of the Quick Shuttle" was officially
labeled CLOSED" today.
Three police captains who were
ordered at $50 pm. Thursday to
switch precinct commands, were
still operating at their old stands,
as ordered at 1880 pm. Thursday.
Police Supt. Robert j. Barrett
cleared away little of the mystery
with the terse announcement,
through an administrative assist
ant, that he issued both orders.
Commissioner John Russell
Young filed in bit more Of the
puzzle with the information that
Maj. Barrett met with him and
Assistant Corporation Counsel
Daniel B. Maher shortly before
Order No. !.
Involved in the quick shuttle
were Capts. Anthony Richitt, No.
3 precinct; Charles Sullivan, No.
2 precinct, and John Fondahl, No.
8 precinct.
In answer to questions, a White
House secretary said the White
House had nothing to do with
order No. 2.
Evening star., 1950-02-25
D. {. Unit Of AFGE Meets
Toniqht on WAGE Survey

A meeting of representatives of
the District Government lodge Of
the American Federation Of Gov
ernment Employees will be held at
8 o'clock tonight at 1749 Pennsyl-
vania avenue NV.
The purpose. it was announced.
is to find ways and means to COM
pei the Commissioners to take ac-
ton towards authorizing a wage
board survey for about 5000 hourly
employees of the District.
Trail Price, jr., vice president of
the lodge, said the survey. which
would compare wages with those
in private industry, has not been
taken In years,
Evening star., 1950-02-25
Draft Case Defendant
Gets I 10 Il Months

A rooming house operator here
was sentenced yesterday in Dis
trict Court to serve from seven to
81 months for avoiding induction
into military service and refusing
to take a mental classification test.
He was sentenced by Judge T.
Alan Goldsborough.
The defendant, Holt F. Wilker-
son, jr., 26. colored, of the 1000
block of Forty second street NE,
was convicted on the charges by a
Jury on February 3. The offenses
are in violation of the Selective
Service Act of 1948.
At his trial, Wilkerson denied he
had refused to be indicted and
contended the charges grew out of
his objection to segregation in the
service.
Evening star., 1950-02-25
2Bus Accidents
Take One Life,
|njure Motorist
Union Stution Worker
Hurt Fatally While
Crossing Street

One man was killed and
woman narrowly escaped serious
injury last night in two traffic ac-
cidents involving buses.
Dead is William Herman Wood,
SIS. colored. of 1918 Sherman ave-
nue. NV, who was struck by
Pennsylvania Greyhound bus at
New York and New Jersey avenues
NV. He died in an ambulance en-
route to Freedmen's Hospital and
was taken to the Morgue.
It was the 18th District traffic
fatality this year, the same total
as at this time last year.
A railroad car cleaner at Union
Station, Mr.. Wood is survived by
his wife. who lives at the Sherman
avenue address. and 38-year-old
son of New York City.
Bus Rams Car
The driver of the bus which was
en- route to the terminal here
from Baltimore, was listed as Rob-
ert A. Edmonson, 33, of Baltimore.
Pvt. John J. Bobinger of the Ac-
cident Investigation Unit said Mr..
Wood was struck while walking
south across New Jersey avenue.
In the other bus accident, Mrs.
Geraldine Bender, %, of 1898
North Fourth street, Arlington,
escaped with bruises when the car
she was driving was rammed from
behind by a Capitol Greyhound
bus at Eleventh and I streets NV.
Mrs. Bender Is clerk at Fort
Myer. Va.
Police said Jennings J. Proud
foot, 26. of 1107 Eleventh street
NV. driver Of the bus, told them
his brakes slipped and he sweryed
into a tree in an attempt to avoid
hitting Mrs. Bender's car. The
rear end of Mrs. Bender's coupe
was caved in. and the car was
slammed against a Capital Tran
sit bus which had stopped for
a traffic light at New York avenue.
Pedestrian Injured.
The bus was empty except for
another driver. Charles W. West,
35, of Norfolk, Va. With the door
Dashed in by the impact against
the tree, both drivers were forced
to leave by the rear emergency
door.
Although the Capital Transit bus
was virtually Allied with passengers,
it was struck only slightly by Mrs.
Bender's car, and mo one was
scratched" according to B. T.
johnson, 80, of 1880 Lyman place
NE. the driver.
Ernestine Bradshaw, 30. of 1918
Rhode Island avenue NE, is in
Sibley Hospital with head injuries
and bruises which she told police
she suffered when struck by a car
near Seventeenth street and Rhode
Island avenue NE, last night.
Evening star., 1950-02-25
Store Operator Fined
On Numbers Churqe

Rennie H. Wilson, 43, Of the
5000 block of P street, Coral Hills,
Md, was fined $500 and given a
six-month suspended jail sentence
yesterday on charges of possess
ing numbers slips.
Wilson pleaded not guilty before
Trial Magistrate Alan Bowie in
Marlboro. Detective Wilson Fur
dy and 1t. Elon Turner Of Prince
Georges County police testified
they found numbers slips in the
rear Of a store operated by Wilson
in Capitol Heights.
Evening star., 1950-02-25

Wright used to give pupils demon
strations.
II used to get frightened" she
said. "All people talk different
ways. Some duck their heads.
and if a man has a mustache-
you can't understand him at ALL"
Furor in Schools.
Miss Wright and Miss Timber
lake remembered back in 1920
when they created a furor in the
public schools by getting a Wash
ington newspaper to publish their
simple hard-of hearing test. A
teacher who said only seven pupils
in all of Washington needed help
with their hearing was proved
wrong when 1,400 youngsters
turned up.
Miss Wright is responsible for
introducing hearing conservation
classes in the public schools. She
emphasized, however, that prob
ably thousands of pupils need
hearing assistance" and are not
getting it in schools.
One of the greatest values of
the society, according to the
three charter members, is the
recreation it affords the 275 men,
hers. More than 1000 persons are
serviced there each year.
Rehabilitation is offered through
lip reading classes. hearing aid
consultation service, audiometric
hearing tests. speech improve
ment classes, auditory training
and social activities.
Children are aided through
parent training classes, parent
study groups and summer pre-
school demonstration classes for
rororfe or6 rhi1Hran
Evening star., 1950-02-25
Civic Federation Asks
Power 10 Arrest for
School Custodians

The Federation Of Civic Asso-
Citations last night urged that Gus
todians and engineers in colored
schools be given the power to
make arrests.
The action stemmed from a
special committee report citing
drinking, dice games, fighting and
thievery in and near colored
schools.
More Police Protection Asked.
The committee, according to
Woolsey Hall, federation presi-
dent, queried teachers, school ad-
ministrators and students and
went through the findings with a
"fine-tooth comb"
Schools involved. as named in
the report, include Turner Ele-
mentary School. Garnet-Patter-
son, Randall and Banneker Junior
High Schools and Armstrong and
Dunbar High Schools. A Banneker
pupil recently was robbed, accord
ing to police reports.
The federation, meeting in the
District Building. also adopted
resolution demanding more police
protection for the students.
Pair Endorsed for Judgeship.
Departing from its usual prac-
tice, the organization agreed
unanimously to send it's indorse-
ment of Hubert B. Pair, Assistant
Corporation Counsel. to President
Truman for a Municipal Court
judgeship appointment.
Other adopted resolutions sought
to shift the municipal dog pound
from it's present location adjoin-
ing the Randall playground at
South Capitol and I streets and to
get 40-hour week for all Wash
ington police.
Evening star., 1950-02-25
By Jeanne Rogers

Three gray-haired women turned
off their hearing aids yesterday
and couldn't follow conversation.
That's the way it was 20 years ago.
On February IL, 1921, the same
three and 18 other hard-or- hear
ing persons met to organize the
Speech Reading Club of Washing
ton.
Under it's present name, the
Washington Hearing Society. a
Community Chest agency. the
organization will celebrate its 29th
anniversary from 2 to 4:30 pm.
today at its headquarters. 2431
Fourteenth street NV.
The three. who have made
guinea pigs of themselves to help
others, remember well the silent
days of the early 1900s. They are
Miss Mildred Harris, retired Gov
ernment Printing Office employe,
Miss Betty Wright. director field
service, American Hearing Society,
and Miss Josephine Timberlake,
executive secretary of the Volta
Bureau.
Remembers Excitement.
II remember how excited I was
going to that first meeting" ="
Miss Harris exclaimed. Il was
going someplace where I could
hear. You see. it was hard to sit
down with my family to eat .
and have them go away and leave
me. That is, as far as making me
hear"
The three friends pointed out
these changes in behalf of hard
of-hearing in quarter century:
Hearing aid improvement, ade-
quate testing apparatus, interest
Evening star., 1950-02-25

Of public schools in assisting af-
flicted children and counseling.
The women's hearing aids differ
considerably. Miss Harris still uses
a finch battery case strapped to
her leg (to distribute the weight !,
a transmitter on her shoulder and
the receiver held to her ear by
head band.
But look there" Miss Harris
said, pointing to Miss Timberlake.
The latter removed from her
clothing a unit the size of a small
compact. 1t contained the trans
mitter and battery. The button
sized receiver is held in place with
an ear tip. eliminating the head
band.
Crude Aids of Past.
Two of the crude hearing instru-
ments of the past were brought
out A 1925 radio ear" aid which
caused Miss Harris to say: The
first one I saw like that weighed
II pounds" This aid weighed
seven.
Miss Timberlake and Miss
Wright pointed a non-electrical
tube and mouth-piece device which
they used together years ago. Miss
Timberlake had spoken into the
tube so Miss Wright could hear a
voice and thus keep hers normal.
The audiometer now is used to
test the amount of hearing loss,
measuring in decibels. Before, the
click. tick and whisper" method
was used. A watch, for instance,
was held at different distances
from the users ear. He held up
a hand until the sound could not
be heard.
A 1ip.rea DING feooher h1isc
Evening star., 1950-02-25
'InfIuenza-Like' Virus
Blamed for Outbreak
AT Arlington School

An Influenza like" virus has
been traced as the cause of the
mysterious disease which forced
an Arlington school to close last
week, when two-thirds of its pupils
became sick.
Scientists at the National Insti-
tutes of Health at Bethesda based
their finding on SO cases from rs
homes in the Woodmont School
area in Virginia.
DR.. Robert j. Huebner, chief of
virus and rickettsial disease re-
search at the Institutes, said the
Influenza like" virus has been
isolated from throat washings OF
two of the patients.
Further Studies Necessary.
Further studies will be neces-
sary, however, to learn whether
the virus is related to known
strains Of influenza. Until that
time, DR.. Huebner said, it will not
be known whether any of the
available influenza vaccines would
protect against the Arlington
virus.
The noted virus authority also
said the findings apply only to
the Woodmont School area. "It
does not follow that other cases
Of sporadic febrile (fever) illness
in this area are necessarily due to
influenza" he declared.
At the same time, the Public
Health Service said influenza
cases climbed sharply throughout
the country last week, with 49,
223 cases reported for the week
ending February 18. There were
1867 cases the week before. The
total cases for the year-49, $40
however, was far below the 147.-
ITO cases reported during the
same period in 1916.
Four Doctors Were Stricken.
DR.. Huebner stressed also that
the high number of cases reported
by PHS is based largely on "clin-
ical" observations, and that few
of the viruses actually have been
identified. This factor is impor-
tant, he explained, because many
other types Of ailments present
some of the same symptoms as
the "fiu."
Every few years." he added,
I'VE see a rather high rate of in
fluenza. The only thing unusual
in this case was the high concen-
tration of illness in the Wood
mont school," OF $50 students,
SO were stricken with the ailment
last week.
DR.. Huebner said it is impor-
tant to have information on the
virus strains in such an instance,
however, in case a generalized
outbreak does reach serious pro-
portions.
DR.. Huebner was one of four
doctors who went into the 26 Ar
lington homes last week end to
collect throat washings and blood
and stool specimens from patients.
Within 48 hours. three of the
doctors, including DR.. Huebner.
had contracted the disease them
selves-attesting to its high de-
gree of contagiousness. ..