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Evening star., 1950-12-05

STENOGRAPHER-CLERK NationN
company offers interesting. position
to young woman interested In par
manency. State age, education, ex-
perienee PEI se, Startang s.s salary expected.
sTENosRAfa1Elks sis fa1ls' AND md cAsHiEKs msC for
part-time work on q permanent
basis In retail liquor store; worfinr
hours E arranged With applicant, .Ap-
st. NV. 10 am. to 8 pm. daily. W7
TEACHER, private nursery school:
qualifying degree preferred. Give
age, marital and family status, edu-
cation and experience. Box 23o-H,
TELEPHONE SOLICITOR, for sale.
but net essential Apply SLOANE
CLOTHING, 735 7th st. NV. -
TYPST. accurate, with Ediphone exp.
,,na ana knoTisdse OF general once rou-
cond.; phone Ma. 5si4 for apps.
TYPIsT-4o to so words Der minute:
experience not necessary; pleasant
applg AdsTH1r iasnsi III aos
EQUIPMENT Co.. 2117 M st. NV.
TYPIsT. experienced, excellent work
ing conditions. 6-day week; oppor-
ary s1s5 per month. Cali Ex. 500.
TYPIST. white. to work in congenial
once, must be good typist and havs
regent exp. Call personnel dept,
TYPIST-Evening work, 4 hrs, 3 or
more ewes. per wk.; state experiencs
and business phone. Box e3-H. Star.
TYPIST, 5-day, 371a-hour week; good
salary and Advancement; excellent
office environment. Call Ma. 0624.
TYPIST-Alert, experienced and az
curate, for stock brokers' ONCE;
pleasant working conditions and
good starting salary. Apply 8 to 5.
626 Woodward BLDG, 18th and n
SITS. NV. Is
TYPIST, for large casualty Insurance.
company. excellent working condi-
tions, permanent position, opportu-
nifty for advancement. See MRS.
CASSIDY. 4th floor, Wire Bldg, 1000
Vermont ave. NV. III
TYPISTS, exper. for perm. post; B.
day, 40-hr. wk.: excel. working con-
ditions; good pay. Apply PEOPLES
DRUG STORES employment once,
n P st. ne. IS
Evening star., 1950-12-05
LEDGER CLERK

LIQUOR SALESMAN, part time. ex-
perienced preferred. Call AID. $500.
LITH. OPERATORS. excellent wages
vacations with pay, disqualification.
Write Box 70-H, Star. -6
Evening star., 1950-09-30
Civil Defense Heads
Plan Conference Here

The national civil defense pro-
gram will be under discussion here
next week by civil defense di-
rectors from at least "a States
and two territories and by mayors
of the Nations $50 largest cites.
The meetings. sponsored by the
National Security Resources
Board, will follow up issuance
of the national civil defense plan,
recently submitted to Congress
by NSRB.
State civil defense directors
from West of the Mississippi will
confer with the NSRB officials
on Monday, while those from the
Eastern States and Puerto Rico
and the Virgin Islands will con-
vene Tuesday.
The mayors will confer on
Thursday and Friday with Chair
man w. Stuart Symington of
NSRB and will be received by
President Truman at the White
House. One of their topics will
oe that of Federal appropriations
for medical, f1re-f1ghtng and other
supplies.
Mayor David L. Lawrence of
Pittsburgh is president of the
mayors conference. He has ap-
pointed 1t. Col. Paul v. Betters as
liaison officer between the larger
cities and Chairman Symington.
Evening star., 1950-09-30
Good News From Korea
Causes Wholesale Din

Wholesale market prices dropped
two-tenths Of l per cent in the
week ending September 26, the
Bureau of Labor Statistics report
ed yesterday.
1t attributed the drop, the first
since June 13, to favorable news
from Korea and normal seasonal
declines for some foods.
The index for all commodities
was 1894 per cent of the 1926 av-
erage, 7.8 per cent above the June
20 figure and 11.2 per cent above
the figure for the comparable week
in 1949. The postwar peak of the
index was 1908 in August, 1948.
The drop in the prices of foods
and farm products followed an
earlier rise. Farm prices increased
2 per cent between mid-August
and id-September, an Agricul-
ture Department. report said. large
ly rejecting sharp advances in
cotton and cotton seed. Farm
prices had risen 10 per cent since
the Korean fighting started but
still were IL per cent below the
postwar peak.
Evening star., 1950-09-30
u. 5. Attorneys Office
To Move Two Sections
Due 10 Added Staff

Having finally acquired more
assistants than it hss room for
in the District Courthouse, the
United States attorneys Office
here will move two of its sec ctions
uptown Monday.
United States Attorney George
Morris Fay announced today that
his civil and appeals branches
will occupy a po. ion of the third
floor of the Hutchins Building
939 D street NV.
This means the staff of 81
prosecutors will be spread in
three different locations until
the new Federal Courthouse is
completed early in 1852. One
group already is sta ationed in the
Municipal Courthouse.
Mr.. Fay explained that, with
tine acquisition Of two assistants
III tae past week, ne ndd as many
as three assistants per Office, and
all the Offices are small.
The bigger staff is necessitated
by heavier case load. The civil
category alone has Jumped from
IS cases pending in 1947 to 594
as of last June. The Office is still
nine assistants shy of the IL rec
commended by the Justice Depart
ment last January.
Appointed last week to serve
in the criminal division in Mu-
nicipal Court were Harold H.
Titus. jr., graduate of George
town Law School, and Emory w.
Reisinger, II, a graduate of the
University of Virginia Law School.
Veterans of naval service in the
last war. both men formerly were
assigned to the Justice Department.
Mr.. Titus lives at 2101 Con-
necticut avenue NV, Mr.. Reisin-
ger at 6281 North Fifteenth road,
Falls Church, Va.
Evening star., 1950-09-30
Two Men Injured in Crash
W2Cars, Truck in Virqinia

Two men were injured early to-
day in a collision between two
automobiles and a truck on Route
/, Engleside, Va.
They are Pvt. William K. Rog-
ers, 81, stationed at Fort Belvoir,
and Bierl Tyree. so, colored, of
1O16 North Fairfax street, Alex
andria.
Both suffered severe head cuts
and other undetermined injuries
They were taken to the Fort Bel
voir hospital.
State police said Mr.. Tyree's Cal
In which Pvt. Rogers was riding
skidded into the rear of the truck
as the latter vehicle pulled off the
road to stop. Another car, oper-
ated by Andrew Kirk, jr., 80, Of
2li3 North Rolfe street, Arlington
then crashed into Mr.. Tyree's au-
tomobile. The truck driver, George
Freeman, jr., 33, colored OF Ahos'
kie, N. c., was unhurt.
Evening star., 1950-09-30
Mahoney Files Suit
To Nu||ify 1910 Law
BY the Associated Press

BALTIMORE, Sept. 3O.-George
P. Mahoney is seeking to have the
unit system that lost him the
Democratic nomination for Gov
ernor declared invalid by the
courts.
His latest monkey wrench in the
Democrats plans for getting the
general election campaign under
way came in the form of a suit
fled in common pleas court here
yesterday.
The suit asks the court to de-
clare Mr.. Mahoney the Democratic
nominee instead of Gov. Lane by
throwing out the sections of the
Maryland election law which pre-
scribe the unit vote system OF
naming party nominees.
Mr.. Mahoney had about 1880
more popular votes than Gov
Lane in the September 18 primary
but lost the nomination on the
basis Of the Governors 84-68 unit
vote majority.
The Democrats have scheduled
their nominating convention fol-
Monday. 1t may have to recess
Immediately, however, and post
pone naming of nominees until
the Mahoney Lane fracas is
settled.
That may be another two or
three weeks. Mr.. Mahoney has
asked recounts in eight counties
and Gov. Lane in a ninth.
The Republican nominating
convention meets today in Balti.
more. 1t will be a cut-and-dried
affair, since none of the losing
candidates has challenged the
results.
Evening star., 1950-09-30
Police School Rockies
Joining Force Today
Raise Total TO 1871

The Metropolitan Police De-
partment approached its full
authorized strength today with
the graduation of rs rockies from
the Police Training School.
The recruits. who go on duty
Monday, will swell the force to
an all-time high of 1871 men.
Eventually. the department will
recruit and train 300 privates
Congress recently authorized a
force of 2,288, working a 5-day
week. The change to a 5-day
week will not go into effect until
at least 200 of the 800 recruits
have completed training, probably
in January.
A new group Of 100 trainees
will start at the school Monday
on the -month-to-six-weeks
course.
Meanwhile, Maj. Robert j. Bar
rett, superintendent of police. an
nounced the transfer of So officers
within the department, including
18 privates who will go to the re-
Gently strengthened Juvenile Bu-
reau.
They are: Thomas M. Hughes,
Joseph F. Longo and Ernest Reid,
from the second precinct; George
R. Donahue, fifth precinct; Clark
w. Hamm and Joseph Preli, sew
enth precinct; Edward w. Chail-
let, ninth precinct: Carl F. Krog-
man, Milton T. Taylor and John
D. Thompson, tenth precinct;
Michael F. Molesky, Carl Rudbeck
and Francis D. Smith, eleventh
precinct; Booker Kent, Charles A.
Mackie and Otis Troupe, twelfth
precinct, and Raymond C. Davis
and Vernie E. Tate, traffic divi-
sion.
Among those transferred on
routine precinct shifts are: 1t.
Charles L. Van Meter, headquar-
tiers to the third precinct; 1t.
Charles P. Fox, fifth precinct to
headquarters; Corpl. Rufus T.
Nash. tenth to sixth precinct;
Corpl. John j. Kinney. sixth to
second precinct, and Corpl. Hay
wood Johnson, second to tenth
precinct. .-z ,a
Evening star., 1950-09-30
Mother of Suspect in 200 Thefs Boes Radio Comic Books

I went in the room where he was
listening, and the program was all
about some one knitting some one.
His eyes were bulging out, he
was so interested. He jumped
with a start when I came in, and
said. What do you want?'"
THAT story about the knife was
awful I still remember it,"
It was this summer, she said,
when he started staying out late
at night. She didn't know where
he was, and there were disciplin-
ary problems - problems which
weren't solved to her satisfaction
"He said he just sat in class, his
mind blank, not hearing whs t
the teacher said. He told me he
didn't know how he got home"
That was about all there was to
her story, except the details en-
tered now in a police report. Sum-
day, a policeman came to the
home and said he had seen the
boy looting a car.
"He asked the policeman where
his warrant was, but he quieted
down and went along when my
husband told him to.
But he didn't do all the things
they said he did. He couldn' t
have" she said.
Police said three other boys
one the son of a recently deceased
physician, another a boy about to
attend an expensive school in New
York and a colored newsboy-are
involved in the ring.
Police said the youths. only one
of whom is under arrest, probably
will be arraigned in Juvenile
Court next week.
Evening star., 1950-09-30
Arlington Asks State
To Help Equa|ize
School Facilities
By Mory Lou Werner

The Virginia State Board of
Education has been asked to help
Arlington equalize facilities for
white and Negro high school stu
dents by waving minimum class
enrolment requirements.
Arlington Schools Supt. Will
liam A. Early said the county's
problem was placed before the
State board at q meeting Thurs
day.
A Federal Court on September
9 ordered Arlington to offer Ne
groes facilities equal to those Of
fered white students.
The requirement that Airing
ton seeks to have waived speci-
fles minimum enrollments for va
rious classes. Unless the county
has the minimum required num-
ber of students in a class, the
State will not pay its usual two
thirds of the instructors salary
and the county has to bear the
entire cost.
Class for One Student.
Mr.. Early said this requirement
does not affect any instructor at
present. p.
After the court order, Arling-
ton had to set up an auto me-
chanics course at Washington-
Lee, the white high school. for
one Negro student. He is Richard
%. Green, 17-year-old senior at
Hoffman Boston High School
for Negroes. He studies the sub
ject in the afternoons when the
shop is not in use by white stu
dents.
Since the course was started
for him September 13, seven other
Negroes have enrolled, school Of
ficials said. Although their total
enrolment does not meet the
State minimum requirement, the
instructor teaches more than the
required number of white stu
dents and qualities. for State aid.
Mr.. Early said the county might
have to bear the full cost of pay
ing an auto mechanics instructor,
however. whenever the services of
the present teacher are needed the
full day for Washington-Lee stu
dents.
Washington-Lee is operating OIL.
a halliday basis until the new
Stratford Junior High School is
completed.
Question Of Salaries.
Arlington does not anticipate
having to set up more classes for
Negro students this year, mfr.
Early said. But, he added, the
county may have to pay the full
salaries of a number of instruc-
tors next year if many more new
classes are requested by Negro
students.
In addition to the auto me-
chanics course, a driver training
class was set up at Hoffman-Bos,.
ton because students there re .
quested it. About 20 students
have enrolled.
Evening star., 1950-09-30

Of the comic books and those ter
rible radio programs he loves.
"He was always very self-con
tained," she said. "He kept things
to himself-his worries, problems
and thoughts.
Il remember once-he was real
little then-he cut himself, badly
on the foot. He came in the
house, but just said. Look what
I did, He didn't ask for SYM
pathy or whimper.
"And when he was sick, he
would just lie down, and say moth
ing. We wouldn't know until we
took his tempera ture that he was
I'LL.
"He went to grade school,
wasn't much of a student, but
loved sports. AS he neared the
end of elementary school, we sent
him to preparatory school in
Maryland. He came home every
night, though.
Found Body in Creek.
"About two years ago he and
some friends found the body OF
a man in the creek near here
They reported it to police, and
were interviewed by reporters.
"He was tickled over his name
being in the papers. and thought
| it just about the biggest thing
that had ever happened to him
Maybe that had something to dc
with all of this.
"some time ago. behind a
church near here. the children
planted gardens. They took real
good care of them, and loved
them.
"But people complained about
Evening star., 1950-09-30

the noise. The citizens associa-
ton asked that they be allowed
to continue their gardens, but
they were stopped.
Nov they park cars there"
The mother said that five years
ago, to help provide the expensive
schooling her children were re-
ceiving and to get help to clean
their 10-room, brick house, she
took a job.
II was criticized" she said. II
was told I was forsaking my chill
dren, sometimes within earshot of
my boy. But we wanted them to
have the best. :"
She said her son grew too fast;
he had gland trouble, and was
nervous. But he wouldn't do
anything to help correct his ner-
vousness; wouldn't admit that he
was nervous.
He was not a good scholar, she
said, and his handwriting was
bad. He had an inferiority COM
plex about his school work. but
didn't care enough to try to i'm
prove.
But he was wonderful with
radios and electricity. Why, his
father got him materials to build
a radio, and thought it would keep
him busy two weeks. 1t took him
two days.
Liked Horror Stories.
That was when he developed a
love for radio mysteries and de-
tective stories.
There was one very bad one. "
she said. ut came on from 10 to
II, I think every night. One time,
Evening star., 1950-09-30
By Wallace E. Clayton

A slender. middle-aged woman
answered the ring at the door of
a comfortable, two-story house
Just off upper Connecticut avenue.
She was the mother of a Is
|year-old boy who. police said. has
admitted more than 200 larcenies
in the fashionable neighborhood
where he lives. Her husband is
"a Government official.
She stepped out on the porch,
closing the door behind her, and
shutting off the sound of scales
being played on the grand piano
in the front room.
my daughter doesn't know
much about this" she said calmly.
IT don't want her to hear"
Maybe this is a good thing. :"
she said. "The nurse at the re-
ceiving home, where they have nv
son, just called and said my boy
would be all right, that we
wouldn't have any more trouble.
She said he is really sorry, and
not trying to be a big shot, or
boastful any more.
Was Out of Town in Winter.
"You know, these reports of all
the robberieS he committeo-he
couldn't have done them all. He
was at school all last winter, out
of town. And he told police he
had some money hidden near the
lamppost in front of the house.
He told me, That was just a
story, MON. I just made that
up"
HE just thought it was being
a big shot to boast about what
he had done-he just got that out
Evening star., 1950-09-30
Welfare Board
To Study Need
For 7 Top Jobs
District Agency Moy
Decide to Drop Post Of
Principal Assistant

The Board of Public Welfare
plans to conduct q survey of the
directors Office to determine
whether the position of principal
director is necessary.
No request for funds for the job
Is included in next years budget
estimates. If the board finds the
job is needed, 1t will request the
Commissioners to insert the re-
quest for the position before the
estimates go to Congress. The
survey is to begin on October 10.
The report of the House Appro-
priations Committee several weeks
ago said there was no need for
two assistant directors and the po-
sition of principal assistant was
left out of the requests.
Survey Approved.
The board, at its meeting yes
terday in the Municipal Center,
approved survey, which has Just
been completed. on the National
Training School for Girls. The
board agreed to abolish three po-
SitionS there-a teacher, a guard
and a property officer. This will
reduce the personnel at the school
to II. There are only is inmates
there.
Approval also was given for Is
student workers from Howard Uni
versity to assist at the Home for
the Aged, the Industrial Home
(colored), the Receiving Home for
Children and the District Train
ing School. The students will work
part time in connection with their
sociology classes.
The board approved the ap-
pointment of DR.. Leon Helfgott
as part time optomologist for aid
to the needy blind. He is now a
part time physician in the Dis
trict Health Department.
Juvenile Report Made.
Paul L. Kirby, assistant direc-
tor of the department, submitted
report showing that the popu-
lation Of all juvenile institutions
has dropped in the last few
months.
AT the same time, the number
of persons on relief has climbed
At the beginning of this month
there were 6,978 persons, who
received $356,390 worth of aid
during September. This was an
increase of IA per cent over the
number on relief at the same
time last year and an increase
of 7 per cent in the amount OF
money paid out in September
1949.
For the first time the number
Of patients at st. Elizabeths Hos
pital whose care is being paid
for by the department rose aboy e
the 5000 mark. There are SOIL
patients at the hospital who are
residents of the District.
Evening star., 1950-09-30
Toxpoyers Here Warned
On DeodIine Toniqht

District residents who have not
paid the first half Of their real
estate and personal property taxes
must have them in the mails and
postmarked before midnight to-
night to avoid possible penalty
for late payment.
The penalty is / per cent of
the tax due for each month or
part of month the payment is late.
Evening star., 1950-09-30
KeneiippPledges
Quick Action on
14th Street Light
Admits BottIeneck,
But Says Signals
Are Satisfactory

District Traffic Director George
e. Keneipp has informed the Com
n sioners there is serious traf-
f1c hottleneck on Fourteenth street
S.W. and that he soon will urge
steps to remedy it, 1t was learned
today.
The bottleneck, affecting thou
sands of commuters using the
Highway Bridge to and from Vir-
ginia, was the subject of a special
report sent by Mr.. Keneipp to the
District Building yesterday.
In the report, the traffic di-
rector defended the new traffic sig
nails at Fourteenth and D streets
S.W., installation of which aroused
q controversy. The signals, he as
serted, have proved satisfactory,
and he recommended their re-
tention.
Points to Real Problem
But Mr.. Keneipp's report pointed
to what he called "a very real
problem" in congestion between
D street and Constitution avenue
The congestion slows up traffic
both ways, he said.
1t is necessary, Mr.. Keneipp
urged. ito obtain a more eXpe-
ditious dispersal" of the thousands
of cars that pour across the
bridge into Fourteenth street at
both morning and afternoon rush
hours.
Traffic bound down Fourteenth
street toward the bridge also is
sluggish and delayed" Mr..
Keneipp said.
The traffic director made no
specific recommendations. al
though he declared his engineers
"are familiar with the causes of
this condition and they are now
engaged in studies of the prob
lem"
Mr.. Keneipp told a reporter
his proposals will involve the
Public Utilities Commission, High
way Department. Park Police and
others and that he feels unable
to make any detailed disclosures
before consultations with those
agencies.
Test Vehicles Timed.
His report said it took test We
hicles at least twice as long to
travel north from D street to
Constitution avenue than to move
the IL miles from the south end of
the bridge to the D street signal.
The latter, he said, took hardly
more than the minimum time pos
sible within the speed limit.
For this reason. he said, ''it is
obvious that this is an area prob
lem and not an intersection prob
lem"
The traffic director said the
new D street traffic signals pro-
tect 1885 pedestrians crossing the
intersection each day, that they
provide IAN orderly leftturn move
ment from southbound Fourteenth
street eastward into D street." and
have made it possible to eliminate
the most troublesome and hazard
Gus vehicle left turn at Fourteenth
and G streets" At the same time,
he said. the signals ''have created
little or no delay"
"On the basis of our studies to
date, there would be no appreciable
improvement in traffic How on
Fourteenth street if the new sig
nails were turned off," Mr.. keneipp
declared
Evening star., 1950-09-30

The public got it's first look at
the new park police riot squad
when the unit stood inspection
yesterday on the Monument
Grounds.
known officially as the civilian
disturbance group" the helmeted
20-man squad was quietly set up
last May to take over in case
crowds got out of control on any
of the property under the juriS-
diction of the park police.
Inspector Mark Raspberry. park
police chief, explained that in ad-
dition to gas masks and billieS,
Evening star., 1950-09-30
Gardner Heuds Fleet

NORFOLK. Va, Sept. 80. Up
Vice Admiral Matthians B. Gard
ner yesterday relieved Vice Ad-
miral Robert B. Carney as COM
mander of the End Fleet. Admiral
Carney will become commander of
the Un tied States naval forces in
the Eastern Atlantic and the
Mediterranean, with headquarters
in London,