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The Chapel Hill weekly., 1950-02-17

FOR RENT; ATTRACTIVE ROOM
for young women. Excellent neigh
borhood near campus and business
district. Call 5A21.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1950-02-17

WANTED: RESTAURANT WORK,
light housecleaning, or child care.
Write Post Office Box 283, Chapel
Hill.
Evening star., 1950-07-09
Editors Note: And now
you know everything
Ellery knows. Whom does
Shakes COoney mean?

"Who?" demanded the In
spector.
I'VE ruled out all the reason
able interpretations of sugar."
said Ellery. leaving US where
we started - with a lump of
sugar in Cooney's clutch as a
clue to his killer. Since the fancy
stuff is out, suppose we take a
lump of sugar in a mans hand.
Why does a man carry a lump
of sugar with him?"
Il give up," said the Inspec-
tor promptly. Why"
''Why?" said Ellery. why.
to feed it to a horse"
FEED it to THE old gen.
tleman was silent. Then he said,
so that's why you wanted to
know their riding history. But.
Ellery, that theory fizzled. None
of the three is what you'd call a
horseman, so none of the three
would be likely to have a lump
of sugar on him."
absolutely correct" said
Ellery. so Shakes was indicat-
ing a fourth suspect, only l
didn't see it then. Cooney was a
bookie and a gambler. You'll
probably find that this fellow
was over his noggin in Cooney's
book, couldn't pay off, and took
the impulsive way out -"
wait, hold it!' howled his
father. "Fourth suspect? What
fourth suspect"
why, the fourth man on the
bride path that morning. And
he Would be likely to carry a
lump of sugar for his horse"
MOUNTED PatroImGn Wal
kins!" The End
Evening star., 1950-10-15
ARE YOU A SUPER MARKET GOPHER?
BY Don Parsons
EXECUTIVE SECRETARY supER MARKET INSTITUTE

DEAR MIR. PARSONS: Can you give some advice
on good manners in the super market?
ANSWER: Manners are generally good in the super
markets. but there are the inevitable few who can
make life difficult. Let me list some of them:
Panic-B Buyer Bertha: She listens to gossip par
tcuarly in emergency times such as these and then
races to stock up coffee, sugar. pepper and other
items. Multiplied many times over by all the Berthas
in the country she styme law of supply and de-
mand creating false shortages and skyrocketng prices
Embarrassed Emily: When this young lady reaches
the checkout counter she suddenly discovers she left
her money in the pocket of another dress, asks the
checker to trust her Checkers have such authority
Part of the of super markets lies in the savings
they have been able to pass along to the customers be-
cause of their cash-and-cany system.
Hopalong Junior: The mother of this lovabe mop
pet aged from four to H. afar while ne prances
past the counters, fckng price tags helterskelter.
The Gopher: Prepackaged meat is the favorite
hunting ground for this She'll dig down to the bot
tom of neatly stacked pile of celophane wrapped meat
to pull out the very bottom though each package
may be identical as to quality, weight and price.
The Pincher: We've all seen her. She squeezes the
tomatoes puts thumb two into the cantaloupes and
mauls the lettuce display trying to pick out "a good
head" Please, lady, squeeze the coconuts instead
The above shopping types are definitely IN the
minority but the super markets always use fewer
of them.
Woodbridge has adVice for seI,ite-coiiar "ires
Evening star., 1950-02-15
Board Of Recreation
ASKS End of Absences
IBy School Member

The District Recreation Board is
displeased with the frequent alb
sences of one of it's members, the
representative of the Board of Ed
ucation.
Meeting yesterday, the Recre-
alton Board issued a plea to the
school BOARD that it schedule
committee meetings on days other
than the regular monthly session
of the recreation unit. 1t asked
that the school board make every
effort to have its representative
present.
Harry S. Wender, Recreation
Board chairman, said the plea was
not meant 'in the way of criti-
cisp." But he added:
1t serves to lnterfer with the ef-
flciency of the Recreation Board
when one third of the time the
Board of Education lacks repre-
sentation."
Have Stake in Board.
He said he wanted the school
board to realize it has a stake in
this board, which they can't re-
linquish if they wanted to-" He
pointed out most of the absences
have been caused by conflicts in
meetings.
The school board representative
is Albert E. Steinem. His alter
nate is Mrs. Edward c. Magde-
burger. Yesterday, for instance,
the school boards Personnel Com
mittee had meeting scheduled at
1:45 pm, while the Recreation
Board met at 2::30 pm.
The Recreation Board is made
up of seven members, four of
whom are citizens appointed by
the Commissioners. One member
is from the Board of Education,
one from the National Capital
Parks Office and one is a direct
representative of the Board of
Commissioners.
Opposes Accounting Shift.
In another action the Recreation
Board reaf11rmed its opposition to
having its payroll and accounting
functions removed to the District
Auditors Office.
The Capitalization of payroll
activities of all District depart
ments in one central Office is a
reform urged by the Controller
Generals Office. The Commits
sioners have decided to make the
change.
The Recreation Board said it
desired to cooperate in any i'm
provement in the accounting sys-
tenn Of the District" but is opposed
to releasing its accounting re-
sponsibilities."
Evening star., 1950-02-15
Frank Sinatra and Wife
Are Separated Again
BY the Assoeiotsd Press

HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 15.-Nancy
Sinatra announced yesterday
through her attorney that she and
her husband, Crooner Frank ST.
natra, have separated. e.
Unfortunately my married life
with Frank has become most, un-
happy" her statement said. I'VE
have therefore separated. I have
requested my attorney to attempt
to work out a property settlement.
I do not contemplate divorce pro-
|ceedings in the foreseeable
future"
Her attorney, Arnold M. Grant,
said that Sinatra's lawyer, Henry
Jaffe, was due here by plane to-
fday to work out a property settle
lment and custody of the Sinatra's S
three children. Nancy, 8; Frank,
jr., 6, and Christina, nearly 2.
The Sinatras have been mar
ried II years and have separated
| before.
Evening star., 1950-02-15
$50 Will Lose Jobs in Closing
Of Alexandra Torpedo Plant

or would be sold eventually to a
private manufacturer.
Heavy and precision equipment
at the plant will be distributed to
other torpedo-making installa-
tions or stored for use in an emer-
gency.
The Navy said it was necessary
to close the plant for economy
reasons.
The plant was established in
August, 1918, as the Naval Tor
pedo Station" It built torpedoes
until 1923, when an economy or
der made it a shop of the Wash
ington Navy Yard.
In July. 1941, it was reopened
as an ordnance manufacturing in
stallation, and in September, 1914,
reached its top employment with
4,700 civilian workers. Capt. Brad
ford Bartlett is commanding off,
Ger. He and the limited number
Iof other uniformed personnel
there will be transferred to other
duties.
Evening star., 1950-02-15
dc. Heads Rush Plan
For Coal Conservation
To Meet Emergency

The Commissioners hope to
have a coal conservation plan in
readiness by this afternoon.
In declaring that continued de-
pletion of local coal stocks had
produced an emergency" here.
the city heads announced yeSter-
day they had requested the plan
be prepared by the Fuel Conserva-
ton Committee.
They already have asked that
coal dealers restrict deliveries
The conservation plan they
have requested is to include an
estimate of the proportionate
amounts of coal delivered to and
consumed by various categories
of consumers, and an arrange
ment of the categories in order of
priority.
The Commissioners reported
after meeting with other Dis
trict officials and representatives
of the coal dealers yesterday, that
bituminous stocks were down to
about 10 days supply, assuming
that the present exceptionally
warm weather continues"
IA cold snap would greatly re-
duce this margin of safety" they
stated.
Anthracite stocks were down to
slightly over one weeks supply,
they reported, although the situa-
ton was somewhat easier for pea,
buckWheat and rice grades,
The Commissioners have asked
coal dealers to restrict anthracite
deliveries to one ton for any GUS
toner, and to substitute pea,
buckwheat or rice for other
grades if necessary.
They also asked the dealers to
restrict soft coal deliveries to con-
sumers whose supply is down to
less than three days, including
their surplus or inventory stocks,
and that no such delivery exceed
three days supply.
Earlier this month, the city
heads asked dealers to limit de-
liveries less drastically as a means
of avoiding boarding of coal by
consumers. But they said, at that
time, no immediate crisis" ex-
listed.
Evening star., 1950-02-15

The Navy plans to shut down its
Alexandria torpedo plant by June
80 but about half of the plant S
workers are expected to be trans
ferred to the Naval Gun Factory.
The department said last night
that all except 800 of the approx
mately 600 workers likely would be
absorbed by the Gun Factory.
The Franklin street annex of
the Alexandria plant and the
Naval Torpedo Range at Piney
Point. Md. will continue as part OF
the Gun Factory.
| Reaction to the announcement
was swift in Alexandria. The
Board of Directors of the Chamber
of Commerce was called together
hurriedly. Representative Smith
Democrat, of Virginia told them
it would mean more than 300 per-
sons would be thrown out of work
A chamber spokesman said ii
was understood the plant would
become a Government warehouse
Evening star., 1950-02-15
Autopsy Set Today
In Bathtub Death

Coroner A. Magruder MacDon-
aid was to perform an autopsy
today on the body of Mrs. Gerald
r. Calvin, 80, who was found dead
In the bathroom of her apartment
at 2615 Fourth Street NE. yester-
day.
Mrs. Calvin, who police said
had a mental breakdown a year
ago, was discovered kneeling on
the bathroom floor, her head sub
merged in the nearly full tub.
She was found by Miss Catherine
Kennedy of 1903 Evarts street
NE, a nurse and friend of the
woman, police said. who had come
to give her a medical injection.
"It looks to me like purposeful
drowning" said DR.. Macdonald,
who said it was the first death
under such unusual circumstances
he recollected since he has been
coroner. He pointed out, however,
that only the autopsy would dis
close whether death had resulted
from heart attack instead.
A pencilled not. addressed to
"Gerry, My Darling" and indi-
eating dependency. was found in
the apartment, according to
Homicide Squad Detective Sergts
Walter Voglesang and r. E. Tai
bot. 1t was signed, &C. c." Mrs
Galvin's given name was Cecilia
Police said both Mr.. and Mrs
Calvin were employees OF
Quartermaster Generals Office al
Buzzard's Point. Mrs. Calvin had
been Ill for about a month, ac-
cording to police. There are nc
children.
Evening star., 1950-02-15
Congress in Brief
BY the Associated Press

Senate:
In recess until Thursday.
Agriculture Committee hears
witnesses on additional So billion
for farm price support.
Interior Committee hears testi-
mony on Columbia River Basin
project. J
Foreign Relations subcommittee
continues hearing on World Fed
Grafton and strengthening United
Nations.
Interstate Commerce Committee
continues merchant marine hear
ing.
Judiciary subcommittee reopens
hearing on displaced persons bill
Senate-Hous Atomic Energy
Committee holds closed hearing or
money matters.
House:
Considers District of Columbis
bills. D.
Ways and Means Committee
continues tax hearings.
Evening star., 1950-02-15

Grafton of Federal Employees has
indorsed the proposal of Chair
man Seth Richardson of the Fed
eral Loyalty Review Board that
the Governments loyalty pro-
gram be continued on a perma-
.nent basis.
The overwhelming majority OF
Federal employees have nothing tc
fear from such screening" the
NFEE declared. But the import
.ance of preventing even tiny
percentage of questionable persons
either to enter the Federal service
or to remain in it now should be
fully apparent"
VISITORS-A group of German
civil service employees and trade
Iunionists is visiting this country
Iat the invitation of the Labor
Department. The visitors were
escorted around Washington yes
'terday by Charles Sharkey, a
Labor Department employe and a
vice president Of the AFL Amer
lean Federation of Government
Employees. who was requested by
the department to show them how
civil service operates here.
y X X
JOBS-.The Civil Service Com
mission has announced an exam
for technologists. with starting
salaries of $3.825 a year.
BE sure to listen at GAS pm.
epery Saturday oDer WMAL,
The Star station, to Joseph
Young's Federal Spotlight radio
broadcast, featuring additional
1leUs and Die1Ds of the GoUern-
ment Scene.j
Evening star., 1950-02-15
Rent Control Fight Due

In Richmond, final efforts to
keep some Virginia areas under
rent control were to be made in
the State Senate.
Senator Charles r. Fenwick of
Arlington was scheduled to lead
the fight to keep his county under
control. State Senator Andrew
w. Clarke, who represents Alex
andria, Fairfax and Prince Will
liam, however, said he believes
the national emergency has passed
and there is no longer need for
controls.
The Alexandria City Council
last night passed a resolution ask
ing Senator Clarke and Delegate
Armisted Armistead Boothe to try
to keep the city under control.
On Monday, Senate commit
tee voted down amendment:
which would have exempted the
Northern Virginia area.
Evening star., 1950-02-15
ADVERTISEMENT.
ADVERTISEMENT. A
Say 1t Isn't So
Saturday, February IL, 1850

Government officials and leaders of his own
party many times have had cause to be disturbed
at President Trumans faculty for saying the wrong
thing at the wrong time. The latest outbreak of
oot-in-mouth disease the part of the chief
tive hit Waltham Watch Company at a most inop-
perfume moment.
Mr.. Truman, it should be pointed out, has
promised much to Waltham's precision industry and
given less than nothing
BY less than nothing mean that he has dis
missed this vital concern without waiting for
the results of study he himself had asked for
concerning Walthams essentially to the national
defense.
He has consistently failed to do anything in
Waltham's behalf despite his oft-quoted statement
that no segment of American industry would be
harmed by reciprocal trade.
His off-the-cuff statement that "everything
possible" has been done for Waltham is puzzling
indeed. BY everything he can't mean tariff or
quota relief Neither the State Department nor the
Tariff Commission has acted despite incontrovert-
ible proof the Swiss import flood has stranged the
domestic watch industry.
BY everything he can't mean RFC assistance.
About all the RFC did was to pay off banking i'm
debtedness and enable the firm to capitalize its
inventory-through half-price SALE That was
something to be grateful for, of course. But RFC
advanced no reasonable amount OF working capital,
and is now reluctant to release part of 100000
earnarked for machinery despite the fact that the
concerns asset value Is far in excess of its debt
No, Mr.. Truman, we don't think everything has
been done for Waltham We believe tragic dis
service is being done the countys security by your
casual dismissal which so ironically came within
an hour of the time when the Munitions Board was
reaffirming Watham's vital defense role.
The Presidents aides say he wouldn't want to
be directly responsible for barring the firm from
chance to reopen. Well, Mr.. Truman just say 1t
isn't so. Tell us it really counts to be 100 per cent
producer of timing mechanisms during wartime.
Tell us that 2300 jobs mean something.
If Waltham is expendable, won't Elgin or Ham
ilton be next?
Evening star., 1950-02-15
Alexandra Assessments Up

A SIS million increase in the
assessed value of Alexandria real
estate was disclosed today by city
officials.
The boost, made on the basis of
a recent reassessment, brings Alex
andria's total real estate value to
approximately $75 million. -
Many residents of older homes
will find their tax bills doubled as
a result of the revaluation. The
study, based on 1945 construction
costs, was the first in the city since
1943.
The assessment does not include
public utilities, valued last year al
S3,71S,731.
Evening star., 1950-02-15
Fair and Colder Forecast
Offers Respite From Rain

The rain is over for at least
day or two, the Weather Bureau
promised today.
The sun peeked timidly through
the clouds today and will return
tomorrow. said the forecaster,
although a temperature dip to the
freezing level tonight will make
tomorrow a little chillier.
A little over half an inch OF
rain fell in the "a hours ending
at 1880 am. today, bringing the
months total to an above-normal
2.56 inches. Today was the 10th
day in February to have at least
a trace of rain.
Evening star., 1950-02-15
Three WhirIed to Death
In Big Quebec Turbine
BY the Assoeioted Press

ST. JOSEPH D'ALMA, Quebec,
Feb. 15.-Three men were whirled
to their deaths Monday night in
a giant powerhouse turbine.
They were Eugene Tremblay,
81. Paul Emil Lachance, 26, and
Agemar Bergerson, 35.
Their bodies were unmarked
when removed and it is believed
they died as a result of the tre-
mendous force with which the
turbine revolved.
The men were working inside
the water-d driven turbine when it
was accidentally turned on. Fran
tic efforts to turn it of were
made, but the, brake burned out
and it was 80 minutes before the
wheel stopped. ..., .,.1s
Evening star., 1950-02-15
Maryland
and
Virginia
Dog Quarantine Ends
In Eastern Montgomery
News in Brief

The Montgomery County
Health Department announced TO-
day the end of the dog quaran-
tine in most of the eastern
suburban area.
A ban still is in effect until
March "a, however, in Kensing-
ton, Viers Mill Village and part
of Bethesda. Both quarantlnes
were imposed after several chill
dren were reported bitten by rabio
dogs.
Last week the County Council
enacted a countrywide ordinance
requiring vaccination OF all oogs
which run loose. D..
Evening star., 1950-02-15
Seek Lake for Park

The Arlington County Board
last night asked the State of Vir-
ginia to purchase Lake Bancroft
in Fairfax County as public
recreation area.
The Alexandria Water Co. plans
to sell the 600-acre property at
auction. The company has &C.
quired a new reservoir to replace
the 114-acre lake.
Near Falls Church, the prop
erty has long frontage on both
Columbia pike and the Leesburg
pike. Falls Church real estate
men estimated its worth at 81 mil
lion.
Evening star., 1950-02-15

how the Russians had smashed
the German armies in the East
and he believed their assistance
was necessary to win the war
against Japan.
But ne found that all Stain
wanted to talk about was the ces-
sation Of lend-lease: hence The
atmosphere was unfayorable to
what Mr.. Truman had in mind.
Mr.. Krock reported the Presi-
dent said that the agreement the
Russians made at Yalta to enter
the war against Japan was the
only one they ever kept out OF
nearly 20.
Evening star., 1950-02-15
SheIImor Outlook Bleak

Shallmar Md coal miners
had better seek other jobs, a
State official warned yesterday.
The town evoked the aid Of
the Nation at Christmas when
word got put that most Of its
families were destitute.
State Budget Director James
G. Rennie told a House COM
mittee at Annapolis yesterday:
There's no answer for the
Shailmar mining situation.
The coal is no good"
Then he added that Shall
mars bread-winner better find
some other kind of work cor
they are going to be on relief
forever "-AP
Evening star., 1950-02-15
Rockingham Nurse Killed

ELKTON. Va, Feb. Is (P.-
Miss Rowena Gertrude Richards
35. Rockingham County public
health nurse, was killed yesterday
when her automobile was struck
by a Norfolk g. Western Railway
passenger train at the Island Ford
| station.
Evening star., 1950-02-15


tan advocated a suitability check
to eliminate employees who are
strongly anti-Catholic, anti-Seme.
tic, anti-Negro or who retain any
other "anti-democratic" senti.
mentS.
These people are just as dan
gerous to our American way of life
as the Communists and should moi
be allowed to work for the Gov
ernment." Senator Humphrey de-
clared.
Senator Humphrey also made
the following comments in his
speech:
l. Government supervisors are
doing too much pushing around
of the rest of the Federal en-
ployes. Instead of "belligerent
attitude" supervisors should pro-
vide more leadership, inspiration
and cooperation with the EN-
ployes.
2. The Hatch Act should be
eased considerably, both in local
and national elections. Federal
employees have a vital stake in
elections. the same as the rest of
the American people. You cannot
be neutral. Anybody vino claims
to be politically neutral must be a
zombie."
8. Department heads don't take
enough interest in the personnel
activities of their bureaus.
4. Senator Humphrey soon plans
to call Federal personnel officials
to meeting with his subcommit-
tee to work out various civil serv-
ice problems.
HUMAN MACHINE-The Civil
Service Commission this week
received a letter from a man
who wants the Government Job
of ''lie detector."
II can tell otherwise by a per-
sons speech when they are do
ing guessing, EARNING, joking,
wind -jamming and also detect
mistakes and even imagining"
the would-be job-seeker wrote.
The applicant said he wanted
particularly to work for the
Justice Department but was not
interested in directly capturing
criminals-just in being a 'tlie
detector." 0e
X X X Il -
HOUSE GROUP-Now that the
postal rate bill is out of the way,
the House Civil Service Commit
tee may devote a bit more time
this year to various pending civil
service legislation. .
AS pointed out here previously,
however, there Is not much chance
this year of Congress passing a
great deal of beneficial Federal
employe legislation.
| X
LOYALTY-The National Fed
Evening star., 1950-02-15

THE loyalty
p r O G r a m of
W e e d / n G out
Communists in
Government is
all right as far
as it goes, but
it doesn't go far
enough" Sena-
tor Humphrey
declared. H e
S a Id FaSclStS
and other anti
democrats also
should be fired.
Evening star., 1950-02-15
Variety Show at School

Woodrow Wilson High School
students will present a variety
show at 2 and 8 pm. tomorrow
in the school auditorium, Nebraska
avenue and Chesapeake street
NV. The show, entitled Wilson
Revue" will feature an orchestra,
tap dancing, marionettes, a magi-
clan and a hillhilly band.