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Evening star., 1950-10-28
Relief Requests Drop
Slightly in Month

The number of requests for
assistance from the Public We'll
fare Department dropped slightly
during September, it was reported
yesterday.
The Public Welfare Board, at
it's monthly meeting in the Munich
pal Center building was told by
welfare officers that although the
number of cases was down during
September, compared with the
August lead, the number of per-
sons on relief has risen during the
year. In September, 1949 there
were 6,171 cases receiving assist
ance in all categorieS, while during
September this year there we're
1902 cases-an increase of 1914
per cent.
The total payments to those on
relief also hit new high during
September. The department dis
bursed $357 sos to the needy last
month, compared to 1887 ,224 paid
out in September. 1949.
The board made two changes to
be taken into consideration in
making agreements or demands on
parents for payment toward sup
port of children under the care
of the Board of Public Welfare.
1t changed the amount exempted
from $1,000 a year to $500 for
the first wage Garner and raised
the exemption for the second wage
Garner, if there is one, from $500
a year to $500 a year.
Activities of the new police
juvenile bureau are causing an in
crease in the number of children
in welfare institutions. the board
learned. There now are A chill
dren in the Receiving Home Of
whom 18 are girls.
Evening star., 1950-10-28
|Virginian, 10, Dies in Fire;
Sister, IS, Escapes Injury
By the Associated press

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. Oct
28.-A 70-year-old man was
burned to death and his 65-year-
old sister escaped uninjured when
fire destroyed their home early
today some S miles east of here
The victim was identified as
Walter Payne, who had recently
returned from hospital. He and
his sister, Miss Hettie Payne, were
alone in the house when the blaze
broke out.
Albemarle County Deputy sher-
i'll Abbott Smith quoted Miss
Payne as saying her brother was
burned to death while trying to
get some water to extinguish the
fire. His body was found near a
stairway.
Officers said the fire apparently
started in the kitchen and spread
rapidly, through the 10-room
frame structure.
Evening star., 1950-10-28
State e-Wide Manhunt
Conducted in Virginia
For Last Of Escapees

A Statewide hunt was on today
throughout Virginia for Robert l.
Miller, 81, only one still at large
Of five convcits who broke out OF
a Culpeper road gang Wednesday
Road blocks were thrown up last
night on roads leading south from
Washington after Alexandria po-
lice received a mysterious report
that the fugitive had hijacked a
green Packard sedan at the south
end of Highway Bridge. No such
car was turned up by the alert
and the report is believed to have
been false. police said.
To be on the safe side, however
a general alarm was sent out for
Miller, who was last seen in
Georgetown Wednesday night. AT
the time he was with another OF
the convicts, Ernest Walden, 25
later captured by a Fort Myer
Army officer.
Two more of the fugitives were
recaptured yesterday by authori-
ties in Alexandria and Norfolk.
They were Walter w. Blair, %,
colored, self-styled master-mind
OF the Culpeps' break, who called
from a drugstore in downtown
Alexandria to give himself up, and
Matthew Riddick, 26, colored,
nabbed by Norfolk postal author
tiles on tip. Riddick has been
identified as the man who shot a
guard in the leg during the break.
The other member of the Gull
peper gang. Curtis B. Fultz, o.
was retaken by police few hours
after his escape.
In addition, Washington police
were searching for James Zollo,
%, one of two men who escaped
from a State prison farm near
Goochland, Va, Wednesday. His
companion in the break, Richard
Poteet, %. gave himself up near
Fredericksburg.
The intensive manN1unt for the
fugitives led to the arrest yester-
day of a man who turned out to
be an escaped convict, although
not from one of the recent breaks.
He was identified as Charles NAL
lory, IS. of Charlotte. N. c., sought
since October 16 as a fugitive from
a road gang near NarrowS, Va. He
was picked up by Alexandria police
on a trespass charge while walking
along the r. F. g. P. Railroad
tracks.
Evening star., 1950-10-28
Suspended Unionist
Calls Meeting Of Local

Members of the AFL Building
Laborers' Local IA were urged by
their suspended" president to at
tend conference at their head
quarters today, while an oppos-
ing group of officers called on
them to boycott the Illegal
meeting.
Henry Thomas, suspended by
the executive board a week ago
until he could disprove charges
he was a Communist, said today
the board had reversed itself and
allowed him to remain as presi-
dent until the membership can
vote on the issue November /.
Meanwhile, he declared todays
meeting would be held at the
locals headquarters, 523 New Jer-
sey avenue NV, for an informal
discussion of wage and hour
agreements to be sought from
local contractors. The union
claims membership of over 5000
The faction seeking to oust Mr..
Thomas is led by Thomas G
Sampler. secretary-treaSurer, who
claims his opponent is using Com
munist Party line tactics to dis
rupt the union under guise of
seeking better working conditions
for it's members.
Evening star., 1950-10-28
5000 Due to Attend Jewish
Conference Dinner Toniqht

A dinner at the National Guard
Armory at 7 o'clock tonight for
about 5000 delegates to the Ma
tional Planning Conference for
Israel and Jewish Rehabilitation
will highlight the conferences
three-day session here.
Henry Morgenthau, jr., former
Secretary of the Treasury and
present head of the United Jewish
Appeal, and Mrs. Golda Myerson,
Israeli Minister of Labor, will head
a list of prominent speakers.
The conference, which started
yesterday in the Hotel Statler,
will continue through tomorrow
at the hotel. The delegates rep
resent A national Jewish organi-
cations and Jewish communities
throughout the United States.
Cable From Israel.
The theme of the conference,
the need by Israel of SIS billion
for three-year development pro-
gram and settlement of another
100000 refugees in the country,
was expressed in a cable from
Israeli Prime Minister David Ben
Gurion at the beginning of the
conference.
Last night about 1000 delegates
attended a Sabbath Dinner" in
the Statler. Speakers included
Jewish leaders in many fields.
Benjamin G. Browdy, president
of the Zionist Organization of
America, yesterday called on the
United States Government to
make a grant t-in-aid of $500 mil
lion over the next three years to
Israel.
Will Make. Israel Stronger.
Such a grant he de-
clared, will serve to make Israel
strong and able to contribute in
a decisive manner to world peace
for which this country strives SO
ntentH."
Mr.. Browdy's plea was support
Evening star., 1950-10-28

was greatly admired by a visitor
from West Virginia: I'VE have
wild orchids in the woods at home,
but this beats anything in West
Virginia"
A couple who recently cele-
brated their golden wedding at
tended last nights preview wear
ing two big yellow orchids. One
of the greatly admired flowers at
the show is a hybrid white flower
named Wedding Day.
Yard-long sprays of yellow
moth-like orchids were inserted
among the fronds of a cocos palm
by prize winning New England
exhibitor. This was an arrange
ment that caused many gasp
of astonishment. A clergyman
who said he couldn't grow a be-
gonia vowed to try a pot or two
Of orchids at home. A prominent
District lawyer observed that
This is modern banking at its
best
The exhibit put on by the Ma
tional Capital Orchid Society is
open to the public until 10
o'clock tonight and from 10 am.
to 6 pm. tomorrow.
Evening star., 1950-10-28
GAO Will Eliminate
Bookkeeping Division
with 225Losing Jobs

Controller General Lindsay
Warren has announced the elimi-
nation of one division of his
agency with reduction in staff
of more than 225 persons.
The step is part of a streamlin-
ing of the Governments fiscal
and accounting machinery under
the new Budgeting and Procedures
Accounting Act and the General
Appropriation Act for fiscal 1851.
The GAO's accounting and
bookkeeping division will be elm
mated, effective December 81, Mr..
Warren said. Some of the divi-
sion's functions are to be assigned
to other divisions while other
functions will be discontinued.
Mr.. Warren said fewer than 100
OF the 1926 staff members of the
division will be retained. Efforts
are being made to place qualified
employees not retained in other
Government positions.
Work Is Simplified.
The General Appropriation Act
passed last summer eliminated the
use of warrants in the transfer of
appropriations. The number of
these warrants ran to $4,000 to
10000 year. Simplified pro-
cedureS, with these warrants elm
mated, has reduced the amount of
necessary work.
Another simplification came
with new regulations modifying
the requirement of warrants for
repaying money under appropria-
tions into the Treasury.
Since the Budgeting and Ac-
counting Procedures Act was
signed, the GAO has been sur
veying its operations and the
elimination of the accounting and
bookkeeping division is one of the
first results.
800 To Be Transferred.
Mr.. Warren pointed out that
in the last four years the GAO
staff has been reduced from IS, 900
to 1900. On November Is, 800
persons in the postal accounts di-
vision at Asheville, N. c., will be
transferred from GAO to the Post
Office.
After that, the Post Office will
keep it's own day-to-day accounts.
The change was directed by the
Post Office Financial Control Act.
GAO is intensifying its work of
liking standards of accounting,
setting up accounting systems in
the agencies and inspecting them
and conducting comprehensive
auditS.
Evening star., 1950-10-28
Alexandra Woman Saved
After CoIIapsing in Fire

An Alexandria fireman today
dragged a young woman from her
smoke filled house and gave her
artificial respiration on the porch
of the burning building until res
cue equipment arrived.
Mrs. Ruby Proome, %, colored,
was found lying face down in the
hallway of 608 North Payne street
when flremen responded to an
alarm at $50 am. today.
Fireman Shirley Harrington, 90
was the first to see Mrs. Proome
and dragged her to the porch. Mrs.
Proome was treated at Alexandra
Hospital for third degree burns or
her chest and arms, and for smoke
inhalation.
Firemen from No. l and No.
Engine Companies kept the flames
from spreading beyond the bed.
room where Mrs. Proome had beer
sleeping. Assistant Fire Chief c
L. Sampson said the blaze appar.
emily was started by a cigarette
dropped on a mattress.
Other occupants got out safely
Evening star., 1950-10-28
'WeigIe Blasts 0aths
For Teachers as Step
On Road 10 Statism'
BY the Associated Press

ANNAPOLIS, Md, Oct. 28.-Dr.
Richard D. Weigle was inaugural
ed today as the 18th president OF
st. Johns, the "Great Books" COL
.lege, and promptly condemned
loyalty pledges for teachers.
Teachers oaths are dangerous
and stultifying things" the 38-
year-old educator and former
State Department officer said in
a speech prepared for the cere-
mony.
They are a definite step along
the road to RECOMMENDATION and
statism which we must at all costs
avoid"
DR.. Weigle was inaugurated be-
fore a homecoming crowd OF
graduates and representatives of
scores of colleges and universities.
Oath Taken Under Tree.
Standing on the college green
under historic Liberty Tree, where
the Susquehannock Indians made
peace three centuries ago, DR..
Weigle took the oath from Richard
IF. Cleveland, president of the
Board of Visitors and Governors.
The act formally established DR..
Weigle in the Office he has held
for 13 months.
John w. Owens. editor emeritus
of the Baltimore Sunpapers; Right
Rev. Noble C. Powell, Episcopal
Bishop OF Maryland, and DR..
Edward H. Hume, past president
of the Yale-i in-China School, par
ticipated in the inaugural cere-
mony.
Succeeded Kieffer.
DR.. Weigle succeeded John S.
kieffer to become third president
under the Great Books" program
on which 254-year-old st. Johns
embarked in 1887.
In their four years at the COL
lege, undergraduates pursue a
non elective course, which empha-
sizes the reading of 100 or so
of the greatest works of Western
civilization. Languages and sci
ence are merged with study of the
books.
DR.. Weigle announced st. Johns
may begin lectures on great
periods and movements of history
and will introduce some study OF
the East.
The college now confines its
program to Western culture. An
eye toward the Far East reflects
DR.. Weigle's own career.
He taught for two years at Yale
in-China, at Changsha and later
acted as its executive secretary
AS an Army captain, he served on
the staff of Gen. Joseph Stilwell's
Chinese Combat Command. In
the State Department after World
War II. he was executive officer
in the Far Eastern Affairs Office.
Evening star., 1950-10-28
Fairfax Man Fined $3.50
For Speeding in Bethesda

A 34-year-old Fairfax man who
told Montgomery County police
his mother was dying was fined
$3.50 in Bethesda Police Court
yesterday on a charge of driving
through Bethesda at more than
10 miles an hour.
Blair ]. Ramsey was fined after
police testified they could not
catch up with him at 50 miles
an hour. but that other officers
stopped him in front Of the police
station. Mr.. Ramsey noted an
appeal.
Policemen Andrew Collins and
Herbert West told Trial Magis-
trate James R. Miller they imme-
diately dispatched an ambulance
and doctor to the home of Mr..
Ramsey's mother in Silver Spring
but that she was found to have
merely nervous condition. They
said the defendants stepfather
told them he had summoned Mr..
Ramsey, but told him not to
hurry.
Evening star., 1950-10-28

ed by Representative Abraham j
Multer, Democrat, of New York
He asked the conference to pro-
test the action of the Commerce
Department in issuing recently
export licenses for the shipment
to the Arab states of tons upon
tons of steel pipe for the purpose
of building a new pipeline to by
pass to Haifa refinery.
The Congressman said the
Haifa refinery was now operating
at less than a third of capacity
largely because the Arabs refuse
to permit oil to be transported te
that refinery.
Earlier in the day, Treasury
Secretary Snyder told the con-
ference that. "for Israel, as well
as for every other nation in the
world today, the opportunities OF
the future wait on our ability to
achieve a lasting peace"
"Must Never Relax Faith"
'We have learned that we must
work increasingly for peace" he
said. 1--WE must be prepared at all
times to defend it. But we must,
meanwhile, never relax our faith
that arms may some day be sup
planted by peaceful negotiations. -
Another speaker, DR.. Joseph j.
Schwartz, director general of the
Joint Distribution Comittee, said
that, "if we succeed in transplant
ing 100000 Jews to Israel in the
next three years, we will have
gone a long way toward a last
ing solution of the Jewish prob
lem"
Tomorrow's program which
starts at 10 am, will include ad-
dresses by Abba Eban, Israeli
Ambassador to the United States;
Representatives Celler, Democrat,
of New York; and Jacob K. Javits,
Republican, of New York, and
Leon Keyserling, chairman of the
Presidents Council of Economic
Advisers.
Evening star., 1950-10-28
Boiling ManDi
After rCarCrash;;
Driver Is Held
| MonsIoughter Charge
Follows Death
| Of Corporal

A 21-year-old corporal attached
to Boiling Air Force Base died this
morning from injuries suffered in
an automobile collision earlier to-
day in the 2700 block Of South
Dakota avenue NE.
The airmen, Corpl. James II.
Blair, who lived at 1924 c street
NV, was riding in an automobile
driven by Charles E. Allen. jr.. %.
of 5421 Fifty-f1fth place. East
Riverdale, when it crashed into
parked trailer truck shortly after
midnight, according to police.
He was admitted to Casualty
Hospital with serious head injuries
and was pronounced dead shortly
after 8 am. It was the Districts
SD traffic fatality of the year.
Also injured were the young
corporal's wife, Mrs. Ann F. Blair,
10, admitted to the hospital with
head cuts; Sue Presutti, 10, of 3104
Massachusetts, avenue Sc, ad-
mitted at Gallinger Hospital with
jaw and knee injuries, and Allen.
admitted at Casualty with q cut
chin.
Mrs. Blair, the daughter of
Paul Mcdaniel, 3445 Twenty-fifth
street Sc, expects a baby in three
months. The hospital said her
condition is good.
In Municipal Court today Allen
first was arraigned before Judge
Milton Kronheim on a charge Of
failure to give full time and at
tention to his driving. The case
was continued until November 20
and bond of $4,000 was ordered
by Judge Kronheim.
Allen then appeared before
Judge George D. Nelson on the
manslaughter charge. This case
also was continued until the
November date and Judge Nelson
said the bond set by Judge Kron-
helm would be sufficient to cover
the manslaughter charge.
Corpl. Blair recently had re-
enlisted after serving in the Air
Force three years. He was as
signed to the base as fire.
fighter. His mother and a sister
live in Louisville, KY.
Evening star., 1950-10-28
.CIinic and Recreation
Space at0Id Cardozo
|Up for Decision

The District Space Committee
will meet at 10 am. Wednesday
to work out arrangements for
joint occupancy of the old Car
dozo High School by units of the
Health Department and Recrea-
ton Board.
With the Cardozo organization
now housed in the former Central
High School at Thirteenth and
Clifton streets NV, the building
at Ninth street and Rhode Island
avenue NV. has been turned
back to the Commissioners by the
Board of Education.
The city heads have approved
use of the building by the Health
Department for clinic and by
the Recreation Board for an in
door recreation center.
To Decide on Renovations.
The Space Committee, headed
by Charles Stofberg, special as
sistant to Commissioner John
Russell Young, will confer with
officials concerned as to what
renovations will be needed and
how much they will cost.
These officials include Archie
Hutson, director of construction;
Merrel A. Coe. municipal archi-
tect; Health Director Daniel l..
Seckinger, and Milo Christensen,
superintendent of recreation.
The Health Department plans
to use part of the building as a
clinic replacing the present Polk
Health Center at Seventh and O
streets NV. This building is
slated eventually to be torn down.
The site will be used for new
quarters of the Shaw Junior High
School.
Need Held Critical.
The Board of Recreation has
expressed interest principally in
using only the gymnasium. audi
torium, basement showers and
locker rooms and a few other
special interest rooms of the old
high school.
Declaring the need for an in
door recreation center in that
part OF the city is critical" the
board pointed out also that plans
for the Cardozo Playground i'm
mediately across the street would
tie in with the use of the building
for recreation.
The board owns land across
from the building for a colored
playground, but it is occupied by
homes at present. Plans call for
those to be razed within a year
Evening star., 1950-10-28
Cos Stotion Man Gets
Year for Theft of 500

An Arlington filling station en-
lploye, accused of walking off the
job with 5000 of the boss money
was sentenced in Arlington Circuit
Court yesterday to a year in the
penitentiary.
William Henry Harrison, "a. of
the $500 block of North Thirteenth
street, had engaged counsel to
fight the grand larceny charge.
but as a jury was preparing to
hear the case, he asked his at
torney to enter plea of guilty.
Police said Harrison took the
money last May from the Tuck
ahoe Village gas station, 561s
Lee highway.
{ The sentence was imposed By.
Judge William D. Medley.
Evening star., 1950-10-28
OK Refused on Construction
Not Necessary for Defense

The National Production Au-
thority has declined to give con-
tractors assurance that it will not
halt the construction of buildings
unnecessary for national defense
if the materials are needed else
where.
The NPA statement by William
H. Harrison, administrator, was
made in reply to protest from
H. E. Forman, managing director
of the Associated General Con-
tractors.
The NPA, in announcing its
ban on the erection of structures
for recreation and entertainment,
effective yesterday, added this
provision:
"It will be the policy of NPA
to further limit or prohibit con-
struction of additional types OF
projects which do not further the
defense effort or increase the Ma
tion's productive capacity when
such action is deemed necessary
in the interest of national defense
to minimize material shortages.
"If such action becomes neces-
sary, any such construction COM
menced after the effective date
of this order may be halted. even
though It's commencement at the
present time is not forbidden by
this order"
Called Most Drastic.
Mr.. Forman asserted in a mes
sage to Mr.. Harrison that this
ljeopardized all construction to be
undertaken in the future unless
NPA ruled in favor of each indi-
vidual structure. He said it was
far more drastic than any control
applied during World War II.
Mr.. Harrison replied that it
would be the intention of NPA
Ito avoid interruption of projects
Evening star., 1950-10-28
Scottish Terrier Club
Match Set Tomorrow

The Scottish Terrier Club of
Greater Washington tomorrow
will hold a Plan E Sanction Match
on the grounds of Franks Arena
Garden Noel highway, seven miles
south of Alexandria, Va, begin
ming at 1870 pm. Mark Taynton
of Falls Church will Judge.
In addition to the regular
classes there will be special prizes
for expression, coat, body and gait
as well as children's and adults
handling. The match is open to
all pure bred Scottish Terriers
except champions, in accordance
with American Kennel Club rules.
Evening star., 1950-10-28
GWU Alumni
ToCrown Queen
At Ball Tonight
Luncheon for 400
Today Will Honor a
Faculty Members

George Washington University
alumni consoled themselves with
homecoming festivities today after
watching their team take a "a
to-20 beating at Griffith Stadium
last night.
The old grads, some of whom
were disappointed at not being
able to participate in a fist fight
between the football players
started on the last play of the
game, will at least have opportu-
nifty to help crown the beauty
queen at the homecoming dance
tonight.
Ten pretty co-eds, finalists in
the contest for Homecoming queen,
will be viewed and interviewed by
a selection committee this after
noon at an informal gathering in
Woodhall House. The committee
Is headed by Dean Henry Grattan
Doyle of Columbian College.
Professors to Be Honored.
The winner will not be named
publicly until she is crowned at
10 o'clock at the final ball in the
Washington Hotel.
Dancing begins at o'clock.
A highlight of today's program
Is a luncheon for 400 at the May
flower Hotel to bestow honorary
certificates on four faculty men,
bers who have served the univer-
sity for Is years. Those receiving
the certificates are:
Colin Mackenzie Mackall, pro-
fessor emeritus of chemistry, of
3700 Massachusetts, avenue NV;
DR.. George Nordlinger, associate
clinical professor of obstetrics and
gynecology. of 5129 Linnear ave-
hue NV; Ernest S. Shepard, pro-
fessor of English literature, of
Falls Church, Va, and Benjamin
D. Van Evera, professor of chem
istry and co-ordinator of scien-
tif1c activities, 2124 I street NV.
Many Alumni Live Here.
The awards are to be made by
Dean Elmer Louis Kayser of the
class of IT, president of the
Alumni Association, staunch sup
porter of the university's athletic |
activities, and one of the most
popular men on the campus.
About half of the university's
$4,000 alumni live in the Wash
mgton area. and a large per-
centage of them are attending the
festivities. Most of the fraterni-
ties and sororities are planning
informal parties and reunions to-
day.
One feature of last nights game
with the University of South Caro-
lima was a Mummer's parade of |
floats, costumed marchers and !
music between the halves.
Nineteen campus organizations
participated.
Evening star., 1950-10-28
Stan Laurel to Undergo
IOperution in Puris
BY the Associated Press

PARIS, Oct. 29.-Stan Laurel
of the comedy team of Laurel and
Hardy. will undergo an operation
here tonight for the removal of
a prostate abcess.
Ben Chipman, secretary of Laurel
& Hardy Feature Productions, said
the 58-year-old, sad-faced come
dian was in "as good condition as
can be expected" He was ad-
mitted to the American hospital
here this week.