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Evening star., 1950-08-19
Fuel Oil, Kerosene Price
Raised Half Cent by ESQ

A half -cent-a-g gallon increase in
the price of fuel oil and kerosene
has been announced by the ESQ
Standard Oil Co.. effective today
The announcement from the
company's New York headquarters
cited an unusually strong demand,
a less satisfactory inventory posi-
ton and inability to purchase
needed supplies during recent
weeks.
On the supply outlook for fuel
oil and kerosene for the coming
winter-expected to be a record
heating season-it was pointed out
that with half the summer stock
buildup period passed, the indus
try and the combined East Coast
Gulf Coast area has restored less
than half of the amount drafted
during the last heating season.
An increase in price, it was be-
lieved. would provide added in
centive to manufacturers to in
crease yields of these products
which must be accomplished largl!
at the expense of the more refined
productS.
Evening star., 1950-08-19
D. {. Conservation Unit
Plans Food Stock Survey

The Commissioners have ac-
cepted the recommendation of the
District Food Conservation Com
mittee that Rick La Falce be en-
ployed to develop facts and fig
ures pertaining to available food
stocks and prepare information
for the public.
Mr.. La Falce's job is to stop
the public from engaging in fur
ther panic buying, according to
Thomas Kennedy, chairman of the
committee.
"All indications are that the
period of scarce buying is ended
on all food supplies. except in
isolated areas" Mr.. Kennedy
said. The so-called short items
again are appearing on the shelves
of practically all stores. Appar-
emily the only thing gained by
the hoarders was the buying of
large stocks of unneeded supplies,
taking up cupboard and shelf
space and drawing mice and
reaches"
The Commissioners have made
two additional appointments to
the committee, Mr.. Kennedy said.
They are Jerome Mckee, preSi-
dent of the Federation of Busi-
nessmen's Association, and Mrs.
Eleanor J. Palmer. president of
Division so, Communication
Workefs of America.
Evening star., 1950-08-19

ernment career in the Patent
Office in 1885 as a messenger.
Mr.. Loeffler was born in Wash
ington, the. son of the late Army
Maj. and Mrs. D. A. Loeff1er.
Mr.. Loeffler was a member of
the International Order of Odd
Fellows and was active in church
work at the First Evangelical Re
formed Church.
He is survived by his widow
Mrs. Cora Zeller Loeffler; two
brothers. Carl A. Loeff1er, 4615
Twenty-ninth place NV. who
when he retired as secretary of
the Senate in 1948 was the Sem
ate's oldest official, and Garnett
G. Loeff1er. 1920 Morrison street
NV, General Accounting Office
employe, and a sister, Mrs. Mich
olas Eckhardt, 1912 Holly street
NV. Also surviving are two chill
dren and four great-grandchildren
by his first wife, and four step
children, eight grandchildren and
four great-grandchildren by his
second wife.
Funeral services will be helC
Tuesday afternoon at Lebanon
Pa. Burial will be in Rohrers-
burg, Pa.
Evening star., 1950-08-19

"They ought to take hoarders
over to Korea and let them live
on K rations for a couple of
months"
Then the lean, 27-year-old vet
eran of the Army. Navy and Mer-
chant Marine shook his head.
But even that might not cure
them" he said, as he prepared
TO donate blood to replenish sup
plies depleted by the Korean war.
Roger Watts was one of about
$50 Army Map Service workers
who responded to the Red Cross
call for blood when the Montgom-
cry County Chapters bloodmobile
visited the Government building
this week on Macarthur boule-
ward near Brookmont.
Knows Value of PIaSma.
Like most of the other donors,
Mr.. Watts, who lives at 10124
Hereford road. Silver Spring, is a
veteran and knows the value of
whole blood and plasma on the
battlefield
You would think that two years
in the Merchant Marine, three in
the Army, including 18 months
overseas, and three in the Navy
would be enough for any man.
But not for Mr.. Watts. He tried
to join the Army Reserve recently
so he could keep his sergeant S
rating, but was turned down.
They told me I had too many
dependents. and I'd better stay
home" he laughed.
Mr.. Watts is married and has
four children.
Another donor, Mrs. Laicita
Cook. 81. of 754 South Greenbriar
street. Arlington, also has had
first-hand experience with war.
She was a Wac corporal in New
Guinea and the Philippines in
1914 and 1945 and her husband,
George, was bomber navigator
Tenth Donation.
"a lot of boys over there need
it" she said simply. when asked
why she was donating blood. II
was her tenth donation.
The headquarters for the blood
mobile and it's staff of volunteers
nurses. and a physician was the
Army Map Service basement.
| Lined up behind the screer
were eight beds. In front of the
screen was a table loaded with
Evening star., 1950-08-19
Native Of Fiji Islands
Addresses Adyentists

Heathens of the Fiji Islands are
being transformed from canniba1s
and headhunters into sincere and
loyal Christians" through the
work of Seventh day AdventiSts.
Ratu Semi Vuloaloa, a native is
lander. reported today.
He spoke at the Potomac Con-
ference Seventh-d day Adventist
camp meeting in Sligo Church,
Takoma Park. during the church S
Sabbath school program.
Ratu Semi is in this country
with Elder G. B. BranSter. presi-
dent of the denomination Gen.
tral Pacific Union Island Mission.
They attended the general con-
ference session in San Francisco
last month and are on tour of
camp meetings and churches in
the United States before return
ing to the Fiji Islands.
There are II SEVENTH day, Ad-
ventist churches in Fiji, with a
church and Sabbath school men,
bership of 2,089.
More than 5000 are attending
the camp meeting. Delegates are
from Virginia. Maryland. and the
District. The Today session will
end tomorrow.
Evening star., 1950-08-19
First Enlisted War Casualty
At Arlington 10 Get Honors

Infantry Sergt. Ernest K. Tur-
ner, 35, of Berwick, Pa, who died
last month of wounds received in
action in Korea, will be accorded
full military honors as the first
enlisted casualty of the Korean
fighting to be buried in Arlington
Cemetery.
An honor guard from the Sd
"OId Guard" Infantry Regiment
of Fort Myer, Va, will be at
Union Station when the body ar
rives at $50 am. Monday. Burial
will be later in the week.
Sergt. Turner was wounded
July "a and died four days later
at the 118th Station Hospital ir
Tokyo. He was a veteran of eight
years service and had just re.
enlisted for a three-year tern
last February.
He is survived by his mother
Mrs. Leona Belle Turner, and :
sister, Mrs. Lois Marie Hutton
both of Berwick.
Evening star., 1950-08-19
Monument 10 Flyers
Killed by YugosIavs
Dedicated by Spaatz

Government, military and civic
leaders today joined the families
of five American airmen shot
down over Yugoslavia in 1946 in
dedicating a marble monument 10
their memory in Arlington Gene
terry.
More than 100 spectators gath
cred on the quiet slopes of the
cemetery to see Gen. Carl Spaatz,
retired chief of staff of the Air
Force, lead in laying more than
a score of floral tributes at the
common grave of the flyers.
The 5-foot high monument is
inscribed on one side with the
names of the alrmen:
Capt. Richard H. Glaeys of ST
Charles, III; Corpl. Matthew
Comko of Monessen, Pa; Capt
Blen H. Freestone of Burley
Idaho; Corpl. Chester j. Lower OF
Enfield, N. H, and Capt. Harold
F. Schneider of New Albany, Ind.
The back of the thin marble
slab bears simply date and place
name: Yugoslavia, August 49,
1916.
On that day the five airmen
were flying an unarmed transport
plane from Vienna, Austria, to
Udine, Italy. AS the plane crossed
a narrow strip of Yugoslav terri
tory near Udine, a number of
Yugoslav Yak fighters bore in and
shot the transport down without
warning.
The incident nearly ended re
lations between the United States
and Yugoslavia. 1t was settled
at length when the Tito govern
ment agreed to pay $l50,000 in
demnity.
Until Arthur Bliss Lane, former
Ambassador to Poland, started a
contribution campaign for a
monument, the grave of the air.
men had been marked by a low
lying stone which identified the
flyers and merely stated, KILLED
in an airplane crash"
Ultimately 300 voluntary con-
tributionS were received.
Evening star., 1950-08-19

doughnuts and cookies, with a
coffee percolator bubbling near
by. For those who didn't want
coffee there was choice of tea
or milk.
1t was all very efficient. AS the
donors entered in groups of eight
they were Shunted to a desk
by two volunteers who
took their names and addresses
anC asked whether they had ever
given blood before.
At another desk, a doctor took
their pulse, temperature. blood
pressure. a sample of their blood
ano their medical history.
Then, after drinking some fruit
juice, they had their blood drawn
by a registered nurse. The final
step was a short stop at the can
teen for refreshments. The en-
tire process took about As min
uteS.
Happy Over Turnout.
In few days they will receive
a card from the chapter, giving
their blood type and the date of
their donation.
Mrs. George B. Hartman, chair
man of Volunteer Services for the
Montgomery Chapter, was quite
happy over the large turnout.
Before the Korean war" she
recalled. I'VE got only about half
of what We needed in Montgom-
cry County. But in recent weeks
the response has picked up tre-
mendously."
When the Bloodmobile last Wis
tied the Army Map Service in May
there were about 80 donors, just
about half of this weeks turnout,
Mrs. Hartman said. The require
ments for donating blood are sim
pie. One must be between 81 and
so years old. Donors between 18
and 81 also are accepted if they
have their parents permission or
if they are married.
The county Bloodmobile's next
visit in Montgomery County will
be from 2 to 8 pm. September 6
at the Congregational Church on
Westmoreland Circle.
One of this weeks donors
Richard NehritZ. 81, of 4427 c
street NV. said he probably vii
be drafted soon.
There is a good chance I will
get some blood back" he said.
Evening star., 1950-08-19
Board 10 Consider Closing
7 Ninth ST. Billiard ParIors

The License Board will meet at
10 am. on Monday in the
Municipal Center to consider a
Police Department recommenda-
ton that the licenses of two
Ninth street billiard parlors be
revoked.
One of the halls, operated by
William G.. Hef1in at 913-915
Ninth street NV, was the scene
of the December 10 Staying of
Joseph H. big Joe" Scheve by
James A. Rigsbee, self styled
tough guy" who was sentenced
on May 2 to serve from Is years
to life for the murder.
The other billiard parlor is
operated at 937 Ninth street NV.
by Frederick R. Murdock. The
charge against both operators is
"use for an unlawful purpose"
Evening star., 1950-08-19
NewCase Raises Polio
Total Here 10 Is, Near
Double '49 Figure

One new case Of polio was re-
ported to the District Health De-
partment late yesterday, bringing
the total of Washington cases this
year to 76. Last year at this time
"a had been reported.
The new patient is a 13-year-
old girl who lives in the 6100 block
of Twenty-ninth street NV. She
is in George Washington Uni
verSity Hospital.
Meanwhile, the National Foun-
dation for 1nfantile Paralysis an
nounced the sending of $28,003 to
six Virginia counties where foun-
dation chapters already have
emptied their own March of Dimes
treasures in providing funds for
care OF patients stricken this sum-
mer.
The State Health Department
said yesterday it had reports of
six new cases in Virginia-the
smallest report in two months
which brought the 1850 total to
440.
For the third straight day, no
new cases were reported from
Wytheville or Wythe County, and
health officials felt sure the worst
of the epidemic there was at an
end.
The six counties receiving March
of Dimes funds are Wythe, $16,-
174; Bland, $1,138; Carroll, ST.
PTS; Pittsylvania, $4.956; Scott,
81, ,l41, and Wise, $2.315. March
of Dimes emergency funds sent
into Virginia this year by the
foundation already exceed $50 900.
Evening star., 1950-08-19
Hecht's Tenders Dinner
To 200 Manufacturers

Nearly 200 manufacturers were
dined last night at the Statler
Hotel to mark the opening of a
complete downstairs store in the
Hecht Co. Silver Spring branch.
Guests were greeted by Harry
Davidow. general merchandise
manager of the Hecht Co.; Louis
Frankel and Herman Spiegel,
merchandise managers of the
downstairs stores, and 20 buyers.
After the dinner, chartered
buses took the entire party on. an
inspection tour of the new addi-
ton to the store at Fenton street
and Ellsworth drive. Silver Spring.
The 81 million downstairs store
raises to five the number of SELL
ing floors of the suburban branch.
Evening star., 1950-08-19
Road Act Still Carries
.S3.2 Million for D. E.,
.S3MiIIionfo Parkway

The Federal-Aid Road Act, cut
yesterday by $120 million, still
carries $3,223.750 for the District
and SO million for the Washing
ton-Baltimore parkway.
The $120 million slash was made
yesterday by the Senate Public
Works Committee, to reduce the
authorization from SLABS million
to $6285 million for each of the
two fiscal years 1852 and 1853.
Chairman Chavez of the Public
Works Committee, in announcing
the reductions, said they were
made "in view of the changed in
ternational situation brought about
by the Korean situation and in
view of increased military eX-
penditureS."
Truman Asked Cut.
The Senate Public Works Com
mittee followed the recommenda-
ton made Thursday by President
Truman, who asked Senator
Chavez to shave $120 million off
the road measure.
After Senator Chavez had laid
the committee proposal before the
Senate. Senator Douglas. Demo-
crat. of Illinois, announced he
would offer an amendment to
make another major slash in the
Federal aid.
Thu hoe hnnN Inhnf tod
for two days on the Senate floor
with some bitterness. 1t will come
to a vote Tuesday on the many
amendments already pending.
Douglas Charges.
! Senator Douglas charged that
the Senate bill is already a sub
stantial increase over appropria-
tions made this year for roads and
is absurd in view of the Ko-
rean war"
The District of Columbia would
have received total of $3,681 900
in Federal aid for each of the two
years 1852 and 1853 under the bill
as reported to the Senate.
L Ilc Do llIlI1OIl Cd1I 4cu al GllC
measure for the Washington-Bal-
timore highway was left intact
In making the cuts the Public
Works Committee did not touch
a figure of $13 million year for
parkwayS throughout the country
Referring to the expressway
already authorized by Congress,
the Public Works Committee de-
/ clared: Because of the strategic
, value of the Baltimore Washing
ton parkway to national defense,
. a provision was added making SO
: million available Immediately
5 for proceeding with construction
of that parkway"
Evening star., 1950-08-19
Dr.. Yeoger to Preach
In ARLINGTON Tomorrow

The Rev. Carl F. Yeager will be
guest preacher at the Resurrec-
ton Lutheran Church, Arlington,
at the $50 and II am. services
tomorrow.
DR.. Yeager, former pastor of
the church, recently returned
from Germany where he has been
for the past three years with the
Lutheran World Relief Commits
sion.
The Rev Dana H Johnson,
pastor of the church. will return
from his vacation on September 10.
Evening star., 1950-08-19
New Law May
Add S5OO,OO0
.ToD.C. Aid Fund
Clupp Estimate on
Social Security Seen as
Helping ; Cotegories

The pending legislation to ex-
tend the social security program
may provide the District with
from 100000 to $50O,0 more for
public assistance this fiscal year.
The measure, awaiting signature
by President Truman, may mean
that the public assistance allow
ance can be brought up from the
present 80 per cent of standard
to from 95 to 100 per cent after
January l, welfare officials said.
The standard is based on 1916
prices. Allowances have been cut
three times in the last two years.
The new legislation would permit
District funds to earn more Fed
eral reimbursement.
May Benefit 3 CategOries.
The District expects to be able
to extend its assistance through
three categorieS of the bill:
Expanded social security bene-
fits.
Extension Of. aid to dependent
children.
Increased aid to the perma-
nently and totally disabled.
The bill would remove from the
Districts old-age assistance rolls
some persons who also are re-
ceiving old-age insurance pay
ments under social security. At
present their social security pay
mentS must be supplemented by
public assistance.
Raymond F. Clapp, principal
assistant to the director of pub
lie welfare, estimated the increases
provided by the pending bill in
old-age insurance payments will
be the equivalent of meeting the
needs of about 4 per cent of those
receiving assistance.
Means About $4,000.
This will mean about $4,000
a year to the District, he esti-
mated.
A substantial saving is expected
through the proposed change in
the form of Federal reimburse
ment for aid to dependent chill
dren. 1t might increase the al
lowance for families receiving
such aid as much as SIS a month.
The average now is STA a month
for family with four children.
The Federal Government re-
imburseS the District for a Ger
tain percentage of payments to
the families. The matchable
amount is to be increased by an
allowance for the mother. In the
past, no reimbursement was
granted for the portion of the as
sistance payment needed by the
mother.
A third provision of the legisla-
ton which would benefit the
District program is that apply
ing to persons who are perma-
nently and totally disabled. Mr..
Clapp said. The District has not
received reimbursement for as
sistance given such persons unless
they were over IS or blind.
Mr.. Clapp estimated that pos
Sibly half the persons now re-
ceiving general assistance will be-
come eligible for reimbursable
payments.
The welfare official said it is
hoped the increased benefits
might be translated into higher
grants sometime after November
l, and the standard approached
after January /.
Evening star., 1950-08-19
Two Boys Get Linked Up
With Lost Handouts
BY the Assoc,afed Press

DETROIT, Aug. 19.-Obviously,
when you find a pair of handouts,
the thing to do is to try them out.
So Gordon Hardy, IT, and Jack
Kadrowski, IA, wound up at a
police precinct station to get un-
shackled from each other.
1t wasn't learned who lost the
handouts.
Let's be sensible. There is nc
shortage of food in the United
there is no immediate prospect OF
rationing. So let's be sensible
Don't hoard.
Evening star., 1950-08-19

IA, Wnere ne
had been since
t he first of
July.
Mr.. Loemer
lived at 3410
T h ir t e e n t h
street NV.
He was re-
tired from the
Government in
1886 as prin-
cipal examiner
of division l at
| the Patent Of
flee. He had
started his Gov
Evening star., 1950-08-19
Wholesale Price Drop
Of O.4 Per Cent Reported
BY the Associated Press

Wholesale prices declined 0.4
per cent in the week ended Au-
gust Is, the Bureau of Labor
Statistics reported yesterday.
At the weeks end, its index
stood at 165 per cent of the 1925
average. This was / per cent above
a month ago and 81 per cent
above the comparable week in
1949.
Evening star., 1950-08-19
Church Speaker Named

. Charles S. Brown, a member of
the Memorial Baptist Church of
Arlington. will speak at worship
services of the church at IL am
tomorrow. The Rev. Paul Harrel.
pastorS is on vacation.
Evening star., 1950-08-19
Guest Preacher Named

The Rev. Charles N. Jarrett, re-
tired minister, formerly OF the
First Christian Church, Barnes
vile, Ohio. will be guest preacher
at the Wilson Boulevard Christian
Church, Arlington, at II am.
tonior"oW. 4
Evening star., 1950-08-19
Frank A. Loeff|er, 81
Retired EmpIoye Of
Patent Office, Dies

Frank Andrew Loeffler, 81, re-
tired Patent Office employe, died
Unexpectedly yesterday at his
summer home in Mount Gretna,
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1950-10-05
Marion L. Petty, L. To
Wed Indiana Girl

Mrs. Reva Belts of Lynn, India
ma, announces the engagement and
approaching marriage of her
daughter, Miss Ruth Evelyn Belts
Of Lynn and Jackson, Mississippi,
to Mr.. Marion l.. Petty, Jr. of
Lexington and Jackson.
Miss Belts is a graduate of Lynn
High School and is at present en-
ployed at Montgomery Ward in
jackson. MI. Petty is a graduate
of Lexington High School and
Holmes Junior College. He serv-
ed for two and one-half years in
the Navy during World War II
and is now employed as assistant
manager of a retail ice cream store
for Seale-Lily Ice Cream Com
pany in Jackson.
An early November wedding is
planned.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1950-10-05
Resident Records Impressions Gathered
On Trip This Summer To Eastern States

of Robert E. Lee facing the Lin
coin Memorial across the Potomac
River. We stopped at the Airing
ton Memorial Amphitheatre and
the tomb of the Unknown Soldier
in the Cemetery.
We visited Mt. Vernon, the
home of Martha and George
Washington, where we inspected
the house, the grounds, the tombs
of the Washingtons and the wharf.
In Alexandria, we saw the Christ
Church where Washington often
attended church.
The Naval Military Academy
with its spacious grounds and
gold-domed chapel was an inter
esting sight in Annapolis. In the
Chesapeake Bay, we went through
the United States Destroyer Fitch,
a ship damaged in World Var II.
This ship went further north than
any other ship.
The white doorsteps of the Row
Houses in Baltimore were of in
terest to me. was told that these
steps were kept spotless all of the
time. We visited Fort McHenry,
the birth place of the "Star Span
eled Banner" Baltimore is a city
of MANY factories. One of its lar
gest is the Glenn l.. Martin Co.,
where airplanes r made.
On our way home, we drove for
some distance along the Skyline
Drive, which is in the Shenandoah
National Park. From this drive
we could see the Shenandoah Val
lev on one side and the Piedmont
Valley on the other. We visited
the Skyline Caverns in which are
seen the worlds only collection
of Anthodites, flower-like calcite
formations; and, the Grand Cav
ems where Stonewall Jackson
quartered his troops and where
religious services were held in the
underground Cathedral.
Near Lexington, Va. we saw
the Natural Bridge, one of the
Seven Wonders of the World
Highway No. IL passes over tht
bridge. The bridge is 215 fee
high, 80 feet long, and varies IL
width from so to $50 feet. Tit
Indians worshiped the bridge
Thomas Jefferson once owned 1t
and it was surveyed by Georg'
Washington. In the glen allow
the bridge we saw the Saltpetr'
Cave, the Hemlock Grove, ant
the Lost River.
Rock City Gardens, which i
on Lookout Mountain, six mile
from Chattanooga, Tennessee, ha
attracted visitors for a long time
The Fairyland Caverns at the enc
This covers about ten acres o
lichen-covered sandstone rocks
of the trail bring to life the Nc
Their Goose stories and rhymes
Rock City is not only of great in
terest to biologists but to botan
lists as well.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1950-10-05
Clubs Personals
OAR. Meets Sept. 28
Mrs. E. (. Wynn

The first fall meeting of the
Benjamin G.. Humphreys Chapter
of the Daughters of the American
Revolution was held in the home
of Mrs. E. E. Wynn with Mrs.
Wynn and her daughters, Joy
and Anne, hostesses on Thursday
afternoon, September %.
Mrs. w. P. Lewis, regent, open
ed the meeting with the ritual
and the Pledge of Allegiance to
| the u. S.. Flag and to the state
flag. Mrs. Lewis then read a let
ter describing the proper display
of the flag.
Miss Anne Wynn, the Resale
chairman, read the September
"Rosalie" bulletin, and plans were
made to secure movies and slide:
of Resale" historic D. A. r
home and shrine at Natchez, tt
be shown at an early meeting.
The transfer of membership Of
Mrs. F. L. Browne, who has NOV
ed to Mississippi from Oklahoma
was accepted by the chapter.
The minutes of the last meet.
ing were read and approved.
Lovely arrangements of orchid
and white dahlias decorated the
spacious living room of the Wynn
home. Pie and coffee were serv.
ed by the hostesses at the con
clusion of the meeting.