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Evening star., 1950-12-23
Capital Transit Cites
Gas Decision in Figh'
On Pepco Increase
By Horriet Griffiths

The United States Court of Ap-
peals decision against the long
pending gas rate increase was
drawn into the Potomac Electric
Power Co. rate case yesterday.
In its brief filed with the Public
Utilities Commission, the Capital
Transit Co. cited the appeals court
opinion after declaring the COM
mission is obligated to find a fair
rate of return for Pepco.
Pepco is seeking to increase it.
annual revenue by $3,379, 900
through rate boosts. Capital Tran
sit stands to have its bill increased
70.7 per cent, or by $66l 900, under
the proposals.
Conditions Held Different.
The brief filed by Attorneys F.
G. Await, Raymond Sparks and
Daryal A. Myse on behalf of the
transit company contended the
evidence in the case would not
support a finding that Pepco's
rates are insufficient or preferen-
tial.
The attorneys held that the
PUG cannot escape finding fair
rate of return for Pepco on the
ground that it established one of
5l2 per cent in 1914 since gov
erning conditions now are differ
ent.
Citing the gas case, the brief
declared, Moreover, the COM
mission cannot reach into the
air and determine the rate of
return, even if it relies on what
may be termed the end result,
because the reasonableness of the
end result must be tested and
must be based on substantial
evidence"
Inadequacy of Findings.
In the appellate opinion up
holding a District Court order
setting aside a gas rate increase
authorization of a year ago, the
court said:
"We hold the P.U.C.) order
invalid because of the inadequacy
of the record and findings with
regard to the rate of return. and
abandoned property"
The transit company attorneys
contended that if the P. U. c..
follows the evidence in the Pepco
case, it must find the rate of
return to be not more than S
per cent.
They renewed their motion to
dismiss Pepco's application, and
asserted the P. U. c. would COM
NIT error if it granted any in
crease in electric rates by the
power company.
Evening star., 1950-12-23

courtesy of the Florist Telegraph
Delivery Association. to send flow
ers to a person or family of their
choice
Paula Pace, eight year old
daughter of Secretary of Army
Pace, served as hostess to the in
ternational guests. She chose te
send her flowers to Senator Van
denberg, Republican, of Michigan
who is confined to Butterwortt
Hospital at Grand Rapids, with
this message:
Because of your help towards
peace in the world, I am sending
you these flowers with the hope
that you will soon be well enough
to carry on your great work"
Before the broadcast, the chill
dren heard a concert of Christmas
music by the United States Ma
rine band in the main ballroom of
the hotel. Afterwards. Santa
Claus. in the person of Hal Gould.
presided over an ice cream and
cake party and presented gifts to
each child under a 20-foot Christ
mas tree.
Evening star., 1950-12-23
Clinton Soldier
Missing, 3Fron1
D. {. Wounded
Silver Spring Soldier
Returns to Duty as
Wounds Heal

An 18-year-old Clinton (Md.)
soldier is missing in action and
three District area men have been
wounded, the Defense Department
announced last night in the 183d
casualty list of the Korean war.
Army Pfc. Ira Calvin Greenway,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Mark w.
Greenway of Clinton. has been
missing since November %. His
father is Waldorf automobile
dealer.
Reported wounded are Pfc. Will
liam E Jobes, %, son of Mrs. Dor
othy E. Ensminger of 2801 Quebec
street NV; Pfc. Lawrence w.
Martin, 10. son of Mr.. and Mrs.
George R. Martin of 5303 Drake
place Sc. and Maj. Herbert A.
johnson, jr., 35, formerly of 1905
North Ode street, Arlington.
A 22-year-old Silver Spring SOL
dier, Pfc. Richard C. Rupkey,
brother of Mrs. Frank S. Scherer
Of 10 Hamilton avenue, has been
returned to active duty after re-
covering from wounds around the
eyes received November %.
Served in China.
Pfc. Rupkey, who enlisted in the
Army only a few weeks before the
start of the Korean war last June,
is a veteran of the 1St Marine
Evening star., 1950-12-23
Retiring Lowmoker
Backed for Post to
Succeed Guy Mason

Representative Mary T. Nor
ton, Democrat, of New Jersey, who
is retiring voluntarily from Con-
gress, is being put forward by
her friends as a candidate to sue
ceed Guy Mason as district COM
missioner. Mr.. Mason's three
year term expires in February.
Many persons have been urging
Mrs. Norton to become an active
candidate for the post, it was
learned.
When she was first approached
about the matter some time ago,
Mrs. Norton said today, she did
not take it seriously.
II have not done anything
about the proposal" she said,
"but such an idea is a challenge
and somehow or other I always
accept a challenge"
Mrs Norton is the latest of sew
eral persons mentioned as possible
successors to Mr.. Mason. also a
Democrat. He was i'll for some
time. but has resumed active par
ticipation in his post.
Prominent in National Affairs.
Mrs. Norton, during her 26 years
in Congress, has been prominent
not only in national affairs, but
also in legislation for the District
She was chairman of the House
District Committee from 1880 to
1887. and became familiar with
problems of the National Capital
Since that time she has main
tained an interest in this city and
has taken the House floor fire.
Guently to support measures for
the benefit of the Capital.
The question of Mrs. Norton S
residence qualifications for the
post has been raised already by
some persons.
Although three years residence
in the District is, required by law
for each civilian commissioner
Mrs. Norton's friends pointed out
that she has maintained q home
here continuously for 26 years.
She maintains her legal voting
residence, of course, in New Jer-
sey, and it was thought by some
that this might bar her from the
post because the law further re-
quires a commissioner to claim
no residence elsewhere.
Allen Case Cited.
The case of former Commits
sioner George Allen of Mississippi
is being pointed to by Mrs. Nor
tons advocates as a precedent for
her appointment, however. He
was in private hotel business here
before being made Commissioner.
The old law of 1873 on qualif1ca-
tions of the post now occupied by
Mr.. Mason, reads as follows:
''The two persons appointed from
civil life shall, at the time of their
appointments, be citizens of the
United States and shall have been
actual residents of the District of
Columbia for three years next be-
fore their appointment, and have,
during that period, claimed resi-
dence nowhere else"
Among the persons reported in
terested in Mrs. Norton is Mrs.
India Edwards, chairman of the
Women's Division of the Demo-
cratic National Committee.
Another possible successor, Ger
hard P. van Arkel. counsel to the
Senate District Committee, has
been formally recommended to
President Truman by Senator
Nicely, Democrat. of West Virginia,
District Committee chairman.
Evening star., 1950-12-23
Woodward Employees
Hold Christmas Party

About $500 Woodward g.
Lothrop employees took part in
the stores annual Christmas pro-
gram today.
The downtown stores first floor
echoed with Christmas carols
from about $500 voices in the half
hour before the store opened at
$50 am. The program was
"piped" to 800 employees in the
Bethesda Chevy Chase and Be-
thesda branch stores,
Almost every inch of space on
the first floor was jammed dur
ing the celebration, which also
included Christmas greetings from
Andrew Parker, president of the
company; Bill Herson, operator
of the doll house in front of the
North Building, and the stores
Santa Claus, Joseph Carr. an as
sistant buyer.
In addition to the main store
employees, the gathering was made
up of those from the North Build
ing, the Pentagon store and the
service buildings at 131 M street
NE.
The program began as an an
nual affair about IS years ago.
Evening star., 1950-12-23
.Draft-Rejected
Doctors Maybe
Examined Again
Officials Studying
Steps if Rote Is
Found Out of Line

The possibility Of re-examinin9
draft liable doctors in some areas
as the result of high physical re-
lection rates is under careful
study by Pentagon officials, it was
reported today.
AS yet. no definite steps have
been planned. But one high mill
tary source said that if studies
now under way show rejection
rates to be "really out of line" il
is expected that those rejected
will be ordered for re-examina-
ton, probably at military hos
pitals.
In the I'd Army area, which in
cludes the District. officials said
young physicians have been re-
jected for physical reasons alone
at the incredible" rate of be-
tween Is and 80 per cent. All
those ordered for examination
either were trained at Govern
ment expense during the war or
were otherwise deferred to con-
tinue medical education. On the
national level, physical rejection
are running about II per cent.
Rate High in District.
In the District. the rejection
rate was even higher. OF 35
physicians ordered up, one source
reported, Is were rejected. 1t was
pointed out. however. that the 35
was too small a number from
which to draw general conclu-
SionS.
Meanwhile, I'd Army officials
plan to make a breakdown of
the rejection picture, so that
officials in the District and seven
States covered by the area can
be given clear picture of rea-
sons for the reflections.
May Call Back Reservists.
Reports of the high rejection
rates also raised concern among
some civilian doctors that the
Army might be forced to call
back reservists with wide World
War II service in order to meet
medical needs. But Army officials
said that before that happens
steps will be taken to induct
young draft-liable doctors who
have refused to accept commits
sions voluntarily. AS yet, how
ever. the Army has not passed
along a medical draft call to
Selective Service officials.
On the non-medical draft
front, District officials have sus-
pended weekly induction of
youths until after the Christmas
holidays. The next mass induc-
ton will be held January 8.
Evening star., 1950-12-23
Dual Pay Bill Slated
For Final Action in
Senate Next Week

The dual-pay bill, liberalizing
present law for Federal employees
with two jobs. will be called ur
for final action in the Senate
next week.
The measure, raising the amount
a two-job worker can receive from
the present average of $2,500 to
! $4,000, passed the House yester-
day with amendments and went
back to the Senate which had ap-
proved it last year.
| Senator Long, Democrat, OF
Louisiana, acting for the Civil
Service Committee tried late yes
terday to bring the measure up on
the Senate floor, but could not
because of the overcrowded pro-
gram.
Senator Long said he would
move to get the Senate to concur
in House amendments and send
the bill to the White House.
AS amended by the House the
measure would make it possible
for teachers and school officers
here, and custodial employees of
the District Board of Education,
to take two jobs. In some cases
present law prevents this.
Under an amendment proposed
by Representative Harris, Demo-
crat, of Arkansas. and approved
by the House, Federal or District
of Columbia workers would be
permitted to take another job with
the District Recreation Board.
This was said by recreation Off
cials to clear the way for many
much-needed workers in that
agency.
The House struck from the Sen
ate bill a proviso that part of the
measure could be suspended by
the President during any period
of national emergency. This was
stricken after Representative
Scrinvner. Republican, of Kansas
had objected to it Thursday
Chairman Mccarthy of a House
civil service subcommittee ex-
planned, he moved to strike the
provision with the idea it might
better go into a war emergency
bill.
The measure would permit
lower grade employees to do Sat-
urday work in defense agencies.
Evening star., 1950-12-23
|YuIe Season in Full Swing
In Area Veterans Hospitals

The Christmas social season is
in full swing at Veterans Admin
istration hospitals in the Wash
ington area.
The 80 member groups of the
VA Voluntary Services Committee
have been sponsoring special holi-
day activities all this month and a
number of ward parties are
planned for the next two days at
Mt. Alto Hospital here.
The committee is composed of
civic groups, women's clubs and
auxiliary units of the veterans
organizations.
Four religious services are
planned tomorrow at Mt. Alto, in
cluding a midnight Catholic mass.
The hospital also will hold an open
house tomorrow.
Christmas morning carol singers
from the Metropolitan Police Boys
Clubs will visit the hospital.
Evening star., 1950-12-23
d. {. BARRIERS 10 Vote Mary 7. Norton Being Urged
Jan. 4to Raise Price For District Commissioner

District BARRIERS will vote on
January 4 to raise the price of
haircuts, probably from the cur
rent 81 to about $1.25 in union
shops. Current prospects point to
an unanimous ballot in favor of
the price poost
Thursday night, organized Dis
trict BARRIERS met and voted to
raise the price without dissenting
ballot, thus canceling out some in
decision which existed in Novem-
ber on the matter. Those who
sponsored the increase last month
couldn't get the necessary rs per
cent of the unions ISL members
to agree.
The poll on January 4 is being
held to help make the increase
formal, it was indicated last night
by H. S. Fink. president of
Barber's Union Local 239 (AFH.
"We simply must go up to stay
in business" he said. Our industry
cannot absorb increases all along
the line in operating costs"
Mr.. Fink said there apparently
was some misunderstanding about
the first vote. The deadline fo1
answering the QUESTIONABLE sent
to members was November 20, he
explained. He added, however. that
more than 200 replies advocating
the $1.25 price came in after the
legal closing date. The late ones
would have voted the increase, Mr.
Fink contended.
He said the new referendum will
be held at a meeting of members
January 4 in Pythian Temple
1912 Ninth street NV, and the
new deadline will be January Is.
It was pointed out that cities in
which 81 25 is charged for a hair
cut include Toledo, Detroit and
| New York.
Evening star., 1950-12-23
Elizabeth Taylor Speeds
Her Suit for Divorce
BY the Associoied Press

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 23.-Eliza-
beth Taylor didn't even wait until
New Years, as she said she would
to file suit for divorce against
Conrad N. (Nick) Hilton, jr.
The 18-year-old actress chose
the second day of winter to put
the official chill on the 23-year-
old hotel fortune scion.
The charge: Cruel and inhu-
man treatment No particulars
were cited. Moreover. Miss Tay-
lor, who has seldom been called
anything but Miss Taylor, asks
restoration" of her maiden name
She asks no alimony.
They were married last May
in one of Hollywood's starriest
postwar weddings.
Evening star., 1950-12-23

Division. He saw duty in China
before entering the Army. He at
tended Coolidge High School and
Bell Electrical School here. He
was returned to duty December IL.
Previously Wounded.
Pfc. Greenway, a bazooka man
in an infantry regiment, enlisted
in the Army in August 1949. He
wrote his parents earlier he had
been wounded slightly by shell
fragments in the arms and legs.
The missing soldier, a native of
Clinton, worked for his father for
Evening star., 1950-12-23

q time after attending Brandy
wine Md High School. He was
sent to Korea in July.
Pfc. Jobes, a paratrooper in the
18th Regimental Combat Team,
was wounded in the stomach No
vember %, according to word re-
ceived by his mother.
Pfc. Jobes enlisted in the Navy
for four years in 1945, after his
father, a private first class in the
14th Armored Division, was killed
in action in France in December,
1914. He served in the Mediter-
ranean aboard the cruisers Provi-
dence and Albany and was dis
charged in September, 1949.
Enlisted in Army.
He enlisted in the Army soon
after his discharge from the Navy.
His mother is purchasing clerk
In the Navy Department bureau of
ships.
Pfc. Jobes worked as an appren-
tice in the Naval Gun Factory
here in 1945 before enlisting in
the Navy. He is a native of Fair
mont, w. Va.
Pfc. Martin, wounded November
80. is in a hospital in Japan, his
parents said. A letter from him
last week said he was shot in the
leg and heel when caught by en-
emy small arms fire while running
behind q tank He was picked up
by a friendly vehicle after crawl
ing half mile in a ditch beside a
road, his letter said.
Enlisted at II.
Pfc. Martin, member of the
9th Regiment, End Division, en-
listed in the Army just after his
17th birthday. He attended Phelps
Vocational and Brown Junior
High School before joining the
Army.
A brother, Eddie H. Martin, %
a World War II veteran of the
Okinawa campaign, is with the
army of occupation in Germany
Maj. Johnson, whose wife now
is living in Marysville, Pa, is a
veteran of World War II who
spent three years in a German
prison camp.
He was captured by Italian
troops in 1943 and sent to Ger
man POW camp.
From 1916 to 1947 he was at
tached to the plans and opera
tions division of the Army general
staff at the Pentagon.
Evening star., 1950-12-23
Mrs. Briscoe to Retire
From District Post

Mrs. Rosie A. Briscoe, assistant
chief clerk of the Department of
Sanitation. will retire December
81, William A. xanten, superin-
tendent, announced today.
Mrs. Briscoe, who has been with
the department since November
!, 1918, has served in various
grades in the department. and in
addition to being assistant chief
clerk was also cost accountant for
the department. She lives at $500
Ridgewood avenue, Chevy Chase,
Md.
Evening star., 1950-12-23
O'Conor Louds Tydings
In Senate Speech
BY the Associoied Press

Senator O'Conor, Democrat, OF
Maryland paid tribute in a Senate
speech yesterday to Senator
Tdyings, Democrat, of Maryland
who will retire from the Senate
January 2.
He praised Senator Tydings as
"a patriot and an extraordi-
uarily capable. earnest and fearless
leader and legislator"
Evening star., 1950-12-23
Senate Sees Soviet Rifle
Used by Reds in Korea
BY the Associated Press

Senator Pepper, Democrat, Of
Florida exhibited a sniper's rife
on the Senate floor last night,
saying it had been made in Rus
sia this year and given to Chinese
Communists to kill United States
troops in Korea.
Senator Pepper, who returned
from front-line visit in Korea a
month ago. said the rifle and
Russian-made tanks, airplanes,
mortars and other munitions
proved that our principal enemy
is Russia"
Evening star., 1950-12-23

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Call to Prayer Tomorrow
Approved by Senute
BY The Associated Press

The Senate yesterday unan-
imously approved a national call
to prayer for tomorrow.
1t did so by adopting a resolu-
ton offered by Senator McCar-
ran, Democrat, of Nevada. The
House previously had approved a
similar resolution.
Evening star., 1950-12-23
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Evening star., 1950-09-23
Spy Series Reveals
How Dutch Traitor
Met the Hongmon

Col. OreSte Pinto, British
intelligence chief, tells how a
Dutch traitor met the hang
man in today's installment Of
the new series of stories Of
World War II intrigue. The
installment will be found on
Page AS.
The Star also offers today
another chapter of Ellery
Queens "The Adventure of the
Black Cat" for you mystery
fans. This is on Page A-8.
The daily brain teaser, Puz-
L-Race, will be found on Page
A-21.
Another article on what
nearby Maryland and Virginia
counties are doing to prepare
for dispersal or expansion of
Federal agencies into the city's
suburbs will appear Monday.
Evening star., 1950-09-23
Russians 0yerridden
ByU. n. Assembly on
Seat for NationaIists
Tsiong Charges Soviet
Is Trying to Get Veto
Like Ii Has in Council
BY the Associofed Press

NEW YORK, Sept. 23.-The
United Nations Assembly overrode
Soviet opposition today and adopt
ed Credentials Committee report
allowing Nationalist China to re-
main seated until q special study
committee weighs claims of the
Nationalist and the Communist
Chinese to the seat. The vote was
43 to S, with one abstention.
Earlier, a Russian proposal te
declare the Credentials Commit
tee decision on China invalid lost
by 6 to II, with three abstentions
The vote came after T. r
Tsiang, Nationalist Chinese dele
cation leader, defended his right
to sit in the Assembly and charged
that Russia was trying to obtain
veto power in the Assembly like
1t has in the Security Council.
The Chinese representation is
sue, which exploded in the open
ing moments Of the Assembly last
Tuesday, burst out again today
after the plenary session
was called to order at 1886 am
Moslem Holiday Ended.
The Assembly resumed its policy
debates after a one-day holiday
yesterday taken at Egypt's request
in difference to Moslem delegates
observing a religious festival.
The Netherlands and Chile both
have said biting things in past
(See U. N. Page A-3.)
Evening star., 1950-09-23
81 Pays Own Way to Korea War
On Leave From Duty in Reich

he planked down his whole life
savings for another air ticket
to Tokyo.
II had 81 400 toward a new car
but I guess a car is less important
than being with your buddies, ~
he said.
At Tokyo's Haneda Airport the
red tape is thick. But the SER
geant just walked over to a plane
and hitch-hiked a ride to Taegu,
then climbed on a freight train
to Pusan. There he found a truck
headed for this front and climbed
in.
He went right up to rifle COM
pany and battalion commanded
by 1t. Col. Bernard G. Teeters of
Park Falls, Wis.
Then Sergt. Prefer reported in
still on furlough. Days later,
after the doughboys knew they
had fighting man with them, he
told the true story.
Gables raced back to Washing
ton. Yesterday cable came back.
Text: Sergt. Prefer is assigned
to the s25th Division. Records will
be forwarded from Germany.
Evening star., 1950-09-23
3 of 4 Cousins
In Korean Fighting
Killed or Missinq
BY the Associated Press

LENNON, S. OAK, Sept. 23.-
Three of four South Dakota cous-
ins who enlisted in the Army to-
gether five months ago today were
either killed or missing in action
in Korea.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Crow were
notified Tuesday that their IT.
year -old son Richard was missing
in action. Wednesday the Defense
Department sent a telegram that
his brother David, 20, was killed
in action.
Yesterday word came to Mr.. and
Mrs. Hiram Grow that their son
Dale, II, was killed in action.
There has been no news yet con-
cerning Eugene, %, the second son
of the Hiram Grow family.