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Evening star., 1950-02-08
Suit Asks.Ban
On Broadcastinq
In District Buses
Permanent Injunction
Is Sought to Prohibit
Music on Streetcurs

District Court today was asked
to ban radio in the Capital Tran
sit Co.'S streetcars and buses.
The Transit Riders Association,
a citizens group formed to fight
transit radio, filed suit for a
permanent injunction forbidding
ANY form of broadcasting" in
Capital Transit vehicles.
The suit contends that the
transit company's public duty" is
to provide transportation "as
quietly as possible" 1t adds:
by accepting fares from its
patrons it assumes a contractua]
duty to them to do So
The suit was filed by Attorney
Hector G. Spaulding. 1t names the
Capital Transit Co. as defendant
and the Transit Riders Associa-
ton as plaintiff.
$50 Paid Members.
The association, headed by
Claude N. Palmer, was formed last
October. 1t now has about 25C
paid members and another 200
who have not yet paid a 81 men,
bership fee, officials said. The
group has scheduled a meeting for
8 pm. tomorrow in the District
Building boardroom to organize
permanently.
Transit radio has been a storm
center since the company first
installed radio receivers in 20
vehicles two years ago. The radios
which carry a special program of
music and news from 7 am. to
7 pm. daily except Sunday, now
operate in more than 200 cars
and buses, and the company has
announced plans to install equip
ment in all it's $500 vehicles.
The Public Utilities Commission
upheld the company after public
hearings. The Transit Riders AS
sociation on January II asked fol
a rehearing, and this request i:
pending.
In its suit, the association con.
tended the radio programs "art
no part of the business of trans.
portation."
Nuisance Charged.
The suit also charged that thu
transit radio "inf1icts on them {
nuisance" "wrongfully invade!
their privacy" restricts theil
freedom of thought" and seek.
to make an unearned and uncon-
scionable income out of their help
less position by selling to adver.
tisers the opportunity thus tc
commit ssaural aggression upor
them
Evening star., 1950-02-08
Admiral Low Appointed
To Navy Loqistics Job
BY the Associated Press

Vice Admiral Francis S. Low
became deputy chief of naval
operations for logistics today.
He succeeds Vice Admiral
Robert B. Carney who will take
command of the second task fleet
in the Atlantic.
In his new post, Low will con-
tinue the Navy's survey OF UNDER
sea warfare that he started last
November.
Evening star., 1950-02-08

A Japanese bride-to-be wrote
to her American fiance recently,
IF I had feather, I would flew
to you" She is about to get her
wish - except maybe for the
feather.
After a year of waiting, Miss
Mitsue Shigeno, %, of Tokyo yes
terday was given the right by
Congress to become a permanent
resident of the United States
and the wife of Carol L. Klotz-
bach, 40, of 1455 Belmont street
NV. Mr.. Klotzbach says she'll
fly here next month.
Mr.. Klotzbach and Miss Shi-
geno met when he was assistant
director of an American project in
Japan and she was the head
waitress in the American restau-
rant. They had to go to Congress
for permission to be together, be-
cause the United States restricts
immigration by Asiatics.
One of Sisters.
Miss Shigeno is one Of seven
sisters in middle-cla family
that has been impoverished by
the war, her fiance said. Her
father once owned small surgi-
cal instrument factory.
II was assistant director of the
largest hydroponic farm in the
world. in Chofu, 18 miles from
Tokyo" said Mr.. Klotzbach. I'VE
grew vegetables in water-ra-
dishes. lettuce, tomatoes, cucum-
bers, onions-for the troops.
II got there in January, 1913.
Mitsue knew only a few words of
English then. which she had
Evening star., 1950-02-08
vandenberg 'Beifer,' Due
To Leave Hospital Today

Senator Vandenberg, Repub-
lican. of Michigan. is expected te
leave Georgetown University Hos
pital today and return to work
later this week, his Office said to-
day.
He entered the hospital Mon
day night for treatment of pain
stemming from an operation last
October, when he had part Of a
lung removed. Associates said he
was feeling much better" today.
Evening star., 1950-02-08
School Board Unit 10 Study
Complaint Over Promotion

The complaint by Miner
Teachers College professor that
she was improperly passed over
for a promotion will be considered
by a Board of Education commit
tee at l pm. tomorrow.
The appeal was filed by Mrs.
Marguerite Williams, associate
professor of social sciences at the
college. The position she wanted,
full professorship and chief of
the schools department of So
cial studies, went to Bernard Mel
son, history instructor.
Mr.. Nelson, was approved by
the school board after being rec
commended by School Supt. Hobart
M. Corning.
Evening star., 1950-02-08
Palisades Group Repudiotes
Home Rule QUESTIONABLE

A questionnaire ballot on Dis
trict home rule circulated at the
Palisades Citizens Association
last night, was rejected, when
members branded it as loaded
The QUESTIONABLE was passed
out just before a panel discussion
in which DR.. George B. Galloway
supported the Kefauver home rule
bill and Maurice L. Nee opposed
it. DR.. Galloway is on the Library
of Congress staff and helped draft
the bill. Mr.. Nee is chairman OF
the District Government Commit
tee of the Board of Trade.
Public relations people for the
Kefauver BILL" Mr.. Nee said, "have
managed to make the Kefauver
Evening star., 1950-02-08
Bernard ToIson Honored
By Terminal Employees

Several hundred employees of
the Washington Terminal Co. took
time out yesterday to honor their
retired manager, Bernard r. Toll
son.
Trainmen, redcaps and officials
attended ceremonies held yester-
day afternoon at the west end of
Union Station concourse. Mr..
Tolson, Sc. was retired officially
last December 81 after 48 years
of railroading, % of them as man
ager of the Terminal Co.
Mr.. and Mrs. .Tolson live at
69l1 Sixth street NV.
Evening star., 1950-02-08
Saw ChristoffeI
With Red, Trial
Told by Woman
Midwesterner Slams
Witness Box Under
GrilIing by Rogge

A hot = tempered middle aged
woman, once active in Wisconsin
politics, today testified in Dis
trict Court that she saw Harold
R. Christoffel in the company of
Fred Blair, Communist, on
numerous occasions.
The Governments witness in it's
perjury case against Christoffel
was Mrs. Claire Merton. Chris
toffel, a former Milwaukee labor
leader, is charged with perjury.
A part of the indictment accuses
him of having lied to the House
Labor Committee in 1947 when he
denied knowing Blair.
Mrs. Merton, who said she was
once nominated as a Republican
candidate for the State General
Assembly, snapped out most Of
her answers to questions by both
the Government prosecutors and
Defense Counsel o. John Rogge.
Admits Working for Bund.
1t was especially under Mr..
Rogge's intense grilling on the
number of times she had seen
Christoffel and Blair together that
Mrs. Merton's temper flared.
She slammed her hand angrily
on the side Of the witness box and
shouted: Il don't know how many
times-stop asking me that cues
ton"
When she was asked whether
she at one time was secretary to a
Midwest gauleiter district LEADER
of the German-American sBund.
she snapped: "Yes for 18
months =. and I'm proud of it,
Mrs. Merton specified three oc-
casions that she recalled seeing
Christoffel with Blair in Milwau-
kee. Once, she said, she saw them
talking at Communist headquar-
ters there. She testified she also
saw them at a street rally al
which she said she spoke in reply
to charges made against her by
Blair. The third occasion was at
a Milwaukee hotel meeting which
she said she attended to "see who
was there"
All these occasions were in 1898
the witness said.
Denies "Animus" to Unions.
Under Mr.. Rogge's cross-exami-
nation, Mrs. Merton denied hav-
ing any "animus" against any
union, including Local 248 (UAW-
lCIO), which Christoffel headed.
! She had a ready answer for Mr.
Rogge's next question.
| Yes, I certainly do have ami
mus against Christoffel as a Com
munist," she firmly declared, cast
ing a whitening glance in the de-
Ifendant's direction.
The Governments other witness
To-day was John Oswald, who said
he sells farm equipment for the
Ailis-Chalmers Co. and other
firms at his Office at Lake Mills
Wis. Mr.. Oswald opposed the
union slate which Christoffel
headed in three elections at the
Allis-Chalmers plant.
Prosecutor Frank Patton, spe-
clal assistant to the ATTORNEY
General. read excerpts from the
minutes of the Milwaukee County
Industrial Council, which Chris
toffel also headed. This prosecu-
ton move was to show various
recommendations by the Mil
Waukee council that union mem
bers support various Red tinted
organizations. Other records were
read showing the councils opposi-
ton to the entry of this country
into the war prior to the German
invasion of Russia.
Evening star., 1950-05-14
School Teachers Pay
| Almost Restored 10
Prewar Buying Level
BY the Associoied Press

| NEW YORK. May 13. The
economic status of school teach
ers virtually has been restored to
prewar levels. the National Bu-
reau of Economic Research re-
ports.
An investigation of employ
ment and compensation in edu-
cation" conducted by DR.. George
j. Stigler. professor of economics
at Columbia University. large
increases between 1945 and 1949
of both public elementary and
secondary school teachers almost
have restored their purchasing
power.
College Pay Behind.
DR.. Stigler. a member of the
bureaus research staff. found that
in a large group of American
cities the average salaries of ele-
mentary school teachers had risen
from $1,917 a year in 1941 to
$3,185 in 1949. The salaries of
high school teachers had risen
from $2,338 to $3,672 in the same
period.
Salaries of college teachers, DR..
Stigler found. have risen much
more slowly. In 1910, they were
about $4,000, and in 1949 about
$4,000 in terms of purchasing
power. 1949 salaries were IS per
cent below 1910.
Comparing the earnings of col
lege teachers with those of law
yers. doctors and dentists, DR..
Stigler found the net advantages
of college teaching exceeded those
of dentistry in 1941 and were al
most equal to those of law and
medicine. He arrived at these
conclusions after adding more
than SO per cent to teachers sal
aries to allow for special advan-
tages. such as outside earnings
and long vacations.
Gap Narrowed Since War.
During the war years, college
teachers salaries fell far behind
earnings in the independent pro-
fessions. The gap began to mar
row after the war. but the prewar
relationship had not been re-
stored by 1948, DR.. Stigler says.
The study is one of several in
vestigations of the service indus
tries in the American economy
which the National bureau is con-
Quoting with the support OF
grants from the Maurice and
Laura Falk Foundation of Pitts
burgh.
Evening star., 1950-05-14
Johnston In Britain 10 Seek
Change in Film Agreement
BY the Asseeioied Press

LONDON. May 13.-Eric John
ston arrived in London by plane
today to ask the British for
changes in the British American
film agreement of 1948.
The dapper president Of the
Motion Picture Association of
America and Ellis Arnall. head of
the independent producers. are
to start talks here Monday with
Board Of Trade officials on the
agreement. which allows Holly
wood to remove only a part of
the $40 million its films earn In
Britain each year.
Sources in the Board Of Trade,
the British department of COM
merce. said they expected Mr..
johnson and Mr.. Arnall to ask for
more.
THE position has changed since
the four-year agreement was
made, but I don't know yet
whether there will be new terms
for the remaining two years of
the contract" Mr.. Johnston told
reporters.
Evening star., 1950-05-14
2S In Service 10 Graduate
As Water Safety Teachers

Instructor Training Course Of
fered by the Red Cross.
They will demonstrate how to
transport q stretcher on water
by using inflated trousers and
methods Of self-protection while
reScuing q drowning victim.
The new instructors will train
service personnel in water safety
and life-saving practices.
Service personnel will show
military officials what they have
learned when they receive Red
Cross senior life saving and water
safety instructor training certifi-
Gates at 2 pm. tomorrow at the
Navy Medical Center pool.
The ~ men and one woman
from Washington area bases are
the second group to complete the
Military and Naval Water Safety
Evening star., 1950-05-14
Holding On
hoYour Job

It's well known fact that business wants
youth. The older man or woman is often
shunted aside to make room for younger
workers. While things are rosy, there's little
need to worry. But, when they slow down, the
boss begins to look around. He starts to pick
and choose. At such time, will the gray
hairs you gathered on the job make you stand
out as a "has-been"?
Why risk it? Nowadays it's so easy to get
rid of every trace of gray in your hair. Simply
wet it with Canute Water. A few applications
Evening star., 1950-05-14

o. Prizes will be awarded to contest
ants rs their entry blanks are Impair
tally drawn.
10. Successful contestants will be mo-
tif1ed by loud speaker as prizes are
awarded, speakers being located both
inside and outside the Armory.
IL. Employees Of HOME BUILDERS
ASSOCIATION and their advertising
agency and their families are ineligible.
I2. Decisions Of contest judges will be
Anal.
Is. Successful contestants need not be
present 10 receive awards; they viii be
notified.
a. Two drawings will be made daily
and entries for any drawing must be
received at the designated depository
within the fellowing times:
Matinee Draw p.m. to 4:30 pm.
Evening Draw 4:30 pm. 10 10 p.m.
Evening star., 1950-05-14
HoMEMAkER's SWEEPSTAKES CONTEST RULES

1. All residents Of Continental U. s.
who are eighteen years Of age or over
are eligible.
2. Admission to the Home Show Is not
necessary In order to enter contest for
Sweepstakes prizes.
3. Entry blanks must be deposited in
person in the special ballot receptacle
TO be provided at the front Of the
d. c. National Guard Armory.
4. Gentry blanks cannot be accepted by
mail and those so received win not be
included in the contest.
5. Entry blanks will be sorted alpha
betically and those having duplicate
entries will be DISQUALIFIED.
8. No more than enc prize viii be
awarded to any one contestant.
4 Only one entry blank permitted per
contestant.
Q. Armory guards will accept deposit
q only one entry blank By each In.
diyiduai
Evening star., 1950-05-14
Nursing Conference

The Fourth Annual Practical
Nursing Conference of the Mar
garet Murray Washington Voca-
ton High School will be held
Wednesday and Thursday at the
school, o street between First and
North Capitol streets NV. Miss
Lucille Petry, of the United
States Public Health Service, will
! speak at 8 pm. Thursday.
Evening star., 1950-05-14
Rev. Hunt Will Address
Culyury Boptist Church

The Rev. William Hunt Of Mon
tandem, Pa, win address an an
nual meeting Of Calvary Baptist
Church at 6 pm. Wednesday in
the church, Eighth and H streets
NV.
Mr.. Hunt baptized the pastor of
Calvary Church, the Rev. DR..
Clarence w. Crawford. and or
dained the church's associate
minister, the Rev. Idris W. Jones.
Evening star., 1950-05-14

Gradually. if you prefer. Then,
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Simply because it sounds so
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Far from it. Your hair retains
its naturally soft texture and
lovely new color even after
shampooing,. perspiration, curl
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and natural to the touch and
looks natural in any light
Safe, too. All you've ever
heard about injuries from hair
dyes, does not apply to Canute
Water. Not q bit of 1t.
Evening star., 1950-05-14
GAR Ludies to Meet

Gen. q. s. Grant Circle No. l,
Ladies of the Grand Army of the
Republic. Department of the Po-
tomac, will meet at 8 pm. Tues
day at its headquarters. Room
4l8. Washington Loan and Trust
Building, Ninth and F streets NV.
Evening star., 1950-05-14

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Is it any wonder that leading
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other hair coloring preparations
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all these claims.
Evening star., 1950-11-20
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Evening star., 1950-02-24
BIB THE EVENING STAR, Washington, D C.


the reasons why our marriage
broke up"
Mrs. Pike said her then husband
had told her what he intended to
do with his father as early as 1916
Il thought he must be insane or
unbalanced" she said.
I'VE were listening to a radio
program, murder story" Mrs.
Pike continued. James said: If
the body isn't found, they don t
have any proof, do they?; I believe
you can commit perfect crime. "
Believe me, ! didn't like that.
He sounded so unstable that I was
afraid"
Following our separation in
1947, Carson came back to see me.
Evening star., 1950-02-24

coroner said. He estimated she
had been dead about three or four
hours when the body was dis
covered at 2 pm. yesterday. A
rope had been cinched tightly
around her neck.
The schools 657 inmates were
confined closely to quarters today
and all regular activities can
celled, Robert A. Chandler, school
superintendent, said. Clothing of
the inmates was being checked
for possible clues to the slayer.
Lillian Mcdowell, a housekeep-
er, and boy assigned to that de-
tail found Mrs. Corbin's body
after they had noticed a trail of
blood from the head housekeep-
er's office to the adjoining storage
closet.
Evening star., 1950-02-24
Housekeeper Found Slain
In School for DeIinquents
BY the Associoted Press

lone, Calf, Feb. 24.-Anna
Corbin. housekeeper who had
been sort of a mother to the
boys" at the Preston School for
Delinquents, was slain yesterday
and her body hidden in a closet.
Coroner John j. Daneri, who
said Mrs. Corbin may have been
raped, scheduled an autopsy for
today.
Mrs. Corbin, So, had been beat
en- so brutaNy on the head and
face it was impossible at once to
tell whether she had been blud-
geoned to death or stabbed, the
Evening star., 1950-02-24
'CumberIond's Mayor
May Run Unopposed
BY the Associated Press

CUMBERLAND, Md, Feb. "a
Time is the only thing preventing
Mayor Thomas S. Post from being
elected to his fourth term-this
time without opposition.
The Mayors lone opponent,
Sidney D. Phillips, announced
yesterday he was withdrawing be-
cause of i'll health. Previously
Erwin L. Lease withdrew.
Evening star., 1950-02-24

He showed me his pistol and told
me: I took care of that matter.
He didn't tell me about any
actual Staying or about the con-
cealment of a body"
Evening star., 1950-02-24
Ex-Wife Says Marine
Had Planned Perfect Crime

CAMBRIDGE. Mass, Feb. "a
P).-The divorced wife of Carson
James, accused of murder in
his fathers Staying said last night
her former husband had cJnfided
to her that he was going to COM
NIT perfect crime"
Mrs. Cynthia Atwood Pike, 81,
said in an interview:
James told me he was going
to kill his father. but I didn't be-
lieve it. And yet I knew that he
was honest, very honest. You
could believe everything he said.
so when he told me he was
going towel, that was one OF
Evening star., 1950-02-24
Marine Gives Details
Of Killing Father and
Pledge Of Secrecy
BY the Associated Press

PRESCOTT, Ariz., Feb. "a
Carson w. James, 27-year-old
Marine Corps sergeant, today told
how he killed his father at Claw
son, Mich, more than two years
ago and pledged his family to Sc
crecy, Sheriff Orville Bozarth an
nounced.
The Sheriff said James related
the details of the Staying in an
oral statement in the county Jail
here. James was arrested near
Ashfork, Ariz., Wednesday after
his sister, Mrs. Muriel Hooker
smith disclosed the Staying at her
home, 1847 Mintwood place, NV
Washington, D. C. Mrs. flicker
smith is third grade teacher at
Clara Barton School, Cabin John,
Md.
Sheriff Bozarth said James told
this story:
He spent Thanksgiving Day,
1947, with his father, Stanley
James, 81, at Clawson. The day
was filled with arguments.
After they had gone to bed that
night, the father got up, started
another argument and waved a
pistol about. James grabbed his
own gun and shot his father
twice.
Summoned Brothers.
The fathers body was left in
the house until the next night,
when James summoned his three
brothers. They removed the body
to a cowshed and after the other
brothers had left, James dug a
four-foot grave and buried it.
The morning after the burial,
James told his mother what had
happened. The mother at first
said the death should be reported
but later the mother and four sons
entered into a pact not to disclose
what had occurred.
Two sisters were told later and
pledged to secrecy.
Evening star., 1950-02-24

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Evening star., 1950-02-24

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NoturoIizers sold exclusively at Konns in WASH
The Nome nugget., 1950-10-06
Soldiers "Missing In Korean ActiOn'' Not In Korea

FORT LEWIS (P)-For the sec ond time in as many days, a serv- ice veteran reported by the de- partment of defense to be "misS- ing in action" in Korea has been found in the Fort Lewis acOrna area.
 Neither had ever been in Ko- req: one had an honorable dis charge and is working as a civil ian.
 The latest to be ''found' is Pfc. Vance L. Matthews Of Webb City, Mo. He's patient in Madigan Army Hospital where he was ad- mitted, staff members said, on July A, before his Division sailed overseas. The defense department reported him Missing" Sept. 21.
 Hospital staff members declin- ed the disclose the nature of Mat thew's disqualification but said his condition was "not serious"
 On Wednesday,, defense de- partment casualty list carried the name of Cpl. Lee Briley, son of Mrs. Dorothy Briley of Elkhart, Ind, as missing. The parent, how ever, already had heard from their son three weeks earlier. He had been discharged July 21, had mar ried and is working in Tacoma as a civilian.
The Nome nugget., 1950-10-06
AIRLINES
ALASKA AIRLINES

Passengers arriving yesterday from Anchorage were D. Forche- mer, o. Price, s. Velsvick, J. Oc- tuck, B. Tauber, C. Badger, E. Milligrocke.
 Departing for Anchorage on the return flight were Ruth Ahgupuk. Charles Milliker, Pearse Walsh, F. H. Fugus, Paul Spurlock, James Jacobson.