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Arizona sun., 1950-01-06
Rabbi William Stern
Reelected President
OF Rabbis Assoc.

Rabbi William Stern of Oakland
was reelected president of the
Western Association of Reform
Rabbis for 1850 at the annual con-
ference of the organization con-
cluded in Bakersfield this week.
The Western association, a re-
gional division of the Central Con-
ference of American Rabbis, in
cludes all Liberal Cor. Reform)
spiritual leaders in California, Ore
gon, Washington, Utah, Arizona,
and coordinate the rabbinic leader
ship of the Liberal Jewish move
ment.
Reelected as secretary-treasurer
of the association was Rabbi San
ford Rosen, whose Bakersfield con-
gregation Beth Ell acted as hosts
to the conference. Members of the
executive board include Rabbis
David Greenberg, Fresno; A. L.
Krohn, Phoenix; Morris Goldstein,
San Francisco: Iser L. Freund, San
Jose; Adolph Fink, Salt Lake City;
Alfred Wolf (Wilshire Elvd. Tenn
ple), Los Angeles; and Raphael
Levine, Seattle, honorary presi-
dent.
Rabbi Phineas Smoller, Los An
geles, regional director of the Union
of American Hebrew Congrega-
tions, serves as an ex-officio men,
ber Of the board in his capacity as
treasurer of the Central Confer
ence of American Rabbis.
Meeting as guests of the Bakers
field congregation, the group also
participated in the laying of the
cornerstone for the new Temple
Beth El.
Among papers delivered at the
conference were several by local
rabbis. Rabbi Edward Zerin of
Temple Beth David, San Gabriel,
reported on researches in Religious
Education; Rabbi Mauric Galpert
of Santa Ana on Modern Hebrew
Literature; and Louis Ziskind, Los
of the Jewish Committee
for Personal Service ,on Techniques
of Counseling.
Arizona sun., 1950-01-06

The Phoenix Civic Welfare
League, Inc, will sponsor me-
mortal service for its late founder
and first president John Washing
ton, Sunday, January 8 at $3.50
p. m. at Tanner Chapel A.M.E.
Church, Eighth Street and East
jefferson, Rev. F. D. L. Mcdonald,
pastor.
Mr.. Washington passed away
Sunday, December 7, 1947. A Mas
onic funeral was held for him De-
cember 9, at Tanner Chapel. Rev.
L. Butler Nelson, minister of the
First Institutional Baptist Church
officiated. Interment was at Los
Angeles.
A campaign for building funds to
erect a building to the memory of
the Leagues first president and
founder, will begin at the memorial
service.
The League owns property at
Twelfth and East Adams, frame
building and a concrete slab on the
grounds.
Beside his wife Ionic D., Mr..
Washington is survived by sister,
Mrs. Mary L. Jackson, Bryant,
Texas; and two brothers Robert
and Richard Washington of San
Francisco, California and Dallas,
Texas respectively. The deceased
was Rep Cap at the Union Rail-
road station and was known by the
masses, recognized and accepted by
the highest as well as the lowly.
Music for the memorial service
will be furnished by the Senior
Arizona sun., 1950-01-06
NEW LAW PROTECTS
g. /. MORTGAGES

Also, with respect to mortgages
guaranteed or insured by VA after
February IS, the borrowre may be
declared in default on his loan
with the entire unpaid balance i'm
mediately due and payable-if he
hereafter records such a covenant
on the property.
The type of covenants referred to
are those designed to restrict the
occupancy or use of the property as
to race, creed or color. VA said the
new regulations are being issued to
bring the agency's loan guaranty
program into full accord with a re-
cent decision of the United States
Supreme Court. The court held
that such covenants are contrary to
public policy and are not sustain
able by action in the Federal
courts.
The new regulations have been
issued to the various VA field Of
fices which administer the loan
guaranty program, and copies will
be distributed to builders, lenders
and others participating in the pro-
gram.
Arizona sun., 1950-01-06
Arizona Light And Power Spent Over
S11, 100000 On Service improvements

The Central Arizona Light and
Power Company spent more than
$11, 100000 during 1949 to extend
electric and gas service to nearly
10000 new customers and improve
service to existing customers.
"We are proud that Calapco is
more than holding its own in the
electric and gas industry which,
despite disturbing political and
economic cross-currents in the ma
ton, made noteworthy progress
during the past year." said Henry
B. Sargent, president of the local
utility.
Utilities throughout the country
were faced with the continued high
cost of doing business. This, as
Sargent pointed out, is reflected in
the fact the Latest Federal Power
Commission report reveals that the
national average rate for 100 kilo-
Arizona sun., 1950-01-06
Republicans Exclude
Negroes In Chi Meet

The Republicans in their "get-
together" at the Stevens Hotel,
two weeks ago in Chicago was
without the presence of a single
Negro. No Negro was invited to
attend the meeting not even the
Negro press received an invitation.
In an interview after the meet
ing Werner Schroeder, COP ma
tional committeeman from Illinois
told colored newsmen that it was
merely a meeting of the strategy
committee"
He had only haZy remark to
give on what the party planned on
civil rights and interests of colored
voters. He said:
"We hope to work out plans pro-
grams, and policies for the all-im-
portant colored citizens before the
spring of the year."
Arizona sun., 1950-01-06

watt hours of residential electric
ty has increased to $3.78, or four
cents over the 1948 average. How
ever, Sargent added, Calapco man.
aged to maintain its rate at $3.14.
"It is heartening to the 1,400
folks who make up Calapco to
know that they provided more gas
and electric service to more Gus
toners than ever BEFORE" Sargent
declared, "Yet they were able to
keep the cost of that service down."
To help meet the rapidly expand
ing gas and electric needs of CEN
trail Arizona, Calapco in July COM
pleted the second phase of its steam
nlant's postwar expansion program.
Even before this 1880 kilowatt
generator was put in operation,
crews were hard at work on the
installation of $4,000 kiowatt unit
which is scheduled to go on the
line in April of this year.
Arizona sun., 1950-01-06

Regulations to bar restrictive CO.
venants based on race, creed or col
or in connection with home loan
mortgages guaranteed for veterans
under the CT Bill will go into effect
next February, Veterans Admins
tration announced today.
The new regulations will apply
to all such covenants created and
recorded subsequent to February
Is, 1850, and to all CT mortgages
guaranteed or covenants recorded
prior to February 16 will not be
affected, VA said.
AS applied to mortgage lenders,
VA said any guarantee issued for
loan on property subject to a re-
corded covenant barred by the reg
ulations would be affected in the
event of subsequent default and
foreclosure. In such cases, the
lenders option of transferring the
property to VA, which he normally
has the right to do, would be nulli-
fled if the covenant was still effec-
tive of record at the time OF the
proposed transfer.
Arizona sun., 1950-01-06
Urban League
Reports On
ProqreSS

New Observation-Disclosures of
the National Urban League to bet
ter race relations during the year
were reported in an End-of-the-
Year Summary Of activities, re-
leased by Lester B. Granger, exec
utive director of the interracial soz
cial service organization, from its
headquarters in New York, at 1888
Broadway.
The Summary shows a steady i'm
provement of economic and indus
trial conditions of the Negro popu-
lation, and reveals the day-to-day
successes in bringing the races to-
gether on the same team for the
good of American communities
the two principal detectives of the
Urban League the national organi-
zation and its branches in 81 cities,
29 states, and the District of Col
umbia spend an estimated ST, ,500,-
900 to achieve these significant re-
suits.
In recent months, through a ma
tion-wide plan to increase the num-
ber of jobs for Negroes in plants,
factories, department stores, and
offices closed to them before, an in
creasing number of qualified Ne
groes have been placed an engi-
neers, chemists, physicists, account
ants, bank tellers telephone opera
tors, sales clerks, junior executives,
sale representatives, and public
consultants "In the main stream of
American commerce and industry
the Negro is better off today" COM
mented Mr.. Granger, "than he was
80 years ago when the Uurban
League was founded; League bears
an important responsibility in this
achievement.
"Most of these jobs would have
been closed to Negroes before
World War II thanks to the logic
of events and anti-discrimination
statutes in many states, many job
areas formerly closed to Negroes
are slowly opening.
Arizona sun., 1950-01-06
Baha'is To Observe
World Religion Day
Third Sun. In Ian.

An annual World Religion Day
has been instituted by the National
Baha'i Assembly for observance by
Baha'i communities throughout the
the United States. The third Sun
day in January, beginning January
Is, 1850, has been designated for
this event, Clinton Bugbee, chair
man of the Phoenix Baha'i Assem-
bly, has announced.
I'm recent years many anniver-
sarieS have been proclaimed in
America to emphasize public inter
est in peace, world unity and other
international goals, "the announce
ment states. "The Importance of
World Religion Day arises from the
fact that only in one mutual faith
can society hope to realize the
brotherhood on which peace and
race amity depend.
"It has become evident to stu
dents of world affairs" according
to the Baha'is, THAT nothing short
of spiritual unity can stay the trend
toward the dissolution of organized
community life. World religion
will never be produced by the form
alton of denominational leagues
and committees. A new and uni
versal spiritual impetus is needed
today as it was when Judaism,
Christianity and Islam came to re-
vive true faith and overcome the
forces of chaos.
"World Religion Day is proclaim
ed as a challenge to sincere seekers
after truth without discrimination
of race, class or creed. It's aim is
to provide a sound foundation for
hope that the God of mankind has
not ceased to reveal His love and
guidance of humanity in its time
of direst need. The prophetic
promises of ancient religion can
only be fulfilled in one law, one
worship and one order. World re-
ligion is our only conclusive an
swer," the Assembly claims, ito
those materialistic PHILOSOPHERS
which deny the freedom of the hu-
man soul to respond to new inspira-
ton and new truth"
Arizona sun., 1950-01-06

The Past Exalted Rulers Council
of Arizona held its annual election
of officers for 1850 last Sunday aft
ernoon at the Elks lodge and the
above are the officers who will
guide the council during the en-
suing year.
DR.. David M Solomon was elect
ed Chief Antler, succeeding Ernest
Walker, who has held that office
since the council was organized.
The officers were elected and in
stalled last Sunday evening at the
Elks lodge. After the installation
their annual formal banquet fol-
lowed. Members of the council
over the state as well as many past
Daughter Rulers were present.
The council will meet in their
first quarterly session of the new
year in March, at Tucson.
Arizona sun., 1950-01-06
Virginia Professor
And Family Found
Slain In Home

The bodies OF Professor Edward
D. Yeatman, of Virginia State Col
lege, his wife and two daughters,
were found in a gas filled house,
on the college campus where
the family was living. The bodies
were found by close friends who
noticed the newspapers and milk
that were piling up on the front
porch.
The deaths were filed as acci-
dental, although all gas jets had
been turned on.
Arizona sun., 1950-01-06
Rites Held For
Mrs. Rodgers

Funeral services were held We'd
nesday for Mrs. Betty Rodgers,
who died last Sunday in a local hos
pital at Eastlake Mortuary. Mrs.
Rodgers is a native of Oklahoma
and was a member of the Holiness
Church in Muskogee. She is sur
vived by sister and brother-in-
law, Mr.. and Mrs. H. G. Norman,
215 North 9th st. Rev. ]. C. Thorn
as was in charge.
Arizona sun., 1950-01-06
Crisis Reports
Advances Against
Jimcro Schools

New York-Two articles empha-
sizing strides forward in the fight
against segregated education are
featured in the January issue of
The Crisis, official trgan of the Ma
tional Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People.
"a Second Front in the Fight on
Segregated Education" by Richard
L. Plaut, is concerned with the
second front" being opened by the
increasing encouragement of quail
fled Negro applicants to enroll in
northern colleges, and Southern
College Teachers Repudiate Jim
GRO Education" is a recapitulation
of a survey conducted by the South
ern Conference Education Fund,
which found that Z out of 10 south
ern college teachers favor "the i'm
mediate admission of Negro stu
dents to graduate and professional
schools without segregation.
Also featured in the January
Crisis are 81 Worked for a Negro
Newspaper" by Scott j. Saunder;
Eliminate the Stokes Willies'," by
William v. F. Scott; "The Bataka
Movement in Ugandia," by George
Padmore, and book reviews by
Hugh H. Smythe of Lillian Smiths
"Killers of the Dream" and Arnold
M. Roses "The Negroes Morale"
Arizona sun., 1950-01-06


Choir of the First Institutional
Baptist Church and the Junior
Choir of Tanner Chapel. A special
solo will be sung by Dan Jackson.
Rabbi A. L. Krohn, spiritual leader
of Temple Beth Israel, will give the
principle address. Remarks by Rev.
j. A. Motion and Jeff H. Durham.
Invocation by Rev. L. B. Nelson.
Benediction by Rev. F. D. McDon-
aid. League officers are: E. A.
Emerson, president; Mrs. Carrie
Roberts, vice-president; Forest w.
Burney, treasurer, and James L.
Davis, secretary.
The general public is invited to
this service.
Evening star., 1950-10-18
Couple Awarded S22,50O
For Traffic Injuries

A middle-aged couple, both
Government employees, yesterday
were awarded S22 500 damages by
a District Court jury for injuries
received in a traffic collision.
The award was granted before
Chief Judge Bolitha j. Laws, after
a nine-day trial of the suit brought
by Mrs. Harvey Peterson. SIS. and
her husband, Harvey, Sc. against
the Capital Transit Co. The colored
couple live at 513 E street Sc.
Mrs. Peterson sustained back
injuries and a brain conclusion,
and her husband lesser injuries,
when the automobile in which they
were riding was struck from behind
by a transit bus at Sixth and P
streets NV. in 1948. The wife still
wears back brace.
Evening star., 1950-10-18

have shown that, the new surface
will carry 38,000-pound load
three hours after it has been put
down.
The huge machine scoops up the
soil in front, jamming it back into
mixing chamber by the forward
movement of the device itself
spreads it evenly and autemati-
cally and lamps it out the back
1t is available for heavy traffic in
eight hours.
Army Process Similar.
The Army's process, used with
the same equipment. involves CAL
cium acrylate which is better
adapted to use in clay mixtures
more likely to be encountered
during Army land operations. 1t
was developed under an Army En-
gineer Research and Development
Laboratories contract with the
Massachusetts, Institute of Tech
nology.
Although the actual paving
was not done with the Army
formula today, sections of soil
previously treated with it were put
under 50.000-pound tests for OBJ
( servers.
Evening star., 1950-10-18
Board Of Trade 10 Hear
Young, George SokoIsky

Brig. Gen. Gordon r. Young,
Engineer Commissioner, will dis
cuss the Districts civilian defense
program at the Washington Board
of Trades first general member
ship meeting of the season at 8
o'clock tonight at the Hotel Stat
Ter.
Gen. Young will share the prin-
cipal speaking honorS with George
E. Sokolsky, newspaper column
ist, whose subject will be. ''Poli-
tics Is Not Our Problem"
Col. c. M. Boyer, of the Reserve
Officers Association, will speak on
the employment of military re-
servists, and Hugh Duffield, gen.
eral chairman of the 1851 Com
munity Chest drive, will report
campaign progress.
E. C. Baltz. chairman of the
District Savings Bond Division.
will present certificate of merit
to the board for its service during
the recent United States savings
bond sales drive.
Special guests will include DR..
H. C. Byrd. Maryland University
president. and Jim Taturn, Mary
land football coach, who will in
troduce several of the Terps' star
players.
Evening star., 1950-10-18
D. laborer Who Fought
With Police Found Insane

A Washington laborer who
fought gun battle with Virginia
State police Monday night in
their Groveton substation, was
adjudged insane yesterday by an
Alexandria lunacy commission.
The man, William Henry Proc
tor. 38, colored, first block OF
Fenton street NE, was sent to
Gallinger Hospital after the de-
cision by the commission made UP
of Judge Harry l. Kennedy of Civil
and Police Court and Drs. C. E
Annette and John E. Roberts.
Proctor was subdued Monday
night by a shotgun blast after
troopers used tear gas to rout him
out of the second floor of the
station. He had been arrested
after police said he attempted to
throw himself in front of an
automobile.
Evening star., 1950-10-18

Today's exhibition marked the
first time the parallel processes
have been demonstrated together
1t also marks the first step out of
the laboratory phases into the
field.
But" explained Rear Admiral
Joseph F. Jelley, chief of the Bu-
reau of Yards and Docks, we're
just halfway. The problem now
is to streamline the equipment,
get it down to size feasible for
tamphibious operations.
At present, DR.. Winterkorn said
the Army developed process would
cost about So per pound. but mass
production would probably trim
that figure down to not less than
SO cents per pound.
To the Air Forces, the project
holds intense interest in it's pos
sible uses for quickly produced
landing strips. In the matter of
logistics alone, it has one distinct
advantage over the pierced plank
mating often used on soft ground
during the last war. The mating
is heavy and cumbersome and re-
quires considerable manpower to
lay it.
Evening star., 1950-10-18
Parent Takes Son From School
In Protest of 7-BIock Walk

District law requiring attendance
at school does not apply to 6-year-
old children. A 7-year -old is the
youngest required to attend school.
Enrolment at Ludlow has
dropped from 220 to 1875 students
in the past three years. So few
first graders entered this fall that
school officials transferred them
to Peabody. seven blocks away. to
make up full first-grade class.
School officials said they did not
consider the seven blocks that
Randy has to travel to school ex-
cessive Mr.. Hawkins feels it is
and withdrew his child in protest.
He has started a petition asking
that a flrst-grade class be estab-
liShed at the Ludlow School.
Evening star., 1950-10-18
Outer Limits of Plan Dsperse Federal Agencies Are Defined

Dispersal of Government agen-
cies as a defense measure may
place them as far from Washing
ton as the middle of Stafford
County, Va, and almost to Balti-
more in Maryland, according to
computations of a traffic expert
This is on the basis that the
dispersed agencies would be nc
farther than an hours committing
time from the Capital. Jess Lar
son, General Services Administra-
tor, established that limit in testi-
mony before the Senate Appropri-
ations Committee recently.
| Because of differences in high
ways and in congestion 1t is i'm
possible to take compass, put
one point on downtown Washing
ton on a map and draw a circle
that would be an hours commut-
ing distance.
The Star, therefore, asked the
assistance of a transit expert thor
oughly familiar with bus trans
portation in Washington and the
surrounding territory as we'll as
the highways. AS the result of his
study he drew a contour on map
showing an hours limit. The area
thus enclosed is the area where
the Government may be expected
to locate it's dispersed agencies.
In Virginia this includes all OF
Fairfax County, but planners ir
that county do not expect any
agencies to be located there save
possibly in the north or south
ends. They cite the numerous Gov
ernment installations already ir
the county and the obvious disad-
vantage of punching targets.
In Stafford County the line goes
as far as the town of Stafford or
U. S. Highway No. l.
Roughly half of Prince William
County is included, leaving out
the northern end and western
side.
The eastern and southern ends
of Loudoun County are included
the line extending almost as TAI
as Leesburg.
On the Maryland side of the
Potomac the area includes all o1
Montgomery County save the ex.
treme northern and western sec.
tions; practically all of Prince
Georges County, small part oi
Howard County. a large part o1
Anne Arundel County and the
northern end of Charles County
! In this connection it is peril
nent to point out that the Capita
Transit Co. express bus schedule
between Rockville and downtown
Washington call for a trip of d
minutes.
The start of this study was j.;
District Highways Department
map showing the average peak
hour driving time from Twelfth
and F streets NV. 1t show
Alexandria at 20 minutes dis
Evening star., 1950-10-18
Federal Unit Leads
with 17qo ofQuota in
First Chest Returns

| Government employees have a
big lead in. early returns in the
District areas Community Chest
drive.
The big Government unit was
up to $286, 1874, or II per cent of
its $1,682,700 quota, at the cam
paign's first general report meet
ing in the Hotel Washington yes
terday.
The campaign as a whole
ehalked up II per cent-$479. .593,
A total of S4,260,OO0 is sought.
| Campaign Chairman Hugh K.
Duffield called the progress good"
but he urged still further effort.
Units are being held responsible
for specific numbers of residents
expected to need Chest aid next
year, with the grand total of such
persons being estimated at $4,000
he said.
Chest Linked to Defense.
With only $479,000 subscribed
so far, more than 250,000 needy
still remain to be accounted for
Mr.. Duff1eld emphasized.
Brig. Gen. Gordon R. Young
District Engineer Commissioner
told the meeting ''No better way
can be found to refute" propa-
ganda against the American way
of life than for all of us to unite
in helping, on an organized volun-
tary community basis, those mem
bers of our population who are
in fact. insufficiently provided
with the needs and goods of life.
Gen. Young, like Defense Sec
retary Marshall, in a speech tc
the Chest last week, linked the
success of the Chest drive to the
civil defense effort, declaring
there is direct and essential
connection in the underlying
realm of the spirit"
Unit Returns Listed.
"As we prepare for a great ma
tional effort, military and civilian
to defend our way of life against
a deadly threat, let us, at the
same time, do what is incumbent
on us to maintain and to i'm
plement those ideas which we are
fseeking to defend" Gen. Young
urged.
Unit returns yesterday. in addi-
tion to the Governments, were
as follows:
Business-E Employees I$141 ,472
or 8 per cent; Business Employees
u-$11,704 or 4 per cent; specia'
solicitation $24,274, or 7 pei
cent; Alexandria-$3,965, or 4 pei
cent; Arlington 1896, or
per cent; Arlington-$1,735, OF
2 per cent; Fairfax-$4, ,728, or II
per cent; Montgomery-$3,43O. OF
2 per cent, and Prince Georges
$1,887. or 3 per cent.
Evening star., 1950-10-18

The 57th annual Marlboro
(MdD fair opened in the Prince
Georges town today with State
and county notables attending 9
noon luncheon.
Miss Sylvia Ferguson. II. OF
Meadows, Md, was to be crowned
queen of the fair in ceremonies
after the lunch.
A pageant in which $50 school
children were to depict the found
ing of the United Nations-in cel-
ebration of the U. MS 5th ami
versary-was to follow the coro-
nation.
Paraded before judges this
morning were some of Maryland s
Evening star., 1950-10-18

A District parent has withdrawn
his 6-year-old son from the Pea
body Elementary School because
he feels the boy should be allowed
to attend the Ludlow Elementary
School, which is nearer his home.
School officials said the boy,
Randy Hawkins, son of Randolph
Hawkins, 629 Morris place NE,
has not been to his first grade
classes at Peabody since last week
There is no first grade at Ludlow
which is half block from the
Hawkins home.
However, nothing will be done
to force Mr.. Hawkins to return his
child to school. school officials
said. They pointed out that the