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Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1950-01-06
BALANCING The BUDGET

We hope that President Tru-
man still believes in balancing the
budget. His oft-expressed desire
is undergoing a decisive test. As
he puts the finishing touches on
this annual message and on the
budget message he must make
decisions which will show just
how important he feels it is to
keep federal finances out Of the
red.
Current reports indicate that
he is not going to count on tax
increases to achieve a balance.
There may be tax changes, with
some increases in gift and inner
itance taxes and other special
categories, but expected cuts in
excise taxes would leave no net
gain in revenue. Indeed, with
the prevailing feeling OF Con-
gress it would be unrealistic if
not misleading to make a great
virtue of demands for income tax
increases-as if to say that the
White House is free from respon-
sibility for the deficits.
The distaste of Congressman
the country-for tax increases is
one of tho prime factors with
which any budget maker must
wrestle. Today it is almost as
much of a fixed quality as the in.
terest on the national debt. TIC
say, I'VE could balance the bud.
get if we raised taxes" is in the
present political atmosphere like
saying we could make a ham
sandwich if we had some bread
If we had some ham.
Two years ago, when the I'm.
tied States was still spinning ur
on the imitation spiral, this news.
paper supported Mr.. Truman's
effort to keep taxes up. Even
now, if necessary to avoid setting
Americas f e e t on the slippery
path of deficits amid prosperity,
we should prefer some judicious
taxes to more debt. But we will
definitely have to be convinced
that a tax increase is necessary.
And we believe that as of Janu.
airy, 1850, talk of balancing the
budget with new taxes is JUS
talk. We trust that the President
isn't going in for that.
We hope Congress will ais 9
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1950-01-06
No Longer Is Smart to Be Rural
Pioneer: Doesn't Fit Modern Era

nada n convenient In the country AZ
In the city. Take cooking. for exam
pie. Rural power has made possible
era and electric cookery has revo-
lu&ionlzsd the farmwife's conception
Of: the cook stove.
Through ths use u automatic
timing controls. meab now may DO
prepared in advance. placed in tho
range oven or rooster and left to cook
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1950-01-06

drop around, and often. Indians,
for IS years, have been his life,
and an arbitrary paper termina-
ton and retirement won't keep
him home for long, his friends
believe.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1950-01-06
By IRA MILLER
Farm Identification Buredu

The home economist u no stranger
to rural life. She 10 IS important to
the farm home As the agricultural
engineer Is to the farms production
activities. Time and labor must b
saved in both instances. For eniclsncy
is the key to successful farming. ;,
Manpower Is limited on the farm.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1950-01-06

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Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1950-01-06

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Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1950-01-06

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Evening star., 1950-02-05

appreciation of our Board of Di-
rectors. the officers and staff OF
the Capital Transit Company, and
not least of all, myself, for youl
loyal and faithful service .
Mr.. Gray, a bachelor who lives
at 2140 N street NV, isn't going
to take a vacation. He isn't going
to fish and he isn't going to plant
a garden. All he is going to do is
to cook and eat.
But he is also going to have
a good time reminiscing, as any
one might who has received SO
many nice letters
For instance, since joining the
transit system. he's never had
a serious accident. At first he was
a conductor, becoming a motor
man in 1888. Among his passen-
gers was a Senator who always
told him he was the only motor
man who let him off at exactly
the right stop for the Senate
Office Building.
The retired operator, whose last
route was the Mount Pleasant line,
has copy Of The Star of May 27
1925, which shows he had been
willed $4,000 for being polite to an
aged woman, Mrs. Mary Ward. AT
this time he was working for
Capital Traction Co., which was
merged with Capital Transit in
1888.
Evening star., 1950-02-05

year-old Patsy Greenan. The pip
ers were James Garrioch, Thomas
Cow and Edward Greenan, all
members Of the Washington Pipe
Band. Mr.. Greenan, Patsy's
father. says she is the youngest
Scottish dancer hereabouts.
The Corcoran guests showed
warm enthusiasm for the art
show, which included many IA
miliar Scottish scenes: Stirling
Castle and Edinburgh. Ben Ledi,
Loch-an-Eilan, Winter in Angus
and Sundown, Arran.
The show, now on tour of eight
American and Canadian art mu-
seun1s, was arranged by the To-
ledo (Ohio) Museum of Art in
cooperation with Scottish GAL
leries. 1t includes 81 paintings of
various styles, including portraits,
still lifes and genre paintings as
we'll as landscapes.
Evening star., 1950-02-05
Widow Swings Bottle
Routs Store Bandit

A 50-year-old widow, clerk in
an ice cream store and victim of
two holdups within the past year,
last night routed and armed ban
dit with a ginger ale bottle.
Mrs. Edith Corson clerk in
Highs ice cream store at 321 Fiji
teenth street NE. picked up the
bottle from the counter and
swung at the robber. He fed
leaving S. in the cash drawer.
She was alone in the store.
Mrs. Corson said she was held
up about year ago by three teen
age. boys, who took 81. That's
when I decided they wouldn't get
anything again." she said.
Later last year. she said, man
came into the store with his hand
in his pocket. concealed gun fash
ion, bought an ice cream cone,
laid so cents on the counter, and
asked for money.
II hollered and he ran," she
said last night. "And he left the
so cents he added.
Police are looking for an 1s-
|year-old colored youth in the at
tempted holdup.
Evening star., 1950-02-05
Death Makes Maid, s.,
Miss Corcoran Show
1sf Time in y Years

Mrs. Florence Brown Harris, IS,
the Corcoran Gallery Of Arts
faithful maid who had busted
paintings. scrubbed statues and
helped gallery visitors for %
years, missed her first gallery ex-
hibit-opening last night.
She collapsed and died on
Pennsylvania avenue-while on her
way to help with the opening OF
the Corcoran's exhibition, Scot
tish Painters"
Gallery officials told of the
many helpful things the Boston
born colored woman had done
over the years. She was consid-
cred as much a part of the gall
lery as the paintings.
Mrs. Harris could do and did
almost everything. She busted
paintings. sewed silken lamp
shades for the Louis XVI salon,
and helped fix the huge rugs and
tapestries in the gallery's collec-
ton. A familiar sight at the gall
lery was Mrs. Harris atop step
ladder, carefully scrubbing the
back OF Canova's "Aphrodite. y
When there wasn't art to care for,
she helped visitors or ran the Of
flee addressing machine.
Mrs. Harris, who was member
OF the Metropolitan A. M. e,
Church, lived at 1884 U street
NV. with her husband, Charles
Harris.
Funeral arrangements have not
been completed.
Evening star., 1950-02-05
3Die From Falls,
716 Injured Here
Durinq Week

Three persons died last week
as the result of falls in their
homes. and 116 were injured in
various domestic accidents report
ed by the District Red Cross.
Falls were blamed for the larg-
est number Of injuries-49 in all
In addition, there were 13 burns
"a cuts and 8 accidental poison
ings.
Children were treated after
they drank kerosene, cleaning
fluid, antiseptic, disinfectant, ane
ink and ate crayons and rat
poison.
A 2-year-old was burned about
the mouth when she chewed an
electric wire, and a 3-year-old
found and ate rat poison after il
had been concealed behind radio
tubes In a home receiver.
An infant swallowed a nickel
and an 11-year-old girl stepped
on a rake while helping her father
clean up their yard.
The statistics were collected by
the chapters Accident Prevention
Service.
Evening star., 1950-02-05
Brewster and Mrs. Simple!
To Address AAA Meetinq

Washington and the World of
Travel" will be the subject dis
cussed by a number of speakers
at a luncheon meeting of the
Women's Safety Committee and
the District Advisory Board of
the American Automobile Asso-
citation at 1915 pm. Tuesday at
the Mayflower Hotel.
Speakers will include Senator
Brewster. an AAA vice president:
Mrs. Ruth B. Shipley, chief of
the State Department passport
division; Russell E. Singer, AAA
executive vice president, and Will
liam L. Lewis of the associations
international travel department.
Among guests present will be
ambassadors and ministers of IL
European countries, Brig. Gen.
Gordon r. Young. District Engi-
neer Commissioner, and heads OF
other District government depart
fnents.
Evening star., 1950-02-05
Polite Conductor Retires to Gift Home

The man who has been &C.
knowledged the most courteous
streetcar driver in Washington
has retired to the little house he
bought with money willed to him
by a woman he treated politely.
And this wasn't just an isolated
incident in the career of James
E. Gray, a Virginian who received
about so letters Of commendation
from streetcar passengers during
his SO years of service with the
Capital Transit Co.
To Mr.. Gray, who is 66, there
never was such a thing as a rush
hour-that is, one so rushed that
he couldn't be courteous to his
passengers.
The letters read like this:
For kindness in helping locate
a lost pocketbook -"
For a welcome greeting on
boarding a car :. %
For helping an old man Cor an
old LADY, off car
For cheerfulness or courtesy
For a happy attitude .
The letters came from ordinary
people and famous people. They
symbolic SO years Of service. And
in the eyes of E. D. Merrill, presi-
dent of Capital Transit, they rep
resented loyal and faithful work.
Evening star., 1950-02-05
Milk Producers 10 Hear
LoyeIand al Banquet

Undersecretary OF Agriculture A
j. Loveland will address the an
nual banquet Of the Maryland and
Virginia Milk Producers Associa-
ton at the Hotel Statler at noon
tomorrow.
Nearly 1000 association mem.
bers and their guests will attend
A business meeting at 10 am. will
precede the banquet. T. B
Hutcheson. dean Of agriculture al
Virginia Polytechnic Institute
will address the morning session
DR.. H. C.. Byrd. president of the
University Of Maryland, will be
toastmaster. Entertainment will
include songs by the 50-man Bal.
tifnore g. Ohio Glee Club.
Evening star., 1950-02-05
March 3 Hearing Planned
On w., N. & A. Reroufinq

Applications. by the Washing
ton, Marlboro and Annapolis
Motor Lines to reroute service
over the South Capitol Street
bridge will have a public hearing
at 10 am. March 9 at the Dis
trict Building. :.
The company has applied to
the Public Utilities Commission
to extend its Oxen Hill line from
South Capitol and Atlantic streets
to Eleventh street and Pennsyl-
vania avenue NV.
It also requests authority to
reroute part of it's Suitland Elk.
press service and all North Beach
bus service from the District Line,
Evening star., 1950-02-05
Hearing Set March s
On Street Name Shifts

The Commissioners have called
public hearing to consider three
proposed street name changes.
The meeting is scheduled at 10
am, March in the board room
OF the District Building.
Proposed changes are:
Lebaum street Sc. between
Mellon and Orange streets, to be
known as Third street.
Franklin place NE. between
Sheriff road and Lane place, to be
named Forty Fourth street.
Emerson street NE, through
a square bounded by Thirteenth,
Fourteenth. E and F streets, to be
known as E place,
Evening star., 1950-02-05
Dice Game Gunfire Sends
One 10 Hospital , One 10 Jail

A dice game which broke up in
gunflre sent one man to the hos
pital and another to Jail here
yesterday.
The shooting victim was Rufus
Williams. colored, of the 1000
block of A street Sc. in whose
basement the dice game was un-
der way. williams was winning.
he told police.
George D. Chichester, 28. COL
ored. of the 1000 block OF Fiji
teenth street NV. was losing,
Williams added. Chichester is
charged with shooting Williams
in the leg. fracturing the right
one. and with taking 500 from
him.
He is held on $4,000 bond for a
court appearance Monday.
Evening star., 1950-02-05
Suspect Held for Jury
In Pawnbroker HoIdup

Detectives yesterday picked up a
suspect in January 27 holdup
of a Washington pawnbroker's
exchange.
Postell Freeman, 20, colored, OF
TOO block of Sixth street NV,
arrested at his home earlier in the
day, was charged with robbery
and held for action of the grand
jury by United States Commits
sioner Cyril 8. Lawrence. His
bond was set at $40, 900.
The robbery of Jack I. Kauf-
man, operator of the exchange al
1876 G street NV, netted 500
Detectives Joseph T. Bailey and
Charles K. Daub were assigned tc
the case and had narrowed the
suspects down to Freeman. He
was picked up by Detective Sergts
Miller A. Dixon and Ruben Mich
OILS.
1t. Edgar E. Scott, head of the
robbery squad, said Freeman ha:
admitted the holdup.
Evening star., 1950-02-05
Man Hurt in AT Crash
Killed in Auto Wreck;
Accidents Injure 5

A man who was critically in
jured in an auto accident In 1947
died in another one yesterday.
The victim was Eugene Davis
%. colored, Of 936 Howard road
Sc. whose car left Firth Sterling
street. snapped off two steel light
poles and turned over twice. Po-
lice said the driver apparently had
fallen asleep.
He was taken to Casualty Hos
pital where he died yesterday
afternoon. It was the eighth
traffic fatality of the year.
In ane ther accident. a six-year-
old boy was seriously injured
when he fell from a moving auto
He was Charles Ford of lit Nine
teenth street NE.
Police said the boy was riding
to the grocery with his mother
and James p. Goddard, jr.. SO. of
the Nineteenth street address. En-
route, they asked him to throw a
small box out OF the car. Mistak-
ing the door handle for the win
dow crank, he opened the door
and was thrown out. He suffered
a fractured skull and was taken
to Providence Hospital.
Two persons were hospitalized
last night after a two-car COLI
sion al the intersection Of Forty
first and Fessenden streets NV
Harry Caulk, Al. of 200 Flack
street, Glenmont Heights, Md, a
Chesapeake g. Potomac Co. re-
pairman. and. driver of one auto
mobile, was admitted to Emer-
gency Hospital with head injuries.
A passenger in the other automo-
bile, Mrs. Olive Miller, 68, of 470o
Davenport street NV, also was
admitted to Emergency Hospital
with skull, face and hand injuries
Milton B. Miller. A, of 3113
Thirty fifth street NE. driver OF
the other car. was uninjured. His
wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Miller, 40,
was released after treatment for
hip injuries. Mrs. Emily Caulk,
36, wife of Mr.. Caulk, also was
released after minor treatment.
Evening star., 1950-02-05

If anyone wants to buy a church
there's big one for sale in the
4700 block of Thirteenth street
NV. with an acre of land and a
parsonage.
Behind the ''for sale" sign is a
story of declining church member
ship which finally forced the con-
gregation to move to an expand
ing community" where new men,
bers could be obtained.
The church and all that goes
with it are valued at around
$150,000
Membership Moves.
The imposing brick structure
was the st. Paul Methodist
Church until about so days ago.
1t was then the membership
moved out to a new location near
Silver Spring at the intersection
of East-West highway and Grubb
road. The first unit of the new
church has been completed and
plans are being made for finishing
the structure.
j. C. Armentrout, member OF
the seven-man board of trustees
of the church. and Mrs. Mary w
Readmond of Willoughby's Real
Estate Co., inspected the struc-
ture yesterday. Mr.. Armentrout
was sad about it.
I've been a member of this
church since 1906" he explained
MY mother and father were both
members"
The church originally was or
ganized in 1904 at Second and
streets NV. It moved into the
first unit of the present building
in 1926. The structure was COM
pleted in 1886.
Mr.. Armentrout, who lives al
1920 Decatur place NV, said-tht
Evening star., 1950-02-05
Non-Red Oath for Voters
To Be Debated Tomorrow

Should All Voters Be Com
PEELED by Law to Subscribe to a
Nom Communist Affidavit?" will
be the subject Of a debate at $3.50
pm. tomorrow in the Gonzaga
High School auditorium.
Speakers in the debate will be
Representative Velde, Republican
Of Illinois. a member of the House
Committee on Un-American Ac-
tivities. and DR.. Charles S. Collier
professor of law at George Wash
ington University.
The debate is one of a series pof
anti Communist town hall meet
ings sponsored by the Knights of
Columbus.
Evening star., 1950-02-05
Col. Ward Named 10 Direct
City Division Of Red Cross

Col. Lee r. G. Ward has been
appointed director of the city di-
vision of the Red Cross campaign
for the metropolitan area of
Washington. The drive will start
March /.
For the, past three campaigns,
Col. Ward has been closely asso-
ciated with the city division. He
retired from active duty in the
Army in l947.
Assisting him as vice chairmen
are Carney Smith. Knut I. Nilsson
Robert w. Fleming, Edward r.
Offutt, jr., and Frank Lee.
The city division is responsible
for fund collections of small BUSH
ness concerns and apartment
houses In the Washington area.
Evening star., 1950-02-05

More than 900 lovers of ART
and lovers Of Scotland held q
Highland gathering in the Cor
coran Gallery of Art last night
to view a loan exhibition of 10th
and Goth century Scottish paint
ing, on display through Febru-
airy 26.
But after inspecting the art, the
st. Andrews Society and gallery
members turned their attention to
another type of Scottish culture
the pipes.
Down the gallery's great stair
case they came, and into the great
atrium to serenade Henry Clay
and the other frowning busts.
But piping was not all the
Highland entertainment the eager
visitors received. They crowded
round to see Scottish dances per-
formed by Mrs. Myra George, Miss
Martha Jean Crawford and T.
Evening star., 1950-02-05
Public Accounting Firm
Announces Name Chance

Partners Of James A. Councillor
81 Co. announced yesterday they
are changing the name of the firm
to Councillor, Buchanan, Mitchell
& Hayes.
The public accounting firm also
is moving from the Tower Build
ing to the newly completed Wire
Building, Vermont avenue and K
street NV.
officials said the change in
name does not reflect any shift
In the partnership organization.
Partners are James A. Councillor,
jr., w. Baldwin Buchanan, Dooly
L. Mitchell. Edward H. Hayes and
Enda Hummer Nick.
Evening star., 1950-02-05
Cupt. MiIIiken to Speak

Capt. Rhoda Milliken, head OF
the women's division of the Met
ropolitan Police Department, will
address a meeting of the Janney
Parent Teacher Association at
Ills pm. Tuesday in the school
auditorium, Wisconsin avenue and
Albemarle streets NV. She will
speak on Problems We Meet With
Children From Good Homes
Evening star., 1950-02-05
Public Inquiry
Into Crime Here
Opens tuesday
Barrett to Testify
First as House Unit
Examines Problem

The long-awaited public inquiry
into Washington crime and its
punishment will get underway
Tuesday with Police Supt. Robert
j. Barrett as the first witness.
Before the hearings are over,
the parade of witnesses is expected
to include other police officers,
prosecutors, probation officers,
parole officers and even judges.
The House District subcommit-
tee, headed by Representative
Davis, Democrat, of Georgia, has
had a professional staff working
for three months to find out what
causes serious crime here and how
it can best be discouraged.
All Phases Studied.
Investigators have followed
crimes from their inception until
the offenders are punished. They
have ridden with police in the
squad cars, talked to judges in
their chambers, studied the rec
ords in sthe United States At
torney's Office.
What they have found-and
what the witnesses will volunteer
will begin unfolding at 10 am.
Tuesday.
Chairman Davis indicated in ad-
vance Of the hearings that some
individual cases and large num-
Der of typical cases will be re-
viewed during the hearings.
Fischbach Is Counsel.
Serving the subcommittee as
special counsel is Hyman I. Fisch-
bach, veteran of other Congress
sional investigations. Soon after
his appointment last November
Mr.. Fischbach indicated special
interest in the habitual offender
He said he would urge the SUBJ
committee to advocate a system
under which judges would be au-
tomatically informed of defend
ants complete criminal careers
Combined with that, he favored
making harsher punishment man.
datory for repeated offenders.
Mr.. Davis introduced a resolu-
ton calling for the crime and
punishment investigation last
August. The House voted $4,000
for the investigation in October
At the time, Mr.. Davis voiced the
opinion that the crime situation
here could be greatly improved
and more protection could be af-
forded to law abiding citizens.
Evening star., 1950-02-05
Howard U. Group TO Study
Segregation al Air Base
BY the Assoeiatsd Rkssa

LANGLEY FIELD. Va, Feb. 4
Segregation policies at Langley
Air Force Base will be studied
Tuesday by a group from Howard
University. Washington.
Mordecai w. Johnson, univer-
sity president. will head a group
Of Is faculty members, two Negro
newspapers representatives, and
three members of the university's
military department.
An Air ROTC unit maintained
by the Ninth Air Force is located
at the university.
James c. Evans, assistant to
Defense Secretary Johnson. will
accompany the group.