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Evening star., 1951-09-11

whatsoever and it's unfair to Mrs
Duncan to thus become the butt
of a publicity stunt"
Mr. Corey, who met with news
men in his hotel room here last
night. was backed up by other
disgruntled judges.
Said Television Star Eileen
Wilson:
L gave Mrs. Central Florida
my f1rct-place vote and know the
rest Of the beauty judges did. too
with the exception of one man
He gave her a second or third
place vote
A contest spokesman said the
winner not only was picked on
the basis of the judges ballots
but also on background and
recipes submitted by the con-
testantS.
But another T'V star, Mrs. Mag
gle Johnson, one of the II judges
in the holnemaking section, said
Il voted for Mrs. Creel and
so did every one else in our Sec
ton. The final decision is hu-
initiating. We were just used as
Srooonc
Evening star., 1951-09-11
The Weather Here and Over the Nation

Wind: West, southwest, 9 miles
per hour at 1870 am.
District Medical Society rag
weed pollen count for "a hours
ended $3.50 am, September IL.
70 grains per cubic yard of air.
Five-Day Forecast for Washington
and Vicinity-September 1916.
Temperatures above normal FOR
the period, Washington area nor
Evening star., 1951-09-11
10000 Are Enrolled
Al Public Schools in
District and Suburbs

More than 10000 children in
Washington, Prince Georges and
Montgomery Counties, Md, and
Falls Church Va, were accounted
for today IN public schools in the
second day of the fall term.
At the close of the first day,
District school officials tabulated
| 188, ,444 pupils enrolled. This repre-
sented an increase of 1871 over
the opening day figure last year
of 86,713.
| More than $1,000 students are
expected in the District public
schools. with the figure building
up within the next few weeks.
OF the present enrolment, As
431 students we're enrolled in
Negro schools and 43,013 in white
schools.
In Falls Church, there were BAT
students registered in grades 2 to
9. The first, 10th and 11th graders
will be accounted for later.
Montgomery County school Of
ficials counted 3,488 pupils, and
expected at least 1000 more to
register.
Prince Georges Increases.
In Prince Georges County,
1929 pupils attended the open
ing of classes yesterday. School
Supt. William S. Schmidt said he
still expects total enrolment will
reach the originally estimated
I35 900 before the end of the
month. There were 29,764 public
school pupils in Prince Georges
last year.
Double shifts are definite, ac-
cording to Mr.. Schmidt, in the
first and second grades at Agar
Road Elementary School and for
most of the grades at Langley
Park Elementary School. where
583 students must share 10 class
rooms.
Mr.. Schmidt said there was
considerable confusion yesterday
because 18 of the 27 new school
buses the county had ordered for
this year still had not arrived for
opening day.
No Chapel Hill Bus.
There is no school bus avail
able, he said, to transport students
from the Chapel Hill community
to the new Fairmont Heights
Negro high school, a distance of
is miles. Mr.. Schmidt said
Chapel Hill high school students
will not be required to go to
school until the bus situation is
Strengthened out.
A group of Bradbury Heights
students failed to report to Mary
land Park Junior High School yes
terday because no school bus
picked them up, but Mr.. Schmidt
said that was caused by misun-
Iderstanding and he expects to have
the Bradbury Heights bus service
restored today.
County school officials were
study the enrolment situation
further today to determine what
other schools will have to employ
double shifts. 1t is probable that
the halliday schedules will be in
effect in at least six more elemen-
tary schools.
Evening star., 1951-09-11

District of Columbia - Rather
cloudy, with some sunshine. High
near "a degrees this afternoon.
Partly cloudy, with low tonight
near IS degrees. Tomorrow
sunny, continued warm.
Maryland and Virginia-Some
eloudiness tonight and tomorrow
with little change in temperature.
Low tonight, 60-65 degrees.
Evening star., 1951-09-11
New Assessment Plan

A major change in the method
Iof assessing apartment houses
and commercial properties is being
considered in Montgomery County
The change would scale the
assessed value of these properties
to the income they produce-in-
stead of on the approximate cost
of replacing structure. as at
lpreSent.
Evening star., 1951-09-11
British Dollar Pinch
On Iran Spurs Teheran
Black Market Rates
BY the ASsocioied Press

TEHERAN, Iran. Sept. IL
Britain'S economic pressure in the
oil naturalization dispute pushed
the black market dollar rate up 20
per cent today. amid talk ofSanI
1ranian financial crisis.
The squirt in the dollar rate
came as the result of a British
treasury announcement restrict
ing the use of Iranian-held sterling
and stopping the conversion of
Trans pounds into dollars.
The British financial squeeze
brought trouble for Premier Mo-
hammed Mossadegh, who already
faced a growing revolt in Parlia-
ment over his ultimatum to Brit
ain to reopen talks on the nation
alization of Anglo-Iranian Oil Co.
holdings. He has told the British
to resume talks in two weeks or
have their technicians ousted
from Iran.
British Take Reprisals.
The British answer. apparently
aimed at unSeating Nationalist
DR.. Mossadegh, was to cut off
Trans dollar supplies, stop her
transactions in sterling, end her
right to convert sterling into dol
lars and halt the export of scarce
goods from Britain to Iran.
The first reaction here was a
jump in the black market dollar
rate from 81 rials yesterday to IS
today, the highest rate in three
years. The official value of the
rial is little more than 3 cents,
or about 33 to the dollar. /
Deputy Premier Hossein Fatemi
angrily denounced the British
move as a "one-Sided violation"
of Britain's treaty obligations.
These same words had been used
before by the British in describ-
ing Trans action scrapping the
1888 oil concession to Anglo
Iranian and Matchmaking the oil
industry.
Premier MosSadegh'S S ultimatium
to the British to resume talks is
being forwarded to Britain by way
of Washington, but the Premier /
meanwhile has been unable to get /
parliamentary approval for his
move. He went ahead with his
ultimatium in the face of outSpo-
ken opposition by II Deputies who .
defled assassination threats from
fanatical Nationalists.
Ultimatum Sent Here.
DR.. Mossadegh's ultimatum-re-
sumo talks or have the 300 Brit
ish technicinS still at the Abadan
refinery thrown out of Iran-was
routed to Nasrollah Entezam,
1ranian Ambassador in Washing
ton, to be turned over to w.
Averell Hartman, President Tru-
mans envoy who tried to mediate
the British-Iranian dispute. An
1ranian government spokesman
said Mr.. Hartman had promised
when he left Iran that he would
do anything further he could to
help settle the dispute. He will
be asked to relay the ulimatum
to London,
Private traders in non-essential /,
imports will feel the first effects /
of Britain's financial squeeze on
Iran, but it will also pinch DR..
Mossodegh's government. which
has been depending on the f14
million 1892 million) banked in
London as currency backing to
meet payrolls. With the loss of oil /
revenues, at least half the govern
ment payrolls were being met by
drawing on the London banked
sterling balance.
A national bank official said "a
million already has been spent,
but added the order might not
have too drastic an effect because
most of the essential imports to
be bought with the remaining f10
million will be from the sterling
area and will not REQUIRE dollars II
Evening star., 1951-09-11

which originally was approved by
the Senate several months ago
However, the Senate, knowing how
strongly Mr.. Murray feels about
getting a postal rate increase bill
enacted by Congress this year, last
week again approved the graduated
leave measure, this time as part
of the postal rate legislation.
Members of Mr.. Murray'S COM
mittee predict that, rather than
lose the rate bill, he will agree to
go to conference on leave. There
fore. the chances that the grad
uated leave measure will super
sede the new 20-day system this
year appear to be fairly good
incidentally, with the exception OF
Mr.. Murray, practically all men,
bers of the House Civil Service
Committee favor the Senate s
graduated leave bill and have been
urging him to go to conference
on it.
X 4 **
NAVY-Rear Admiral Wesley
Hague. chief of the Navy's Office
of Industrial Relations, which
operates Navy's civilian personne
setup, will remain in his present
post.
Admiral Hague had been sched.
uled for transfer to the Bureau
of Ships, but the reassignment was
Cancelled at the last moment. The
fact that Admiral Hague will re.
main in his present assignment
has been greeted warmly by Navy
civilian personnel officials. Ad.
miral Hague has done a fine JOB
and they would have hated tt
see him go.
~
RETIREMENT-The retirement
OF Nels P. Mick" Alias as presi-
dent of the Government employees
district of the International Asso-
citation of Machinists remove.
from the Federal scene one of the
most effective and affectionately
regarded spokeSmen for Fedora
employees on Capitol Hill. Fol
more than 40 years Mr.. Alifa.
fought on Capitol Hill for Gov.
Iernment employe benefits and de.
serves a considerable share o.
credit for the progress that ha.
been made by Federal employees
All of his friends join this column
in wishing him happy and we'll,
deserved retirement.
~
AFGE-The Washington de.
partment of the AFL American
Federation of Government EN-
ployes will hold it's annual elec,
tion Of officers at 8 pm. tomor.
row in the General Services Ad.
ministration auditorium, F stree
between Eighteenth and Nine.
teenth streets NV.
4 X
FEDERAL CLUB-The Fedora
Club opens its season of dinnel
meetings at 6 pm. today at the
Willard Hotel. Gen. Guy S. Meloy
Ijr.. will speak on The Military
Situation in Korea"
Evening star., 1951-09-11
Germun Held as Spy

FRANKFURT, Sept. II P.-
Arthur Pilz, German, was held
for trial by a United States court
today on charges of spying and
sending information to Soviet
occupied East Germany on United
States troop movements and air
installations. He denied the
charge and said he came here to
buy auto parts for the Soviet zone
police.
Evening star., 1951-09-11
Phone Rate HEARINGS

Hearings will start before the
Maryland Public Service Com
mission in Baltimore tomorrow on
the Chesapeake & Potomac Tele-
phones application for higher
rates throughout the State.
The company has not disclosed
how much it proposes to increase
it's charges, except that it wants
to eliminate the nickel call from
a telephone and charge a dime
Iinstead.-A. P.
Evening star., 1951-09-11
Virginia Highway Safety
Virginia's highway traffic fatal

Virginia's highway traffic fatali-
ties in August were lower than
in the same month of 1850, ac-
cording to figures released in Rich
mond today.
Highway officials believe the
drop may have resulted in part
from the Governors traffic con-
ference, which they said appar-
emily had aroused interest in
highway safety. stThe conference
was held at Charlottesville last
month. The death toll last month
was 80, as compared with 81 a
'yeH ago.-A. P.s
Evening star., 1951-09-11

time as to when
they would be
considered.
However, the
picture h a S
changed for the
better, so far as
F e d eral en-
ployes are con-
cerned. Senator
Mcfarland said
today he eX-
poets the Sem
ate to dispose
of the 1852 mil
itary appropri-
! ationS bill by
Evening star., 1951-09-11
New Moves for Boost
lin Auto Prices Enter
Controls Picture Today


price increases and a fairly good
outlook for the beef cattle market
entered the economic controls pic
ture today as administration forces
fought for repeal of several key
provisions in the recently enacted
controls law.
The administration suffered a
setback in the Senate yesterday
when the Banking Committee re-
jected, 8 to S. a proposal to knock
out the so-calied Capehart amend
ment. That provision allows SELL
erS to pass on to consumers vir-
tually all cost increases incurred
between the start of the Korean
war and last July 26.
Hearing Scheduled Thursday.
But the committee decided tt
begin open hearings Thursday or
"a proposed compromise aimed al
giving the Office Of Price Admin
istration more discretion in judg-
ing whether requests for higher
prices are justified. Administra-
tion Senator'S say they are not en-
|thusiastic about the compromise
but hope the hearings will create
"a stronger demand for repeal OF
the Capehart amendment.
Meanwhile, Ford and ChrysleI
filed requests with OPS yesterday
for increased prices. This fol-
lowed an OPS announcement last
Friday that automobile makers
would be allowed to increase new
car prices by 3 to 7 per cent in
view of increased production costs
Proposed Increases Listed.
Ford's proposed increases, based
on wholesale prices to dealers
were reported to be: Fords. a
4.31 per cent increase ranging
from $41.35 to 1851; Mercuries,
2.83 per cent ranging from $40.45
to $52.52; Lincoln Cosmopolitans
ESQ per cent. ranging from $500
to $70.77; other Lincolns. 3.87 per
cent. ranging from $6957 to
$75.06.
Chrysler's requested increases
would average 6.5 per cent and be
based on retail prices at the fac
tory. AS announced, they in
cluded: Chrysler Windsor, $l56;
De Soto Custom, SAT; Dodge
Coronet 4-door sedan, Silt;
Plymouth Cranbrook 4-door Sc
dan. $l08.
The new prices would go into
effect five days after OPS ap-
proval. General Motors is ex-
peCted to request increases soon
In the agricultural field there
were Agriculture Department pre-
dictions that profits from feeder
beef cattle in 1852 would be fair.
ly good" Returns, however, are
likely TO be considerably less than
those Of the last two years wher
prices were rising steadily, the de-
partment added.
Feeder cattle are the lean, un-
fattened animals They have beer
selling at prices about 81 a hun
dred pounds lower than in early
spring before price ceilings were
set up.
AT those purchase prices" the
department commented, return:
from cattle feeding in 1852 will
be about average if prices OF
slaughter cattle do not change
greatly. But they would be con-
siderably less than those of the
last two years.
Price ceilings provide a some
what wider difference between
prices of lower and higher grades
of slaughter steers than prevailed
last year. This points to fairly
good prospects for feeding of me-
dium- weight unfinished steers tt
higher finish and grade"
Evening star., 1951-09-11

Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest. 80, on June ..
Lowest. H. on February 8.
High and Low Of Last "a Hours.
High, 80, at 4:10 pm.
Low, Sc, at 7:15 am.
Tide Tables
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The Federal Spotlight
The Federal Spotlight
Mcfarland Sees Pay Raise Bill
Passage in Senate Tomorrow
By Joseph Young

Federal said today they the Senate
act the salary bills sometime this week. possibly tomorrow
Senate action the 84 classified employees bill
the 88 postal week. owing
time took to dispose of the postal
Evening star., 1951-09-11

thunderstOrms will fall in the South Atlantic
Gulf States tonight Showers forecast for the
Mississippi Valley the Plains States and the Northern Rockies
generally fair elsewhere 1t will continue in the
England while weather is expected in the
Valley the upper lower lakes region. turn to
weather expected in the Northern Rockies and the
North Pacific States -AP Wrephoto
Evening star., 1951-09-11

mails are high 78 degrees and low
so degrees. A few scattered showers
expected about Thursday and
again at end of week. Rain light.
River Report.
(FromU. s. Engineers)
| Potomac River clear at Harpers Ferry
| and at Great Falls; Shenandoah clear at
HarperS Ferry.
Evening star., 1951-09-11

land, although he expressed hope
the pay bills could come up this
week, did not give any definite
Evening star., 1951-01-28
Four Brothers Quietly Await
Certain Death From Dystrophy

school, intent on a future doctors
say just isn't there. He'd like to
be a tool and die maker.
/ THE boys were all so active
the mother went on. "All kinds OF
sports - baseball. football - from
morning until night"
, Michael, the youngest, a manly
healthy-l looking lad with deep RED
hair like Roy's. let his feet hang
over the arm of the easy chair and
he lolled behind his mother.
Michael is SO good with his
Erector set" Mrs. Godfrey said
He builds such wonderful things
But he Just tore some of ther,
down and he hasn't built any new
ones-just lazy, I guess. aren't you
Michael?"
| She stopped and turned her eyes
away quickly. She knows why
he's lazy.
Doctors don't know what causes
muscular dystrophy nor what
cures it. About 100, 900 Americans
have it. Barring a quick, unfor.
seen cure. every one of them is
marked for death. The mortality
rate is 100 per cent.
"Weakens - cripples - kills
Weakens-cripples-kills."
That is the way the Muscular
Dystrophy Association describes
the action of the disease. Ano
that is what the Godfreys in theil
small, quiet apartment are uI
against. They live with the
CHASTITY slogan, "a hours a day
in this East Side walkup, annie
the overstuffed chairs and the
single sofa that does duty at night
as an extra bed.
Evening star., 1951-01-28
Security Commission
OF Legion Sponsors
.7-Point Defense Plan

A seven-point program to
strengthen the Nation in the cur
rent emergency was urged yes
terday by the National Security
Commission of the American Le-
gion.
The 25-man group which has
been meeting here for the last
four days, called for development
of an Air Force backed with pro-
ductive capacity capable of sup
porting Sustained operations
against an enemy"
The defense group also urged:
Immediate action by State and
local governments to provide
legislation, funds and personnel
needed to assure a co-ordinated
civil defense establishment.
A superior intelligence system
as a basis for overcoming Com
munist leadership in the area Of
unconventional warfare.
The supplying of arms and
material to allied nations to the
extent possible without jeopar-
dizing our own troops Or our eco
nomic well-being.
Substantial buildup of United
States naval forces by re-commis-
sioningS and new construction,
with emphasis on anti-submarine
craft, and large aircraft car
rierS.
Strengthening of Selective Serv-
ice to hasten Army buildup to
authorized strength, and enact
ment of Universal Military Train
ing legislation to guarantee a
continuing supply of trained re-
serve manpoWer after the pres
ent emergency.
Preference be granted our mer-
chant marine in the carrying of
American cargo, and the fleet be
strengthened with additions
from the mothball fleet and new
construction.
Evening star., 1951-01-28
BY the Associated Press

NEW YORK. Jan. 27.-This is
a quiet home-this clean, cramped
little apartment where the foul
doomed Godfrey brothers wait to
die.
They are husky. good-looking
home loving boys-George, "a;
Roy. 81; Robert, l6, and Michael
IL. They might have gone a long
way. But they have no future.
Their days are numbered by q
disease-the mysterious muscular
dystrophy that works so slowly but
with such terrible certainty.
spent some time with the God
freyS, sitting in their tiny living
room, trying with them to piece
out the story of their tragedy
wondering with them why this
particular family was earmarkeG
for that tragedy.
Bitterness Is Hidden.
I found no bitterness here. But
friends of the family tell me they
can detect it. 1t is kept hidden
from strangers. It is that bitter
ness that knifes so deep into the
human heart when hope is denied
Love of one another, I found
here. and even some humor-the
quiet kind that is meaningless to
an outsider, built as it is on the
shared experiences of a close knit
family.
There is pride here. too-and
even I could detect that.
1t started in this same four
room, fifth floor walkup on New
York's East Side just IL years
ago. Roy Godfrey then was 6
happy. active 10-year-old.
He started stumbling and fall
ing and holding on to me-" sale
his mother, Amonice. At so, she
is a small. faded little woman
The lines of her face are deep. Hel
hair-once near scarlet like Roy's
is light and almost neutral now
Thought He Was Clumsy.
Il used to think he was just
clumsy" she went on as a finger
OF sunlight dappled the neat green
bed spread on the bedroom off the
apartments living room.
Roy, now 81. smoked a cigarette
slowly. Behind his horn trimmed
glasses, his eyes were without ex-
preston.
1T came on slowly" he said
taking up the story as it began II
years ago. There's no pain, you
know. Just weakness in the legs
and that stumbling. And it's
harder and harder to climb stairs
and you seem to get tired easier
everything you do."
Next it was George, the oldest
OF the four boys, a handsome
youth. dark-haired like his father
In the Navy. it got harder fol
him to climb the ships ladders
BY the time he was discharged, il
was clear what was wrong.
Hid Discharge Papers.
Mrs. Godfrey twisted her hands
slightly in the lap of her worn
house dress.
1T was on his discharge papers,
she recalled in a gentle voice
George hid them. He didn't want
me to worry. But I had seen it in
Roy. I knew"
Then it was Michael and ther
Robert.
h Only Robert carries on at q
near-normal pace. He goes to high
Evening star., 1951-01-28
Republican Leaders
See Taft as Choice
For 1852 Nomination
BY the Associuied Press

Senator Taft of Ohio is the
leading choice for the 1852 Re-
publican presidential nomination
OF members of the Republican
National Committee willing to ex-
press their views.
OF IS members of the commit
tee-or their proxies-who were
interviewed by The Associated
Press in a one-day meeting here
last week, 20 said they favor SEN
ator Taft's nomination and IL
supported Gen. Eisenl. .owel.
Other votes were scattered, with
four for President Harold E Stas-
sen of the University of Pennsyl-
vania, two for Gov. Earl Warren
OF California and one each for
Senator Wherry of Nebraska, the
COP floor leader, and Gov. Dewey
of New York, the 1914 and 1948
presidential nominee.
One committee member said he
would take either Mr.. Stassen or
Senator Taft, one said his choice
was either Gen. Eisenhower or
Senator Taft, and one committee
woman said she would be satisfied
with Senator Taft, Eisenhower
Mr.. Stassen or Gov. Dewey.
Four Have No Choice.
Four of those approached said
they had no choice at present and
nine refused for one reason or
another to make their selection
known.
There are los national commit
tee members but many of them
were absent from the meeting
here. The checkup covered about
four flfths of those who attended.
National committee members
are charged primarily with the
duty of helping elect whoever
is chosen at the presidential nomi-
mating convention for which the
committee makes the arrange
ments every four years.
Many Control Delegates. .
While they are supposed to re-
main neutral before that choice
is made, as a practical matter
many of them control the State
delegations which cast the votes
by which the party's nominee is
chosen.
I The wide margin for Sena tor
Taft was attributed to his smash
ing reelection victory in Ohio last
November and the prominent role
he has been playing in the new
! Congress.
| Senator Taft has assumed lead
ership of the Republican group
which has challenged President
Trunan's authority to send Ameri-
can troops to help man Western
Europe's defenses without the
prior approval of Congress.
The Ohioan has insisted that he
isn't interested in the legal ques-
ton of whether Mr.. Truman has
that right, but is demanding only
that Congress make the final de-
cision on what he says is a major
national policy. He has said he
expects this question to be an
issue in the 1852 campaign.
Evening star., 1951-01-28
The Weather Here and Over the Nation

District of Columbia-Mostly
cloudy, but some sunshine today,
colder with high in upper 30s.
Clearing and colder with chance
of snow late tonight or early
tomorrow. Low tonight near %.
Maryland-Partly cloudy with
high in middle or upper 30s to-
day. Mostly cloudy and colder
Evening star., 1951-01-28

late today, with chance of snow
late tonight or early tomorrow.
Virginia-Mostly cloudy with
occasional light rain in the south
portion today. High of 35 to 40
in the north portion and 40 in
the south portion. Clear and
colder with rain or snow late
tonight or early tomorrow.