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Evening star., 1951-05-11
Britain Says People of Formoso
Should Get Voice on Its Future

ernment is recognized by Britain.
Before World War II, Formosa
was a japanese possession.
Mr.. Morrison recalled that. at
the Cairo conference in 1943, "the
United States, China and our
selves agreed that Formosa should.
after the war, be returned to
China"
The Cairo declaration also
proclaimed that Korea, in due
course. should become free and
independent and expressed ac-
ceptance of two principles-non-
aggression and no territorial am
bitionS," Mr.. Morrison said.
Evening star., 1951-05-11
w. & |. Alumni Porty

The Washington and Lee Uni
versity Alumni Association here
will hold its annual spring party
at 6 O'Clock tonight in the Hotel
Statler.
Evening star., 1951-05-11

Switzerland sold 1880 tons of
cheese abroad last year; sub
stantial part of it going to the
United States.
Evening star., 1951-05-11
Ohio Leads in Glass GROWING

CINCINNATI.-Ohio leads the
Nation in glass growing with al
most 1000 acres cultivated under
greenhouse protection.
Evening star., 1951-09-19
House Unit Approves
$4,000 for Woman
Shot by Rookie in AZ

A House Judiciary Subcommit-
tee today approved a bill granting
Mrs. Dorothy Kilmer Nickerson,
$4,000 for injuries she suffered
on July 20, l948, when she was
shot by District policeman.
The bill probably will come be-
fore the full committee tomorrow
introduced last April by Repre-
sentative Reams, Independent, OF
Ohio the measure originally called
for $4,000.
Miss Kilmer. now the wife oil
Marine Sergt. Clinton H. Nicker.
son. was shot in the Palm Grove
Club, 1901 Fourteenth street NV.
where she was employed as a hat
check girl. The policeman, Wynne
w. Edmonston. then %. entered
the club with another rookie
waved his gun around and pulled
the trigger. The bullet lodged in
the girls spine and left her par
alyzed. After months of wheel
chair existence and physical ther-
apy, she was enabled to walk fol
short distances with the aid oi
braces.
Edmondson was convicted OF
assault and ordered by District
Court Judge Alexander Holtzoff
to pay one-third of his net in
come to the young woman over
a period of five years. He has
been employed at a gasoline sta
tion and has been paying the VIC
tim of his shooting $12 a week.
Evening star., 1951-09-19
Frank R. Perna, 50,
Stone Contractor, Dies

Frank r. Perna, so, a stone con.
tractor here, died yesterday al
Georgetown University Hospita
after a two-month illness. He
lived at 1912 River road NV.
Mr.. Perna was vice president oi
Louis Perna & Sons, stone con.
tractors here for so years.
Born in Baltimore, he came tt
Washington with his family as q
child. He attended the old Nc.
Kinley High School and Straye:
College here.
Mr.. Perna supervised the stone
work on two buildings at George
town University and on the priests
and professors quarters at Catho-
lie University. He also was in
charge of the artistic stone work
on the Massachusetts, avenue and
P street bridges across Rock Creek.
He was a member of the Sons of
Italy, the Izaak Walton League
Chapter in Bethesda, and Caval-
lotta Lodge here.
He belonged to st. COLUMBIA s
Episcopal Church.
He is survived by his widow,
Mrs. Iva v. Perna, and two sons,
Louis r. and William c., of the
home address. and three brothers
and two sisters. all of Washington.
Funeral services will be at II
am. Friday at his home. Burial
will be In Rock Creek Cemetery.
Evening star., 1951-09-19
Feeder Bus Line Service
On Riggs Road Approved

The Public Utilities Commission
Yesterday approved weekday feeder
line bus service in the vicinity oi
the Keene School, Riggs road anC
Rock Greek Church road NE. ef-
fective Monday.
The line will operate between
the intersection of Riggs road ano
South Dakota avenue and OF
Kansas avenue and Sheridan
street. via Riggs road, Sixth street
Eastern avenue, Kansas avenue
and Sheridan street.
1t will connect with the present
busline operating on New Hamp-
shire avenue to and from down
town. The southerly end of the
feeder line will be about two blocks
from Keene School.
1t will operate Monday through
Friday, except holidays, from s to
1890 am. and from 3 to Z pm
Evening star., 1951-09-19
Portable Oil Stoves
To Be Banned Here
AFTER May, 1852

The Commissioners yesterday
approved regulation banning the
use OF portable oil stoves or space
heaters after May 81, 1852.
The prohibition will apply to
buildings, vehicles, boats, and
trailers. Stoves or space heaters
using flammable liquids as fuel
must be affixed to floor or. walls
and be permanently connected to
a f1ue.
Robert K Kneipp, chairman OF
the commissioners regulations
committee, reported that from July
l. 1948. through May 2, 1851, por-
table stoves or heaters caused
1884 fires, involving SIS deaths
and injuries to 469 persons.
The city heads also approved
amendment of the building and
grounds regulations to define the
duty imposed in 1897 on building
owners Ito provide and furnish
such premises and building with
adequate facilities for heating. "
No definition was given in the
old regulation. The amendment
specifies central heating facility
or a non-portable, fiue-connected
or an electric heating facility.
1t calls for the facility to be
capable of maintaining minimum
temperature of 10 degrees in
buildings used for habitation or
sedentary work, and SIS degrees
in space used for heavy work.
Evening star., 1951-09-19
Trade Restraint CHARGED
To Kit's in S24O,OOO Suit

The Kilt Music Co., 1880 G
street NV. was named defendant
today IN a $240,000 damage suit
filed in District Court. charging
restraint of trade in selling and
leasing musical instruments.
The suit was brought by Barney
Kruglak. trading as B. Kruglak &
Co., $50 Thirteenth street NV.
dealer in musical instruments.
Besides the Kilt Co., the COM
Iplaint also names as defendants
seven trustees of the Arthur Jor-
dan Foundation. which it says
organized the Kilt concern here
and Miss E. F. Jones. manager OF
the Kilt store. The Jordan
Foundation is not named a de-
Ifendant. The seven trustees are
JAIL from Indiana, according to the
suit.
The suit charges the defendants
with granting commissions and
discounts to music teachers in the
public schools, to band leaders and
others thus allegedly causing
them to induce music students
and parents to buy and lease
musical instruments from kits
The suit charges violation OF
the Sherman Act and the Robin
Ison-Patman Act. 1t says the
$240,000 asked for represents
treble damages. The plaintiff is
represented by Attorney Sidney
sherman.
Evening star., 1951-09-19

good" 1t cannot bear ~. S.
Choice" or ~. S. Good" labels
because the meat is not Federally
inspected.
1t was not until the advent OF
OPS that the firm even marked
its meat, although it has tried to
serve only choice and good grades
Now Mr.. Seal believes it will be a
good idea to continue to pay a
Federal grader, even after the
demise of OPS. People seem to
like the idea.
Federal inspection is not neces-
sary. so long as the market re-
Istricts its entire operation to Vir-
ginia.
The firm doesn't advertise
doesn't even have a telephone
Mr.. Seal doesn't want to be
bothered. for eventually the house
wives seem to drop in anyway.
THE word just gets around,
guess" he said. Last winter, a
fellow came in and said he'd been
advised to shop here. Said a fell
low in Paris, France, told him
about it."
For porterhouse steaks, the
shop has a $1.32 a pound OPS
Evening star., 1951-09-19
Bernhard {. Ha!strom, 56
Former Architect, Dies

Bernhard Christian Halstrom
Sc. a former Washington archi
tect and a one-time football play,
er, died Saturday in Miami, Fla.
1t was learned here today.
Mr.. Halstrom had lived in Miam
for the last six years. In 1915 hi
was on the football team at thu
University of Illinois.
After serving with the Corps Of
Engineers in World War 1, he
played professional football in the
Midwest for a number of years.
He is survived by his widow
Mrs. Catherin Cross Halstrom; a
brother. Richard U. Halstrom oi
Chicago, and an uncle, Alex Hal
strom, president of the st. Lucie
Bank in Fort Pierce. Fla.
Prayers will be said $3.50 am
Thursday at Gawler's chapel. 1736
Pennsylvania avenue NV. Mass
will be at 8 am. at st. Matthews
Cathedral with burial in Arlington
Cemetery.
Evening star., 1951-09-19

the freight costs from the Mid.
west.
This comes under the head OF
reduced overhead. So does the
fact that Mr.. Seal opens his shop
at 7:30 am. and. with the help OF
two apprentices, hacks away al
meat until $50 pm. At Luray
Mr.. Brown is turning in the same
sheet of IL hours a day.
Explains Fifth Quarter"
THAT cuts operating costs" says
the East Falls Church end of the
combine, land then there's the
fifth quarter"
BY that. he explained, he did
not mean locker room session
after football game. but the in
Idustry's name for the sections OF
cattle including the hide, liver,
tallow. brains. sweetbreads and
tongue.
That's where we have the big
edge on most retailers" he ex-
planned. Having bought the cat
tie. we fall heir to these parts,
while others have to buy them
separately if they are interested. 4"
Meat sold at Browns Market
bears stamps of either choice" or
Evening star., 1951-09-19
GaI|inger TO Limit
Visiting Hours

Gallinger Hospital will limit It's
visiting hours to three days a week,
beginning October l.
DR.. p. A. E. Stebbing, superin-
tendent, explained the hospital is
unable to get enough volunteers
to direct visitors to the proper
wards.
He said the hospital has had as
many as $500 visitors in one visit
ing hour, and that it is impossible
ito control large crowds without
sufficient help.
The new visiting hours are
Tuesdays and Fridays from 7 to
g pm. and on Sundays, from 2 to
g pm. Now there also are after
noon visiting hours on Mondays
Wednesdays, Thursdays and
Saturdays.
Clergymen may still visit MEM
bers of their own congregations
at any time. They are requested
however, to carry identification
and show it on request.
No children under the age of IL
will be permitted to accompany
visitors to the wards. Visitors are
requested not to bring children
since there are no facilities for
caring for them while the adults
visit.
Health Director Daniel L. Seek.
niger also requested visitors not
to bring food to patients, except
kinds that can be eaten during the
visit, such as fruit and ice cream.
Patients may not keep food at
their bedsides from one mealtime
to another.
Evening star., 1951-09-19
CoImar Manor Merchant
Acquitted in Sex CHARGES

Herman Keck, 27 Colmar
Manor store owner, has been
acquitted in Hyattsville Juvenile
Court of a charge that he en-
gagged in sexual practices with
two teen-age boys.
Mr.. Keck was arrested July Is
by Detective Sergt. Vincent s.
Free of Prince Georges County
after police investigated reports
of children being molested in the
neighborhood
Evening star., 1951-09-19
$65,OO0 in Gems
Stolen in Lobby of
Waldorf
By the Associotsd Press

NEW YORK, Sept. 19.-Emeralt
and diamond jewelry worth $65,
900 was stolen from a display cas-
in the crowded lobby of the Wal
dorf Astoria Hotel in midafter'
noon yesterday.
Police could find no one who saw
the job done.
There was no evidence that the
case was forced. and detective,
believed the thieves used a skel.
eton key or had fashioned q
key to fit the lock.
The case belongs to the Roy
w. Johnston Jewelry Co., ano
stands a few feet from It's lobby
store in the hotel.
The loot included five emerald
and diamond rings, a vanity case
Iset with emeralds and diamonds
an emerald and diamond clip and
a lapel watch encrusted with en-
eralds and diamonds.
A diamond ring, valued at So
900. was left behind apparently
lost in the folds of the white lace
in the display case.
A company spokesman said the
Jewels were insured.
Evening star., 1951-09-19
Zone Board Rejects
Apartment Proposal
In Georgetown Area

The Board Of Zoning Adjust
ment today refused an exception
to the zoning regulations to permit
structural alterations to form an
apartment house at 3o44 N street
NV.
Representatives of Georgetown
residents protested any new apart
ment houses in the block. The
house at present is a rooming
house with IA rooms occupied by
% persons including a number OF
Georgetown University students
Stan Poilitt. son of Mrs. Nina
Pollitt, the applicant. said Mrs
Pollitt wanted to improve the
house and asked whether an
apartment house would be more
Objectionable than the roomine
house.
Limitation Explained.
Board members brought ou'
that the conversion could take
place anyway if no alterations
were made to the weight bearing
parts Of the building such al
joiStS and beams.
Protesting were Mrs. Harolc
Hinton, chairman of the Zonine
Committee of the Progressive Cit.
liens Association of Georgetown
and Robert E. Lynch, attorney
who stated that he represented 8:
per cent Of the property owners
on both sides of the block.
In another case, the board re-
fused to grant permission for w
c. Keebler to use garage at thu
rear of his home at 1876 C stree
NE. as precision tool laboratory
Retired Tool Engineer.
Mr.. Keebler, 48, a retired tool
engineer. designs and builds pre-
Icision tools. He said he wanted tc
use the garage to develop tools on
which he has patents. Nelghbors
had appeared before the BOARD to
protest the project if it would mean
noise and additional traffic in the
alley. Mr.. Keebler said, however
his work would not disturb the
|neighborhood.
The board held there was nc
hardship" involved in the case,
since the garage could be used for
its zoned purpose.
Adelaide johnson, sculptress
who will be los years old Sunday
lives with Mr.. and Mrs. Keebler.
The board granted permission To
the Cosmos Club to have a tempo
Irary parking lot at 2121 Massachu-
setts avenue NV. and to George
Washington University to have q
temporary parking lot at 712 tc
1872 Twenty-second street NV.
Evening star., 1951-09-19
Baltimore Editor
Escapes Disaster
On Belgrade Trip
By the Associoted press

BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, Sept
19.-Hamilton Owen, editor in
chief of the Baltimore Sunpapers
arrived here today after a hectic
trip involving forced stopover ir
zagreb, near disaster in a bus
accident and a long, walk in the
rain to shelter.
The Yugoslav plane in which hi
was travelling to Yugoslavia's cap
ital here was grounded by electri-
cal storms at Zagreb.
Passengers stewed and sweated
for hours before bus arrived tc
take them and airport officials to
the city.
The bus skidded on a curve and
crashed into a telephone pole
fitting to a 45-degree angle while
passengers separated themselves
from broken window glass and
luggage. Mr.. Owen suffered a cut
finger, but no one was injured
seriously.
Rain drenched and weary, the
passengers trudged several miles
to Zagreb before stopping at a
peasants home where they OBJ
tanned taxi to the city and bed
for a brief two hours before re-
suming the journey to Belgrade.
Evening star., 1951-09-19
Workers Set 10 Strike
II Hotels in District
Tomorrow MIDNIGHT

A strike of virtually every en-
ploye except clerks and engineers
today threatened 81 of Washing
tons convention-loaded hotels.
Union contracts covering about
5000 workers expire at midnight
tomorrow and on a no-contract
Ino-work basis, they have voted a
strike deadline for 1901 am. Fri
day.
BY noon the Federal Mediation
and Cancellation Service had
stepped into the picture and there
were indications a new negotiation
session might be on the schedule
late today or tomorrow.
Involved are the following ho-
tells: Mayf1ower, Wardman Park,
Statler, Hay-Adams, Ambassador,
Annapolis. Burlington. Carlton,
Continental. Hamilton, Harring-
ton. Houston. Lafayette, Lee
House. Martinique. New Colonial,
Raleigh, Roger Smith, Shoreham,
Washington and Willard.
The unions, seeking a 40-hour
work week at the present pay rate
received for 48 hours, are affili-
ates of the AFL Hotel and Res
taurant Employees and Bartenders
International Union. They are
represented by Attorney Samuel
Levine.
Attorney for the hotels is Joseph
C. McCarraghy. who lives at the
Wardman Park.
In 1916. a 20-day strike hit the
city's major hotels and trimmed
guest lists 70 per cent. with su-
pervisory employees attempting to
carry the load.
Another labor dispute, unre-
lated to the joint negotiations of
the 81 hotels, involves the Dodge,
where union representation is the
problem. Employees there are con-
sidering a walkout tomorrow. re-
gardless of the outcome of joint
negotiations with the other hotels.
Evening star., 1951-09-19
233 Complaints Reported
To Juvenile Court in August

The Juvenile Court received
complaints about 233 children in
August, according to it's latest re-
port.
The monthly report, as usual,
failed to say what action was taken
on the complaints.
Police were the source of 205
complaints. Offenses charged in
cluded 10 cases of unauthorized
use of an auto. 46 housebreaking
and unlawful entry, II robbery, 81
tampering or taking property, 8
sex offenSeS. IA assault or at
tempted assault, 81 acts of care
lessness or mischief. IL traffic vio-
Ilations and 4 violations of drug or
liquor laws.
Evening star., 1951-09-19
Advisory Role Urged
For PTA on Matters
Concerning Schools

The District Congress of Par
ents and Teachers was asked TO-
day by Assistant School Supt
Norman J. Nelson to assume the
role of unofficial advisor to schoo
officials.
Mr.. Nelson was one of the speak,
ers at the opening of the two-daN
Parent Teacher Institute at Lis
ner Auditorium. The institute il
sponsored jointly by George Wash
ington University and the Distric
Congress.
1T is confusing to school off.
cials and the Board of Educate
to receive violent outbursts agains
some action we believe correct,
Mr.. Nelson declared.
Need Careful Consideration.
He related some of the com.
plicated problems facing the
school officials and said that con.
sidered, sober opinion is needed tt
help solve these problems. AL.
though his suggestion was an "un-
official one" Mr.. Nelson said hi
felt sure the Board of Education
would welcome it because it hear.
only "impassioned pleas for one
side of a question"
DR.. Cloyd Heck Marvin, presi-
dent of George Washington Uni
Iversity. welcomed the members o1
the PTA to the 18th annual in.
stitute and urged them to f1ght
for a return to moral standards
DR.. Marvin declared that the
loss of moral and spiritual train.
ing in public schools and in the
home is reflected in the storie,
today of men in high official posi-.
tion who have done things only
for their own gain.
Principles Reviewed.
The third speaker at the morn.
ing session was Mrs. Anne Cramp.
ton. field consultant of the Ma.
tional Congress of Parents anC
Teachers. She reviewed the prin.
ciples and practices that guide
the local PTAs in their work
Mrs. Leo Raywic, president Of the
District congress presided.
The session tonight at 7:4s
O'Clock will feature a panel dis.
cuSsion of the aims and objective:
of the social studies program ir
the schools; a demonstration Of
classroom technique by a grade
school and a discussion Of citizen.
ship problems by student council
representatives of the high schools
Tomorrow's program will be de.
voted to discussion groups on va.
rious phases of PTA work.
Evening star., 1951-09-19
1t. TisdaIe, 1850 Graduate
Of Point, Dies in JET Crash

1t. Henry E. Tisdale, jr.. %, for
merly of Glen Carlyn, Va, and
Long Island, N. Y, was killed Fri
day in jet plane crash at Las
Vegas, New, it was learned here
yesterday.
1t. Tisdale was a 1850 graduate
of West Point. His widow is the
former Sylvia Towner, daughter
of Col. and Mrs. Milton Towner
who are in Madrid, Spain, where
Col. Towner is the air attache at
the American Embassy. The
Towners formerly lived at 2OS
Raymond street, Chevy Chase, Md
Mrs. Tisdale was informed of
her husbands death just as she
arrived in Portugal en- route tc
visit her parents.
1t. Tisdale is survived also BY
a 3-month-old son, Stephen Aus
tin; his parents, Col. and Mrs
Henry Edward Tisdale, sr., of
Rosslyn Heights, L. l., and two
brothers and a sister.
Burial will be in West Point to-
morrow. Mrs. Tisdale was to fly
to West Point for the funeral.
Evening star., 1951-09-19

ceiling and sells them for 95 cents
The ceiling is 8 cents higher than
that permitted chain stores.
Other Prices.
Other prices: Rib roast (stand-
ing, chine bone in, 7-inch cut)-
Ceiling price: SO cents; Browns
SO cents for choice or good.
Chuck blade pot roast-78 cents
and IS cents.
Brisket (bone in, fresh or cured)
80 cents and SIS cents.
Round steak (bone in, full cut)
-$1.15 and 95 cents.
Chuck arm (bone in)-95 cents
and SO cents.
Before OPS set up it's price list
on May IA, the store had sold its
top cuts for 80 cents a pound. II
hung onto the 95 cents during the
period Of cattle slaughtering quo
taS, even though forced to buy
half its meat from other packing
houses, Mr.. Seal said.
Mr.. Seal is a native of Luray
Once he helped Mr.. Brown with
deliveries at his Luray store. Both
are only "a years old and are look
ing forward to increasing the
capacity of the Luray plant soon.
Evening star., 1951-09-19
Here's How to Buy Steak 81 Cents Under Ceiling Price
By Hermon r. Sehoden

Formula for buying porterhouse
steaks at 81 cents below ceiling
price:
Find a butcher who works II
hours a day, buys his own cattle
and operates his own slaughter
house.
These are some of the essentials
prescribed by Everett C. Seal, the
man who's selling meat that way.
Mr.. Seal evoked a mild ripple
from Capitol Hill yesterday by
testifying before a Senate subcom-
mittee that it's not hard to under
cut Office of Price Sterilization
ceilings so long as there are no
quotas on livestock slaughtering.
Beef Hungry Race to Store.
1t was enough to send any beef
hungry man racing to 6856 Lee
highway, East Falls Church, Va,
where Mr.. Seal holds forth with
cleaver and saw.
Aproned and sleek-haired in
his little-town shop across from
the Norfolk and Western Rail-
road station. Mr.. Seal had plenty
of company from equally beef
hungry customers.
Only family familiar with the
limelight, just won in his role of
star witness against re-imposition
of cattle quotas. Mr.. Seal stepped
jauntily as photographer went
to work.
Come back a little later" he
urged. "I'll get these people out
by $50"
Precisely then. Mr.. Seal began
explaining how he sells porter
house and comparably tempting
cuts for 95 cents a pound.
1t All Starts in Luray.
1t all starts in Luray. Va, where
the other half of the partnership.
T. M. Brown, is the boss. Mr..
Brown buys cattle at Harrisonburg
Front Royal and Staunton. Va.
That's the inception of an all
Virginia operation. for the cattle
are shipped to Luray and processed
at the Brown-Seal enterprises own
slaughterhouse. Nothing preten-
tious. but big enough to handle
six or seven cattle a day at peak
BY purchasing Virginia cattle,
the firm not only does bit better
on the market price, but also beats
Evening star., 1951-09-19
Keneipp Is Thanked
For P Street Liqhts

The East-Central Civic Associa-
ton voted last night to send a
letter of appreciation to Traffic
Director George E. Keneipp fol-
the installation of traffic lights on
the P street intersections at New
Jersey avenue and Ninth street
NV. The association first re-
queSted the lights three years ago
The groups nominating com
mittee presented the names oi
candidates for the elections to be
held at the November meeting.
Frank D. Mckinney conducted
the meeting in the Winfield Scott
Montgomery School, Ais P street
NV.
Evening star., 1951-09-19
Truman Bids Good-by
To Retiring Recorder

President Truman was reported
today as having expressed conf
dence in Democratic victory in
the Philadelphia municipal elec-
ton in November when he said
goodby to Marshall L. Shepard,
retiring recorder of deeds here
who is campaigning for the same
post in Philadelphia.
DR.. Shepard is leaving Washing
ton today after seven years in Of
flee. He got the Democratic nomi-
nation for recorder in Philadel-
'phia at the recent primary and
he said the President today wished
him good luck in the race and
said he knew that the party would
win,