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Evening star., 1951-03-17

8. Special vertical fabric-strip
blinds were used on bedroom
windows to permit control of
light without interfering with
ventilation.
10. Windows on the west side
of the house have panes of
notwithstanding plate glass TO
reduce penetration Of the suns
heat to the interior during late
afternoon, when the sun falls
below the screen Of foliage.
Has Four Terraces.
II. The house has four ter
races, consisting Of two bal
comics. a hagstone terrace on
grade and a sun-pocket terrace
beneath the living room bal
cony. These sitting spaces make
1t possible for the owners to
remain outdoors during much
Evening star., 1951-03-17
Goddard Opens Office

Harry L. Goddard, formerly as
sistant vice president and sales
manager Of Frederick w. Berens,
Inc, has opened his own Office
at 1346 Connecticut avenue NV.
Evening star., 1951-08-09
Perseid Meteors
To Have Clear Sky
For Annual Show

The. ell be lights in the skies
tonight.
And, just so you can see it, the
Weather Bureau is promising that
the CLOUDS will clear away in time
to watcn the Perseid meteors.
The Perseids have been coming
around III the middle of August
for more than 1000 years, astron-
omers -eport. The meteors are
fine and grain-like, travelling
through the heavens at about 40
miles second. When they hit
the earths atmosphere, they burn,
causing streak across the sky.
The display usually lasts for
about five days. Best time to
watch will be tomorrow night or
Saturday night.
If you fall asleep at your desk
today, YOU can blame it on the
heat-out then you'll be wide
awake tonight to watch the me-
teorS. The Weather Bureau was
expecting a high of 81 today, with
scattered thundershowers in the
afternoon, then clearing skies and
a low of 68 tonight. A little cooler
tomorrow, but not much, the bu-
reaM saws.
Evening star., 1951-08-09
.DiSaIIe Believes Prices
Will Rise 5 10 8 Per Cent
BY the Assoc uied Press

ATLANTA, Aug. 9.-Living costs
are likely to go up 5 to 8 per cent
says Michael Disable. price sta
bilizer.
Mr.. Disable said in an interview
here last night that the OPS was
going to try its best to tie prices
down, but that he didn't see how
this could be done under the new
price control laws.
He predicted that the next Il
months would see from $40 to SIG
billion added to family budgets.
I'VE had about nailed prices
down when Congress passed the
new price control law" Mr.. Disable
said.
The need now, he added, is for
"a law which we can administer. "
Economic Stabilizer Eric John
ston was reported to have used the
same figures in telling the Ma
tion'S defense mobilization chiefs
Yesterday about expected cost of
living increases.
Evening star., 1951-08-09
) New Polio Cases
Reported in 7 Days

Three new cases of polio in the
District have been reported to the
Health Department in the last
two days.
One is a 31-year-old man, who
lives in the 400 block of 37th place
Sc. now in Gallinger Hospital.
Another case, also at Gallinger,
lis a 10-year-old colored boy, who
lives in the 1900 block of Georgia
avenue NV. The third case is a
4-year-old colored girl, who lives
in the 1900 block of Kramer st.
ne. She is at Freedman's Hos
pital.
These cases make a total Of 18
since the beginning of the year.
Last year at this time there were
So during the same period.
Five other new polio cases were
reported in the Metropolitan Area.
Montgomery County reported two
cases. one 27-year-old woman,
who lives at Window lane, Silver
Spring, and is being treated at
Gallinger Hospital, and the other
"a 31-year-old woman. who lives
on Hanley street, Silver Spring,
and who is at Walter Reed Hos
pital. These make II cases in
Montgomery County since the be-
ginning of this year, against IL at
the same time last wear
Alexandria reported the case
of 3-year-old boy. who is in
Children's Hospital, but authori-
ties said his case is so mild they
were unable to diagnose it as
polio for about a week.
Prince Georges County reported
one polio case, a 15-year-old boy,
who lives in Laurel. Md.
Evening star., 1951-08-09
Thieves Haul Adds Up
To Fine Banquet Menu

Thieves. apparently preparing
for feast, broke into the Harbor
Service Station, $50 G street SW.,
during thn night.
From "a garage they took a
$4,000 refrigerator truck contain
ing about 5000 worth of frozen
foods. For dessert, they broke
open the stations candy machine,
and, as final touch, got a supply
of after-dinner cigaretS from the
cigaret machine, police reported.
Evening star., 1951-08-09
10 Killed by Flood
In Lake Como Area
BY the Associated Press

COMO, Italy, Aug. 9.-At least
10 persons have been killed in a
flood which continued it's wild
rampage in this area today after
I36 hours of heavy rain. Several
score are reported injured or
missing and one village is COM
pletely isolated.
Seventeen of the deaths were
caused by the breaking of the
IDomaso dixie, which sent a great
wall of water crashing into Gera
Lario. a village of TOO people.
Communications were cut off
completely. Rescue teams from
surrounding areas have set out
for the village.
The foods worst damage was
on the italian side of Lake Como,
near the Swiss frontier, but
towns in Switzerland also were
hard hit, among them the Italian
speaking Swiss canton of Ticino
where two persons were reported
dead.
On the Italian side, the biggest
.of the towns affected was Dongo,
where Mussolini was captured in
I1945. The town has a population
of 4,30O.
Evening star., 1951-08-09
league Says Probers
Are Easy on Officials
Resigning Under Fire

A House committee chairman
complained today that congress
sional investigators are too easy
Ion Government officials who avoic
probes by resigning under fire.
Chairman league Of the special
committee investigating the Gl
education program made this
charge at the start of a hearing
on complaints against Col. Leon
p. Howell of San Antonio. Tex.
former Veterans Administration
regional manager there.
I Col. Howell, who has been on
active duty with the Air Force
since he resigned the VA office
last February, vehemently denied
statements that he falsified travel
vouchers and maintained "close
personal relationships" with a
Texas building contractor and a
business school operator who had
dealings with the agency.
! Given opportunity to Answer.
| Mr.. league, a Texas Democrat
announced that the hearing was
arranged to give Co Howell an
opportunity to ans yer complaints
raised some time ago in Texas
He noted that Col. Howell, at the
time of his resignation last Febru-
ary, had declared that there was
no connection between the re-
signation and the complaints con-
cerning his conduct as regional
manager.
"One of the main reasons why
we called this hearing" Mr.
league said, was because we
want to do what we can to put
stop to a condition that has
developed in connection with res
ignations of Government officials
when they get into difficulty.
Every often officials get into
trouble and a preliminary inIesti-
CATION is started by some Con-
gressional committee. Then the
official in question resigns and the
matter is dropped by the commit
tee. Then, the next thing we
know, the official in question
shows up in some other Govern
ment job. We could cite lot of
names and dates to show that"
Now at Air Force Base.
Mr.. league, however, did not
elaborate on his general state
ment. He emphasized. however,
that his remarks were not to be
interpreted as meaning that he
Ior the committee pre-judged the
conduct of Co. Howell. The former
VA official told the committee
that he agreed with the idea of
holding a hearing in his case and
that he welcomed an opportunity
to strike back at what he called
&C haracter assassination" by
some people in Texas.
Col. Howell, now stationed at
an Air Force base in Texas, was
with the VA from February, 1946,
to last February. He was regional
manager at Houston until June,
I1948. and then was made manager
at the San Antonio Office.
One of the complaints sent to
the committee was that he OBJ
Itained an unusually low price in
having a house built in Houston
by a contractor who had numer-
IouS dealings with the VA office.
Evening star., 1951-08-09
Two Lieutenant Generals
Returning From Koreo
BY the Associated Press

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. g.
Two of Americas top-ranking
generals in the Korean war ar
rive in San Francisco Saturday
morning aboard the transport
General Patrick. Both are being
reaSSigned
1t. Gen. Edward M. Almond,
who commanded the United States
10th Corps in Korea, is to COM
mand the Army War College at
Carlisle Barracks, Pa.
1t. Gen. Frank w. Milburn. for
mer commander of the United
States 1st Corps, becomes inspec-
tor of infantry with the Army
Field Forces at Ft. Monroe, Va.
Evening star., 1951-08-09

WOOQWdIu.
Mrs. Krynitsky, whose husband,
John Alexander Krynitsky, is a
chemist in the Naval Research
Laboratory at Anacostia, was a
baby when her fathers shipping
business was ruined by the rev.
olution and the family fled to
escape death.
She grew up in a White Rus
sian community in China and was
educated in British school.
She came to America in December.
1916, with her mother and Joined
an older sister in Connecticut.
She was married two years ago
and came to Washington with her
husband.
Others who were naturalized
are:
Florence Merry Owen Adeis SO, British,
81 Carroll avenue, Takoma Park; Susan
Irma Lanfer, 27, Hungarian, 6504 West
ern avenue, Chevy Chase; Mary Connor,
64. British, 46Ol Drummond avenue.
Also, Cenon Castro Naval. so, Filipino,
6s05 Denton road, Bethesda; Walter Fehr,
Lindsio, IA, swedish, sa15 Roanoke ud nave! ave-
Brownie Menzies 40. Scotch, 5o26 Baiti-
more avenue, Green Acres.
Also Mary McGaw Rubel, 20. British,
Chester Jones. 2s, British. 4516 North
Ghfsea la1f Bethesds AaYga Elizabeth
Chevy Chase; Lorraine Josephine leighton
Kennedy, 36, British, 3 East Washington
street, st Keensisn7ston; sheila Jessie Mary
West highway. Silver Spring
Also Winifred oberle. 32. British. s906
Lorraine avenue. Silver Spring; William
ter road, Silver spring; Ruth Dahl svend-
tor read, Bethesda; Elizabeth 1sObel
Catherine owen. 45' Canadian. MEO1' a14 S5re Nofe
mandy drive, Silver Spring; Greta Do
ehartz Doxsee, 81, Canadian, SAC Piney
Also David Lloyd Watterworth. 81.
Cathrine Lundegaard. 5S. Danish, 2OS
Acacia avenue, Bethesda; Irene Wal
Anna Onerva Hochstein, 49, Norwegian,
LOG Croydon court. Silver Spring; JeIte
JenSons. 33, Netherlands, 9O10 Sudbury
soIdano 2S British, 1850 GrandVieS
avenue, Silver Spring
Also. Eugenie Gregory Bippus A., Rus
sian, SoO4 Greenwood avenue, Takoma
Park; Phillis Margaret Harling Marucci.
32 British. S712 Gilbert place, Takoma
Park; Barbara Joyce Thompson. 20.
British, 1923 Carroll avenue. Takoma
Park; Georgia Kuster, "a, Italian, 400
De Russey parkway, Chevy Chase Edna
Annie Stout, 27, British, S7l6 Second
avenue. Silver Spring
Also. Carmen Catrellon Elwood, 90,
Panamanian 45o6 Mahan road. Silver
Spring; Kathryn Choy Moy. 25. Chinese.
GOA Greenbrier drive Silver Spring:
Tania Kelley, % Russian. Rockville; Con-
stance Ida benson, IS, Liechtenstein,
59lS Wilson lane. Bethesda; Leah Wolf.
4S. British 1904 Eastern drive. Silver
Spring; Emma Lima Aiello, 80. German.
77l0 Takoma avenue, Takoma Park; Bar
bars Clare Emily Morris, %, British.
2715 Newton street Silver Spring: Mar
ion Stewart Wesselink, 33. British 3G4
Baltimore avenue, Westgate. and elena
Esst Zukowski. 90. Canadian, 5077 Brad
ley boulevard. Chevy Chase.
Evening star., 1951-08-09
Field Surrenders
Bail Fund Records
To New York Officials
BY the Associated Press

NEW YORK, Aug. 9.-Left-
wing backer Frederick Vanderbilt
Field, who has refused to tell the
Federal Government about the
Civil Rights Congress bail fund,
surrendered fund records yeSter-
day to the New York State Bank
ing Department.
Both branches of Government
had sought records of the fund,
which has lost more than $780,
900 posted for Communists who
jumped bail. The Federal courts
wanted the records in the hope
they would furnish a lead to the
capture of four fugitive Commu-
nists. The State Banking De-
partment is seeking to determine
whether the fund had violated the
State banking laws.
The millionaire leftiSt sur
rendered the funds books and
records to the State after the four
jailed fund trustees had been
granted immunity.
Field drew two contempt SEN
tences totaling nine months for
refusing to give the data to the
Federal courts. His fellow trus-
tees, Abner Green, w. AlphaeuS
Hunton and Mystery Writer Da-
shell Hammett, were sentenced to
six months each on the same
charge.
Three bulky boxes containing
the funds records were turned
over to Donald H. Aiken, deputy
superintendent and chief counsel
of the State Banking Department.
1t was estimated that it would
take at least two weeks to go
through the books and records,
and that lenders will be called
back for nIlnctioniou
Evening star., 1951-08-09
Airport Plan May
Change Highway Route

Plans to build an airport at
Burke in Fairfax County may
change the proposed Monticello
Highway route.
This was revealed at the County
Board of Supervisors meeting
yesterday. State Highway De-
partment engineers asked the
supervisors to decide whether
they should proceed with more
detailed plans of the present pro-
posed highway route or wait until
a proposed Federal highway to
the airport is built.
1t has been suggested that the
airport road could be a link in
the Monticello Highway which
would connect the Jefferson Me-
mortal here with the third Presi-
dents home in Charlottesville, Va.
Evening star., 1951-08-09

Chairman Ramspeck of the Civil
Service Commission to permit
permanent promotions and trans
fers to jobs that were in existence
with permanent status before
last September. when the present
Whitten rider went into effect.
Mr.. Whitten says the purpose
of his rider for the next year is
not to deprive deserving employees
of promotions, but to keep down
the number of permanent Gov
ernment employees who have been
added to the Federal payroll as
a result of the national emer-
gency
The present amendment, which
bans all permanent promotions
and transfers and has also re-
suited in an Executive order BAN
ming permanent appointments ex-
cept in rare cases. has been criti-
cized bitterly by the Civil Service
Commission as being too rigid.
Mr.. Whitten acknowledges that
more f1exibility is needed, and
that's why he is revising the new
rider. But he still is very critical
of the commission, charging that
it has not tried to carry out the
spirit of the present rider.
The new amendment also may
carry provision requiring en-
ployes to serve a year in their
present jobs before becoming
eligible for promotion. This would
be in direct contrast to the COM
recent action in reduc-
ing from six to three months the
time loWer-grade employees must
be in a job before being eligible
for promotion. The commission
left intact the six-month waiting
period for employees in grades
GS-6 and above, but made it
easier to gain two or more grade
once they served this
period.
PERSONNEL CUTS Reports
are current that House Senate
on the various 1852 de-
and agency money bills
will reach a compromise agree
ment on how to reduce Federal
personnel, and that it will re-
volve around a modified version of
the House approved Jensen
AS approved by the House, the
Jensen rider would allow agencies
to fill only Is per cent of per-
Sonnel vacancies occurring during
the next year. The Senates for
mula calls for a fiat 10 per cent
cut below budget estimates.
Several key conferees predict the
formula finally approved will be
the Jensen framework of the pro-
viso, but with the stipulation that
once an agency achieved a 10 per
Evening star., 1951-08-09
Truman Approves Bill
On Exact Labelling Of furs
BY the Associated Press

President Truman yesterday
signed legislation requiring exact
labelling of furs.
Person3 who mislabel or decep-
lively advertise furs would be sub
ject to up to a years imprison-
ment and $4,000 fine.
The labels must show the COM
mon name of the animal from
which the skin was taken, the
country o. its origin. whether ii
is bleached or dyed, whether the
fur contains paws. tails and bel
lies, and whether it includes any
used fur.
Enforcement will be up to the
Federal Trade Commission.
Evening star., 1951-08-09
1obey Slowly Recovering
From Effects Of Stroke
By the Associated Press

TEMPLE, N. H, Aug. 9.-Sen-
ator Tobey. Republican, of New
Hampshire today was reported "in
seclusion" recovering slowly but
surely" from a cerebral hemor-
rhage July Is.
His daughter, Mrs. Louise Dean,
said the Senator and Mrs. Tobey
left their summer home for an
undisclosed spot several miles
distant to get away from the
telephone, which rang steadily
since the illness was announced in
Washington.
She added the 71-year-old Sen
ator had been "up and around"
for some days and was recovering
slowly but surely"
Evening star., 1951-08-09
Bids
Continued From First Page)

tContlnued from First Page.)
told the operator to keep the Anes
clear.
The deadline for submitting the
bids at the Court House several
blocks away was 10 am.
At 9:52 am. the call from New
York came through. Mr.. Dortz-
bach jotted down the interest
figures and took off.
I'VE sure made good time on
the trip" he said.
But alack and alas. When Char
lie showed his bids to the clerk
they were stamped 10:04.5."
Other Bidders Protest.
The School Board and the
County Board already had collected
all other bids and were in session.
Charlie peeked in, spotted a law
yer he knew and had him place
his bids on the top of the pile.
The School Board chairman
noticed that the Chase bid had
been submitted four minutes late
and asked if there was any objec-
ton to opening it.
The other bidders protested
unanimously. There isn't much
sentiment in the investment bank
ing business. The county's' legal
advisers in New York were con-
suited. They said the bid couldn't
be received if there were protests.
The sewer bond issue was
awarded to Halsey, Stuart Co..
Inc, whose low bid was at an in
terest rate of 21349.
The school bonds were awarded
to a group headed by j. P. Nor
gan Co., who bid a net interest
cost of 2.0739.
Chase Bank had bid an inter-
est cost of 2.0064 for the sewer
bonds and 1.990846 for the school
bonds.
Over a 25-year period, during
which the bonds are maturing,
the difference between the Chase
Bank bid and the winning bids
will amount to an extra charge
to taxpayers of about $74,250, &C
cording to Chase officials.
Evening star., 1951-08-09
Former Typist Here
Robbed in CHICAGO
BY the Associated Press

CHICAGO, Aug. 9.-Miss Yetta
Levine, so, of Los Angeles, told
police today her purse containing
$1,000 and jewelry was stolen from
the Washroom of the Union
Station.
Police later found her purse,
containing only her train ticket,
in tavern near the station.
Miss Levine, Government typist,
said she had been employed in the
Pentagon in Washington and was
being transferred to Denver. She
said the II pieces of jeWelry stolen
were family heirlooms and she
could place no value on them.
Evening star., 1951-08-09
The Weather Here and Over the Nation

District of Columbia - Partly
cloudy, high near "a degrees, with
chance of scattered thunder
showers this afternoon or eve
ming. Tomorrow, cloudy, not as
warm, showers likely by night.
Low tonight, 68 degrees.
Maryland-Chance of scattered
thunder showers this afternoon or
evening. Tomorrow, partly cloudy
Evening star., 1951-08-09
Asks Atom Fire Aid

J. j. Charles. newly reelected
president of the Virginia Fire
mems Association, wants Federal
and State aid to supply equipment
for fighting atom bomb fires.
He made the suggestion in
talk before the associations con-
vention yesterday at Luray. He
also recommended financial aid to
rescue squads, employment of ad-
ditional fire school instructors,
more money for the State fire
Evening star., 1951-08-09
80 Injured as Fire Races
Salvador Cathedral Theater
By the Associated Press

SAN SALVADOR, Ell Salvador,
Aug. 9.-Fire destroyed the Met
Cathedral and National
Theater last night. Eighty per-
sons were injured in fleeing the
theater. Damage to the two build
ings was estimated at 100000.
The fire broke out in the thea
ter's film room and flashed across
Cathedral Square enveloping most
of the cars parked there. Fire
men kept it from spreading to
other buildings in this Central
American capital.
The cathedral tower fell just
after the clock in its spire struck
-four. The cathedral was a rela-
lively modest structure built in
1888 to replace a colonial building
destroyed in an earthquake which
Ileveled most of Ell Salvador.
Evening star., 1951-08-09
Cos Storage Tanks Burn

BUFFALO, N. Y, Aug. 9 (P).-
Four gasoline storage tanks burst
into flames yesterday afternoon
destroying 10000 gallons of gas
and threatening. for a time, to
touch off another 40 million gal
Ions. Damage to the tanks, three
trucks, metal building and the
gasoline was estimated at $4,000
Evening star., 1951-08-09

and not as warm with scattered
showers by night. Low tonight
60-64 degrees in west and 64-68
degrees in east portions.
Virginia-Chance of scattered
thunder showers in afternoon and
evening. Tomorrow. partly cloudy.
not as warm. followed by showers.
Low tonight. "a = SO degrees in
west and north portions, and near
Evening star., 1951-08-09
Pastures Winner

Henry B. Hickerson, owner of
Germantown MD stock farm,
has been adjudged the Montgom-
cry County winner in the Mary
land Greener Pastures contest.
Second place went to Lotion S.
Wesley of Browns Corner. The
contest is sponsored by the Pro-
duction and Marketing Admins
tration in cooperation with the
University of Maryland Extension
Service.
Evening star., 1951-08-09

Russian reVolu-
ton and settled
in China.
Mrs. Kathe-
rine KuShnariSs
Krynitsky, 504
C u m b e r ! and
avenue, Chevy
Chase, was one
of 80 persons
admitted to cit
l q { II ) II l p III
M o n t g o m cry
County Circuit
Court Tuesday
before j u d g e
C h arle S w.
Evening star., 1951-08-09

cent reduction in employment the
rider no longer would apply. Also,
they say, numerous exceptions
from the entire provision will be
made in cases of agencies and Of
fees closely connected with the
national emergency program.
HONORED-E. C. Patrick, an
employe of the Coast and
Geodetic Survey, received a spe-
cial citation yesterday for his
record in giving 81 pints of blood
to the Red Cross since 1912. The
presentation was made by Ad-
miral Robert w. Knox, acting di-
rector Of the agency.
VA-The Veterans Administra-
tion's regional Office here is in
immediate need of stenographers
and typists, at salaries of $2,450
to $3.50 a year. Applicants
should contact the personnel Of
flee, ninth floor, 1925 H street
NV.
+ u 4
STATE-The following State
Department employees have re-
ceived cash awards for meritori-
GUS suggestions: Marie T. Thomp-
son, Mary B. Kerr, Gerald H.
Lake, Leroy E. Fulton, Magruder
Dobie, John Kanline (his second
award), Arthur C. Harris (his
seventh award and Harriette M.
Eikel.
BE sure to read the Federal
Spotlight column in The Star
sic days Deek and listen to the
Spotlight radio broadcast at
6:15 Pm. every Saturday oUer
Evening star., 1951-08-09
Nominating Conference
To Meet in ARLINGTON

The Nominating Conference for
candidates to the Arlington
School Board will meet at $50
O'Clock tonight in the Washing
ton-Lee High School.
Members will select about 20
questions to be submitted to board
candidates.
Evening star., 1951-08-09

amendment will
be part of the
l 9 81 supple
mental money
bill.
Mr.. Whitten,
while not spe-
cifcally divulg-
ing what the
rider will be,
says it will per-
NIT some per-
manent promo
tionS and trans
ferS The Mis-
siSsippian has
hnep urged nv
Evening star., 1951-08-09
The Federal Spotlight
The Federal Spotlight
New Whitten Rider Would Ease
Ban on Promotions, Transfers
By Joseph Young

The appropriations Committee expected
continuing the against
another
with notifications.
The rider sponsored by Representative When Democrat
Evening star., 1951-08-09
'Russian-Bofn Woman
Now in Army Service
Becomes u. ). Citizen

A RusSian-born Army Map
Service translator has become an
American citizen 80 years after
her family fled the terror of the