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The frontiersman., 1952-10-09
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pr. Winston Laughlin leaves this week to attend the national Soils Science meeting in Gin cinnati. He will drive Outside with his wife and infant daugh- ter and spend some of his ac- cumulated leave visiting friends and relatives in Michigan and Minnesota and return 10 the Valley before Christmas.
 It is reported that Mrs. Betty Kindler and four children are on their way back to the Valley after an absence of several months. Husband Jim has been in Alaska since the middle of June, and is employed as chief chemist at the new Fort Richardson power plant.
 Marvin Slaughter is away this week giving Valdez and Cordova the once over for pos sible future points of investiga- lion in the Geological Survey surface water program.
 Mrs. Beatrice Huntley returned to duty at the Post Office this week. She and the Marshal drove Laddie and Magic to the Prairie Bible School in Alberta, Canada, where they will be in attendance this year.
 Friday was moving day at the Alaska Experiment Station, when Dr. MYron F. Babb and Hugh Johnson exchanged of- fices 10 provide more room for an expanding Agricultural Ec- onomics staff.
 It was a tough weekend for Coach Norman Rousey. Saturday he looses a football game and Sunday he goes to sleep listening to a political speech and falls out of his chair.
 Robbie Jo Hemmer is helpinq out with the tax assessments in Bill Heads office. Those 1852 tax bills will be in the mails soon.
 MT. and Mrs. Merle Puddicombe and family returned to Palmer last week after spending the past two years Outside. The whole family said they were "glad to be back"
 Dr. Troy L. Pewe of the mili- tarY branch, U. S. Geological Survey. in charge of permafrost investigations in the field, and his wife were guests of the Tom Days last week end on their re- turn from the Alaska Science Conference.
 Otto Geist of the University of Alaska was guest of the Roland SnodgraSses recently. Som e years back, the two men were to- gether on St. Lawrence Island where they made archaeological and anthropological investiga- tions.
 Mir. and Mrs. Tom Lepak an- nounced this week the ap- preaching marriage of their 'auqhter. Gloria. 10 Nile T. Ted" DeLand. No date has been set. but an early fall we'd ding is planned.
 Mrs. Lydia Fohn-Hansen who heads up home demonstration work in the Territory is in the Valley this week for the Child Welfare Conference.
 Kirk Stone didn't have time to stop off the train on his return from Mckinley Park recently He was already two weeks over due at the University of Wiscon- sin. He sent word to all his friends nat he'll be back here next year.
The frontiersman., 1952-10-09
NEW BABIES
DodQR

Dodge
 MT. and Mrs. John R. Dodge of Palmer are receiving congratula- tions on the birth of son, John Peterson at Valley Hospital Octo- Der 8. The little boy weighed seven pounds, two ounces at birth
The frontiersman., 1952-10-09
Bailey

Born Tuesday, October 2, at An chorage's Providence Hospital was Sharon Ann, daughter of MT. and Mrs. Ferber Gene Bailey. She weighed seven pounds and four ounces.
The frontiersman., 1952-10-09

were ruined also. It was reported that a new machine shed built on the shore of the lake by Reece Tetro of Chugiak was demolished by the winds force,
Evening star., 1952-02-20
Parks Family Appears
Friday on ~ Show

The widow and IL surviving
children of Robert N. Parks, &c.
year-old Rockville construction
worker. killed on February 10 in a
bulldozer accident. will appear on
the Strike 1t Rich" television
show Friday in New York.
Answering questions that may
bring the family $500 will be
Rockville Mayor G. Lamar Kelley,
ljr.
Accompanying the Parks family
and Mr.. Kelley will be Valentine
&c. Wilson, chief of the Rockville
Fire Department, whose letter to
the show about the tragedy made
Fridays trip possible.
Mr.. Wilson and his firemen
undertook a campaign to raise
funds for the family the day after
MFR. Parks death. About $4,000,
to be administered by a committee
from the department. already has
been collected.
Mr.. Parks. a former volunteer
fireman. was crushed to death by
la bulldozer when it slipped down
an incline at q cellar he was ex-
|cavating.
AL of the Parks children. who
range in age from Is months to
16 years. viii appear on the pro-
gram. The program can be viewed
here at II am. Friday over
WTOP-TY.
Evening star., 1952-02-20
Capital Transit Files Brief
On Power Rate Rise

The Capital Transit Co. today
filed a brief in District Court il
support of its contention that i
should not have to pay an addi.
tional $230,000 annually for ust
of Potomac Electric Power Co
electricity.
The Public Utilities Commission
ordered the transit company tt
pay the additional sum last yeal
when it authorize $2.6 millior
annual increase in electric rates
for Pepco.
The Government contends the
transit company should pay 6
still larger sum as it's share fol
use of electricity as a result Of the
increased rates. The transit com.
pany contends it should not have
to pay any increase.
Today's brief was filed in be.
half of Capital Transit by attor.
neys Edmund l.. Jones, F. G
Await and Daryal A. Myse. Othel
District Court actions scheduled
for trial seek to set aside the
overall rate increase granted
Pepco.
Evening star., 1952-02-20
400 at Capital Transit
Will Vote on Union

The National Labor Relations
Board today ordered an election
among 400 employees of the Capital
Transit Co. not now represented
by a union, to determine if they
want to join.
The transit company went to
the NLRB to oppose inclusion Of
the 400 employees on grounds they
did supervisory work and were
exempt from representation in
collective bargaining. In addition,
the company maintained that
some of the employees were en-
gagged in confidential work that re-
|quired undivided loyalty to the
management. u.
The NLRB ruled against the
transit company in each type of
employe involved. with one excep-
ton. The supervisor Of fare box
maintenance was ruled a super
visor within the meaning of the
law and exempted from union rep
resentation in bargaining.
The election was ordered to be
held within 80 days. At the elec-
ton, the workers will vote If they
want to be represented by Division
$50, Amalgamated Association of
Street, Electric Railway and Mo-
tor Coach Employees of America.
Division $50 at present repre-
sents the transit company's oper-
|ating and maintenance employees.
If a majority of the 400 workers
under dispute vote for the union,
Division $50 will represent them
also at collective bargaining.
Evening star., 1952-02-20
By George Kennedy

tThe Unknown is on his way
Hack to Glasgow.
j No one knows who "The Un.
known" is. but it has been defn.
ditely established that he is no
George Washington.
| The story of 1.-THE Unknown,
$50 far as this part of the world i.
concerned, starts in 1907, wher
r. w. Austin, American Consul al
tGlasgow, was being shown through
1.-THE Peoples Palace in that Scot.
ltish city. ,'s.
|. "A guide pointed to a life-sizec
portrait of a young oficer-in His
3Msjesty's service. It was believed
1.-THE guide said. TO be a portrait oi
George Wasi1ington wlaenshe was
Officer Mthe seryic sol Robert
apinwiddies Royal e5pyergaoP,ef Vir-
fgii1ia during the FreurtFala In.
ltdiAn wars Gov DtnWiddieSs the
guide said.s brought the nicture
back to Scotland when he retired
ifrum the Colonial service.
| Brought q Mount Vernon.
Mr.. Austin, quite naturally, de.
cided that the place for the pic.
fture was Mount Vernon. Aftel
the usual diplomatic correspond
ence, the picture was shipped tx
Mount Vernon on loan.
For more than 20 years. 1t hung
in the ballroom, or the big north
room, Of the Washington mansion
During that time, Col. Harrison
Howell Dodge, superintendent o1
Mount Vernon, got every anti
quarian who visited the place tc
look at it. They all agreed it was
Evening star., 1952-02-20
Two Area Residents
Cited for Service 10
Goodwill industries

Two Washington area residents
were honored yesterday by the
Davis Memorial Goodwill Indus
tries at the organisations 18th
annual luncheon meeting in the
Hotel 2400.
They were Miss Beatrice PERI
a1o, of I'LL North Kensington
street, Arlington, and E. M. Nevils,
jr.. president of the National Elec-
trical Machine Shops. Inc, Silver
Spring. Both received Illuminated
scrolls in recognition of outstand-
ing service to handicapped men
and women.
Miss Periano. a former Good
will worker. was cited for "her
significant success in competitive
business and personal victory over
disability" Miss Periano has been
confined to wheel chair most of
her life. but she established and
now manages the Arlington Doc
tors Bureau. which provides a "a
hour call service for the county's
medical profession.
MIR. Nevis is not handicapped,
but he was commended for his
personal interest and warm un-
derstanding of the problem of
handicapped and disabled per-
sons" and for demonstrating in
the conduct of his business that it
is both efficient and humanitarian
to hire the handicapped"
A third person to be awarded a
scroll was Miss Betsy Barton, of
New York City. Miss Barton, the
daughter Of former Representative
Barton. was i'll and received the
award in abSentia.
James c. Dulin. president Of
the board OF the Davis Goodwill
Industries, made the presenta-
tions.
Evening star., 1952-02-20
Virginia Policemen
Asked to Give 81 to
slain Officer Fund
BY the Asseeioisd Press

WAYNESBORO. Va, Feb. 90
Each policeman in Virginia will be
asked to contribute 81 for the fam
lily of Patrolman William Swat
ford who was shot and killed in
Petersburg Monday in a struggle
with theft suspect.
State Trooper E. B. Layman, jr.,
and four Waynesboro policemen
suggested the gift collection and
sent messages of solicitation to de-
partments throughout Virginia.
Petersburg police have obtained
"a murder warrant for Arthur Ray
mond Kimball, 28-year-old ex-
shipyard employe, who is being
sought in the Staying of Policeman
|SWafford. e... ,- .as..,-.
Evening star., 1952-02-20
Bond Bids Authorized

The Montgomery County Coun-
ell has authorized the county at
torney to advertise for bids on a
500, 900 bond which the Circuit
Court has ordered the county to
post by February q or have its
injunction against sale of the Sill
yer Spring armory lot dismissed.
The council, however, put off
until next Tuesday, the day be-
fore the court deadline. a definite
decision on whether to post the
bond. Judge Charles w. Wood
ward has sale" that If the bond
lis not put UP to cover possible
losses by the Injunction. he will
have to dissolve it.
The Maryland National Capital
Park and Planning Commission
wants to sell the lot to the Hecht
Co. for $500.000.
Evening star., 1952-02-20
Panel Urges Increase
In Base Wages for
Housekeeping Jobs

Increased minimum wage rates
for some $1,000 women in ''house-
keeping occupations here were
recommended to the District
Minimum Wage Board yesterday
by q panel representing the pub
[lic. employers and employees.
The proposed $500 to s7.7O
weekly increases in the wage min
limums cannot go into effect for
at least 80 days after the board
has acted. A public hearing will
be held about 80 days after the
board acts.
It was estimated that some S.
600 Of the workers would receive
pay boosts should board action
Ibe favorable. A large proportion
.lof the workers receive above
minimum wages, 1t was pointed
out.
Rates Fixed i'm 1946.
Present minimum wage rates
for employees in the category, fixed
In 1946. established a base of $2a
for a maximum 48-hour week for
Group A-hostesses, hat check
tgirls. telephone operators, elevator
operators. cashiers, clerical work
ers and similar employees.
For Group B-counter girls
salad girls. food checkers. cooks
bus girls and similar employees, the
present minimum is $22.30 for the
same work week.
The new recommendation woulc
combine these two groups, and f1a
a minimum of $50 for a work week
[of from 40 to 48 hours for the
approximately 1900 workers in.
volved. Part-time workers woulc
|get IS cents an hour instead o1
the present 50-cent minimum.
I Group C Status.
Group c employes-maids, linen
room girls. cleaners, mattresses,
lcharwomen, vegetable girls, dish
and glass washers, kitchen help
land similar workers-now have a
minimum Of 1880 for d maxi
mum 48-hour week, The proposed
new base rate would be for $26
for 40 to 48 hour week for the
I7,270 employees affected. Part
time workers would get 81 cents
an hour instead of so cents.
/ Group D employes-waitresses
now have minimum pay OF
l$l7.90 a week. Under the pro-
posal, the 2.730 mattresses would
get $22.50 at least for a SO to AZ
hour week. apart from their tips
which run from $40 to $50 a
week. ~
The proposal makes no change
in the present charges employers
are permitted to make for meals
uniforms and laundering. Con-
|tinuance Of these charges, rather
than raising them, was a conces-
sion made by management rep
'resentatives.
Evening star., 1952-02-20
Pedestrian, Motorist Hurt
In Separate Accidents

Two persons were injured. one
a pedestrian. in separate traffic
accidents in the District and
nearby Maryland today.
George w. Davis, Al, Of 1913
Princess street. Alexandria, is in
undermined condition at Emer.
gency Hospital with a possible
skull fracture and broken knee
He was struck by a car while
crossing Pennsylvania avenue al
Eleventh street NV.
Driver of the car, Navy 1t.
Robert N. Pearce of the 100 block
Joliet street S.W, was charged
with falling to yield the right of
way to a pedestrian. 80.
William Rexroth. 56, was ad-
|mitted to Prince Georges General
Hospital with chest injuries re-
Fceived when his car ran of the
road near Glenn Dale.
Prince Georges County police
said MIR. Rexroth was driving to
Bowie on the Lanham . service
road at 1870 am, when he became
III and blacked out. The car
crashed into a drainage ditch at
the side Of the road. H.
Evening star., 1952-02-20
Two Fired Film Writers
To Get $4,000 Back Pay
by the Associated Press

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 2o.-The
amount Of back salary to be paid
discharged Film Writer Ring Lard
ner, jr., and Producer Adrian
Scott was fixed in Federal Court
yesterday at a total of $104,30O
plus interest.
The two were fired by their
studios in 1947 after they refused
to answer questions of the House
Un-American Activities Commit
tee, which was investigating Com
munist influences in Hollywood.
They sued the studios for pay
due under their contracts and a
jury last week returned a verdict
in their favor.
The court determined that $20,-
900 was due Mr.. Lardner from
20th Century-Fox, and $84, 300
due Mr.. Scott from RKO Studios
Seven per cent interest was to be
added.
Evening star., 1952-02-20

tive this spring. = - tsssss 8
sMr. Mitchell became the or
Shestra's director in 1898 after
The late DR.. Hans Kinder re.
Signed. He had been playing tl,s
lead cello. II
Mr.. Reid, in his announcement,
said the orchestra's Boarf OF Df-
rectors thas been increasingly i'm
pressed by the development of the
orchestra under Howard Mitchell's 4
direction"
The directors voted unanimously
to offer him a three-year contract
instead Of the customary one-year
term, to encourage the conductor
and give long-range stability to
the orchestra, Mr.. Reid explained.
He added that the orchestra
has experienced steadily increas-
ing attendance at its regular con-
certs, as well as a very large
increase" at children's concerts,
and that the number of subscribers
has increased this season.
Evening star., 1952-02-20
The Weather Here and Over the Notion

District of Columbia and vicin-
ity-Increasing clondiness with
high in middle 40s. Low tonight
Of IS. Occasional rain tonight,
probably ending early tomorrow
followed by mostly cloudy and cool
weather. High in the lower 40s
tomorrow.
Evening star., 1952-02-20

not George Washington. The por-
trait came to be called 1.-THE Un-
known" ~S
When Mount Vernon was re-
furnished in 1882 on the occasion
of the Washington bi-centenary
THE Unknown" was put in stor-
age in the Freer Gallery. Last year
the gallery notified Mount Vernon
that its storage was overcrowdeo
and that it could keep the picture
mo longer. >
Mount Vernon took the picture
back and began a more aggressive
research to determine could it be
an early portrait of the first Presi-
dent. It was compared with the
l1772 Charles Wilson Peale portrait
Iof George Washington in the uni
form be wore in the American
campaign against the French and
their Indian allies of Is years be-
fore. =.
Left Handed Officer.
There was no resemblance OF
the uniform. Experts in British
uniforms said the officer Of the
portrait was the uniform of the
British. 1sti Engineers. The man
was leaning on his sword in the
manner Of one who was left
handed-and George Washington
definitely was right-handed.
I So twas decided to return ''The
Unknown" to Glasgow. Earlier
this month, in Baltimore. the
Icrated portrait was slung aboard
a ship bound for Scotland. There
if the interest in genealogy ap-
proaches that in America, he will
soon he claimed as an somebody s
ancestor.
Evening star., 1952-02-20

Maryland-Cloudy with occa.
sional rain tonight and in the east
portion tomorrow morning. Low
tonight in the middle 30s. Rather
coil tomorrow.
Virginia~- Cloudy with occasional
rain tonight and in the east por-
ton tomorrow morning. Low to-
night in the middle 3Os in the
Evening star., 1952-02-20

IAgency's budget division. Ia. The
State Departments personnel Of
flee, at 1734 New York avenue
NV, Room l06. is open all day
Saturday. Among the available
Jobs are those as typists, clerk
typists. stenographers and mes
|sengers. Representative
Rhodes, Democrat. of Pennsyl-
vania, has sponsored a bill to in
Grease Federal annuities by Is per
cent, exempt them from Federal
income taxes. permit employees to
retire at so after Is years of serv-
ice and increase surviyorship in
lsurance benefits.
(Be sure to listen to Joseph
Young's Federal Spotlight radio
broadcast at 6:15 pm. epery
Saturday over Station WMAL.)
Evening star., 1952-02-20

QeeHleo ADVISABLE, and also to
remove the curbs on many OF the
temporary promotions the Whit
ten rider imposed.
The commission said it is de-
sirable that the ban on perma-
nent promotions be generally re-
tanned but that some fiexibility
should be allowed to make these
promotions in deserving cases.
Also. the commission said the
curbs on even temporary promo
tons should be removed in most
instances.
INFORMATION SPECIALISTS
The State Departments Office
In New York needs information
specialists in the following cate
gorieS: Writer. editor, producer
and broadcaster. Applications
should be sent to the Executive
Secretary, Board Of United States
Civil Services Examiners, Depart
ment Of State, 1890 Broadway,
New York 49,. N. Y, not later
than March 4.
4 ~ Il 4
PERSONNEL CUTBACK-Rep-
resentative Jensen. Republican, of
Iowa, sponsor Of the current rider
that cut Federal employment in
most agencies 10 per cent below
their original 1852 budget esti-
mates. plans TO sponsor similar
amendments to most of the 1858
appropriation bills. The rider al
lows the filling of only one out of
four personnel vacancies until at
least a 10 per cent reduction is
achieved.
y 4 4 \
CAPITAL ROUNDUP-George
wv. "Bill' Lawson, jr., of the Budg-
let Bureau has left to become di-
rector Of the Mutual Security
Evening star., 1952-02-20
old Movies Run Aouin

NEW YORK. P.-Television
having revived old motion pictures,
fllm theaters have begun to show
interest in re-runs. Several in
stances have been reported where
neighborhood and other theaters
have put on special film festivals
restricted to pictures that long
since have been off the current list.
Evening star., 1952-02-20
Former Communist
SaysHissAiiended
Secret Cell Sessions
BY the Assoeiaied Pres.

Nathaniel Weyl. a free lance
writer here. testified yesterday
that in 1894 he had sat In meet.
ines of a secret Communist eel
with Alger Hiss, former State De-
partment official.
Weyl told the Senate Internal
Security Subcommittee that he,
Hiss and other former Govern
ment employees were all members
of a Communist cell organized by
the late Harold Ware.
Hiss was convicted in l949 OF
perjury for denying that he had
supplied State Department docu-
ments to a prewar Communist
espionage ring. He now is serving
a prison sentence.
This afternoon the subcommit-
tee will hear DR.. Edna Fluegel OF
Trinity College here. DR.. Fluege,
formerly worked for Hiss.
Cell Set Up in 1884.
Weyl said he Joined the Com
munist Party while a graduate
student at Columbia University in
the winter Of 1928, and after
finishing his studies there came
to Washington to take a Job with
the Agricultural Adjustment Ad-
ministration.
The Communist cell organized
by Ware. he testified, was set ur
around the beginning of 1894
Weyl said that during the next
six months he attended cell meet
ings at which Hiss, Lee Pressman
Charles Kramer, Henry Collins
John Abt:: Nathan Witt and Vic
tor Perlo were present at one time
or another.
Says Hiss Attended Meetings.
Asked how he knew Hiss ther
was a Communist. Weyl said he
had seen him and sat with him
at these cell meetings on more
than two occasions, and onl,
communists were allowed to at.
tend.
Weyl said that at the time he
was a member of the cell it wa.
engaged purely in Marxist study. ;
He asid he never suspected ther
that these secret Communist or.
ganizations were Ito be used TO,
espionage purposes"
The witness testified that he
made a complete break with tht
Communist Party on the day thu
Nazi-Soviet pact was announced
in 1889. but he said he did not tel
the FBI about the Communist eel,
to which he had belonged until
about a month after the outbreak
OF the Korean war in June, 1850
Evening star., 1952-02-20

! Orchestra, il
! was announced
] yesterday.
Gordon Reid.
: symphony asso-
!. citation presi-
dent, made the
annourfcenle N |
| at a rehearsal
| attended b y
Inn e m b erS OF
the orchestra's
|Women;s Coln-
rnittee In Con-
EstitutionY Hall.
The contract
necnnnes aHoG
Evening star., 1952-02-20
The Sun and Moon.
Monthly precipitafion II
Roy Rogers in Hospital

HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 90 R.-
Roy Rogers the movie cowboy,
is in a hospital and expected to
lstay there the rest Of the week
with . minor lung congestion. y
The ailment followed q virus at
ltack.
Evening star., 1952-02-20
The Federal Spotlight
Senate Group Gets Proposals
|ToModify Whitten Amendment
By Joseph YOUNG

The Civil Service Commission has Senate Civil
Service Committee its proposals for legislation modify
Wnltten amendment curbing promotions in Government.
The commission asked for legislation give the
creton to permit permanent promotions in cases where il
Evening star., 1952-02-20
Howard Mitchell Gets
New 3-Year Contract

Howard Mitchell has been given
o new three-year contract asScon-
ductor of the National SYMPHONY
Evening star., 1952-02-20
tomorrow

will fall tonight in New England and Upper
New York State Rain showers expected the Appaach
ians with freezing rain snow in Upper Ohio Valley
Mississippi Valley get thundershOwers Snow scheduled
for the Dakotas and the North Central Rockies will
continue cold in New England the Dakotas colder
Evening star., 1952-02-20
DispensorySy System

Two Prince Georges delegates
Harry E. Taylor. jr.. and William
II. Hughes, say they are consider
ing legislation to create a county
owned liquor dispensary system.
They said they may sponsor
such bill in the Maryland Cen
eral Assembly because they be-
lieve it would increase county rev.
enues by as much as 81 million
Ia year and would help eliminate
liquor law violations and clean up
the county.
Evening star., 1952-02-20

Record Temper atures This Year.
H11hest, -. on January IS,
Lowest. 15. on January 80
high and Low Of Last "a Hours.
Low. 80. at 7:u5 "a IN.