Richmond Times-Dispatch from Richmond, Virginia • 2

Blrhmmtd Tim-Dispatch Friday July 2 194 Battlers Figures on School Aid Challenged by Official of NEA' Democratic Committeeman To Retire at Session Todav: Switzer Mav Succeed Combs Continued From Firat Page Ninth District campaign of 1910 'wlw-n the late ex -Governor Henry Democratic orgnuation h-1d ran for Ccrgmii aeamst a private rawua in a suite at toe John Marshall the word got out that Mr Massenburg apparently would have their tinaninvus hacking And there still were no the late Ban com SlemD Inj 1911 Mr (Tombs became Bussell County a first Democratic county clerk in many years lie won re-election to a second eight-veer North Carolina had increased her State contribution to schools by 75 per cent South Carolina by 60 per cent Tennessee by 75 pet cent Maryland by 50 per cert Kentucky by 50 per cent and West Virginia by 50 per cent "Apparently in effort to utilirs for her children the new financial strength gained in recent years Virginia is lagging behind her According to the United Statri Census report of the 19-16 expenditures of State governments Vip ginia devoted 1606 per cent of her State funds to public elementary and secondary schools Hubbard added North Carolina used 3308 per cent for public schools West Virginia 2176 per cent Kentucky 1964 per cent South Carolina 2276 per cent Maryland 1096 ror cent and Tennessee 1365 per emu names mentioned for national term as clerk but resigned in 1926 committeeman pro pect a men-j to berome State Comptroller un-tioned except Mr Switzer der Governor Hvrd Iater after the mucus broke tip 1 Replaced as Comptroller during well-informed sources predicted 1 the Price administration he be-Speaker Masenburg and Mr came tlerk of the State Senate Switzer would fe elected today With the return of organization ithout nnpn-itinn I forces under Governor Darden Mr 1 Combs became chairman of the Oiere was general State Compensation Board an of-among early arrivals that the f10e he tai holds along with the Hotel Deeds To Be Filed In A deed transferring ownership of the Jefferson Hotel from the Jefferson Realty Corporation to the executors of the estate of the late Charles Consolvo for $543-410 is scheduled to be filed here today in Chancery Court A similar deed transferring title of the Monticello Hotel in Norfolk from the Monticello Realty Company to the Consolvo executors was filed in Norfolk yesterday A spokesman for the Jefferson Hotel said that the transfer of ownership is not actually a sale In Norfolk Edwin Mackethan vice-president and trust officer of the National Bank of Commerce one of the Consolvo executors said the Monticello and Jefferson transfers were for tax purposes Mr Mackethan added that the transfers did not necessarily indicate that the hotels will be sold immediately although such steps would simplify such sales Mr Consolvo who died last October 24 was president of the corporations controlling both hotels Tax stamps on the deed for the Monticello indicated the price paid was $488000 This represented the assessed value of the property less the amount of the mortgage according to Norfolk sources The only price quoted for sale of the Monticello has been $2000000 "Wc have at least eight prospects who arc interested in tie Monticello but no one has made a definite offer said Mr Mackenthan Senate clerkship succeeded Senator Carter Glass as national committeeman eight years ago Tree Disease Reported Maple leaf wilt is the disease which is causing many of Rich maple tree to turn brown French of the Division of Parks said veslerdav He said the disease as a rule does not Permanently da mace a tree but that it does take awav much of the tree's beautv while it lasts If your stucco house is a An official of the National Edu cation Association said yesterday State Senator John Battle had given a "false in a speech in which he quoted figures on Virginia's ranking in the field of public education In a letter to the Albemarle Senator who has announced his candidary for Governor Frank Hubbard Washington director of the NEA's research division called attention to a speech the legislator made in Portsmouth June 25 "Since in your address you referred to the National Education Association I should like to take this opportunity to correct a false impression which was Hubbard wrote Senator attle said that we ranked Virginia twenty-sixth among the States on degree of attainment of recommended school finances We made no such statement in our Hubbard Explains Hubbard pointed out that the NEA study was a comparison between the school finance provisions in State law and the recommended standards of school finance experts It was not a study of the amounts of money available and their relationship to educational needs A State might collect and distribute school money in accordance with sound principles but that same State might he cheating its children because its ex penditures per child were too low he said is therefore improper for you to compare Virginia's ranking on State law principles 'with her ability to pay It is also improper to attempt to place the approval of the National Education Association upon Virginia's present ef-ports to support Hubbard stated The NEA official also noted that Senator Battle ranked his State in thirty-sixth place in "ability to among the States ability to pay is judged on the basis of the amount of income that the people of a State have behind each school child then Virginia ranked 32nd in 1945 and 30th in 1946 In other words Virginia has steadily improved in actual and relative capacity to provide good Senator Battle in his speech to the convention of the Virginia and District of Columbia Eagles noted that recent appropriations by the General Assembly for 1 education would present the school status In a more favorable light than shown by the NEA Hubbard Makes Contrasts Hubbard said that early in 1947-1948 the New York State educational conference board issued a study on the increase in school funds from State sources between the school years 1939-40 and 1947-48 "On the average there had been an increase of 42 per cent in State funds "On the average there had been an increase of 42 per cent in State funds Virginia had advanced by 40 per cent Meanwhile sm Nonsuit Taken By 2d Wife Of Consolvo NORFOLK July ltpt A nonsuit was taken this afternoon in Circuit Court in the $36000 action brought against the estate of the late Colonel Charles Con-sol vo hotel operator by his second wife Mrs Blanche Hecht Cariaggi This action by her attorney followed an attack on Mrs Cariag-gi's credibility A nonsuit removes the action from the court docket without adjudication Mrs Cariaggi today admitted that she was married to Augusto Cariaggi in New York during May 1922 This had been denied Wednesday by Mrs Cariaggi who contended she was married in Italy in 1923 The New York mafriage was a civil ceremony preceding her formal wedding in Italy she said today Begins to Cry Asked on cross-examination if she had previously made the denial Mrs Cariaggi replied "1 didn't feel well At this point she began crying quietly and was assisted from the witness stand A local bank bookkeeper Williams was put on the stand by the defense as a handwriting expert and he expressed belief that Mrs Cariaggi Wrote letters which she denounced yesterday as forgeries The letters purportedly were addressed to her brother and contained derogatory statements regarding Consolvo Mrs Cariaggi contended that Colonel Consolvo had agreed to pay her $6000 annually until the death of either of them unless she remarried in which case the payments were to be reduced to $3000 She said the sum of $36-000 wras owed to her under this agreement Treasury Worker Wins $75 Award In a brief ceremony witnessed by her fellow workers Miss Nellie Patmore a disbursing clerk in the local Alcohol Tax Unit office yesterday was awarded a $75 government check for a suggestion she had submitted for improving efficiency in government offices The presentation made by her supervisor John Wickham came a a surprise to Miss Pal-more She was notified last week that she had won a prize but did not know the check had arrived She also received a Bureau of Internal Revenue "honorary recognition Several months ago the Treasury Department of which the ATU is a subsidiary established a Work Simplification Board to increase efficiency in the department's offices Employees in the field services were invited to review their duties and make suggestions for streamlining them Miss Pal idea involved "simplification of preparation of Form 1Q12 (expense vouchers) by government employees who occasionally use HR's (transportation requests) in their In a letter addressed to Mr Wickham the Work Simplification Board stated "It is estimated that there will be an annual saving of $214764 as a result of her Son roams DEMOCRATS GATHER FOR Among early arrivals for State Democratic Convention were (top photo) Representative Burr Harrison of the Seventh District Representative Howard Smith Eighth District and Dan Chi-cheser of Stafford State c-pntral committeeman Another preconvention group (lower photo) included Representative Watkins' Abbitt Fourth District Lieutenant-Governor Preston Collins Crawley of Appomattox and (standing) Garland Moss of Chase City and Marvin Brown of Cumberland A paint It with BOCKmX If your walls of stucco concrete concrete block or brick are weatherstainedknd dirty or if moisture seeps through use Weaco ROCKTITE paint PLUS finely ground Portland cement It forms a fresh new surface that'a really part of the wall 8 beautiful eolorsindudingMiision Whitt Ask dealer for color card -For prcrlotaly mlri or oil pointed mlh end for pointing tou DM Woooo DUBAS1TS iHpplf oeonomt-ol and durable point In beautiful colon ond pun white Marriages Outstrip Divorces By 5-to-l Ratio in Slate Jclcr Jones Is Manager For Robertson convention would not utilize either now or Jatrr new anti-Truman law to reject the national party nominees and put up a Virginia Democratic party presidential plate One well-informed visitor from Washington said lover nor Turks anti-Truman bill had already accomplished its aim that he had assurances from national committee circles that the civil rights plank would he toned dowui to nothing stronger than the 1911 version and thus would he acceptable 10 the South Thu even though Mr Truman Is nominated Virginia could string along It seemed certain however that resolutions opposing Mr Truman and hi civil rights program nf Federal "forre" legislation would be presented and adopted by the convention today Some organization leaders said moreover there was growing sentiment for a positive endorsement of some other prospect for the presidential nomination possibly General Eisenhower or Kentucky's Senator Barkley or maybe one of Virginia's two leading foes of the Truman Senator Byrd or Governor Turk The preconvention formalities got under way last night with a meeting in the Hotel John Mar-khall nf the Democratic State Central Committee Its chief business was to pick Taylor Mur-Thv of Warsaw member of the House of Delegatr and former State Treasurer as temporary chairman and keynote speaker of the convention and to dear the temporary roll call Murphy Named The central committee quickly a rrl unanimously named Mr Murphy for the keynoter post It aiMi approved the temimrary roll compiled by Sccrclary Edwin Cix of Richmond with the proviso that credential received by the noon hour today would go on Hie roll No contests were re-(oi ted by ttic secretary Chairman Edward announced that Arthur Souther of Ailing-Ion primary opimncnf of Rp-re rotative Howard Smith had agreed to take his challenge of Arlington's convention method of naming delegates to the rrso-Imions committee nf the State convention inxtrad of to the central committee Mr Souther tms cn-irged the Arlington method violated the party plan Ilia challenge has been rejected by the Eighth District Committee and Ihe appeals committee of the central committee Besides naming the chairman and national committeeman the convention will elect a national Mra John Garland Pollard of Richmond is the incumbent choose delegates and alternatra to cast Virginia's 26 votes at the national convention and pick a slate of presidential electors Their wilt be 1126 votes in convention but many localities have sent over-size delegations with a hair or other fractional vote for delegate Most delegations will vote as units however Today's activities will open with district caucuses Seventh and Eighth District sessions will be held at Hotel Richmond The other seven distrirts will caucus in the John Marshall Retiring Chairman Edwards will rail the convention to order at noon in the Mosque auditorium One of the first items of business will be to name the convention's three committers on permanent organization credentials and resolutions A recess will be taken after the keynote address so that the committees may do their work Then the permanent chairman will be installed national delegates and other officials elected and the resolutions adopted Since the organization will be in easy control of the convention and the controversial anti-Truman la not likely to come up it is anticipated that the session will be generally harmonious and probably ready for adjournment before the 6 hour by which the convention must vacate in Masque Mr Combs' decision to step aside as national committeeman was not interpreted as meaning he would do anything like retire from politics Some Quarters saw it merely as an indication he did not wish to be a member of a national committee which might have the immediate job of spearheading the campaign for election of Mr Tshman The "chief" has been active in Virginia polities since the famous courts granted 562 divorces last month Live births from January through Mav of this year also lagged behind last year's total for the comparative period This year the figure up to the end of May was 30291 Last year it was 32659 Mav births for this year totaled 6343 Death claimed fewer victims this year the department reported The January-May figure for 1948 is 12431 compared to 12514 for last year during the same period Deaths during May of this year from all causes totaled 2356 throughout the State Heart disease continued to be the State's number one killer It claimed 652 victims in May and 3634 for the first five months of this year The five-month figure last year was 3518 During the first five months of this year on the average of five marriage licenses were issued in Virginia to every divorce granted the State division of vital statistics reported yesterday From January through May 13712 marriage licenses were issued compared to 2688 divorces granted during the same period Although it is Leap Year the traditional time for maidens to propose to the men of their choice marriages this year continue to lag behind the total for 1947 the department notes Last year during the first five-month period a total of 15186 marriage licenses were issued throughout Virginia During May of 1948 a total of 2835 marriage licenses were taken out by altar-bound Virginians The Council to Meet On Cily Manager Richmond's new Council elect will hold another "private informal at City Hall tonight to give further consideration to the appointment of a city manager Chairman Stirling King said yesterday It will be (he second closed session of the nine-member group Members have explained that for obvious' reasons it would not be wise to make public the names of applicants for the city managership or the names of persons recommended by others for the position It is understood that most if not all of those under consideration aready hold city manager posts in other communities Dr Rumbd Assumes State Dental Post Dr William Rumbel formerly of Charleston Va took over his new duties as State Director of Public Dental Health yesterday Dr Roper State Health Commissioner announced He succeeds Dr George A Nevitt who was on loan from the United States Public Health Service since the death last August of Dr Tally Ballou Dr Roper also announced that Conley Weston former Fauquier County sanitary officer took over a a regional sanitary supervisor He moved into a position vacated by James Smith who was placed in charge of the newly created Division of Tourist Establishments Sanitation Yesterday 13 new sanitary officers seven of whom will work under Mr Smith began a period of training and orientation The remaining six officers will be assigned to various counties in the State Wesco Waterpalnt Products Ara Sold by These Healers RICHMOND VA The Aleatrax Co Inr Ellen Road North Blvd Distributor Arms Qiialtly Faint Store 20 Eaat Broad Street Ban than Bros 517 Went Seventh SI Concrete Building Unit Corp Darbytown Boad Angus Gunn Inr 15 Brnokland Park Blvd Nlcholaa-Bryant Paint Corp 825 Went Broad St The Kherwln-Wllliamn Co 1017 East Main St SOUTH RICHMOND VA Acme Quality Paint Store 1524 Hull St Callo Supply Co Callo Virginia Look in the Yellow your Classified Telephone Directory-for Avnings Automobile Agencies Addressing Machines or alaost anything also United State Senator A Willis Robertson of Lexington announced yesterday that Jeter Jones of Richmond would serve as his primary campaign manager in the Third Congressional District Arriving here for State Democratic Convention Senator Robertson said in one of his first formal campaign atatementa that "the pressing character of the work of the recently ended session of Congress prevented me from giving adequate attention to my campaign for until the past few days "From now until August 3 I shall visit in as many sections of the State as possible but I can't visit all sections nor personally contact all he added a large extent I must depend upon friends familiAr with my work in Congress for the past 16 years to bring it to the attention of those who are Others Named Besides Mr Jones in the Third District he announced these managers: Sidney Kellam Second District: Frank Burton Fifth Fred Switzer Seventh and Beverley Stras Ninth In the First Fourth Sixth and Eighth Districts the Robertson campaign will be handled by local committees "In my Mr Robertson added "the work of the Congress which convenes in Washington next January will vitally affect the future of the American people I have been trained for that type of work and for 32 years in public office have sought to demonstrate my devotion to the best interests of our beloved State "I don't have the funds with which to advertise through the press and radio that effort to serve my day and generation I count m'y wealth in the friends that I have made They have taken rare of my interests in the past I know that they shall do so Senator Robertson is opposed In Ihe Democratic primary by Colonel James Hart of Roanoke Transit Firm Is Sued For $5000 Damages A woman who sued the Virginia Transie Company for $5000 damages in City Circuit Court yesterday charged she was injured because of a faulty streetcar step The plaintiff Rosa Wilker-son said she started to get off a streetcar at Twenty-sixth and Streets on June 17 1947 and that the car step was not lowered all the way so that it dropped when she stepped on it throwing her off balance and causing her to fall into the street The company filed a plea of not guilty Firemen Aided 300 During Swim Week Four Richmond firemen gave first aid last week to some 300 persons at Shields Lake during Swim for Health Week Edward Beauvais supervisor of the lake said yesterday in a letter to Fire Chief John Finnegan Mr Beauvais commended the four firemen and said that in addition to their first aid work "humored the The firemen were Lieutenant Gooch Owens Humphries and Earl Scott" BREEZE CONDITION YOUR HOME for Summer Comfort We Carry a Complete Stock PAINT ENAMEL VARNISH PAINTING PAPERING CARPENTRY SIDING ROOFING Terms If Yea Dealre MUTUAL CONSTRUCTION CO Diet 7-5190 Night 4-2337 WOMBLE- ROBERTSON S1SS Cary St Ia Park sad 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