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Evening star., 1940-12-12
Wheeled Toys Tagged
With Sufety Reminders

More than 5000 tags urging safety
in the use of Christmas toys have
been distributed in the Toy Tag
Campaign launched by the Depart
ment Of Vehicles and Traffic, 1t was
announced today.
Local department stores and shops
doing specialized business are CO.
operating with the TRAFFIC Bureau
in the circulation Of the safety re-
minders by placing them on all
wheeled toys sold. Further distri-
button has been obtained through
the cooperation of the Playground
Department, which will use ap-
proximately 1000 tags On the toys
to b distributed to poor children.
Evening star., 1940-12-12
Bethesda a-Chevy Chase
Lions Elect CantreI

Joseph A. Cantrel has been elected
president of the Bethesda Chevy
Lions Club, succeeding Charles
Schlichter, who resigned because of
the pressure of private business.
Mr.. Cantrel, who was first vice
president, will be replaced in the
latter post by William S. Bowling,
while William K. Brecht was made
second vice president. A third vice
president Is to be named at the
clubs next meeting December %.
The Lions will hold their third
annual charter night dinner and
dance at the Kenwood Golf and
Country Club at 730 o'clock Satur-
day night. William Sanders, chief
of the Juridical Division of the
Pan-American Union, is to be the
speaker.
The club is to go to Poolesville,
Va, Tuesday night to welcome the
newly organized Monocacy Club into
the Lions International. About 40
members will make the trip in auto
mobiles. A Christmas party for
children at the Bethesda Baptist
Home has been arranged for jan
uary Z.
Evening star., 1940-12-12
Mrs. Blanche Rogers
Dies After Illness

Mrs Blanche Gray Rogers. 81
wife of Charles c. Rogers. a director
of the Hamilton National Bank and
senior partner of c. c. Rogers &
Son, died yesterday at her home, e
Quincy street, Chevy Chase, Md e.,
after an illness of six weeks. :
Mrs. Rogers was native of Wash
ington and had spent her entire life
here.
She is survived, in addition to her
husband, by a son, William A.
grandchildren.
The funeral services will be held
tomorrow at II am. at her home.
Burial will be in Rock Greek Gene
terry.
Evening star., 1940-12-12
Dog Saves IS Lives
In Fire in House on
Connecticut Avenue
Borking Rouses LondIody
Who Sounds Alarm
To Other Occupants

SeabiScuit, a small wire-haired
TERROR, was credited with saving the
lives of Is persons when fire swept
through the basement of their resi-
dence early today.
Smoke had filled the three story
stone house at 2521 Connecticut ave-
nue. when the dogs barking awak-
ened his mistress and landladv of
the house, Miss Orie Covington.
Coughing, she got out of bed,
aroused the other occupants and
called the Fire Department.
House Boys Escape.
Two house boys, Chesterfield
Crews, II, and Linwood Lipscomb,
80, both colored, who lived in a
basement room where the blaze was
believed to have started. narrowly
escaped death. They CROPPED to the
door while the wooden partition of
their room crumbled behind them.
, Mr.. and Mrs. T. W. Bell, who lived
on the third floor. were assisted by
firemen down a ladder which was
TdlSSQ W tilelI WI1UUN. AIlllOuSll
the smoke was so thick in the room
that firemen had first thought it was
unoccupied, neither of the two was
injured.
Miss Dorothy Walker tainted
after she had walked out of the
house and was temporarily i'll from
the smoke
Puppy Overcome.
A wire-haired puppy. Butch" 4"
asleep in the basement. was over
come by the smoke, but was quickly
revived by flremen.
Two other pups vanished during
the excitement, but were found
later safe under a sofa.
Cause of the blaze was undeter-
mined. Miss Covington said the
house was owned in part by former
Senator Reed Smoot of Utah.
Evening star., 1940-12-12
Boy Riding Bicycle
Killed, Three in Car
Hurt in Crash
Auto PIows Into Tree
As Ii Swerves to
Avoid Collision

A 15-year-old boy was dead and
three other youths were under treat
ment today for injuries received In
traffic accident last night in the
6100 block of New Hampshire ave-
nue. NE.
Irving r. Bell, jr.. who lived at
Fourth street and Eastern avenue
in Takoma Park. Md, died shortly
before midnight in the Washington
Sanitorium. Takoma Park, of in
juries received in the accident
According to police. he was riding
his bicycle about $50 pm. on New
Hampshire near Eastern avenue.
He was struck from behind by an
automobile driven by a 19-year- -old
youth.
The car. travelling in the same
direction as the bicycle, apparently
was on top of the rider before any
one saw the Bell boy. The car
swerved in an effort to avoid the
cyclist, and plowed into a tree at
the edge of the road
VS. One Seriously Hurt.
Three young occupants OF the car
were removed to the Washington
Sanitarium, along with the Bell
boy, by the Takoma Park Rescue
Squad. They were:
Roland Fayard, 10, of 405 Flower
avenue, Takoma Park, Md. said to
have been driving the car; Bruce
Semmes, 18, 331 Flower avenue,
Takoma Park, and Nelson Rina, 10,
1405 Flower avenue. Takoma Park.
At the hospital it was said that
part of the Fayard boys nose had
been severed and his condition was
described as serious. The other
two boys were not seriously injured
The young cyclist was the Dis
trict's 68th traffic victim this year,
compared with the record of 80
killed this time last year.
-Four persons were injured about
$50 pm. yesterday when the auto
mobile in which they were riding
collided with a switch engine NOV
ing along the tracks in the 800
block Of K street NV.
Wreckage Ties Up Traffic.
Traffic was tied up on the George
town water front artery for some
time and special details were dis
patched to the scene to clear away
the wreckage.
Most seriously injured was Edgar
Slade, Al. 1919 N street NV, who
was admitted to Emergency Hos
pital with fractured leg and lacera-
tions. The others In the car, all Of
whom lived at the same N street
address, were treated for minor hurts
and dismissed.
They were: Miss Clara Grimsley,
81; her sister, Pearl, 10, and Thomas
Alderton, 80. said by police to have
been driving the automobile.
Pasqual Songco. 6, SOB Ninth street
Sc, was in Casualty Hospital this
morning with serious head injuries
received when she was knocked
down by an automobile near her
home yesterday
Arthur Gore, 80, colored, of 2417
I street NV. was in serious condi-
ton at Georgetown Hospital today
after being knocked down by an au-
tomobile last night on M street at
Twenty-sixth street NV. He re-
ceived a possible skull fracture.
Evening star., 1940-12-12

w. Fenton of Chicago were re-
elected to the Board of Trustees of
the Endowment Fund, and Leon
Fraser of New York City was elected
to fill a vacancy occasioned by the
death of James H. Perkins of the
same city.
Mr. Knight, Col. Joseph M. Hart
field of New York City and DR.. F.
D. Patterson, president Of Tuskegee
(Ala) Institute, were elected to fill
vacancies on the Board of Incor-
porators caused by the deaths OF
Edward S. Harkness and former
Senator Furnifold M. Simmons and
the resignation Of Charles r. Taft.
Evening star., 1940-12-12
Delinquency Of Boys
To Be Dinner Topic

Juvenile Delinquency Among
Boys" will be the theme of dinner
conference, sponsored by the Rec
reation Committee of the North
west Settlement House at o'clock
tonight at the settlement, SIS M
street NV.
Speakers will include Wendell P.
Tucker, superintendent of the In
dustrial Home School; Andrew w.
Kasius Of the Metropolitan Police
Boys Service Department; Harold
Hedgstrom, superintendent of the
National Training School for Boys.
and G. Rowland Shaw. personnel
chief, State Department.
Evening star., 1940-12-12
Acacia Grand Lodge
Elects R. W. BoiIey

Royal w. Bailey was elected
grand master of the Acacia Grand
Lodge of Colored Masons of the
District of Columbia in its 93d
annual communication last night
at the Scottish Rite Hall.
Others elected include Allan A..
c. Grifhth, deputy grand master;
Simpson w. Wallace, grand senior
warden; E. T. Hawkins, grand
Junior warden; Charles D. Free
man, grand secretary. and DR.. Syl-
vester F. Blackwell, grand treasurer.
Mr.. Freeman was elected to serve
his 10th consecutive term, and DR..
Sylvester his eighth.
Evening star., 1940-12-12
Huge Maryland
Road Program
Is sProposed
20-Yeor Project Calls
For Nearby Work to
Cost $4,000, 900

The sum of s33 1904 300 would be
spent on construction and improve
ment of highways in Maryland coun-
ties near Washington under a 20
year highway program which has
been submitted to Gov. O'Conor by
the State Roads Commission.
Designed to meet an estimated 209
per cent increase in traffic density
during the next two decades, the
plan sent to the Governor last night
calls for s17689, 100 to be spent in
Prince Georges County and s15,-
315.800 in Montgomery.
1t also provides for widespread
work in the three Southern Mary
land Counties of Charles. st. Mary's
and Calvert Charles would get
s4356 300, st. Mary's, S3,600000, and
Calvert s2,57O,O0O.
$500 Miles of Road.
The plan proposes construct
Of approximately $500 miles of roA
and the total cost was placed AZ
s2l6,947,50 in the 84-page report
through which it was presented to
Gov. O'Conor. Costs for virtually
every highway in the State were
outlined, together with compilations
and estimates for the whole pre-.
pared by the Highway Planning
Survey.
1t was pointed out that as an
alternate proposition to the 20-year
schedule the State could carry out
a S55 ,272,000 f1ve-year program. but
it was with the 20-year proposition
that the report particularly con-
cerned itself
The 20-year plan. the Governor
was informed, would necessitate re-
vision of the States motor vehicle
revenue laws and the commission
recommended the following steps to
finance the work:
l. Reallocation of motor vehicle
taxes.
2. Increasing fees for trucks and
other commercial vehicles.
3. Reducing gasoline tax refunds.
1t was said that sl68 27l 900 could
be anticipated from regular reve-
nues and that about 100000 an
nually could be realized from in
creasing commercial vehicle fees
and "recapturing gas taxes ordi-
narily refunded.
Under the proposed reallocation of
motor vehicle taxes, 641 per cent
would be used for rural roads, COM
pared to the 531 per cent now used
Do
share would be cut from the present
80 per cent to 20'7 per cent.
The commission explained that
under this proposed financing ar
rangement it was following the
principle that the. money should be
apportioned on the basis of need
and not on the basis of taxes paid
by any one unit.
1t was stressed in the report that
an emergency exists" with regard
to the State highway system and
that "the final solution rests with
the willingness of the people to
authorize the changes that are nee
essary"
Improvement Recommended.
Inc report recommended theSe
improvements:
Two hundred sixty-eight miles of
dual-lane highway; 258 miles of
high-type surfaced roads, "a feet
wide; 1,610 miles of high-type sur
faced roads, % feet wide; 1850 miles
of intermediate and low-grade type
surfaced roads, 20 feet wide; re-
placement or widening of 500 exist
ing bridges; elimination of l8 grade
crossings, and protection of 81 grade
crossings.
Not counting immediate needs, the
report said, the five-year plan in
cluded 2,737,000 for undermining
defense roads and the 20-year plan
included s56,000, 900 for such work.
Evening star., 1940-12-12
ItoIiun-Americun Lodqe
Elects Dr.. UrcioIo

DR.. Raphael Urciolo was elected
president of Italian American
Lodge, Felice Cavallotti, of WASH
ington last night at a meeting in
Pythian Temple.
DR.. Urciolo, who was born in the
United States, formerly taught for
eign languarges in Johns Hopkins
University and the District public
schools. He received degrees from
Catholic University, the University
Of Rome and National University.
The new lodge head now is en-
gagged In the real estate business
here.
Evening star., 1940-12-12
v. F. W. Post Will Hold
First of Dance Series.

The first of q series of winter
dances sponsored by Follow-Me De-
fense Post, Veterans of Foreign
Wars. will be held Saturday night
at the new Cottage City Fire House.
The post will stage its second an
nual bridge tournament tonight at
Wardman Park Hotel, with the DR..
Alfred J. Steinbery Cup at stake.
Evening star., 1940-12-12
Wage Increase
Awarded 5000
Transit Men
3-Cent-un-Hour Boost,
Other Improvements
Retroactive to July ]

Retroactive pay totaling about
$ll5,000 will be received by 5000
employees Of the Capital Transit Co.
soon under the terms of q contract
agreed upon by an arbitration board
yesterday.
E. D. Merrill, president Of the
transit firm, said 1t was not known
when the money would be paid out
but that bookkeepers would begin
working on the task Of figuring up
the amounts due to individuals i'm
mediately.
The contract, which affects all
employees in the Transportation De-
partment who are paid on an hourly
basis, Is retroactive to July /, the
date Of expiration Of the old con-
tract.
It was estimated that pay in
creases amount to about $270, 900 per
year for 5000 employees and that the
firm will be put to an additional ex-
pense amounting to $4,000 an
nually through reduction of hours
and increase in the weekly guar
antee to extra men from $25 to $50
per week.
Three Cents Per Hour Increase.
The pay increases for all men In
the Transportation Department
amounts to cents per hour in all
classifications and the average
length of the work day was cut
from eight and three quarters hours
to eight and one-half hours per day.
The contract was made with Divi-
sion 689 of the Amalgamated AS
sociation Of Street and Electric Rail-
way and Motor Coach Workers of
America, an A. F. of l.. affiliate The
Arbitration Board conducted hear
ings from October II to November
%. Members were Edmund L. Jones,
representing the firm: Charlton
Ogburn. the employees, and James
G. Mcdonald of the Brooklyn In
stitute of Arts and Sciences. neutral
observer.
Had Asked 8-HOur Day.
The employees had asked origin
ally that the work day of eight and
three-quarters hours be shortened to
eight hours. Pay increases requested
for men on two-man streetcars were
from 63 cents to 81 cents an hour
during the first three months of
employment, from 81 to II cents an
hour after nine months of en-
ployment and from SO to 70 cents
an hour after IL months For opera
tors OF one-man streetcars and
buses, they asked for an increase
of cents an hour in the top rate
of rs cents paid operators of one
man streetcars and buses.
Under terms Of the new contract,
additional regular work for extra
streetcar and bus operators is to be
provided by the shortening of the
work day and by the coupling of
short pieces of work which total
six hours or more. Eight hours pay
will be paid for work in this latter
class.
The contract also provides a re-
duction from l3 to 12ia hours in
the hours of spread" from the
beginning to the end of work, after
which time-and-one- half will be
paid.
Evening star., 1940-12-12
Mrs. Eugene Meyer
Is Named Trustee
Of Public Library
Will Fill Unexpired
Term Of Felix Morley;
To Serve Until 1914

Mrs. Eugene Meyer, part owner
of the Washington Post and active
in child welfare movements and In
club work, was appointed by the
Commissioners today as a member
of the Board of Trustees of the
Free Public Library to fill the un-
expired term of Felix Morley, former
Evening star., 1940-12-12
Wright Day Planned

The Washington Air Derby Asso-
citation and the Aero Club of Wash
ington will sponsor a Wright day.,
luncheon at the Raleigh Hotel Tues
day. The date marks the anniver-
sary Of the Wright brothers flrst
fli9ht.
Evening star., 1940-12-12
Friendship MEETING

The Friendship Club. sponsored by
the Americans Over Forty, will meet
tomorrow ut 8 pm. In the parish hall
Of Epiphany Church, 1917 q street
NV. Mrs. N. P. Pack and Mrs.. Ann
Walker viii b hosteasaG
Evening star., 1940-12-12
Traffic Record

The trafiic record, as revealed
at police headquarters, for "a
hour period ending at 8 am.
today:
Fatalities, l (bicyclist).
Accidents, 38.
Motorists injured. Z.
Motorists arrested. 1888.
Pedestrians injured, S. s
Pedestrians arrested for vio-.
lation of pedestrian control reg
ulations. /.
Motorists arrested for failing
to give right of way to pedes-.
trians, 2.
Killed in 1910 traffic. go; by
December II, In 1889, 90.
Evening star., 1940-12-12
Named to N. Y. A. Post

The National Youth Administra-
ton yesterday appointed Theodore
L. Roswell of Madison, Wis. assist
ant to the director of the N. Y. A.
work projects division.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-12-21
GAMBLING CIosrREs

Editor The Times: Congrat-
ulauons on the stand you are
taking regarding the Hitler
tactics that Holmes Eastwood
Is trying TO force on this city.
Why not demand that the
records of the meeting between
army officials and the commits
sioner be made public
II Eastwood is not interested
enough TO read Tacoma papers
what is he doing in the commits
sioners' office?
Some time ago a reader sug-
gested the FBI be called in 10
clean up the bootlegging and
gambling joints. II the army
and your paper continue 10
carry on, the same results will
be obtained.
hope the general public
realizes the significance Of the
fast closure Of these joints. once
the army spoke. II proves that
these places could have been
closed just as quickly had those
in authority chose to uphold
their oath OF office and per-
formed their duty.
Keep up the good work. II Is
satisfaction TO know one Of our
papers has courage 10 protect
the citizens by bringing 10 light
such corruption
ALICE READE-
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-12-21
HOROSCOPE
SATURDAY, DEC. 81

This is an uncertain day in
planetary direction. Strong be-
nefic aspects are balanced with
adverse influences. Women
should be careful TO avoid acct
dents under this sway.
Heart and Home: Women may
be highstrung and impatient to-
day, owing to the resulting
fatigue and excitement of holt
day activities. II is a threaten
ing date for those who try TO de-
velop efficiency among members
of their family. The wise will
pursue routine duties and offer
simple Inequalities. There is
promise of happiness through re-
unions of old friends. Girls need
not expect special attention from
eligible young men while this
configurstion prevails.
Business Affairs: The outlook
for the new year is encouraging
to all who are engaged in trade
or any line of constructive work.
Despite Hitler's barter system
and other methods of ending
long established commercial or
ders Of business. capital will con-
tinue to promote production and
prosperity after the present war.
although there will be changes
in international banking. This
week will bring large profits 10
retail merchants
National Issues: Stress should
be placed upon economics in all
university courses through the
new year. Intelligent viewpoints
regarding American trade and
commerce. exchange and bank
ing. will have great significance
in the reconstruction Of a world
which has suffered tremendous
upheavsl. On the ruins of the
past there must be built stable
structures of government in
which there will be assured last
ing pesce and understanding.
International Affairs: Right is
TO overcome might in the new
year when the power OF the
United States Is 10 be exerted
effectively. More colonial bases
will be acquired and the Pacific
fleet will be engaged in success
full movements.
Persons whose birthdste il Is
have the sugury OF gain
through the coming year. Leg
scies and gifts are Indicated for
many women.
Children born on this day
probably will be active, ener-
getic and industrious They
should have happy. successful
hvea-
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-12-21
QUESTIONS TO TEST
YOUR KNOWLEDGE

Can you answer seven of these
test questions Turn to the
woman's page for the answers.
l. How many times has the
population census been taken in
the United States?
2. The number of insects
known to science totals $4,000,
100000 or 100000?
3. Which New England state
has no seacoast?
4. On which continent is the
Zamezi river?
5. Which candidate for presi-
dent of the United States spent
the entire period OF his cam
paign in Jail?
s. Who is the new chairman
of the national labor relations
board
I. What do the initials u. s.
P. II. S. stand for?
s. Who painte Baby
Stuart?
9. On which day of the week
did Christmas fall in 1889?
10. Texas was first settled un-
der the Spanish, French or Mex
lean flag?
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-12-21
More Big Figures

We have become used to tossing billions about in
minds that they longer register any impression
We talk of 40 and so bion-dollar national debts
and 10 20 billions for defense with utmost glibness
All the big features not attached to government
however. Insurance American lives is approaching
total that few years ago would have staggered and ab
bergasted us. 1t is $l17 500 100000!
That is the estimate of Leroy A. Lincoln. chairman of
the Association of Life Insurance Presidents 1t the
highest amount in history.
Just risk insurance written by the government
during the World increased rather than decreased
the amount of private insurance, the social security
system would to have had the effect II has
focused mems thoughts security with the result that
policies issued by legal companies increased 81
per cent above 1889 and 900 will be paid out
this year to policy holders and beneficiaries.
So despite all astronomc government financial figures,
the most colossal staggering supersupendous statistic of
them all remains rescribng private business
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-12-21
Blow TO TaComans

Cancellation of 80 millions of projected federal construc
ton jobs parts of the country by order OF Pres
dent Roosevelt hard blow to Tacoma because
the S450000 federal office building here is included in the
blackou Necessity for concentrating all efforts
tona defense the given for the cancellation of
the PWA work
As far employment and production in this area is
concerned that will be than made by the vast
defense program being worked the praes south of
the city, This includes construction for Fort Lewis the
4lst division cantonment adjoining Dupont and building
ut Camp Murray national guard headquarters
All in ALL however, Tacomans for several years will look
with disgust the harazed building Pacific ave,
between 18th and 14h and ponder at the red tape and
politics involved any federal building project Space for
federal offices sadly needed but for the present least
hopes for building deferred. Perhaps when two
three Chrstmases pass by we'll have that much
desired structure.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-12-21
Stories in
Stamps
Tchoikovsky Revealed
Emotions in His Music

IIIiOtlOi - III -
DUSSIA introduces the great
~ composer, Peter Ilich Tchsi-
kovsky 10 philately in the stamp
above. one Of series Of FIVE
stamps commemorating the cente-
nary Of his birth. The portrait on
the stamp above was taken al the
age Of 40; the music in the scroll is
from his Fourth Symphony. Other
designs show his home at Kiln and
a portrait taken shortly before his
death.
Tchsikovsky revealed his per-
sonal emotions in his music, full
Of depth and melody. Somber and
flied with unrealized longing.
Critics see in his compositions a
reflection Of his unfortunate ro-
msnces.
Tchaikovsky fell in love with an
opera star when ne was 20. She
refused his proposal, married a
baritone. At 81 ne met and mar
ried Anionina Milioukov, but the
marriage lasted only 70 days.
The real woman in Tchaikov-
sky's life was Nsdejda Won Meek.
wealthy widow. who became in
terested IN the young composer.
paid him yearly allowance 50
that he could devote all of his time
10 music. Although they come
sponded for Is years, wrote rnose
than 5000 letters, they never met
Tchsikovsky visited L nited
States in 1891, played at the dedi-
cation of New York's Carnegie
Hall. He died two years later from
cholera, after drinking unooiled
water.