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D. {. Group 10 Entertain
Hotel Greeters' Heads

Charter No 81. Hotel GreeterS. and
its Women's Auxiliary have COM
pleted plans to entertain Orion E.
Landmark of Minneapc is and Miss
Bertha Hodge Of Denver, interna-
tional presidents. respectively. of the
Hotel Greeters of America and its
Womens Auxiliary, who will visit
Washington today. A dinner at the
Willard Hotel at 6 pm. will be in
their honor Following the dinner
separate meetings of the two groups
will be held
President John Donley of the local
charter has named the following d.
rectors: Membership, Kenneth o.
den; sick and welfare, Robert D.
Mills: bylaws and resolutions. Sid
ney johnson; reception and attend
ance. Charles Curtis; educational
Clifford Lewis: publicity, Clyde
Douthat: See America First" Will
mer Ruff: employment, Stanley Will
bur: auditing, Charles Eckert.
A past presidents dinner in o.
tober will be arranged by j. P. Ed
wards, Charles Eckert Frank Will
Hanson and Sidney johnson. An
invitation was extended to the local
Greeters to attend the Washington
Hotel Prom 1tion Mems Association
at the Mayf1oWer Hotel Friday.
At the auxiliary session Tuesday
Mrs. Robertson Lappin. president,
named the following directors
Membership, Mrs. John Donley; en-
tertainment, Miss Edna Thompson;
education, Mrs. Weston B. Jones. jr.;;
See America First" Mrs. Robert D.
Mills; public relations. Mrs. Wilmer
Ruff; american Greeter," Mrs.
Agnes Carpenter; interorganization,
Mrs. G. Steuart Bingham; Greeters'
Home, Mrs. Carol Armhold; public
ity, Mrs Harry Kopel.
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Trade Board Unit
TOHOnOr keech

Richmond B. Keech. newly ap-
pointed corporation counsel Of the
District, will be guest of honor at
the first fall meeting of the Public
Order Committee of the Board of
Trade tomorrow at $50 pm. at
Columbia Country Club.
Other District officials and officers
and directors of the Board of Trade
also will attend the dinner Odell
S. Smith is chairman of the COM
mittee
The first regular meeting of the
Public Utilities and Transportation
Committee will be held at 1890
pm. Thursday in CDonnell'S Res
taurant. 1921 E street NV.
Other committee m e i n S
scheduled this week include:
Membership, Tuesday at y 40
pm. in the boards Offices in The
Star Building; Henry S. Owens,
chairman.
Public schools. Wednesday at
1915 pm. in Wesley Hall; George
E. Keneipp, chairman.
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system between the two lines would
tend to relieve the situation, it has
been pointed out.
Construction of additional schools
in the near future and the rapid
growth of the section in the last few
years is expected to be presented as
evidence for improved service by
civic spokesman from the area.
The only other civic news Of the
week is the meeting of two citizens
associations. Sixteenth Street Heights
and PetWorth.
An election of officers will feature
the meeting of the former group to-
morrow at pm. in the A. r. Shop
herd School. Fourteenth street and
Kaimia road NV, it was announced
by M. J. Cairns, president.
The Petworth association will be-
gin its new season Tuesday at pm.
in the Petworth Branch Library.
Kansas avenue and Upshur street
NV.
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tacles when behind the wheel, as
compared with only one such viola
ton in July.
The Traffic Division. as usual.
turned in the largest number of
arreSts-2,755-8l more than the
2674 reported during the previous
month. The third precinct was next
with l.3l9-an increase of 81 over
July's total
Largest increase over July's figure
was turned in by the fourth precinct,
whose personnel arrested l61 more
motorists last month than the 167
nabbed during the previous month.
The harbor precinct apparently had
only law-abiding motorists to con-
tend with, and so had perfect
record with no arrests.
Although pedestrian injuries drop
ped off slightly with AS persons
hurt as compared with l52 in July,
motorists didn't fare as we'll. with
$50 injured-21 more than the l59
reported during the previous month.
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BY JOHN H. Cassidy, Jr.

BY JOHN II. Cassidy, Jr.
c. Hayward Marshall, a newcomer
to the roster Of directors of the
Board of Trade. can uphold his
end of the conversation when his
colleagues shift the conversation
from civic problems to fishing prob
lens.
Not that he can't contribute his
share to discussions of civic matters.
His record as member OF the
Board of Trade reflects close in
terest in such matters. But when
fishing pops into the conversation
well. you're talking about Mr.
Marshall's favorite hobby.
Chesapeake Bay furnishes his
favorite spots. For big game fish
he goes to Norfolk And at other
places in the bay he finds trout,
rock and bluefish.
Ranking close second as a hobby
is graphy-both still" and
another of his favorite sports, but
he doesn't find much time these days
to get to the court.
Mr. Marshall was born in Phila-
delphia and attended schools there.
He was with the B. F. Goodrich Rub
Der Co. there and in Akron, Ohio,
before being sent to Washington to
work with the War Department. He
was a sergeant in the Army during
the World War. He is now with
the Floyd E. Davis real estate firm.
Mr.. Marshall is member of the
Real Estate Board and Temple
Moves Lodge of Masons and a trus-
tee Of the Mount Pleasant Congre-
gational Church. He lives with his
wife, the former Doris Little of
Washington, and two sons at 64Ol
Second place NV.
His career with the Board of Trade
has been high lighted by service as
chairman of the Membership Com
mittee, in the 1939-40 season, and
as chairman of the 1887 Midwinter
Dinner Committee.
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Delay Action
Street
Highlands Group
Protests Conditions
During Rains
Street

An unpaved section of First street
Sc, which the Washington High
lands Citizens Association complains
is the cause of tons of dirt washing
onto improved parts of the street on
a lower level, may have to wait until
spYing before the District takes cor
receive measures.
The unpaved section Of street lies
on an incline and is about $50 feet
long. Auditing the street, which
has been graded but never paved. is
a new concrete section o roadway,
a continuation Of HALEY place
About a year ago, according to
Highways Director Capt. H. c.
Whitehurst, w. p. A. labor was en-
ployed to cut through and grade
First street Sc. Part of the road
was paved, but the w. P. A. labor
was withdrawn and the street left
in rough-dry state.
Then the rains came Deep gull
leys were worn into the dirt surface
by waters seeking an outlet and with
the waters came the tons and tons
of dirt which covered the paved Sec
tons of the street, making driving
hazardous and walking a muddy I'M
dertaking.
After several severe rains had all
but left new strata of sediment on
the lower hill. the Washington High
lands Association got busy and put
in pleas with the District Building
The highways Office said they
could not pave First street until the
Sewer Department had their pipes
in, and that there were IS other
streets in similar straits which
would have to take precedence.
The Sewer Department said there
are hundreds of projects in much
worse condition. However, that Of
flee said it could conceivably start
construction of sanitation sewers
within 80 days. This would not give
the Highway Department time to
commence operations before spring,
the Sewer Department said.
w. Earl Nair. president of the as
ISOLATION, said the residents of the
area were not anxious to have the
street paved for their own use, mas
much as the unpaved section runs
into a dead end
1T is only the fact that every rain
brings a deiuge of dirt to residents
of lower First street" Mr.. Nair said
last week. IF there is any way
other than paving to correct the sit
uation we would welcome it. but
paving seems to be the only solu-
ton
Maury T. Warren, vice president
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CIVIC NEW 8.
Seek Better Transportation
In Sousa Bridge Area
Bradbury Heights Citizens to Send
Representatives to Hearing;
Two Associations to Meet

Bradbury Heights Citizens Association and
nearby will appear before the Public Utilities Commission Wednesday
hearing connection transportation for
munies of the John Philip Sousa Bridge.
The hearing had been postponed from last month at the request
Annapolis
Lines, companies that section.
facilities
particularly transfer between the companies
found service discriminatory but withheld
pending hearing which additional evidence will
presented
citizens the affected favors the
Capital Transit Bradbury Heights
this can't accomplished universal
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llSllIS dllu Ill lIlc u OSSNdlh. L uc-
lieve that they are becoming more
aware of the fact that injury or
death often results from their dis
regard of the pedestrian control
regulation
He emphasized, however, that
there hes been no slackening on the
part Of police in watching out for
this type of traffic violation, adding
that he has constantly impressed
on the various precinct commanders
the Importance of enforcing this
regulation.
With 9 per cent increase, or
Sc more than the 9l9 motorists ar
rested in July. overtime parkers
continued to lead the list of traffic
offenders which they have topped
since February.
In second place with 1893 arrests
were the motorists who forget to
remove their cars between 4 and
6 pm. Close on their heel were the
800 drivers who diSobeyed official
signs. Violators of these two regu-
lations in July numbered 89l and
o4Ly respectively.
Speeding Arrests Drop.
A substantial decrease in the
number of speederS was noted last
month with 626 arrested. as COM
pared with 1874 during the previous
month. This may have been due
in some measure to the rainy
weather that prevailed during much
of August, causing motorists to
exercise greater caution.
The bad weather, however, didn't
cause police to lose their measuring
eye, as they arrested COS motorists
for parking less than 20 feet from
the building line and less than so
feet from the intersection-an in
crease of 81 over the 514 persons
arrested for this ofense in July.
Slight increases also were recorded
In arrests for driving while drunk
and reckless driving with 80 and
% cases. respectively. as compared
with 81 and 81, respectively, during
the previous month.
Ably assisting the Triffic Depart
ments drive to rid Washington
streets of "jaloppies," police last
month arrested Is drivers for oper-
ating vehicles in an unsafe mechan-
ical condition. This represents a
40 per cent increase over the nine
arrested in July.
Meanwhile. 27O per cent in
crease was noted in the number of
motorists arrested for operating
unapproved automobiles as Is we're
given tickets for this violation in
August as compared with only
In July.
Bicyclists Without Lights.
incidentally, bicycles as we'll as
motor vehicles must have lights
four bicyclists found this out when
they were arrested for failing to
have lights on their two-wheelers.
And motorists who must wear
glasses when driving had better
have them on when stopped by
police. Six near-sighted drivers were
arrested for not wearing their spec
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Business Groups
Federation Meets
Thursday Night

The following six Disbursements
associations are scheduled to hold
meetings this week:
Tuesday. September Il.
Columbia Heigh t s-Luncheon.
Sholl's Cafe, 1927 Fourteenth street
NV. u noon.
Wednesday, September Is.
New Center Market Regular
meeting. New Center Market, Fifth
and K streets NV, q pm.
Thursday, September 10.
Central-Regular meeting an d
luncheon, New Colonial Hotel, Fiji
tenth and M streets NV, 1915
pm.
ederation-Regular meeting. Con-
tinental Hotel. North Capitol. be-
tween D and E streets, $50 pm.
Harware. Regular meeting, May
flower Hotel. Connecticut avenue
and De Sales street NV, $50 pm.
Northeast-L un CHI con. Weber S
Cafe, 402 H street NE, 1915 pm.
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Duuqhters Of Liberty

Justice Council plans a handker-
chief shower for four of its men,
bers at the next meeting Thursday
the 18th birthday anniversary of
the council. John Tucker, associate
junior ex-councilor, was welcomed
back from his vacation.
Hope Council will have a home
coming September "a, at 8 pm, at
the Naval Lodge Hall, Fourth street
and Pennsylvania avenue Sc. Coun-
Gil delegates will give report from
the National Council Convention
Mrs. Genevieve Craig, councillor, will
preside.
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of the group, has been appointed
chairman of a committee to press
the matter with the District Build
ing. However. as only three houses
are situated on the unimproved sec
ton of First street, it does not seem
likely that the First street problem
will be able to supersede other prof.
ects in more populous areas already
on the District Buildings waiting
list
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Traffic Record for AUGUST
By ]. B. ZATMAN.

J.. B.
per drop pedestrian
reported August Police Department records revealed yesterday
pedestrians arrested last month for dsobyng
intended safety, compared
however total
1928 persons nabbed for traffic violations during July.
walkers
William E
IN rounds through the city streets the inspector explained
have with the
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Sd Division Society

William j. Schmitz has been APP
pointed membership officer and
Bugler Sam Baumgarten chairman
of the Entertainment Committee of
Washington Branch. Marine AuXil
larry membership is in charge of
Mrs. James E. Wiley, 1925 Eleventh
street NV Mrs. Caroline Shannon
is acting president until election
of officers in October.
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CALENDAR NOTES.

The New Center Market Board of
Directors will meet Thursday at
2 pm, New Center Market, Fifth
and K streets NV.
The Petroleum Executive Commit
tee will meet Thursday at 1915 pm,
Raleigh Hotel. Twelfth and Penn
Sylvania avenue NV.
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Workers to Meet

The United Federal Workers of
America will hold its annual con-
vention Tuesday through Thurs
day at Almas Temple and the AM
bassador Hotel Between 300 and
400 delegates are expected.
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D. A. V.

Interior Chapter of Disabled
American War Veterans will meet at
8 pm. Tuesday at 2lO8 Sixteenth
street NV. Dr.. Hess. District of
Columbia commander and Comrade
Thomas Haley will speak.
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Patriotic Order of Americans

pm. Camp No. will meet October
7 for installation Of officers.
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Marshall Knows Fishing
AS Well as Civic Affairs
Trade Board
Director Also
APhotographer

Trinity nth and last in q series
OF sketches OF officers and direC-
tors OF the Board OF Trade.j
Evening star., 1940-08-01
Steomfitter's Slayer
Is Hunted by Police

Police continued their search to-
day for the colored man who struck
and fatally injured Jay r. Jett, 45-
year-old steamfitter, yesterday at
the new Municipal Center Building
when Mr. Jett ordered him not to
drink from the steamfitters' bucket.
The name and address of the
hunted man, who was employed on
the project as a truck driver, were
furnished police, but he had not ap-
peared at his residence, it was said.
Witnesses said the man hit Mr.. Jett
with 5h h-foot piece Of IL Inch
pipe.
Evening star., 1940-08-01
D. G. Doctor Is Named
To Preparedness Post

The American Medical Association
today announced the appointment
Of DR.. F. X. McGovern of 4707
Connecticut avenue NV. as q re-
gional chairman to help direct the
organization of the Nations med
ical facilities in the event Of war,
according to word received from
Chicago.
DR.. McGovern is OF so chair
men named by the associations 8
Committee on Medical Prepared
ness. He will have charge of the
Districts medical. cal.preparedness pro-
gram.
The committee announced that
one function of the chairmen would
be to report to the national COM
mittee a list of physicians from
each county of the State whose
services are believed to be neces-
sary for the maintenance Of civil.
ian health and who should, in the
opinion Of the State committee, be
exempt from military service"
Evening star., 1940-08-01

lean Neutrality Zone-and that
both ships were hit.
British sources in Rio said the
70 900 ton Alcantara, her speed re-
duced by what the Admiralty in
London had described as q 'elucky"
shot suffered while she was In pur-
suit OF the German, was heading
into Rio de Janeiro.
This indicated the Britishers
which took up the chase where the
Alcantara left of were in consid-
erable strength and possibly includ-
ed the famous cruiser squadron
which finished of. the German
pocket battleship Graf Spec outside
Montevideo harbor.
Some persons expressed belief
that the Alcantara had caught the
Nazi raider while she was refueling
and possibly refitting in the shelter
Of Trinidade, which frequently was
used as a German secret base in
the first World War.
It was indicated that the shell
which struck the Alcantara exploded
in the engine room. which naval
men here described as "a regular
cathedral" since the motors had
been removed to floor level and tur-
bines substituted before the war.
The problem of the pursuing Brit
ish warcraft was whether the raider
had fed seaward or was seeking
shelter along the rough Brazilian
coastline. .-.
The fight of Monday evening par
alleled the classic struggle of 1914
between the German armed mer-
chantman Cap Trafalgar and the
British armed cruiser Carmania OH
Trinidade Islands, which Is $50 miles
east OF Rio de Janeiro.
Battle of Haystacks."
The Cap Trafalgar, crack South
Atlantic liner before the first World
War, sailed from Buenos Aires to
keep a rendezvous with a German
gunboat at Trinidade, and there was
fitted out with cannon and heavy
machine-guns.
The Carmania. making one Of al
least a dozen inspections at Trim.
idade because of its use by the Ger
mans in that war as a raider base
caught and destroyed the Cap Ira.
falgar after a day-long flight.
That historic fight was called "the
battle Of the haystacks" because
Evening star., 1940-08-01
EVENING WASHINGTON G, THURSDAY,
Armed Merchantmen
Limps Into Rio After
Battling Nazi Raider
Sea Fight Occurred
Inside NeutroIity Belt;
Both Vessels Hit
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
RIO DE JANEIRO. Aug. 1.-The
heavily gunned British armed mer-
chant cruiser Alcantara, damaged
in q running sea fight with Ger
man raider in the South Atlantic,
steamed slowly into the harbor here
at midmorning.
It was reported that the 2,209-
ton Alcantara would dock at ship
yards on the Island of Wanna for
repairs.
Heavily Camouflaged.
The Alcantara was heavily camou-
flaged. From the shore only one Of
her two normal tunnels was visible.
She moved at once toward the VII
anna Island Shipyards.
Twenty-four hours Is the nor
NAL period which a ship of q bel
ligerent nation is permitted to re-
main in a neutral port. Exten-
sions may be granted under GER
tain circumstances, such as when
repairs are necessary to make her
seaworthy.
A Brazilian Navy spokesman in
dicated last night that the AL
cantara might have delayed her ar
rival to facilitate preparations for
quick repair work.
Pursuit Believed Continuing.
British warcraft presumably were
continuing pursuit of the raider. as
indicated in an Admiralty statement
in London yesterday.
An Embassy statement said the
sea battle occurred near the Bra
lillian island of Trinidade-well
within the American neutrality
zone-and that both ships were hit
the Alcantara suffering slight
damages" The Embassy said the
raider mounted eight 6-inch guns.
New York shipping circles said the
circumstances suggested that the
raider was the 10,000-ton Narvik,
understood to carry disappearing
6-inch guns. The Alcantara mounts
10 guns.
Evening star., 1940-08-01
Studebuker Hos Arm in Cost

DR.. John w. Studebaker, United
States Commissioner of Education,
is carrying on his duties III the In
terror Department Building today
with his left arm in partial cast.
He fractured his shoulder Tuesday
when he slipped and fell in a core
ridor. Busy with the national de-
fense training program, he con-
tinued work several hours before
going to a doctor.
Evening star., 1940-08-01
Wreck Victims
List of Identified Dead
In RuiIrood Crush

By the Associated Press.
AKRON, Ohio, Aug. 1.-The iden-
tilted dead in the Pennsylvania rail-
road wreck near here included:
Lawrence c. Letzkus, IS, of Pitts
burgh, sales manager of the cement
division of Pittsburgh Plate Glass
Co.
E. c. Clifford, Cuyahoga Falls.
Ohio.
w. B. Mckee, Akron, claim agent
for Pennsylvania Railroad.
Russell Way, Akron.
Charles Bilderback, baggageman,
Orrville.
Nelson Vaughan, Cuyahoga Falls.
Cameron Morris, Cuyahoga Falls.
Bruce Kelley, Akron.
E. w. Gibbons, Endicott, N. Y.
Fred Palmer, Cuyahoga Falls.
Wilbur D. Hartley, Akron.
F. H. Duve, Akron.
C. E. Carleton, Akron.
A. L. Bailiff, brakeman, 80, Akron.
Cleon Willis, Cuyahoga Falls.
Albert c. Burke, train dispatcher,
Cuyahoga Falls.
Charles F. Frank, Akron.
william Schmitz, Wheeling, w. Va.
Robert Edgar Orem, Akron.
Charles T. Squires, Cuyahoga
Falls.
Louis Fountain, porter, Cleveland.
Mrs. Eta Elizabeth Fahrney, New
Kensington. Pa.
Mary Joan Fahrney, s, New Ken
sington, Pa.
Otto Bedarf, 80, Akron, engineer
accountant for Erie Railroad.
Miss Nina Jane Morey. so, Akron.
Lois Helmick, %, Cuyahoga Falls.
Adam Ellenbrook, Akron.
Jacob Henry Peters, 23, Akron,
Evening star., 1940-08-01
British Worcroft Hunt
German Merchant Raider

BUENOS AIRES, Aug. / R-
British warcraft ranged angrily of
the Brazilian coast today in hot pur-
suit Of German merchant raider
already reported damaged by the
British armed merchant cruiser Al
cantara in brief sea battle which
returned war action to the Western
Hemisphere.
Oficial information was sparse,
but word from naval circles here
and in Montevideo and Rio de ia
NERO agreed that the engagement
occurred in the dusk of Monday
evening near the Brazilien island
of Trinidade-well within the Amer
Evening star., 1940-08-01

the towering superstructures Of both
vessels were SO torn by shellfire as
to resemble high tottering piles Of
burning straw.
Evening star., 1940-08-01

Pennsylvania Railroad employe.
Mary Badonsky, Is, Akron.
Margaret Lagami, Bayonne, N. j.
Elmer Davis, Cuyahoga Falls.
Mrs. Lillian Gilbo, Akron.
Mrs. Sophia Ellis, 60, Akron.
10 Ann Schreiber, II, Minneapolis
Evening star., 1940-05-13
| jamestown Day
Dispute Results
In 7 Observdnces
b. the Associated Press.


JAMESTOWN, Va, May ia
disagreement over the date of the
actual landing of the first settlers at
Jamestown will result in two cele-
brations this year of the anniver-
sary of the arrival Of Capt. John
Smith and his party on the Vir-
ginia peninsula.
The Association for the Preser-
vation Of Virginia Antiquities plan
ned the first celebration today. The
second observance will be held to-
morrow under the auspices of the
jamestown Society. which contends
that the English settlers, although
arriving of the jamestown site
on May 13, 1907, did not go ashore
until the following day.
Today's celebration provided for
the shipping by plane of relics from
the old Jamestown glass factory to
the New York Worlds Fair.
Jacqueline Cochran, noted avi-
atrix, was invited to fly down from
NeW York to be q guest OF honor
at tne exercises and then to fly
PACK with the relics. She planns9
20 ny to Richmond with the relics
tnls afternoon and to take on to-
morrow for New York.
Inc jamestown Society win OBJ
serve jamestown Day tomorrow BY
noiolns Its annual meeting here.