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Evening star., 1940-05-24
Jewish Appeal Group
To Report Progress

Pushing the drive to aid refugees
through the United Jewish Appeal,
workers in the mems and women's
division of the campaign were
scheduled to hold a meeting at the
Jewish Community Center today to
report their progress.
A total of 1900 contributions was
reported at rally of the youth
division of the camapign in the
center last night. The goal of the
three-week campaigning, which is
now half over, is $500 contributions.
Rabbi Isadore Breslau, co-chair-
man of the campaign, told workers
at the youth division rally that the
threatened spread of war to South
eastern Europe has meant new diff
culties for the relief workers abroad.
"The German occupation of Hol-
land has placed in jeopardy 100000
Dutch Jews as we'll as 81 900 German
refugees who had found temporary
haven In the Netherlands" he said.
A large number of refugees in Nor
way and Denmark have been ar
rested, he added.
Evening star., 1940-05-24
900 Dutch Sailors in U. 5
Ask News Of Families

More than 900 crew members and
officers of three Holland-American
Line ships tied up in Hoboken, N. j..
have asked the American Red Cross
to obtain information about their
families In the Netherlands. the Red
Cross national headquarters an
nounced today.
Most of the men were from
Amsterdam, Rotterdam South and
The Hague, each subjected to heavy
bombardment during the Nazi in
vasion. The inquiries were being
prepared in printed form aboard
one of the ships, the luxury liner
New Amsterdam, forwarded to ma
tional headquarters, and then sent
by clipper plane to the International
Red Cross in Geneva. Cooperation
of the German Red Cross has been
assured in servicing this type of
inquiry, it was said.
Evening star., 1940-05-24
1000 cousins File Claims,
Stumping Court in Will Case

Miss White made her will May IL,
1888, and later wrote two codicils.
The lawyers figure that by the time
taxes and other expenses are paid,
value of the estate will drop to about
$500 900. Attorney Nicolaides said
he and his colleagues expect an
early trial, probably in the fall term
Of District Court. Filing the suit In
District Court were Francis p. White
and George I. Berger, who were
named executors N the will.
Miss White left 5000 to Holy
Cross College at Brookland, D. c.;
$4,000 to the Catholic Charities of
Washington; $1,000 to the Little
Sisters Of the Poor; 5000 to st.
Joseph's Home and School, and
5000 to the pastor Of the Church
of the Immaculate Conception, as
well as an equal sum to Archbishop
Michael j. Curley Of Baltimore.
Other benedciaries also were pamed.
Evening star., 1940-05-24
BY MIRIAM GUTENBERG.

BY MIRIAM OTTENBERG.
It all seems familiar to Anna
Neagle.
Just yesterday, as time goes, she
played British nurse in the World
War, the most famous of them all
martyred Edith Caven.
For months she lived Edith Cavell
while she made the motion picture,
and for which she studied British,
French and German documents on
the World War. The occupation of
Brussels, the suffering and the in
humanity of invasion were real to
her then.
They are real again, and to Anna
Neagle, caught between the past
and the present, it is as if the words
she spoke in front of a movie
camera have been translated into
reality; that what she once acted
she is forced now to feel.
She can't afford to. It's important
that she forget the grimness; that
she make the American public forget
She was ever grim.
That's the point of the personal
appearance tour that brought her to
Washington today. It's all part of
a campaign to show the movie-goers
of the land that Miss Neagle is a
gay young thing, who dances and
sings and looks very pretty. Nurse
Edith Cavell' was last year. Shes
Irene" the perennial musical COM
edy Cinderella, now. And she looks
the part. Her reddish blond hair
is curled softly to her shoulders.
The trim black dress and casual
brimmed hat she wore to meet the
press might have come out of any
young working girls closet.
From what she said, and what she
left unsaid, the story is simple that
she wanted to 60 back home, to
drive an ambulance, to sing for the
soldiers at the front, somehow to
go back into the character of the
woman she played a year ago. But
she was told there were plenty of
ambulance drivers, that she could
be more useful here. At least, she'd
be earning money to send back home
In the form of income tax.
So, though she can't, like Edith
Cavell, help British prisoners escape
from the Germans or ease the suf-
fering of the wounded, she can earn
money dancing to the melodies of
Irene"
But when she leaves the stage,
when she rests in musty dressing
rooms across America between ap-
pearances, she can stop being
Irene" She is then only a woman
whose country is at war, whose
brother is somewhere on some ocean,
commander in the Royal Navy.
Her travelling companions tell her
"only the best and the worst" But
she can fill in the rest. She's gone
through all this before.
Evening star., 1940-05-24

the United States Army to eligible
young men,"
One OF the large city advertisers
replied: II am instructing our ad-
vertisement department to follow
through with such publicity as will
best serve the purpose
Considerable correspondence has
poured in the local Office, Sergt.
Morgan said. One letter from an
unidentified professor challenged a
recruiting officer to race from the
Office to the Washington Monument
and back. Sergt. Morgan said this
was one of the many ways applicants
have tried to prove their physical
fitness.
Another letter from a minister
said he would like to become an
Army chaplain. He said, in part:
"It is my ambition and desire to
serve God and my country by
serving the men of our Army"
At the adjutant generals Office in
the War Department it was said
mail applications have doubled since
the national defense program came
into national prominence.
Drive for $4,000 Planned,
The Army normally needs $4,000
men a year to fill vacancies through
deaths, physical disability and other
severances from the service. The
ranks will be filled through new en-
listments, e-enlistments and bro
ken service enlistments. Over and
above this drive will begin Mon
day to recruit $1,000 men by July /.
After the first of the fiscal year 3d.
600 more men will be sought, it was
said today. Congressional authority
Evening star., 1940-05-24
By WILLIAM A. MILLEN.

When Miss Mary Frances White,
rs, died here in April of last year
she left will providing that each
of her cousins" should receive
1000 from her estate estimated
at $570, 900.
With the desk Of the register Of
wills, Col. Theodore L. Cogswell,
covered with more than 1000 ap-
plications of kin claimers-hundreds
from Ireland and some from New
Zealand-District Court was asked
today to define the term cousins. I"
Attorneys William F. Kelly, Henry
w. Sohon and F. j. j. Nicolaides,
who filed complaint against the
principal beneficiaries named in
the will, which included q number
of Catholic University institutions,
fear that the term may be so broad
that the number might be endless.
Evening star., 1940-05-24

permits an Army of 100000 men at
full strength.
The new recruits will be taken in
at the rate of from 1880 to $4,000
men a month until the quota is
filled. The flying cadet program
will be increased from 2,400 to a
maximum of $500 men a year. In
all, 8,649 aviators are needed under
the normal program.
Applicants for pilot must be be-
tween 20 and 26 years of age and
have at least two years of college
education. On completion of train
ing successful students are commits
stoned in the Air Corps Reserve.
Evening star., 1940-05-24
Mckinley Dramatic Club
Tournament Set Toniqht

Mckinley High Schools Dramatic
Club will give its tournament of
plays tonight at o'clock in the
school auditorium with four groups
competing for two silver cups.
One award goes to the best actor
and the other to the best cast. The
competition was organized IL years
ago by Miss Rhoda Watkins, q
teacher interested in dramatics.
OF the four groups competing two
will represent the senior class, one
the juniors and one the sophomores.
The senior play will be "The Sire
de Maletroit's Deer" and Back
Stage" The juniors will give "The
Command Performance" and the
sophomores "A Tantrum." Judges
will be Miss Watkins and Father
Reginald Coffey.
Evening star., 1940-05-24
Why Must They Die? No2 s' Dos s,t In 1''s Ssss Some
One OF Series OF Factual Analyses of Trac

The place: Twenty sixth street and
Pennsylvania avenue NV.
The accident: A 13-year-old boy
was fatally injured when he and
a 15-year-old companion were
struck by a westbound automobile
while standing in the extreme west
end of a button safety zone on
Pennsylvania avenue at Twenty
sixth street. The victims body was
thrown about 30 feet onto the
streetcar tracks. He died two hours
later in Casualty Hospital. Inquest
testimony revealed that the boy
died of fractured skull and a
compound fracture of the left leg.
His companion was admitted to the
hospital suffering from a brain
conclusion. Witnesses testified that
the car travelled about 70 feet
through the safety zone before
striking the two boys. Police said
there are only two buttons on the
zone and both are on the western
end.
The time: About 9 pm, May 18.
Weather: Clear. Visibility good.
The street: Straight with a slight
downgrade.
The vehicle: A 1885 coach. Brakes
on the car were described by the
police as perfect. The windshield
was clear, and the lights were on
at the time of the accident. The
driver told police he was travelling
about is miles an hour.
The driver: A 32-year-oid man
with is years driving experience
and no previous accidnet record.
He testified he did not know he
was driving through q safety zone,
because he was q resident of New
Jersey and had never been in the
District before. He said he did
not see the boys until Just before
Evening star., 1940-05-24
Capt. Miller Heads
New Traffic Bureau:
Revamp Move Seen
Maj. Brown Believed
Planning Modernizotion
Of Entire Department

Appointment of Capt. Arthur E.
Miller as inspector in charge of a
new Traffic Investigation Bureau
was believed today to be Police Chief
Ernest w. Browns first step in a
general plan to modernize the whole
department.
Maj. Brown said the new bureau
would be established and equipped
in the near future under direction
of Capt. Miller, who has spent most
of the past year studying modern
traffic control and investigation
methods at Northwestern Univer-
sity's Traffic Institute.
The new bureau, it was believed,
will be the first of several changes,
possibly including the consolidation
of various bureaus, to be put into
effect about July /, although Maj.
Brown declined to discuss his plans
in detail at this time. Capt. Miller's
promotion by the Commissioners
will become effective June /.
Records to Be Centralized.
Maj. Brown now is working on
plans to modernize the filing systems
of the department, called "anti-
quated' by some officials who did
not wish to be quoted.
Records of crime and criminals
will be centralized and brought up
to date in line with filing systems
Of various Federal departments, it
was said.
Capt. Miller, an expert on traffic
safety. will work on public educa-
ton, traffic law enforcement and en-
gineering improvement projects. He
was appointed to fill the vacancy
created by the death last Thursday
of Inspector Benjamin A. Lamb.
Inspector William E. Holmes will
continue in his present capacity as
District supervisor of traffic, it was
said.
One OF capt. Mlller'S new duties
will be to address civic groups on
traffic safety measures.
Miller Joined Force in 1919.
Appointed to the Police Depart
ment in 1919, Capt. Miller was
made sergeant in 1928, a lieuten-
ant in 1881 and captain in 1885.
He graduated this month as presi-
dent and valedictorian of his class
at Northwestern University Traffic
institute, where he has been de-
tailed since last September. Since
holding the rank of captain he has
been head of Precincts and l.,
having been transferred to the lat
ter precinct in July of last year.
Men slated to fill the vacancies
created by the promotion of Capt.
Miller are 1t. Walter T. Storm,
acting captain of Precinct 3, to be
a captain; Sergt. James E. Silvea,
night inspector, to be lieutenant,
and Pvt. Howard Covell, attached
to Inspector L. I. H. Edwards Of
flee, to be sergeant.
Evening star., 1940-05-24
Defense Measures
Double Capitals
Army Recruiting
Daily Applications at
locoI Office Number
More Than 50

Applications at the Washington
recruiting Office have doubled since
President Roosevelt's recent call for
greater national defense, Maj. Seth
Gayle, jr., officer in charge, said to-
day.
The Office, at 631 Pennsylvania
avenue NV, is handling more than
so applicants a day. OF these, about
three-quarters are accepted, Sergt.
Norman w. Morgan, recruiting Off
Ger, said.
During typical forenoon, seven
men were examined today. OF five
accepted, four were original recruits
and one a enlistment. Three men
will be sent to Fort Monroe, Va, to
join the Coast Artillery, one to Fort
Benning, Ga, for the infantry. and
the re-enlsted man returns to the
headquarters company here.
The Office telephone has been kept
busy with calls for information on
how to get into the Army. Many of
these calls, Sergt. Morgan said, are
about the Air Corps.
Local Staff Increased.
This corps area is expected to re-
cruit 2,700 men by the end of June.
OF these, between 400 and 500 are
expected to be taken into the Army
through the Washington Office, a
substation of the Baltimore area
Office. Because of the increased work
the staff of the local Office has taken
on four extra men.
A survey of recent applicants
shows most of the men are about 20
years old and have had two years
of high school education. Most of
these are unemployed, out of school
approximately six months.
Few transients apply at the local
Office, Sergt. Morgan said. They are
required to have a statement from
the chief of their home town police
as well as a record of their previous
employment, he explained.
Maj. Gayle said the two local radio
stations of the National Broadcast
ing Co. have allotted time to the
local office for appeals to join the
Army. Beginning next Monday
night, the program will be heard
over stations WMAL and WRC from
10 pm. to 10:30 pm. The series,
which will be on the air five Mon
day nights will feature music by
the 18th Infantry Band.
Advertisers Aid Requested.
To augment the recruiting drive,
Maj. Gayle has written a number of
large local advertisers asking CO.
operation. He asked the advertisers
to include substantially the follow
ing in their copy: 1--WE favor ade-
quate preparedness for national de-
fense and recommend enlistment in
Evening star., 1940-05-24
Collier Will Attend
Indion Book Discussion

John Collier, commissioner of In
dian Affairs, Interior Department,
Will attend an informal discussion
OF the new word-with-picture book
on present-day Indian problems, "As
Long as the Grass Shall Grow" by
Oliver La Fargo, to be held at pm.
tomorrow in the Bookshop, 916 Sew
enteenth street NV.
Others who will attend are Helen
M. Post, photographer for Mr.. La
Farge's book, and Edwin Rosskam,
editor Of the Face Of America"
series, of which the La Fargo book
Is the third. Ofdcials In Indian af-
fairs and related Government serv-
Ices have been invited
Evening star., 1940-05-24
ChiIdren's Crusade
Benefit to Be Toniqht

Arrangements have been completed
for the presentation of the Chill
dren's Crusade benefit show tonight
at o'clock at Roosevelt High
School. The show, burlesque
version of East Lynne" will be
given by drama and choral groups
of third division school teachers and
is sponsored by nine parent-teacher
associations.
Full Endorsement of the benefit
has been given by Mrs. c. D. Lowe,
president of the District Congress Of
Parents and Teachers, and DR.. Julia
Hahn, supervising principal of the
third division.
Evening star., 1940-05-24
Virainio Alumni Eject

Thomas G. Barringer was elected
president of the Washington Chapter
of the University of Virginia Alumni
Association at meeting last night
at the Carlton Hotel. He succeeds
DR.. William B. Marbury. Other
officers elected are DR.. LIE Roy Hyde,
vice president; Boyenton Livingston,
secretary, and John Bomar, treas
urer.
Evening star., 1940-05-24

Diagram shows how 13-yearold boy, standing button
saey zone on the northeast Pennana
street NV struck by westbound automobile
after it had travelled 10 feet through companion
also was injured The victim thrown feet and
died two hours later in Emergency Hospital
the boy hit and the crcled X shows body was
picked up
Evening star., 1940-05-24

Coroner's jury verdict: The driver
was held for Police Court action
under the Negligent Homicide Act.
Evening star., 1940-05-24
Traffic Record

The traffic record, as revealed
at police headquarters for "a
hour period ending at 8 am.
today.
Fatalities, none.
Accidents, 26.
Motorists injured, 2.
Motorists arrested, BAT.
Pedestrians injured, 6.
Pedestrians arrested for vio-
lation Of pedestrian control
regulations, 2.
Evening star., 1940-05-24

striking them. There were skid
marks Is feet before the point Of |
impact, police said.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-06-21
ANTHONY NASTRI
AGAIN HONORED
Waterbury Man Chosen c,
M. A. State President
For Fifth Term

For the fifth consecutive year
the Cigarette Merchandising Asso-
citation of Connecticut. Ince meet
ing last evening In Hotel 0arde, New
Haven. honored Anthony r. Nastri
of waterbury by electing him to
the presidency Of the organization,
A. j. Masone, also Of this city, was
again chosen for the ONCE Of secre-
tary.
The date for formal installation Of
officers as we'll as for the annual
outing of the association will be
selected at a special business meet
ing to be held next Tuesday even-
ing at Hotel Bond, Hartford.
The complete slate of officers and
directors chosen last evening in
cluded:
President, Anthony r. Nastri, Wa
terbury; vice president, Robert Zhn-
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-06-21
YALE SUMMER
SCHOOL OPENS
II e avy Enrolment For
Teachers College Ses.
sion Starting Next Friday

New Haven, June 2l-Preliminary
registration and dozens Of letters OF
inquiry indicate Q heavy enrolment
In the summer session Of the Con-
necticut State Teachers College to
be held on Yale University campus,
formal registration for which opens
at Dwight hall next Friday morning
(June 28), according to o report
issued this morning by F. e. Engle-
man, director Of the summer school.
The session, scheduled to open
July ! and continue through Aug.
Q, Is planned to meet the needs Of
teachers from the nursery school
providing many areas Of study
and profitable to those not In the
teaching profession.
Wide offerings are available In
the academic fields Of science, Eng.
lish and literatlre, history, mathe-
mates, health, business education,
and art and music. Although en-
phasis Is given to the professional
content particularly helpful to the
elementary school teacher" DR.
Engleman stated. "the program for
secondary teachers extends into the
fields Of curriculum, guidance. met
hods, adolescent psychology, general
workshop in secondary education,
and language teaching at the high
school level, as well as methods In
the special fields Of social science,
commerce, industrial arts, English,
mathematics, and science.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-06-21
World War Inspires
Graduation Addresses
Mayor SculIy Urges Crosby Seniors to Face World
With COurage..DiplOmas Presented to sos Students

James Frederick Meyers, Edmund
Marian Mierzwinski, Gertrude Mi
liza, Edna E. Millerick, Helen Eliz-
abeth Mitchell, Dennis s. Mollica.
Evelyn Marie Molzon, George L.
Mantango, Garrett F. Moore.
Charles Walter MunSon, Lila S.
Williamson, Richard J. Nave,
George Grady Nichols. Paul ".
Noonan, Nancy Ellen Northrop.
John Nowacki, Isabel Jane ObSt.
John Joseph OLeary, Augustine
T. O,Neil, Edward Anthony Oran-
tas, Paul A. Pullette, Charles
william Palomha, Jr., PasQuale
Palumbo, william Joseph Pascucci.
Elphidia Mary Paulone, Barbara
Beth Peck, Charles James Pelletier.
Betty L. Petitjean, Joseph Thomas
Phelan, Nancy Christian Plat,
Louis Porretti, Verna Louise Powell,
Edward Murray Prulx,
Also: Arthur ]. Rabinowitz, Mary
Balgown Raehurn, Janet L. Ray
mond, Marion Risk, Cynthia Jane
Rittenband, Helen Ritucci, Marie
Doris Rivet, Esther H. Roossin,
Virginia s. Root, Robert Lee Row
ley, Doris Eileen Salston. Fred j.
Santa Lucia, Joseph ]. Santalucia,
Rose Sanford, Helen Marie Savage,
John Louis Scarpa, Basil william
Schwartz, Paul William SchweitZer,
Edward T. Seward, Frederick Carl.
ton Seidel, Aids Edward Smaller,
Sidney Norman Shapiro, Rosemary
Shea, John James Shell, Ridgway
Foulks Shinn, Jr, JacQuine Ernes-
tine Stills, Oscar Silverman, Richard
Wallace Skibinski, Arnold 4. Smith,
Constance Hope Smith, Kenneth
Franklin Smith, Isabel Hynes Snow
man, Lillian Solomon. Berkeley
Soulds, Jerry Squires, Alfred Ed
ward Stasonis, Frederick George
Staudt, Harold Stein, Earle M.
Stetson, Jrs Elma Theresa Steward,
Alan Leonard Stoddard, Pauline
Frances Stoll, Thomas L, Summa,
Janet G, Surgener, Joseph Carl
Swirsky, Thomas v. Tammany, jan
ice Z. Tappin, Pauline Jean Taylor,
Corinne Marguerite Thomas, Ger
trude v. Truncale, Ralph j. Vaughn,
Jr,, Donald Vensel, Victor ]. Ver-
hyla, Felix Stephen Vitkauskas. Elias
Constantine Voulgaris, ]. Robert
Walker, Emma Warn, William Leon
ard Warner, Bertha Rosalie Webb,
George Herbert Webster, Ruth Z.
Whelan, Lillian v. White, Frederick
M. Wiedorn, Roger Thornton VIII
liams, Lorraine Wolff, Betty Hickcox
Woodland, Curtis r. Worthen, Mil
dred Vivian Wylie, Sophie Yasin-
sky and Donald Rowley zeissett.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-06-21

Australians 1880 sugar cane crop
Of over 100000 tons broke oil req
ords.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-06-21
|Stassen: One Keynoter
Who'll Say Something
BY JOSEPH n. BALL

Especial NEA Service Correspondent
st. Paul, June 2i--Minnesotans
who have watched the meteoric po-
litical career Of their 80 year old
governor, Harold z. Stassen, are dead
certain Of his keynote speech at the
Republican national convention in
Philadelphia will not be the usual
cut and dried "view with alarm" and
point with pride" keynote.
Stassen never has dealt In mean
ingless generalities In this state,
and the Minnesotans do not expect
him to do so at Philadelphia, despite
the difficulties Of a party keynoter
with q platform still unwritten.
Judging from his position on state
policies, here are some Of the things
his fellow Mlnnesotans will expect
to hear In that keynote:
IMMEDIATE
DEBT REDUCTION
Keep the United States out Of war
except as q last resort to defend Our
liberties.
Build O national defense to safe.
guard this hemisphere by calling In
the best-equipped men to do the Job.
Take immediate steps toward re-
ducing the national debt and elimi-
mating deficits, by economies In gov
eminent, and by increasing taxes II
necessary.
Most important, make democratic
government more efficient In action
by culling out dead wood, abolishing
executive boards and commissions
and centralizing authority In single
administrators to avoid buck-pass-
Ing.
Decentralize relief Administered ton
and take 1t and social security out
Of politics by strengthening civil
service.
Abandon agricultural production
restrictions as O permanent policy.
Take immediate steps toward elm.
nation Of labor industrial strife.
Encourage industry.
DROVE PROGRAM
THROUGH LEGISLATURE
The list could 40 on and on. Those
are the sort Of things Stassen advo.
Gated In his 1888 campaign. And the
things he advocated as O candidate,
he did as governor, driving through
luke-warm legislature an exten.
sive program.
In three years stassen has risen