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Evening star., 1941-05-19
Bimonthy Government Pay Day Puts Strain Business
Enterprises seveFe Employees Soy stoeeer Plan
Would End Feast and Famine of Trade Here

bring their cars to the more eXpen-
sive downtown lots because they
know they can pay to get them out
when they go home"
Another parking lot manager with
the same experience said that park
ing lots lost money with the all-day
payday parking of Government en-
ployes cars. He explained that
when the US we're full, he couldn't
accommodate ''transients," motorists
who come in for an hours parking
and then leave. Added up over a day
a number of transient parkers will
bring more revenue to the parking
lots than capacity crowd of all-day
parkers.
With staggered paydays and pre-
sumaply fewer all-day parkers,
parking lot proprietors maintain,
the lots would be able to make room
for more transients and have to turn
less people away.
Travel Facilities Taxed.
The week end following paydays
puts an extra strain on bus and
train facilities already taxed by the
exodus of selectees on week end
leave
One bus company official said that
payday week end meant additional
drivers, coaches, baggagemen and
help all around. A ticket agent
commented that on Friday nights
following payday, ticket lines Is
people deep stretched out from four
windows-just about double the lines
on week ends before paydays.
The company official pointed out
that travel facilities were taxed BY
an accumulation of two weeks Of
people who wanted to go to points
within a radius of $50 miles.
At Union Station. where traffic
has increased by some so per cent
with the growth of defense activities
here. railroad official said the
alternate payday week ends meant
an additional traffic increase of 10 to
Is per cent. With approximately
1000 selectees to cope with in addi-
tion to the regular traffic, on week
ends, the extra burden resulting
from paydays means heavy load al
Union Station.
Red caps at trains and bus termi-
nails admit freely that traffic gets sc
heavy weary passengers have to
carry their own bags.
The passengers may not be Gov
ernment employees. but like a great
many other people in Washington
who are not Government employees
they are sharing in the payday bur-
den.
Evening star., 1941-05-19
NokesviI|e School Wins
Federation Track Meet
] ecial Dispatch to The Star.

SIeclaI Dispatch to The Star.
MANASSAS, Va. May 19.-Brents-
vile District High School. Nokes-
vile, won the Blue Ridge. Northern
Piedmont and Rappahannock Fed
Grafton track meet held Saturday
in the Manassas Gymnasium and
on the Swavely athletic field.
Counties in these three federations
of agricultural schools are Prince
William, Fauquier, King George.
Stafford, Caroline, Fairfax and
Loudoun.
The winning team. directed by R.
w. Beamer. Nokesville athletic ad-
wiser, is composed of Albert Rollins.
high scorer: Elwood Long. Gerald
Herring, Hester King. Richard King.
Ted Nelson and Edwin Nelson.
The degree team contest, in which
skill IN parliamentary procedure is
demonstrated, also was won by
BrentSville District School, Mem
bers of the team are: President,
Frederick Harpine; vice president,
Gerald Herring; secretary. Miller
WheEel; treasurer, Glen Somers;
reporter, Jack Sullivan; first con-
ductor, George Herring; second con-
ductor, Richard King; greenhands,
Ray Smith and Hester King; watch
dog, ElWood Long.
The public speaking contest was
won by David Hershburger of Beal-
ton.
Winners of finals in the track
meet were: Broad jump, Hampton
Alvey, .Haymarket; 880-yard run.
Hester King, Nokesville; 1OO-yard
dash, tied by Albert Rollins. Nokes-
vile, and Hampton Alvey, Haymar-
ket; 220-yard run, Elwood Long,
Nokesville; 440-yard run, Hester
King, NokeSville; shotput, Palmer
Smith. Haymarket; high Jump,
Noland, Warrenton, first; Albert
Rollins, Nokesville, second, and
Piercy. Haymarket. third: discus,
Robinson, Warrenton mile run,
Nelson, Nokesville; relay, Nokesville
team.
Evening star., 1941-05-19
Two Maryland Youths
Win Accounting Honors

Two Maryland youths won honors
in the 1910 National Farm, Home
and Crops Enterprise Accounting
contest supervised by the Extension
Service of the University of Mary
land. They are Robert S. De Lauder,
10, of Jefferson, named both an
Eastern sectional and a national
winner in farm accounting, and Fred
P. Kretzer, 18, of Williamsport, who
placed second in the sectional home
account phase.
Both boys will receive all-expense
trips to the Goth National All Club
Congress in Chicago next November.
De Lauder, as national winner,
also receives a 5000 COLLEGE s"h0I~"-
ship provided with all awards by
the International Harse-t O..
State Boys Club agent, E. G.
Jenkins, had previously named De
Lauder and Kretzer winners in the
State contest in farm accounting
and home accounting.
Evening star., 1941-05-19
Prince Georges Board
No. ; Is Expecting
Of Selectees
Questionnuires Will Be
Rechecked in Effort to
Fill June Quote

By Staff Correspondent of The Star.
UPPER MARLBORO, Md, May 49,
An investigation of the question
naires filled out by the 4076 men
who registered with Prince Georges
County Board No. s, probably will
have to be ordered soon in order
to fill the June quota, it was learned
today.
Board Chairman Fabian L. Au-
gustine revealed today that only
500 names remained to be classified
and that only two names are on the
available list for June. Deferments
and physical examinations are eX-
pected to eliminate a large part of
the 500 men still unclassified, leav-
ing an insufficient number to fill
the anticipated June quota, not yet
officially set. The May quota was
131 men. @a
as 158 Men Supplied.
The board has furnished $50 men
out of about $3.50 men classified, less
than per cent. If the same ratio
holds for the remaining 500 men,
the board will have only about 25
men to fill its June allotment, Mr..
Augustine explained.
In starting the investigation OF
the missionaries on which defer
ments we're based, the assistance of
States Attorney H. Winship Wheat
ley, jr., may be asked, Mr.. Augustine
said.
Careful Check Planned.
The board made no investigation
of missionaries submitted by reg
istrants unless it had reason to
believe that a misstatement had
been made, it was explained. How
ever, in going through the list a
second time, statements will be
checked carefully and any irregu-
larities discovered will be turned
over to proper authorities, according
to Mr.. Augustine.
Meanwhile. parents and relatives
of a group OF Prince Georges County
selectees being transferred from
Camp Lee Va, to Camp Pine, N. Y,
we're disappointed in an effort to
meet the train as it passed through
Washington yesterday. Notified in
advance that the train would wait
over here, many relatives were at
the station with packages and gifts,
but were unable to find the train,
which waited on a track on another
level than the one scheduled.
Evening star., 1941-05-19
National j. Pilots
Run Off With Honors
In IntercoI|ege Meet
First, Second and Third
High Individual Scores
Go to D. G. Students

Nationau University student pilots
with the honors at the first local
mid-Eastern flying meet of the
national intercollegiate flying
clubs yesterday at Hyde Field.
Clinton. Md. The meet was spon-
sored by the winning university.
Second place was taken by stu
dent pilots from Franklin and
Marshall College, Lancaster. Pa.
High-point scorer and individual
winner of the meet was James
Young of National University. Sec
ond-high scorer was Thomas K,
Campbell and third Louis Simon,
both of National University.
Mr. Young, who is employed at
the Social Security Board, has more
than ITS hours in the air. This
time has been accumulated for the
most part between the hours of
and am.
Winners of individual events were
as follows:
Bullseye landing contest from 500
feet, free approach-First, H. B.
Abernethy, National University; Sec
ond, Arthur Whitway, Franklin and
Marshall; third, James Young, Ma
tional.
Bomb-dropping-First, Bill Seth:
second. Shirley Mahr; third. jose
phine Garrison, all of National.
Precision landing to a line from
500 feet-First. Thomas K. Camp
bell; second. James Young; third,
Louis Simon, all of National.
Charles S. Logsdon, secretary to
the Contest Committee of the Ma
tional Aeronautic Associa ton. served
as chief judge at the meet. He said
that the field-control system estab-
lished by National University for
the meet was the best he has seen
at any air meet, regardless of size.
The meet was one of a number
of regional, sectional and national
meets sponsored by the Intewol-
legiate Flying Club, composed of
flying clubs at several hundred uni
ersltles and colleges in various
parts OF the United States.
Evening star., 1941-05-19
Body Found Near Tracks
Still Is Unidentified

The body of man found beside
the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
tracks near Bladensburg road and
Eastern avenue in Prince Georges
County last night was still uniden-
titled at the Gasch funeral home in
Bladensburg, Md, today.
County police found an unem-
ployment commission Identification
card issued to Joseph Frank Her
bert of 304 E street NV. near the
body but were unable to find any
one at the address who could iden-
tify him. The mans chest was
crushed and back broken, appar-
emily by a fall from train. Ap-
parently he was about 40
Detective C.. N. Thomson of the
county police was investigating the
case with DR.. James I. Boyd, county
medical examiner.
Evening star., 1941-05-19

From bank presidents to cab driv-
ers, the people who serve the en-
ployes of Washingtons principal in
business on a feast and famine"
basis.
That. it appeared today, is the
major result of the Government S
bimonthly pay system-and the
reason most Washington business
men would welcome plan to stagger
Federal pay days.
The influx of defense workers has
heightened the peaks and lowered
the valleys for businesses expand
ing to meet the demands.
Defense projects have made an
other problem more severe. Stores
have been accustomed to hire extra
help to take care of the payday
peaks. Now part-time, or contingent
workers, as they are called, are
harder to find; trained workers al
most impossible.
Downtown traffic, already con-
gested by the increase in popula-
ton, is virtually paralyZed by the
added strain OF payday crowds
while within stores, banks and
amusements spots-anywhere that
checks can be cashed and money
Spent-the lines are endless.
Burden on Banks.
To the large firms the bimonthly
system prevents an even distribution
of business. To the small business
men, to cab drivers who depend on
each days earnings, the peaks and
valleys of spending mean a fuctuat-
ing, uncertain income.
Under a bill introduced by Senator
Capper. Republic, of Kansas Federal
pay days would be staggered so that
there would be four per month.
Traffic Director William A. Van
Duzer and many persons in busi-
nesses most affected, however. would
prefer to have the pay system ar
ranged so that it would be staggered
to as many as 20 pay days.
Cashing pay day checks puts a
tremendous burden on department
stores and banks. Forced to keep
on hand large cash reserves, one
bank official said he had to trans
fer six employees from other Sec
tions of his bank to help with the
long lines at the cages.
Our president" he said, lis an
old-school banker and long lines at
the cages sometimes upset him"
Many of whom checks are cashed,
he said. have no account with his
Evening star., 1941-05-19

stations said his income was in
creased by 500 on payday and the
three days thereafter, but in the
following days business slowed to
standstill.
Before payday, several gas sta
ton men reported, motorists ask for
two OF three gallons in their gas
tanks and skimp on oil After pay
day they say Fill 'er up"
Parking Lots Filled.
Proprietors of parking lots in the
downtown area noted that by 8 am.
on the morning of payday, the lots
are so full that regular customers
have to be turned away. One pro-
prietor explained that while on
mornings before payday, Govern
ment employees ride the bus to work
or park out of the downtown area,
on the morning of payday they
Evening star., 1941-05-19

there were so accidents April 80
and SO on May /. On April 20 there
were only 80 and on May but 28
On April Is there were 40 accidents,
38 the day before and 81 the day
after On March 81 there were 81
accidents, As the day after and only
% the day before The previous
payday-March 15-there were but
27 accidents against "a the day be-
fore, but there were IS on the day
after.
Congests Traffic.
General downtown traffic conges-
ton slows up the Capital Transit
Co. buses and streetcars so that
anywhere from 10 to Is vehicles have
to make extra trips to maintain
schedules on paydays. a transit
spokesman said. In addition much
of the crowd load is pushed back to
later buses because of people stay
ing downtown to shop and pay bills.
The extra trip means overtime for
the drivers, conductors and motor
men
Like cab drivers, shoe string gas
station proprietors and most of the
larger ones would like to see less
f1uctuation in their incomes. The
proprietor of one of the smaller
Evening star., 1941-05-19
Defense Council Plans
Seminar for Speakers
: & Staff Correspondent Of The Star.

Ey Staff Correspondent Of The Star.
ALEXANDRIA, Va, May l9-
Francis Pickens Miller, chairman
of the Publicity Committee of the
Northern Virginia Regional Defense
Council, will conduct seminar for
speakers enlisted by the council for
a proposed educational and CO.
ordination program at pm. to-
day in regional headquarters here.
The council has engaged a num-
ber of prominent speakers to ap-
pear before civic clubs and other
organizations in the 13 counties
and two cities administered by the
council, according to Gardner L.
Boothe, chairman of the Northern
Virginia unit.
Evening star., 1941-05-19
Loudoun Plans Series
Of Farm Meetings
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
LEESBURG, IVA, May ia
series of meetings under the di-
rection of the Loudoun County A.
A. A. Committee has been planned,
County Agent j. r. Lintner an
nounced today. The hour OF the
meetings will be at 8 pm. The
first In the series will be held to-
morrow in the court house in Lees
burg. On Wednesday one meeting
will be held at the Hillsboro School
house, and one in the Aldie School
Auditorium, and on the Lincoln
High School Auditorium.
The final meeting, countrywide
affair, will be held at 8 pm. May
28 in the court house in Leesburg.
At this time a State A. A. A. Of
1ice official will discuss wheat
quotas.
Evening star., 1941-05-19
Nutrition Chuirmen Named

MANASSAS. Va. May 10 (Spe-
ciaD Miss Leona Kline, home
supervisor of the Farm Security
Administration, and R. r. Fishpaw,
Manassas agriculture teacher, ap.
pointed by the State Nutrition Com
mittee to organize nutrition work in
Prince William County, have selected
the following committee chairmen
to promote proper nutrition in their
communities: County co-chairmen,
Mrs. Harold Mccall, P A Lewis:
community chairman, Nokesville
district. Edmund Hooker; Gaines
vile district, Mrs. o. M. Douglas;
Dumfries district, Mrs. Agnes Cato:
Occuquan district, Mrs. Janet
Murphy; Coles district, Mrs. Emma
Carter; Manassas district, Mrs.
Charles Linton.
Evening star., 1941-05-19
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Department Stores Also Hit.

to work overtime those days to
handle the demand"
Department Stores Also Hit.
Staggering so as to have 20
Government pay days per month
instead of two. he maintained, would
probably result in fewer persons
without accounts cashing checks
at banks since department store
lines would be shorter and the
checks could be cashed there.
Under the present system, de-
partment stores are as bad off as
banks. Most of them put on as many
as eight extra clerks to cash checks
beside their regular cashiers.
One department store official re-
ported that on a single Saturday
pay day, his store cashed more than
100000 in Government checks dur
ing the afternoon. Another store
had 500 workers waiting at a time
to get their checks cashed.
Government employees, on the
sometimes mistaken theory that
they will have a shorter wait in de-
partment stores, get their checks
cashed there whether they make
purchases or not. The stores regard
the check cashing as a service but
would like to have the job evened
out over the month.
Would Mean Regular Jobs.
Beside the extra cashiers, con-
tingent workers are called into every
department of most of the big stores
for the payday rush. These part
time jobs, store official said, are
filed by workers less competent than
the regular help end even they are
getting harder to find.
The store official maintained that
staggered pay days would result
in more regular jobs and less
contingent help.
Department stores find an item
like fitting rooms serious prob
lem. In the lean" days, the fit
ting rooms are empty. On "fat"
days, a fitting room looks like the
inside of a rush-hour subway.
The process of diminishing the
paycheck also involves paying bills
Evening star., 1941-05-19
10000 Visitors
Fort Meade
Military Show
155th Infantry
Is Camp Host
Over Week End
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
FORT GEORGE G. MEADE. Md,
May 19.-The 155th Infantry re-
sumed routine training today after
putting on a show for the benefit
of more than 10000 visitors on the
parade grounds yesterday.
The regiment, in command of Col.
D. John Markey, paraded with its
wartime strength Of 1859 men, in
cluding $50 selectees who arrived
only the day before from New
Cumberland, Pa, reception center.
They brought the regiment up to
full strength for the first time
since the World War.
Residents from all sections of
Maryland and from neighboring
Pennsylvania, the District and Vir-
ginia were in the record crowd for
the show which the famous Fight
ing First put on for admirers as
part of the 29th Divisions program
to have each regiment host in camp
over a week end.
Takes Half Hour to Pass Stand.
The more than 1000 infantrymen
and their equipment took close to
half an hour to pass the reviewing
stand The three battalions, the
unlettered companies and the en-
tire complement of selectees passed
the stand in normal formation the
first time around.
On their second march past the
first battalion was in masSed forma-
ton with fixed bayonets, the third
battalion passed wearing gas masks.
motor equipment passed in columns
of two and firing machine guns of
the heavy weapons units chartered a
noisy farewell salute from their
motorized mounts.
The regiment was reviewed by
Col. Markey and his staff and by
Brig. Gen Dwight H. Mohr, COM
mander general of Maryland's
recently created home guard.
Visitors began to jam the regi-
mental area early in the day as a
selected group of soldiers of the
! various companies returned from
week end leaves before 10 o'clock.
Band Concerts Begin Day.
| Activities got under way early
with band concerts in the battalion
areas at 9 o'clock, followed by
drum corps demonstration and regi-
mental church services at l0:30.
Protestants Worshiped in the grove
west of regimental headquarters
with Chaplain Frank Lambert con-
/ Quoting services. Those of the
( Catholic faith attended mass in the
regimental recreation hall with
Chaplain Eugene P. O'Grady Of
ficiating.
Shortly after noon company in
spection gave the visitors Q brief
insight into the training their
friends and relatives are receiving
under the defense program.
From the regimental area the
men then marched to the parade
grounds.
The "at-home" activities started
Saturday afternoon with regimental
athletic contests. Boxing bouts we're
held that night.
Evening star., 1941-05-19
Washington Man Heads
Burbers' Association

BY the Associated Press.
FREDERICK. Md. May 19.-Tony
]. Durso of Washington is the new
president of the Maryland State and
District of Columbia Association
of BARRIERS.
He was chosen at the annual meet
ing yesterday at which William c.
Birthright of Indianapolis, Inter-
national BARRIERS president, was the
principal speaker.
Fred B. Driscoll of Cumberland
was elected secretary treasurer.
Vice presidents named included An
gelo Ruocco, r. K. Atkinson, Bu1der
Limeburg and H. A. Wheeler Of
Washington.
Evening star., 1941-05-19
Col. E. W. Jordan Elected

OLD POINT. Va, May 10 (P.-
The Virginia department, Reserve
Officers Association. elected Col. E.
w. Jordan of Roanoke president
to succeed Col George B. West Of
the Sd Corps area surgeons office
in Baltimore, at the departments
18th annual meeting here Saturday.
Evening star., 1941-05-19
Thompson Goes to U. Of Va.

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (P,-
Randall Thompson, one of America s
foremost composers and for 10 years
director of the Curtis Institute of
Music in Philadelphia. has been
elected professor of music and head
OF the Division of Music in the
School of Fine Arts of the Univer-
sity Of Virginia, President John
Lloyd Newcomb announced TODAY.
Evening star., 1941-05-19
MARYLAND Quota Is 879.

ANNAPOLIS, Md, May 10 .lPl.-
Gov. O'Conor announced today that
879 Maryland men would be sum-
moned to selective service in the
second June draft call.
Headquarters of the Sd Corps
Area requisitioned the State for 596
white and 283 colored men to be in
Quoted into service for one year of
training between June 13 and 20.
Evening star., 1941-05-19
Open Meeting Set Tonight

An open meeting of the Sligo
Park Hills Citizens Association will
be held at o'clock tonight at the
Church of the Ascension, Silver
Spring, Md. Stuart M. Armstrong,
president today urged all who were
interested in fighting construction
Of apartment houses in Sligo Park
way to attend.
Evening star., 1941-05-19
Virginia Asked to Send
1854 From June II to 20

RICHMOND, Va, May 19 lPl.-
Virginia has been asked to furnish
1854 selectees for induction June IL
20 under the 18th selective service
call received Saturday by Gov.
Price from Maj. Gen. Walter S.
Grant, commanding general of the
Sd Corps Area.
Including the latest call for 596
white and 453 colored men, Virginia
will have furnished 1877 men
8.793 white and 1924 colored-
through Selective service.
Evening star., 1941-05-19
Hero's Mother Given Medal

SEVERNA PARK, Md, May 10
R.-Mrs Saunders NJ Almond was
presented a gold metal last night
on behalf of her son, Walter Jared
Hills Almond, 18, who gave his life
in an attempt to rescue two younger
boys on the Severn River March T.
The medal was presented at cere-
monies unveiling tablet In his
honor at Severn School.
Evening star., 1941-05-19
Ruy Tucker Will Speak

Ray Tucker, Washington corre-
spondent, will speak at 8 O'Clock to-
night at Grace Church Parish Hall
in Silver Spring in another OF a
series of lectures held under aus
pices of the Woman's Guild of the
church. Mr.. Tucker will speak on
News Behind the News"
Evening star., 1941-05-19
Toll in Previous Months.

In May, Beware OF:
I. Careless walking at night.
Six of the eight persons killed
in traffic during May, 1910.
were struck after dark.
2. Crossing a street at point
other than a crosswalk. Two
pedestrians met death by this
action in May last year.
The six other traffic victims
were injured while either cross
ing street against a proper
signal. attempting to jump onto
a moving vehicle. attempting to
stop stampeding horses. stand
ing in a button safety zone.
crossing at an uncontrolled IN
tersection or riding in an auto
mobile.
Evening star., 1941-05-19
Veteran Rector Dies

NORFOLK, Va, May 19 Ff-The
Rev. Edward Patton Miner, 81, rector
of st. Mary's Episcopal Church for
more than 80 years. died yesterday
in a Norfolk hospital after an ILL
ness of 16 weeks.
Evening star., 1941-05-19
PIT. A. Will Elect

Officers for the coming year will
be elected at the regular meeting
of the Parent Teacher Association
at o'clock tonight In the College
Park (Md.) School.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-04-12
Young Fl. Lewis
Soldiers Fibbed;
Now in Trouble

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