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Evening star., 1941-07-08
High School Youth
Held in Series Of
Bethesda Fires
16-Yeur-OId Student
Blamed in rs Blozes
In 24-Month Period

I A series of 25 fires in the Bethesda
area covering two-year period
and resulting in damage exceeding
$4,000 has been cleared up with
/ the arrest of 16-year- old Bethesda
Chevy Chase High School student,
Montgomery County police said
today.
The youth, held since last night
without charge pending a decision
/ by States Attorney Ben G. Wilker-
Z son, jr., on whether to hear the case
in Juvenile Court or bring it before
/ the Circuit Court grand jury, had
been under surveillance for several
weeks and was picked up for ques-
tioning after two fires Sunday night,
one of them at his own home re-
Sulting in damage estimated at more
than $1,000
Police quoted him as saying he
liked the excitement" of watching
the fire engines dash to the scene.
He said he had read about Wilson
Everhart, 19-year-old former men,
Der of the Bethesda Volunteer Fire
Department, who is now serving a
four-year term for setting fires, in
cluding one in the Bethesda Chevy
Chase High School, but had not
been associated with him.
Burning Paper Leads to Arrest.
A Harrisburg pa newspaper
found among a pile of burning rags
and papers under the porch OF
Browns store on Old Georgetown
road and Cedar lane Sunday night
by John L. Imirie. who was driving
past and noticed the smoke, led to
the arrest. A half hour before, a
fire of undetermined origin caused
damage estimated at more than
81 900 to a home in Alta Vista, a
few blocks away.
1t was known that the youth
had been in the vicinity OF Harris
burg several weeks ago and after
questioning, police said, he admitted
causing both the fires Sunday night.
Further investigation brought forth
the admission, according to police,
that he had been setting fires for
the last two years, varying from the
small brush variety to others in
volving automobiles, garages and
homes, all of them in the Bethesda
area.
Had Been Watched by Police.
Included was a house under con-
struction on Roosevelt street less
than a block from his own home
which resulted in a loss estimated
at $4,000 to $4,000, few months
ago, police said. The blaze broke
out while a night watchman was
away for a few minutes for cup
of coffee.
The youth had been watched by
police because of his regular attend
ance at fires in the vicinity, one of
which, in a garage near his home,
he discovered" himself. Police
said he told them that on one
occasion recently he tried to start
a fire in an automobile but that
the paper wick he stuck in the
gasoline tank went out before the
| flames reached the gasoline.
Evening star., 1941-07-08
Committees Named
To Direct Collection
OF Aluminium Here
Mrs. Harry S. Benton
To Solicit Donations
In District Homes

District officials and civic leaders
today went ahead with plans for
an intensive campaign July 81 to
25 for the collection of aluminium
pots and pans to aid national de-
fense. Several committees were set
up at a meeting held today at the
call of Capt. H. C. Whitehurst,
executive officer of the District De-
fense Council.
Mrs. Harry S. Bernton, head OF
the Volunteer Service Committee OF
the Defense Council. was named
chairman of an aluminium cam
paign committee to take charge of
residential selections.
James E. Collihower. past presi-
dent of the Board of Trade and
the Merchants and Manufacturers
Association, was appointed chair
man of a group to solicit business
houses and professional establish
ments for scrap aluminium.
Norman Kal, past president of the
Washington Advertising Club, was
placed in charge of publicity for the
drive. Yet to be appointed is the
chairman of committee to be
placed in charge of collection and
TRANSPORTATION of donated aluminium
ware
P. Y. K. HoWat, chairman Of the
industrial resources committee OF
the District Defense Council, is gen.
eral chairman of the campaign.
1t was tentatively planned to have
private homes and business places
solicited for aluminium donations
July %. to have trucks collect the
donations the next day, and to have
a cleanup of donations and collec-
tions July "a.
The donated aluminium will be
carried to repositories, one of which
will be established in each of the
13 precincts and one additional
holder to be erected on the front
lawn of the District Building. Police
Supt. E. w. Brown, who is chairman
of the Civil Protection Committee
of the District Defense Council, was
named chairman of the committee
to protect the aluminium when il
has been placed in the bins.
Among those who met today with
Capt. Whitehurst were Mr.. Howat
Arthur j. Sundlun, president of the
M. & M; Fred A. Smith, president
of the Board of Trade; Harry S
Wender, vice president of the
Federation of Citizens Associations;
Edgar Morris, past president of the
Board of Trade, and Arthur B
Heaton, president of the Washing
ton Building Congress, who are
members of the planning board for
the drive.
Evening star., 1941-07-08

formalities will require three nights
work. When the last car is checked
in Wednesday night. the Inspection
Committee will have completed its
job, and the Registration Commit
tee will begin arranging heat as
signments for the race program Sat-
urday.
First racer to be rolled onto the
official Toledo scales last night was
that of Raymond Markham, l3, 1880
South Dakota avenue NE. Weigh
master V. V. Radionoff and his crew
of assistants noted that Ravmond's
car did not exceed the 135-pound
limit and that the combined weight
of driver and racer was not above
the 250-pound top figure permitted.
An approved" sticker then was
pasted to the hood of the home
made coaster, and it was carried to
a third-f1oor classroom. 1t was
joined soon by dozens more of
widely varying sizes and designs.
An early arrival was Otis Cutshaw.
IA, 713 Croissant place Sc, who
brought his racer in the luggage
compartment of the family car.
Otis was bent nearly double in the
rear of the compartment. After ex-
tricating himself, Ben Howe, H. Of
TIT Croissant place Sc, crawled
from the other side of the racer and
introduced himself as the official
mechanic for the entry.
Boys Win Extensions.
Special extensions were granted
several boys yesterday by Derby
Director Zeb T. Hamilton. MI.
Hamilton explained the entrants had
complained they could not turn in
their cars on time to the Chevrolet
dealers with whom they registered
because paint refused to dry in the
rainy weather The boys agreed to
get the racers to the inspection point
without provision of special service
by Derby officials.
Mr.. Hamilton announced that the
Starters Committee again will be
headed by Haywood Saunders. He
listed the following assistants: C.
H. Mccarthy, F. T. Costigan, r. A
c. Horton, Firman w. Stiles, Ernest
H. Campbell, Ralph Chapman. Will
liam E. Mashburn, H. F. Parr, w. v.
Warren, William E. Mitchell, Edison
Counts, William Morrison. Archie
Ward, M. H. Cunningham, F. G. FL
lison, J. A. Smithson, A. j. Llufrio, j.
E. Montesanto, j. j. Maloney, c. r,
Smith, c. H. McCarty, j. Newton,
Stephen S. Madison, John r. Ander-
son and Harvey L. Bean.
watch The Star for Derby Ne1USJ
Evening star., 1941-07-08
Ar|ington's Unpaid
Tuxes Under II Per Cent

Arlington County Treasurer John
Locke Green announced today only
1882 per cent of taxes due the
county were uncollected at the end
of the fiscal year 1910, the lowest
percentage in the history of Airing
ton.
Mr. Green also reported the
county's cash balance as of June 30
was $642,601. At the same time last
year S708,415 was available.
The uncollected percentage Of
Arlington taxes for the fiscal year
of 1899 was 11.93. =
Evening star., 1941-07-08
3 Previously Exempt
Properties Returned
To Tax Rolls Here
Religious Groups Own
Majority Of Holdings;
5 on Partial Busis

Nine previously taX-exempt prop
critics were returned to the tax rolls
yesterday and parts of five others
were recommended for partial re-
turn pending investigation by the
assessors office.
The action, which returns TO tax
registers property assessed at more
than s160,000, was recommended by
the special committee appointed by
the Commissioners to review the
tax-exempt property list to see if
conditions which made the prop
critics eligible for original exemption
still apply.
The nine cases acted on con-
stituted for the most part properties
held by religious organizations for
rent rather than direct religious
use. They include a Salvation Army
property at 1901 Seventh street
NV, where activities for colored
adults are carried on, assessed at
$43,379; a cinder-block structure
owned by the national board of the
Y. w. c. A, next to and used by
the Dodge Hotel. assessed at $50 300.
Others were the premises at 1880
New Jersey avenue NV, owned by
the Church of God. assessed al
S4,689, returned except for two rooms
used for religious purposes; Nazareth
Social Service Center Inc, at Second
and streets NV, S13,413: property
at Tenth and D streets S.W. assessed
at s18,83S belonging to Ryland
Methdist Church and now in process
OF being sold to an undisclosed pur-
chaser; vacant lot owned by Mount
Moriah Baptist Church at 1864 Sec
ond street S.W., $685. caretakers
home and storage space owned by
the Second Church of Christ Scien-
tist, First and c streets NE, $17,174;
vacant lot belonging to Institutional
Mission, Inc, 415-17 First street Sc.
1882; land and building in name
of Archbishop Michael j. Curley at
New York and New Jersey avenues
NV.
The five items marked for future
assessment include two rooms and
bath used by the caretaker at the
6O6 E street NV. plant of the Sal
vation Army. Another, belonging to
Mount Sinai Baptist Church, was
originally exempted as a church in
1921, but has since been turned into
an apartment house. The pastor OF
the church lives there, it was said
but the rest is liable to taxation.
Evening star., 1941-07-08
Requiem Mass Tomorrow
For Francisco Varona

A requiem mass will be held at
m. tomorrow in St. Patrick's Cath
olic Church, 619 Tenth street NV,
for Francisco Varona, "A, former
assistant to the resident commits
sioner of the Philippines in WASH
ington.
Stricken June 16 as he was about
to return to the islands to become
candidate for the Philippine Sen
ate Mr. Varona died June % in q
New York hospital
Before coming here he had won a
reputation as a crusading editor
and labor mediator.
Evening star., 1941-07-08
Messengers and Nurses
SOUGHT by Government

An examination for assistant mes
senger at $1,000 annually for en-
ployment in Washington was an
nounced today by the Civil Service
Commission. Applicants must have
reached their 18th birthday and not
have passed their 25th. Applica-
tions will be received until July 81,
and both sexes are eligible.
The commission also announced
q test for junior public health nurse
at $1,000 for employment in the
Public Health Service, Federal Sc
curity Agency and Indian Service.
Industrial specialists at $4,000 to
$500 also are needed, the commits
sion said, Experience in industrial
management or related experience
which would give thorough khowl-
edge of production methods and
processes for defense industries is a
requisite.
Evening star., 1941-07-08
Bridge Worker Hurt
By Hight ension Wire
By g statf Correspondent Of me star

LA PLATA, Md. July 8.-Lealon
Summers, 80 of Greenwood, S. c.,
was in a critical condition in the
Physicians Hospital here suffering
from burns sustained while working
at the Morgantown Bridge early to-
day. He was brought to the hcspI-
tai by friends, who said he had
come in contact with a high voltage
wire. He was burned on both hands
Evening star., 1941-07-08
Hebert Will Address
Cosmopolitan Club

Representative Hebert, Democrat
Of Louisiana will address luncheon
meeting of the Cosmopolitan Club
at 1890 pm. Thursday at the Carl
ton Hotel. Arthur w. Defenderfer
of the clubs Forum Committee
will introduce Mr.. Hebert, who will
conduct an open discussion on mat
terS of current interest.
Members recently initiated into
the Cosmopolitan Club include P
Y. K. Howat, Kirk Miller and Will
liam ]. Schock \
Evening star., 1941-07-08
Band Concerts

BY the Soldiers Home Band in
the bandstand of the home at z
o'clock tonight. John S. M. Zim-
norman, bandmaster; Anton Point
er, assistant.
BY the Navy Band at the District
World War Memorial at 7:30 O'Clock
tonight. 1t. Charles Benter, leader:
Bandmaster Charles Brendler, as
sistant.
BY the Marine Band in the formal
gardens of the Army Medical Gen.
ter at $50 O'Clock tonight. Capt.
William F. Santelmann, leader;
Henry Weber, assistant.
BY the Army Band at the Treas
ury House at 7:30 o'clock tonight.
Capt. Thomas F. Darcy, leader; Karl
Hubner, assistant. u
Evening star., 1941-07-08
July, 194l
July, l940
July s July II July Is July 70
. .
Toll in Previous Months
In July, Beware OF:

In July, Beware OF:
/. The hours peaween $50
and $50 pm. All four of the
persons killed in traffic in July,
1910, were fatally injured within
this three-hour period.
2. Crossing a street at a point
other than a crossWalk. Two
pedestrians met death by this
action in July last year.
The two other traffic victims
were fatally hurt while either
crossing a street at an uncon-
trolled intersection or driving
an automobile.
Evening star., 1941-07-08

The United States is now sup
plying most of the 100000 boxes
needed by Iraq.each year for ship
ping its dates.
Evening star., 1941-07-08
Make July Safer

Every blot is a District trafiic
death. The toll thus far ex-
ceeds that reported here during
the same period last year. Keep
the July calendar clear.
Evening star., 1941-02-01
Demare Spot With Par II Western o Still Confident of Win
D.C.-Owned Dogs ScoreHeoviIy
At Opening of Annual Show
of MARYLAND Kennel Club

pelier Icabod; Norwegian elkhounds. Bar
bars Thayer's Boreas of Stonewal whip:
pets. Meander Kennels Ch Glad Ham OF
ster's Hexe Won HoellentaL
Working doss-Briards, Irhsmont Ken
nels' J-Polu Of Irhamont: German shep-
herds, John Cans Ch. LADY Of Ruthland:
Azola of Arundel: Shetland sheepdozs. W.
w Gallagher's Ch MeadowsWeet O'Psges
Hill; collies. Mrs William H. Long, u.s.
Ch. Cadet Of Norands.
G. Pickard's windbeam " Tan Tan oshanter:
japanese spaniels, Gwladys r. Groskins
Japonica II; pekinsese. Mrs: James NJ. Aus
Mrs. Frank Downins's Princess Hope OF
=, Non-sporting breeds-Boston terriers.
heart on Parade: dalmatians. Reisate Ken
nels Oh. Reisate Bold Venture.
Obedience test trials-Novice A, Mr and
Mrs. John H. Mullocks Peter Pans Rebel,
Browns Herr Faust Won Brickley. Dober-
man pinscher.
Terriers-Airedales, Hinson Stiles Ch.
Cast Iron Monarch; bull terriers. H. r.
Kennels Lock Raven Cherie; ITish. Mortha
@. Hall and NJ. H. Birds Hunters Noon:
Manchester, Janet Mack's Grenadier Nj
netta: miniatnre schnsuzer. NorcTest Ken-
nels' Ch Mnquas Mako standard schnau.
ger. Violet E. Franz's Oh. Wolfgans v
NlDelunRenAOTIs SkyeS, 1TaOhl heTnFAS VI.
jerry Of Merrymount: Staffordsh'res, Fred
Batzler. ir.'s. Longmeadow Bimps: West
Highland whites. Miss Louise Lang,s Ch.
Bencruachan Proteus.
Toys-Chihushuas. Bonnie Tuhbs' Ch.
/ Cstucs Of Anna Terra miniature pinschers,
Milo o. Denlinger's Triy's V Pote71u-T;
/ pomperanianS. Mrs c K C~-bin'S Ch.
| Glamour Girl Of Aehburn. tov Nanrhp-te~s,
DR.. Sergeant P. Martins Russelrs Vir7inia
| jay.
n-sporting-Poodles. Low Mont Ken
/ nels Oh. Blakeen Cyrano.
Evening star., 1941-02-01

of two human beings, so handle 1t
carefully"
IT think I'm a little ahead of you,
Mr.. Danforth."
Jimmy grinned from his cup Of
coffee. Old John looked at him
quizzically. Oddly enough, he found
that the presence of this young man
always made him feel younger him
self.
What have you been up to now?''
"You know about this girl Peggy
Marshall?"
Miss Vane's friend?"
"Yes. I teamed with her for few
dates to get a line on Miss Vane
She likes me because she says I'm
the only man she can quarrel with
and not lose her temper. She tele-
phoned me this morning full Of the
good news"
What good news?"
"She's going with Miss Vane."
Good. That's better. made
some suggestion about taking g
friend"
She tends toward the gold-dig-
| ging class"
Evening star., 1941-02-01
Miami BiItmore Title
Triumph Ups Betty
Hicks Golf Stock
Looms as US. Threat;
Downs Grace Amory
After Shuky Start
Rx the Associated Press.


CORAL GABLES, Fla, Feb. l.
Elizabeth Hicks is proving she can
learn the knack of match play in
golf
That may be bad news for the
other girls when play starts for the
National Women's title at Brookline,
Mass, in September.
The Pasadena (Calif) miss gave
fresh notice yesterday that she can
handle her clubs in woman-against-
woman competition as well as in
stroke play.
Rallying after a bad start, she
trimmed Grace Amory of Palm
Beach, and 6, in the 36-hole final
Of the Miami Biltmore Tournament.
Miss Hicks said she has cut strokes
OF her score, but she refused to make
any long-range predictions about the
United States title.
I'm pretty sure I'm four strokes
better than I was" she declared,
"but that may not help much in the
National. That's match play and
anything can happen. There are four
or five girls who could win it."
. The Californian's medal game is
at high pitch right now. Two weeks
ago she won the qualifying round of
the Junta Gorda Tournament by 13
strokes with 73, but had one of her
match play lapses in the final and
lost to Louise Suggs of Lithia
Springs, Ga, and 2.
She smashed the Miami Biltmore
woman's record by five strokes Mon
day by posting the medal-winning
score of a. Dorothy Kirby and
Maureen Orcutt were joint holders
Of the previous mark.
Evening star., 1941-02-01
Hordwick Able to Test Marble
At Net, but Ti|den's Weak Eyes
Make Him Easy for Bulge

Big Bill Tilden, the gray eagle of
the tennis court, sparse of frame,
caustic of word and far more toll
Grant of linesmen than ever he was
when he reigned as king of world
court stars, is happy about it all.
But Big Bill is convinced you can
not keep up with the kids when the
years creep up and Pop Time quirks
finger in your direction.
Bill was talking about it, from the
angle of fellow who has spent half
a lifetime in competitive tennis (27
years in alb, has won SO national
championships of all kinds, and still,
at the age of At, can hop around a
tennis court on those aging pins fast
enough to make it slightly inter
esting for carrot-thatched Don
Bulge. king of the reigning crop of
net stars.
mo, it isn't my legs" said Bill.
Nor 1t isn't my shots that have
gone. It's my eyes, and the will to
win. And don't let those carping
critics tell you that I'm past so. I'll
be 48 on February 10. It's no secret.
It's in all the record books.
Eye Failure Blamed.
my eyes. particularly under the
bright night lights. don't react
quickly enough. Tennis is a fast
game, you know. Speed is the thing,
not only of foot and hand and arm
but of sight. And then there isn't
the incentive to go after those tough
ones any more. If can put out of
my mind this thought, why you big
goof, here you are at your age try
ing to do the impossible and just
concentrate on making the shot I'm
all right. But it is hard"
Of course, Bill never will lick Don
Bulge if he lives to be centena-
rian. His marvellous assortment of
spin and drop shots remains, but
the old fire is gone. California Don
waltzed all over Big Bill last night
at the University of Maryland gym
nasium, winning as he pleased,
81, Ga
Hardwick Close to Marble.
But there Isn't, judged by last
nights match, anything like that
difference between glamorous Alice
Marble, queen of world amateur
women for a stretch of years, and
winsome Mary Hardwick, the hard
working English girl. La Marble,
using all the finesse and stroking
skill which won her 236 out of 237
Evening star., 1941-02-01
First Day at Bat With Grffs His Biggest Airs Travis
R py 100 Comes AZ Mrs. Roosevelt

tuned in on Station WSB at At
lanta to get the clever sports
chatter of Col. Ed Danforth,
sports editor of the Atlanta Jour-
nal. Unfortunately, we missed
the colonel, but we got there In
time to hear Cecil Travis of the
Washington Senators tell Sports,
caster Ernie Harwell, Il got five
hits in the first big league game
I ever played, and I haven't got
that many in any one game
since"
Hither and yon-Mrs. F. D. r.
will be heard on Bill Stern's
Sports Newsreel of the Air" to-
morrow night. Marquette is get
ting ready to toss Tom Stidham,
new head football coach and att-
letic director, the biggest party of
his life when he pays his first for
NAL visit to the campus on the
10th. Forward Frank Manci has
played every second Of the seven
Evening star., 1941-02-01

Peggy was still doubtful. I'll bet
it means plenty of trouble, too"
Verify shook her head. II refuse
to believe that it can lead to any
thing but happiness"
Peggy raised one eyebrow. 1t was
trick she had perfected, and 1t was
a very expressive way of saying that
she had her doubts.
Meanwhile, old John Danforth
was sitting in the sunroom of his
penthouse apartment eating lonely
breakfast, waited on by his man
propped against the coffee pot, but
propped against the coffeepot, but
he was not reading it. He was an
old man and he was cynical about
money and its effect on people. He
had seen too much of it. 1t was like
strong drink Very few people could
take too much of it without going
to pieces.
He was having last-minute
twinge of conscience about sending
| that check to that child
He shrugged his shoulders. One
had to back ones judgment, and
one had to take chances. He had
no use for people who said that
hard work was the only thing to
keep young people on the straight
and narrow path. If they hadn't
enough courage to look after them
selves, rich. poor, busy or idle, he
had no respect for them, and it
wasn't his fault if, when he put
chances in their way, they made a
mess of them He had not always
thought like that. If he had had
the same attitude toward his son
they would never have had the
quarrel. He would have given him
all the rein he wanted and would
have been glad to see what kind
Of man he turned out to be.
Held Back Some Clues.
Life sometimes seemed so long
and yet 1t was so very short. Why
shouldn't the boy do what he wanted
to do? Old John Danforth did
not realize that his new tolerance
was born of his loneliness, of the
desire to have one of his own blood
near him, to see him married and
to hear young voices of his own
grandchildren about him.
Then he chuckled. He was not
such a fool as to send $4,000 into
thin air without expecting some re-
turn or without some safeguard.
He had been frank with Verify.
What he had told her was all per-
fectly true but he had not told her
everything. 1t was true that he
had not heard from his son for 10
years; it was true that two detec-
tive agencies had been unable to
trace his son. He had not mentioned
that through a third he had at last
found where he was and what he
was doing.
He had told Verify just sufficient
to make her feel that she had no
clues to help her in her quest for
his son, that she had the whole OF
America to search and that the
needle in the haystack was probably
an easier job.
Jenkins came in and waited re-
spectfully at his side.
did you get him?" asked Mr..
| Danforth
Evening star., 1941-02-01

basket ball games Auburn has
played and won So far this season.
Is Joe Louis getting ready to
hang 'em up? Anyway, his man
ayers are mighty interested in
Wallace Cross, East Orange, N. j.,
who won his first three pro starts
with kayos. The Cleveland In
dians' player roster is the latest
to hit this desk-very attractive,
too.
Sports bulletin board-Fritzie
zivic has rented house right
around the corner from Uncle
Mike Jacobs In Miami. The flu
has grounded Cliff Bloodgood,
editor of the Baseball Magazine.
The first five (of the eight
weights on the Iowa State Col
lege wrestling team are held
down by boys from Fort Dodge.
Chris Dundee, who manages Ken
Overlin, has bobbed up with a
heavyweight, a gent named Art
Lind, from Duluth, MINI. Bobby